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We have just banned 505 accounts and removed 93k gold from Elysium. There is no safe method for gold sellers to deliver gold to you. If you buy gold, you will always be caught, it's just a question of time. Remember that the gold comes from botting and hacked player accounts. It is in everyone's interest to squash this market - friends don't let friends buy gold.

Please read my post at the end of the previous announcement thread that discussed that very issue. Also, please donate enough money to us so we can keep two grand just floating around in case of emergencies. In case you've forgotten, we're all volunteers doing this for no compensation. We really do not pull in enough donations to keep such amounts available. Which reminds me of another thing - I know some players compile lists of donation amounts from Discord/Reddit/forum but please don't take such lists at face value, you don't want to be incredibly naive. There are people who announce they are going to donate X amount but actually never do. Wait for us to publish such a list. Jakira will do that soon.

Please read the announcement again.

Flavour of the week whine. It wasn't that long ago when Elysium players were moaning that their realm was allegedly "down all the time" and Anathema players were laughing at them. Now you claim it's the other way around. Patch 1.9 is a big one and it was to be expected that there would be issues deploying it. No cause for any panic. Regardless, such concerns are off-topic here. Just like a parent loves all their children equally, the team values all four realms equally.

You're not looking at the big picture, Jim. Having players pay OVH directly is the best option if we only consider transparency. Nobody could claim that we are pocketing donation money when it goes straight to the server provider. This is what Nostalrius aimed for and achieved near the end and we at Elysium wanted to do the same thing. Because many, many, many players demanded a PayPal option, we additionally provided that, so that players who cannot donate large chunks could still chip in a little. In an ideal world, this is how it would work and everyone could be happy: players get transparency, team doesn't have to worry about taxes & paperwork, project keeps trucking on.

I edited the OP to note that Alcor's is no longer the BiS tanking weapon.

Make an in-game ticket. Posting on the forum is not going to achieve anything.

Out-ranging guards is fine. Being behind a tree inside their aggro range and having that tree somehow prevent them from aggroing on you is safespotting. Please report such players with a screenshot showing their name and location.

We will update you as soon as possible. Please remember that it's not just us or how much players have donated, we have to work with OVH on this issue and they are not extending their office hours for our sake.

1. Realmplayers does not have database access. 2. Realmplayers thus does not update in real time. 3. Realmplayers requires player with the proper addon to see and inspect other players to build up its database. 4. It is possible (and not terribly difficult) to fake or meddle with information uploaded to Realmplayers. 5. Leaping into conclusions does not make for good outcomes. So, understanding these five points, we can conclude that there is nothing suspicious about these characters (or the guild), they were and are being played normally.

Back in the day, raiding guilds offered carry-slots on their raid for players who turned in materials for the War Effort. You wanted BWL loot but did not have a spot in a raiding guild? You went and farmed copper bars or light leather or silk bandages for few days and earned a raid spot with first-pick rights on any loot that dropped. That's just one example. Do not think that the War Effort will be auto-completed because some posters demand instant gratification. It was a big effort on the part of the entire realm back in the day, and we want it to be the same way here. You can bitch and moan about it or accuse of us of just buying time to finish coding AQ but it isn't going to change anything. Get farming, encourage your guild to farm, spread the word for levelers to turn in their materials - both the rep and item rewards can be quite useful during the leveling process, and so on.

