Got the email and had a couple free days so checked it out:
Server is pretty jacked. It's just stock PEQ DB that's trimmed some of the obvious out of era content, although it's half-assed and they missed a lot of it. The same bugs, pathing errors, velcro walls/corners, zone server disconnects, pathing grid problems and loot/quest(4/6 broken quests so far, including n00bie tunics) issues as any other stock server. You would think they would have caught some of it in beta (I think it went on at least a year?).
Experience gains went from "terribad" to "faster than P99 on a twink" to "OMFGBADCANTEVENPLAY" to "terribad" to "ehh, it kinda works but still sucks."
Tons of white knights claiming the exp is ok because a few bards swarm kited to 20+ after 4 days, and the people who grinded through the "faster than P99 on a twink" stage before it was nerfed and shot up to 15+. There have already been balance issues (some iksars noobs earning 200+pp each the first day because of coin drops, first day huge experience bonuses for some zones)
The current exp rate for a decent group in hotzones/dungeons killing reds is around 4-6 hours per level in the low teens. I'm at 23 hours /played at level 9.1 ~ Can I haz backstab this week please?
Just can't justify putting any effort into a server that has been in beta for so long and still resembles one that I could cut up from the stock DB in a few days or less.
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