Season of Discovery: What Is The Future of SoD?

[@benjaminducker]

I'm still loving SoD - having a great time in game. I appreciate you covering everything SoD related. This is my go-to channel for all SoD content. Have a great weekend man!

[@tobid1971]

I love SoD - and don't get me wrong I also love slapping with my warrior in Era - however SoD is the most fun time I had in whole classic so far. What really bothers me is that there is a LOT pressure from content creators against SoD and now they create the same old classic fresh guides, which is just lazy. I feel they just want to get easy clicks, which was hard in SoD since it was so unpredictable (compared to vanilla). Thank you Kaghoe for staying true to SoD! Bless you

[@Kaghoegaming]

SoD changed my life, it deserves my dedication, as well as I made a promise to you guys :)

[@xxgamerxx6074]

SoD is still super fun and the best version of classic, i know the streamers are playing hardcore for the content but thats all they really doing it for (the content) its seems like alot dont even enjoy the game but they know viewers find watching there characters die and wasting 200+ hours of there life entertaining so they sit there and lvl character after character

[@MikeyJ28]

Hardcore was entertaining the first time. It’s just gotten ran into the ground the second time around.

[@neilbecker1140]

sod is not super fun its classic on easy mode. very boring

[@xxgamerxx6074]

@@neilbecker1140 i disagree, first classic is a super easy 20 years old game that has been figured out. Whats is difficult about it in your opinion? the one button dps rotations or the raid bosses that get killed in less than 1 minute with warrior class stacking. I dont even think thats an opinion, it just fact that the game (SoD) is harder than classic. Not to mention runes fix so many unviable classes

[@neilbecker1140]

@@xxgamerxx6074 and whats it like now?

[@Ludydobry]

SoD is just better version of Classic, there is actually more than 1 DPS class thats viable, you dont have to bring 10+ warriors in your raids so raiding looks diverse. Added subclasses are also quite cool, adding Taunt so Paladins can tank is why I play it. WoW classic in general is an easy game, you can make it hard by not preparing, having low gear and not paying attention. The added difficulties to Raids in SoD are awesome, I would prefer if the last difficulty was a bit harder but im still having fun, probably the most fun ever playing this game.

[@hoodymcmayhem275]

Happy thanksgiving kag, sod has been great and I think it will continue to be fun. 🎉

[@benjamn8557]

Thanks. Had no idea Aggrend even played sod and that he has more content in the works.

[@w2nrealone209]

So it's good because there are lots of different skill mechanics and it's not boring when rotating skills

[@ogremair803]

SoD is my first time ever getting into WoW and loved it, tried retail after it and never liked it. I hoped we would see TBC at least.

[@OfWodensFolk]

Retail is a mess.

[@aeroblizz1987]

I want SoD TBC so bad! (Except flying mounts)

[@MikeyJ28]

@@OfWodensFolkA mess? I play retail and it’s a lot of fun. It’s not that complicated.

[@WetFarts94]

@@MikeyJ28a lot of classes have too many buttons

[@MikeyJ28]

@@WetFarts94 You don’t use all of your buttons in every situation. A lot of situational abilities.

[@chriscross1424]

I’ve been watching your videos the last couple months for sod updates. I’ve been in love with sod the whole time. I don’t understand why every1 wants to go back to og classic so bad. It just sucks that I’m a pvper I play classic for world pvp and it seems like it’s been a little dead out there since they launched fresh. Really hope they do make classic plus or turn it around so sod is the most popular version. But somehow I doubt it. Blizz never fails to let us down in the end. Anyway I appreciate you trying to keep the hype alive

[@aeroblizz1987]

People will come back in a few weeks, once the hype of fresh goes down and people realize its the same old content again with many classes being not viable at all. SoD while not perfect is the best version of wow

[@Kaghoegaming]

Well thank you! Yeah it seems fresh has all the hype and players, I’m on nightslayer PvP as alliance if you’d want to join us, we are the guild Saviors

[@Kilmar4999]

I have so much content to do on sod lmao it could keep me entertained for another year easy

[@TheTyree72]

Kaghoe Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

[@Kaghoegaming]

I did!! thank you! I hope you did as well!

[@oommNG]

i really hope that classic plus will be similar to sod in the way of the expansion of the classes, sod was the first classic experience for me playing a melee hunter felt amazing.

