shaddoe

Scott I understand your wish to defend the Anathema server but calling others "lairs" while stating untruths yourself is unproductive. While my experience in in ashenvale may have not been typical it did show a problem with the mindset of some of the player base. Will all players respond in the manner those did? likely not but the fact remains that at least 3 and possibly more went all out attack on me for simply alerting the zone in general chat and no one else if there was even anyone else in the zone spoke up. Just as an example I spent around 7 or so hours in Ashenvale that day and saw only 2 Alliance players a 22 priest who ran the opposite direction on seeing me and the high level who ganked me and around 5 Horde players, that was it in 7 hour I saw only that many players. As I said before that is not counting in the main cities where you will see huge groups of max level players at all times. You seem to think I'm attacking the Anathema server but that is actually not the case. I was pointing out a potential problem with a subset of the older playerbase and simply stating what I have experienced truthfully so any who wish to try Anathema will go in with their eyes open and may decide to stay rather than giving them false expectations where they will almost certainly leave in short order. I won't call you a liar, but for you to say "I have seen more low level players while levelling than max level players, again by a HUGE margin". I find that wholly unbelievable to say the least, unless you mean you have seen no max level players in the noob zones so any low level players no matter how few seems like a huge difference.

I just want to clarify that the point of my post was not that I got "ganked", I've been playing on the Elysium server for a couple months and it's non stop ganking there at least until you reach around level 40 then it slows down quite a bit. My point was the reaction of players to you alerting them to a ganker. Generally you would expect other players on a pvp server to want to know of someone doing that because it gives them a good reason to pvp that person. However that does not seem to be the case on Anathema and players seem resentful that you dare alert the zone to their buddy's actions. The point of my post was the toxic behavior of the players in the zone I was in and not that some "leet" player 20 level above me killed me. It's actually funny, I've probably got around 20 hour playtime on this server and have seen tons of max level players in the main cities but i could count ALL the lower level players I've sen in that time on my fingers. It's kind of mind blowing not to have to worry about being ganked after playing Elysium and I get a real kick out of getting to loot every world chest because no one else is usually in any zone I'm in to loot them before me. Like I said the players I've interacted with left much to be desired but if you like solo play with little to no chance of being ganked Anathema is for you.

As a new player to the anathema server I'd just like to give my early impression for your benefit. If you are killed by a high level player and alert in general chat don't expect any help, in fact expect insults and derision instead. The players that respond will tell you what a loser you are for being killed by someone who your char is incapable of even damaging, how you don't belong on a pvp server, how you are a "millennial" and a "noob", and they will likely go on to tell you that the 40+ who ganked your 19 is a friend of theirs who they are currently on Teamspeak with. I would speculate that the Anathema server is suffering from a problem I have seen destroy other games in the past. The server being old, has a stagnant playerbase who have created max level chars on both sides so they are loyal to each other rather than to the alignment they are playing at any particular moment. I'm sure those players will insist that playing both sides and being in Teamspeak across alignments has no negative impact on the game just like those in other now defunct games said, right up until their behavior ran off new players and killed those games. The upside here is it can only kill their server and the game will go on on other servers. Upside to Anathema - Low population means you are ganked much less often while questing or leveling. Downside to Anathema - Less players to quest and level with and cliquish high level players with no loyalty to the alignment they are playing.

Apparently this was fixed, at least on the Elysium server. On logging into Elysium I find both my hunter and lock both behave in the expected manner, my hunter on Anathema still seems bugged but I'm hoping that will also correct itself.

In researching this issue I found many threads in the official WOW forums asking if there was a way to STOP your pet from auto attacking on right click with the response being not without creating an addon or macro. In Vanilla WOW right clicking a mob is supposed to put you in melee attack mode which causes your pet either in aggressive or defensive mode to attack that target, the only mode where a manual attack command is supposed to be required is passive. The only change in this behavior in later versions of WOW was that ranged attack would also be triggered by right clicking a target but thankfully that change came well after Vanilla so hopefully we'll never see it here. I will report it to the bug tracker but sincerely hope it wasn't an intentional change away from Vanilla behavior. edit After filing a bug report I saw that another user had created a similar report dealing with this issue on Locks only so at least it's verified there are more affected by this than just me.

Asked a couple hunters if they were also having this issue and was told they weren't, asked some guild members and they said they were, so either the first hunters who I didn't know were giving dishonest answers or this issue seems to only affect some people. I deleted my game folder and re-extracted the client so I know the issue isn't with a corrupted file in my client, that leave a setting that somehow changed itself or an account issue on the server.

I don't know if this was a bug or an intended change but my pet no longer attacks under either defensive or aggressive when I right click a mob and I have to manually click attack. I asked in general chat and was told by a couple warlocks that they were having the same issue with their voidwalkers. I hope this is not an intentional change and I can be given a work around to get back to the prior behavior. It was working normally right up to the last maintenance.

Boy do I feel stupid! I was dismissing my pet before trying to stable it, I never even considered it had to be summoned to stable. Sorry for exposing everyone to my stupidity.

Updating I tried resetting my interface to defaults as that was the answer to many pet issues on google searches but to no avail. I still cannot drag or drop my pets to or from the stable slots. Pity I was really getting into this game but this bug is really ruining it for me.

I can't change pets as the interface is unresponsive. When I stabled my first pet in Tedrassil the Dark Elves main city I couldn't drag my pet from the "active" box to the "stabled" box, I went and put some things on the auction and came back and it worked. Didn't have as much luck today, tried to swap out my pets, the one stabled for the one active, nothing happened. Thought maybe I needed to buy the second stable slot in order to change pets so I did, and the interface is still unresponsive. I tried logging out, logging into a different char, leaving the zone and coming back and waiting an hour all with my pet dismissed. I have been unable to find any info on this issue either in this forum or with a Google search and truly hope someone here has had this issue and knows how to fix it.

suspiciously both pvp servers are down and only pve darrowshire is still up. Makes you wonder if someone has an issue with pvp. Not saying it's an intentional attack but it sure makes you think.

This has happened for the last three days at about this same time.

Elysium has gone down and left me and others unable to log in four times over the last three days, and that's when I was playing so it may have been more than that. I'm a new player so I wonder is this normal for this server or is there some recent issue that has come up with the server or are the servers under some kind of attack? I really appreciate what the people running these servers have done so I don't want this taken as a complaint, I'm just hoping for some feedback so i know what to expect in the future.

Second night in a row.

Char froze around 40 min ago, had to cntr+alt+del to close the client and haven't been able to log into elysium since. At least I now know I'm not the only one having this issue.