Nostalrius WoW

[Dillian]

awesome thank you =)

[Swish]

Must have a guild called <Pras>

Managed to find a guild called <Classic>, made a couple of pals but in true WoW style theres "mad" everywhere - some guy got mad in guild chat because people disagreed with leveling as a frost mage... WoW players easily trolled.

Do turn off general chat if you're near the Barrens, every 2nd comment is someone trolling the previous comment or saying something offensive to be "edgy"... definitely a younger player base compared to p99.

[katrik]

Managed to find a guild called <Classic>, made a couple of pals but in true WoW style theres "mad" everywhere - some guy got mad in guild chat because people disagreed with leveling as a frost mage... WoW players easily trolled.

Do turn off general chat if you're near the Barrens, every 2nd comment is someone trolling the previous comment or saying something offensive to be "edgy"... definitely a younger player base compared to p99.

Player base is the worst part. So cringe worthy.

[Dillian]

yah they do get made easily. They like to group only long enough to get done what they needed to get done also. At least on the alliance side. As soon as the quest they need gets completed they jet. Or maybe i just smell bad as a gnome. I never thought of that til just now lol.

[Pringles]

Player base is the worst part. So cringe worthy.

[Deadmantis]

I believe I still need Sarkoth and Lt Benedict, named from 2 different quests that I gave up on. Got tired of being laughed and spit on when my grp didn't get the kill. Maybe get them later or just delete.

I had one guy join my group for 2 imp kills then split.

Haven't gotten to Barrens yet but I don't even pay attention to chat anymore. If they aren't talking about someone's mom or who's gay, they are stating as fact which classes and specs are the best or totally worthless. Buncha real geniuses.

Got invited to a guild, War Legends, but they are inviting everyone and people are leaving faster than they are coming in.

Might join Classic, they seem to be about being helpful with quests and professions.

[citizen1080]

Chat is pretty bad...i just close that tab, problem solved. Updated spreadsheet with my names tho pretty much just active on Ally atm due to low play time.

[captnamazing]

Yeah lol, I closed Chat. Shit is so foul!! Makes RNF look like a god damn playground.

Got level 6 last night and journeyed to Brill. Will be taking myself and friend to Org around 13 for RFC!

[citizen1080]

Flexin...update the OP with spreadsheet please so we dont have to dig

[Portasaurus]

What's the food like in classic WoW?

Is there cheese?

What about noodles?

[Ereni]

What's the food like in classic WoW?

Is there cheese?

What about noodles?

O God yes, let me explode your mind. Endless cheese and endless wine. There are quests that involve cheese alone. (edited to save GGs soul)

[Ereni]

O God yes, let me explode your mind. Endless cheese and endless wine. There are quests that involve cheese alone.

FREE SPEECH BITCHES

[captnamazing]

What's the food like in classic WoW?

Is there cheese?

What about noodles?

Some really great food in this game!

Right now i"m eating wolf (dog)

[katrik]

What's the food like in classic WoW?

Is there cheese?

What about noodles?

I just cast a spell to make food and water. One day I hope to be able to conjure a whole buffet.. Just for me. =~)

[Portasaurus]

conjure a whole buffet

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2657694/hook-food-scene-o.gif

[Jitsumo]

How have the BGs been so far? Is one side consistently face rolling the other?

I can't wait to get back into things, but have been waiting for the noob zone pop to disperse a bit.

Gonna roll a lock just not sure what side. Prob Orc Lock

[Millburn]

Posting to keep the spreadsheet relevant until it's edited onto the OP.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uUR3HqZ-ID2t1xSWJaxmxOiL2CkAXk7mOrv-u0ntyCA/edit?usp=sharing

[G13]

I'm playing on Horde

Rolled a Druid - name is Logos

Any old school homies feel free to hit me up - quest - level - gear - ect

[Skillslam]

is this back when seal of the crusader was bugged and not reducing damage like it was supposed to? OP paladins

[Byrjun]

Red99 ppl are degenerates even in WoW.

[Bruno]

I have a 13 undead warrior but play time is severely limited at the moment. Will be better after next week. Server should more than tolerable at that point. It's not bad though once you're in the teens. Plenty of people to group with and there are a lot of people more than willing to help out. People passing on items they don't need. I was pretty impressed with the experience so far. I think people are getting older and more mature :D

[Flamewraith]

is this back when seal of the crusader was bugged and not reducing damage like it was supposed to? OP paladins

Seems like everyone is slamming the shit out of paladins claiming they are a waste of oxygen in almost every single situation, so my guess is no.


dakor lvl 9 dwarf warrior so far.

[Buellen]

i was pleasantly surprised that not many know about fishing as a way to make excellent starting gold. I have made 12 gold so far from fishing skill 150 in theramore island area.

[Millburn]

i was pleasantly surprised that not many know about fishing as a way to make excellent starting gold. I have made 12 gold so far from fishing skill 150 in theramore island area.

I'm gonna get ALL over that tomorrow, thanks for the tip.

[Glitterati]

<Charles Bronson> #1 US alli PVP guild, join now or become honor farmed!

[Jaxon]

You shall have my priest's facemelt!

[Callon]

Gonna be working on alchemy/herbing today since we got about 6 inch's of snow outside and expecting another 6 inch's before it stops today.

Lemme know if anyone wants some minor healing potions, weak troll regen (2hp tick), lion strength potion (4str). Will send over in mail as I make them on a first come first server basis.

[Buellen]

I'm gonna get ALL over that tomorrow, thanks for the tip.

the beach north of theramore has at least 10 special fishing pools fire fin/ oily blackmouth and sage fish plus floating wreckage. each pool has a chance at seal chests / trunks but floating wreckage ones have 2 to 4 trunks /chest in them.

Each of the other pools can spawn a floating wreckage pool But very close to theramore going north, the 2nd and 3rd pools are ALWAYS floating wreckage. timer is perry fast about 1 to 2 min after you fish both of them empty.

Drops from the trunks heavy, thick leather, Greater healing potions, mana potions, Bolts of silk cloth 1 to 3 is common, bolts of mage weave 1 or 2 most i have seen per trunk. some time s you can get green gear from these trunks.

Hope this helps you all.

[BarackObooma]

The beginner's guide's two links to download the client are both offline. Does anyone have a link to download it?

[citizen1080]

I went undead on my lock for wotf...but the orc stun resistance is pretty clutch....cant stand the orc graphic tho..so thats a no go for me.

[Jaxon]

Just use the torrent.

[Swish]

Alliance WSG premades in the 10-19 bracket.... rofl.

[Millburn]

WSG has been nothing but a nightmare from the Horde perspective. Think I went 0-9 the other day. I felt violated.

[citizen1080]

WSG has been nothing but a nightmare from the Horde perspective. Think I went 0-9 the other day. I felt violated.

Look on the bright side, you can barely feel it when those gnomes rape you.

[Tewaz]

I have been grinding auctioneer. A ton of room on items, if you guys like playing the buy/sell game. Watch out for item values cratering though as the majority of players appear to be in the 18-30 level currently and they crash the market on trade supplies as they level up.

[Swish]

Found an old nostalgic WoW vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmyoDP3NuRw

Anyone else remember it?

[Pringles]

Ran wc last night....holy crap I forgot how big that zone is. Took us forever!

[sox7d]

Found an old nostalgic WoW vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmyoDP3NuRw

Anyone else remember it?

lol, reminds me of this video i saw a long time ago that got pretty popular where they were doing 10-man(?) UBRS(?) on vent. one guy was outside the room for a sec, came in and just yelled "LEEEROOOOYYYYY JEEEEEEENKINSSSSS" and trained the entire party. it was really funny and was kind of a PSA to all the simps that play MMOs to follow instructions.

[Millburn]

lol, reminds me of this video i saw a long time ago that got pretty popular where they were doing 10-man(?) UBRS(?) on vent. one guy was outside the room for a sec, came in and just yelled "LEEEROOOOYYYYY JEEEEEEENKINSSSSS" and trained the entire party. it was really funny and was kind of a PSA to all the simps that play MMOs to follow instructions.

...

[Buellen]

playing again reminds me of the wow movie of the undead war ? seeking revenge against red blade i think was villain name for killing his wife when both were alive.

[Flamewraith]

playing again reminds me of the wow movie of the undead war ? seeking revenge against red blade i think was villain name for killing his wife when both were alive.

Yes a human warrior and his wife (priest?) are questing and get killed by some undead (warlock or mage?) He then reanimates and hunts down the killer for a while before finally getting revenge. Here without you by three doors down is playing the whole video.

[Pokesan]

playing again reminds me of the wow movie of the undead war ? seeking revenge against red blade i think was villain name for killing his wife when both were alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb5LIo6HE6Y

[Buellen]

yep flam that is the one

And thank you pokes an , alway bring a tear to my eye.

