Nostalrius WoW

[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]

Originally Posted by pasi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by citizen1080 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.