Can we get an explantion about the T2 rats?

[Hiiiyaddudeishere]

People love progression, and when your renown is capped, then you want fast XP to remove the cap - and then go back to PvP'ing. With champ rats in the oRvR lake, then atleast you can still get killed, and somehow still be a part of PvP.

With the latest changes people are forced out of the oRvR lake, into PvE to grind slower XP, and you cannot get killed if not flagged for RvR. If RR cap was rank*2, then removal of the rats ment less, imo.

Players that want fast XP do not explore entire zones and try everything, they tend to find a nice spot and run a farm round, again and again. So the argument, about more testing, does not seem to be valid.

The conclusion must be that RR cap and slower XP equals less activity in oRvR, and that is a bit strange in a RvR game. That been said, I must also say that I am truly impressed by the massive amount of work that has been put into this project - and I love beeing back playing with old friends from live.

[Gnash]

No matter your take on this TEMPORARY situation, the point(s) that seems to be repeatedly overlooked is/are:

1. Alpha; burn "IT'S STILL A TEST" into your skull,

2. Rats were removed to move a bit of the T2 pop into RvE questing and PQ's TO HELP THE DEVS BY FINDING BUGS and other clusterfrags in the code AND REPORTING THEM so the devs can begin CLEANING UP the rest of the CODE THEY fundamentally BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP, so

3. this ALPHA PHASE TEST PROJECT can be f i n a l l y moved into Beta and beyond.

I'll add this:

Not one of us pays a dime to have this world available AFTER EA EXECUTED IT ON IT'S 5th ANNIVERSARY. Nice of dEAth to allow us to participate and witness the stomping out of up to 5 years free time investment (plus, you know, the monthly fee), the sundering of many healthy, solid online friendships and loads of camaraderie.

The Devs, as far as I know, receive NOTHING IN THE WAY OF PAYMENT FOR THEIR TIME spent IN ADDITION TO THEIR CURRENT CAREERS/JOBS, and more importantly FAMILY, FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES.

TL;DR: Simply burn this into your skull,"ALPHA: THIS IS STILL A TEST," and you'll be right as rain.

[lilsabin]

wOOt , cant wait to be in BETA phase , then...

[Wtfux]

I'm all for finding bugs and reporting them, but the problem you have with trying to force people onto the quests is that the quests do not offer enough XP, so players would are better sticking with SC/oRvR plus a few champions here and there. I'm still going to do these quests, but I wish someone would take pity on us and increase the percentage of XP offered.

[Genisaurus]

I'm all for finding bugs and reporting them, but the problem you have with trying to force people onto the quests is that the quests do not offer enough XP, so players would are better sticking with SC/oRvR plus a few champions here and there. I'm still going to do these quests, but I wish someone would take pity on us and increase the percentage of XP offered.

This is not out of the question, and is something I am looking in to.

[maulkin]

Boredom level; PvDoor > Quest farm > Grind > Public quests/Dungeons etc.