[Breeziyo]

tried helping a buddy quest in charred vale last night.

ended up camping god knows how many horde just trying to get him kill credit for mobs. stg there are only like 2 harpy ambusher spawns in there. came out with over 100 HKs when quite a few of them were gray to me

[Swish]

tried helping a buddy quest in charred vale last night.

ended up camping god knows how many horde just trying to get him kill credit for mobs. stg there are only like 2 harpy ambusher spawns in there. came out with over 100 HKs when quite a few of them were gray to me

The Barrens / Stonetalon is still ridiculously overcrowded for leveling horde players... waiting til it calms down a bit but struggling to get anything done :/

[menadwen]

know anything about kronos-wow?
dunno witch wow i want

[Pringles]

Any other rogues/druids? Stealth bugs suck :( (Stealth breaking once you get agro - not getting hit, just agro, mobs not giving you "warning" they see you, mobs/players seeing you way too easily) oh well i guess - hope they fix it soon!

[Millburn]

The Barrens / Stonetalon is still ridiculously overcrowded for leveling horde players... waiting til it calms down a bit but struggling to get anything done :/

Yeah I've been playing the new SBEmu release waiting for the low areas to die down.

[Flamewraith]

Server is filled with keyboard warriors. As ally I can't spend any more than five minutes in a contested zone without being ganked. Can't even call for help because all you hear is "Stupid scrub gets rekt" Bitch I'd like to see you solo a group of horde 20+ levels higher than you. Can't even quest in ashenvale, quest mobs are perma camped. Some level 60 lock sat in menethil for two hours just dotting people. One dot would kill my 22 warrior in like 5 ticks. All he did was ran around dotting people for two hours and it wiped out the entire city.

[Pokesan]

did P99 ever have people competing for FTE on random trash mobs?

this shit is nuts

[Glenzig]

did P99 ever have people competing for FTE on random trash mobs?

this shit is nuts

Not yet. That will be right after Velious is released.

[Buellen]

That annoying flame 8(

So far i have very few instances of being ganked i was questing in red ridge 2 days ago got steam rolled by 15 or so horde but that was about it.

I have had a few horde come up to me as they run by and salute/wave or just plain ignore me in wetlands <shrug>

I was 23 , 24 at that time now I'm 26 in dusk wood and still have not been attacked by horde there.

[Flamewraith]

That annoying flame 8(

So far i have very few instances of being ganked i was questing in red ridge 2 days ago got steam rolled by 15 or so horde but that was about it.

I have had a few horde come up to me as they run by and salute/wave or just plain ignore me in wetlands <shrug>

I was 23 , 24 at that time now I'm 26 in dusk wood and still have not been attacked by horde there.

Holy hell, you are a lucky fucker. I Haven't encountered a single hordie that hasn't tried to out me on the spot. In duskwood, I steer FAAAAAAAAR away from the stranglethorn zoneline, they come through there like the plague and just destroy everything on their warpath of conquest. "Get better at the game newbie!" I couldn't even land a blow before the shaman drops me on the spot.

[Glenzig]

I was actually kind of excited to play this server. Looks like ill give it some time to simmer down for now. Hope they get the bugs straightened out for the most part.

[Buellen]

Server is fun glenzig quest scripting actually works there.

for example i played some feenix and some others and the corporal escort quest in red ridge never works well on this server it does and many many others with similar scripting work.

i have not yet leveled enough to check some other stuff like desolace centaur with pets how they were all screwy on other servers or engineering mechanic pets and such attacking so it seem you have a pet i.e. exploding sheep will not explode and stay with you till you camp attacking stuff for you.

[toolshed]

soooo Starting character that is going to be used for PvP - what class?

I haven't played in a while, and played mostly a warrior/priest on live. I know shadow priests are fun pvp, and warriors are great once you get some gear.

PvP class? Mage? Rogue? Druid?

[GSZ]

Started a NE Warrior named Moneyy. Currently at level 10. Feel free to hit me up if you need a tank for your dungeon runs at any time.

[jturkydurk]

Mannnnn, is this really that awesome? I'm about to roll on this EMU. Worth?
So worth.

I just started last night meself. The only downside to it is it's so wildly popular that all ur quest mobs in the starting areas are going to be thoroughly camped and competitive

[Swish]

Ranks are in!

http://i.imgur.com/xLSdHcI.jpg

[quido]

http://www.msu.edu/~oconne53/jeremybronson.jpg

Big Jeremy doing it big

[Breeziyo]

soooo Starting character that is going to be used for PvP - what class?

I haven't played in a while, and played mostly a warrior/priest on live. I know shadow priests are fun pvp, and warriors are great once you get some gear.

PvP class? Mage? Rogue? Druid?

druid is one of the if not the worst class in vanilla wow all around. don't roll druid


in other news http://i.imgur.com/AYZvS6C.jpg sergeant boizz

[toolshed]

druid is one of the if not the worst class in vanilla wow all around. don't roll druid

Really? Seems like a really fun and unique hybrid class. Can tank and heal better than a shaman, but worst burst dps. I also love the idea of being a one man team in WSG and carrying the flag; also defending a camp in AB.

Sure they have not the best burst dps, but druids seem to be a great support pvp class

also, 'nerf druids 1' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EekNxwQ7izg

[Lune]

Really? Seems like a really fun and unique hybrid class. Can tank and heal better than a shaman, but worst burst dps. I also love the idea of being a one man team in WSG and carrying the flag; also defending a camp in AB.

Sure they have not the best burst dps, but druids seem to be a great support pvp class

also, 'nerf druids 1' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EekNxwQ7izg

If you're rolling a hybrid in the Kalgan era of WoW and thinking you're going to find viable and compelling non-healing specs, you're gonna have a bad time. One of my least favorite parts of vanilla wow. BC / early Wrath things get better, it's kinda the sweet spot between Kalgan class balance and full blown ability bloat/homogenization that comes in late wrath/cata and persists now in WoD

[Neno]

swish did you ever find mankrik's wife?

[Byrjun]

Really? Seems like a really fun and unique hybrid class.

One thing I'm noticing about vanilla WoW is that the more interesting a class is, the less viable it is. EQ sorta had the same problem.

If you don't fall squarely into a role of DPS, Tank, or Healer you might as well reroll, unless you only want to do nothing but PVP.

[Neno]

One thing I'm noticing about vanilla WoW is that the more interesting a class is, the less viable it is. EQ sorta had the same problem.

If you don't fall squarely into a role of DPS, Tank, or Healer you might as well reroll, unless you only want to do nothing but PVP.

The attitude towards hybrids in vanilla WoW from the dev team was pretty similar to the attitudes of the early EQ devs. Things got slightly better in TBC but hybrids still suffered a massive "hybrid tax" that would keep them behind pure DPS classes by 25-30% and with the smaller raid sizes that were introduced you would see almost no Hybrid DPS unless the spec brought something unique to the raid. WOTLK saw massive hybrid buffs but the DPS was still behind pure classes by 5-10%. It wasn't until Cata that almost all classes and specs were finally on a equal footing (barring bad class design).

PVP was the one place that hybrids could shine though as having more flexibility instead of being focused on one particular job could be a massive strength.

[Doors]

Hit me up if you're alliance and need a guild invite. Bunch of us are formed up now. In game name is Stark.

[Doors]

One thing I'm noticing about vanilla WoW is that the more interesting a class is, the less viable it is. EQ sorta had the same problem.

If you don't fall squarely into a role of DPS, Tank, or Healer you might as well reroll, unless you only want to do nothing but PVP.

Lol I must have killed Reiker 5 times in Hillsbrad the other week. That's what you get for going horde you fuck.

[Glenzig]

Wait! This server doesn't have kungfu pandas? Nevermind then.

[toolshed]

Made a druid since I am going to be focusing on PvP. Lvl 10 Tauren "Oryn" if anyone wants to group/pvp.

What guilds are you guys joining/forming?

[Breeziyo]

Made a druid since I am going to be focusing on PvP. Lvl 10 Tauren "Oryn" if anyone wants to group/pvp.

What guilds are you guys joining/forming?

good god you are going to regret your decision

[Buellen]

I dont understand people trying to import their min max class attitudes from everquest to wow. Who cares if hybrid are not the best at whatever your perceived power class is.

In Wow you do not need a group to do things. In wow you do not need a hardcore raid guild to succeed.

you can solo to 60 within 1 month or two if your dedicated.

if a person is having fun playing whatever class they are playing, what does it matter if it may not be the best at whatever that player wants to do.

[Breeziyo]

I dont understand people trying to import their min max class attitudes from everquest to wow. Who cares if hybrid are not the best at whatever your perceived power class is.

