Lower the variance windows (ex: 3 days +-8 instead of what we have now for 3 day spawns) and add the spawned versions of epic kill mobs, and go ahead and itemize the minibosses in fear so that harder epics are not impossible to get without a bunch of money for a MQ or join the Uber raiding guild. It would give people a fair amount of stuff to do waiting on Velious. Its not "classic" for the timeline. But community wise it would be the right thing to do.
How many of you Shadowknights out there are waiting for a soul leech? Exactly. A couple days a week you can go raid fear for a golem kill run and maybe get one. You are still putting in the time and the work and raiding for it. It should be rewarded down the line. Why is the rogue epic given away at level one, and the shaman epic almost completely soloable except for the fear tear and final fight if you skip the right parts, while others are impossible with the itemization currently the way it is.
Also random repop "patch" days would be fun as well. For a raider, patch days are the cabbage days. They have always been like a midweek Christmas for raiders. If the guilds mobilize quickly on them, that is one day a week someone gets some loot and has some fun. The uber guild will not be able to get everything if the other tier guilds sit on Fay, or Talendor or even Sev. Smaller guilds have the benefit of having to mobilize less people and are tighter knit. 32k dragons die relatively quickly with a group of smart players.
I get the reasons why repop's are not done. Its to prevent the influx of high level items because the project is behind on its Velious release date. Essentially the market is as saturated with high level items as the end of live kunark, even though overall we had less spawns. So i am not saying that we should have a repop every Wednesday etc. etc. But a bi weekly quick bug fix patch would go a long way for casual raiders to be able to have some fun. The weapon skill bug having to wait a month plus did not do us favors in the newbie department. Things like this could be implemented into these patches and RnF would have a little less to complain about.
To Digress, Everybody eventually wants to slay a dragon. Everybody gets curious of what Venril Sathir is all about. It's a blue server. Nobody should feel griefed off a server due to wanting to do things. Uber guilds will essentially get the same amount of loot, Mid tier/Mid pop guilds will have a chance, and it will foster less frustration with this game. I am assuming that this project was put together so that people could go back to something they loved a long time ago.
I know the above is too long. Sorry about that.
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