by TheFishyOne » Sun Apr 10, 2016 1:36 pm
If any of you might be interested, I have found a new home, and it is NOT Kronos!
Like I said, The Great Vanilla Question which brought me here was answered in full when I made a better geared Prot War look like a gimp on Hakkar, bugs and all just a couple of weeks ago. With that, I can say that my time here was worth it, in the end.
That said, my favorite time in WoW was during TBC, or as I like to call it, The Hour of the Tankadin. We had everything we needed to be competitive MTs, and nothing we didn't. I raidtanked for the first time in a Kara raid, and it was the best of times for me in WoW. Ares, Kronos's TBC counterpart, is complete crap, and is rather unblizzlike.
So I dug, and found Vengeance of Azeroth. It's small server (think Rebirth), but it's in the middle of a population surge. 1-58 are 2x by default, but the rest of the way to 70 is a mandatory 1x. Gold, drops, and skills are all blizzlike, the dev team is VERY active in the forums and on IRC, and hotfixes happen on an almost daily basis. All the Pally issues that Duki, Theo, JC and myself sometimes wrestled with the staff over were working properly as of my first login. Best of all, many of you have likely noticed that the people on Kronos are about as welcoming to us as a seasick crocodile, and want Donald Trump to buiild a big beautiful firewall around their server to keep us Nost rabble out. Vengeance, on the other hand, will welcome you with open arms and not loaded shotguns. They will even give you one free level 58 with custom (but unvendorable) newbie gear that is much better than going to Outland naked, which does much to soften the blow if you are leaving a 60 behind. Oh, and in case you prefer Vanilla to TBC, they have a Vanilla realm, too.
I ttried Kronos for a time, but tired quickly of the constant hate in World, and after a tester responded to Vanilla era evidence that a Pally class bug existed on their server with an argument sporing nothing more that fiat logic, I'd had enough. The one Nost-hater I've met on Vengeance was quick to admit he was being needlessly bitter and biased, came around just as quickly, and turned out to be pretty cool. Now I'm in his guild. In any event, I rolled a Prot Pally there (Human Male, name is Geofram, just like here), and invite you all to join me on Allianceside (Faction balance is VERY Horde heavy). If not, best of luck to you on whatever server you choose to make your new home.
Best regards,
Geofram, TheFishyOne