• Double XP and Instant 35 is beginging! For a limited time (this weekend) we'll be offering an instant 35 character to anyone who wishes one. Limit 1 per human player. We're also running double XP through the end of next weekend!

• Blackwing Lair is going live tomorrow as an open beta test for all players.  I'm confident the scripting and mechanics are correct, but it's hard to test, so we'll let you guys get in there and just tell me whats left to do (which shouldnt be much).  Have fun!

• <p>Hey Guys, I'm trying to track down and figure out what happened to the server last night to cause the outage. I'll have the server back up in about 15 minutes or so.</p>

• Welcome to Double XP Weekend. Starting today, through Monday you'll be
  receiving double xp for killing mobs in the world, as well as completing
  quests.

  If you prefer to do it the old fashioned way we've implemented a command that
  will move you back to the 1x rate:

  .rate 1

  If you have any trouble, get in touch with a GM in game for assistance

  Have Fun!

• Hey Rebirth!
  
  Now that we are through some major patching scenarios on the server, and have some really exciting features to share with the growing community, it's time to offer a boost!
  
  Starting: Friday, March 2nd
  Ending: Monday, March 4th
  
  Starting: Friday, March 9th
  Ending: Monday, March 12th
  
  We'll be offering double Experience Rewards for Questing, and Kill credit. (not professions).
  Starting time on Friday will begin right after Friday mornings patch, and will continue until right after Monday mornings patch. My times are in Central U.S time (GMT -6).
  
  For those of you whom may not be interested in leveling at 2x rates, we are looking into adding a command that will enable / disable the 1x / 2x rates (so that you may choose). I cannot guarantee we'll get the command finished by the double xp weekend, but we'll sure try.

• Hey Rebirth, we are doing some hardware provisioning this afternoon that will require the server be down about 30 to 45 minutes.  The server is offline now, and at some point soon, the website and forums will go offline as well for a short amount of time.  When the website and forums come back up, the server will be just a few minutes behind it.

• Hey Guys, it's an exciting day here at The Rebirth. We've patched in movemaps server wide, and they look SOLID. The patch went live this morning, and the server is back up and ready for play.

• Hey Rebirthers!

  Some exciting changes today.  As always you can view our Game Updates section of the forum for specific details:

  http://www.therebirth.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2101

  Most notably today we've updated the way honor is calculated, and fixed the calculations (first pass).  We've also put the PvP vendors back in the world.

  Honor calculates on Wednesday mornings at 1:00am - all back honor should be thrown into the calculation. 

  We've also overhauled the combat skill increase rate, it should feel much more vanilla blizzlike now, as well as many other great fixes by CannibalVox and the team.

  We've also got a GM who's started an official Rebirth Youtube channel.  Bookmark it and pass it around to your friends!

  http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRebirthServer?feature=mhee

  Good luck, Have fun, GET SOME!

• Dear Rebirth Community! As many of you know, this server does not accept donations of any kind, we provide the development, hosting, GM staff, technical support, and countless hours of entertainment, among other services, completely out of our pocket. We are happy to provide this service, and will continue to provide this service indefinitely until such a time is nobody wants to play here anymore.  This is a very rare circumstance for us, but we are calling upon the community, to help one of our members, who through the course of life has had some unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances. It happens to us all, and as a community, I know the great people of Rebirth will be willing to help out. I'd like to open up donations to assist this person, and will be the first one in line to offer my assistance. This donation has NOTHING to do with this server, nor does it gain you anything but the internal knowledge that you helped out a fellow player, and someone whom you call a friend.  This person is accepting all donation sizes. If you've got as little as a spare $10.00 that you can spend on a good cause, it all helps. I'll be managing the donation site, to protect the identity of the member in need, but 100% of the funds provided will be going directly to the member. You are not required to donate in any way, shape or form. Nobody but you will know if you've donated, or didn't donate. Nobody will know if you've read this post, or not. There is nothing gained, and nothing lost by this venture either way, and it'll never be mentioned in game by staff. This is purely an out of game message, appealing to your generous natures. To donate, please visit:  https://fundly.com/donate/DLT8uQ5XZA Thank you all for listening. --freakyuno

• Hey Guys, we are doing some maintenance on the server this morning. Downtime is expected to be about 20 minutes.

• Heeeeellllloooooo Rebirth!

  Some of you may notice, that the Rebirth Test Server, showed up in the realm
  list today. We are testing our newest code base, which includes full world Move
  Maps. Move maps enable pathfinding in the terrain WAY beyond what the stock
  core provides.

