Placio
A PVE version could exist where you try to dig similar mats while waves of kitins attack.
I fail to see how this is similar to digging the supernodes at the moment. (To me "waves of kitins" implies a continuous influx of them, which is not the PvE equivalent of random PvP.)
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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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