[@jvik-d4p]

I loved sod up until phase 5 then it started becoming stale for me, after playing the new anniversary realms I've realized that the magic in classic is the leveling process and the genius part about sod was that it extended the leveling process into multiple phases which was awesome. I'm having a ton of fun leveling on the anniversary pvp and hc realms but expect it to also get stale after a few months once I get into endgame.

[@angelmusicvideos]

I wonder if Season of Discovery will be the game that everyone will come back to. I played all iteration of wow and I love one thing about SOD and is that the classes jsut feeel so good to play every class is just so much fun and viable to play.

[@nexedpubg6121]

Agree, SOD is my favorite version of WoW currently and I have always been a retail andy. Wish there was M+ or H+ type of content to do tho.

[@triskater2]

I think that SOD is classic+ in the sense that our characters will be carried over or sod will be expanded upon

[@Kaghoegaming]

Hard to say, but I’m excited for the future of it

[@aeroblizz1987]

@@triskater2 I don't think so. They said SoD is a big experiment. Also people want the real Classic+ to be a fresh server, fresh always creates so much more hype.

[@MrBrownbeanz99]

I would love to see SoD on the progression curve of the xpacks, imo all the classes have all the spells they need to make it fun 🤩

[@Kaghoegaming]

I think we would create a balancing nightmare as well as most spells in sod aren’t new, just pulled in from other expacs

[@MrBrownbeanz99]

@@Kaghoegaming that is something I had thought about, but historically this game has always been a balancing nightmare, would still be fun so see what they could cook up for it if it was to happen

[@ingineru1337]

the fact that SoD is a thing should give one at least the hope for a classic + or something,but sod needs lots of tweaks to make it good,so at least they are working on it,but i just dont like it being so easy for some players just to get 'legendary' type items that easy,i mean tbh if i think about it legendaries should be among the 1%,but just some food for tought tough.

[@Kaghoegaming]

Of course, I’d keep in mind that sod is supposed to be seasonal and done in a year? So having the expedited timeline and drops is fine by me

[@joe19dp]

Really enjoying the Paladin, needs more damage and need people on other servers to come back to the game, my server is dead.. glad your still putting out content though

[@Kaghoegaming]

I’m will never give up on SoD :)

[@BenLake87]

I'm loving SoD, even though I'm not a parser. I'm a bit torn if I'd like to see it go into TBC and beyond or become like Era servers and simply stay at Naxx. I'd like to see both?

[@aeroblizz1987]

@@BenLake87 I would love it to go TBC, but exclude flying mounts, doesnt fit with the classic experience. Kills the immersion of the world imo

[@BenLake87]

@@aeroblizz1987 TBC flying mounts weren't implemented until level 70, all the exploring and leveling was done on ground.

[@aeroblizz1987]

@@BenLake87 I know its 70. Bit disagree with your take. Flying mounts kills immersion on 70 as well, with raid entrances, the feeling of danger in pvp, etc.

[@adammac7201]

It wouldn't make sense to make SoD into TBC since it is the experimental version of classic+ which the dev basically alluded to. I think they will continue to use SoD as an alpha version of classic+ and continue to add content until it is ready and then convert it to classic+. They also will need to release a fresh server for classic+ similar to classic fresh so people that didn't play SoD or anyone in general and have a start over since the SoD servers will be inflated by then with gold, etc. I don't see them leaving SoD as a separate entity seeing how classic+ will be almost the same thing anyway, and they already said they aren't getting deleted.

[@aeroblizz1987]

I think SoD TBC could work. But they should exclude flying mounts. It kills immersion so hard.

[@Kaghoegaming]

I just don’t know where we would go? Maybe onto fresh when it goes to TBC?

[@adammac7201]

@@aeroblizz1987 TBC already has many added features from classic so unless they planned on a TBC+ in the future I see no point for them to do that. It would also take away from the developers working on classic+ since wotlk, cata, tbc etc don't need content added.

[@aeroblizz1987]

​@@adammac7201 ye I don't know how much resources they have on each version and how far Classic+ is already. I would say if Classic+ is still some years away and meanwhile we can get TBC SOD, I would definitely be hyped about that

[@adammac7201]

@@Kaghoegaming I think they should continue phases that add new raids, dungeons, abilities, profession improvements, etc to SoD. And then in a future phase just call it for example phase 10: classic+ and convert the servers to it. And then add a new fresh server using the new layering technology so everyone can start fresh if they want to start new or they can stay on their existing server. It would basically be the same thing as the new fresh servers being released when we already have era servers with the same content.

