Opening Cataclysm 4.3.4 x5 - 30.11.19

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After analyzing the situation with Cataclysm servers, we came up to decision to try opening new realm, that should return and put fans of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm together, and even more - give someone a chance to rediscover it.

Many players missed this expansion or saw not the best workability of it.
During last half of a year we worked actively (and proceed working) with 4.3.4 Cataclysm core and database, paid much attention to blizzlike fixes of NPC/quests/spells/dungeons, more than a thousand bugs have been fixed during these months. And now finally we are ready to announce new 4.3.4 x5 realm, based at Logon WoWCircle with completely new level of workability compared to the old one.

In return we hope for your help in spreading the information about realm opening through your friends in social networks.

Promo page: https://wowcircle.net/cataclysm/en/

Current status: OBT based on existing 4.3.4 x100 and Fun realms.

How to start playing: https://forum.wowcircle.net/showthread.php?t=803557

Details of realm opening and its features:

• Opening date: 23.11.2019 at 16:00 GMT.
• Rates: x5 for experience, x2 or all the rest.
• Stable and maximally workable core and database, you will see it for yourself.
• Separate large development team.
• Extensive advertising campaign is planned.
• Realm type will be set to PvE during first weeks, that will allow you to level up with comfort, later a poll will take place to define the final type.
• Cross server with current x100, Fun and our Firestorm partners is not planned initially, later this issue will be raised for discussion (if needed).
• Gradual content discovery will be implemented, the followings will be unavailable from the start: Zul'Aman, Zul'Gurub, Firelands, Dragon Soul and A10 accordingly.

Modifications (custom):

• Interfactional BG - quick battleground search, no queues and premade groups.
• PvP zone in Azshara Crater - a place, where you can relax and show who’s the boss.
• SoloQ 1-1 and 3-3 - you can now conquer arena without a team.
• Arena Spectator - view arena games.
• NPC with unique transmogrification - items, you can't get in a game are available - pure visual bliss.
• Interactive menu (.menu) - lots of features in one place.
• Multifunctional NPC for ingame issues solution and more.
• Extended transmogrification.
• Manual rate change by .xp rate command, from 1 to 5 - if you want hardcore just type .xp rate 1 and play x1.

Gradual content opening dates:

- 12.01.20 we will open Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub.
- 03.03.20 we will open Firelands and add A10.
- 22.04.20 we will open Dragon Soul.

All the game content will be opened during 4-5 months, but considering the progress terms can be either increased or decreased.

About donations:

Items in control panel will be added gradually, only VIP account status, gold and other services, that do not have straight influence on game process (character transfer, rename, etc.) will be available initially.
After that, considering realm progress, different items will be added.

Realm section: https://forum.wowcircle.net/forumdisplay.php?f=1707

Game section of current expansion (addons, guides, etc.): https://forum.wowcircle.net/forumdisplay.php?f=471

Expectations:

We expect to see more than 4000 players at the start, like in old good times with cataclysm realms peak, we plan to hold players interest by qualitative work as long as possible. Anyhow, we will be happy to see any outcome: opening realms based on old expansions is very rare now, especially qualitative cataclysm, that is why, I think everyone will be happy to play on this expansion. It will be pleasant memories for someone, and something new for others.

We are waiting you at the start: 23.11.2019 at 16:00 GMT.

Different events will take place before and after start, we will inform about it later.

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Events before start:

We decided to start a number of events in social networks, to get more promotion and to give players bonuses, in particular:

Re-post contest:

- You should join our main WoW Circle group: https://vk.com/wow_circle_com
- Share this post: https://vk.com/wow_circle_com?w=wall-40672356_2257572

Few days before opening the realm, we will randomly choose 30 members, who joined the group and shared this message, they will get 300 bonuses in logon/legion (by choice) control panel.

Promotion videos and broadcasts:

You can film promotion video for YouTube about opening new realm, or mention it during broadcast.
Depending on amount of viewers/followers you can get bonuses or even money (roubles, dollars).
Everything is personally discussed, contact me or n0n4m3 via PM, or send links to saved broadcasts with Cataclysm opening mention timing.

You can also cast realm opening on 23.11.2019, with announce of this at your channel. Payment is also discussed depending on amount of viewers/followers.

Events on start:

Achievement rewads:

- 500 bonuses reward will be given for "Realm first" achievements, if one player gets 2 ore more achievements he will get reward just for one.

Game process:

- Characters, that will have 3 or more played time 7 days after realm start (30.11.2019) will get 200 bonuses to logon account, they must have 85 level.
- The first one who reaches 85 level, gets 6000 bonuses or 5000 roubles by choice, second 4000 bonuses or 3000 roubles, third 1500 bonuses or 1000 roubles.

We are waiting for you at the start of WoW Circle 4.3.4 x5, 23.11.19 at 16:00 GMT.

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A week before the official start, 16.11.19 at 16:00 GMT, 4.3.4 Cataclysm x5 realm will appear in the realmlist and you will be able to log in. During all the week you will be able to create characters, but not to start the game. We did it so that you can create needed charaсters, take your nickname, test game settings and check if everything works fine, to choose a prepared character when realm opens and do not waste time on preparations.

