What you can do when the Kronos is down to support it

The Kronos servers are offline, there is no denying that and we want to help. But the problem is related to internet networks, protocols & stuff, this has few to do with our backgrounds and domains of expertise.

Regardless, we can still be active, here is a couple options :

• Offer your help if you haven't already and you have knowledge and/or a background in internet server security, if you are a network engineer or something alike.
• Apply as a gamemaster, bugtester, developer or artist if you have the required skills, the time and motivation. The server is always looking for competent individuals, whether it is online or not.
• Spend some time reading about DDoS attacks, how they work, what they are, how they can be fixed. Defeated made a great post about it, there are youtube videos and posts by Cloudflare on this subject. Better yet, if you can, try to help the community better understand the complex issue at hand with knowledge.
• Send or post supporting messages / pictures for the team, either on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, the Kronos Forums, etc. (but try to keep them on a single thread)
• Contribute to the bugtracker. A lot of issues still need further information or details. When the server will be back up this will help making bufixes faster and the server better.
• Sign the classic server petition if you haven't already. Talk about it. We haven't forgotten about it, nor have we forgotten about private servers, this is still an open-discussion.
• Fill the survey about classic and private servers that Nostalrius is doing. If Blizzard offered classic realms all of this likely wouldn't happen in the first place. Contribute to the discussion on the official threads or tweets.
• Write, complete or group vanilla guides, addons, etc. Is there one you wished you had found out? Or one that is missing? Improvements you would like to make? Are you playing a unusual spec? How about giving tips for others?
• Discuss ideas for when the servers will be back up. Why not make a great meeting?
• Blog or tweet about private servers, write about it, how did you feel when the server was up? Why? What made it fun? How do you feel now? Why?
• Donate to the server.
• Share further ideas on how to spend time with the other members of Kronos. Add ideas to this list.

Selling my level 60 hunter for Twinstar stars

Leveling my hunter, Banktekai to level 60 has been a lot of fun for me, I did my last 30 levels during the one-time experience bonus event this year, with a very relaxed attitude, I didn't rush anything, I really did it the slow and steady way. It was incredible, as if a completely different experience than my experience with Tekai (my first level 60 character and main, a warlock).

The last dungeon Banktekai did, with some chinese players. Unfortunately we couldn't go past the low-health dwarves before the King.

Unfortunately, while this taught me that I love leveling hunters in vanilla (and dislike leveling warlocks) I also found out that playing a hunter at level 60 isn't for me, I just can't get to like the playstyle, again I find myself auto-attacking most of the time and I feel like I don't have much responsibility or use in raids and dungeons (although off-tanking and kiting are nice bonuses). Surely I am not very good at it, but regardless, I can't connect with the class.

Luckily Twinstar allows players to sell their characters for stars. This means that I have the opportunity to sell Banktekai and buy some other classes, which I might like more, without having to level them again. Or I could buy a couple level 35 characters to use as arcanite/mooncloth making mules.

I was initially quite skeptical of the process, do players really buy those characters? Am I going to make a substantial amount of stars by selling it? How much do I sell my character for? Am I not losing my hunter in the process?

Current level 60 character prices on the Twinstar auction house.

I started making some comparisons. Level 60 characters had prices varying from 6000 to 25000 (maximum possible), roughly an average of 8000 stars for a character. I knew my hunter had only green level 50+ items (not very interesting), 300/300 alchemy and 300/300 herbalism (fairly easy and not worth a lot to level, but nice to make some gold) as such I considered it was worth around the average. I put it for sale for 7500-8000 stars, after 4 days I had to put it again, but this time for 7000-7500 stars and someone bought it. I now have 7125 stars. Considering how fast it was sold I guess its worth was a bit over what I got from it, but that's okay for me as I wasn't playing it anyway.

Interestingly assuming players buy your characters, it means that to buy a level 60 you should sell about 7x level 20 characters (average price around 800-1000). Joana did it in 10 hours on her hunter, so this would mean roughly 3 days of /played total, that's much less than what most players need to get to level 60. Just an idea.

I don't know what to think of this yet but I am very happy at the opportunities I now have to start over on another class. And apparently players do buy characters every now and then.

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Farming spots on vanilla servers

This is a rough list of farming spots for gold meant for level 60 characters on vanilla World of Warcraft servers. Nothing new, mostly doing this for myself to find them easily.

Legashi satyrs, Felwood
Satyrs, Azshara
Deadwind pass, ogres
Hearthglen, elites or miners
Scarlet spellbinders, WPL, crusader enchant formula
Tyr's hand, elites
Loregrain solo (BRD), Fiery enchant
Dire Maul North solo
Dire Maul East solo
Dire Maul West solo (aoe/dot treants)
Razorfen Downs (RFD) solo
Scarlet Monastery graveyard solo / herbs / chests
Un'goro fire elementals
Arathi elementals
Winterspring furbolgs
Uldaman solo
LBRS bannok/chest solo
Maraudon solo
Instant respawn creatures AOE
Badlands earth elementals
Blighted horrors, Eastern plaguelands
Zoram strand, Stranglekelp
Un'goro gorilla skinning
Un'goro, devilsaurs skinning
Stone guardians, Un'goro
Whelpling pets and dragons
Dancing troll village AOE
Dust stormers, Silithus
Toxic horrors, Felwood
Twillight cultists, Silithus
Zul'gurub crocodiles solo
Wailing caverns deviate scales
Western plaguelands cauldrons AOE solo
Savory deviate fishing
Books and recipes reselling (First Aid, shadow oil, Frost oil, ...)

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