The Birth of Legacy: Nostalrius Returns

[Shenna 1135]

Dear community,

We want to start by thanking you all for your patience. We know it has not been easy for you to wait amidst all of the rumors and hype. We too have been very excited and have struggled to keep the secret! So without further delay, let's get to it!

It continues

As you may have already read in the latest Nostalrius announcement, Elysium will now proudly revive and continue what began a year and half ago. We will be gratefully accepting the core and player database of Nostalrius. This means that Nostalrius, exactly as you know it, will be returning. The core has not yet been transferred, but will be shortly after this announcement. Additionally, as many of you know, we have a very large percentage of the Nostalrius staff that has been part of Elysium. Their positions in the staff reach all possible areas such as Administration, Development, Game Masters and Quality Assurance. As of now we have a total of 16 Nostalrius team members (excluding Nostalrius’ administration whom will remain off of the project) and the number is growing. Together we will bring true Legacy servers to the private server community until Blizzard does!

Respecting core values

You may be wondering why Nostalrius chose Elysium to have the first priority with the software. This has largely been answered in the announcement from Nostalrius (http://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44550). To re-hash their points, both of our servers have many of the same moral values:

Provide the players with the best server possible,

Project born purely from a love of the game,

An absolute refusal to profit from it.

On behalf of the Elysium team, we cannot hope to fully express our gratitude for this opportunity. We promise the Nostalrius team and the community, that we will not let you down.

                                                                             

Elysium’s next steps
We made a promise to the players on Elysium. That promise was a simple one: you will always have a home. We will not retract on that promise.

The Elysium database is being frozen while work on the Nostalrius core progresses. As of the time of this announcement, all characters on Elysium have been saved and frozen to be loaded into the new core once it's complete. Elysium, as a server, will remain up for your enjoyment until the new server is complete, but any changes to your character after this announcement will not carry over. Furthermore, all items from Elysium will be downgraded to match the 1.9 Patch itemization of Nostalrius.

Expectations

First and foremost, we will hold a stress test for both PvP and PvE realms to help us gauge the amount of players to expect. We understand that players that did not experience Nostalrius will want a fresh start. Therefore, we will also hold a stress test for a fresh start. More information about this will be given in the next announcement. Depending on the community’s response, we will decide on how many realms will be open at re-launch using the Nostalrius’ core.

PvP, PvE & fresh start

You will be able to choose which realm (in case of multiple realms) that you will be able to transfer your character to and resume playing as if Nostalrius never left. You will not be able to transfer from PvP to PvE, and so Elysium characters will only be able to join a PvP realm and Nostalrius PvE characters will only join a PvE realm.

Additionally, we wish to assure you that all personal information linked to accounts will be protected at all costs. Therefore, a very secure process will be implement to transfer your character data from Nostalrius to the new realms hosted by Elysium.

Timeline

The timeline that Nostalrius created will be followed and items will follow a progression through patches. We will provide a new timeline with the launch date announcement.

Let’s get this party started!

As for the dates of these servers coming to life, we cannot provide you an answer on that just yet. There is a lot of work that still needs to be done! But rest assured, the team will work tirelessly day and night until everything is ready.

The next announcement will be this coming weekend, as well as an AMA on Sunday November 13th on /r/wowservers at 9 PM server time. We're sure you will have many more questions for us, and we will try to answer as many of them as we can. The entire staff are super excited, and could not have asked for a better community to work with.

Together, we will shape our own Legacy.

[Tholren 7]

Thank you for taking up the banner. I do have a problem with this, splitting the community is bad, either only do a fresh start or only use the DB. You can't please everyone.

[Etheom 0]

THANK YOU

[Kadir 136]

Congrats, don't waste this oportunity for the server, there won't be 2nd chance  

[Zanthros 0]

Great, split the community in half. Sounds like an excellent idea. 

[Docholy 4]

Very cool, can we get some more clarification as to what is going to happen to Nostalrius characters and if a merge will happen?    Also does Elysium have or will have clustering tech to help the NA players not get terrible pings?  Lastly where can we donate?

 

Thank you.

[paragorn 0]

if they transfer the progressed characters to a new realm that is supposed to be fresh, where is the 'fresh' meaning?

