Smilewhenyousaythat said:Because it took too long to go to HW. Why bother running all that way to an empty zone?
Because the only reason to hold keeps was for relics, and relics could be defended by 6pbaoers, a dog and an old lady. Plus theres this realm that has a habit of getting up at 5am and attacking undefended relic keeps.
Alternatively they turned the skill level up for you guys - no autofollow insta mez group purge luribomb huddle these days eh?
And i can understand rolling on next patch - because in the US thats when the lowest pop realm (hib) suddenly got the most relics. Gotta say something about class power that....
Not long before NF albs finally twigged onto the combined powers of cabby/sorc/theurge for the ranged game, that's about the time Hibs noticed Albs actually had some awesome ranged capabilities (I certainly noticed an intrepid grp of albs camping HMG in HW).
In NF those abillities are paying off quite nicely, you are right about the relic change next patch. However I think Excal Albs will put up quite a tough fight to hold on to them.
Don't know about the - no autofollow insta mez group purge luribomb huddle- since I've never played RvR that way in my guild, especially as Sta only insta's in exceptional circumstances, he insta mezzed a high rr alb grp near Bolg the other night tho and the entire grp purged and wiped us out in seconds
Ufff to put it simply, Albs learned how to use what they have, Hibs lost some very good players/leaders, I don't think it's that Hibs lost skills cos we got easy mode turned off (being underpopulated for so long I think created some VERY good RvR groups who played against the odds), I think NF just killed off the gank grp for Hib and we just don't zerg very well!