Crispy™ WoW Rebirth: a vanilla private server

[Wilian]

From what I've heard there's some issues with certain web clients. Firefox worked out fine for it though. Alternatively you can use https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0ByPTNLduvdC2RTREdWdlVHJudmc&export=download

But for that, you'll need to alter the realmlist methinks.

 

[bloodlover]

This is making me really curious, (and nostalgic) but leveling a toon from nothing, no looms, no early mounts etc would probably feel painful. I don't even remember how to spec certain classes lol

I might go for the classic undead or human mage, just for the lulz. Everyone playing horde?

 

[shihonage]

Did they fix the issue with frozen enemies teleporting to you everytime? And a dozen other issues in early game?

Because the Valkyrie server didn't have these in the first place.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Just encountered a bug in Moonbrook, near Dead Mines, where the Defias taunts are corrupt and every time they spot you the game gives you a warning. I had the same exact bug in the original vanilla. So i guess everything that was broken in vanilla is still broken. Then again, can they even fix that stuff? I'm not even sure how those servers work.

 

[Wilian]

Did they fix the issue with frozen enemies teleporting to you everytime? And a dozen other issues in early game?

Because the Valkyrie server didn't have these in the first place.

Mobs aren't teleporting per se, it'll take just as long to reach you as it'd without the "teleport". It's just a visual glitch though I don't know if it exists currently as I've not playing any class that such would occur with currently. As for dozen early game issues, I've got no idea what you're talking about.

 

[Ninjerk]

This is making me really curious, (and nostalgic) but leveling a toon from nothing, no looms, no early mounts etc would probably feel painful. I don't even remember how to spec certain classes lol

I might go for the classic undead or human mage, just for the lulz. Everyone playing horde?

Alliance.

 

[Don Peste]

I've made a new character at ED. Orbaz, human warrior, blacksmith. I recruited a friend, too.

PS: Post your addons!!!

 

[Ninjerk]

I've made a new character at ED. Orbaz, human warrior, blacksmith. I recruited a friend, too.

PS: Post your addons!!!

They're not playing on ED.

 

[Metro]

Hmmm what class should I be... where's the Codex guild?!?

 

[Don Peste]

I've made a new character at ED. Orbaz, human warrior, blacksmith. I recruited a friend, too.

PS: Post your addons!!!

They're not playing on ED.

I ARE!!! Unless we do create a KKK guild...

 

[Ninjerk]

It seems ED is going down the tubes. Rebirth should OK unless there's a mass migration.

 

[shihonage]

Did they fix the issue with frozen enemies teleporting to you everytime? And a dozen other issues in early game?

Because the Valkyrie server didn't have these in the first place.

Mobs aren't teleporting per se, it'll take just as long to reach you as it'd without the "teleport". It's just a visual glitch though I don't know if it exists currently as I've not playing any class that such would occur with currently. As for dozen early game issues, I've got no idea what you're talking about.

Dude, I'm aware of the underlying reason and completely don't care for it. The end result for me as player is that they teleport, and as a cold mage, it was a constant pain in the ass.

As for other issues, I reported about half a dozen while getting to level 10, each time the GM appeared and said "yeah I'm aware of it, we're fixing it" and nothing was done. Then the server completely went offline, with the website, for at least two weeks. "Oopsie".

By that time I migrated to Valkyrie, which is a genuine classic WoW server minus most of the problems I encountered on Rebirth. I don't know if the strength of Rebirth is in the "raiding" but as a casual player I barely ever did that. The appeal of an MMO to me is running in a vast expansive world alongside other players, not waiting in a queue for hours to blow through a linear area with a group Diablo-style.

 

[Metro]

Naga, enough of your hyping of Valkyrie. It's like you're on commission!

 

[Wilian]

As for other issues, I reported about half a dozen while getting to level 10, each time the GM appeared and said "yeah I'm aware of it, we're fixing it" and nothing was done. Then the server completely went offline, with the website, for at least two weeks. "Oopsie".

I have to wonder what "2 week offline" period you're talking about. The last time there was any prolonged downtime was in 2012 and that was due to ownership change (Legal reasons) which was well reported on all alternative community areas. After that the server hasn't had any extensive downtime and while the old website had issues that never got finished and were bogged down/slow mess for a while due to forementioned legal reasons+ownership change all of those have been fixed for ages now with introduction of the new site

And I still wonder what arbitary issues you reported. I'm fairly sure I could log in on Valkyrie right now and start listing bugs from get-go if I wanted to nitpick over some non-game breaking details. I can see how the slowed mob "teleport" could be annoying but eh, that's the only thing of substance so far and even that's just a visual issue.

