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Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

As far as I know, no. Defensive Stance gives you a flat 30% boost to threat generation, and then you have the talent that gives +15% threat while in defensive stance. I don't think switching to battle or berserker could possibly increase your threat. Only time you'd switch stances is if you needed to cast something that requires another stance, like Mocking Blow (requires battle stance) or Berserker Rage (requires berserk stance)

At 7-8k online there was a 1 second delay on everything. "perfect"

Viable, sure. Optimal, no, Arms is still better.

And WoW's fourth anniversary.

This is the oldest screenshot that I have, dated June 16th, 2008. Yeah, I was a late-BC baby. I started earlier than that (mid-December 2007) but used an older laptop and didn't save any of the screenshots from it. I was such a ваууing scrub that I rolled need on a tank trinket. To my defense though, I didn't have a 2nd trinket yet.

a post full of ad hominem, nice to the ignore list you go

People are against Ret because you have to put a shitfckton of money and effort in, and you still do less DPS than that shitter rogue with blue weapons. Unless your gear is godlike and you have 300g of consumables for every single raid, your guild is just going to give you a Nightfall and tell you to autoattack the boss and dispel / emergency heal. And ofc, people in battlegrounds will cry at you for not healing. Also, ignore Killerduki. He's a fanatical Paladin main that claims Prot paladins should be main tanks and Ret is great DPS, both of which are horribly wrong.

It's never "too late" to start on a server, unless you're trying to push for server-first raid clears. Which is a pretty silly thing to do in a 12 year old game.

Yeah, Kronos is really dead these days. After Nost went down, their servers got flooded so they made a 2nd server, but now the population is so low that everyone is wanting the two servers to merge again. With Nost relaunching three servers, I can't see Kronos having any decent population in the future.

Even if the entire server was fresh, I still would have played here because of the promise of high population. Plus, Nost's scripting is pretty good. I would like to believe that most Vanilla players are not afraid of having to level 1-60 again.

Paladins should not be doing anything in PvP except healing. No, вау off with your "ret", you are not a DPS, you are a support class. Heal or GTFO. is that good enough?

Because I don't like playing single player WoW. Nost's insane population made every single zone feel alive. Made it super easy to find groups for every single dungeon at every level. Made a booming economy. etc. Vanilla wow is highly dependent on having a good population. Doesn't matter how good scripted your server is, if the population is фекал, it's going to be frustrating and boring to play.

I do agree it's kinda BS that classes like Warrior cannot use any 2H weapons until level 10, but people around here seem to be wholly adverse to any quality of life changes, crying "muh blizzlike muh blizzlike" even though they're playing on a server with 1.12 patch, 1.5 itemization, 1.0 content and a playercap over 2 times higher than what blizzard had.

Admins said from the beginning that the fresh server would release later on. PvE server releasing earlier does not change this in any way. /shrug The entire point of this project was to revive the Nost servers. The new fresh server is just a bonus.

Fairly certain that Pottu (or some other admin) said back on Nost, that they do not actively try to ban modified models, but the anti-cheat system might still pick them up and auto ban you.

Nost has been down for like 9 months. Another 2-3 weeks won't kill you. The issue is entitled crybabies wanting their server NOW and demanding that it be released NOW, even though admins said from the very beginning that the fresh server would come after nost PvP relaunches. But now that nost PvE is also launching with nost PvP, the fresh server players are flipping their фекал and claiming they were lied to and throwing entitled tantrums demanding that the fresh server be released sooner. It's literally just entitled faggots whining that they're not getting what they want, when they want it.

Where did I say that they don't? Please, point out where I said "1.12 talents do not make the content easy". 1.12 talents are the bigger part of the reason why we won't ever see "true difficulty" on private servers. I made that pretty clear towards the end of my post. Even if we somehow had patch 1.1 talents, things would not be that much harder because we'd still be able to easily theorycraft the best specs and know where/how to get the best itemized gear and know the raid strats perfectly and such. 1.12 talents + average player skill today being infinitely higher than it was back in 2005 + easy access to information about the game. We cannot reach that "true difficulty" without wiping everyone's memories of WoW and somehow acquiring Blizzard's patch 1.1 server cores/scripting. Oh wow, you quoted someone. So smart. I am defeated by your incredible intelligence, O Great And Powerful Smart One. The problem is, "the real experience" is incredibly difficult to attain, and has so many variables that people will be endlessly arguing over whether it is truly "the real experience" or not. To try and make a custom vanilla that emulates "2004 difficulty" would be a massive headache all around. That's why nobody does it. We don't have solid information on pre-1.4 talents, gear, spell values and mechanics, so trying to re-create it would be a crapshoot that would cause endless arguing over whether it's correct or not. If you want that difficulty so badly, then go raid MC in full greens with an improper talent spec. That should be pretty close to what it's like.

Quit your fŭcking crying. Admins said from the beginning that the fresh realm would be released at a later date. PvE realm being released alongside Nost PvP does not affect the release date of the fresh server.

Everything should be the same as original Nost.

This seems insanely over-simplified, to the point of missing crucial details. Also, no, you do not want to mind control mobs. It's not very helpful except in situations like DM:N where you can MC mobs that hit like trucks and use them to clear the other trash.

I fail to see how releasing a fresh server 2-3 weeks later is "ignoring" people. But go ahead, do whatever mental gymnastics you have to, in order to play the victim card and proclaim that you're being oppressed by people who are spending their free time to give you a good service for free. Blizzard threatened legal action and Nost shut themselves down so they wouldn't get sued into oblivion. Just like how a person getting mugged is going to give up his money so that he doesn't get shot dead. Blizz didn't "shut down" the servers themselves, they just threatened legal action if the servers did not shut down.

Yeah, since I've never done any serious PvP in vanilla, I suppose I could give Spriest PvP a go. That's where I've heard the most positive things, that Spriest is sick in PvP, especially Undead and the ever-lovely Devouring Plague.

Even though I've got a preraid BiS 60, 50 and 38 on the old PvP server, I'm going to be starting anew on the PvE server because fũck PvP servers.

Why do people always assume that literally every single person on the server will multibox 5 characters? That and, even on retail, multiboxing was extremely rare, so I'm not sure why you're decrying Blizzard for "money grabs", as if Blizzard was actively advertising the ability to multibox. They didn't encourage it. They just didn't forbid it either. I'd say less than 0.1% of the playerbase multiboxed. On a PvP server, you can have your level 60 main /follow your alt so that you don't get ganked while leveling. Or use your 60 main to carry your alt through instances for quests/gear or whatever.