NycterMoon

Aside from the Companions, which you can read about on the .z Commands and Whispers pages, Nyctermoon has some other custom content and settings you might not be used to on other vanilla servers.

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Companion Upgrades and Raid Progression

After reaching level 60, you can upgrade your companions along two different paths. If you acquire the Companions Recognition by completing quests from your major City's <Companions> NPC and gather additional materials and tokens aswell as gold, certain NPCs will reward you with licenses. There are additional quest requirements to access raids on this server. Read below for more information on accessing each additional raid.

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Tier 1 Dungeon Companions Holymana Brightshield - W. Plaguelands - X:52 Y:83		Tier 1 Raid Companions & Access to Molten Core
Required: ✗ Companions Recognition : T1D - obtained from completing the quest: The Ropes (Slay Darkmaster Gandling) ✗ Token of Mastery x10 - obtained from repeatable quests and dungeon bosses ✗ Heavy Runecloth Bandage x20 ✗ Major Healing Potion x20 500 gold		Required: ✗ Complete the quest: The Seat of Power (Slay Emperor Dagran Thaurissan) ✗ Token of Mastery x20 - obtained from repeatable quests and dungeon bosses
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Tier 2 Dungeon Companions Rubix Qube - Eastern Plaguelands - X:52 Y:19		Tier 2 Raid Companions & Access to Blackwing Lair
Required: ✗ Companions Recognition : T2D - obtained from completing the quest: Corrupted Hearts (Slay Baron Rivendare) ✗ Token of Mastery x15 - obtained from repeatable quests and dungeon bosses ✗ Runn Tum Tuber Surprise x20 ✗ Field Repair Bot 74A x1 500 gold		Required: ✗ Complete the quest: Fire and Brimstone (Slay Ragnaros) ✗ Token of Molten Core x6 - obtained from defeating Ragnaros
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Tier 3 Dungeon Companions & Access to ZG Anatolia Ayhan - Forgewright’s Tomb - X:48 Y:64		Tier 3 Raid Companions & Access to ZG, AQ20, AQ40
Required: ✗ Companions Recognition : T3D - obtained from completing the quest: Counter Strategy (Slay General Drakkisath) ✗ Token of Mastery x20 - obtained from repeatable quests and dungeon bosses ✗ Smoked Desert Dumplings x20 ✗ Demon Forged Breastplate x1 500 gold		Required: ✗ Complete the quest: Shadow of the Mountain (Slay Nefarian) ✗ Token of Blackwing Lair x6 - obtained from defeating Nefarian
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Tier 4 Dungeon Companions & Access to AQ20 Ketblek Abramovich - Stranglethorn Vale - X:13 Y:15		Tier 4 Raid Companions & Access to Naxxramas
Required: ✗ Companions Recognition : T4D - obtained from completing the quest: A Blood Sacrifice (Slay Hakkar) ✗ Token of Mastery x25 - obtained from repeatable quests and dungeon bosses ✗ Brilliant Wizard Oil x20 ✗ Bloodvine Vest x1 500 gold		Required: ✗ Complete the quest: What Lies Dormant (Slay C'Thun) ✗ Token of Ahn'Qiraj x6 - obtained from defeating C'Thun
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Tier 5 Dungeon Companions Paminen Nerys - Silithus - X:40 Y:88		Tier 5 Raid Companions
Required: ✗ Companions Recognition : T5D - obtained from completing the quest: Creepy Crawlies (Slay Ossirian The Unscarred) ✗ Token of Mastery x30 - obtained from repeatable quests and dungeon bosses ✗ Powerful Anti Venom x20 ✗ Spitfire Breastplate x1 500 gold		Required: ✗ Complete the quest: Darkness Beckons (Slay Kel'Thuzad) ✗ Token of Naxxramas x6 - obtained from defeating Kel'Thuzad

Dungeon Companions are well suited to dungeons, while Raid Companions are specialized for raids. Dungeon and Raid Companions will have different talent specs and come with different gear. You can see the how the talent spec differs for Dungeon and Raid Companions on the Talents page.

