The appeal of classic wore off pretty quick with a lot of US players, mostly the people playing there are people who came back to DAoC specifically for it, most guilds that moved from a ToA server to it didn't take long to move back. Also, 1.81 makes ToA much more fun, it's still essential but it's relaxing - you don't have to spend 30mins+ fighting through to the ML7 group steps for example only to potentially whipe on one of the steps and have to repeat, 1.81 lets you port right to between steps .5 and .6 of dungeon based MLs apart from ML9 meaning you can port to the middle of sobekite eternal, temple of twilight or deep volcanus - no more boring, risky runs etc. Scroll farming is also so easy now, it takes just long enough to get a scroll for it to be worth having the feature exist but not so long that you get bored, I have a short attention span for farming but I got 4 scrolls I wanted in the space of 30mins last night which really isn't bad imo. You get like a scroll off every other mob so it kinda keeps you going as it's nice to see what you got.Gandelf wrote:Just proves the point (for me anyway) that ToA was the biggest mistake that Mythic made.
If there had been no ToA, then Mythic (and GOA in turn) would not have had to have made the retrograde step of commissioning the "Classic" servers and we would not be in the position we are in now, where all the Hibs are playing on Glastonbury and leaving the Prydwen Hibernian frontiers open for plundering.
What they should have done instead, is remove ToA from all the servers, disable all artefacts and ToA drops, but leave the ToA races. Yes, it would have created a few problems in the short term, but at least everyone would still be on Prydwen.
Having said that, I'm enjoying playing on Glastonbury and loving the notion that there is on ToA on it. But, my heart dispairs somewhat for the fate of Prydwen.
I kind of get the feeling that Mythic are just clutching at straws to try and prolong the life of a game that a number of people feel should have been consigned to the scrapyard many months ago.
Personally as of 1.81 I'd say ToA servers are actually the more fun and more balanced ones - classic has issues like perma-buffed vamps on a no-bot server or casters who have bots and just abuse them in tower/keep warfare to farm the people who have to have their bots in the open where they're free rps if they want to be buffed too or buff limits making different realms 8vs8 groups unbalanced or cutting the number of possible group layouts making 8vs8 less interesting.
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