In Wow you do not need a group to do things. In wow you do not need a hardcore raid guild to succeed.

you can solo to 60 within 1 month or two if your dedicated.

if a person is having fun playing whatever class they are playing, what does it matter if it may not be the best at whatever that player wants to do.

in vanilla wow you pretty much definitely do need those things. it is one of the biggest things that attracts people back to vanilla - you need other people to succeed in the game. leveling is an experience sure but you shouldn't ever take how easy or hard leveling is into consideration when asking what class to play. it becomes wholly irrelevant once you hit 60.

a geared level 60 boomkins dots tick for baby damage, and they oom way way way faster than other casters without consumables that even then will only let them dps for maybe a minute straight on boss fights, slightly more if they selfishly use innervate. they have no real reliable way to gain back mana.

a feral will nearly oom after powershifting a few roots/snares and just dont do good damage. my friend, a hunter, has been saying how ferals are so annoying to kill but pose no threat to actually killing him

unless buddy really likes resto he is simply not going to have a good time and will def get class envy

you'll be able to kill bad players but a majority of it is going to be reliant on engineering to carry you and a decent player will still be able to beat you most of the time. the only reason i believe the token feral in my guild will be able to succeed fairly well is because the guy's a multi-glad on retail wow as feral.

on top of all that, good luck actually getting gear to succeed as anything other than resto. raid guilds that want to get things done will probably have one token feral druid for leader of the pack. even then, it's "will this assisted dps from the 3% crit in one melee heavy group actually end up being more dps than just bringing another good dps class?" pvp gear is equivalent to molten core gear, and that's after the grind it's going to take to actually get the rank required to buy the full set. after BWL is out, if you want to have the best gear in pvp you must raid. you will most definitely be getting the scraps that other ppl dont want when you begin building a feral set. i could never justify giving what would be an upgrade for a rogue in a raid to a feral druid.

in comparison to a dps druid, pretty much every other dps is a "power class"

like, i drop druids easily in wpvp and my spec right now http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bV0hZf0xZxMhb is a janky as fuck pre-shadowform leveling / dungeon healing spec

[Doors]

Breeziyo is right. Classes like paladins and druids really got pigeon holed into healing in classic. This is a much different experience from how live is currently.

When WoW went live first thing I rolled was a paladin because I wanted Verigan's fist and heals for leveling. When I hit 60 every guild took maybe one ret paladin to a raid. That was it. And unless they were friends with guild leadership, their gear usually went to the primary DPS classes like hunters/rogues/warriors.

Classic WoW had some serious flaws like really awful talent trees, etc. But those imperfections were part of what made the game awesome. It was still fun to world PVP with ret paladins and survival hunters. Initially this game wasn't designed around making every classes talent tree a viable and suitable raiding tree.

Most of my friends that have checked the server out love it but constantly bitch about not being able to faceroll every quest or just instantly have the objectives marked on their map. Live has made people lazy as fuck. Gonna be a lot of dissapointed people at 60 when they realize guilds that want to progress aren't accepting boomkins and ret paladins to raids.

Now that I think about it, most of the people that ended up just PVPing were the ones who didn't want to constantly respec out of the talent tree they liked playing every week just to raid.

[Buellen]

Ok breeziyo and door I bow to your experience on the druid in vanilla wow.

I played Hunter / warlock during this time. Survival and Demonology talent builds. Yep not "ideal" but i still raided throughout vanilla with my guild/guilds having fun time throughout.

I never was very good at PVP but still enjoyed the battle ground etc.

[katrik]

Does p99 have a horde guild..?

[jturkydurk]

in vanilla wow you pretty much definitely do need those things. it is one of the biggest things that attracts people back to vanilla - you need other people to succeed in the game. leveling is an experience sure but you shouldn't ever take how easy or hard leveling is into consideration when asking what class to play. it becomes wholly irrelevant once you hit 60.

a geared level 60 boomkins dots tick for baby damage, and they oom way way way faster than other casters without consumables that even then will only let them dps for maybe a minute straight on boss fights, slightly more if they selfishly use innervate. they have no real reliable way to gain back mana.

a feral will nearly oom after powershifting a few roots/snares and just dont do good damage. my friend, a hunter, has been saying how ferals are so annoying to kill but pose no threat to actually killing him

unless buddy really likes resto he is simply not going to have a good time and will def get class envy

you'll be able to kill bad players but a majority of it is going to be reliant on engineering to carry you and a decent player will still be able to beat you most of the time. the only reason i believe the token feral in my guild will be able to succeed fairly well is because the guy's a multi-glad on retail wow as feral.

on top of all that, good luck actually getting gear to succeed as anything other than resto. raid guilds that want to get things done will probably have one token feral druid for leader of the pack. even then, it's "will this assisted dps from the 3% crit in one melee heavy group actually end up being more dps than just bringing another good dps class?" pvp gear is equivalent to molten core gear, and that's after the grind it's going to take to actually get the rank required to buy the full set. after BWL is out, if you want to have the best gear in pvp you must raid. you will most definitely be getting the scraps that other ppl dont want when you begin building a feral set. i could never justify giving what would be an upgrade for a rogue in a raid to a feral druid.

in comparison to a dps druid, pretty much every other dps is a "power class"

like, i drop druids easily in wpvp and my spec right now http://db.vanillagaming.org/?talent#bV0hZf0xZxMhb is a janky as fuck pre-shadowform leveling / dungeon healing spec
O mighty vanilla sage, pray tell what is best pvp class for nostalrius? How does warlock vs Mage stack up? And rogues?

[Breeziyo]

O mighty vanilla sage, pray tell what is best pvp class for nostalrius? How does warlock vs Mage stack up? And rogues?

I'm not experienced enough to know how they stack up versus eachother in actual situations. I can make a pretty good guess that Mage and Rogue are likely to be stronger than Warlock because while all three are capable of strong CC and damage, Warlocks suffer in terms of mobility via their long casts (talented shadow bolt is 2.5s if I'm remembering correctly) and lack of short cooldown instant abilities that help peel people off of them. Warlocks have been pretty infamous for running SM/Ruin or pet sac succ/Ruin and shadowbolt critting people for most of their health, though. As an Alliance Warlock you're also more apt to struggle because of the addition of Shamans' Tremor totem and WotF. When you're a Horde Warlock all you need to take into consideration are warriors and fear ward if a Dwarf Priest is around.

But yeah like I said I haven't played at max long enough to have a solid grip on what the best of the best class/specs are yet. I just have a pretty good guess. If you have a solid healer I'd say Warrior may be your best bet. You're fairly anti-Warlock and most definitely anti-Rogue, and if your healer has good positioning in PvP there's a good chance you will get dispelled frequently on snares/roots that Mages can throw at you. It's just really annoying to be that healer when you think what you're peeking around is LoS and then you eat a poly that doesn't break for 20+ seconds because of inconsistent LoS in objects around the world. Ofc there are other classes to think about but I figured I'd elaborate at least on the ones you mentioned.

With no healer I'd probably recommend Mage or Rogue. Rogues can dictate which fights they want to engage in + they have some decent safety nets even in Vanilla, and Mages are pretty much always going to be a good pick.

[username17]

I'm on alliance as Dumathoin. LF a P99 guild Alliance side if there is one.

[Samoht]

Does p99 have a horde guild..?

i thought you were rolling a gnome mage, sweetheart

did you just want to recognize who we are as we pound it in?

[Cookiefist]

What is the population like?

[Breeziyo]

What is the population like?

Ridiculously overpopulated.

[captnamazing]

I have seen it go to like 6.5k people. My advice as you level is to skip quests sometimes and embrace the grind. I hit level 31 today on my Undead rogue ^_^

[Pringles]

What is the population like?

6k+ at peak (that includes horde + alliance)

[Pringles]

For those that havent seen this yet, this is a great leveling guide. She used to sell this for money (she still sells current versions).

http://www.joanasworld.com/azeroth.htm

Im sure there is an alliance version somewhere, but idc :)

[Skillslam]

Is snare supposed to do nothing against mob running away speed? I'm also getting blocked by things without shields and warrior rage seems broken as shit (lose full rage on miss/parry/dodge, and gaining nothing from crit/being crit)

[Buellen]

As others have said super busy server. Just plan to skip a lot of quest that involved picking up ground spawns. For example the dwarf /gnome one where you have to get box that spawn near the yeti cave and deliver the ammo to guy near the dwarf starting area. just skip it their a line of 4 to 5people always waiting for the box spawn during prime time.

just go for the kill X amount or deliver x item quests for your experience. Like other have said do not be afraid to grind a few thousands of Experience, just do not do it on mobs people need to kill for a quest for example the elder boars for the hunter pride line of quest in loch modan.

[Sikorsky]

Per a request I received, I added a link to the player spreadsheet in the first post of this thread.

[cockscythe]

its full of faggots so far bros.


waiting 40 minutes to have a chance at hogger is great fun

#bluelife

[Kergan]

PVP there? If so count me OUT

[LostCause]

hows the hacking on there?

[Kergan]

Do they have their own forums?

[Doors]

It's a solid emu.

[Doors]

Alliance hunter names Stark. Add me if you want a p99 alliance guild invite.

[Genedin]

I'm really enjoying it so far!

The first week or so was insane you literally couldn't find a single mob to kill but it has balanced out now.

