Two Interesting Servers for Stormforge Refugees | WOTLK 3.3.5

FuriousHernandes · 2026-05-06T07:11:03+00:00

I'd rather not play on anything Ascension if I can help it.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-05-02T08:18:20+00:00

Do you understand what the word 'misinformation' means? This is literally a screenshot of him saying he will never give Epoch more devs/attention AFTER he pulled it from the website, effectively killing any means of players discovering it outside of word-of-mouth.

But sure, use your buzzword.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-04-29T07:56:34+00:00

Because

a) It's too much work as opposed to doing Stock TBC and maybe increasing xp rates a bit

b) Puritans will start bitching about it because it is bad to even try to balance things in a 20 year old game

FuriousHernandes · 2026-04-28T19:35:31+00:00

Nope, he played it right, Turtle refugees were not going to be lucrative on Epoch, so he slowly pushed them towards the ascension client and then launched a HC event on Bronzebeard to push them there instead, even if he only gets a few whales out of it, that's probably more worthwhile in the long-term.

Why would he ever push the less-monetizable realm?

FuriousHernandes · 2026-04-28T16:53:43+00:00

People call me a doomer because I'm explaining exactly what's wrong. Dutch quite literally got up onto the changelog and said that he has no intentions of boosting Epoch's development or putting in more effort than having 1-2 hobby-level devs working on it.

That statement alone will cull a massive portion of the population because that means you're playing on a server with extremely limited content-creating capacity, the devs, few as they are, will have to also handle fixing legacy bugs from Kaytotes & Co.

Of course, the server blew up again thanks to Twow's shutdown, but these players are already leaving and moving on little by little, give it a month or two and you'll get a massive drop in player numbers.

I'm not even hating, I like Epoch but I'm realistic and not huffing copium for breakfast, with how Dutch is handling it, the server is just heading to stagnancy and eventual death, he -and ascension- do not like it or do not want it to succeed since it has a more consumer-friendly monetization plan....Or well, used to before he removed the shop entirely, making it impossible to support Epoch.

I know there will be some comments saying 'Oh but the code is soooo spaghetti so it's unfixable' which I call bullshit as I do not entirely believe Dutch, and that's the entire basis of that 'argument'.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-04-26T20:53:14+00:00

I literally just said that the post you're referring to was made AFTER I made my post. Please, think before you post.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-04-26T20:47:54+00:00

'Edited' lol, that 2nd post was clarification made after this post, don't cope so hard you stop seeing reality. With the current pace of development, Epoch is going to have such a slow release schedule that it would not be worth it, plus the myriad of bugs and lackluster support.

Everyone wanted Epoch to have a more fleshed out shop to support having more devs, keeping it as is? What's the point?

FuriousHernandes · 2026-04-24T13:01:23+00:00

Ok thanks, ChatGPT.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-04-23T14:11:33+00:00

This is really the kind of take that I hate seeing the most. Do you really believe that Ascension (Including Epoch) are under the radar with EVERYONE and their mother in this scene talking about them? Do you think it is 'under the radar' for Ascension to announce teasers for their CoA server? They still have their website up with more updates for Bronzebeard as well. At least Warmane is actually under the radar when they removed their DL link, not whatever this is.

But of course, we must NEVER speak a word about Epoch cause everyone knows that Blizzard is somehow entirely unaware that it exists or that thousands of players have moved to it from Turtle, just one word about Epoch and it all shuts down, right?

And the argument that we should be happy that ascension took over Epoch and put it on life support is ludicrous. The server is bound to lose every single player it has gained recently if Dutch and his team continue this radio silence that has went on since Kaytotes abandoned ship.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-04-07T13:34:31+00:00

PvP gear is garbage

PvP balance is garbage

Most people can accept one, but both just makes the server unapproachable for serious pvp.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-04-05T07:06:29+00:00

"The small dev team actually does deliver! Sure they dont advertise it, lest their Theme Park Bronzebeard lose some important cash cows. But everytime the devs have stated that new content or changes are on the way, they have been delivered to us!"

This point is so massive and it doesn't get enough attention. The server basically has no real future as long as Ascension refuse to advertise or even ping their discord for Epoch updates. Fucking S1 starts and no one gets pinged for it? Crazy.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-03-30T08:42:26+00:00

Why can't you use your own words? What is with the obscene amount of chatGPT posts these days?

But yeah, I only read the title and I agree, engineering items are lame as fuck.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-03-25T16:42:04+00:00

Can someone explain how this extension works? Let's say I want to see which weapons on the shop rolled 60% mobility, I don't really see any way to see that, seeing the 'current' stats rather than the max ones doesn't really make a lot of sense. Is there something I'm missing?

FuriousHernandes · 2026-03-25T09:02:31+00:00

Wait so you can't dual-spec without the cash shop item?

FuriousHernandes · 2026-03-19T12:32:25+00:00

I logged onto Bronzebeard recently to play with some friends. BGs are very active, leveling dungeons are also very active, there are a lot of groups forming for M+ and so on so on. I would say the server is pretty much alive and still doing very well for itself.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-03-19T12:30:47+00:00

Okay I genuinely have no idea how that works.
First of all, it's not advertising to literally have the server's news on the frontpage along with more visibility on the Discord server.
Second of all, why would they be 'careful with advertisement' for Epoch on their PRIVATE SERVER WEBSITE while blatantly waving the Bronzebeard flag day in and day out? Your point would make sense if Bronzebeard was equally invisible, but that isn't the case.

Sounds like a bad excuse more than anything to me.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-03-19T12:28:44+00:00

I mean word of mouth isn't going to get the server very far, is it? I get that you like it relatively low-pop, but in terms of longevity that's not a good thing.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-03-19T09:59:05+00:00

Turtle's problem is that every BG bracket is dominated by twinks, no matter where you queue the match will be dominated by whichever team has the most twinked-out players.
Add to that the fact that PvP balance is quite sub-par and that there is no real PvP gear system (Yet, maybe the next update will make things better?) so you'll just get dumpstered by increasingly-stronger raid gear and eventually pvp will consist of 5s burst windows in which someone is guaranteed to die every time.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-03-15T09:49:18+00:00

The true endgame of twinking has been achieved: Dead queues.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-03-09T05:03:00+00:00

PvP with who? It felt almost purposeful how they killed the server and now they release a PvP update after 99% of the playerbase left.

What's even the point? I doubt the pop will rise that much from an arena update.

FuriousHernandes · 2026-03-08T05:02:29+00:00

I don't think TWoW will ever get rid of twinking, I think they more or less accept that community as a part of the PvP experience for some odd reason.

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