Stormfront

In my opinion, i think it would be in everyone's best interest to wait until the server's are all caught up to one another before implementing TBC. The devs will have more time to hammer out any problems with the code, and no realm would have an advantage over the other in terms of gear. I think this would make for a more competitive environment than if you were to give anathema a 6+ month head-start. Let us not forget, the disparity in gear level was one of the main reasons that kept new members from joining anathema/darrowshire in the first place.

No, there are macros floating around out there that will use the highest applicable rank of regrowth for you. Or could use a shift modifier if you only use a couple ranks.

Yes, the person you quoted made an assumption in saying it was the majority. After all, this entire thread is just baseless speculation anyway (see Stodola's magic math numbers) so the point i'm trying to make is that a poll is necessary to gauge people's interest or disinterest in the idea of a merge. I believe how the merge would be executed is an entirely different debate for another time, and yes every course of action will make some people unhappy and have consequences, including leaving things the way the are. So my suggestion to the Elysium staff would be to make poll, not just on the forums where it falls on deaf ears. There could in-game messages, reminders on discord, etc. Give people a solid few weeks for those wanting to think it over. This is by no means a perfect solution, but at least we would have a general number to work with and go from there.

If the staff acknowledged us like they did with zeth, maybe there could be a poll of some sort to see how many are in favor or against making some sort of action? (what said action would be is an entirely different debate) On kronos' forums there was a very loud vocal minority against a merge of any kind, and put the staff off from trying anything for a while. Until there was an actual poll made that had majority in support of a merge, despite the servers being on different stages of progression. Now, months later they are much better off for it, low pop but still alive despite Elysiums popularity. I hardly think its fair to call us an obnoxious, loud minority, when there has been no polling done to see how many are actually in favor of this. Otherwise, how can you say "the people dont want this" without any real numbers?

Not really something you can "fix". It's Blizzard's oversight really, in making an asymmetrical map design.

Sadly I doubt anything will ever be done. Or, if something is done it will be too late. I have an 8/8 shaman with near full BWL bis on darrowshire, and stopped playing because it was obvious the staff was not putting the same effort they put into the other realms. ZG managed to keep the pop at a somewhat playable level for a month or two, but was also full of bugs that took ages to fix. In addition to that, horde population is absolutely abysmal, creating a near-unplayable environment. The gap is only widening too, it is now something absurd like a 3:1 ally/horde ratio. The staff have not acknowledged this issue once, to my knowledge. Additionally, I played on Kronos 1 during the nost shutdown and can see almost the exact same thing happening with anathema... new server bleeds population out of the progressed server, until the original is a ghost town. At this point, an open discussion with the staff about working towards a merge would be the only thing to get me (and many others i know who quit ana/darrow) to play again. Staff of Elysium, please consider at least HAVING this discussion with your player base, and before it is too late. There is still time, you can learn from the mistakes of Feenix and Kronos. Regards, Stormfront

Hes specifically asking for things he can buy that will boost his gear and help his healing in raids. So his only options are Hide and Corehound belt. Darkmoon card no longer procs off chain heal and 8/8 jumps so its worthless to shaman now.

Mp5 > Spirit always, no exceptions. Healing>Mp5 in MC and BWL Mp5>Healing in AQ/Naxx when the fights are all longer. Not that you stop stacking +heal, you just need much more mp5 to stay relevant Ele would be viable were it not for the fact that everything has such high nature resistance (not much can be done to lower this resistance either). Theoretically one could go ele for Naxx, but who would want that over a lock/mage?

I for one support a Darrow>Ana merge. Playing as a horde on Darrow is absolutely depressing, gives me Kronos 1 nightmares all over again. Can't find groups for dungeons anymore, people struggling to find replacements for their old raiders who quit. The whole server is stagnating and not much can be done to fix it without a merge. From someone who prefers PvE in the open world, I would trade it all for the chance to ENCOUNTER HORDE PLAYERS AGAIN

Get a hide of the wild made if that is available to you yet. Corehound belt is another nice crafted item, not very expensive either provided your guild is cool and helps with the MC mats (although there may not be anyone revered with thorium brotherhood yet, dont play on elysium). Darkmoon card is spirit based so a druid or priest (with faster cast times as well) will get better results.

Bigger deal than you think when your dps can respec midway thru raid every weekend.

Not a lot of consumables that make a difference to healers, especially in early patches. Pre-Bwl is basically nightfin soup and flask (unnecessary for MC though). Mageblood potions once ZG comes out, and Mana oils once AQ comes out.

Resto PvE: Doesnt matter play what you like. PvP: Tauren Enh PvE: Orc

Don't deliberately stack spirit if you can get something better in its place (basically any stat) but i would not go as far to say that its useless.. 8/8 T1 has a ton of spirit, and w/ a darkmoon card is pretty good if you know you wont be using chain heal

Yes, a shaman will normally be outperformed by another healing class that knows what they are doing here, people still want tons of shamans for tremors, WF, threat reduction (raw output isnt everything) Just throw on 5/8+ T1 if you have it and remember to drop a tremor in phase 3.