Daomei, Arugula --
I've chatted with each of you before, so you know my thoughts, but I'm putting them out here in public.
I have not seen any q250 sup mats of significance since the fusion. The only source I know of for q250 sup zun (admittedly one of four, but the only one I have verified) is already under aggro most of the time.
I dig solo -- and I am not an adrenaline junkie. In fact, I like digging and crafting because I have time to think and don't have to twitch; there are mats on the surface that I don't dig for that very reason. I'd love to have some sup mats to play with and make good stuff from, but it probably is not in the cards unless I dump PT and join a guild that has a lot of people online in my time slot. I'm not quitting PT -- it fits me. In addition, I'm not at all sure there *is* a guild that matches the stated criterion.
The KP activity before the merge meant that effectively I was shut off from almost all sup materials (I found a few places). It's still the same due to campers and the jumpstart claim rush at season change. So I guess what I'm saying is that we don't need KP to keep sup mats rare for solo diggers. It certainly doesn't look as if the market is saturated even after a year and a quarter since the merge.
If the KP are reinstalled, I would hope that they would be fewer than before. Having to worry about one coming by every once in a while is way different from being pretty damned sure that they would be coming by within five minutes. Further, because of their near-instant respawn speed killing them doesn't give you any particular respite.
Still the devs will do what the devs will do, and the Dev Timetable says the KP are coming back.
I've chatted with each of you before, so you know my thoughts, but I'm putting them out here in public.
I have not seen any q250 sup mats of significance since the fusion. The only source I know of for q250 sup zun (admittedly one of four, but the only one I have verified) is already under aggro most of the time.
I dig solo -- and I am not an adrenaline junkie. In fact, I like digging and crafting because I have time to think and don't have to twitch; there are mats on the surface that I don't dig for that very reason. I'd love to have some sup mats to play with and make good stuff from, but it probably is not in the cards unless I dump PT and join a guild that has a lot of people online in my time slot. I'm not quitting PT -- it fits me. In addition, I'm not at all sure there *is* a guild that matches the stated criterion.
The KP activity before the merge meant that effectively I was shut off from almost all sup materials (I found a few places). It's still the same due to campers and the jumpstart claim rush at season change. So I guess what I'm saying is that we don't need KP to keep sup mats rare for solo diggers. It certainly doesn't look as if the market is saturated even after a year and a quarter since the merge.
If the KP are reinstalled, I would hope that they would be fewer than before. Having to worry about one coming by every once in a while is way different from being pretty damned sure that they would be coming by within five minutes. Further, because of their near-instant respawn speed killing them doesn't give you any particular respite.
Still the devs will do what the devs will do, and the Dev Timetable says the KP are coming back.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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