Zak Preston

How can I change debuff size?

I suppose it's an obvious hint to Legacy Crusade and possible character transfers\copy from Elysium-Vanilla to LC-TBC.

The Dark Portal activated (changed it's color to green). Does it have anything in common with Legacy Crusade?

is it a teaser of upcoming TBC server at 0:51?

assemble your own premade with 6-8 healers and... get rekt, because having more than 4 healers in AB is retarded. But feel free to try, lol. Most alliance premades have 3-4 healers on AB and 2-3 on WSG. Not each druid, paladin or even priest is a healer, you know, and if you see a retri pala in enemy team, then 95% you are facing a PUG =)

First of all we have to realize and accept some facts about Elysium Project: 1. Elysium servers are private. Not retail, not official and non-commercial. Elysium Project may stop it's existence because of various reasons. 2. Elysium Project servers are not 100% blizzlike. Some non-blizzlike changes have already been made to make the game more balanced and enjoyable (gold farming methods are nerfed, 1.12.1 talents for the whole servers lifecycle duration, some altered item stats and loot tables). 3. WoW-retail has evolved and adapted a lot through expansions. Certain design flaws have been fixed, some mechanics have failed so much that have been redesigned completely. TL;DR: while server is meant to be as blizzlike as possible, it's still not 100% blizzlike. The game itself has lots of flaws that have been fixed earlier. Now let's start with PvP-related problems Elysium has ATM: 1. Respeccing from PvE to PvP build costs 50 gold for those who do it consistently. The price is really high and not many people can afford respecs often. Some may suggest building a PvP-PvE spec, but this approach is way too casual: Dedicated PvP-ers will still use PvP spec, dedicated raiders will use the most eficient PvE specs. So when PvP-er decides to do some PvE or vice versa, he pays up to 50 gold for respec. Then he has to pay again to respec back. The amounts of gold you have to pay for respecs are huge and unreasonable, so a vast majority of players has to stay in one spec and underperfom in PvP or PvE. With nerfed goldfarming methods the problem becomes even more serious. Solution: Reduce respecs cost, and amount of respeccing layers will increase tenfold, sinking gold and making economy healthier. Also it will make PvP more competitive and fun. Effect (TL;DR): more ppl will pay for respec, making PvP and PvE more enjoyable and economy healthier. 2. Pre-2.0 honor system was a complete fail in retail. It was admitted by lead developers of Wow (Tigule and Kalgan) and has been scrapped with TBC launch completely. The sheer amount of time you have to spend is immense: around 40-60 hours per week for months of your life if you want to get r13\r14). In return you get a pretty decent for PvP, but quite mediocre for PvE, and only few classes really need that r14 for weapons. As stated before, Elysium Project is not eternal and spending hundres of hours to get to r14 is not optimal. Increasing brackets size will lead to honor caps drop and will make PvP gear more accessible, meaning more people will rank for it. Solution: Increase brackets spots for br1 and br2. Effect: This will prevent "honor wars" and will result in brackets cap drop slightly, making PvP gear more accessible. This will involve more people to PvP, meaning more pugs, more premades and lower queue times for both sides.

yet another undead mage\rogue here, thinking that his OP racial has anything to do with his personal skill. Lear to play: Grizzly rerollers have formed a very strong premade that can beat most alliance ones. They are the best confirmation that most horde rankers are unskilled crybabies.

horde pugs win against alliance pugs, so it's ok, let's leave as is. Horde has less premades, so alliance premades have to fight pugs. Instead of organizing more premades and fighting back, let's ask for more artificial and non-blizzlike features. horde premades suck, so let's forbi premades completely! PUGs are FTW! Regarding respec cost: time has shown, that there are little to no specs that are excellent both in PvP and PvE. This is why dual-spec has been introduced in WotLK: so that the person could enjoy both PvP and PvE or could fulfil more than one role in PvE. I wonder what damage will cause lower respec costs for the server economy and the PvP + PvE scenes?

Feral druids on Elysium and ZK have a serious problem with itemization: 1. Our T1\T2 sets are designed for healers\casters. 2. The choice of offset items is extremely limited, so most BiS items for now are rares and this won't change until AV/ZG patch. But most of more or less decent gear come out in AQ20/AQ40 which is year away from now on. 3. As you can check our BiS item list, one of the best choices for F-Druid is r12-r13 set, which still has a weird mix of stats on it (spell crit, AP, spirit, +heal). The proposal is simple: allow Druids to use Rogue T1/T2 and PvP items. While it seems to be non-blizzlike, in TBC the itemization issues for Ferals has been resolved in similar manner: PvP offset pieces like wrists, jewelry, belts and so on were shared among Druids and Rogues.

