Realm imbalance and player trends

Originally Posted by Vroek

It will not cost much to sustain a character or level up without fatigue.
Im sorry but i think alot of players are really cheap.

Until i had to level a marks with new economy, i thought the same - especially while leveling in WZ with a "war setup".

I use 2 repair hammers a day, just for the bow. In order to make 43 to 44, i used around 22k arrows, thing i can't get with xym. 1 arrow = 11 gold. 22k arrows = 242k. Repairing a bow with gold is 32k/repair. Without boosters, i needed 4 days to do it : 242k + 64*4 = 498k gold. Income is 600k-ish, according to the amount of gold i've atm. So i almost lose gold and i'm leveling in WZ, so initiation arrows are no way

I can say that repair hammer is nice for warriors, because weapons and armor usually become worn at the same speed, while the hammer will just be useful for the bow as marks, and won't pay arrows.

The high cost comes with leveling with XP-boosters only, which even then is not very much looking at the cost over a period of 6-12 months.

Well, i know a knight in Alsius who leveled the f... hard way and have 1M at 50. I'm sure you know who he is, and how much time it took to him to be 50. On the other hand, my knight over boosted before 45 has 4.8M - thanks to the nice aquas knights we have in inner. Nice example of realm imbalance ^^

I also think the relocation of mobs was bad, it killed large part of the WZ which now only host low level mobs.
At least make it so player over lvl 40 have to try their wings and after 45 it shouldnt be a single mob in inner realm to level on.

Totally agree, the difference between 45 and 50 is not that much, and for those who arrived after mob relocation, some places like menirah surroundings were the place to NOT go while hunting because we had 10+ people in beach leveling on aquas leets, all 45+. I imagine how meni beach would look like with current population and old mob location... easily 40+ at rush hour if you compare with inner realm beach !

When gigo says Ignis is like China, believe me he's right on this, if you kick the 45+ of inner, we would be easily the twice we're currently on fort wars and leveling areas. Meleketi beach is your #1 XP ranking dream !

WZ was also quite safe from hunting parties because wars in forts were almost permanent, the boring thing in RO atm, is that we lost the "instant action" thingy - hence now all you have to do is hunting, and killing levelers is fun 5 minutes, no more, especially levelers in WZ nowadays are mid 3x, low 4x. Well this last point is personal - but i'm not the only one thinking this way.

If you're more than 45+ and want to level in WZ, now you're camped camped and camped. And enemies comes by groups from 5 to 20 ! Swamps, shaanarid, orc camp, between PN and PN2, everywhere... and good luck to find some leveling mates if you're from Ignis or Syrtis. I even tried to level in Alsius peninsule - same there, not enough goats to kill the greens camping them (and local population is quite hostile too ^^).

Peninsules from Alsius and Ignis suck anyway as mage/archer, no market at kilometers and heavy loots ! Ignis lacks an interesting alternative for meni area at lvl 40-45, etc etc.

Really atm, PvE is the most imba thing between realms, and people complaining about Ignis lvl 40+ leveling should go in Alsius...