Dungeon Companions	Raid Companions
Good AOE damage	Good single-target damage
Tanks deal more damage	Tanks prioritize defense
DPS are more survivable	DPS prioritize damage
Cheaper to hire	More expensive

You can freely choose to pursue both paths at the same time if you wish. There are 2 main steps to each tier of companions. Firstly, you will accept a quest from the <Companions> NPC in a major city. These quests will require you to kill a boss at the end of a dungeon or raid. Completing these will reward the player with a "Companions Recognition" item. The next step will be a quest that requires you to provide a recognition, a handful of tokens of mastery or a token from a raid, and various crafted items. This quest will reward you with the Companion License for that tier. You keep that item in your inventory, which will allow you to hire that rank of companion from any <Companion> NPC. Any licenses you don't wish to use can be safely stored in the bank.

Attunements

On Nyctermoon, all vanilla raids are unlocked and available, but you will need to progress through each of them in order to unlock the next one. You can obtain the quests for these attunements from a <Companions> NPC in any major city.

Molten Core: Complete the quest "The Seat of Power" (Slay Emperor Dagran Thaurissan)
*Also requires the standard MC attunement.

Blackwing Lair: Complete the quest "Fire and Brimstone" (Slay Ragnaros)
*Also requires the standard BWL attunement.

Ahn'Qiraj: Complete the quest "Shadow of the Mountain" (Slay Nefarian)
Note: Completing "Shadow of the Mountain" Will unlock access to both AQ20 and AQ40, as well as giving access to Zul'Gurub.

Naxxramas: Complete the quest "What Lies Dormant" (Slay C'Thun)

All dungeons are available at any time, including Dire Maul.

If large-scale raids aren't your thing, you can also unlock access to Zul'Gurub and AQ20 by completing the dungeon side of the companions quests.

Zul'Gurub: Complete the quest "Counter Strategy" (Slay General Drakkisath)

AQ20: Complete the quest "A Blood Sacrifice" (Slay Hakkar)

Companion Limit

Each character you have can hire a maximum of 4 bots which all share lockouts and level. You can hire companions from an alt through the hiring NPCs found in every inn. Example: Character A is level 60 and has the T2R License. Character B is level 48. On your account you can hire a total of 4 T2R level 60 bots and 4 level 48 bots. Solo raiding is generally discouraged for performance reasons but can still be done by having several level 60 characters.

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Upgrading your license will also increase the cost of hiring each Companion while carrying that license. You can see an overview of the cost to hire subsequent Companions at each raid and dungeon tier by viewing the table below. You will also recieve a 10% discount for each race by reaching exalted status with the corresponding race faction.

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Grimando's Bags

There are two quests to earn massive bags, for a massive cost. You can start them from the tailoring shop in Booty Bay. These quests can be completed once per character.

Bag of Plenty 26 Slot Bag		Horadric Cube 36 Slot Bag
Required: ☑ Level 50 ☑ 10 Mooncloth ☑ 10 Enchanted Leather ☑ 10 Arcanite Bar ☑ 25 Token of Mastery 100 gold		Required: ☑ Level 60 ☑ 50 Tokens Of Mastery ☑ 10 Baked Salmon ☑ 10 Dark Runes ☑ 10 Elixir of the Mongoose 500 gold

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Shirt of New Beginnings

You can earn an epic shirt that grants double XP when worn. It is intended for leveling an alt, so completing this quest is not cheap for a low level character: 10 Mooncloth and 300 gold. You can get it from the <Companions> npc in any level 1 starting area, or at a tailor in major cities.

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Field Repair Bot 74B & Shirt of the Savant

To speed up leveling of professions, a shirt can be obtained by completing a series of quests. First, you must venture to Blackrock Depths, where you will find Wubba Duckie. In exchange for the following items he will give you a permanent repair bot:

1 Arcanite Rod
5 Fused Wiring
10 Primal Bat Leather
20 Dark Iron Bar

Once you have obtained your repair bot, he will also give you a quest to see Grimando Goldenlock in Booty Bay. Grimando hands you a quest to show the knowledge of professions you've already obtained. To get the Savant shirt from him you must hand over:

1 Flask of Petrification
1 Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops
1 Arcane Bomb
1 Mooncloth Bag (note: on Nyctermoon, this bag has two more slots and requires more materials to craft
50 Gold Bars

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Shirt of the Silvertongue

To increase your reputation gains you can acquire Silvertongue, a shirt that grants you double reputation. Find Mr. Deathicus at Azshara Tower. He will ask you for 300 gold, 1 Mature Blue Dragon Sinew and 20 Tokens of Mastery in exchange for this shirt.

