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I think you'll make a handful of rankers upset with the change, but I think for the overall health of the project, the endless premade vs pug smash/stomp thing needs some attention. The premade mentality is pretty terrible. Curb stomp some random pug team not even close in skill/gear/comp, camp graveyard, /spit, talk shit in discord, rinse and repeat all day. No other game out there these days lets you do this - why shouldn't the project evolve for the benefit of the many? Have 10+ buddies online? Shit there is a thing call world PVP where numbers are capped at like 10k and teamwork is encouraged. Also you can just back to back que with friends like in AV. If this cuts down on the number of 10 man premades, than I see it as a victory. Premade vs PUG is not competitive, people are half afk because there is no point in trying in some match ups, people will play and try more now with the player cap, maybe this will benefit the project as a whole (I think it will) Thanks Devs for trying this

I feel like the strategy from Alliance side recently is to just delay the Horde push by playing 100% defense with little/no attempts at offense - what gives? I hope that everyone realizes that Alterac Valley is a pretty "low honor" battleground, recognizing that you get 0 (zero) honor after you've gotten credit for a kill on someone after the 10th time due to diminishing returns. http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Honor_system_(pre-2.0_formulas) You're losing your time, your honor, and your rep rewards by delaying games with the turtle-log-jam-knuckledragging strategy

I did 80 runs with no luck. Got Felstriker after my 2nd run in UBRS though, depends on the RNG gods it seems

Exploiting and account sharing to Rank 14 is something that's an issue. Also fighting premades as pugs really blows. Horde always have someone that's AFK or not contributing at all to the battle and there is no way to remove this person

Thanks for your work Elysium team, I've been waiting for this announcement. So happy that it's here. I will be donating to the server Please come up with something creative regarding the naming policy. I bet lots of people have level 1 alts just holding names or these players have left the project :( Cheers

What's something that you enjoy about our current PvP scene? I like how the current scene isn't totally saturated with gear yet. Everyone feels squishy and there are people with terrible gear (like myself) PvPing. I joined this project because World PVP was so awesome in Vanilla. AV will be great when we merge and update to 1.5 Something that you dislike? I don't like fighting constant pre-mades as a PUG. I don't like how easy it potentially is to account share/exploit and get high ranks. Edit: Ensure that all PVP bugs are handled too please What's missing? I would like to see come checks & balances when it comes to Rank 14. R14 should be earned while respecting the TOS. Lots of people will be account sharing, colluding with the opposing faction, cheating, kill trading, etc. This is basically the strongest gear in the game and the Elysium team should have a way of monitoring it What would you like to see improved? This thread has a lot of complaints about the Zeth'kur merge (which should have happened in February). I wish some more clarity and information about the merge was given to these folks on the journey to high ranks awhile back. I would also like to see transparency about the PVP cheating/violating TOS process. Being able to join a battleground anywhere in the world might be cool if you are under level 30 maybe, so 1-29 can que from anywhere in the world. Any other thoughts / comments / suggestions? Thanks for taking the time to collect community feedback. Every player is important on Elysium because without our large population, the project wouldn't be fun! I'm looking forward to transferring to Elysium, if there is anything that the playerbase can do, please let us know

Thanks for posting the Q&A. I'm afraid we're losing more and more people each day that we decide not to merge Zeth'kur. It's a negative feedback loop: there aren't enough people to play with NA, so people quit. Allowing ZK players to choose where they go is a neat idea, but I support whatever is the absolute quickest option. The 32.07% that voted no, in my opinion, is not reflective of what people really want. There were only two options to choose from, and people were under the belief (albeit false one) that transfers from Elysium to Zeth'kur would work & help the problem, so I'm sure some voted "No" because of this

TL:DR: I'm a NA Zeth'kur player and I agree 100% with this post. A merge is needed, and needed soon <3 Thanks for the post. We need something to happen soon. We're giving people more and more time to farm materials which can be seen as one of the downsides of the merge. The people who initially brought up the population issues are no longer posting - they are leaving. Personally I don't care about materials or farming or being broke, I just want to play Vanilla WoW with everyone else. I get excited to see new content and patches coming, but I feel like ZK has been left out. We were even singled out as being on the "PS2" server in the April fools gig - cool. Zeth'kur players were to thank for the play-ability of Elysium when we launched, we took the pressure and the que away from the Elysium folks, and now the community should back us up when we need it. Gondor calls for aid Those against the merge on ZK, think about the upcoming Alterac Valley patch, we won't be able to get these going that often with our current population. Also, those against the merge, think about the potential players that are quitting Vanilla WoW. I don't want to lose a single player on any realm, because it's all of us playing together that makes it fun. We are a community (and we need to be united). Those of you saying QQ just re-roll, I did re-rolled, but my 4 irl friends have not re-rolled because we've done it several times on private servers and we all have jobs/kids/irl and can't do the 1-60 again in such a short time - I'm sure many are in a similar situation I have stopped playing on all accounts until I know where to spend my time. I had two 8/8 Tier2 officer characters on Rebirth WoW (another 1.12 1x Vanilla Realm) that just went under due to population. I've been feeling the same decline on Zeth'kur since February and hope that action is taken soon. I'll be ready for the merge, with donations in hand. Until then you have a hardcore, dedicated vanilla player /sleeping in the halls of Undercity - I don't know why the Elysium Team hasn't already merged it so we would all just STFU and play and enjoy the great project they've put together Decoy, Undead Warrior