2X Renown and Crests on Weekends Permanently

[Delerium69]

The recent 2X renown in scenarios and oRvR event was a huge success seeing a lot of population log in and some epic fights (sure some blobbing but FUN!)

How about make 2X renown and 2X crests in scenarios and open RvR a permanent thing on weekends?

This would benefit new players and also old ones that are levelling alts.

Delerium

[dunaline]

The only thing that would do is making 80+ premades roflstomping pugs even more in scenarios in their quest to 100

[Apocaliptico]

I agree and I've already commented on this on other occasions, but some staff still think that this game is a launch and doing this will make people reach levels and coins faster, so they would lose interest in the game... Which is obviously a completely nonsensical thought.

[Delerium69]

The only thing that would do is making 80+ premades roflstomping pugs even more in scenarios in their quest to 100

Not necessarily - that wasnt quite what was happening during the event. Sure many SC's had premades but thats what discordant queues are for. Having it in open rvr was fun and gave options. You could join a zerg, join an oranised, small scale, solo.... endless options and all had their own merits.

Del

[Delerium69]

I agree and I've already commented on this on other occasions, but some staff still think that this game is a launch and doing this will make people reach levels and coins faster, so they would lose interest in the game... Which is obviously a completely nonsensical thought.

Fun is the big factor in any game. Incentivise things and people play - all events have shown this. It would be good to see server stats to see:

• how many 'old' players that werent active logged in during the event.

• How many new players we had

• how many people created alts and started levelling them etc.

[germ32]

I agree, progression should be made faster and I also think that this would increase player interaction. Doesn't matter if premades can farm their way up to 80 with full sov on a 2nd or 3rd character faster -- if it decreases the amount of time the average player needs to repetitively get their ass beat day in day out before they get enough gear to compete then it is a healthy change.

People play pvp games to pvp not collect gear. There were far more concurrent players on the server when the level cap was 28 and you could get BiS in like two weeks, so the argument of 'people will quit if they max their character' absolutely does not hold up imo.

Not everyone wants to be at the mercy of some random pug pve group as their only means of progression, nor should pve be the best way to progress a new character (and it currently is).

Anyone against this is a massive simp that doesn't want a level playing field

[Reivren27]

Many people here have 5+ pumped characters, and some have even more. Someone takes a break from the game, someone comes back, and the influx of new players will still be minimal for certain reasons, and you, dear developers, will hardly be able to attract fresh forces, because there are a number of more modern mmorpg that potential players will prefer.
I agree that you need to speed up the pumping, even if only slightly, because slow pumping is tedious and not fun, and when you in a conditional Vanquisher equal in rr points with a player who has Sovereign gear, it will be more fair.

[Rexdale]

Recently coming back (about 3 years), to mostly an order character select anywhere from 45 to 78 and a handful of fresh 40/45 destro in conqueror gear.

I gotta say, it feels bad to have wasted so many what-would-be SOV Crests on the Conq, Vanq and god forbid my slayer/RP with Invader. Because I didn't do a lot of PvE then. For reasons that are PvE related and yeah, I'm missing out on sentinal rings and bloodlord weapons as per aforementioned reasons let's not dwell on that.

On the other hand the bonus weekend felt good as I work on this Mara, goals seemingly attainable. I do wish the queuing was better and not am I a fan of the fact my RvR time must now actively compete with PvE for progression purposes.

An additional side note, handful of friends have been playing too and there is something clunky about queing as more than 1 but less than 6. Dreadful queue times ending the night early in some cases.

Anyways, more bonus weekends! I would also settle for bonus NA weeknights.

Thanks

[Schweedy]

I would also settle for bonus NA weeknights.

THIS!!! I don't play on weeknights NA primetime due to how little scenarios pop. It doesn't help that the weekend event is a 3 day affair only. Making all scenario events Friday to Thursday would encourage players to keep doing scenarios past weekends and liven up the weekday scene for NA primetime.

I have zero motivation to battle or craft for ghost towns and play non-combat waithammer in the RvR lakes. May as well grind some First Descendant or Throne and Liberty.

[NoEternity]

Yeah, double rr was also good for sub40 characters as well. Just run boxes in Troll Country for an hour with +10% pie and 25% potion active, no need to even try (and die miserably) in rvr. End up with 15k rr and a gold/purple bag without even defending the keep, not to mention at least 1-2 ranks gained from boxes