I usually don't post, my post count proves that. I just lurk the boards but I have quite a few questions and see potential issues.
I see that this is a way of answering the cry from fans who'd like to see progressive vanilla, heck, I'd like to see TBC too. However, I do have to question: the main reason as stated by several GM's in discord is that there are no plans for a merger between Elysium and Anathema because they're on different patches; the gear gap is vast and wouldn't be fair. Okay, fair enough.
However, Allowing Anathema to go first, you're gonna be allowing for quite a bit of time for them to progress through the expansion first; clear Black Temple, Hyjal etc. Then it seems once Elysium has gotten Naxx and is ready to move into TBC, they'll merge into the same server as Anathema players did, creating the same effect that we're currently seeing, the same effect that's supposedly stopping a merger to take place currently. The gear gap is vast. If Anathem and Elysium saw their respective tbc server's following their own separate time lines than there's just gonna be a repeat of what's happening in terms of server populations now.
So, I'm not really sure what to make of this. I, too, am excited to experience progressive tbc, but if you're just gonna let us all merge into one server anyway why can't it be done now, and if you intend to give Anathema and Elysium their respective server, then we're still just stuck in the same situation that we're in now.