What is different here, and why.

• Level cap

  by design

  Originally

  60, reachable from the first day.

  Here

  Lifts in steps for the whole realm at once. It is 19 today.

  This is the realm. Everyone crosses each gate on the same day, so arriving three weeks late does not leave you alone in an empty world.

• Content stage

  by design

  Originally

  The finished 1.12 world, all of it at once.

  Here

  The world walks forward through the old patch stages. It sits on 1.5 today, so anything the original added after that is not here yet — the Stranglethorn fishing contest, for one, arrived in 1.7.

  An early stage is a smaller game rather than a locked one. Your client stays 1.12.1 either way, so nothing needs patching.

• Faction hostility

  repair

  Originally

  Alliance and Horde cannot group, trade, talk or mail.

  Here

  Grouping, chat, auction house, mail and guilds work across both sides.

  A realm this size cannot carry two separate populations. Without it, whichever side is smaller has no dungeons and no economy.

• Open world PvP

  by design

  Originally

  Fixed by realm type. A PvE realm is always PvE.

  Here

  Three days of peace, then three days where the contested zones flag everyone. The whole realm switches together at dawn.

  Both kinds of player wanted a realm. This gives each of them half the week instead of giving one of them nothing.

• Primary professions

  comfort

  Originally

  Two.

  Here

  Three.

  Voted for by the realm. With a small population, a missing profession is a missing service for everyone.

• Respec cost

  comfort

  Originally

  Rises every time you do it, up to 50 gold.

  Here

  A flat one gold, however often you do it. There are trainers at the dungeon doors.

  Voted for. It also stands in for dual specialisation, which is promised but not built. Details are on the realm page.

• Soul shards

  comfort

  Originally

  One per bag slot.

  Here

  They stack in tens.

  Asked for in chat and agreed to. It costs nothing and it gives warlocks their bags back.

• Warsong Gulch

  repair

  Originally

  Opens at level 10.

  Here

  Opens at level 10.

  It shipped requiring level 21 on a realm capped at 19, so nobody could enter a battleground the site promised. Corrected on 19 July. Listed here because it was broken by us, not by the original.

• Cross faction buffs

  repair

  Originally

  Not a situation the original had to handle.

  Here

  Buffs of the same kind from both sides do not stack.

  Cross faction grouping made it possible to hold two versions of the same buff at once, which the original never intended.

• The chest in Stranglethorn

  repair

  Originally

  Appears roughly every three hours.

  Here

  Roughly every six.

  With a small population one person can hold the whole rotation. This was not published anywhere before, which is why players kept reporting it as a bug.

Nothing on this list makes a character stronger for money, and nothing on it is hidden from you until after you have levelled for a week. That is the whole of the promise, and it is a shorter one than calling ourselves honest.