Holkan

As far as I know and I may have some of this wrong / read the wrong information lots of private servers get cease and desist letters. Nostalrius willingly shut their server down although living in France if blizzard did decide to pursue further legal action they could be taken to court. Elysium has said they will ignore any cease and desist letters they receive. Supposedly they live in Russia or so I've read and copyright law doesn't mean фекал to Russia. If their host is forced to take down the server they will just pick another and rehost the data base.

Hey! long time no see.

Honestly I highly doubt the servers will be a smooth launch there's gonna be issues and people are going to complain, but lets be serious no one is going anywhere. Nostalrius crashed and rolled back and got ddos'd and it was pretty rough for awhile but everyone endured through it because they love that nostalgic experience too much. Elysium is gonna be a mess on launch regardless of what happens I imagine the spawn rates of mobs wont be enough to accommodate the amount of people and regardless with that many the first three or so leveling zones are probably gonna lag like crazy no matter what they do. The best thing they can do is release nost and fresh start closely together so the population has more then one choice this will at least make it so not everyone is on the same server.

The downloads them selves are probably virus free. Where people see viruses is when they go to torrent websites without noscript / ad block and spyware pops up. Saw a post about the classic windows hijack pop up that speaks to u and is semi difficult to exit out of it. These pop ups are common on alot of torrenting sites while the torrents them selves are fine. There's usually also ads that look like download link to make you click them that can give you spyware as well.

You can tank and heal as off specs just collect gear along the way for what you want to do. Also you probably don't want to let people know you're the off spec just to avoid being kicked out or hearing complaints from people who fail to understand that.