Belwar Dissengulp

I agree with this post. I hope the Elysium staff know how much joy they're bringing to so many, one of them being me. When TBC was released I was progressing in BWL on my lvl 60 night elf hunter on Silvermoon back in the day, and I had to cancel my subscription due to real life events at the time, so I never got to down Nefarian, and it pained my 14 year old self at the time. I was only able to play a month or two of TBC before I had to quit again, and I never got to experience raiding in TBC or Wrath either. I came back some years later to WoD, tried to build an entire raiding guild on my own, recruited people from all over the different servers and got it rolling into mythic, but it was never quite the same, so I quit after some months of brainless garrison-activity. The world that was once so full of explorers and kind people (and rogues lvl ?? ganking your sorry ass while questing in STV) was now empty. People didn't even have to leave their garrison to do professions, and leveling was so fast that a zone burnt out in 2-3 hours. I missed Alterac Valley, I missed the unbalanced PVP that I once loved and hated so much, but more than anything I missed the intense feeling of joy that any item upgrade gave you, even while leveling. Getting those pieces of tier 1, getting rhok/lok on my hunter for the first time and going blasting into PVP with them was a true sense of pure bliss - compared to getting a token, rolling a dice button and getting an x ilvl upgrade you never truly cared about in a slot, in one of several difficulty settings. Today in retail you won't die until you reach max level. You won't die in a raidfinder group, and you can *basically* experience the whole end-tier raids while standing unarmed in the back and dancing while the group of braindead people kill a boss with slightly different mechanics and vastly dumbed down damage numbers compared to the highest difficulty setting. It simply is not fun. Yesterday I was shrieking like a nazgûl when a lvl ?? druid ganked me and corpse-camped me in STV and the ress-timer started growing into minutes, but this is the way it's supposed to be in an MMO - actually caring about the adventure while leveling from 1-60 (and occasionally screaming in fury at the computer screen). So thank you so much for this project, I am one of the players who silently and thoroughly enjoy this opportunity, and I hope you will stay true to your vision and keep up the good work to continuously improve the experience so thousands can enjoy the game they so dearly miss. Regards, Zebeth from Circle of Lore.