| heartbrand |
02-25-2014 09:16 AM |
On the bright side I've had a ton of blue I've been sitting on to trade for red that I've been unable to due to the recent surge in box popularity. This nerf will mean I'll be able to trade it at a good rate soon.
Here's some constructive criticism: you're two and a half years too late to mess with the xp when 95% of the server is level 50+, used the xp bonus, and there's thriving competition at the end game. Let's be real this nerf hurts azrael and red dawn more than anyone. It hurts azrael because they have no exp groups so no non 60's will have reason to join, and red dawn because no one wants to group for three hours to get 4% exp on a pvp box.
I understand you think that this will somehow make the lower and middle levels flourish but it will just make them quit, and make people like me waste more time power leveling people to have any shot to bolster my guilds numbers. There's not enough players to sustain groups. There's not enough correct classes to sustain groups. This change isn't going to somehow create clerics and enchanters out of thin air for people to group with.
I cannot overstate just how negative this change has been already and will continue to be for the box. I urge you, implore you, put this back in until you develop a grouping bonus and removal of the shared hybrid xp penalty or you will see this box drop off in pop at alarming levels.
If you truly wanted to encourage grouping, you would put in a grouping bonus / hot zones / removal of shared hybrid xp bonus (hybrids level slow still but don't share that penalty).
This change looks to me like many changes our government makes such as hiking the minimum wage, with the noblest of intentions, that almost always have the opposite of the intended effect. You can repeat your stated intention a thousand times over, but that won't make it any more likely that it comes true. We had classic exp for over a year here. What did we have? Single digit pop. Repeat. Single digit pop.
I trust that our voice has been heard and that some sort of immediate life support will be applied and FAST. The people who are quitting right now are exponentially less likely to return to the box when and if changes come, each day that the status quo remains in effect.
If this had been coupled with blue transfers, a reduced level range, the removal of FFA on sol b and perma, maybe the introduction of stonebrunt mountains and the warrens perhaps as a pre velious teaser, with velious when there will be constant groups, if it had been with ANYTHING then maybe then.
Luv u kids
- Heartbrand
Box Historian
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