[Zade]

ive been playing as well. lots of fun.

dem weapon skillz

[Ripcord]

is nilbog the real nilbog on there? if so i killed him once at like lvl 30 and he just got me back at 47!

[Pringles]

is nilbog the real nilbog on there? if so i killed him once at like lvl 30 and he just got me back at 47!

I believe that is him.

[Swish]

It is, met him on the opening night before I rerolled horde :p

[Hailto]

Made a char tonight, Hailto, lvl 7 undead mage, hit me up yall

[Oogei]

So are most of you horde or Alliance?

[Millburn]

So are most of you horde or Alliance?

Pretty good split between the two honestly

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uUR3HqZ-ID2t1xSWJaxmxOiL2CkAXk7mOrv-u0ntyCA/edit#gid=0

[Missingo]

Having not played WoW in many years, what are some of the best PVP classes/builds in Vanilla WoW? I know Rogue's are pretty good but I don't really feel like playing one

[menadwen]

Locks

[Crawdad]

Having not played WoW in many years, what are some of the best PVP classes/builds in Vanilla WoW? I know Rogue's are pretty good but I don't really feel like playing one

Rogue, Mage and Lock are the good (world) PvP classes right now. A fight with anybody else takes a while, whereas Rogue/Mage/Lock can kill/fear and kill you pretty damn quick.

When you get into BGs, you could make the argument that Druids and Pallies are good for flag carriers and Hunter's will almost always top the HK chart.

I'm Apologetic (19 Horde Priest) or Luclin (18 Alliance Hunter) so say Hey if you see me.

[Hailto]

Rogue, Mage and Lock are the good (world) PvP classes right now. A fight with anybody else takes a while, whereas Rogue/Mage/Lock can kill/fear and kill you pretty damn quick.

When you get into BGs, you could make the argument that Druids and Pallies are good for flag carriers and Hunter's will almost always top the HK chart.

I'm Apologetic (19 Horde Priest) or Luclin (18 Alliance Hunter) so say Hey if you see me.

So you can make chars on both factions? I went horde just cause that's what my friend is playing, but cool to know I can have an alliance alt too.

[Crawdad]

So you can make chars on both factions? I went horde just cause that's what my friend is playing, but cool to know I can have an alliance alt too.

Not on the same account, but accounts are free :D

Edit: Apparently they recently lifted the faction restriction on accounts, so yes you can have alli and horde on the same account.

[menadwen]

Yes same account

[bouncerr 2.0]

trying this out tonight name will be gaffin hit me up

[Swish]

Saw Hailto in the Tirisfal Glades chat last night - seems like everyone wants a piece of this server :)

[Swish]

Casual scum that I am (5-6 characters, only one over 20)... made it to Tarren Mill tonight. Love that place.

Anyone from P99 make 60 yet?

[Hailto]

I don't like that bug gif

[Breeziyo]

Casual scum that I am (5-6 characters, only one over 20)... made it to Tarren Mill tonight. Love that place.

Anyone from P99 make 60 yet?

I made it to 42 before burning out pretty hard. Been there a little over a week and would probably be close to 60 if I had just struggled through it. If I had the heart to drop the 10(?) gold to spec shadow for leveling I would probably enjoy it more, but leveling as healing spec is pretty ass. I spent an hour doing the first wastewander quest in Tanaris because of competing for mob tags and getting ganked. At that point I decided that the 1x Vanilla grind was too real for me considering now that I'm back in school I won't have much time to dedicate to gearing and spending hours upon hours in raids etc. Decided to make a character on retail WoW since there's still stuff to do even if you only get to put in a couple hours every now and then.

I might try to get back into it another time if the population gets a bit less overwhelming. I rode the zerg wave all the way up until I couldn't take it anymore.

[Crawdad]

Casual scum that I am (5-6 characters, only one over 20)... made it to Tarren Mill tonight. Love that place.

Anyone from P99 make 60 yet?

I'm in the same boat, I rarely get more than an hour or two a night. Two 19s now and working on a Nightelf Druid (mained from 1.8 til WotLK) and Undead Mage. I've noticed that Alliance has it a lot easier than Horde because of fishing spots and mobs dropping things they shouldn't be. Both at 19, My Alli toon as 12g banked, whereas my Horde has not-quite 2g.

Also, I saw Stark getting onto the boat in Auberdine the other day, so p99 has at least one level 60.

[Sikorsky]

Casual scum that I am (5-6 characters, only one over 20)... made it to Tarren Mill tonight. Love that place.

Anyone from P99 make 60 yet?

Ive paused at 29 on my rogue waiting for my buds and son to catch up to 29 so we can do BGs for awhile, then I'll resume. 0 desire to race to 60 cause I wont be raiding MC or BWL etc - only really interested in doing BRS / UBRS... for now, we'll see if I change my mind later :)

[Hailto]

You guys are lvling way faster than me my mage is at 16 lol

[Buellen]

33 hunter (stopped to alt and take a lvl9 elwyn bear to 33 as main pet 2.5 attack speed one) , 20 druid feral obviously (Breezyiyo had to try it having fun with him so far), 10 warlock.

[LostCause]

alot ppl def play here i saw almost 6k online at like 2pm est lol i tried to roll a orc shaman and i couldn't even find mobs to kill so many ppl in newb area lol

[Buellen]

Alliance Human side storm wind and such still very crowded, Dwarf /gnome not so much which is a good thing its a much smoother level up area.

[Crawdad]

33 hunter (stopped to alt and take a lvl9 elwyn bear to 33 as main pet 2.5 attack speed one) , 20 druid feral obviously (Breezyiyo had to try it having fun with him so far), 10 warlock.

"Fun" fact, hunter pets are(possibly were, haven't logged on in a couple days) currently bugged in that they have the DPS of "normalized" 2.0 attack speed, but have not actually been normalized (Ex: Broken Tooth has 1.0 attack speed, raptors at 1.5something, etc). So they're doing way more DPS than they should be.. if you have a <2.0 attack speed pet. This could also mean your 2.5 attack speed bear is actually normalized to 2.0 DPS, but only attacking at 2.5 attack speed.

[Buellen]

Well darn supposedly the server is supposed to have the pet attack speed "non"normalized in.

Wanted the 2.5 attack speed bear for better agro control once it is my level bleh!

This means I'm going to have to find a lower attack speed pet then. I will keep bear just incase they fix it like it to what it should be.

[doeda]

add me, Doobiedobedo (Alliance) ! free silk bags to p99'ers

[Lune]

add me, Doobiedobedo (Alliance) ! free silk bags to p99'ers

mail some to Kuriak plkx I've still got mostly 4 slot bags and it's killing me (I literally drowned trying to make room in my bags for Oslow's toolbox)

[ronasch]

1 question are they planning to nerf the Mage trinkets Stacking. I used to hit for 3200 crits 8600 on certain BWL mobs in vanilla then they nerfed me so I quit. No nerf maybe I'll play. They nerf I don't play.

[Swish]

1 question are they planning to nerf the Mage trinkets Stacking. I used to hit for 3200 crits 8600 on certain BWL mobs in vanilla then they nerfed me so I quit. No nerf maybe I'll play. They nerf I don't play.

That's probably one to ask on their forums, they're sticking at 1.12.1 ... if that's any indicator?

[captnamazing]

1 question are they planning to nerf the Mage trinkets Stacking. I used to hit for 3200 crits 8600 on certain BWL mobs in vanilla then they nerfed me so I quit. No nerf maybe I'll play. They nerf I don't play.

get nerfed
quit

qq more imo

[Swish]

There were some really OP mechanics around, I remember getting POM pyroblasted a lot on live.

[captnamazing]

fwiw, the server actually has 1.4 content, but the chars are still 1.12 i think. Idk, I quit playing so fukin go check the forums lol.

[Ac888]

It's 1.4-ish. They're working on getting the item database to 100% 1.4 I've heard of some 1.12's floating around. Dire Maul isn't out yet so none of those items should be available.

[Oogei]

Look me up and give me gold, !

Relik - Alliance Mage

[Swish]

Alt fever continues on a 2nd account

Swishdru on alliance now :p
Swish and other Swish variations (with ì í etc) on horde :)

[Ac888]

Any hordies from p99 playing?

[Flexin]

Couple of us have hit 60 and a bunch are in the upper 40's and 50's. Big Nilbog is in his 50's now,

[Crawdad]

Alt fever continues on a 2nd account

Swishdru on alliance now :p
Swish and other Swish variations (with ì í etc) on horde :)

Swish I believe my Hunter was lighting you up in WSG the other day :D ..when I wasn't being DC'd..

[Swish]

Swish I believe my Hunter was lighting you up in WSG the other day :D ..when I wasn't being DC'd..

Probably, I'd remember you but there's so many asshole somersaulting night elf hunters I lose track ;)

Priest life is hard life pre-real shadow... healed the shit out of everyone in WSG tonight, drained the shit out of the enemy's mana bars :)

[Lune]

Found a little surprise in this guy's PvP video (https://youtu.be/MU8RqrjSP48?t=3m20s). Hai Nilberg

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Am on Kronos. Switched over due to shit bugs on nostalrius. Better for it.

