Yagyu
Adept
Ya, considering the champ system here is is basically broken. The only way to do it is with like a solid guild group or just come in at the end and kill people. It is a joke that people join server, build up chars, then finally get to do a few champs...see how lame it is, and then they go back to WoW or Rift or whatever. I have seen this happen time and time again. When the server does events are the only time most of these people do champs. Champs are not fun, and not worth the effort here. Once in a while is fine, but this is UO...it is too much trouble to do the champ spawns. What is needed is instanced champ spawns so if you have say 10 people you get your own champ and kill it. Want the game to be fun and attract many more people, do that...hell, in eq2 we killed all the contested and all the casual guilds use to ***** so what they did was made an arena where you could fight one but the rare, contested loot is much less. I would suggest something like this, something with RDA style champ spawn that a guild could enter and then try and finish. I would say the loot would be less, maybe a PS or 2 but not rares and all the stuff they are adding. I think until they do this or something similar, 90% or whatever of the server isnt going to do champs. I can see why, although just sticking at the champ getting a ton of damage then hiding when POWER or whoever comes is easy enough way to get scrolls. But thats not fun, and I think its cool how they are contested and it is fun PvPing and fighting for the champ. But it is hard to find active people here that log on consistently and literally 99% of the time a champ is run someone ends up coming and ganking it.
Really though champs are super fun, but most people here dont even do a champ spawn a week and have no interest whatsoever in them after doing 1 or 2. I am not a casual player, but most people are. Casual players are what keeps the server going. Yet everything caters to the non-casual hardcore people that are likely not going to leave anyway. I think the server was much better a few months ago, some changes were good but moreso the majority of them took away from the game. Lowering loot, and ruining skill scrolls + pets/taming is just a start. They say ss rate is the same, yet I use to get 5-10 an hour clearing terras in swamp or ogre lords...now I havent seen one from either since the change. The few I have gotten were all reds, or hiding (uhhh is that a joke?) Hide goes up so fast you dont even have to macro it...same broken spelll set...half of the level 8 spells are the same useless elemental spell...still can go to brit and sell 50 sewing kits and not get a BoD...I PvPd for like 6 months or more when I first came to the server and it just gets boring. My red never died, my partner got banned for NOTHING...and all pvp here is ganking, running, and when you kill someone they come back 2 in seconds with next toon...it gets really tedious. And tourneys and non-field pvp never did much for me. I still like to hunt reds, or go out on my red...but it is so quiet lately I never see anyone. Guess they are all sitting at bank=\
Id really like to see champions fixed/improved, BoD system changed, new spells added, and loot/skill scrolls fixed. It will be a nice start to improve the paragon chests though. I have been trying to buy a dragon, but havent seen any for sale...and I keep hearing that it is a full time job for 6 months to train them, and taming ss are not existent getting to 120 now is wayy too much trouble.
Most of the players I see that have been here for a while only play tamers. Do you think any new player is gonna want to make a tamer when they see its basically impossible to get to 120 without dedicating 6 months of your life or spending a huge amount gold. I dont even know what to say when I explain that to new players and they are like, wait what? So taming use to be OPd, easy to raise, cheap to raise...and now they nerfed pets, nerfed taming ss drop, and made the biggest addition they have added yet something ONLY for tamers?
