New player potentially to Anathema

[tishtish 0]

Hi!

I'm looking to start playing vanilla again and I'm abit divided about choosing Anathema or Elysium.

Mainly I just want to enjoy vanilla but I also want to know that I will be able to continue the adventure with my character towards TBC which, now, is official in regards to Anathema.

Elysium will probably go TBC too after its progression and I know that its way more ''fresh'' and the population there is very high.

Anathema seems more ''blizzlike'' in terms of population and I really like that Naxx is about to be released on the server too.

One concern I do have about the server is that it will probably take a month or two to reach max level on the server and I want some inside opinion on how active guilds are on previous content?

Will it be easy to find guilds and raid MC/BWL/ZG/AQ etc to gear up and then go forward to raid Naxx?

[Ickus 40]

They probably won't get a separate server. A dev has already said they are avoiding different timelines so either way you're essentially going to the same server. In addition Elysium isn't even guaranteed tbc

[tishtish 0]

Okay, those things might change however, I can imagine that alot of the population on Elysium want to continue with TBC.

Anyway, back to one of the main questions I had, are guilds still running weekly MC/BWL/AQ? :) Easy to get started at level 60?

How is PvP?

[Ickus 40]

Pvp was better before some idiot decided to eliminate premades but finding a guild will be easy honestly. 

[shaddoe 0]

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.

[ScottK1994 0]

^This personally isn't my experience on Anathema really.

I just started last week, low level players are absolutely EVERYWHERE its insane how populated it is compared to retail. 

The only person ive seen mocked for being "ganked" was because he was actually killed by NPCs :')

 

 

It's probably low population compared to retail vanilla but from my many conversations ive had with people ive grouped with for quests, theres a lot of players from vanilla that hasn't played the game in like 10 or so years so they feel like a noob and theres quite a lot of players who clearly joined retail after Cata(at the earliest) 

 

But whether you want Darrowshire or Anathema should be more focused on world PvP; I have been ganked a lot just in the Barrens and Stonetalon mountain - I can't imagine EPL/WPL. Personally I laugh when it happens, but some people really hate it.

 

 

 

Edited September 21, 2017 by ScottK1994

[Nobeus 0]

Anathema is fine.

Elysium is way too over populated, not even debatable. Questing is premium cancer, but grouping for dungeons I would imagine would be either sublime or aids depending on who you group with, but at least you'll find a group almost immediately versus the 15-30min average wait to assemble a team for any low level dungeon on Anathema.

As for PvP it's hard to say, I've only been ganked once by a high level player (in hillsbrad ofc) and I'm level 31. Plenty of opportunities to be ganked in Ashen and Stonetalon, but 9 times out of 10 when i run into another player we just wave and keep moving. PvP feels like a waste of time because there's rarely anyone at your current quest/farming location. As for high lvl zones I imagine them being a lot more competitive but far less toxic than Elysium's. 


There's always guilds spamming for new members, demand is high on everything right now except maybe warlocks and hunters from what I can tell.


 

Edited September 21, 2017 by Nobeus

[shaddoe 0]

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.

[ScottK1994 0]

^ Not true at all. Maybe its you, not them.

EVERYTIME someone has been ganked while levelling on Anathema; there was lots of people interested and lots of advice/help. I don't know what game youre playing but its not Anathema.

You're completely lying. I have seen more low level players while levelling than max level players, again by a HUGE margin.

Also, 30-45 minutes to form a dungeon group is FAST. Did you even play before LFG?

 

Edited September 22, 2017 by ScottK1994

[Nobeus 0]

4 hours ago, ScottK1994 said:

Also, 30-45 minutes to form a dungeon group is FAST. Did you even play before LFG?

Yeah, and I suppose you're right. I remember planning out DM runs with my clan in advance with event calender xD , but I also remember getting a group for UBRS in 5minutes, as a rogue. It just depends on what time of day it is and who's playing what. But yeah, you could be waiting forever for a simple 5man, especially at 4am server time. Most of what I remember from vanilla (retail) is "LF1M Tank  _____"

Edited September 22, 2017 by Nobeus

[shaddoe 0]

9 hours ago, ScottK1994 said:

You're completely lying. I have seen more low level players while levelling than max level players, again by a HUGE margin.

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.

[Ickus 40]

anathema is a great place to roll especially with it going to tbc but saying low levels are more abundant than 60s simply isn't accurate. There are plenty people leveling to have a great experience tho.