[menadwen]

I like Kronos better

[katrik]

coome plaaay with us.

[Bruno]

coome plaaay with us.

Killed you yesterday.

<3

[Pringles]

Am on Kronos. Switched over due to shit bugs on nostalrius. Better for it.


Hows Kronos anyhow?

[Lune]

Hows Kronos anyhow?

-Fraction of Nost's population

-Think it has a good bug tracker/reporting system, Nost doesn't seem to.

-Hosted in "Central Europe", read either Czech Republic or Yugoslavia

-Has a lot of Czechs, Poles, Russians

-Vanity rewards for donation (No rewards on Nost) Also a system for trading characters using Twinstar points?

Those are the closest things I have to facts. I'm not going to speak to how buggy it is compared to Nost, or which is truly scripted better, because 1. I haven't played it and 2. There has been a lot of shit-slinging, defamation, and fanboyism between Nost and Kronos players.

[LostCause]

5-8k players active on nost

[Byrjun]

Nost 4 life.

Already made a guy quit the guild because I won Truestrike Shoulders over him.

[Colgate]

Nost 4 life.

Already made a guy quit the guild because I won Truestrike Shoulders over him.

i did an UBRS run yesterday and some guy in my guild raged and hearthed out of the raid because a pickup rogue won truestrike shoulders over him

was p funny

[Swish]

i did an UBRS run yesterday and some guy in my guild raged and hearthed out of the raid because a pickup rogue won truestrike shoulders over him

was p funny

Reasons to log in, just to grief... the player base makes it so easy.

[Lime]

A couple of us switched to Kronos. Server is arguably more stable with less bugs and a real bug tracker with the benefit of a 10g max respec so you can switch from pvp to pve specs at max level easier.

Downside is U.S. pop is much lower so it's harder to get battleground que's non euro times. Plus side is there are alot less class bugs and they actually fix major exploits before they get abused. Another plus side is the zones aren't horribly overcrowded.

I don't really want to play on nostalrius due to all the exploiting that went on. Hunter pets were over tuned and lvl 40 pets did T2.5 dps long enough for people to get max level with epic mount. So many gold exploits, dupes, and super high epic drop rates existed that the economy is fucked now.

Hunter was doing double damage while classes like warrior has many game breaking bugs, charge putting you inside mobs, not working underwater, mobs fleeing fullspeed while hamstringed, mobs using specials too much like nets and knockdowns, parry not returning rage...etc...Many talents are straight up bugged or not working. Also once you paid 50g to respec and that talent you wanted is broken enjoy another 50g respec...

I think you will see more people switching over to Kronos in the future as a lot of bugs still aren't fixed from launch.

[katrik]

Killed you yesterday.

<3

Cool, which one are you?

STV is gank city.

[toolshed]

Kronos is pay to win scum. Go ahead and play there but make sure you get out dat fat wallet

Also they banned everyone who duped. The economy is fine

[Hailto]

Lvl 26 yall, doin big things

[DrKvothe]

Lvl 8 orc hunter named Bownerd

Hit me up in game

[Swish]

Casual as fuck, might get something over L30 next week ;)

Not enjoying rogue pvp as much as I thought I would but I dunno if they're just late bloomers at this point in the timeline? I seem to remember a lot of stun locking going on, certainly haven't got the tools yet - just cheap shot.

[Doors]

Didn't really play Kronos long enough to comment on it.

Nost is solid though. They fix shit and the population is high. Only complaint is they didn't mass ban exploiting guilds.

[Hailto]

Didn't really play Kronos long enough to comment on it.

Nost is solid though. They fix shit and the population is high. Only complaint is they didn't mass ban exploiting guilds.

Are you horde or ally, hopefully ally so i can corpse camp you, you dig?

[Samoht]

A couple of us switched to Kronos. Server is arguably more stable with less bugs and a real bug tracker with the benefit of a 10g max respec so you can switch from pvp to pve specs at max level easier.

not classic. that's enough to stop reading right there and know that kronos is not the place for a classic blizzlike experience.

[Lune]

Are you horde or ally, hopefully ally so i can corpse camp you, you dig?

Level 60 ally, but rolling deep with nilbog and jeremy

dont worry bruh ill help you trash them

[toolshed]

Alliance is WAY more mature of a playerbase than Horde. Tons of 'edgy' racist jokes in general chat on horde side, but nearly none of that on alliance. I regret even making a druid on horde, and will probably only be playing my alliance rogue because of it

[Bukowski]

I've been playing a dwarf warrior named Pwent. Only 34 at the moment.

[gekkonidae]

saw a guild named The Mystical Order... kek

[Bukowski]

saw a guild named The Mystical Order... kek

Yeah, so did I. I asked them if they were involved with the P99 TMO, and basically it was a couple of people from P99 that just loved the TMO name, and hope to give it a better reputation than the P99 TMO.

[Faron]

How are rogues? On live rogues just seem to be bogged down with too many god damn abilities to keep track of. I remember sneaking around AV and stun locking cloth but but don't remember much about the abilities used.

[Grubbz]

Rogues are solid in vanilla wow, their basically one of the top 4 classes, which consist of warrior, rogue, hunter and warlocks.

[Erasong]

cept on nost rogue stealth is shit as far as pvp goes. restealthing is broken and hunter pets can and will continue to attack the "stealthed" target. If you mean for pve dps then yes. they rock.

[Samoht]

I've gotta say, Vanilla WoW dungeons are almost as unforgiving as EQ dungeons. You spend hours LFG (even if you're a healer or tank because you can only ever find one or the other), it takes a long time to even get to the dungeon (here's looking at quests outside Uldaman), and the dungeons are not linear at all so they themselves take hours, and if you die, the graveyard is hundreds of miles away (wtf BRD corpse run).

I played WoW in vanilla, but I didn't remember it being nearly this bad. I have a new found appreciation for the way they streamlined dungeons starting with TBC by adding meeting stones and segmented wings (kinda like Scarlet Monastery).

[Pringles]

I still play, I've had an alt problem though. I am now pushing with one character though, my priest. Currently only level 39 but going to push to 60 with him.

[citizen1080]

How is the server now? Wife and I said fuck it due to the over population at launch. Wouldn't mind giving it another look now....but I am guessing it is top heavy with bored kiddies ganking anything that moves in the leveling zones...which is a whole nother problem.

[pasi]

Server population is in the 8000s at times. Live servers were like 1/4th to 1/3rd of that. The population is still trending up.

It can get a bit laggy at times, but for an emulated server to come close to 10k people online at once is fucking crazy.

[citizen1080]

Server population is in the 8000s at times. Live servers were like 1/4th to 1/3rd of that. The population is still trending up.

It can get a bit laggy at times, but for an emulated server to come close to 10k people online at once is fucking crazy.

IIRC there server is sponsored by some rich guy...any chance of a 2nd/3rd server opening to help spread out the load?

[Pringles]

How is the server now? Wife and I said fuck it due to the over population at launch. Wouldn't mind giving it another look now....but I am guessing it is top heavy with bored kiddies ganking anything that moves in the leveling zones...which is a whole nother problem.

Newbie zones arent bad now like it was at launch. There are a bunch of 60s but I would wager that the vast majority have yet to reach 60. Those that have are usually gearing up / raiding at this point.

Ganking is as it was on live IMO. You do get ganked by higher levels sometimes, but its not constant (as long as you arent stupid). Most of the time its just 2-3 people of appropriate level ganking solo peeps. Though mostly I find alliance are just interested in questing and leave me alone if I dont start anything, but not always. I played all weekend long Friday - Monday, I think I got attacked by a 60 maybe twice. Got ganked maybe 6 times total all together (appropriate levels / 60s)

I'm enjoying it. In the evenings US time, the pop dwindles down to around 4k, but at peak when all the euros are on we still break 8k.

[Samoht]

How is the server now? Wife and I said fuck it due to the over population at launch. Wouldn't mind giving it another look now....but I am guessing it is top heavy with bored kiddies ganking anything that moves in the leveling zones...which is a whole nother problem.

Population is well proportioned right now. Not going to lie and say that 60s will never gank you, but my experience so far is that I've died more by engaging someone else than being engaged. Some areas are definitely more problematic than others, though. Avoid STV at all costs.

[Osyruz]

Server population is in the 8000s at times. Live servers were like 1/4th to 1/3rd of that. The population is still trending up.

It can get a bit laggy at times, but for an emulated server to come close to 10k people online at once is fucking crazy.

Nos does not have 7800 ppl on it, they use a bot to beef up their player base, another good option, is Kronos, its Vanilla, 1.12.1 patch, and is almost completely bug free. The drawback to this server though is that it has a low population, probably about 500 people on each faction at peak times. And BGs don't really exsist unless you're 60.

[citizen1080]

Thanks for the quick replies pals...sounds like it might be worth looking at again!