Also, during several days after that realm will be added to control panel.

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You can now log in to 4.3.4 x5 to create your character, you will be able to start playing on 23.11.2019 at 16:00 GMT.

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4.3.4 x5 has been added to https://cp.wowcircle.net/

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4.3.4 х5 realm has been turned off for the final test before launch, it will be available at 16:00 GMT.

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Server has been successfully launched and reached 6000 players online, but we encountered stability issues. The situation is rather complicated, we can not resolve an issue with crashes, because it is deep in the visibility / updating player removal system, debugging can take long time (more than one day), moreover I don't think working with 5 minutes uptime is reasonable, that is why we turned off the server. Another attempt to launch with fixes will take place at 18:00 GMT, if the problem continues and server is not stable we will have to relaunch server on next weekend, we will inform you in advance.

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WoW Circle 4.3.4 x5 launch is postponed till 30.11.19 at 16:00 GMT.

The reason is that server can not work stable with so high online, and player amount restriction is not fair for players without VIP and can not be a solution. We had nearly no crashes on x100 during last month of active tests, we fixed every crash we found.
But the situation with x5 differs, thousands of players in starter locations, in one spot disclosed serious problems in core code, in lay terms the problem is in deep in players visibility and removal code, that causes index loss and memory fail, this means crash on c++, it is impossible to rework and debug such things in a short time, that is why we decided the following.

What happens next:

- WoW Circle 4.3.4 x5 launch will take place on 30.11.19 at 16:00 GMT.
- All the current progress will be saved, you will start from the point where you stopped today.
- Currently active logon VIP status prolonged for a week.
- All week long we will work with deep debugging of core code on x100 and Fun realms, we received all the needed data.
- We will also work in other directions with the same temp, so workability will be even better when we launch the realm.
- If you encountered quest line bugs because of server crashes you will have to create a new character on 30 November.
- Additional promotion will be bought and current will be prolonged not to get less players at re-launch.

We will do everything possible to avoid similar problems with core on 30 November and will test everything on x100 and Fun realms to the extent it is possible to do so.
Thank you all for your patience and understanding.

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A week of tests on 4.3.4 x100 and Fun was rather successful and fruitful. Besides fixing numerous workability bugs, that could spoil levelling process during previous weekend, we reworked all the systems, that caused crashes with huge amount of players, specifically system o visibility and removal of players. We also applied a number of optimization fixes from lich king core, that must allow to accept up to 9000 players online. Besides fixes mentioned above we fixed more than 20 reasons of server crash and about 30 potential (bugs that could lead to a crash in X minutes).

Because of working in debugging mode 4.3.4 x100 and Fun were unstable during this week, they will stay in this mode or a bout a day or two, and return to their ordinary mode, anyway realms should be stable now.
We are grateful to all players of these realms for patience and understanding, we do this for future of cataclysm servers on our project.

We also held closed stress test of 4.3.4 x5 with bots, that ran, used spells and talked. After a short test (about 15 minutes) with 15,000 bots we did not encounter any issues.

We hope that there will be no issues at 4.3.4 x5 realm start, today at 16:00 GMT, at least we did everything possible for stability.
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After daily reboot on 16.01.20 at 07:05 GMT, 5 people 85 level dungeons will become available for Cataclysm 4.3.4 x5 players: Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman

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Promo page/registration

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After daily reboot 27.02.20 at 07:05 GMT, the following content will become available for Cataclysm 4.3.4 x5 players:

- New raid zone "Firelands" - available to raid groups of 10 or 25 players in normal mode, heroic mode will be available in 10-14 days;

- New location opens "Molten Front" - daily quest area;

- Added new T12 tier sets, that can be obtained from "Firelands";

- New boss Оccu'thar added to "Baradin Hold" raid;

- New arena season starts, with new A10 set rewards;

- Added new recepies and blueprints for professions;

- Added new questline - Elemental Bonds;

- Added new legendary item - https://www.wowhead.com/?item=71086, that is a reward for completing questline, available to Druid, Mage, Priest, Shaman and Warlock.

Currency conversion:

- All the Valor Points will be converted into Justice Points with maximum cap of 4000 points.
If general amount exceeds this limit - Valor points will be converted into gold (47 silver per one point).

- All the Conquest will be converted into Honor with maximum cap of 4000 points.
If general amount exceeds this limit - points will be converted into gold (35 silver per one point).

For example you had 3300 justice points and 1600 valor points. With launch of 4.2 all valor points will be converted into justice.
Altogether you will have 4000 justice points and 0 valor points. 900 points above the 4000 limit will be converted into gold (47 silver per 1 point, 0,47*900). At this rate you will receive 423 gold compensation.

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From 19.03.20 till 25.03.20 (including) rates of WoWCircle 4.3.4 x5 realm will be doubled, honor and reputation rates will increase in 1,5 times from the current rates.

Become the champions of Azeroth, execute a reckless assault on Firelands - aflame lair of Ragnaros, with the help of Malfurion Stormrage.
* if you want to return back to your default rates for any reason, just type in .xp rate 5