Well chaps this is my first and last reddit post and before I get raged at, please let me articulate why I quit and why this is a problem on the Elysium servers. This needs to be addressed if this server is to stand the test of time.

To put it bluntly, there are simply too many foreign players (Chinese) who play as if they are their own entity. These players completely ignore the factions. Never, or rarely, will you get help from a chinese player in a pvp situation. Most of the time they'll simply run past you on their mount (as you're getting repeatedly stunned by an undead rogue) and will act as if nothing happened. To top this off, Jianshao (or insert random player name here) will just respond ':' to any whisper asking you to help them. If I'm lucky I'll get 'No English'. Essentially, I'd have more luck asking for musical ideas from a deaf person than getting actually getting a proper response. This on its own may not be a huge problem yet I have noticed the chinese player base on this server has surged. I can't understand half of the players now as their text does not appear when using the vanilla client. This is hugely problematic in dungeons and raids too as you can't communicate with your team. To add to this, these players usually need on any item drop and you can't discuss rolling etiquette with them since they can't understand English.

Now before the PC police jump in here, I am not a racist. I don't care who the hell plays on a private vanilla server yet I do expect, to some degree at least, that the players understand basic english and that I can communicate with them. The game starts to lose its enjoyment when you can't talk to half of the playerbase - and this only gets worse when this half are generally unresponsive. Sure there will be Chinese players who are helpful and can converse, but let's be honest, we're talking about a small minority here.

I didn't used to understand the whole IP ban on China thing which private servers embraced but now I do. I'd really prefer a small, stable community who I can connect and communicate with over a player base which seems large yet is chaotic due to conversational barriers and differing game outlook. It just gets boring/frustrating when grouping with these players as I may as well be playing an entirely different game to them.

Any opinions are appreciated on this, I'm willing to hear the error of my ways but for now I'll be taking a long break from the server.

Cheers

Playing the past few weeks, I see constant spam for healers and tanks. "Just need x and g2g can share quests!"--that guy in LFG chat tonight for like an hour until group fell apart.

Of course people have their own preferences and expectations of how Elysium should work. However, the game punishes players for being a healer or tank. Specifically, respec costs make PVP and farming impractical for many, because you have to pay (and thus have time to farm) to be able swap spec. A lot of priests want to play shadow for PVP and farming; shamans want ele or enh; warriors want arms for pvp vs prot or fury. So, now I'm really leaning playing my mage even though I'd prefer to play priest.

If respecs were cheap, what would the real harm be? You'd have a lot more prot tanks and healing spec players for your dungeons--and everybody wins. Level 20 mounts would be another QOL thing, too--but I'll save that for another time. I don't want to see any changes to game difficulty. Just some QOL tweaks. It's not as if there isn't precedent with the talent trees.

Edit -- Looks like about a 50% split, which is interesting. Also, some of the vitriol in those who oppose is really unnecessary for a hypothetical change. It's ok to oppose and be civil at the same time.

Don't upvote please, dont want others to know about the place

I just don't understand how so many people are completely unwilling to believe any of the accusations brought to light on these forums. I mean how much evidence do you really need. My guild <Celebrity> the top raiding guild on horde basically dissolved overnight due to GM corruption. Do you really think that dozens of people who have individually spent hundreds of hours on their characters are just going to walk away to perpetuate some kind of hoax?

With BWL about to deploy on Elysium, I think it's about time transfers were opened from Anathema to Elysium, with the condition that those opting to transfer give up any gear not available in Elysium's current patch. I would gladly give up my AQ gear to be able to transfer and I know many others feel the same, what's the point in having BiS gear when your server is dead? And yes, I said it. Anathema has been hemorrhaging players for ages and it is on it's knees. Anathema is dying. The Nostalrius server. The server that is the very reason Elysium is even popular in the first place. What happened to caring about the legacy WoW community? Why should Nost players have to reroll to cater to the new comers? Most of whom were probably late to the party. We all knew the reason there was an outcry for a fresh server wasn't because the old Nost community all wanted to start again. It was because of the new comers who didn't want to have to catch up with the players that were there first.

