WoE Revitalization Poll

[Antimind]

I haven't read the four pages of replies so forgive me if I'm repeating anything someone's already said. Individual participation rewards would kinda suck. Since WoE is a team thing IMO rewards should be per guild not per individual. That's what PvP is for.

IMO the best way to revamp WoE would be combining some ideas to give EVERYONE involved a more rewarding and enriched WoE experience.

1. Open four or five forts (diff realms) for trans WoEs. Reset all econ/def on current forts and have them all under GM control to kick off the "new" WoE.

2. De-randomize all fort drops. Each fort has it's own set of drops. Make it so that the ONLY way to complete any god item is by having held each fort at some point. Everything down to the simple gears would be better off coming from specific forts.

3. Have a WPS style system. Maybe reward per month or quarterly. Award 1 point per break and 10 points for each fort held for a FULL WoE. Meaning you get no points for holding unless you had the fort at the start of WoE (meaning prior to) and held that fort without a single break. That would force guilds holding to actually keep people in a fort to hold for full points. It would also give smaller/inexperienced guilds incentive to go around breaking the hell out of each other to rack up points. Maybe have a points cap for breaks ( 5 per WoE?).

Top guild in the points standings per month or quarterly would get to choose from a list of "large" prizes. Points accumulated by all guilds could be spent to purchase things for guild. Simple things like slim white boxes or x amount of WSS/WoE supplies. Things that would keep people WoEing but also make life easier. Maybe have some gear choices or even hats. Higher end stuff could include individual god item parts (for a VERY high points price or top points only). If that's too OP maybe have special headgears or something available that's only available from WoE points.

4. Eliminate alliances (if more forts are available). Given people COULD unofficially ally but without the ability to ally they'd still be able to hurt allies. It just wouldn't work if "allies" are able to hurt each other unintentionally.

Those suggestions would give all players more of a reason to WoE. It would def make it fun and rewarding. Those suggestions are coming from my experience with iRO WoE. The only reason most guilds bother with 1.0 at all is for WPS. There you don't get points for breaks though (only holds). Here it makes sense to have them for breaks as well. That and the set loots on diff forts are the thing that keep WoE going. For the smaller guilds it's the ability to actually be able to get and hold a fort(s).

Note too that if there's a WPS style system in place the heRO high-tier guilds would be forced to send people out to break the other controlling guilds. Nobody would want to give away full holding points by sitting in their own fort. Especially if there are prizes that can only be obtained by being #1 in points standings. This would weaken defenses all-around. It would also potentially give smaller guilds opportunities to break larger guilds. It would also make it difficult to max econ/def on a fort.


EDIT: btw renewal lvling BLOWS. Renewal in general blows so far. A lot of iRO players have left or will soon be leaving because of it. If heRO has a more stable and interesting WoE in place it could def attract better pop. Not just with the pserv folks but a lot from officials with no pserv experience (who effing hate renewal too).