[Samoht]

Nos does not have 7800 ppl on it, they use a bot to beef up their player base, another good option, is Kronos, its Vanilla, 1.12.1 patch, and is almost completely bug free. The drawback to this server though is that it has a low population, probably about 500 people on each faction at peak times. And BGs don't really exsist unless you're 60.

typical Kronos hate post, rofl

[Pringles]

Nos does not have 7800 ppl on it, they use a bot to beef up their player base, another good option, is Kronos, its Vanilla, 1.12.1 patch, and is almost completely bug free.


This is Kronos B.S. propaganda. Nost does indeed have 8k+ online at peak.

[Baler]

and is almost completely bug free.

I've heard this before. *coughBScough*
I've never seen a private wow server that is almost complete in any regard. There are those who continue to improve and those who fake it.

[Nads]

Nostalrius is the real deal holyfield. Get on it pals

[LoliPops]

It felt very classic/solid EMU but I just couldn't find the heart to do Vanilla WoW all over again. I rerolled on P1999 Red instead.

/shrug

[Lune]

If you are alliance you are going to get ganked a bit more than if you're horde.

I stopped playing mainly because I like playing hybrids and hybrids are pretty bad in vanilla. I might try it again when they release BC, i dunno.

Also the server is in France and I never got less than 187 ping in California. Wasn't really bad but slightly noticable.

[Samoht]

Does anybody know how to complete the orphan week quest as horde? Seems slightly bugged that the last quest is coming from some random quest giver in the world and not the orphan, but I don't know who it is or what zone they're in.

[Pringles]

Does anybody know how to complete the orphan week quest as horde? Seems slightly bugged that the last quest is coming from some random quest giver in the world and not the orphan, but I don't know who it is or what zone they're in.

Havent tried, but im tired of seeing them running around =P

[Deckk]

I have never played WoW. This is interesting. Probably won't play it, but very cool.

[Fame]

Who the fuck took my name??

[Hailto]

Anyone else still playing here? Hit me up on Hailto, 60 undead mage.

[katrik]

Still casually playing on warlock, haven't logged in in a week tho

[justin2090]

I have a mid 30's horde warrior that I haven't played in a month. Been thinking about logging on again but never did for whatever reason.

[QuantumZebra]

How's the server yall?

[Waedawen]

people from P99 that just loved the TMO nameO.

What a bunch of idiots.

"The Mystical Order" is single cheesiest, low brow name absolutely possible. Might as well be "Brotherhood of the Dragon" or "Keepers of the Secret"

[Psionide]

Yet its still original compared to some other guilds.

[Buellen]

Lots of lag through out day time calms down a bit around 6pm pst.

The new reduced distance of seeing mobs is annoying but can be overcome once you get used to it.

[Nordenwatch]

if any one of my pals are playing this, im on alliance! mid 30's rogue right now. Send tell to Nordenwatch!

[pasi]

I'm still over here.

Not a ton to do unless I start making alts, so I haven't been playing much.

Will hit ya up when I log in next, Nord.

[syzygyst]

What a bunch of idiots.

"The Mystical Order" is single cheesiest, low brow name absolutely possible. Might as well be "Brotherhood of the Dragon" or "Keepers of the Secret"

The people who created The Mystical Order on Nost did t as a joke. I have talked to them. They actually dislike TMO and Tiggles immensely and wanted to deny that shrill hamplanet the guild name.

[Oooruk]

The people who created The Mystical Order on Nost did t as a joke. I have talked to them. They actually dislike TMO and Tiggles immensely and wanted to deny that shrill hamplanet the guild name.

Pathetic humans.

[tefog]

Anyone can help me out with a few gold?

created a troll/hunter name is

Datroll

Thanks!

[syzygyst]

Pathetic humans.

Pathetic or funny? I think I'll take funny.

[Alenon]

Any p99 alliance guilds? I rerolled to a mage, 29 now I've just been running bg' s the last few weeks. Gonna work on leveling this week and get to the 39 bracket

[Deckk]

Are there any WoW emu servers that you can play a DK on? Or monk? I've never really played wow so I have no idea.

[Shrubwise]

Kronos or bust for max legitimacy

[katrik]

Still playing; currently saving for crusader enchant on my lock, and doing every BRD run I can for fiery weapon. God it's so hard to get :( I might pop into Tier's Hand and try to solo some stuff. Wish me luck!

[Riotgirl]

After the recent regressive changes on P99 to create a more Classic experience, plus some Guild members either quitting or reducing their playing time, I find my love for EQ diminishing and eroding with each new patch.

I never experienced WOW - certainly not Vanilla. Looking for a similar experience to EQ, but not creaking in certain places, and vastly better PvP.

The WOW social experience has always put me off in the past, but hearing that Alliance is better to avoid the cesspit that is chat, and that WOW players have thin skins, the bad crowd is not so much of a factor.

I've decided to take a sabbatical from P99, and will roll on Nost. I will roll Alliance Druid for the challenge, and to really dive into WOW at the deep end given that I'm a WOW virgin. Adversity is the best teacher in the long run, and I have no real desire or time to play anything other than casual (couple hours a week); hence, am not interested in end-game raiding at this point in time.

Have a lot to do this week, so will not probably start Nost (even though it is downloading) until the weekend.

[katrik]

Cool! Feel free to hit up Katrik, I'll make you some bags! I play frequently. =)

[Alenon]

Ally chat can still get retarded in some places, but its a bit better. Hit up Lenaic if you need some tailoring or enchanting done, or just help.

[stavio]

After the recent regressive changes on P99 to create a more Classic experience, plus some Guild members either quitting or reducing their playing time, I find my love for EQ diminishing and eroding with each new patch.

I never experienced WOW - certainly not Vanilla. Looking for a similar experience to EQ, but not creaking in certain places, and vastly better PvP.

The WOW social experience has always put me off in the past, but hearing that Alliance is better to avoid the cesspit that is chat, and that WOW players have thin skins, the bad crowd is not so much of a factor.

I've decided to take a sabbatical from P99, and will roll on Nost. I will roll Alliance Druid for the challenge, and to really dive into WOW at the deep end given that I'm a WOW virgin. Adversity is the best teacher in the long run, and I have no real desire or time to play anything other than casual (couple hours a week); hence, am not interested in end-game raiding at this point in time.

Have a lot to do this week, so will not probably start Nost (even though it is downloading) until the weekend.

You're in for a real treat if you have never played wow at all. There will be scumbags on either side of the alliance and horde, but I have always found alliance to be the lesser of the two evils. The ignore function comes in more handy in wow then any other game I have ever played.

If you enjoy pvp, wow can be a great game for it, group or soloing. Some of the best times I had in pvp was in vanilla wow on live. I actually found a video I posted of me pvping on youtube but it's such crap quality I'd hate to share it lol.

You choose a great class imo for a beginner, a druid can do a little bit of everything and also the most versatile class imo. Tank check, heals check, stealth check, dps check, travel form check. While some classes can do other things better then the druid their versatility is what truly sets them apart. A good group will appreciate a druid breaking off from their dps to help the main healer out, or take over tanking if the tank wipes, etc.

I play on Kronus from time to time, there was just way to many bugs and exploits that happened on Nostalrius for me to want to stay there after awhile. Plus Kronus just feels so much more fleshed out then Nost.

[Riotgirl]

Thanks people! It's good to hear that there are a lot of P99 players who also enjoy vanilla WOW.

I've rolled Gogoyubari on the P2P server, and expect to be rolled by Horde once I venture out in a few levels or so. That's part of the appeal.

Everything so far has been smooth and plain-sailing: from installation, to creating a character, logging on, getting used to the UI, and configuring windows. Very intuitive and polished. The design philosophy seems to be to help players get on their way, not in their way.

I have no desire to use a Wiki or any other web-resource at the moment. When I get some more time towards the weekend, I'd like to play the game on my terms and begin to discover things for myself.

I now have a better appreciation for how hostile EQ can appear to new players, especially players who may be post 90s gamers.

Thanks for the support and offers of help. I'm quite interested to find out just how bad (or good) the community actually is.

[Oogei]

Anyone still playing here? where are most of you at? anyone wanna boost me? 8D

[Samoht]

The ignore function comes in more handy in wow then any other game I have ever played.

Oh god, ignore sucks in WoW. There just aren't enough slots for all of the idiot man children in the barrens.

[Swish]

Oh god, ignore sucks in WoW. There just aren't enough slots for all of the idiot man children in the barrens.

Why do they call it an xbox 360 Samoht?

[Huc11]

Any thoughts on the proposed Nostalrius PvE server?

[dafier]

Oh god, ignore sucks in WoW. There just aren't enough slots for all of the idiot man children in the barrens.

IN the beginning of WoW, the barrens was filled with "Chuck Norris jokes/facts".

[Deckk]

Any thoughts on the proposed Nostalrius PvE server?

Haven't seen anything on it.

[Huc11]

Haven't seen anything on it.

https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=19103

New PvE Nostalrius server is being considered. I am looking forward to it.

