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I'd rather have the servers at normal populations. The overcrowding slows leveling to a crawl because you have 12 people fighting over a 3 minute spawn. I like a full world as much as the next guy, but too full is a problem.

While I agree that possibility is strong, it's still just presumption. More importantly, the Nost announcement had Blizz-like wording to it, so it immediately reeks of dishonesty. It had the same weak support and apologetic "soft" language that all of Blizzard's worst decisions were backed by. Either Nost sold out (which is also possible), or they were legally compelled. We can't know for sure which it is, though. The most insulting thing about their "reasoning" is the idea that complying with Blizzard's wishes ever got us anywhere. Blizz does what Blizz wants, and the only way to change their minds is through overwhelming evidence that they are wrong. Hence, private "pirate" servers need to become even stronger, more popular, and more numerous before they will admit they are wrong and finally give us what we want (if ever, which is also highly doubtful).

Human Warlock, I can't apply my wizard oil to my weapon. It returns an error, "That spell is unavailable to you." I would have listed this in the bug tracker, but that isn't working either.

One of my favorite low level consumables, and a big draw to enchanting until about 40+ (character level, not Enchanting skill). Vanilla is far from my favorite version of this game anyway. I really would rather have anything else before MoP (which was terrible). Whatever. It's not your fault, but it's still highly irritating. Thanks for the replies.

Gross. I wish Elysium could host a BC/Wrath/Cata server. I'd much rather play on any of those. Only reason I'm here is higher pop and better code. What a disappointment.

A year?! That's one of the biggest perks of low level enchanting. Is that supposed to be part of AQ, or is that just a server thing?

When will that be?

That's only an assumption, not a fact.

There's no evidence for this. It's all speculation and supposition. It's a reasonable line of thought, but there's no factual backing to it. You can't say, "THIS IS THE REASON!" on just those merits.

If Elysium gives into this, I'm going to a Wrath/Cata server, bugs be damned. The larger community and stable source code are the only reasons vanilla is acceptable. Take that away and this server has nothing.

Created new account. Edited the realm list file. Put in credentials after launching the game, and it immediately responds with "Disconnected from server" without even trying. I've read through some other topics, but none of the fixes there work for me. I'm new to Elysium, and would like to play on the PvE server, but I can't even get into server selection. I know the game has been experiencing issues, but the realm status shows several thousand people online, implying that they managed to connect somehow.

I managed to get it working by deleting the previous WoW folder and unpacking it from the download again, then changing the realmlist file again. Seems like I just had a bad configuration somewhere (and deleting the WTF folder and/or its contents did nothing to help).

Good post, Ntbud. I'm in the PvE crowd, though, so I hope they bring up another PvE server. PvP servers have always been a toxic experience for me, so they hold no appeal whatsoever. Either way, I agree that this is probably the most successful launch a private server could hope for.

(Sorry to double post, but there doesn't seem to be an edit function for some reason.) One thing they could do is to have is a fresh PvE server that doesn't allow transfer of Nostalrius accounts since Elysium PvE already accommodates these people. This fresh server would probably have a smaller population, but would carry the benefit of a shorter (or possibly non-existent) queue. I don't know the financial or technical issues involved with something like this, so this is just a suggestion, not a demand. It would just be nice.

I don't recall all the details, so you'd have to do a proper search to find it, but I read about a fix involving downloading a trial account of retail, not even finishing the download and not letting it patch, then somehow using the torrent client to finish setting up the game, edit the realmlist, and proceed. As I said, this isn't a complete walkthrough of the process, but it somehow involves the retail client having resolution options higher than that of the vanilla client. As I said, do a search to find the details.

There are other servers out there. WoW-Mania is easy to get onto, though I haven't been on it in a long time because I quit due to class-breaking bugs; warrior charging through the world and dying off the map, for example. Firestorm was okay, but I didn't personally like the staff; I found them simultaneously ignorant and arrogant--not taking seriously complaints that their mechanics calculations were flawed. Every private server is going to have its issues. You just have to find the one you can tolerate.