Medallion / Devastator Wipe

[Vigfuss]

Great decision, and /salute to the order groups who played against the zerg yesterday.

[Vdova]

I dont know. I have verry strange feelings about this. When I logged yesterday and shout in game announced medallions drop now, we moved to elfs and there were huge battles zerg vs zerg. In 2 hours we took 2 zones. I dont know how it continued later, but when I was logged the numbers were pretty much balanced and I must say I never saw such huge order zerg for a looong time(including in WAR: AOR.).

Order has been rolling orvr for few last weeks and nobody whine about that.

I was so driven to play today with my WE, but when I read the last post I have no motivation, because new rvr items from elfs are far worse, than I am wearing now. On other hand there are some items for my zealot which make me log in to game to farm inf for them.

It is sad, that such great patch is ruined by order whiners and X-realmers.

[Azarael]

I dont know how it continued later, but it wasnt anything to whine about.

This alone is why you shouldn't have posted. How it went down was that a zerg took keeps for hours, farming tons of medallions, because it was a better use of time to switch to the winning faction to PvE against undefended keeps than to fight and lose.

[Tiggo]

im not a dev but i would really like the things get less stressful, i dont want ppl start loose faith in dev and also, i dont/can agree with the wipe but i can understand it, my fear and it's what i asked around if is that ppl would start quit cos they felt like teased in this whole matter.

r.

oh come on, if someone quits because of this, LET HIM QUIT. no one needs those kind of people anyway.

[Tiggo]

on a second note: i FULLY support this decision (i wasnt sure devs have the guts to do it, but they did!)

and i salute Aza for staying calm with all these totally stupid idiotic accusations ...

KUDOS to my beloved devs!

and now stop the whining and post ideas and solutions in the official rvr thread!

[Zxul]

Firstly, most if not all of the players up all night invested that time because they knew something was wrong and wanted to milk it.

Aza, lets me clarify. Quite a few of us invested the time because for quite a few of us WAR was always about roaming or scs, whatever solo or in 6man. As such, when there is a feature introduced which forces us to do the keep zergfest, we are trying to get over with this crap as fast as possible and then get back to what we are playing WAR far.

I'm well aware of your particular preferences; I don't like zerging either. What I do not understand, however, is how your post invalidates my point in any way. You can want to get something over with as quickly as possible AND know the ORvR situation was screwed up, having the intention of milking this.

Problem is, we weren't necessarily aware that ORvR situation was screwed up- considering that order was zerging empty keeps in pretty much the same way for quite some time before yesterday, zerging the destro any time somebody actually bothered showing up for defense, without any action taken.

Edit: To clarify, not because I assume devs supporting order, but because keeps were always about one side zerging, including in old WAR, and it went the same way on this server, as such it was pretty much assumed that it is a normal state of affairs- that dest will zerg till all get full Devastator, then it will switch to order zerging empty keeps (and with destro that didn't farm enough medallions during destro zerg not being able to get Devastator till most of order having full sets).

[Koradrell]

You have all my support Azarael. Keep up with the good work. By the way, have you thought about dynamically adjusting RvR depending on the amount of people playing factions at a given time? For instance, the number of opened zones could depend on the actual number of people connected.

I think we all should be more educational. Instead of trying to "force" people not to join a zerg, try to teach people how good and fun is playing more split and distributed manner, but at the same time reward the realm pride.

[Vdova]

Ok, but I must also admit, that making Soldier medallions drop !MAINLY! from keep takes was just bad idea. It should drop from players(by 1 or in clusters of 5) in scenarios (more often than equip drop) and at the end from keep takes/zone locks.

Dont let great things ruined by some selfish individuals who change theyr sides like socks only to be on the winning side.

[Ley]

Best decision possible considering the circumstances.
Good job <3

[Toldavf]

Was on des i saw the zerg logged off due to bordem after first keep.

Best solution i can think of make a kill quest for medals 25 kills = 5 medals = 1450 kills for a set and allow contribution so healers get a chance to complete it.

You could even tack it into an existing kill quest so we get a little silver to.