[Pringles]

I pretty much gave up on this box - its def classic WoW, but been there, done that - second time not as fun. Also, too many morons in PUGs (5 mans in WoW are apparently hard), and I dont have a solid guild to group with. Also Velious... so yeah.

[Swish]

too many morons in PUGs

Yep, there's always that guy who wants something off the first/second miniboss and goes offline after it's dead because the rest of the instance isn't worth it for him.

[stavio]

Oh god, ignore sucks in WoW. There just aren't enough slots for all of the idiot man children in the barrens.

Lol so true

I pretty much gave up on this box - its def classic WoW, but been there, done that - second time not as fun. Also, too many morons in PUGs (5 mans in WoW are apparently hard)

This is how I feel about wow honestly, the first time around was fun but I just don't have the time and patience like I used to, especially on a private server.

I still remember the day I quit wow on live during vanilla, running a 40 man Molten Core pug. I was the main-tank and had my buddy there using his pally as a buff/heal bot. We downed Lucifron and the tier 1 or whatever tier MC was warrior gaunts dropped, the warriors rolled, I won the roll, the leader of the raid was a dps warrior, he ninja looted the gaunts, and started to disband everyone one by one lol.

Later that night I was leading a UBS 10man and got banned for a week for calling a tier 2 rogue a PoS for ninja looting all the gear off the first boss.

That was the last day of live wow for me.

The only thing that keeps me coming back to kronos is my lvl 32 rogue wrecking havoc in STV. Just thinking about running dungeons and raids on a vanilla private server makes me cringe.

[Pringles]

Live WoW, like live EQ, is dead to me. They are such a bastard now of what made them great originally. Nost was fun to recapture some of that nostalgia again, but meh.

[Riotgirl]

Re-rolled to Night-Elf Warrior. Decided Warrior was a better fit for Gogoyubari, and I wanted to play a Tank. I'm aware that as in EQ, playing a Warrior as a new player without twinking will be a long, hard slog due to gear dependency.

I plan researching Alliance Euro social / progression Guilds for when I hit 20th level (or thereabouts). I want to explore the game first, and indulge in a number of crafting activities.

Currently in Dolanaar, and feel as though the stabilizers are slowly starting to come off. The extended tutorial is an excellent introduction into the game, and rather surprisingly I actually enjoy the pace (level 6 in a couple of hours). That said, I do hope levelling slows down somewhat.

I understand that the dynamics are different from EQ, but I am hoping that Vanilla WOW does contain some player interdependence. I would like to experience 5 Player Dungeon crawls, and want to experience the game with other players - even if I can quest solo. Enjoying the game with other like-minded players (and ganking players who spam racial epitaphs in /chat) would improve the experience a thousand-fold.

I have a better understand of what Samoht means when he states that the game could do with more /ignore slots. Need to add 2 douche-bags to ignore when I next log on.

[Priceline]

^^^

Best bet is to turn off general chat, its terrible 99% of the time. Alliance sides "barrens chat" is mostly in Westfall where the conversations ra%nge from dicks, rape, jew hate, and why the Deadmines is called VC.

[justin2090]

https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=19103

New PvE Nostalrius server is being considered. I am looking forward to it.

Im sold

[Rec]

new server for the bluebies! will it have battlegrounds on the release day or will it be true to the timeline and bgs will take awhile

[georgie]

what do u do when u see an opposition? emotes??

[LostCause]

this shit still going? lol rather play swgemu.

[Riotgirl]

this shit still going? lol rather play swgemu.

I'd be down for a LOTRO pre-SoM server [PvE]. Sadly, never did play DAoC [PvP].

[Alenon]

I'm still hoping for a vanilla rift emu, only mmo I really got into after eq

[Alenon]

For now I'll stick to nost since I have nothing better :P

[Riotgirl]

This pretty much sums up /chat in WOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ual-3YI7j2A

"Kyle, this is how the World works. If you want to make quality friends, you have to wade through all the dicks first"

Having an absolute blast on Nostalrius. Still occasionally need to FTE on newbie quest mobs / spawns. Shit is real. The Night-Elf 'Emerald Dreamcatcher' quest actually makes you wait for a piece of furniture to spawn, which has a quest object inside. Taking the object, causes the piece of furniture to de-spawn. Yep! Players actually formed queues! So very British.

I actually had my first couple of groups, and made my first friend on WOW. Incoming "friends" Inbetweeners thumb GIF from Swish in 3 .. 2 .. ;)

[11bangbang]

i got this nostalrius thing going, now which should i select regular, pvp, rp, rppvp? or does it matter? ive never played WoW before.

[Riotgirl]

i got this nostalrius thing going, now which should i select regular, pvp, rp, rppvp? or does it matter? ive never played WoW before.

What do you prefer in MMOs: PvE or PvP? RP or non-RP?

Do you enjoy role-play in other MMOs? If so, choose one of the RP ones; otherwise PvE or PVP.

I paid 2 transfer fees from RP servers in previous MMOs to non-RP. Purely, because I felt that if I didn't RP most of the time, I would be diluting the experience of players who chose a RP server to RP.

[11bangbang]

What do you prefer in MMOs: PvE or PvP? RP or non-RP?

Do you enjoy role-play in other MMOs? If so, choose one of the RP ones; otherwise PvE or PVP.

I paid 2 transfer fees from RP servers in previous MMOs to non-RP. Purely, because I felt that if I didn't RP most of the time, I would be diluting the experience of players who chose a RP server to RP.

heh i more or less meant which one was most populated, but it turns out there is only one nostalrius server. theyre all pvp. atleast i clicked on the the only one that said nostalrius and it was pvp.

[Riotgirl]

heh i more or less meant which one was most populated, but it turns out there is only one nostalrius server. theyre all pvp. atleast i clicked on the the only one that said nostalrius and it was pvp.

Sorry, misread your question. Hmmm ... when I created my character I swear there were 4 separate Realms? In reality, is there just one Realm? Will check tomorrow by creating a new dummy character.

[Priceline]

i got this nostalrius thing going, now which should i select regular, pvp, rp, rppvp? or does it matter? ive never played WoW before.

There is only 1 choice if you wanna play on Nost, the others are test realms i believe.

I've been playing a month or so, some tips/things I've noticed:
Type /leave general. The chat in the 10-30 zones is akin to red99 global ooc, full of degenerate immature trolls, and just like red99 it makes the whole community look terrible.
Blind invites, you will get tons of these as with a population fluctuating from 4k-9k there will be tons of competition for spawns and everyone gets credit for "kill # boars".
Quest items are FFA, if you're in a group and a quest item drops it ignores group loot settings and anyone can grab it (people always yell about this for some reason).
No "out of range" for pvp, bored/dbag high levels on BOTH sides gank the hell out of lowbies. Once you start hitting contested zones, 20+ typically, it can be a mess depending on where you go. STV is notorious for this, don't set foot near the Nesingwary camp!!!
It's Vanilla, kill kill kill. Quest hub to quest hub wasn't really a thing till later expansions. You still need to kill plenty of mobs betwixt questing otherwise you'll quickly run out of things to do.
Rogue/Warrior. If you want to run dungeons/raid and want loot I'd advise not picking either of these, about 1/3 of the server is made up of warriors and rogues. (https://en.nostalrius.org/assets/upload/infographics_preview.png)

Lastly I'd say find a leveling and/or casual guild not full of /general trolls, helps a lot when trying to find a group.

[11bangbang]

There is only 1 choice if you wanna play on Nost, the others are test realms i believe.

I've been playing a month or so, some tips/things I've noticed:
Type /leave general. The chat in the 10-30 zones is akin to red99 global ooc, full of degenerate immature trolls, and just like red99 it makes the whole community look terrible.
Blind invites, you will get tons of these as with a population fluctuating from 4k-9k there will be tons of competition for spawns and everyone gets credit for "kill # boars".
Quest items are FFA, if you're in a group and a quest item drops it ignores group loot settings and anyone can grab it (people always yell about this for some reason).
No "out of range" for pvp, bored/dbag high levels on BOTH sides gank the hell out of lowbies. Once you start hitting contested zones, 20+ typically, it can be a mess depending on where you go. STV is notorious for this, don't set foot near the Nesingwary camp!!!
It's Vanilla, kill kill kill. Quest hub to quest hub wasn't really a thing till later expansions. You still need to kill plenty of mobs betwixt questing otherwise you'll quickly run out of things to do.
Rogue/Warrior. If you want to run dungeons/raid and want loot I'd advise not picking either of these, about 1/3 of the server is made up of warriors and rogues. (https://en.nostalrius.org/assets/upload/infographics_preview.png)

Lastly I'd say find a leveling and/or casual guild not full of /general trolls, helps a lot when trying to find a group.

cool thanks for the tips. right now i have a lvl 3 human pally, would you recommend horde or alliance?

[Swish]

I might come back for a new server, was fun last time out... pve, hmmm.