[@mlaurence08]

Glad you got discovered! SoD went to far from the classic feel for me. Fresh was too much to ignore.

[@Kaghoegaming]

Of course! Everyone has a different taste, I’m trying my best to do both myself, it’s a lot however!

[@StocktonSmurf]

I am one of the thousands that left after mistreatment in phase 3, I’ve been playing fresh ever since and hope they do it every year for the next decade

[@Kaghoegaming]

To each their own! Phase 3 was ROUGH but at least they have seemed to have learned from it

[@Fuzzy73]

How do you not get bored of the same leveling so many times?

[@StocktonSmurf]

@ most PS players break that monotony by changing their class or faction or the way that they are leveling, back in the private server days players mostly had a career class, these days in classic fresh almost no one is playing their best class

[@Rudbeckbitten]

People should really try turtle wow, its classic+

[@easycake3251]

Knowing Blizzard its gonna be a 1 boss "Raid".

[@clorett15]

Was really hoping for some sort of PvP update. Healing being accounted for on the scoreboard was a bare minimum and nothing.

[@jamescox7026]

If they make classic. Plus there will be so many people coming back

[@Kaghoegaming]

Yeah it’s the single one thing they can do to make WoW go to the MOON

[@OfWodensFolk]

They've killed SoD by introducing fresh era servers.

[@mikelaurel1702]

Not really. Lots of sod players rather play classic classic classic very casually

[@rcalabre23]

It's the timing. BWL was at it's end. I am one of those SOD players that will return to SOD from Classic Minus (Anniversary Server) to raid AQ

[@Liayda]

They’re so dumb for that

[@tojifushiguro6311]

Its honestly impossible to make a dungeon group for lower lvls and im starting to find its impossible to find a healer for 60 dungeons

[@sniperdps]

I would take these characters to TBC. Add new runes, but keep the classic talents etc.

[@aeroblizz1987]

@@sniperdps yes please 😍 and exclude flying mounts!

[@sniperdps]

@ 100%. Flying ruined wow.

[@sniperdps]

I WOULD however increase the flight path flying to 800% from 400%. It just shouldn’t take like 15 minutes to fly from Orgrimmar to Silithus.

[@aeroblizz1987]

@@sniperdps 100% agree that flying ruined wow! It kills immersion, the feeling of a badass world. And ye the flight path time is also a good idea, I always go take a break and get coffee now when flying lol. In SoD I've also spent countless gold on summons lol.

[@sniperdps]

@@aeroblizz1987 yeah… that’s the interesting thing, what people WANT and what they SAY they want are not always the same. Ask people if we should have instant group finder (the type that transports you to the dungeon), and they will overwhelmingly say “NO! This is classic!”. But then talk to the gold sellers and they will tell you that people spend a small fortune buying gold to spend on warlock summons etc. I think the answer is is usually to go with something in the middle. I’m glad they gave us a basic group finder tool. But I would also include summing stones for groups without warlocks. So the stone works like a closet.

[@mitchconner2021]

SOD is the most fun ive had playing wow 🤷‍♂️ Fresh classic is boring as hell for me. It's flaws are really starting to show and the community around classic are just the worst people.

[@aeroblizz1987]

I started playing fresh, but sod has spoiled me to much😅 everything in classic feels so incomplete. I went straight back into SoD leveling another class. Really want to try them all

[@savagelifestylenetworkbts]

future of SoD is cooked unfortunately. that's GG o7

[@stu805x]

This is my fear which is why I’m not putting much time into it anymore :(

[@savagelifestylenetworkbts]

streamers and their FOMO of fresh nailed the coffin shut.

[@stu805x]

@@savagelifestylenetworkbts potentially. You did have good ole Asmongold announcing the other day he’s going to come back to SOD for the added content during the naxx or after naxx phase

[@savagelifestylenetworkbts]

@@stu805x long enough for him to not be good enough to do it and then call it dog shit. lol like he did with cata release.