  What this means is, no more mobs walking in air, or through walls. No more
  pulling mobs under the world, or other various silly issues because mobs didn't
  pay attention to the terrain.

  In the future, this will also include a 100% fix for Line of sight issues
  with spells, and ranged weapons, and gap closing / opening spells like Charge,
  intercept, and blink, as well as spells like Distract and bolt type of
  spells.

  FOR NEW PLAYERS - You may be assigned automatically to the TEST SERVER.
  You'll need to check the realm you are signed into after you log in. Currently
  the test server is setup to only allow GM's to access it, so you may receive a
  message about being banned, or a closed account...hit "change realm" above the
  character selection / creation screen and make sure the test server is NOT
  selected.

  Good luck, have fun!

• Hey Fellow Rebirthers! We've got a couple of cool developments over the last
  couple of days. The Rebirth development team now has a Twitter feed all of it's
  own. You can follow the feed by visiting: https://twitter.com/#!/TheRebirth_WoW
  - as we update our source repository, things will be pushed to our feed, so you
  can stay updated.

  Some fans of the server have also created a Facebook Fan Page. Share it with
  your friends, it should generate some traction!

  https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Rebirth-1121-Blizzlike-WoW-Server/227894380634314?sk=info

  As always - good luck, have fun, pawn some n00bs!

• We are extending our maintenance this morning to 20 minutes or so. Doing some work on the database, and the host box.

• Hey Rebirth!

  There's been some really exciting activity over the past month, making
  Rebirth one of the most complete and Blizzlike servers in the private space. If
  you don't follow our patches section on the forums, you should!

  http://www.therebirth.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=24

  In the near future, look for an update that adds patch notes to your login
  screen, just like the retail experience, and an RSS / Twitter / Facebook feed of
  game updates and forum activity, allowing you to pull the information you care
  about, that much easier!

  As always, Have Fun, kill some n00bs, enjoy Rebirth!

  -management

• We've done some major patching today, in an effort to address some long standing issues.  Details are in the forums, but most notably, we've fixed the Mac transport issue, which has plagued many-a-emu server for a long time.

  Enjoy!

• Hey Guys, just wanted to get this news infront of everyone that visits the main site, but not necessarly the forums.

  We've opened ZG as a running "beta".  Pharamox and I internally tested most of the events, and they seem like they are in pretty good order, and the loot tables seemed about right.

  With tomorrows server reboot, we'd like to invite everyone to put a 20 man together, and go kick some troll a$$.

  For more information on this decision, please visit the Game Updates section of the forums.

  Have fun!

• The PvP System has been re-enabled.  All honor and ranks have been reset.  Details are in the game updates section of the forums.

  Calculations are on Wednesday.  25 kills are needed a week to be included in the calculation.  

• We're continuing to work on the server, and we are continuing to track down the issue that is causing the crashing.  At this point we strongly suspect a malcious player, because of the patterns of crashes that we've been able to track down.

  The good news is, for every 1 bad player, they create a problem that solves future issues for hundreds.  We'll get it tracked down and resolved.

  Until we have the issues resolved, we'll continue with the Double XP kill credit, as a way of saying "Thank You" for continuing to be loyal to our server, even in it's difficult times. :)

• Hey Guys,

  Because of the downtime over the last 2 days, we are enabling double xp for kill credit when the server comes back up.  We are applying another fix now, and bringing the server back up.

  I know the purists on the server would prefer no double xp, but overall - I think as long as they are few and far between, double xp, when used appropriatly helps the server overall, especially after downtime.

  Enjoy!

• Hey Rebirth,

  We've got a few malicious people running amok on the server exploiting some previously unknown crash bugs.  We can only assume the intent is to continue to crash the server in an effort to make our service look bad, or ruin the experience of the players that have made this home.

  Because bringing the server up, and down, and up and down is infinatly more expensive time wise, than just focusing on fixing the bugs, we'll be leaving the server down until we resolve the found issues, and have them tested.

  We believe this benefits players as well, in an effort to prevent the frustration of progressing, only to have the server go down, we feel it's better just to resolve the issues. 

  I'm hesitant to give an ETA at the moment, but we are well aware it's Friday night, and we're working to get the server back up in time for our prime gaming periods.

  In an effort to reward the players that have stuck by us, when the server comes back up, we'll have DOUBLE XP, for a 24 hour period (or roughly as long as the server has been down).

