Yusifer, the head GM of DuskRO DID abandon that incredible server to play WoW. Spoke to them briefly ingame but didn't feel like bringing up Dusk since I know they'd never bring it back.
I played on DuskRO Emerald from '07-'08 on my sniper, Smokie and my biochem, Opium. I've played on over 50 other servers and DuskRO was without a doubt my absolute favorite. I mainly played solo, doing the custom hat quests, but the PvP was incredible.
The server went realllly downhill around summer '08 when they wiped. They made the rates around 25x, added races like the Aven, etc. Was angry they wiped at the time so despite playing around for a week or so with an Assassin, I left and never came back. Started to regret it when they closed down for good; a rate nerf wasn't -that- bad.

Most of all, I miss the GMs sitting around Old Payon turning people into monsters and the (mostly) friendly community there. I'll never forget it.
