Quick question regarding new servers

panjit

Is either of the two new servers a UK/European based one? Im considering starting a new character on one of the servers but dont really want to have to become nocturnal again to enjoy some good raiding and RvR.

If either of them isnt then it looks like I should be re-activating my old account and playing on pyrwden (sp?) - was kind of looking forward to starting a fresh though

JulianDracos

GOA owns and operates the EU servers not Mythic so you will not be getting these new servers.  GOA is free to add ones like this if they want, but these servers as run by Mythic so that means they are US based. 

However, Mythic has launced Mythic Europe.  They have decided that from now on instead of having partnerships with other compaines and licensing their product to them they will run the show from now on will all future games.  This means that eventually the GOA servers could end up being run directly by Mythic. 

panjit

Thats a shame.

So is TOA really that bad? I left before it was released.

JulianDracos

ToA isn't 'bad' in the way most people think of expansions.  If this game was EQ I am sure almost everyone would have love it.  People are upset over it because they feel it changes the balance of RvR so now that you are at level 50 you basically have to go level again.  Then they will it as nothing but a huge time sink.

Think of it this way there are 10 master levels and each one has 10 steps.  Many of the steps for each ML require a huge amount of people to do.  Then doing some of the steps can take a very long time (3-5 hours).  Even after you finish all the steps for a ML you won't be that ML.  You need to earn Master Level Experience.  This can take a long time as well 

You have artifacts.  Most of the artifacts are easy to get, but to activate them you need to have scrolls.  You therefore need a huge amount of plat to buy them off of someone, or you need to spend hours - in fact days in some cases - kill mobs over and over to get the scroll you want. 

ToA was a nice concept.  However because of the balance issues for RvR people think they need ML and artifacts.  However, those things require a huge amount of time.  Unfortunatly the only way Mythic could think to make something hard was for it to require a huge amount of people and a huge amount of time.

Given the state of the current game, they should remove the Master Level experience requirment.  They also should increase the scroll drops for the rarer drops by 100% and they need to make it so that the master levels can all be done by 1-2FG.  If they did that I doubt most people would have a problem with it.  Spending some amount of time to get these items most people would think is worth it, however spending all of your time doing it most people get upset.