  Bear with us everyone, we'll be up and running soon!  Myself and the rest of the staff apologize for the downtime.  This is a free service, but it still is a "service" that many of you are investing in, just like we are.

• Update:  It appears the service to restart the server is working, though there are a few kinks to work out with the timing, bear with us, we'll get it worked out.

  Until then, the server intermittenly going down and coming back up may happen thoughout the day, I'm keeping an eye on it from a mobile device, but I'm traveling, so may not be able to get to any issues as quickly as normal.

  Thanks for understanding.

   

  -Management

• Hey guys, sorry to bring the server down a 2nd time this morning.  We needed to hotfix the paladin + healing, which got broken during the patch somehow.

  I ended up having to extend the downtime a little bit, to install updates to the operating system and reboot a couple of times, as well as install my auto restart monitor, so we wont have long downtimes anymore (hopefully, if everything works as it should!)

  Everything is back up now, enjoy!

• Some significant changes were implemented as part of todays patching process!  Most notably were the renabling of the PvP system honor gain and ranks, as well as the cut to the Auction House Fee's.

   

  Check out the Game Updates section of the forums for details on both of these changes.  :)

   

  GL,HF, Pwn some n00bs!

• We are aware of the server crash problem.   Rest assured the issue is being looked into and we'll be patching the server as soon as we find the bug causing it, and get it resolved.

  In the meantime, if you do something you suspect caused the server crash, please /w a GM in game, or send a PM to one of the GM's on the boards - it may assist us in tracking the issue down.

  Thanks for your understanding.

  -GM Staff

• Server downtime is being extended about 15 minutes, had a few last minute changes come in, so the downtime is going to be just a tad longer than expected.  

   

• We've made some significant updates to the website today.  Including closing some security holes, and revamping the "Players Online" list.  Check it out for yourself!

  http://www.therebirth.net/?p=server&sub=playersonline&changerealm_to=1

• Did you know, we update our game core and database almost every day?  

  The Rebirth constantly goes through fixes, and enhancements to make your gameplay experience better.  If you haven't visited our game updates section of the forums, check it out:

   

  http://www.therebirth.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=24

   

• The test server is now offline. I hope everyone got plenty of footage for their videos, I cant wait to see the results!

• Today the test server will come up, for 4 hours (and you'll have all GM commands available on the TEST SERVER) to allow you to get footage for your PvP Video. More details here: Rebirth Forums: Youtube Contest
  
  Please remember. Your forum USERNAME and your game login username are NOT the same. If you have not registered for the forums yet, you will need to do so.

• Double xp weekend has begun, and will be in effect for the next 48 hours.  Grab a weapon, polish your armor, head out into the world of Azeroth and let loose a cry of war. 

• This weekend will be a double XP weekend. We wont be doing these often, so if you've been waiting to get started. This weekend would be a great time to jump in, create a character and get some levels. The double xp will go from Saturday Morning - server time until Monday Morning server time Have fun, good luck.

• Some Shammy love, and some other fixes.  Check out the full game update post here:

  http://www.therebirth.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=238 

• A VERY large update today.

  A complete rework of the world db and scriptdev db and source. These are vital to a stable server, and Zataron (Sey) has contributed 99% of the work on these fronts, and has provided his work to this server. Thank him in game if you see him!

  http://www.therebirth.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=163

   

• We've updated even more continuing issues in the core, and database. Thanks for the contributors...you know who you are, for fixes and sources inside .git repositories! You can read more about the patch here
  
  Game Update!

• Server Move! Please see the topic located here: http://www.therebirth.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=112&p=414&sid=cb47d3d48bf7a682d7630798f1c72ad0#p414

• Game update! More fixes, more love. Enjoy. This patch went in place this morining. http://wowvanilla.dyndns.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=99

• Read more about the game update and latest fixes! http://wowvanilla.dyndns.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=26

• Zekish Taz now has it's own forums to communicate through! You can visit the link in the upper right hand corner of the main website page, or you can visit http://wowvanilla.dyndns.org/forum.
  
  You'll need to register an account for the for forums to post.
  
  Your login account and your forum account are NOT linked for security reasons.
  
  Have Fun!

• Welcome to Zekish Taz! Let the Faction wars begin! Zekish Taz is a PVP enabled, World of Warcraft vanilla server, being emulated for your enjoyment!

   

  This server will require specific setup instructions to play: You can visit the HowTo by clicking the link below:

   

  http://192.168.0.113/?p=support&sub=howtoplay