Holkan

So tonight I was leveling in Feralas as I was grinding I noticed a hunter moving pretty much 100 % like a bot. Tagged 2 of its mobs before it could and of course it finished them instead of leaving them like a player even though I had agro. I open a ticket and not even 30 seconds later i see the hunter disappear /who and it its on gm island. GM messages me that it was indeed a bot. Never in any game run by professional companies or not have I seen a cheating player taken out so quickly. I know with the database intrusion and all the things going on a lot of bad things are being said and thought by people I'd just like to commend you on what I saw tonight. And to the players your reports of cheaters do matter make sure you petition the GM's aren't going to find these players alone the community is.

Some of the damage of mobs is so insane. Like the water elementals with aoe frost bolt for 70 % of your lifeand turtles from the torches in BFD the elemental lightning spamming cultists. The fear spamming boss in stockades doing intimidating shout over and over. It actually makes level dungeons kind of hard. They're buggy as shit but it actually makes it kind of hard and fun. What mobs have you guys run into that are clearly broken but you enjoyed?

Thats actually how arcane missles worked in vanilla if you started the channel before someone went los it continued your cast that other shit real broke though

Alright you win thats pretty nuts lol

Yeah I've seen some ghetto fixes like quest items dropping from random mobs that shouldn't drop them instead of say a box that its supposed to be in. Which is obviously preferably to not being able to be completed just a little confusing sometimes.

They have asked the Nostalrius people they aren't responding or fixing it. Its pretty safe to say its done.

Yeah i remember stockades mobs bugging out when you zone out with them going under the stairs and never resetting, but I'm not sure if thats a stock mangos bug or just a nost bug. I haven't really played on any other private servers so I have 0 idea whats usually broken from just mangos default and whats server specific. As long as the encounters are beatable I do really enjoy some of the bugs although some of it is kind of silly.

Well yeah thats what i mean't by way back on alla way back machine internet archive, but that doesn't really help other then really vague comments people make which is rare that its pertinent . Like I said if it was that easy to give proof they'd already be getting fixed / bug tracked. But you really have to find like an old video showing the pulls and the damage they do etc.

Its kind of hard to find videos of the exact things that are bugged probably why so many of them are still bugged if it was easy to fix their wouldn't be so many things not right. Its not like items where you can just use way back on alla.

Yeah i had that happen when i was leveling a hunter on nost pvp a little before elysium came out we wiped and he didnt die and i was just like uhhh okay cool!

They definitely have a mega shit ton of mobs to fix, but I kind of want them to leave some of them not blizz like and more difficult for fun to be honest.

Battle mage super mans or ?

escape artist is by far the best racial for warriors in pvp and great for rogues as well. WoTF is pretty amazing though alliances strong point in pvp isn't their racials its having paladins to heal. I Think a big reason alliance gets dominated usually in pug pvp is due to this hierarchy Healing paladin > Horde racials >= ret paladin supporting > ret paladin not supporting. A shaman running around windfurying and purging randomly is a lot more effective then a ret paladin who only cleanse freedoms and bops themselves. WoTF making alliance warlocks life hard also heavily contributes.

At the end of a day push where lay on hands and bubble is used is won by the alliance unless they are just terrible. No matter what a resto shaman does hes going to die before a paladin if the dps is good on both teams. A lot of paladin utility can be purged but a good assist train wipes a shaman out in the blink of an eye. And you can't purge when cc'd or pressured cause you're barely surviving with ms debuff on you. Not to mention BoP removes MS even if its instantly purge easily topping the hordes focus target which horde has no answer to.

Its not that bad some areas can be tough since you don't really have the tools to deal with multiple mobs well, but you can just avoid those situations by coming back when you're a higher level. It is harder then leveling any other class, but it doesn't take someone special to level one.

I don't see how at all. He has a point in that alliance lacks offensive purge but a shadow priest and healing priest can easily make up for that. It's not like alliance can't use FAP. Horde has one healer that can remove magic cc and a priest dies in seconds compared to a paladin to melee. Whatever set up you run on horde you can run on alliance outside of shamans. Paladin bubble healing and magic cleanse > anything shamans can bring.

You don't. Tongues is good against them but in any decent premade they'll get decursed. Every time bubble is up you'll lose that push because 12 seconds of uninterrupted healing is crazy. The bottom line is you can beat premades below your skill level that have paladins, but if they play remotely decent you lose.

If you're not main tanking raids you can easily tank as any spec of warrior so I wouldn't let that discourage you from playing what you want to.

Which is why they should take kronos approach ban vpn's and make legit players apply for an exception. A much less daunting task then trying to combat gold selling in its current state.

I 100 % agree with you which is why in my first post I said that they should do what kronos does and that is ban VPN's and make people file for exceptions. That way they legit players with vpn's can still play, but we don't have the mess we have now.

While technically true a vpn is a private proxy server. What do you think a VPN is made of ? proxy servers.

Also when choosing a proxy you don't choose one closet to the server you want better ping to you choose the proxy closet to your physical location. If you choose the proxy closet to the server your ping will greatly increase. VPNs are useful for lowering ping if your ISP's route has heavy traffic or takes an inefficient route this doesn't apply too many but you make it sound like it does nothing and that a vpn falsely shows your ping as lower.

Distance isn't whats affected when you connect to a VPN. What can be affected that helps people with VPN's is the route your connection takes to the server. If a hop along the route is greatly congested or your isp takes an inefficient route to the server it can help immensely. This doesn't apply to everyone, but there are people it does help. And if it worked how you said when you connect to a VPN right next to the server like say france for elysium and you lived in the USA you'd have sub 50 ping displayed according to your explanation as the proxy would be right next to the actual server. But you don't have that low of ping because thats not how it works. Also when choosing a proxy you don't choose one closet to the server you want better ping to you choose the proxy closet to your physical location. If you choose the proxy closet to the server your ping will greatly increase. VPNs are useful for lowering ping if your ISP's route has heavy traffic or takes an inefficient route this doesn't apply too many but you make it sound like it does nothing and that a vpn falsely shows your ping as lower.

Well thats not exactly true as stated in the same forum post you linked. Albiet rarer and doesn't apply to that many people if your isp takes an inefficient route or a hop is heavily congested you can greatly lower latency through proxies. You aren't ever going to go from 170 ping to 20 ping from the west coast of USA, but if either of those things are happening you could easily go from 250 to 170. All that being said I still think vpn's should be disabled for the server and they should do what kronos does and that is make people apply for exceptions to connect through a vpn. This will cripple the gold market immensely more then anything else they can possibly do and it will make ban evasion for people using cheats much harder. Some people can unplug their modem for a few hours and get a new IP. For some peoples isp's it takes days of an unplugged modem to change their IP. This way you get rid of a lot of gold farmers and ip bans for cheaters become a lot more effective. If i was someone who played through a vpn for whatever reason I would be more then happy to go through a process to use it if it meant greatly decreasing gold selling and making punishments for cheaters actually mean something.

I haven't seen or read anything about the capacity. I imagine you can expect it to at least be the same as current nostalrius pvp and maybe more later depending on the popularity of the server.