Thanks to res for this: This guide will show you how to acquire the epic priest weapon, Benediction. How do I get started? First of all, to begin the quest for Benediction you need to find a raid group that is capable of killing Marjodomo Executus, get him to drop Eye of Divinity, and most importantly, make sure you're the lucky priest that gets your hands on it! Eris Havenfire When you have acquired the Eye of Divinity you have to make a trip to Eastern Plaguelands and seek out Eris Havenfire. Note that you can only see Eris Havenfire when you have the Eye of Divinity equipped. She is located at the yellow dot: Eris Havenfire is not like most NPCs however, she doesn't stick around indefinitely. If any priest has attempted her quest "The Balance of Light and Shadow" and Failed, she will despawn for 2 hours. Yes you heard that right, 2 HOURS, so don't be alarmed if you can't see her with your trinket equipped, you'll just have to wait. However, there is a way to avoid her to despawn if you feel overwhelmed during the quest, which brings us to "The Cleaner". The Cleaner[/size] Yes, the quest giver de-spawning for 2 hours isn't the only annoying thing about this quest. If ANYONE enters the quest zone while somebody is attempting the quest the quest will be interrupted and "The Cleaner" will show up to "clean" everybody up. This usually ends in 2 dead priests. The bad thing about this mechanic is that if other priests arent aware that you are on the quest, they might log in / go to the quest giver to start the quest themselves only to see that you were in the middle of the quest and have now interrupted it as a big bad demons is now on its way to kill you both. The good thing about this mechanic is that he interrupts the quest. This means that if you are about to fail the quest, have a friend stand outside the quest area and tell them to run in, this will interrupt the quest instead of failing it and Eris Havenfire will NOT despawn. This brings us to the quest. The Balance of Light and Shadow The quest is pretty straight forward: "Save 50 Peasants before 15 are slain." But there's a lot more too it than that. As soon as you start the quest untargetable skeletal archers will spawn on the hills north of the quest giver, these will shoot at the peasants that should also have spawned further up the road. Your objective is to get the waves of peasants to the beacon of light. You will have to escort the peasants to their destination, healing them to prevent them from dying. The Peasants will also periodically receive a disease that ticks for a fair amount of damage, you will have to dispel it with abolish disease. A good tip is to have friendly nameplates activated so that you can see what peasants require your aid. There will also be weak skeletons spawning that wants nothing else than to mess up your quest progress. They are very weak and have about 100 health, but will attack you and the peasants. You can use a low rank of holy nova to clear them. If 15 of your Peasants die, you fail the quest and the questgiver will despawn for 2 hours. Remember, you can always cancel the quest by having someone interrupt it by activating The Cleaner so the quest giver never has to despawn. If 50 of your peasants survive, you will complete the quest, the quest giver will do an emote/yell then just go talk to her to recieve your reward: Splinter of Nordrassil You can use this to craft your very own Benediction, and you already have half of the components! All you need now is the The Eye of Shadow. The Eye of Shadow[/size] You can get this item by either getting your raid group together to kill Lord Kazzak, buying it off the auction house, or farm high level demons in one of these zones: Winterspring if you have a small group: or Blasted Lands if you have a larger group: Helpful Consumables:[/size] Stratholme Holy Water For Killing Scourge Footsoldiers, 1 minute cooldown. Oil of Immolation For Killing Scourge Footsoldiers, no cooldown. Major Mana Potion For restoring Mana. Demonic Rune / Dark Rune For restoring mana. Shares cooldown with each other but not with Major Mana Potion.

She spawns normally. The problem isn't her being killed, it's her being kited outside Cenarion Hold, where she gets stuck. Find her and killer her or make a GM ticket that she is missing.

I'm locking this thread because it wasn't a productive one in the first place. Since so many posters are questioning why it is allowed, here are few reasons: 1) We cannot monitor or police how people communicate outside the game. 2) We prefer all of our rules to be as universal and general as possible. 3) We do not have the staff to monitor a single zone 24/7. 4) Whether a player has to pay X gold or Y gold for two items that, while very good, are not absolutely required to progress, is irrelevant. 5) There exists a player-based solution to a player-created "problem", in fact two of them. You can "steal" leather from them if you're a good enough rogue or you can form your own groups and take the Crater by force. Finally, please stop posting obvious panic mongering crap. Nobody will leave the server and throw their level 60 away because of this.

We are not bringing multi-BG queue back. It is too easy to abuse. I understand that this news isn't what the twinking community wants to hear but we have to keep multi-BG queue disabled for the greater good.

We are working on improving our DDoS mitigation. Unfortunately if someone is wealthy enough and/or dedicated enough, there is only so much we can do when under attack by large bot nets.

Not possible.

Over thirty accounts have been banned for violating our PvP rules. Please remember that we do take such violations seriously. Win trading, and honour farming are not allowed and will lead to a permanent ban. I expect that number to grow as we dive deeper into the rabbit hole. I would also like to thank the assistance of several community members who helped with the investigation. However, there is never any need for a witch hunt. If you have concerns, please bring them to the GMs via in-game ticket or send me a PM via the forum but do remember that suspicion is not enough to ban someone. Investigation takes time.

Yes. If you are still banned, we have sufficient evidence to keep you banned. No more appeals.

Some players have had their permanent bans converted to 7 day bans to be in line with previous PvP sanctions. Those accounts are now playable again.

So our devs wasted their time putting those percentages and comments in, so that we could leak the code out, in order to do damage control and buy little more time? Friend, I have some alpha quality, double-layered tin foil hats for sale. The lizard people from Tau Ceti are out to get you and only my hat can protect you from their mind control rays.

Code goes in, code goes out, you can't explain that.

Stop spreading lies. 1 senior developer left the project and for a good reason. Claims otherwise are just trash talking from jealous people who want to see us crash and burn. As to OP, AQ is coming. Please remember that patch 1.9 is the largest patch in vanilla WoW. It not only includes two raids and a massive event, it also has many itemisation changes. It's way more work than any patch before it. The only comparable patch is the Naxxramas one because there is so much content in Naxx to be properly scripted. As we've announced before, our aim is to bring AQ40 back in its glorious state before Blizzard nerfed with, while making sure that there aren't any bugs that would block gameplay. We could have just kicked it out in a half-working, post-nerf state and call it a day - but we don't want to do that. Will it be perfect? Probably not. But it'll be better than any other AQ launch in private server history.

We'll look into it.

Yeah this is not going to happen.