 

 

edit-as someone once said:

 

1. all the vanilla purists who care about "the journey" will opt for fresh start
2. all the players who care any amount about progression will opt for fresh start
3. all the players who want to live in the past while raid logging or simply spam BGs will want to play on an OLD db server while they jerk off over their character login screen at all other times of the day, enjoy being alone.

Edited November 6, 2016 by paragorn

[Shino 27]

Will there be a new name or will it stay the same?

Just wanna know for the Legacy Logs launcher.

cheers!

[kimking 1]

thank you, wery happy about the news.

[Leilly 0]

I start playing World of Warcraft since TBC but after Wolk i never liked the new content. So this server it will be a new opportunity to try vanilla . Thank you!

Edited November 6, 2016 by Leilly

[j9a2per1990 32]

YES! I'am so happy! This is best solution and me and my guild vote for FRESH START and why? Every end is a new beginning!

[Vuralyon 3]

Thank you Elysium team!!! I'm super excited about this announcement. I'm especially thankful that you are considering a server for both older Nostalrius players and new players (like myself) who want to start fresh and experience what Nostalrius veterans got to experience when it was first launched for them. This tells us that you are not just looking back but also looking forward to grow the community even further than it is now. I'm sure you are preparing for the enormous amount of players who will be migrating to your new servers to make this a smooth launch process as you possibly can and I look forward to starting a new chapter with both old and new players alike. #LongLiveLegacy

Edited November 6, 2016 by Azothan

[Storfan 24]

Thank you for sheltering us poor refugees. Victims of Blizzards evil and tyrannious rule. I have a question: What will happen if I have the same Character AND Account name already on Elysium and Nostalrius before? The only thing that differs is the password.

[Kloki 0]

Thank you so much! I would like to know as well ; what will happen when the merge happens if I have the same account informations and character name as I did on Nostalrius?

 

Thank you!

Edited November 6, 2016 by Kloki

[Amaru 1]

Mad respect. Long Live Nost/Elysium.

Edited November 6, 2016 by Amaru

[Oldmaz 3]

Can we who has chars on Valkyrie also merge with new nost?

[Dma5122 214]

Can we who has chars on Valkyrie also merge with new nost?

That would be cool, even with gear downgrade. I`m tired of that lvling. 

[iwcham1979 4]

Thank you guys a lot. I wish us all the best. I just hope this thing about handing over the code to EVERYONE is just a bluff directed at Blizz, right?

[Hellford 0]

Looking forward to this new start.

 

Thank you for taking us in.

 

Edit: When you say 9pm server, whats the UTC offset for where you are hosted?

 

Cheers!

Edited November 6, 2016 by Hellford

[Algalon 0]

Hi.

 

So the new PVP realm will be on AQ War Effort progression. Is there any possibility we can transfer our Valkyrie characters to Elysium at that time? I'm one of the English players whose 60 is now orphaned on Valk. My character's gear isn't progressed beyond AQ obviously. Any chance a transfer of this kind would be opened?

[kleincali 0]

Fresh Start ! Cant wait !

[Aleth 1]

Fresh start please it's better for everyone 

[Shedur 2]

I'm so happy that this will happen but I think 3 servers are a bad idea. The Population on each will be low. Don't split up the community, release only the old db. Most of the ppl that have voted for a fresh start did not even play on nost. They are just jumping the hype train and after a month, when the hype is over, or when they realise that vanilla is nothing for them, they will leave anyway. Please think about it.

[Psixiator19 1]

Thank you very much, it's just great news! But like many other please note, I think 3 server can be a bad idea.

[murray 5]

I'm so happy that this will happen but I think 3 servers are a bad idea. The Population on each will be low. Don't split up the community, release only the old db. Most of the ppl that have voted for a fresh start did not even play on nost. They are just jumping the hype train and after a month, when the hype is over, or when they realise that vanilla is nothing for them, they will leave anyway. Please think about it.

 

i agree, but you are jumping to conclusions about things of which you may know nothing, i personally met many people from the realm who would love to continue with a new beginning, you say "they will leave anyway" like some kind of a prophet... there are people who want fresh start, there are people who want their old characters, aside from 3 servers the only fair way to do this is a poll