[Rec]

pve means no southshore vs tarren mill, that's the poopoo

[11bangbang]

ive made a undead warlock, lvl 4 right now... ya know classic WoW isnt so bad. at any rate its good to have a break from eq after 15 years of playing nothing else. if anyone wants to join me my toons name is Shaddoxx

[Riotgirl]

On leave from work due to recuperating from a minor medical procedure, so a lot of the time I haven't been sleeping has been spent playing WOW.

Good lord! I'm immersed! Finally logged off and went to bed sometime past 03:00, after a mammoth group session doing a bunch of quests in Noladaar (Night-Elf area). Grouped with a fellow Brit, a US player, and a Venezuelan couple and had an absolute blast doing quest / group content.

Started again early afternoon and grouped with a Belgium and another player, to assist them with the group quest that I completed before I went to sleep, and ended up doing a bunch of other quests with them. The Brit I met from the night before joined, as did the US player (briefly). Also ran into the Venezuelan couple.

Now at 12th level, and am going for a Prot Warrior spec (7/5/31). Not thinking about PvP at this stage as I have so much to learn. Priority is key-bindings for different abilities and stances.

Really looking forward towards 5 Player Dungeon runs! Not to mention, getting rolled by Horde once I venture to contested zones.

[Alenon]

Yeah the login still makes you select type like live would but there's only one realm and it's PvP. They're testing a pve server this weekend so we shall see

[Priceline]

Now at 12th level, and am going for a Prot Warrior spec (7/5/31). Not thinking about PvP at this stage as I have so much to learn. Priority is key-bindings for different abilities and stances.

Really looking forward towards 5 Player Dungeon runs! Not to mention, getting rolled by Horde once I venture to contested zones.

Once the quests in Darkshore start turning orange/red I'd highly recommend taking the boat to wetlands and running to Ironforge, then either start the quests in Loch Modan or take the tram to Stormwind and hit up Westfall. Or do both, I've been doing all 3 on my toons and it's good starting coin and experience.

Each spell level seems to drain my wallet in half :mad:

[Alenon]

I'll be on lenaic this evening if you need a quick port to the east side

[Riotgirl]

Once the quests in Darkshore start turning orange/red I'd highly recommend taking the boat to wetlands and running to Ironforge, then either start the quests in Loch Modan or take the tram to Stormwind and hit up Westfall. Or do both, I've been doing all 3 on my toons and it's good starting coin and experience.

Each spell level seems to drain my wallet in half :mad:

I'm a gnat's breath away from 16th, and things will start slowing down as I will be shortly returning to work. My fiancée has been remarkably understanding, although I suspect this will change, thus I shall be playing much more casually i.e. 6 hours per week (if that).

Settled down in Darkshore, and have been exploring, performing quests, upgrading armour sets (vendor bought - supplemented by quests), and drowning. I didn't realise at first that one needed to hit 'jump' as one emerged from the depths to re-gain one's breath. Making swimming meaningful by discovering ship wrecks, and completing quests was novel.

Once I hit 16th, I'll head back to Darnassus to start working on Herbalism and Cooking. First Aid is coming on quite nicely, and is extremely useful as a Warrior, as I have zero utility - which makes catching Rabies particularly annoying.

Thanks for the levelling advice, Priceline. I'll keep the advice in mind as I level. It's easy to get stuck on the levelling hamster wheel, and forget that you can jump to other areas to pick-up quests, and jump back.

Looking forward to contested areas [Ashenvale] and 5 Player Dungeon instances at 20th.

Another aspect that I really enjoy is the lore. It definitely helps with immersion levels, and should provide a different playing experience for an alt (not until I hit 60th and have completed a lot of content - so a long, long way off) levelling as different class / race in a completely different area, with racial quests and lore.

Vanilla WOW is delivering!

[Rec]

So did the new bluebie server pass the hype test?

[Riotgirl]

So did the new bluebie server pass the hype test?

1700 players logged on the PvE server last Sunday to register their interest. There will be another temperature check this Sunday.

Whatever happens, I'm sticking with the PvP server.

[Alenon]

Yeah I've no desire to level again. Getting ganked sucked at times but every once and a while I fireblast a horde and feel better

[Tann]

1700 players logged on the PvE server last Sunday to register their interest. There will be another temperature check this Sunday.

Whatever happens, I'm sticking with the PvP server.

1700ish players on a small 30min window on a Sunday, def shows interest imo.

Whatever happens, I'm 100% moving to the new server. Only have a handful of mid 20's so its not like releveling will be an issue.

Getting 1 shot by 60's in 15-25 contested zones is kinda silly. I'd be totally fine with it if it had a r99 style "out of range" ruleset and I was getting ganked by a small raiding party of Hordies around my level but that is never the case... its always slightly geared 60's. If that is normal for a wow pvp realm then I'll be tattooing "carebear4life" on my arse later today.

I also liked stranglethorn vale on retail, but no interest in going to a zone lovely referred too as STVietnam.

[Swish]

I also liked stranglethorn vale on retail, but no interest in going to a zone lovely referred too as STVietnam.

lol

[Ravun]

Just started on Nost horde 2 days ago, only 12. Can anyone tell me how the lvl 60 AB and WSG scene is? Nost forums/reddit suggests that it is a shitshow, pug vs pug games never happen, and that it is usually 10v3 pre-made vs pug or something along those lines. I'm afraid to invest time to lvl to 60 if the bracket is as bad as people are saying. Someone give me some hope =P

[Tann]

Just started on Nost horde 2 days ago, only 12. Can anyone tell me how the lvl 60 AB and WSG scene is? Nost forums/reddit suggests that it is a shitshow, pug vs pug games never happen, and that it is usually 10v3 pre-made vs pug or something along those lines. I'm afraid to invest time to lvl to 60 if the bracket is as bad as people are saying. Someone give me some hope =P

Can't speak of such things personally but guildies have bitched about a few 12hr+ AV matches.

[katrik]

1700ish players on a small 30min window on a Sunday, def shows interest imo.

Whatever happens, I'm 100% moving to the new server. Only have a handful of mid 20's so its not like releveling will be an issue.

Getting 1 shot by 60's in 15-25 contested zones is kinda silly. I'd be totally fine with it if it had a r99 style "out of range" ruleset and I was getting ganked by a small raiding party of Hordies around my level but that is never the case... its always slightly geared 60's. If that is normal for a wow pvp realm then I'll be tattooing "carebear4life" on my arse later today.

I also liked stranglethorn vale on retail, but no interest in going to a zone lovely referred too as STVietnam.

Pvp server is.. tough. That's the best way to describe it. If you go to a heavily contested zone, you will be harassed constantly. Constantly. Not letting you do anything, will kill you over and over. Corpse camping without good reason is blatant harassment. If you politely ask them to stop on another toon, the response is usually 'lol get rekt fgt.' And of course, the server is not at all policed. People can do whatever the hell they want. This of course includes killing flightmasters constantly, and mind controlling people off of boats, and cliffs.

So, yeah. I'm getting the fuck out of this hellhole. People being assholes for no reason to people isn't my idea of fun. Yeah, it's gonna suck to start over again, but will be worth it.

[Oooruk]

60 Warrior on horde here (prot spec). Thorg is the name if you ever need a tank though I play pretty casually.

BG's are pretty terrible, but that's because most of the people doing them are there solely to get items for pve and have no real interest in pvp. They simply want the honor or rep as fast as possible.

I played 1-60 as a warrior (worst solo pvp class in the game) and it was a breeze. You spawn a maximum of a five minute run to your corpse (usually a lot less) and you cannot be damaged until you decide to rez. And if that is too much to handle you can simply rez at the spirit healer and hearth/run somewhere else. There are so many zones in this game, and grinding is just as good xp as questing, if not better. If you can't handle that, please do roll on a pve server because you will probably be the guy in a 5 man who makes my life hell due to not having a clue.

[Oooruk]

On leave from work due to recuperating from a minor medical procedure, so a lot of the time I haven't been sleeping has been spent playing WOW.

Good lord! I'm immersed! Finally logged off and went to bed sometime past 03:00, after a mammoth group session doing a bunch of quests in Noladaar (Night-Elf area). Grouped with a fellow Brit, a US player, and a Venezuelan couple and had an absolute blast doing quest / group content.

Started again early afternoon and grouped with a Belgium and another player, to assist them with the group quest that I completed before I went to sleep, and ended up doing a bunch of other quests with them. The Brit I met from the night before joined, as did the US player (briefly). Also ran into the Venezuelan couple.

Now at 12th level, and am going for a Prot Warrior spec (7/5/31). Not thinking about PvP at this stage as I have so much to learn. Priority is key-bindings for different abilities and stances.

Really looking forward towards 5 Player Dungeon runs! Not to mention, getting rolled by Horde once I venture to contested zones.
Hot tip - don't spec prot until 60. Go arms for leveling. All you are doing is gimping yourself.

[drelk001]

so I just got on this server, Troll/Rogue named "Flipitt"