Jupes85

It actually began after the PvP patch and cheap mount fiasco. That's when it became a total shitfest. I haven't played since and am surprised it's still a gank fest on here.

Realm has been on a steady decline since.

Using a VPN will probably fix the issue. If you really need to be on right now, then look into that option.

Seems to be a wide spread issue. Not much you can do right now.

I looked over on Reddit and apparently even people from Light's Hope are getting disconnected, and someone mentioned Project Ascension as well.

Just logged in and noticed the same thing. Played yesterday night and it was fine. It seems to be lagging us out. I'm noticing latency will skyrocket in the thousands, then either disconnect or go back to normal for a few seconds until it does it again. I'm in Ottawa Ontario. Maybe it's only affecting Ontario.

Your pet earns training points when he levels up, as well as when his Loyalty Level goes up, although Loyalty can't surpass 6, so after that, it's solely earned by your pet levels. When taming new pets, you might actually be in the negative training points, but it all evens out to 300 training points once you're 60 with Loyalty 6. Note that the Pet Trainer(Not to be confused by Hunter Trainer) only trains basic skills(Stamina, Armor, Resistances, Growl), and when you do train a new skill at the Pet Trainer, your pet won't have the skill yet. You need to open the Beast Training spell, and teach the spell to your pet from there. It's actually really clunky, especially that your pet will often be 2-3 levels below you, so even if you can train a new pet ability at the Pet Trainer, you won't be able to teach it to your pet till your pet also reaches the required level. You also don't need to train each Rank of a skill. So in theory, you could grind to 60, not visit a pet trainer, then at 60, learn all the max Ranks right away. The Pet Trainer can reset your pet training points for pretty cheap, so don't be afraid to try things out, although this is mostly relevant later on when more skills become available. To teach your pet special abilities(like Claw, Prowl etc), you need to tame a pet that has that ability, use it, and eventually you will see a message telling you you've learned a new ability. At that point, the skill will be in your Beast Training tab, and teachable to future pets of that family. This will require you to store your pet at the stable, while you tame another one for its skill. I recommend http://www.companioncodex.com/ This contains Species Catalog with all the types of beasts along with the skills they can learn, and a Bestiary containing a list of all beasts in the world and what skill/rank they have.

In the General Tab of your spell book, there is a Beast Training spell. That is where all of your pet skills are found. The entire way to learn new pet skills is actually not really obvious if you've never played a Hunter before so I recommend you do a little research on how it works. I also noticed that whenever I learn a new rank of a spell(noticed this specifically with Growl), the 'Auto-cast' won't always work, so if you notice your pet not holding aggro, Disable/Re-enable Auto cast to make sure it works properly.

Notice how you scored 123 kills ? Stonetalon is horde dominated. So I'm gonna go ahead and assume that your faction got the better of the exchange. PvP is always fun when you're winning. Even if you aren't completing quests, the satisfaction of beating down the opponent truncates not questing. So all in all, major lack of objectivity in your argument, other than the suggestion to quest somewhere else. That is a valid point. But other than that, it's you saying you had a great time wrecking alliance in a horde dominated zone. Well, ya, no shit.

It's always going to feel like that seeing as you don't notice alliance characters around you. This isn't to say there isn't possibly more Horde than Alliance, but a player's perspective will always be skewed because it's much easier to notice the other faction than your own, especially when PvP is everywhere.

You're terribly uninformed. And none of the devs have replied, so I think people are still waiting for answers. Ironically enough, Shenna posted yesterday how 'This is like it was back in Vanilla with all the PvP action', clearly omitting(purposely I imagine) how the mount change didn't occur until 1.12 in Vanilla.

Vanilla's timeline was different, so more people were maxed out by the time the PvP patch came out, which was 6 months after launch, not 2 months like on Nighthaven. The average player is also smarter now, and exploits mechanics more than during Vanilla, making it easier for 2-3 players to take key points. Let's not forget the population. Nighthaven has an unrealistic population(To Vanilla standards), so you're a lot more likely to have Mr.FlightPathCamper than on Vanilla, and just overall a lot more likely to run into someone who wants to kill you. All in all, I can't say the current state of the server is something I've ever experienced 15 years ago.

You definitely can't rely on guards to accomplish much, regardless of where you are. I remember ridiculous guard spawns when I played Vanilla, but I haven't seen this on here. To be fair, the guard spawn rate on Vanilla eventually became pretty ridiculous, so I'm glad it's not like that. But ya it's way too easy right now on Nighthaven to take over a town or a flight master. Menethil Harbor has been constantly camped. Yesterday, the flight master was killed over and over again, with virtually no push back from the guards. They were even able to enter the inn unchecked. More alliance eventually showed up, but they left once the horde were dead, and I'm sure the camping activity resumed shortly after.

For sure goes both ways. But, you're not Alliance, so obviously you don't get ganked by Horde. I've never seen so many hostile players, and I've always played on PvP servers. Right now, both sides are purposely patrolling around every zone looking to kill anything.

I don't think it's been blown out of proportion at all. In fact, I'm really surprised that this thread is only 2 page long, with most of it being the same people replying. Virtually no one uses these forums, and most players casually leveling probably don't even know that this change hit in 1.4 instead of later on, so they're completely in the dark. I'm certain that if more players knew that a percentage of the playerbase saved 800g on their mount, there would be an outrage, but most don't even know. They will hit level 60, and farm their 1k gold, never knowing that some of their brethren only paid a fraction for their mount.