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[amagad]

Dear Warmane crew,

I just made an account after being recommended to check you out. I wanted to see what's in the shop and what else there is, while the client is downloading.
Unfortunately, I can't access the store until after I've already created a character and obviously I can't make a character without the client... So, for the next couple hours, I'll have to wait and sit on my bum :')

Which gives me time to write you and send some suggestions and what not! :D


Which server to choose?
There are a lot of servers, and I can't (easily enough) find the information about which one is which.
I want to play WotLK (the only expansion worth playing), PVE server (because the only difference between PVP & PVE servers = newbie-bashing).
Some people might enjoy leveling, I hate it! Even if I could be lvl 80 in 1 hour, it would still be a waste of 1 hour of my life!

I've done the whole 1 through 60 in Vanilla, skipped BC (because "F" BC) and then 60 to 80 in WotLK; never again!
Same goes for Rep. farming and the dozen of other needlessly time-consuming utterly useless other things one can be forced to do in the game.
[Read translation: I want to be able to raid, without having to go no-life on it].

Being able to buy a lvl 80 is something I saw is worth some cash for sure, but there's a red text saying inventory isn't included. Does that mean that the character also has no gear? Or is "inventory" only referring to what's in the bags / bank?


Some improvements for the servers, which I don't know if you have or not, as I can't seem to be able to navigate around this site to the proper intell.
* Where's the vanilla server?

* "Resilience revamp" - Yep, resilience is arguably the worst thing to happen to WoW pre-cataclysm (after that we got pandas, #nocontest. as well as a completely dumbed-down version of WoW where it doesn't matter which buttons you press as your DPS will always be the same no matter what #againnocontest). Anyway; Resilience in the way that it lowers chance to be critically hit and lowers crit damage taken is broken. This got fixed later on, (by removing it completely), or temporarily fixed earlier on by changing it a bit to: 0.01% damage reduction per rating point. ( So 1000 resilience = 10% damage reduction on damage taken > only FROM players < [read: and their attacks/ spells/ pets/ minions/ guardians/ etc.] ).

* "Freeze XP" / "Set LVL - Yep, being able to stop leveling completely would be amazing for those who want to "twink out" or just enjoy every raid along the way at the proper levels! Go into Molten Core on level 60 without having to worry about *dinging* to level 61 :) Or make that level 20 alt with the most awesome gear and PvP in Battlegrounds until you drop! :) [Set LVL works as it says; set level to anything you want].



I have some other ideas on truly unique and amazing things to do for a very special and awesome server, but that would need some serious support from the server itself!
GM/ Sever Admin -> Talk in private, to see what's possible or not and to keep this as an actual surprise instead of ruining all the fun before it begins! ;)


All the Best! :)


Edit:
I decided on Lordearon, Lordaeron, Lor-something :)
I haven't received any reply on how the character transfer things work, so I just decided to go do all the vanilla low-level dungeons and that's quite fun! :)
Not having Dungeon Finder is both a blessing and a curse! I don't mind searching for groups, takes me 5 minutes maximum. I do resent having to walk to every instance every time and not getting the extra XP and Loot from the random dungeon feature, that's a bit of a shame.
Does lead to groups sticking together more, but also leads to some dungeons not being played.
Might I suggest allowing dungeon finder with groups of 5 only? (As in; once the group is found, you can sign up). Or perhaps allow 1x per day to use dungeon finder, as a reward for voting? (People will still want to stick together, because they only have 1 daily chance).
GM support is a bit lacking, would be nice to get some quests completed that are parts of long chains. And get some weapon skills that my class should be able to train, but isn't working. (Fist weapon on Druid).