Celestius was a bore....
Started on Atlas. Bit of a rough start with lag and bugs - but the staff is awesome, and they're quickly working through the issues list.
Meh. think i'm done with shards now, they're all the same - server tanks rapidly after like a month. I'll try the official classic server if it ever comes out, bout it for me now though I think. Fuck Ywain, takes way too long to get a character geared up now to compete with templated RR12+ people.
not holding my breathe for atlas tbh :/ I'd love it to succeed but I don't see what if offers that previous servers haven't and they all died in time. shards should have a seasonal mode tbh, reset RR's every X weeks but a faster leveling curve/templating period... maybe rewards for people that finished first on the RP table in terms of cosmetics or titles or something.
nah, you don't reset RRs imo, that's the 'reward' element of the game...
It's a shame Uthgard are being so puritan in their approach because they seem to be the most clued up on how to actually run things; they just need to stop Drachengarde especially having RR12s 3 months in rolling everything they see.
RRs are a double edged sword though in all honesty, both a reward but also a curse because who wants to fight a RR12 on a RR1 newly dinged character? - if they removed the RR5 damage increase component (aka 16.5 weapons full potential etc) it might be more viable.
Basically just making 16.5 etc available from the moment you ding 50 as opposed to RR5+
It's not going to bridge the gap fully but it'd be a decent start
As I said earlier, just make a up to RR5 BG and your RP gain rate decreases massively as you get higher RR
Meh. think i'm done with shards now, they're all the same - server tanks rapidly after like a month. I'll try the official classic server if it ever comes out, bout it for me now though I think. Fuck Ywain, takes way too long to get a character geared up now to compete with templated RR12+ people.
On live, you can make a new toon be 50, ML 10, CL 15 in about a day and have a template in about 2. Gaining RR is quick and you can easily get RR5 in about a week or a day depending on action.
When they have the Catch up in Caledonia events you can come out of that with a level 50, ML10, CL15, Templated RR10+ toon from a weekend of playing.
Just wish more still played Live instead of the shards action would be much better.
I'll give it a go I guess, not holding my breath though. Making a Valkyn hunter.
You're starting late, and as hunter - you'll have a hard time levelling up. You won't get a lot of groups, best bow is in albion, and unless you spec spear high, your rvr experience will suck.
Looking forward to what the Phoenix chaps do, despite one of the mods being an absolute melt, it was a pretty good experience.
How does one earn plat these days? surely items must cost an absolute fortune, I know you can craft things with bounty crafting now but new characters won't have any BPs will they? I'd try but I deleted every single live character I had to stop me going back to it.
Money isnt that much of a thing these days, you need it for some items but not many.
Most things can be bounty crafted, and you can get BPs by doing certain TOA weekly quests, RvR quests, OW/Curse raids. a basic class template will cost about 1.5-2million BPs but as you can easily get 500k bps doing one of the above, it doesnt take long to get them all. Plus people sell the recipes cheap which brings down the cost in BPs also.
you only need a group to do the whole OW quest chain TBH. Same with Cursed up until the Dragon anyway.I see, are the OW quests still aids to do solo? I remember the prologue being really crap for soloers to do.
Already noticed are there quests on there to level? or it just all xp items and pure grind?
Past lvl 20, there's daily and weekly quests you can get from Svasud (3 NPCs lined up). Those are huge for quick advancement, as they give out XP, Gold and Orbs.
Atlas has Orbs (Phoenix feathers). They are not trade-able, but there's ways around that. People that have credit for a specific item (TG, SH, Gjalpi, Legion, etc) buy the item with orbs for you, and you give them plat.
The running rate is 10k Orbs = 1 plat.
On your way to 50, you should amass on average about 4-5 plat. Depending on how many TG / SH raids you participate in, orbs are obtainable quickly.
Note that any kind of RvR yields orbs aswell.
Ahh, so its a bit slow until level 20 then it picks up a little due to the quests then?
Can't be bothered quite frankly. as much as I don't mind rerolling, these private servers have such a short lifespan lately it just isn't worth investing time into to level up, template a character out. They need a faster system in place. Rose tinted experience is one thing, no one plays classic servers for the slow/tedious levelling experience when you've repeated it 2-3 times a year across different servers.