Dark vs Light WoE

[mahawirasd]

and indeed it was a fight. Turnout wasn't bad, but those who did turn up didnt seem like particularly prepared or had a strategy.

Not saying i know everything, but had people prepared a bit more it woulda gone much better.

Although the scaling of monster difficulty did escalate a bit high, i believe it was still doable if people planned ahead.

And it's not about being elitist or w/e, but the last time we had a big RP event (~2 years ago), when we divided properly into 89+ and < 89 ppl, we actually did quite good. Today ppl just came with preset parties with redundant roles rather than plan things out, so no wonder things didnt work out for the players.

Next time if possible please give better advance notice and assign 1 or 2 "allegiance leader" just to make group leadership easier so the GMs also know who the "generals" are. Last time the GMs did that, the generals actually did quite a good job of planning things with their allegiance and made the event overall more enjoyable and became a learning experience for all.

nevertheless, thanks for hosting the event, 'twas a good sneak peek and hopefully we can do more like this in the future.


OOT reg pvp/woe:
giving away hatter cards is in no way detrimental to the server economy. If anything, it creates more transactions between those who have money and those who don't. Remember that kafra, warpers, fwings, etc sink money, and the hatter sinks a dollop of it at a time and returns from the hatter only even out after you do the quest over 1000 times (just from the % chances).
Ergo, putting more hatters into the economy only makes it more liquid.

there were 30 zombie runs this week? sure. How many BGs were there? How many BG keys were used?
To get 1 event bag you gotta be a noble. Thats 20m sunk right there. For 1 bag. 1.

sure BG sinks money, but it also gives access to practically the best exclusive high end gears that cannot be gotten anywhere else.

There are ruiners in BG? same with zombie events (lurers), taming events (killers), and other types of mischief that can be done in most other instances.

if you like PVP, there are more than enough pvp rooms and hourly BG instances to satisfy your thirst. The fact that other people do not share your sentiment is out of the GM's responsibility. Hell, if you believe in free will it's probably out of god's realm too.

You say the older woe players left because of no hope. I say they left because they got bored. They got bored because they reached the top and nobody gave enough of a fight to challenge them to keep their interest. Is that the GM's fault? I certainly think not. The WOE here gives way more returns in term of material gains than most other servers out there. It just so happens most PVP-minded RO players nowadays only want to play for short amounts of time for that adrenaline rush which means they play in SHRs rather than LRs.

If the GMs are to blame for anything in regards to not making woe more inviting for more people, I can only accuse them of not allowing more easterly players a fighting chance to join the woe scene. My accusation is merely based on the fact that there seems to be a substantial number of eastern players in the server. Whether they will or will not woe if a more hospitable timing opens up is up for discussion, but i can only say "nothing ventured nothing gained".

Personally if i were a woe-going person i would revel at this chance to farm god item materials. For whether "efficient god item mats farming" equals to "interesting woe" i think the answer is NO. But then that's just the woe-going players' fault for not splitting up into more guilds to make things more exciting rather than clump up and get easy wins to get easy god item parts.

@what marco said
i believe "novice events" include taming and zombie.
I postulate that even with all those events included and counted, you'd still end up with more BG instances than non-pvp events.

plus basically what ellie said regarding the last RP event being over 2 years ago and about catering to the majority. darn wench keeps becoming more agreeable as time passes... i suspect foul play is afoot!


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