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I also experienced this, however I'm lucky insomuch as I'm playing order who is severely outnumbered. I have on average a 30s wait to get into a scenario. This keeps everything interesting.

Also, check your realm's forum. Find a large guild and join up with them - in our guild there tends to be a group at almost every tier. Whereas WoW is perfectly content to be a solo game, this game from the beginning tries to get you to work with others for maximum efficiency. Utilize guilds for all they are worth - they're meant to be your social hubs in the game.

Edited, Oct 6th 2008 2:40pm by scubamage

Maybe they overestimated the launch sales? There's enough servers, but the population is pretty sparsely distributed. It said the most populated servers were medium for both sides when I made my character.

I'm not finding that, but i have noticed that there is a severe drop in the people i see as i progress in the game, the zones are getting bigger people move around and don't stay in an area often

From what I've seen so far, you won't have this type of trouble often on an Open RvR server but you may on a Core server. The Open RvR servers have the largest populations for obvious reasons: the game is about WAR so the majority of players sign up on servrs that fully support WAR! That said, on Chaos Wastes I notice a preference amongst players for certain BGs. Phoenix Gate and Tor Arnoc have little to no wait times while other BGs of the same level have down times between games. Either way, having to wait for any particular aspect of the game should not slow your levelling down - there are many other ways to level.

Edited, Oct 6th 2008 5:08pm by Tazilon

First off, great to see Allakhazam posting. I am having that experience of dead areas and level ranges a fair bit, and I think this game will not work for casual soloers long term (the way it is now). However, I think Mythic will retune it aggressively once the bulk of the player base is past level 20s --otherwise there will be many PQ that just don't get completed ever for example.



Also on Chaos Wastes with my Order main. Mourkain Temple is the one that pops the most for me when I queue all 3. Order que times are much shorter here than my (somewhat limited) experience as Destruction on Bechafen. I will agree that scenarios are healthy on Chaos Wastes but I am not convinced on the tier 1 and 2 RvR lakes. Tier 1 I see a few higher level Order take objectives once in a while and then 5 Destruction take them back shortly thereafter for a much longer duration. As for keeps it is my understanding that Order has held a few keeps for a short time since launch but aside from a few hours of solid conflict these areas are empty and Destruction held.

I hope when the levelling push ends for most the community presence amps up. I am loving the game and remain optimistic for what it could/should be in a few months.

ive got destruction on chaos wastes, better watch out for Room With A Moose!

It seemed I was able to get through T1 stuff pretty fast. T2 has taken considerably longer so far. I would imagine T3 will take longer still.

I do see the flaw with the PQs though. Some of them are rather silly. The PQ is in BFE and if you get killed, you have to run through all kinds of mobs just to get back to it. It's not worth the trouble.

The champions and heroes themselves can be an issue as well. I've tried to do a few of them with a small group and it often ends poorly. Once everyone is a few levels above the mobs, it gets a little easier but they can still put a major hurt on the players.

The PQs are a wonderful idea, people not needing to group up and also working to a common goal but it still seems to rely heavily on a decent number of people doing the fighting. Either that or being many levels above it.

Last night while I was attempting to complete a quest, I ended up dying three times trying to kill a Champion Witch who was of equal level to me. So I decided to wait for other questers to come along and enlist their help. I was very polite in my request:

"Hey, what's up? I'm trying to complete this quest and the Witch at the end keeps killing me. Would you mind parting up so we can kill her together?"

Twice questers came along and wouldn't even respond to my request with a "no." I sent one of them a party invite and he/she denied it. I don't get why people play MMO's if they can't even be decent to other players. A simple "no, thanks," would have been good. I resigned myself to just abandon the quest and move on.

I think this is a great game. Perhaps they should consolidate some of the servers for the time being.

You always try the new MMO's Alla.. and it's good. I understand what you've discovered with these issues, and a large part of the community in War see's them too. I am sure what is needed to be done, will be by the developers.. or, they go the way of lost and forgotten MMO's. Maybe it's too soon to try to point at these flaws, maybe not. As you've discovered, it's got some great features.

One of the great one, is the need to have others, to accomplish certian aspects. Should an MMO be a solo experience all the way thru?

I do agree on the queue times, but at the same time, can encourage those to help even out the population on servers, to ensure you get great queue's.