I think you hit the right on the money here...Im new to hib and just getting my first rvr char in the vincinity to beeing done. But Ive tried to run out abit solo between lvl 40-50. Doing this for some leech rps works nicely and is great fun in alb/mid, problem is there isnt any easily located serging in hib. We saw some nice casualplayer style fighting when we had 3 way action at DC (mids in Crim and albs in hurb) a couple of weeks ago.Merino wrote:Mids and Albs are busy opening beachheads into the other realm, so the casuals can have what people like to deride as iRvR. Hib however seems to consist of the lucky Haves (wanted classes that run in organized FGs) and Have nots (unwanted classes, badly templated toons, casual gamers who cannot commit to regular RvR) and soloers. The soloers usually hang around bridges, the Have nots do PvE or play a toon in Mid/Alb so they can surf the zerg, the Haves run around in the enemy zones ganking soloers around the bridges, hitting the enemy zergs, or head to Agromon yelling at everyone else “Don’t add you *ç%&!!”
The hopes set in the patch 1.82 to finally bring the massive battles advertised on the original game box have not materialized, Hib is more fractionized than ever. No enemy realm dares take one of our keeps due to the Bainshee/Animist defenders, so they just leave us out of the massive fights.
It seems there is lots of Haves and the Have nots seem to have moved somewhere else, therefore no organized Hib RvR raids are happening atm. Alex tried Monday night, but the few Hibs were rolled by the alb zerg.
Luckily DF is bugged, so at least we PUGs can have a go there. Let’s see how long it holds. From my POV RvR is not too much fun, the 8vs1-8 crowd will tell you something different. Judge for yourself which kind of RvR you like and if the current situation benefits your style.
Merino/Yeyi
The main problem is that the defencive capabilities of hibs will just make mids and albs stay out of hib. So we will have to be the ones taking initiative to get some action. Which seems hard when most casual players dont even check the /rw map anymore.
But if we seriously want to create some fun action in hib, we might wanna consider lowering lvl on Crim or Hurb. That way we might get some sieges there. (But Id personally prefere to get iRvR from Berk:)
/Finculin