When BWL deploys, give us an option to transfer and leave our AQ gear behind, many Nost players have donated to Elysium and continue to do so, but have still been treated like second class citizens. We deserve to be able to keep playing the characters we've invested so much into.

I played in December , and I noticed a drastic decrease in pop. From january which there were over 25k online, now there are a lot fewer people playing. Can you guys tell me what happened?

Hey everybody,

So I'm fully expecting tons of "lol get rekt" replies for this, but I got banned two days ago. I had no idea why, but after browsing this sub and seeing everybody is saying they bought gold, I can assume that is one of two possibilities. I will discuss the other possibility later in the post.

I cannot log in. I have never been banned from a WoW server, retail or private, before and so I am not 100% sure, but my error message is, "This World of Warcraft account has been closed and is no longer available for use." I can only assume this, along with the ban wave, means I have been banned.

My primary issue is that I opened a forum post (I have no other way to contact the staff that I know of) in order to discuss why/if/for how long I was banned. I posted this 26 hours ago, and would have no problem waiting longer if necessary (I know they are a volunteer staff and I'm sure everybody who was banned has appealed it), but my appeal has been locked. This is the only place I know to turn.

Now, as to my theories WHY I was banned:

Gold buying. It seems like everybody complaining was banned for this, so I can assume that they have an autodetection system and that system tripped hundreds of accounts at once. Obligatory "I didn't buy gold".

Hacking. This one is what I originally thought I got banned for before I visited the subreddit and saw the gold posts. Following is a direct quote from my forum appeal which has now been locked:

I had been last successfully logged in around roughly 2220 on 1 Jan 2017 GMT, but I logged out due to some sort of severe bug. I was running the Scholomance and we wiped for the second time on Darkmaster Gandling. When I died, my camera flew around the dungeon popping through walls and spending a lot of time in the foggy "grey areas" between the cells of the zones. My camera eventually flew back to my body, but I could not do anything. I could not click on "release corpse", and I couldn't type anything into chat, even though I could see my party communicating. I had New Year's Day plans with family that were fast approaching and had already informed my group 5+ times about them, so I went ahead and logged out since the bug was clearly game-breaking. Other than this bug, I have had no issues or unusual behavior since the re-release. I can only assume that this is somehow related to the ban. Maybe the speed of my camera was auto-detected? Maybe "being" in the grey area was auto-detected? Either way, it should be verifiable that my character was dead when this happened, right?

I then tried to log into my account on Elysium, at roughly 1220 2 January 2017 GMT, to find that I appeared to be banned.

My questions are:

Is there another way to reach out to the staff?

Is there any way to prove the bug flying camera glitch was just that?

Is that even why I got banned?

Is it possible for me to get my character back?

I played for nearly a year total when you combine Nost1 time and Nost2 (Elysium relaunch) time, and I obviously had grown attached to my character, my old friends, my new guild, and the server - even with its overpopulation and language barriers. This place is awesome and I really just want my 60 back without having to "restart" on one of my level 20ish alts.

Thank you everybody!

Edit: Karmilla <Inmixto Manum> , 60 Alliance PvP Mage

Please don't upvote

^ this needs to stop. Make your post and if people wants to upvote, they will. If not, they won't. The end.

It doesn't look good when raiders are losing out on items because you guy can't keep your shit together. Call me entitled, but I'd pay $15 if that means I don't have to deal with these rollbacks.

1 second delays are not acceptable and you don't need 9K online.

If you can't support more than 6K without severely impacting gameplay then don't.

