Elysium vs. Anathema?

[Digheal 0]

Dont listen to the idiots glorifying the Anathema server, opposing arguments

- While its true PUGs are common, guild recruitment is not; if you aren't decked out in full pre-raid bis gear and are an urgent-need class, you will end up being another noname player with some tier gear, most of the serious/hardcore guilds already have their "core" established and are too busy fapping into each others ear about their top 1337 dps and slipping each other loot priority cause of corrupt council and buttbuddying to allow new people into their guild.

-Few guilds are willing to start up a second/third raid in Anathema, most of them are too busy playing on other pservers or just dont want to level an alt.

-Anathema has a ganking problem far greater than Elysium, you think 50+ zones on elysium is bad? you should wait until you get to redridge as alliance and find a group or two of 19 twinks ready to gank your ass nonstop, if you manage to resist they'll just bring their 60's and camp you. Not to mention all endgame grinding spots are contested by players who are in basically BiS gear and have friends on call 24/7, relegating you to instanced farming spots, and since the only viable/decent one is BRD you better pray you rolled mage

-You will struggle to find dungeon parties pre-55 except maybe during peak hours with luck on a weekend, so forced to grind even moreso than usual due to lack of dungeon quest stacking.

-PvP is plain not fun, unless you are playing a utility class that can fulfill its role irrespective of gear, like a frost mage/surv hunter/40 yard healer you will just be farmed by people in r14/t2 gear all day getting 2-3 shot, (and DO note, that Anathema had the AQ-level r14 gear since RELEASE)


Elysium has fresh guilds starting up looking for young whippersnappers to commit to the struggle in MC and Onyxia and tactical wpvp where gear isnt an overwhelming factor (yet), slightly crowded levelling experience, and very cutthroat wpvp past level 50, come play on a server where you can REALLY experience vanilla wow.

 

[debrye 0]

3 minutes ago, Digheal said:

Dont listen to the idiots glorifying the Anathema server, opposing arguments

- While its true PUGs are common, guild recruitment is not; if you aren't decked out in full pre-raid bis gear and are an urgent-need class, you will end up being another noname player with some tier gear, most of the serious/hardcore guilds already have their "core" established and are too busy fapping into each others ear about their top 1337 dps and slipping each other loot priority cause of corrupt council and buttbuddying to allow new people into their guild.

-Few guilds are willing to start up a second/third raid in Anathema, most of them are too busy playing on other pservers or just dont want to level an alt.

-Anathema has a ganking problem far greater than Elysium, you think 50+ zones on elysium is bad? you should wait until you get to redridge as alliance and find a group or two of 19 twinks ready to gank your ass nonstop, if you manage to resist they'll just bring their 60's and camp you. Not to mention all endgame grinding spots are contested by players who are in basically BiS gear and have friends on call 24/7, relegating you to instanced farming spots, and since the only viable/decent one is BRD you better pray you rolled mage

-You will struggle to find dungeon parties pre-55 except maybe during peak hours with luck on a weekend, so forced to grind even moreso than usual due to lack of dungeon quest stacking.

-PvP is plain not fun, unless you are playing a utility class that can fulfill its role irrespective of gear, like a frost mage/surv hunter/40 yard healer you will just be farmed by people in r14/t2 gear all day getting 2-3 shot, (and DO note, that Anathema had the AQ-level r14 gear since RELEASE)


Elysium has fresh guilds starting up looking for young whippersnappers to commit to the struggle in MC and Onyxia and tactical wpvp where gear isnt an overwhelming factor (yet), slightly crowded levelling experience, and very cutthroat wpvp past level 50, come play on a server where you can REALLY experience vanilla wow.

 

As soon as i saw that you are a ret paladin enabler i couldnt take your opinion seriously lol

[ProMeTheus112 1]

I enjoy wild pvp the most (at low & mid lvls, no need high level), Elysium is perfect though its just a little tough to get a nice wild duel going cause its a bit crowded, but its not overcrowded. There are a bit too many hordes and you can hardly get your long duel to work out without other hordies getting involved in the fight or a high level breaking it. I think you still just have option of hanging out in less crowded little places. You know, the best kind of duels, sometimes they last for almost a few minutes over half an area and involve a few mobs and some tracking and running away and things. That's what's a bit tough to get going on Elysium but there is action all the time and easy to find opponents out. Overall it is nice though the bad ganks happen more often than on old blizz servers since they were less crowded, I still think the best is a little less crowded, a cap at 4000 or smtg, but dunno how with renewing pop so that everybody doesnt end up high level and leveling empty o_o Because there are balances in the game, with the crowd control, regen rates, cooldowns, etc, that work with a certain population.

But seriously the ability from skulls to even attack you should not have been in the game haha. Waste of time, too recurring. Too much crowd control . . .

[Morathe 5]

7 hours ago, Hurricane2 said:

If a large % of all the youtube viewers mentioned played here then there would be much higher populations here.  If you want to to try to make me look dumb the 1st step to take would be avoid trying to look like such a dumbass as yourself.

I for one found about this project from IGN and I bet most others came from other sources than youtube.  

Oh im not even trying son:P You did fine yourself.  

[Shelwyn 0]

Seriously some of you dont read what he is saying? Limited gameplay time and he wants to pvp.And some pug runs maybe for raiding.He isnt a hardcore exclusive raider so stop talking so much about raiding ? The man doesnt plan on rushing 60 either he simply wants to enjoy the journey.Give him a break you hardcore raiding Anathema players lol.