 

[Xor]

I know the human mage level 10 quest is bugged, maybe that's what he's talking about. So far I've had minimal issues, mostly pathing-related and those are only mildly annoying. I've run into all of 3 bugged quests that couldn't be completed out of who knows how many, 2 of which I probably wouldn't have been able to solo anyway so it's not really a big loss. That is fairly incredible for a private server.

 

[Wilian]

You can always file a ticket for GMs with quest issues. They tend to be really fast with those.

 

[Metro]

Honestly I'm amazed a private server would even offer GM support in the first place. They take around a day or more to answer on an actual WoW server and Blizzard rakes in hundreds of millions a year.

 

[Xor]

Retail WoW also has millions of players per region, while with private servers it's just a few hundred to a few thousand at most.

 

[Ninjerk]

I know the human mage level 10 quest is bugged, maybe that's what he's talking about. So far I've had minimal issues, mostly pathing-related and those are only mildly annoying. I've run into all of 3 bugged quests that couldn't be completed out of who knows how many, 2 of which I probably wouldn't have been able to solo anyway so it's not really a big loss. That is fairly incredible for a private server.

I believe the pathfinding is different enough that it makes certain frost mage AoE leveling spots impossible because the mobs can teleport to you and daze you.

 

[shihonage]

I have to wonder what "2 week offline" period you're talking about. The last time there was any prolonged downtime was in 2012 and that was due to ownership change (Legal reasons) which was well reported on all alternative community areas. After that the server hasn't had any extensive downtime and while the old website had issues that never got finished and were bogged down/slow mess for a while due to forementioned legal reasons+ownership change all of those have been fixed for ages now with introduction of the new site

Yeah it happened sometime in 2013, and the site never documented the outage. Both server and site just went down, disappeared, and the site two weeks later (or more) came up like nothing happened. No updates, nothing. By that time I was already on Valkyrie.

And I still wonder what arbitary issues you reported.

Sadly I dumped that menial information from my memory.

I'm fairly sure I could log in on Valkyrie right now and start listing bugs from get-go if I wanted to nitpick over some non-game breaking details. I can see how the slowed mob "teleport" could be annoying but eh, that's the only thing of substance so far and even that's just a visual issue.

It's not just annoying but goddamn retarded, when as a cold mage I start every fight with an ice bolt. It's funny that you admit it still hasn't been fixed, after many months of me encountering it, when Valkyrie simply didn't have this problem even back then. Shoddy scripting at its finest.

I also remember the GM admitting the player DPS vs. monster health ratio at low levels was all wrong, when I compared how many shots it took in WoW to down various monsters at the low-leveling stage. He said they were mostly focusing on higher level fixes.

All in all, it was all "we're aware of the issue and it is pending a fix sometime never" sort of thing. Really, I don't know why Valkyrie doesn't get the good PR it deserves. It just seems more competently made.

 

[Metro]

ITS FROST MAGE, NOT COLD MAGE. FFS STOP SAYING "COLD MAGE"

 

[shihonage]

My bad. As an esteemed subzero mage, I should know better.

Wait, i meant ice mage.

 

[Metro]

 

[shihonage]

He iced that guy... to cone a phrase.

 

[Xor]

I know the human mage level 10 quest is bugged, maybe that's what he's talking about. So far I've had minimal issues, mostly pathing-related and those are only mildly annoying. I've run into all of 3 bugged quests that couldn't be completed out of who knows how many, 2 of which I probably wouldn't have been able to solo anyway so it's not really a big loss. That is fairly incredible for a private server.

I believe the pathfinding is different enough that it makes certain frost mage AoE leveling spots impossible because the mobs can teleport to you and daze you.

AOE grinding is cheap anyway. Just quest like a real man.

All in all, it was all "we're aware of the issue and it is pending a fix sometime never" sort of thing. Really, I don't know why Valkyrie doesn't get the good PR it deserves. It just seems more competently made.

What do you want them to say? That they're aware of the issue and they're not planning on fixing it? Or that they weren't aware of the issue until you enlightened them? As someone playing on this server, I don't really care if the first 10 levels are rocky because mob HP is wrong or something (which it isn't). You only spend a few hours getting to level 10, while the last 20 levels take days. Like all private servers, there are only a handful of people working on scripting and they have to prioritize what they work on.