Absolutely yes.

I'm not talking about skills, i'm talking about the lack of itemization. Both shamans and palas are a completely different case since they use mana as their main resource, while ferals use rage and energy, so intellect and spirit is above useless. Also you cant complain about the lack of itemization for both: there are so many good crafted items and for both, while the only epic Feral can get is Breastplate of Bloodthirst from the quest and a couple of crafted tanking items wit fire resist and poor stats. As I stated before, in TBC both rogues and druids got access to the same accessories from PvP vendor at least. It really hurts to lag in gear quality only because there are no items for ferals and I'm forced to wear rares from dungeons => no guild will want an undergeared bear tank or offtank instead of better equipped warrior.

So, the problem with retardedly bad itemization for feral druids on Ely\ZK still exists: blue PvP set pieces give all palette of stats like agility, strength, intellect, spirit, spell crit, ap and damage\healing to spells. T1\T2 pieces can also boast some strength and agility while still being designed for casters\healers. AQ patch is too far away, and feral druids are forced to wear blue gear while other classes enjoy their epics.

Moolan on Elysium loves to exploit this tactics ofc, when you benefit from these bugs or design flaws

who cares about a bunch of monopolists? only monopolists XD

Ok, the problem with Un'Goro mafia is not in x-faction cooperation, but in GRIEFING: you tag a devilsaur and a a mage FROM YOUR FACTION sheeps it. Enemy warrior attacks you and YOUR FACTION MAGE polymorfs him to heal. You can't do anything to YOUR FACTION griefer, that's the problem. Maybe make devilsaurs unsheepable?

the dungeon set 2 is released in naxx patch, iirc.

Druid was designed to be a jack-of-all trades, but with fixed ilvl stats budget it means that any a feral in "pure druid gear" is gimped to be a terrible tank\mdps and the worst healer of all available. Obviously your approach didn't work in Vanilla, so in TBC every spec got it own PvP and PvE set. Moreover, in TBC Rogues and Druids shared offset pieces like wrists, jewelry and trinkets. It has already happened with lots of spells\abilities not working as intended, with customized gear stats, nerfed goldfarming spots, and so on. Not a single sane RL will give a cat Shadowcraft Nightslayer piece instead of rogue. Rogues scale with gear so much better because they don't have fixed attack speed and base damage. BTW, this was first fixed in Naxx patch with Atiesh giving Feral Attack Power (FAP) and has been widely improved in Cata when FAP has become a hidden value and scaled with rough DPS.

Sure, I'm playing as a rogue\warrior MELEE hybrid, so I need strength, agility and stamina, not spirit, spellhit and +healing.

No, that was 10-ppl premade, not randoms. What's the problem to assemble more or less skilled and PvP-hungry guys for a decent static.

Your opinion is very important to us (c) (except it's not)

The problem for horde is that their full r10-r13 premade loses to r6-r9 Alliance pug with 4 bases capped. How are you going to fix THAT?

You have to realize why population diminishes: 1. People get tired of the game and take a break. This is a natural process. 2. People leave because of no new content. Most of them will return after "release" on the next patch, like Dire Maul on Elysium and ZK. 3. Some people came to Elysium because of hype and they didn't expect Vanilla WoW would be so "uncomfortable": lots of grind, no QoL features and so on. 4. Some people (a very small total percentage) left because of "drama-lama". 5. Some people leave because their friends leave. This is the exact case of ZK. While Elysium-PvP is fine, ZK and Darrowshire may really need some kind of intervention: introduce 2x XP weekends or double honor weeks... Enable Recruit a Friend program or something like this.

Any fixes on fear DC bug? Maybe you should disable any skills that provoke DCs at least?

I don't give any single guano about your spare skin and sets, honesly. Making DS skin more common is the only solution to prevent griefing. I really don't care how much gold you have, if you sell it or not and so on. Ignoring the issue completely is a very short-handed solution.

But overall DPS also affects PvP: yes, ferals on Elysium can cometimes surprize with 1k shreds on mages\warlocks, but warriors and rogues can do the same more consistently.