Sarrowind

Hi everyone, I was playing on Elysium yesterday, a new hunter, while I waited for my Zeth'kur characters to be transferred. I logged off properly about 5 minutes before the server restart was supposed to happen. When I logged back in to my hunter (after renaming him) my macros were gone and some of my button configurations. This was the easy fix... However, my pet no longer knows Claw and it is not on his ability bar, nor can I learn Growl. My Spellbook DOES NOT have a Pet tab either. Help?

Currently on my phone or I would elaborate further now, but will later. Actually, isn't this almost too obvious?

Nothing is perfect. I'd rather eat a temp ban instead of a naked 60(s) with no gold.

If you can afford a computer, model at least circa 2004, you can install and run WoW. If you can afford internet, you can play said WoW. If you have both, you can run and play WoW. Where is there a valid excuse in that equation to not use 2FA that is accessible from a computer with internet? These message boards are rife with complaints about accounts being "hacked", which is poor terminology to use. Hacking is a little more sophisticated than using the same password for everything and someone discovering it and then abusing it. If you get compromised and don't have 2FA, then it is your fault and find somewhere to cry, such as your local bar, strip club, etc. The devs have more important things to work on and have provided a means to further secure YOUR account. If you're not using it, I anticipate your post in the help and support section. Where you will receive neither help nor support and will be trolled for stupidity.

Correct, if you have a computer to play wow, you can install the authenticator on it. AND if you have a gmail account, you have access to the authenticator from any computer, thus making the reliance on smartphones or any other mobile device a moot point. So I'm still waiting a reason NOT to make them mandatory as it only requires an IQ above room temperature to use.

This shit continues to suck, it's been about 2 weeks?

Actually there is something that can go a step further,although it is usually a last resort when you're out of options. i've had to do it with an ISP in the past for our corporate network. If you file a complaint with the FCC (in the USA at least), it tends to get things resolved while ruffling their feathers. They have SLA's to meet, end of story.

I work as a network/VoIP engineer and have thorough experience dealing with ISP's. They're usually pretty awful unless you get to tier 3 support levels. The crux of this is on OVH and AT&T to work with other providers that their traffic routes through for resolution, which they HATE doing. It is worse than pulling teeth and becomes a he said she said issue...

Might be useful to mention your server...

At least our routing issue is temporary and will be fixed, unlike notorious French rudeness

Bw32 and Naeras, use that VPN. My latency is LESS than when Uverse wasn't having issues even!

Since this issue is as bad as ever, I decided to mess around with some VPN's. Right now I'm using OpenVPN with privatetunnel. It says it has a 200MB limit, but my quota has stayed full for some reason (shrug). Some data I've found to the visible OVH public IP that replies: Stockholm = Ping statistics for 176.31.249.134: Packets: Sent = 50, Received = 49, Lost = 1 (2% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 181ms, Maximum = 2751ms, Average = 236ms London = Ping statistics for 176.31.249.134: Packets: Sent = 50, Received = 49, Lost = 1 (2% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 123ms, Maximum = 146ms, Average = 125ms Netherlands = Ping statistics for 176.31.249.134: Packets: Sent = 50, Received = 50, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 129ms, Maximum = 136ms, Average = 130ms Switzerland = Ping statistics for 176.31.249.134: Packets: Sent = 50, Received = 50, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 158ms, Maximum = 2823ms, Average = 213ms

It's the suck, ping and tracert results: Ping statistics for 176.31.249.134: Packets: Sent = 10000, Received = 8918, Lost = 1082 (10% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 118ms, Maximum = 265ms, Average = 125ms C:\Users\Brian>tracert 176.31.249.134 Tracing route to ns387469.ip-176-31-249.eu [176.31.249.134] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dsldevice.attlocal.net [192.168.1.254] 2 * * * Request timed out. 3 28 ms 20 ms 20 ms 99.168.X.X (My IP edited out) 4 28 ms 19 ms 20 ms 99.168.141.113 5 20 ms 20 ms 19 ms 12.83.113.13 6 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms 12.122.117.97 7 37 ms 38 ms 40 ms 192.205.33.42 8 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms ash-bb3-link.telia.net [62.115.125.109] 9 77 ms 111 ms 84 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net [62.115.137.61] 10 59 ms 60 ms * nyk-b2-link.telia.net [62.115.112.107] 11 61 ms 60 ms 62 ms be100-154.nwk-5-a9.nj.us [192.99.146.38] 12 * 117 ms 166 ms be100-1298.ldn-5-a9.uk.eu [192.99.146.132] 13 * 163 ms 116 ms be100-2.ldn-1-a9.uk.eu [213.251.130.121] 14 121 ms 122 ms 123 ms be11-1187.rbx-g1-a9.fr.eu [91.121.128.86] 15 224 ms 176 ms * vl21.rbx-g1-a75.fr.eu [213.251.128.77] 16 * * * Request timed out. 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 119 ms 118 ms 118 ms ns387469.ip-176-31-249.eu [176.31.249.134] Trace complete. Obviously the route from New Jersey to the UK and beyond is fucked

Yeah, it's essentially garbage to EU right now. Getting consistent 10% packet loss with some spikes here and there. Trace looks like garbage too (sorry insert image not working right for me)

To save me the work Trajor, what are the IP's?

Just logged on and I'm getting stable ~140ms as usual, seems to be fixed.

Same, I live in SC, USA and have AT&T U-verse. While not the most awesome internet in the world, 28 down and about 4 up, it's plenty for gaming and is usually rock solid. My latency in game on Zeth'Kur is typically in the range of 120-150, but since Friday it has been noticeably different. I feel like I'm looking at the latency bar and watching Christmas lights as it bounces between green, yellow, and red. I've seen it as low as 250ms and as high as 1200ms, with lag spikes ranging from small blips up to the occasional extreme of 9000ms+ or even DC's. It's most likely an AT&T issue with a very small chance it is routing our area from the server locations ISP. I could sit here and guess all day knowing how this stuff works as a T3 network/voip engineer. Most likely BGP issues or hardware outages, but possibly even related to the recent Zero Day Exploit wreaking havoc. I hope it is resolved soon regardless....

I've had some REALLY odd lag the past two days, popped up out of no where. Typically 120-140ms, but the past two days has been between 250-900ms with random lag spikes. My internet is fine according to my provider, everything else does seem to be okay. Also I can log on the other 3 servers, but not ZK this second.

Yeah, that's where I get. If I click cancel, I can pull up the realm list and log on the others just fine

My gold is gone as well and I haven't played WOW in about 10 years, retail or private servers. So there was nothing to steal/sold from other servers (blizz, kronos, etc) as I didn't have an account. Also, my password are consistently 2 upper, 2 lower, 2 special, 2 numbers, and at least 12 characters in length. This is a habit I've formed after having a top secret clearence in the military and now currently being a tier 3 VoIP engineer for a large corporation. You just don't brute force that...something is amiss and in my opinion it is security on Elysium's end

I woke up today and was briefly able to login. My character was exactly where I left her at the AH in SW. I had zero gold and decided to reset my password. The URL sent in the email does nothing except go to the control panel page. This is the only private server I've ever played on, so I have no prior credentials that could have been stolen or sold. I'm not really sure what to do with zero money and a mount sitting around the corner in 5 levels to buy, and the fact I cannot reset my password. Rather distressing...

It does bother me a bit considering this is the first private server I've ever played on, so there was nothing to reflect upon due to other servers. Being a tier 3 voip engineer for a large corporation, I know security very well, my password had 2 upper, 2 lower, 2 special, 2 numbers, and was 14 characters long total... No one guesses that. It begs to question the account database security...