What Will Official Hardcore Servers ACTUALLY Be Like?

What Will Official Hardcore Servers ACTUALLY Be Like What is up guys, it’s ya boi Solheim here, back with another Classic WoW Video specified to the Launch of the Official Hardcore Servers! Now, if you don’t know, Aggrend from the Classic WoW Team at Blizzard recently did an announcement

During the Hardcore Allstars Tournament where he confirmed Hardcore Servers will be coming out, and he also gave us a rough timeline for when the servers are coming out. In this video I aim to give you a TL;DR of the announcement, what we know so far, and

Break it down a little bit extra: So here’s what we know: – Official Hardcore Servers are confirmed. – PTR is starting in the “Next couple of weeks”, which to me could be anywhere from next week to 3-4 weeks from now, but he also specified “kindof sooner than you think” so I’m guessing

PTR is coming very soon. – Hardcore Servers are planned for later this summer, no exact date or month was given, only the words “later this summer”. Per my enterpretation of that, that would probably mean July or August. So 2-3 months from now.

– They also announced a Duel To The Death mechanic, allowing you to duel people to the death on HC Servers, a very interesting feature for sure. Now, here’s where the breakdown starts: What are these Official Hardcore Servers going to look like?

– Well, during the Announcement, Aggrend specified this: “This is kindof a genuine moment for Classic WoW” and further specified that they don’t feel it’s appropriate for Blizzard to enforce any rules onto their Official Hardcore Servers and rather leave it up to the community

To come up with & develop alternative gamemodes around the one rule they will be implementing: Death = Ghost. So if you die, you cannot ressurrect, but you can be a ghost. This means that Trading, Grouping & using the Auction House will be allowed, which he

Also specified is because they want to make sure it’s as similiar to Classic WoW as possible and focuses on the Social Parts of the game rather than making it as challenging as possible. So it’s more about the adventure, less about the challenge.

Now, there is one more thing worth taking away from this announcement: He said, Official Hardcore Servers are coming, to Classic Era. If I play this small clip from the announcement, you will hear him say that Hardcore Servers are coming to Classic Era: –

Now, Classic Era is currently based on the final Phase of Classic WoW & is fully progressed, in comparison to a Fresh Environment where we would only have access to raids like Molten Core & Onyxia. Will these Hardcore Servers also be based on Phase 6 aka the finalized version of Classic WoW?

Concidering these are just new server types being added, and not a Fresh Classic WoW run in itself, I’m thinking maybe that could happen, and if so, I’m not sure how to feel about it. Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below, do you think it will start in

Phase 6 like on other Classic Era Servers, or do you actually think Blizzard will bother making it be a Progressive Servers from Phase 1 and naturally progressing through the game’s lifespan like we did back in Classic WoW? Personally I would love to start in Phase 1 and naturally progress through, but based

On him saying that Hardcore Servers are being added to Classic Era, I can’t help but think maybe it will be based on the same finalized version of Classic WoW as the other Classic Era Servers, which would mean players would farm out Zul’Gurub & Tier 0.5 Gear before

Going into bigger raids like Molten Core & Blackwing Lair, and it would also mean that Dire Maul is available from the start, aswell as the Phase 5 Itemization. We will know a lot more in the coming weeks either way, but it’s an interesting discussion

To have and honestly I believe Blizzard are listening to our feedback & opinions so once again let me know down below. I would also like to announce that based on these Hardcore Servers having the option to Trade, Group & use the Auction House, I have spent an enormous amount of time making a

Gold Guide for the Official Hardcore Servers, which is currently a 134 pages long guide including more than 50 different goldfarms, the investments I have used in the past to go from 1000 gold to 20,000 gold in a very short time and sharing ALL of my Goldmaking Secrets.

There are a couple of things I really think they need to think about during the PTR cycle and a couple of changes I would personally like to see, like for example: – Griefing needs to be dealt with, because let’s be real here: Blizzard are not going

To have any active Gamemaster’s dealing with Griefing, so they need to put in as many anti-griefing-mechanics as possible and make it as grief-proof as possible, because that means less griefing overall & less customer support work for Blizzard. Either that or have actual Gamemasters, but it’s Blizzard we’re talking about here so

I wouldn’t keep my hopes high. – Mage Boosting is going to be insane on Hardcore Servers unless it’s being dealt with in some way, shape or form. The good thing here is that Blizzard already has the underlying technology needed to deal

With it, as they implemented some changes in Season of Mastery that effectively killed any type of level boosting, which they could easily smack onto these servers aswell. My only worry here is that Blizzard will leave it up to the community if they want to keep

Mage Boosting or not and Blizzard will just do nothing about it, concidering Mage Boosting a player-made problem that only arises due to supply & demand, but once again I guess we’ll find out during the PTR cycle. Either way that’s pretty much what I have for you today, some interesting speculation

That I haven’t really seen anyone talk about so once again let me know your thoughts in the comments down below, and check me out on Twitch where I stream Hardcore Classic WoW pretty much every single day!

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