New year, new vote lists!

Happy new year, everyone! Every new year is a bringer of change. One of these changes is that (many) vote lists have reset. To ensure we set ourselves up for visibility and growth, it's important that we all collaborate to vote Yggdrasil up on the vote sites.

Each vote is awarded a Vote Token, exchangable in-game for vanity items and various currencies. New in 2025, however, is that each player that has voted for at least 1 week consecutively, will get 2x Vote Tokens per vote from day 8 for as long as the streak is active!

Happy voting!

Happy Winter Veil! Log in by January 2nd to receive your Yggdrasil Winter Veil present.

Greetings, everyone!

The height of Winter Veil has reached Yggdrasil, and Grandfather Winter has started distributing his year-end presents to all players!

Log in between December 25th and January 2nd 23:59 SVT to recieve your Winter Veil Wish List, which you can use to select your wish for the year.

Options include Community Tokens, Emblems of Frost, a Frost Wyrm mount (showcased in screenshot), the Sap of Yggdrasil (a food and drink that lasts forever with infinite charges), and more!

Wish you all a festive holiday season!

Best regards,
The Yggdrasil Staff

Full account transfers

Greetings, everyone!

This is a reminder that we still offer full account transfers until the end of this year! For those of you that are interested in but have not yet transferred, please see https://yggdrasilwow.com/page/transfertutorial to learn more.

We'd love to have you!

Best,
The Yggdrasil Staff

Community Event Announcement!

Hello fellow citizens of Yggdrasil!

Get ready to flex your creativity and show off your adventures with our monthly Screenshot Contest!

Event Details:

When: Monthly event
Where: Post your best in-game screenshots in the Discord Scrapbook channel.
Rewards: The Rewards will be given out for your submissions on the first of every month!

Rules:
1. Screenshots must be taken in-game on our server.
2. Only one submission will be awarded.
3. Be respectful and keep it SFW.
4. Winners are to be chosen based on whichever post gets the most engagement (Reactions on discord) so vote for your mates!

Let's see those legendary moments! Good luck, and may the Light guide your shutter finger!

Post now and let the contest begin!

Development update

Greetings, players! The last few weeks we've worked on a number of smaller changes to increase the Quality of Life for your gameplay on Yggdrasil.

Stability:

- Every time we have a server crash or hiccup, we bring out our best diagnostics tools.
- We had three crashes on 2024-11-27 caused by events scheduled on dereferenced creatures (ICC gunship and Zel'frax).
- An I/O issue also led to a stuck MySQL thread on 2024-12-01.
- These issues have now been worked out.

Quality of Life Changes:

1. Auction House changes: Max auction duration has been extended from 48 hours to 7 days based on player input.
2. Website changes: We have made a PvE statistics page on the website (https://yggdrasilwow.com/pve_statistics). Kudos to Xeen for leading the LK kills scoreboard! It currently covers ICC. Drop us a suggestion if you want more raids/encounters covered!
3. Dalaran Enchanter changes: As we now have a permanent presence of players with enchanting on the server, the Dalaran Enchanter is no longer needed. Accordingly, he will be phased out during December. On 2024-12-15, we are increasing the price of the Dalaran Enchanter's services to 5 Vote Tokens per enchant. Come year end, he will retire and his services will no longer be available.
4. Crossfaction Shadows: Shadows now support crossfaction interaction.

More Updates!

This time around, we bring the following changes:

1. Shadows

Introducing Shadows, the perfect opportunity to extend your gameplay by allowing you to log in up to two of your alts as party bots while you control your favorite character! Quick summary:
- From level 15 and up, look for the Time-Lost Void in your bag to get started. Your Shadows are active for as long as they are in a party with you.
- Their main usecase and design is geared towards dungeons, but they can also partake in open-world gameplay and raiding.
- This functionality is based on the AzerothCore playerbots module with additional custom adjustments to align better with Blizzlike gameplay.
- While the Shadows can be managed effectively using simple chat-based messages, for those that prefer a graphical way to interact with them, consider looking into the Unbot addon.
- Shadows must be within 10 levels of you, applicable to enter the zone you're trying to bring them to, and above level 15.

2. Redesigned Respawn Times on Gatherable Objects

We've made significant changes to the respawn times of gatherable objects. Pool sizes have been increased between 20% to 40% based on extensive testing and player input for most zones. Additionally, average respawn times have been reduced by between 20% to 50% depending on the zone and gather pool. High respawn-time pool entries would shift low respawn-time entries up as they'd become averaged, which these changes accommodate for.

3. Login Screen News

Important updates, notifications and more will now be shared to all players through the character selection screen.

Remember, if you have any questions about our features, including these new ones, don't hesitate to ask your Twiggy.

Scheduled Maintenance

Tomorrow morning, Thursday 2024-11-14, the server and website will be inaccessible for 1 hour between 07:00-08:00 AM server time for implementation of updates.