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Huh, looks good. Those numbers though... 1 million damage? What happened to Blizzard trying to reduce all the numbers in the game?

Oh didn't know they changed character animations as well. I played WoD very briefly, got kinda weirded out by the new models personally. I used to play a tauren and thought it looked quite odd.

yep that's why it's called vanilla. Having 2014 character models surrounded by 2004 environment & armour textures would look a bit weird I think anyway.

Look at the third reply... on the first page...

Yes I know it wasn't directed to the OP but still you're being a dick & no need for it in what was very simply answered by Tholren in the first place.

Generally speaking, everything is harder and requires more teamwork. Simple as that really.

Shayss, why do you have to be so condescending? The OP has only just joined and was asking a question in a friendly way. Gah.

It will be fine, Nostalrius had hundreds of players leveling at the same time right up until it shut down.

strange way of looking at it given that getting to level 60 will most likely take several months, and most people don't complete every raid first try... not to mention there is PvP and dungeons among other things.

I took thousands of screenshots when I joined WoW, and I can remember lots of them crystal clear. I thought the game was absolutely beautiful. Unfortunately my laptop dropped on the floor and the hard drive was completely bust and unrecoverable will never get those back.

Nostalrius chose to shut down, Blizzard did not shut them down.

Nope, it stands for Electrifying Role Play.

more players means more competition, which necessitates in people trying to work together - the core component of an MMO.

dwarfs > all races

Um, I didn't say it wouldn't be popular. What I'm trying to explain to you is that there is less interest in the Nostalrius servers than the fresh server, therefore if you release the Nostalrius servers first, they will be more popular than they otherwise would be and therefore the playerbase will be more evenly distributed between the 3 servers. That is their aim. Whether you agree with it or not is a completely different issue. You are wrong that people will start playing on Nostalrius and give up. The whole point of this is to get more people starting on Nostalrius, where they will then stay.

They're not "flooding" the old servers, quite the opposite. The older ones are going to be the less popular server, so they have more room to bear the brunt of being first to release. It'll more evenly distribute players across the realms. Otherwise you'd have the fresh server completely overloaded and imbalanced compared to the old servers. They are preventing everyone flooding the new server.

PVP servers are generally fine. You will get harassed / ganked from time to time but most of the time theres nothing to worry about. For instance on Nostalrius, from levels 1-35 the only time I ever found it an issue was when I was levelling in Redridge Mountains and there was a huge group of Horde who camped there for hours on end one day, killing every quest giver and every single little Alliance player every time they spawned. Was super annoying and meant I effectively couldn't play that day. But eh it's not the end of the world. In contrast when you're someones equal it can be a lot of fun.

Blizzard did not shut down Nostalrius, Nost chose to shut down when Blizzard asked them to. Elysium has said they will not shut down if Blizzard tells them to. Not much Blizzard can do about that other than taking them to court, which has never happened to a non profit private server and isn't about to start now.

Don't know why everyone is moaning about the release date of the fresh server. It's been like 9 months since Nostalrius shut down, you can't wait another 3 weeks? Much better to have it released stable and with fewer players..

No, will almost certainly be in January.

lol. Elysium will be the biggest server - releasing two servers before it will offset some of the business up front.

Actually, and correct me if I'm wrong, they never said *anything* about the PvE server. They said they would launch Nostalrius PVP first, and Elysium PVP afterwards. They repeatedly ignored questions about Nostalrius PVE.

I agree Russian and Chinese characters should be banned. Ignoring/blocking people is not as easy in vanilla so we need more control over what characters are allowed. But different versions of English characters like é should be fine.

10K players too much for WoW? Nope... that's what Nostalrius had and it was great. (with exception of view distance)

I honestly don't get why people need levelling guides. One of the best things about vanilla is that it doesn't give you any aid in quests, and they can actually be a challenge by yourself. each to their own though. I guess if all you care about is the end game content.