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That is awesome that the team was able to do this! You should raise the level cap to send mail now to lvl 20 or actually, would it really hinder the game to raise it even further? I have pretty much never sent mail to anyone other than my other characters.

I haven't logged on to see this for myself but I'm so happy if they did raise it. It took me 35 minutes to make my first one and then with experience it took me 26 minutes to do my next one. To go from level 5 to 10, it will probably take 1.5h first try and I bet only an hour on the next one. I'll spend that time very happily if it helps combat the gold spammers. Here is a bit of a hint to help level those guys up: spend 20 to 40 silver on low level greens. It drastically helps speed up mob kills.

Let me first start by saying that I'm all for not changing anything in the game from what is the original vanilla wow experience. Any change that would result in a different game play, make life "easier" or otherwise is certainly not something that I would be in favor of. That said, how do people feel about adding the achievement system that came into the game just before the release of Wrath of the Lich King. This crossed my mind because like many of you, I am excited for the launch of The Burning Crusade realm here at Elysium and this feature technically was launched at the end of it. I personally would love to see this feature added right away to the game (actually I'm even all for it as a part of vanilla right now). The reason why I'm all for this is because other than the title rewards it might give to a player, it has zero impact on how the game plays (I believe there were some mount rewards too at the start?). When it was originally released by blizzard, I was super excited and then obsessed with completing achievements and it actually became a huge part of my playing time. If it was implemented, i would for sure enjoy the game more as I track my game progress. What do you guys think? I haven't seen any comments or requests about this.

I wasn't necessarily asking about it for vanilla (although I did state that I would be for it). It was just curious if on the TBC realm it would exist. The client that the TBC realm should be running on is going to be just like in vanilla and at the end of TBC correct? Therefore, the achievement system I'm going to imagine will be in the TBC client already that is being worked on. So the question is just then, does Elysium make the achievement system usable at the launch or at the last patch in the server progression?

I can confirm that I have too had hamstring not properly work on a fleeing mob.

Well put tamanous. I couldn't agree more with what you said! IMO vanilla servers should not be exact copies of the original blizzard game. The game wasn't perfect and we have the opportunity to make the game actually better (and with the content you mentioned, actually make the game flow better with a better release time of said content).

Playing a warrior, it is extremely annoying! They run away so fast that you can't catch up to them to get that last melee swing in :(

Cyrus, like everyone else has said, he isn't a ninja looter. For all BOE items, it is very much so acceptable to roll need by all. You take that BOE item, sell it for gold and then buy the BOE item you actually need with that gold (or whatever else).

To give an example of how fast and unreasonable this progression is: If you start raiding Molten Core (and an Onyxia kill each week as well) after the reset this Tuesday (which honestly there are very few guilds right now that are clearing MC in full on a weekly basis), you have a grand total of 12 full clears to get geared before BWL. If your raid composition was the perfect 5 of each class for perfect gear distribution (5x8 different classes is 40 for those of you who can't do the math) that is some serious competition and luck to get fully geared. You have 8 main body gear pieces, cloak, 2 trinket slots, 2 ring slots, neck and then the weapon/ranged/relic slots. Now not every class/every spec requires the gearing up in each slot from MC alone but with +/- 16 slots to gear up and mainly MC and Onyxia to get it from, it would be extremely tough to get a full 40 man raid geared and ready for BWL (I get that a full 40 man raid with full MC gear isn't required for BWL but it sure does make it less painful). Realistically for a vast majority of the server is to actually not start full clearing MC until sometime just after New Years which actually only gives you about 8 MC resets to do all this!

that is the most cluttered UI I have ever seen! Jeez

Scott, I looked back into it a bit and Joanna's run in the 4d20h was on a retail server back in the day and that run was about running to 60 at the start of a server. If a guy really wanted to get the best time possible, you log off everytime you need the cooldown on your hearthstone and full rested xp. There is also a video of a guy who got power leveled and his /played time was under 3 days of time.

Well it looks like over half are in favor of a blizz-like experience. So it would only make sense that the devs would at least compromise and make it 1.5 years where 80% of us people would be somewhat happy right?

+1 slow

While I can't say for sure that it isn't possible in Vanilla WOW, I can for 100% say for sure that it was possible in D3. And I do have proof of that.

No buddy, it wasn't a misread. It was a glitch just like the image you see above. Like I said, I didn't think at the time to take the screen shots to prove it but it surely wasn't a mistake on my part.

I had the exact same thing happen to me a couple of days ago. I saw an item really cheap and bought it out for what I thought was a buyout of 1g. When I went to the mailbox, it said I paid 10g! I looked at the gold count in my bag and it was indeed 10g that I paid! I didn't report a bug and I should have (especially because it looks like I'm not the only one affected by this). Have the gold sellers found a new way to make gold by hacking the auction house?!?!?

What the heck do you mean? If the Elysium team EVER decides to allow this, I will forever lose all of my trust in them and never play here again. I started playing on Nighthaven because it was a "fresh" server experience. At no point shall they ever ruin that! I suppose once the final patch has been released and it has been released for a couple of months, it would be acceptable finally at that point to allow characters to be added.

ya i don't know what your talking about orwell but the world chat was certainly a thing. I played on the realm Malygos and my /5 channel was always up and called "world". It actually wasn't quite as often used as it is on this server but it certainly got it's share of posts from anything from looking for groups to selling items.

It took me 29 minutes to get my bank alt to level 5 and then whatever time it took to walk up to org. I like the level 5 requirement for mail as the 30 minutes +/- you spend to level is of no real inconvenience.

How are the gold sellers actually making their own gold? From a character that is beyond level 20 right and thus ruining your idea?

to my knowledge, the world record is a hunter that leveled to 60 in 4d20h of game time. That is really moving. I would say the average player hits 60 after 6-8 days of actual game play time.

seems suspicious hmmm trying to fund your own mount there nastintatious? :P

I haven't seen any posts or anything regarding guild progression on this server. I was just curious to see if anyone is willing to post their guilds success as to how far into MC they have gotten. I'm going to assume that a month in, Ragnaros has been killed by at least one group of hardcores? Or is there a lack of level 60 players here right now?

I hate how little threat stoneclaw actually pulses :( If you have hit the mob at all (even from just your lightning shield) it rarely seems to pull a mob off of you if you need to loose the threat to heal or run. Back in vanilla, I don't actually remember it being that poor at pulsing threat.

I would agree with Adeline for WSG for sure. You do play this game to have fun though. All three specs imo are fun to play in pvp and you aren't going to be looked down upon for which ever role you want to play unlike in pve where resto is normally the only option.