[Vote] Old "beta" character recovery

[Svala]

Conditionally I Agree.

The conditions would be:

#1: No gear from instances that hasn't yet been farmed for 1 month is restored. (So, 1 month after Nefarian is killed, I'd be fine with BWL gear.)

#2: No Thunderfuries/Bindings, no Sulfuras/Eyes. The reason being that farming MC for the many, many months that is often needed, especially for the bindings, just hasn't been possible here and it would just give those players too big an advantage.

Thank you !
I Agree.

[Trum]

Everyone forget ZG?

A lot of character had trinket from Hakkar, enchant on head/legs also, etc....

So not before ZG release........Christmas?!

[Svala]

We can wait.

[Klanlock]

I only started playing Nost about 3 months ago, however I agree with OP. Any characters that weren't instant 55-60 should be recovered if possible. OP and others have stated that the original French "Nostalrius" was not advertised as a beta, but as a full server. Thus, nobody "agreed to having their characters deleted cause they knew it was a beta" as a lot of people are taking great joy in saying. Sorry. That's not how it played out. They ~didn't~ know it was a beta. And, now that the NEW international version of this server has been released, those 1-60 characters should be rightfully recovered and restored. Perhaps ranks and gold reset to a standard amount, but their levels and gear should be brought back. This is not a completely "new" server, either. This is simply the improved, international version. But it still has a history in the previous server, history that shouldn't just be forgotten and thrown away like that.

TL;DR nobody playing the old Nos knew it was a beta, didn't sign up knowing their characters and time would goto waste; they should get their shit back. Nuff said.

[Zoey_Urbina]

The server has progressive content. The server cannot recover the gear along with a character from the beta since almost all users will have gear that's not obtainable in this current patch. In my opinion, I know it sucks but things like this tend to happen everywhere. Whether a server is shutdown permanently and you have to reroll to a new one or when a beta ends. There's too many issues, hassles and it would require way too much work to recover the characters. Not to mention that the chances of a Gold/Material inflation immoderately happening when it begins is extremely high if not certain.

P.S: Not to mention all the professions and users who has access to patterns/formulas for armor/gear/enchants that are not released yet.

[AlphaMoose82]

Beta characters should NOT be restored.
It would make no sense to allow something so silly.
I do not agree with this thread.
Level up like the rest of us.

[Youfie]

It's unfair to restore characters who didn't leveled up to 60.
It's unfair to restore characters who didn't have to follow the progressive timeline.

And even if the gear of each character was to be added step by step to follow the timeline (LOT of work for the staff), it's unfair to give MC gear (for instance ; same goes for the rest) to a player who could farm MC much more easily during beta than it is currently the case: full 1.12 gear and stats in raids & dungeons right at the begining, ZG & T0.5 released right away too, same goes for the upgraded PvP sets.

Not to mention the PvP competition was completely biaised because of the lack of players and caused way too much people to had items they can't get on Nostalrius Begins under the same circumstances.

You can add on top of that the 16 debuffs slots (lol) and the fact that it was damn EASY for anyone during beta to be Flasked 100% of the time (around 100 people connected = Black Lotuses & other herbs where tremendously easier to farm, especially since everyone just had an alt who was instantly level 55 to get these) in raid, and you'll understand why it doesn't make sense to restore beta character.

People who played the beta will know I played it quite a bit myself, and had plenty of shiny epics that would help me a great deal on Nostalrius Begins. But seriously, it feelw like it was a different game, it wouldn't be fair to restore any of it.

[Siger]

I Aggree

The conditions would be:

#1: No gear from instances that hasn't yet been farmed for 1 month is restored. (So, 1 month after Nefarian is killed, I'd be fine with BWL gear.)

#2: No Thunderfuries/Bindings, no Sulfuras/Eyes. The reason being that farming MC for the many, many months that is often needed, especially for the bindings, just hasn't been possible here and it would just give those players too big an advantage.

#3: No pvp gear. Pvp on the old server was awful given the number of players.

#4: Pvp rank not restored.

#5: A maximum of 200 gold restored. For obvious reasons of gold balance.

#6: Mount/riding skill restored. Many of us farmed for it while AH was useless... and this is no big deal.

#7: Reputations. Now, this is a hard one cause some reputations where easier to farm back then (ie: winterfall), but others where just as hard as now. And what about reputation gear (ZG) ?

#8: Container items should be restored (if not linked), as well as unlocked bank slots.

#9: No instant 55-60 character. Only 1-60 lvled up toons.

[Mimma]

Still Not Agree.

10 months past, you could easily have a level 60 geared even better than your original character. There is no reason to move BETA characters over.

[Nano]

Please do not necro month old threads. This has already been answered definitively.