Best population vanilla wow server? - Page 3

Taresh · #1 02-15-2013, 05:56 PM

Kevynne · #2 02-15-2013, 06:16 PM

firesquare pop is real low, 150 at peak time (8-10 pm CST) and basically there's 2 guilds that EVERYONE is in.

Karafa · #3 02-17-2013, 01:47 AM

If youre looking for a working server with decent scripting, Valkyrie would be the only choice, but unfortunately it's Russian and sparcely populated in US times.

Emerald Dream was created by Feenix, it is a piece of shit. The only thing "Blizzlike" about it are the rates and lack of pay to win; which the other feenix servers thrive off of. I'm not going to list the plethora of broken things on ED, but you can check the bug tracker. You're still able to alt f4 through UBRS doors, wing buffet doesn't work, rag sons don't mana drain, etc.

Scriptcraft was the only server that had everything all working and unfortunately the dev cashed out with his donations. Apparently he's opening his third server, but I stopped caring about his work after he shut off his previous servers 5-6 months in.

World of Corecraft comes out March/April. Blizzlike scripting, nothing pay to win, optional instant level 58 with x1 or x2 exp. TBC server though, you might have to wait a good while for a decent tbc server.

Breeziyo · #4 02-17-2013, 07:18 PM

Taresh · #5 02-17-2013, 07:20 PM

i love roguecraft

Triangle · #6 02-17-2013, 11:35 PM

Check out therebirth.net

Great pvp, fantastic scripting. MC + ZG is going strong on both ally/horde and BWL yet to be released.

gotrocks · #7 02-18-2013, 03:40 AM

lol, that roguecraft video was such bs. I remember when it first came out there was a huge uproar to nerf rogues.

So stupid. Rogues were absolutely a super strong class, but they were far from invincible. There were plenty of people who could take down rogues if they knew what they were doing.

I will concede that cloth casters had literally zero chance to beat them though. Anyone in cloth would be dead before I could get 5 CP's from massive backstabs (fuck ambush) and insane amounts of damage from blade flurry (best part of blade flurry was transferring backstabs to two targets [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.])

Deverell · #8 03-14-2013, 08:55 AM

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lol, that roguecraft video was such bs. I remember when it first came out there was a huge uproar to nerf rogues.

So stupid. Rogues were absolutely a super strong class, but they were far from invincible. There were plenty of people who could take down rogues if they knew what they were doing.

I will concede that cloth casters had literally zero chance to beat them though. Anyone in cloth would be dead before I could get 5 CP's from massive backstabs (fuck ambush) and insane amounts of damage from blade flurry (best part of blade flurry was transferring backstabs to two targets [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.])

Some of the worst balance in MMORPG history remains hunter vs. rogue in the vanilla days. It was pretty literally unwinnable for the rogue. I remember how it was entirely possible for a level 40 hunter to kill a level 60 rogue. If you couldn't catch the hunter unaware and stunlock him to death (which you generally couldn't, it's a mail class with fairly high hp and a stun-breaking PvP trinket) then it was auto-loss. Hunter's mark, freeze trap, run to max range, conc shot, kite until dead. If at any point the rogue pops sprint to try and catch up, run away with cheetah; max range ensured that the rogue wouldn't catch hunter because sprint would wear off before reaching melee/blind range if hunter ran with cheetah. Hunters had a counter to literally every single thing rogues had, it was the only seriously unwinnable matchup I can remember in any modern-ish MMORPG. The only comparable thing would be EQ PvP with shit like bards being completely untouchable outdoors.

Besides the hunter autoloss problem, rogue power dropped steeply once most people started having 4k+ hp. When you could no longer kill somebody quickly or in an unbroken stunlock, there wasn't very much left. You spent your energy, brought the guy down to like 40%, and then you got fearkited or CCed or warrior-bursted to death without much of a chance. Rogues were incredibly overpowered for the first months when people had shit gear and you could two-shot casters, but once it was fairly normal to have full epic gear and PvP sets, rogues started to have more classes they couldn't beat than classes they had the upper hand against. Any healer could out-sustain you, any druid could hop into bear form and just maul you to death (I routinely beat epic rogues on my level 55 feral druid), shadow priests would dot you and laugh while they tanked you, warriors would bend you over and anally rape you with 2k MS/overpower crits and 1k white crits. Mages would instagib you, warlocks would fearkite you forever. Towards the end of vanilla, rogues were closer to the bottom of the totem pole than the top, and then Blizzard turned it into the control class that it has been ever since.

Hailto · #9 02-18-2013, 05:07 AM

I might check out rebirth for shits and giggles. I do miss MC and ZG sometimes, however i dunno if i really want to level to 60 again.

Taresh · #10 02-18-2013, 05:18 AM

the best part of the roguecraft videos is the dude filming it taking out level 60s in full rogue starter gear.

reckful did something like it beating teams in arena with level 70 weapons