Tholren

Just getting this clear, you went through the trouble of listing Germany and Sweden side by side, but won't list Portugal next to the UK? Really? You're triggering the continental Portuguese in me by listing Açores afterwards.

Are you talking to yourself on this thread, or was someone banned? Regardless, my personal vote goes to not leveling up engi between 1-60 and simply switch at max level. Take whatever prof combo suits your class best whilst leveling, since it can not only compensate on the economical end but also gear wise.

I'm sure they'll provide, but most likely it will be the same that Valkyrie wow has used since they started hosting Elysium.

Keep in mind that having cross realm BGs between 3 realms wouldn't present the problem of lack of realm identity that the retail realms had.

Finally, someone who actually has a functioning brain.

I have no doubt that they're delaying because they want to stress test it properly. However, they may be overlooking the fact that everyone will be playing in the Old realm since there won't be anything else to do, and whilst some people will be on their old characters, most will be on fresh characters, clogging up the starter zones and causing the same issues they are trying to prepare for. Unless, they want that to happen, so they can figure out what they need to do for the fresh start launch? There's a lot of possibilities.

I'ts not about the server, it's about sending a message.

Awfully negative feedback here. I too am disappointed that they servers won't launch at the same time, but such is the state of things. I can hold on for another 3-4 weeks.

I think it's PvP

They're working on it and also conducting internal tests. Proof. Also, take a moment to read this for a bit of extra info: Here.

I actually believe the population will sort itself out and the dev team will manage the existing realms according to necessity. Had they not offered the option to start fresh or to retrieve people's old character there would be a riot, thus, by offering all possible options the decision as to where to play falls on the community alone. If, and that's a big if there, one of the realms (be it the one with old characters or the fresh one) ends up becoming a ghost town that is just a resource dump I don't think they'll hesitate to redirect those resources into more useful things. So, in short, I don't think the initial community divide will cause long term issues. If anything, it's giving the freedom to play the game as they wish, which is great.

To be fair tons of quests are easy to complete in groups and the time you end up losing on the contested ones (collection quests, lootable items with respawn timers, etc) tends to even out.

Why speed level through the content? Raid logging that much fun? In all seriousness, though. don't rush it, even if you want to be competitive, speed leveling can cause quite the burnout and, server first or not, it's meant to be fun in the end. (This is all secretly a ploy to make people take their sweet time leveling so I can be server first, muhuhahahahaha! )

I guess there's a story here that new players like myself don't know about?

I absolutely cannot see the development team cease development and not progress to TBC if the server continues to be both successful and well populated.

It was oddly sad to see this video, it reminded me that Chris Metzen retired recently. He was a great driving force for WoW. Was it just me or did anyone else get the impression that they speak about Vanilla with more emotion than more current projects?

The pool is poorly done. Playing your old Nost char and playing your Elysium char is exactly the same thing when it comes to which server you'll play on, since both databases will merge. Please rectify.

Many think Pebbleform is a PvP god, but they are mistaken! The Alliance simply has a geographical advantage on AV due to the narrowing bridge leading to it's base. Pebbleform, being a good strategist, has taken full advantage of this and pretends to be godlike in PvP. I see through you, Pebbleform...

Why? BC is, at least in my opinion, the best state of WoW. To have it available with decent quality AND to progress in it with the character I just progressed through Vanilla content with would be a dream come true, since I never played vanilla retail (started in BC). Those who would wish to stay behind would just continue on their Vanilla realm, no loss for them. I personally wouldn't progress into WOLTK, if it came to that.

What exactly do you mean by near future? I mean, if it's something that could happen 1-2 years down the line it would be perfect, since that's when most people will be hitting their personal fulfillment/self-achievement cap if they start fresh now.

Can't get it to work. The modified version is broken, it makes my whole screen blue, I guess the bar is gigantic for some reason. Can't download the SavedVariables, since they've been taken down. Any chance you can help me? This is exactly what my Rogue needs

Thank you for taking up the banner. I do have a problem with this, splitting the community is bad, either only do a fresh start or only use the DB. You can't please everyone.