Posted 03 February 2010 - 19:11
nice update with regard to the guild mailbox, people have been asking for that for a long time. shame there is still no way to hide the recruiting box though.
As for the GvG updates... well, way to misunderstand the problem. Here's a clue, one rp-item sold will happily fund a shiny new 4 person gvg farming guild. hey, consider what happens if they are all within a close level range... it's 1 person gvg all over again.
oh, and not forgetting that in my legitimate, and years old, solo guild, i am now prohibited from doing something in-game simply because a few rich players posted in a thread and turned it into a flamewar attacking anyone who disagreed, and dont even get me started on the unable to hit inactives thing...
seriously, we have guaranteed drops (seriously, a guaranteed drop...), massively unpopular changes being made at random (pm filter, gvg obviously, etc) ... hell, you even post exactly how much gold to type in during the scavenging le events..... and a lot of people venting on the forums at how unhappy they are.
here's an idea, take away the rp based items, and add them to the titan drop pools, add some variety in there, including the chance to get no drop. change the titan spawn zones then, remove the locations from the titan posts, and let people go find them.
it takes away the root cause of 1/4person gvg's. they only exist because of the extremely high-value items available from gvg. they are*too* valuable and the system is obviously being exploited. sure, add something else, some more buff packs or some-such. GvG has always gone on happily, people pretty much want to fight anyways, without the need for super-valuable prizes. the buff packs and such are a nice treat.
it also adds some mix into the titan hunts. right now, the moment a titan is announced, kills start kicking off. titans don't last very long because there are entire guilds dedicated to hunting the items just sitting in the zones waiting for a spawn, it's being exploited in a very similar way to gvg, with a few small groups being the continual winners. the prizes are simply too great to be able to ignore. by removing the "win button" in titan hunting (limited spawn zones, announced spawn zones), you open it up so that anyone can have a go, and anyone can win. remove the spawn zones from titan announcements, and the price from scavenging cave announcements.
but seriously guys, the gvg updates need to go.