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Field Mailbox

Access your mail from anywhere in the world with the Field Mailbox.

To find this item, you must obtain Schematic: Portable Mailbox, which drops from Postmaster Malown in Stratholme (1% drop chance)

This will start a quest to visit Gringott Blasthammer located at 92,67 in Arathi Highlands (On the far eastern coast)

Gringott will ask you to obtain the following items:
1 Old Document (drops from Highlord Taelan Fordring 100% Drop)
10 Enchanted Thorium Bars
8 Greater Eternal Essence
5 Fused Wiring

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Marketer

To help you earn all this gold, we have a Marketer bot that buys items you place on the auction house for double the amount you would get for selling to a vendor. It will buy almost any item, except for greys, or goods easily found on vendors like food/drink.

The Marketer will also post trade goods for you to buy on the auction house, though the price is not cheap, so it's more of a last resort for especially hard-to-find items.

There is an addon made specially for this server that will automatically fill in the buyout price in the AH for you with the proper 2x vendor price, so you don't need to spend time calculating it. Please see the Addons page for more information on it.

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Transmog

You can visually transform your equipment to look like anything you want. To transform your equipment, speak to the <Companions> representative; located around where the Mage trainers are in Stormwind and Orgrimmar. The item you want the appearance of must be in either your bags or your bank. The item must be the same class, e.g., leather can only have leather item appearances, one handed swords can only have one handed sword appearances, etc. To transform an item, it costs the vendor price of the item you want the appearance of.

One note about this feature - if you are wearing gear with a set bonus, and transmog it into something else, the tooltip will appear to show the set bonus greyed out, as if you don't have the set bonus anymore. This is not the case. It is just a visual bug. You will still have the set bonus.

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No PVP Decay

PVP ranks will not decay, so you can pursue ranks at your own pace.

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Battleground Skirmishers

Though not as advanced as the Companions' AI, bots known as Skirmishers will populate battlegrounds, and are scripted to fight and pursue objectives reasonably well. If a real player joins the battleground, they will automatically replace one of the Skirmishers. You can't command the Skirmishers like you can with your Companions, but you can bring your regularly hired team of Companions into the battleground and control them like normal. Queue times are typically under a minute for both factions.

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Cross-Faction

Alliance and Horde characters can group up together for PVE. They also share the same Auction House, and there is no longer a separate neutral goblin AH.

However, Alliance and Horde will still fight each other in battlegrounds, and opposing faction NPCs are still hostile to you.

As well, you can only hire Companions from your own faction. It's possible to have paladin and shaman Companions in the same group, but only if hired by real players from the Alliance and Horde respectively.

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No Debuff Limit

In the original 1.12, enemies could only have 16 debuffs at a time. This prevented many classes from being able to use their full toolkit in raids. On this server, the debuff limit is removed. Raid boss HP is increased slightly to account for the increase in raid DPS from this change.

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No Profession Limit

You can learn all 9 primary professions on the same character. Profession rates are 1x; leveling can be sped up by equipping a Savant shirt (see above).

However, you can still only choose one specialization for blacksmithing, leatherworking, and engineering.

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Instant Mail

Mail is instantly sent between any two characters on the server, unlike stock vanilla's 1 hour timer.

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Full Rewards from Low-Level Quests

You will receive full XP and reputation rewards from completing quests even if they are grey to you. This ensures you aren't wasting your time if you want to finish a zone after outleveling it. It's also a good way to get some easy faction reputation instead of relying on cloth turn-ins.

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Automatic Fishing

When fishing, your character will automatically catch the fish without needing to click the bobber and re-cast the fishing pole into the water. This allows you to effectively fish while AFK - although it doesn't disable the auto AFK logout timer.

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Dungeon and raid difficulty modifier

Dungeons and raids difficulty can be change to heroic which will improve loot, experience, money and reputation.

