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Kronos vs Nost – Our Thoughts and Plan

November 7, 2016

As I am sure you heard, Nostalrius released an announcement giving their server code and character database to Elysium’s server. With that said, there are probably a lot of thoughts and questions in terms of what our thoughts are with this announcement. We are not taking either direction lightly and we hope you will join us in making the correct decision. Please comment below with any comments, concerns, or other relevant informations.

So what will sway us either way will be determined by a lot of factors, most important being:

1. Current Guild’s Views
2. Quality of Life of Elysium
3. Current Kronos & Population & Future

We will talk tonight (11-7-2016) after our Onyxia raid. We will field any questions, comments, or concerns there are in this session.

Known Facts:

• Minimum time to release is 4 weeks – Dec 6, 2016
• 16 Nost staff (gm’s, developers, admins) have joined Elysium

Announcement & Relevant Infos:
Nostalrius Post Mortem Write-up
Nost Official Handoff Announcement
Elysium’s Announcement
Blizzard & Legacy Servers Interview (Nov 6, 2016)
Reddit Post – Nost & Elysium

Decision Making Process:

1. Elysium Server Population & Stability (Under/Over population, Draw Distance, D/C’s, etc)
2. Kronos Population (Did the NA Population take a huge hit?)
3. Kronos Development & Future (Are we ok with decisions that happen if population decreases?)
4. Elysium Rules & Spawns & Timeline (Multi-box, Black Lotus/Plaugebloom, AQ40 –> Naxx –> TBC??)
5. Commitment by raiding core to assist in power leveling the core (Poll setup)
6. Guild Vote (xx% Majority Rules, How Important 1-10 questions… Draw Distance, Population etc)
7. DKP & Transition (New Players vs Old???)

Our Priorities:

1. Current Guild comes first, no matter what decision is reached.
2. If the new Nost server is chosen, every person in raid currently will be either:
   • Power Leveled (1-40 in approx 10 hours)
   • Given a level 60 to play (TBD by players giving up alternate characters)
3. New Nost has to be a step above current standards (Bug fixing, latency, dc’s)

Pros & Cons List:

Pros:

• Good portion of Nost staff is moving to Elysium
• Old Characters & all Items and Materials remain
• Power Leveling
• No Buying/Selling of Characters (Store etc.)
• Rage & Threat work properly
• Melee DPS works properly & weapon skill (Melee dps will be downgraded)
• Properly working Pathfinding
• Razorgore Adds worked properly (all within range)
• Higher Chance of epic drops (Trash BOP’s & World BOE’s)
• Herb Node timer’s faster

Cons:

• Server Staff are partially Russian
• Valkyrie has been around awhile and might be more prone to old ways
• Valkyrie server itself was stuck in BWL for years (No AQ40 opening)
• Huge commitment to catching up some people (#’s TBD)
• Some people will be lost in transition (either decision there probably will be some that don’t stay with us)
• DKP situation – current players
• Dual Boxxing, GM Ban’s & the standard
• 50g respec costs vs 5g respec costs
• Chinese population & economy issues related

Tairy hits 60! We are finally a real guild!