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Dear Community, It's that time of the month again, which means it's time for an update on our progress as a community and server. This month has been especially exciting, with the Elysium launch poking its head through the crack in the door, staring at us wistfully with beady little eyes. We have some important topics to address in this update, so let's get to it! Staff Roster Changes More of them! Aaaaaaah! Don't worry though, the internal changes have been made for the betterment and longevity of the Elysium Community. Shenna, Valkyrie Administrator, has stepped down from leading the Elysium project. Project lead has been handed over to Ignimortis, on account of language barriers causing misunderstandings. Ignimortis is fluent in both Russian and English, and will be acting as a communication layer between Elysium and Valkyrie's upper level administrators. Rubenal (hey, that's me!) has been forced into a more passive role as an overseer and realm administrator due to real life circumstances interfering. They have passed their more active duties to Unstop, who will be acting as a new Community Manager. Unstop has been promoted to Community Mananger, and will be upholding the Community Mananger responsibilites fully. Solidifiction on level one and two Game Master ranks and commands. Maybe we need a better name for them? This will probably be discussed internally. Growing Pains It's become evident that the community of late has been feeling growing pains. There's been gnawing concerns over the future of Elysium and the stability of Elysium's core. Unstop has written an accurate explanation of events here, and I highly encourage you to read it! It details why the core has been buggy of late, and what the future holds in store. TL;DR? Newly coded core, all is well, we'll be sticking around as a server and community for some time to come. There's also been noted concerns of "Russians taking over the realm". We've been investing a lot of time into ensuring this won't happen. Even at risk of initially alienating the Russian community, we will be fully enforcing the English only rule. Elysium's designed to be an English only realm for the international English speaking community, and we intend to make sure it stays that way. Testing Earlier this month we launched an Elysium public test realm to iron out any issues with the new core. The amount of effort gone into testing is astounding, and thankfully a vast majority of the issues will be resolved before Elysium's launch. A big thank you to everyone involved for helping us make the gameplay experience as smooth as possible. Blastoff! Elysium's launch is in approximately two days from this update being written, and the community forums have been buzzing with activity from exposure from our advertising campaigns and the word-of-mouth spread of Elysium! It's honestly amazing to see our hard work coming to fruition, and we really can't thank you folks enough for the endless support we've recieved. We've come a long way from the realms initial concept being brought to Valkyrie's administrators, and it's wonderful to see how much Elysium's community has grown. Elysium will be launching August 17th at 15:00 GMT, and we hope to see all of you there!

1) These bugs have been left alone for now, though the developers are toying with the thought of fixing them. I'm personally unsure on whether this is good or bad, so I'll be monitoring the community for feedback on this. 2) We've aimed to make all of our attack and spell details as close to vanilla as we possibly can, and our developers have been very careful in replicating them. Over seven years of careful research and meticiulous data scanning has gone into it. I can't comment on how they work on the backend, though. 3 & 4) Everything on Valkyrie, and by extension, Elysium, is focused entirely on 1.12.1 content. 5) Players who exploit bugs or glitches will be impartially investigated and punished, regardless of their intent.

1) We will not be blocking regions as we have a desire to expand our international community. That said, we will certainly be watching out for this sort of behavior and suspending accounts that do this as we discover them. You can assist us by submitting a ticket, where one of our Game Masters will investigate. 2) We don't have an answer yet, and we'd like to see the effects for ourselves once Elysium has launched. If it continues being a problem, we'll look into possible fixes. If it's something that players feel is a problem, we'll actively seek to remedy it. You can contribute by sending your ideas to me directly, where I will be able to translate and forward them to our administration as needed. 3) We actively punish players that do this on the main realm, and we intend to extend this policy to Elysium. 4) We're very confident in our anti-cheats detection methods. Not only that, but we will also have plenty of staff monitoring the game world manually to ensure fair play. If something does slip down the cracks, please report it by submitting a ticket. A Game Master will pick it up as soon as they can and investigate. 5) Multiboxing will not be allowed on Elysium. This said, multiboxing is allowed on the Valkyrie (RU) realm.