The difficulty changes are as follow with some adjustment depending on the dungeon/raid:
1.5x hp/damage/spellpower

The commands are account-bound. Make sure to set it back to normal when logging-in:
.settings difficulty normal
.settings difficulty heroic (+100% loot/xp/etc)

Note: The % loot affects both the number of drop rolls, as well as the drop chance of a specific item. For example, if a boss has 5 drops on his table, and normally drops 1 item, clearing the boss on heroic will award 2 items instead. You cannot recieve the same item twice. Also, if a specific drop has a 10% chance to drop, it would be a 20% chance on heroic.

Player Modifiers

In addition to the normal/heroic difficulty options increasing xp and loot, playing with other players (non-companion) will also increase the rates. You gain an additional 20% per player you have in your group. This is only for unique players, and does not work with multiboxing. The max multiplier you can obtain is 300%. (100% base + 100% heroic + 100% 5 players) Having more players than 5, i.e. in a raid, will not increase the multiplier any higher.

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Legacy

Legacy is an accountwide progression system that ties into xp gain, exploration (and therefore starting level), professions and eternal items. Legacy bonuses are active by default. If you wish to play with blizzlike rates, you can disable it accountwide with .legacy off. You can turn off individual bonuses to suit your needs.

.legacy
This will show you your current legacy bonuses.

.legacy settings
This will show you your current legacy settings.

.legacy settings xp on/off
For each level 60 character you have, you gain a 20% increasing XP buff that goes up to 100% at your 5th character. This bonus is additive with the xp shirt, while the group bonus is multiplicative.
Example: (100% (normal xp) + 100% (shirt xp) + 100% (legacy xp)) x2 (group bonus) = 6x XP

.legacy settings rep on/off
For each level 60 character you have, you gain a 20% increasing Rep buff that goes up to 100% at your 5th character. This bonus is additive with the Rep shirt.

.legacy settings craftinggain on/off
For each character with 12 maxed out professions you gain +1 skill gain, up to +5. I have removed the server’s bonuses and now the rates are blizzlike 1x. Those who wish to play blizzlike they can and those who wish to have bonuses they have them. The total skill gain you can reach is: 1 (server) + 4 (shirt) + 5 (legacy) = 10.

.legacy settings craftingchance on/off
For each character with 12 maxed out professions you gain +1% skill up success rate for green and yellow crafts up to +10%, bringing it to a total of 35% for greens and 85% for yellows. I have removed the server’s bonuses and they are now blizzlike.

.legacy settings taxi on/off
When you create a new character, it will learn all the flight points that all your other characters of the same faction know, cumulative. So if one of your characters knows half the world and another knows the other half, your newly created character will know all the flight points in the world.

.legacy settings map on/off
The same as with the flight points except for map exploration. Your newly created characters will have all the map areas explored that your other characters have cumulative.

.legacy settings mapxp on/off
This only works if the map setting above is also turned on. Each explored area gives you some amount of XP. When you create a new character, it will be granted upfront the XP for each explored area that it inherits from your other characters. You can track the amount of XP your newly created character will gain by typing .legacy So the more you explore, the more XP you will gain. With a fully explored world your character will gain enough XP to start from level 10.

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Eternal Consumables

Eternal Consumables are alternate versions of existing consumables that are reusable indefinitely. The recipes for Eternal Consumables are generally learned from creating the regular version. The chance to discover an eternal recipe by default is 0%. Per character on your account with all professions maxed you get +0.5% chance (half of your legacy crafting chance). You can get a 10 minute +1% buff from a Lucky Charm that drops at the end of Dire Maul West and in player-only dungeons.

After learning a recipe for an eternal item you still need to craft it. Eternal recipes are account-wide like all recipes.

Eternal Wisdom is an item that teaches you a random eternal recipe you don't already know. Wisdoms are awarded monthly to those with the fastest player-only times. See the player-only leaderboards here.

A variety of cooking recipes have had their stats changed for the eternal version. Refer to the table below for changes.

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Quest Line: Lead by Example

All the Lead by Example quests are given by Companion NPC located in main cities innkeeper.
The Cooking grill is given by Wubba Duckie.