Logged in about an hour ago to finish up Redridge quests to move onto Duskwood, but logged into the Lakeshire inn to see 3-4 Horde + infernals inside. I managed to slip out, and I was like "Okay cool, I'll go do quests then maybe come back to turn in... whatever"

I leave for maybe 15 minutes to go fuck about in some quests, come back they're still here. Maybe 5 of them, about two infernals around the stables. A doomguard in the town hall.

At this point I'm just thinking "Okay, well clearly they want this town for 30 minutes to chill before a raid because why not."

So I afk for a bit, still there.

AN HOUR LATER THEY'RE STILL HERE ACTIVELY KILLING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT. I'm not hiding it, my jimmies are rustled, and my salt levels are high. So I'll try my best to keep this post non-toxic.

Before you comment ; If you are one of the people who will respond in these formats;

1. "It's a PvP server, you signed up for this. Suck it up."

-No, I signed up for PvP. This is slaughter, and if maybe it were a quick murder fest through your nearest opposing faction town, I'd be chill with it. But not when it lasts for an hour+. That's just not PvP (especially when I can't defend myself), that's boredom becoming griefing.

2) "Go quest somewhere else while they have their 'fun'."

-I intended too, but then I realized there is no actual punishment for this. I just have to hope they find something better to do in the next hour. I guess that's my fault huh? Opps, silly me. So here this post is...

3) "Alert /Global or /Trade that there's a raid going on, you're on a PvP server, surely some are bound to put up a fight."

-Boy, wish I thought of that let me tell you. (I'm getting toxic now) At some point I thought S O M E O N E would've ventured down to give it a look. Didn't happen though... Actually it did just now as I'm writing this, 60s actually started showing up an hour & 30 minutes into their siege.

Honestly, I doubt anything will happen this shit happens so often on the PvP server. But OVER an hour and almost reaching TWO FUCKING HOURS... that's just excessive. Go run a dungeon.

TL;DR - I'm salty, I need an outlet. Someone will pay for my repair bill, I have taken names, my hit-list is JUICY with 8 players.

P.S. I managed to kill one of them after a duel... That was fun... But I was still salty

EDIT: People seem to be skipping this last part... Let me salt.

• Wrong pvp gear still intact and players use them.

• Fear + Stun = guaranteed DC.

• HP5 Regen

• Random DC's & DC's from stepping into certain places

• Ghosts being visible to opposite factions

• Falling through the world if you spawn on Graveyard

• being unable to res at your corpse

• Various other issues

But hey... its for free and the admins do it in there free time.. right ? RIGHT ???????????????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoGaVd5EjYY&t=4s

This will be the first server event of many to come. I have plans of more such as dueling tournaments for prizes.

Event will be 3 pm EST on Christmas (9 pm GMT +1).

Giveaways will include amazon giftcards, gold on both servers, etc. Hope to see everyone there. Last year's was awesome and a few hundred showed up!

Should be a fun time !

Edit: Also, just want to clarify about rules. There is no requirement like being a youtube sub or anything. Just show up in game and you have a chance to win. There will however be 1 smaller giveaway for Patrons.

I changed the wording because it shouldn't be focused at the guild as a whole, it just represents ( from an outside perspective ) what type of stuff is "allowed".

He hosts weekly pugs, he said choker was on reserve and whispered me a few times before / during the raid ( on his own) I was able to roll in it. I had interest in joining the guild so he was letting me also roll . ( We had been talking for a few days ) After they lost the roll he passed lead to another person and the team speak went silent for a few minutes and it was looted over me.

I am sorry for making it appear that the "whole guild" was at fault. Jessicarnage does weekly groups and calls them " Hosted by The Chosen" and he still wears the guild tag now. So it was easy to mistake his representation of the guild and what you guys are.

Screens of his ninja - http://imgur.com/a/G5RDB

(Bnanaboat is just a warrior troll rolling-http://realmplayers.com/CharacterViewer.aspx?realm=NRB&player=Bnanaboat)

So I did some super-scientific-testing last night.

