I'll Get Around to It

In the comments about my post on the now live Anniversary WoW Classic Fresh Servers, Shintar warned me about taking care of myself and not doing things I don't want to do. Considering we've both felt burnout from pushing too hard and doing things we later regretted, I truly appreciated her concern. I assured her, however, that I wasn't going to go gangbusters on this.

So far, I still haven't. In fact, I haven't even logged into a toon there as of writing this on Monday afternoon.*

Oh, I created the toons I wanted back on Thursday, and I even reserved the names for a few TBC Draenei and Sindorei toons, but that's about it.

It's been surprisingly easy to avoid playing on the new servers. Yes, a change to my sleeping habits brought on by my jury duty tenure helped, and we did visit with family over the weekend, but I have gotten on WoW during that time. Just not the Anniversary servers.

Sittin' on the dock of the bay,
watching the tide roll away...

I can tell there's a distinct amount of emptiness on the Classic Era servers ever since the Anniversary Fresh Servers opened up, but that's fine with me. I discovered I was able to farm Felcloth much more easily than in months because the hardcore farmers have moved on to the Fresh servers, and while the amount of people queueing for Alterac Valley have gone down, when I do get into a Battleground there's a lot more activity going on instead of the Horde's traditional strategy of zerging to the end and killing Vann as quickly as possible. 

As for the new servers themselves, I've noted that my little friend group has been exclusively on there since they opened, and given how they always seem to be on whenever I check Battle.Net, my guess is that the main toons are probably around L20 by now.

Do I feel left out? No.

Am I experiencing FOMO because of all of the activity on the fresh servers? A bit, but nothing I can't manage. 

Do I want to login to the fresh servers and get going? 

Uh... I don't know.

What I do want to do is level at my own pace, without any help, and basically doing it my way. That's what I liked the most in the 2019 release of WoW Classic, and what I missed the most in TBC and Wrath Classic. I have learned over my years of playing is that my leveling playstyle is not what the majority of the WoW player base likes, and I hate being pushed to go faster, whether due to explicit goals being set by a guild/raid team or simply by FOMO. 

I mean, have you even read the blog? This is basically a "how to do it" manual of giving the middle finger to the Metagame while still playing the game itself. 

So yeah, I'd like to login and play on the new servers, but I will only do it my way. And I don't think I'm ready yet. Maybe later this week, but we'll see.

*Early on Tuesday morning I did get on to move the bank alts over to their permanent locations, but that's been it as far as my involvement there goes.

EtA: Corrected grammar.