My experience and review of RoR

[Fallenkezef]

A couple of WB Leaders, Guild Masters and players were having a similar discussion recently on a Guild Discord, regarding blobbing, the state of RvR and low quality gameplay getting worse and worse - players only looking for easy rewards.

I'd like to quote Only's response that the majority of us agreed about what might be causing the current terrible trend of RvR and the server:

I think the downfall of scenarios is why the current player quality is drastically worse.
I learned how to play the game in scenarios. And even if I was losing hard sometimes, the different maps and different matchups were always motivating me to keep going. Especially with the old duo quo and how fun that was.

New players lack that. At best they join a warband and are expected to click some AOE buttons to win. Can't become better like that.

I believe the lack of Scenarios and a fix for its matchmaking is causing a much bigger issue for the server than anyone is remotely realizing, and it is a snowball effect that keeps touching all aspects of RoR.

Couldn't agree more

On live I played mostly SC. On RoR I've leveled several toons to 40 and then quit. Simply put, RvR is repetitive and boring and low renown players serve simply as rp farms for established players.

SCs, once you get to 40, are dominated by premades of high renown player and low renowns are simply farms again.

There is simply very little encouragement for newer players. The only enjoyment for many of us is leveling in low and mid tier SCs and then re-rolling because 40 is kind of boring and pointless.

[Fey]

Scenarios are an essential facet of the server, and I've complained about it to the point of annoying myself.

Barriers need to go, except for specific Scens. like Tower for example. Increase renown for playing to the objective. Reduce renown for kills. For participating in a 40+ scenario reward a minimum of 1000 renown.

Guards need to be replaced back to their old positions. It seems that the best explanation for their positioning is ranked scenarios. No one plays ranked. Imo an additional guard, either roaming or stationary, should be added in front of the spawn camp to prevent spawn camping. If you're new here, and you get spawned camp for one weekend, you're going to justifiably quit. The current mechanic is just a facepalm to be honest.

As far as the Orvr blob 24 target cap is kind of insane. Nine targets is likely better for the health of the server. Revert the morale damage nerf to spank the blob.

In my ideal world Areas like West Praag, and Cinderfall would be included as open pvp areas for live events. Going to these seldom utilized zones for pvp would be very cool.

Hoping the Summer lull won't be so lully.

[Fey]

I forgot every scenario has an open world entrance. That's probably wrong. These are a neat mechanic, but the things might as well not even exist. It seems obvious, and incredibly problematic, to require queuing for an event scenario from the open world scenario entrance.

That's probably a really bad idea, but maybe increase the base reward for queuing a scenario from an open world entrance. I doubt I've ever done it myself.

[abezverkhiy]

I have played WAR since the inception and tried almost every Order class.

In my opinion in RvR you can solo a well geared WH and IB - my experience tells me so. I don't have AM but see them soloing quite often. SM is also good. But as for other classes they are not good for soloing as they have anticlasses that can destroy them easily. Eg WP is eaten alive by SH most of the time.

In scenarios you can't solo by any class. You are a renown supplier if you are not in an organized party and not in Discord.