Logged on Elysium / Zeth'kur at the same time and ran around Orgrimmar Bank + AH + Infont of Org gates.

The differnce is staggering. ZK cities feel like a ghosttown and you just have to look at the /world and /lfg chanels to see for yourself.

I then logged on my old main from Nost on the Anthema server to see how lively and buzzing it was, which was a pleasant surprise.

ZK really need some help.

I got characters on all 3 pvp servers so I'm sorted what ever happens. Not biased, not shilling, just letting you know what I saw.

Some players are in mad denial / sticking head in the sand, probably because they've commited to a server and don't want to lose that progress.

I'm just being real here. Go have a look tonight if you don't believe me.

Bonus points if you try finding a group to get a feel for player numbers your self.

ZK needs help :(

Fuck the Min/Maxing that is being required by most guilds!

In every raiding guild I have been so far, I've been always required to get all consumes, play the cookie cutter specs, and wear terrible looking gear, just because it is BiS?

I hate how your are not allowed to wear full T1/T2 in raids, just because those BiS rares give a 5%-10% DPS or Healing increase. In my entire private server vanilla career, I have never played a caster for the sole reason, that I have to wear this terrible looking Bloodvine Set at some point, and probably wont be allowed to wear T1/T2 that look so amazing and fits the lore of the character!

A Mage got gkicked at our old guild on Kronos, because he did not have the Bloodvine Set by a deadline, have we come so far?Can we please stop that? Vanilla WoW is easy enough, let us Raid with those cool epics that we got.

Guildmasters, ask yourself is it really necessary to Min/Max literary every aspect of the game?

it was discovered almost half a fucking year ago and the incompetent devs still haven't fucking fixed it even when they made it open source.

The Elysium team is proud to announce our newest fresh realm: Nighthaven PvP

Nighthaven is going to be a fast-paced progression realm, starting on version 1.2.

Fast-paced progression means that it will take far less than one year to progress from versions 1.2 to 1.12.1 (the exact timeline will be published soon).

Additionally, the realm will be featuring progression through expansion. This means once 1.12.1 is launched, the preparation for a transition to TBC will begin!

— As mentioned above, the initial version will be 1.2 with all that entails. — The raids available at launch will be Molten Core and Onyxia's lair. — All characters from the Nighthaven PvP will continue to play on Elysium's TBC realm! — Battlegrounds will not be available at launch due to patch progress. Until patch 1.5, there were no Battlegrounds available on retail, so players will able to experience World PvP stage of the game in its full glory. — Experience, gold, and loot gains will be the standard Blizzlike 1x.

Nighthaven will be the first World of Warcraft server in emulation history to begin with fully functioning and accurate raids, dungeons, questing, and scripting.

Whether you are a fan of the Elysium Project or not, we are proud to share this achievement with the community.

We have all come a long way since the early days of emulation, and are excited to see the most authentic fresh realm to date.

The server will be launching this Sunday, November 5th. The servers will open at 16:00 GMT+1.

As for Elysium, Anathema, and Darrowshire; they will all 3 be merged into one server named Stratholme PvP. All the progress of your characters on these realms will be saved. Name priority will be as follows: Anathema > Elysium > Darrowshire. Stratholme will be running on 1.12.1 indefinitely, and will not reset or shut down. At some point will be able to progress to TBC.

That concludes our announcement. Remember that no matter what is thrown at us, nor what we throw at ourself, your progress will always be saved, and you will always have somewhere to play.

Sincerely, Elysium Staff

Sincerely every skinner ever. (Seriously though do you not want money?)

Also I get that Inv can be full. Flame somewheres else.

That is all.

Seriously, the gold mail spams, whatever. The gold whispers, whatever. The continuous obnoxious green/blue texts... fuck off. Now, we have a channel specifically for buying gold?

Seriously, do you guys even give a shit anymore? Is anything being done to combat this? Cause it seems like every month, the gold selling community is free to develop a new marketing strategy.