[@gabrielcesar2388]

I played enhance shaman in 2019 classic. On fast fights you could be right under the warriors and rogues. If they fix the mana issues for the meme specs that would almost be enough for classic plus honestly

[@JamesLee-xk6dk]

Gotta eat them distilled wis flasks like candy to keep that mana up. 😁

[@wackywarrior001]

I really want classic with updated modern graphics, some people think they don’t want it, but it would be amazing

[@Kaghoegaming]

would be awesome!

[@dohnnyknudsen1464]

Sod tbc would be sick

[@Kaghoegaming]

I’d like that very much, even if not much is new

[@aeroblizz1987]

@@Kaghoegaming same! A lot of people including myself started on Fresh because they announced it will go into TBC in 12-14 months. Otherwise a lot a people would t not even play it. I've played the OG TBC but missed the classic one a few years back.

[@zianitori]

ashbringer should just be teased in sod and actually released in classic plus

[@Kaghoegaming]

That would be awesome too

[@hoodymcmayhem275]

This is not a bad take. Could get behind this. However it could be in sod also

[@zianitori]

@@hoodymcmayhem275 for sure, i just think the sentence "classic plus lets you get the uncorrupted ashbringer" is really good advertisement and sod could really easily work to build hype for that

[@MoneyMovesWithDang]

That thumbnail looks familiar

[@neilmurray8920]

The phases of SoD have been pretty meh, the incursions were the worst introduction of any content they could have implemented but the end game of SoD has been excellent so far, the runes have come into their own and the QoL changes and balance passes to the content just feels much better. I'm still playing and I can't wait to see how they finish the season off and what they do for a proper classic plus experience.

[@pigpowerfulTV]

SoD has been great, but the launch of phase 6 has been a disaster & AQ sucks. Hopefully it gets better, but feels like there will be a big dropoff coming very soon.

[@AmongRevenants]

I followed you back at Classic. Then you fell of my radar for awhile until SoD brought you back. Did you switch to private realms, or retail, a bit. I don't cover that niche and ignored retail streams.

[@Kaghoegaming]

I just didn’t make as much content in tbc and wrath and was kinda lost with what to do

[@andrew2616]

If we look at this from a logical perspective, Q4 is always a deadzone for WoW historically. Last year, they used SoD to capitalize on player attention and now this year they are using Hardcore to do the same. Unfortunately, after the next 3 months HC will die just like it did in the OG version. Its appealing at first, but when you die thats it, everything ends. I doubt the streamers will transfer over to Fresh after the death and continue considering they have already cleared it in the past. Thus, once that hype ends, Naxx will be releasing for SoD which will bring players back to SoD.

[@knifegirl485]

sod whats that?

[@AzxTheVampire]

Sod has the potential to turn anything into new content, so I guess they won't release TBC.

[@jacobfernandez813]

You can’t please everyone. It’s why I never minded when they began adding different versions of the game. But we are our own downfall when it comes to the history of this game. Because all we’ve done is show that we will fall for the same scummy business tactics over and over, all my friends left to play fresh. And they did not care about the metrics of it all. So what does that tell you? Majority of players don’t mind not getting new content or their opinions not mattering sadly.

[@coreypete]

The only thing that makes me weary to continue to play SoD, is literally the future of SoD. Got to play 85% of the class I wanted in classic it was a dream. I know its hard to have forethought and non exploitable content but SoD was Classic +

[@Kaghoegaming]

Of course, and see we shall

[@Gambasenianryu]

If you are looking for a raiding guild on crusader strike horde hit up anyone in we are a chill na guild that is ready for aq! We always have room for more! Message any member for an invite!

[@sproosemoose285]

nobody plays this crappy funserver project anymore lmao.

[@papafruit]

give it a few weeks

[@sproosemoose285]

@@papafruit until its completely dead? if you like, lol

[@papafruit]

@@sproosemoose285 until people hit 60 on fresh and get bored of rerunning MC and BWL for another half year.

[@Azarven]

Tbh I havent longed into SoD since anniversary realms launched. Prob will only log raid from here on out.

[@Kaghoegaming]

That’s kinda what I’m doing as well other then content things

[@koenside]

same i’m not excited for AQ i am having some fun on the anniversary realm for now. haven’t logged in since

[@zachbecklake2303]

SOD TBC would be sweet

[@Kaghoegaming]

Yeah I’d like that too, just don’t know how much more they could add too it ya know?

[@Croco454]

FIRST?!

[@Kaghoegaming]

Sure are! Thank you :)

[@jeffreymauldin2648]

Second ?