Dear players, After some internal discussion, we've decided to open a publically accessible Discord server for the English community and staff. We hope you'll join in and get to know the community and staff further by joining and checking us out using the following link: https://discord.gg/yqyCTnX

Hi Xopo, In addition to Queeky's comments, we also have overall project information that applies to both the Elysium and the Valkyrie realms regularly posted here - https://elysium-project.org/forum/index.php?showforum=85 For the moment most of what's posted there will be posted in both languages, however, if players dislike this or find it unappealing, we're happy to seperate them so that there's an English only view of what's going on.

Welcome to Valkyrie! I'll be playing a Paladin, though playing a mage or warlock is also quite tempting...

In response to further feedback, I've updated the FAQ with other questions that have been popular.

Dear players, In August we will be opening our newest realm and greatest achievement. Elysium is the result of Valkyrie's passion for an international community, from a team with over 7 years of experience in the private server sector, and aims to facilitate a friendly and language consistent environment for English speaking players. As our newest realm, everyone will start off from level one on an even playing field. Elysium will run off of Valkyrie's core, with the single difference being that Elysium is entirely geared and focused towards English speaking players! Because of this, we ask that all players speak English on Elysium. To ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience and atmosphere, we've hired dedicated European and United States based Game Masters, who will be available to assist with any problems that you may encounter whilst playing. English speaking Community Managers have also been instated, to ensure that high level enforcement and communication with the administration is maintained, and that any issues are properly handled for the English speaking community in a timely fashion. As Elysium is a Valkyrie-WoW realm, you can expect to see and experience all of Valkyrie's features, such as: No donations. A tight-knit community. Dedicated EU / US Game Masters (Support) Flawless dungeon and raid scripting up to the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, which is expected to release in the upcoming months. Custom commands and features to streamline your experience: - for stopping the experience gain (for twinks): .stopxp on / off - for registering for the battlefield event from any location: .bg av | .bg ws | .bg ab — REMOVED - for viewing hidden characteristics: .get blockchance | .get dodgechance | .get hitchance | .get meleecritchance -- REMOVED - for forming dungeon groups: you can talk to an innkeeper or queue for a group via thr dungeon's Meeting Stone. An awesome core, designed to support many concurrent users with as few issues as possible We sincerely hope you'll enjoy your time here. FAQ 1. What level will everyone start at? A: Level one. 2. Are the other realm's users favoured? A: Not in any way, shape or form 3. Will I be able to recieve support whenever I need it? A: Certainly. The degree of contact we wish to keep with players and the server-wide administration here at Valkyrie is the highest possible, and our trained English speaking (EU/US) Game Masters are always available to assist when needed. 4. How can I support you? A: Spread the word! Tell your friends and fellow gamers and vote for us once the realm launches. 5. Can I get my character from the Russian realm transferred to this one? A: We are not offering character transfers from other realms. We want everyone to start off evenly at level one, and for the English speaking community to experience and get the most out of their adventures at Valkyrie-WoW. 6. What are the realm's rates? A: All of them are x1. Valkyrie-WoW tries to offer the best, most accurate vanilla experience possible. 7: Will there be anti-DDoS protection? A: Absolutely! All of our realms are hosted on servers that have dedicated anti-DDoS to ensure a smooth, uninterrupted experience whilst playing Valkyrie-WoW. 8. Can I speak other languages (Russian, Polish, German, etc) in the chat? A: As the realm is being aimed specifically at English speaking players, we ask that players only speak English in public channels. Speaking other languages in private messages/guild chat's absolutely fine however. 9. Will this be a progressive realm? A: Yes, it will be progressive. We will restrict certain pieces of content (i.e: The Temple of Ahn'Qiraj / Naxxramas) based on how the community cooperates and how well they have settled on Elysium. Most entry-level content in terms of both PvP and PvE will, however, be available.

In this case it means "English". The label itself is aimed at EU players, not the language.