Seriously though if you enjoy going on every area seeing people doing stuff roll Elysium.Im the same as you regarding limited gameplay time.

[kastle 4]

PvP is fucked on both servers. If you have limited game time and just want to take your time and hop in some PUG raids, and do a little PvP, roll Alliance on Anathema. Leveling zones will be more open so you won't be camping quest mobs for 30mins per quest. There's also more content, which means more PUGs, and because of the progression, better PUGs. People cry about being carried (as if MC/BWL/ZG/AQ20 are difficult lol) until the 1 PUG running that took 45mins to form wipes on Lucifron and half the raid leaves. 

Unless you're playing hardcore, you're going to be outgeared, no matter what server you play on. Might as well at least give yourself the option to do more content from the jump

[Adeline 2]

16 hours ago, Digheal said:

- While its true PUGs are common, guild recruitment is not; if you aren't decked out in full pre-raid bis gear and are an urgent-need class, you will end up being another noname player with some tier gear, most of the serious/hardcore guilds already have their "core" established and are too busy fapping into each others ear about their top 1337 dps and slipping each other loot priority cause of corrupt council and buttbuddying to allow new people into their guild.

This simply isn't true. Turnover rate on private servers is very high and with Elysium taking most of the fresh blood, many guilds on Anathema are struggling to keep things together due to a shortage of raiders. Just this week an old and respected guild fell over because of it. Any new player is sure to find a raiding guild and easily get geared as long as he's willing to put in some commitment himself.

16 hours ago, Digheal said:

-Few guilds are willing to start up a second/third raid in Anathema, most of them are too busy playing on other pservers or just dont want to level an alt.

Partly true, although I would estimate that on alliance side only there is at least 5 guilds running weekly MC pugs. Also my own guild runs a weekly BWL pug with success.

16 hours ago, Digheal said:

-Anathema has a ganking problem far greater than Elysium, you think 50+ zones on elysium is bad? you should wait until you get to redridge as alliance and find a group or two of 19 twinks ready to gank your ass nonstop, if you manage to resist they'll just bring their 60's and camp you. Not to mention all endgame grinding spots are contested by players who are in basically BiS gear and have friends on call 24/7, relegating you to instanced farming spots, and since the only viable/decent one is BRD you better pray you rolled mage

I've leveled a character quite recently and I haven't experienced this at all. I also have a level 60 alliance on Elysium and while I wont refute your claims of excessive ganking entirely just because I haven't seen it I'm quite sure that it is nowhere close to the levels of ganking alliance players on Ely experience. If you think grinding spots are too heavily contested on Anathema I doubt you've tried farming for example elemental fires on Ely.

16 hours ago, Digheal said:

-You will struggle to find dungeon parties pre-55 except maybe during peak hours with luck on a weekend, so forced to grind even moreso than usual due to lack of dungeon quest stacking.

The server still has 3-4k players online at peek hours and about 2k in the low hours. I did almost every dungeon without too much effort when I leveled my latest alt.

16 hours ago, Digheal said:

-PvP is plain not fun, unless you are playing a utility class that can fulfill its role irrespective of gear, like a frost mage/surv hunter/40 yard healer you will just be farmed by people in r14/t2 gear all day getting 2-3 shot, (and DO note, that Anathema had the AQ-level r14 gear since RELEASE)

To clear your first inaccuracy up, Anathema has not had the updated PvP set since it's release. The weapons got updated with the BWL release which is also the plan for Ely iirc and the gear sets came with the release of ZG. The rest is all subjective. Sure, if you go into a bg as a freshly dinged 60 you'll probably get your ass handed to you but it's alot easier to gear up on Anathema as well with so many guilds needing to fill out spots. I have no doubts that a committed and averagely skilled player on Anathema can be pretty much fully raid geared in a month or two upon reaching 60 without too much trouble. Large quantities of t2 get sharded every week.

Maybe you just play a ret paladin like somebody here suggested and you're now infinitely salty about being rejected by the raiding community?

[Careless 0]

17 hours ago, Digheal said:

-Anathema has a ganking problem far greater than Elysium, you think 50+ zones on elysium is bad? you should wait until you get to redridge as alliance and find a group or two of 19 twinks ready to gank your ass nonstop, if you manage to resist they'll just bring their 60's and camp you. Not to mention all endgame grinding spots are contested by players who are in basically BiS gear and have friends on call 24/7, relegating you to instanced farming spots, and since the only viable/decent one is BRD you better pray you rolled mage

 

Currently leveling on Anathema for the past week, have only been ganked once (19 twink horde rogue). Rest of hordes I've seen has just /wave'd and ran past (equally low- and high-leveled players).

Both servers has pro's and con's, personally I just chose Ana cause I can't be bothered to wait more yet again for new content (as I did on ED/Nost).

 

[Storfan 24]

1 minute ago, Careless said:

Currently leveling on Anathema for the past week, have only been ganked once (19 twink horde rogue). Rest of hordes I've seen has just /wave'd and ran past (equally low- and high-leveled players).

Both servers has pro's and con's, personally I just chose Ana cause I can't be bothered to wait more yet again for new content (as I did on ED/Nost).

 

^Amen to that brother. The AQ40 delay on here got nothing on the brutal delaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay on ED.