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So when will raids get back to normal?
Post Neamhainn, asking people for raids :
s3 raids, out of 10 people asked (on average) :
doing neamhainn
ceebs
afk
doing story to unlock neamhainn
neamhainn practice runs
helping friend unlock neamhainn
ceebs
just on for bingo
Do you have a party? (answer is no, because everyone is doing neamhainn)
Just going to do abomination 2x for essence
The ratio is worse for Nifleheim/Abyssal arena. When will people start doing s3 raids/Nifleheim again?
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Or maybe they're like me and just logout till next week.
Quick battle isnt going to attract more players, its a party matching system in theory, but that only works if your server has thousands of players on at the same time like WoW or FF14. When your server has sub 100 players on at the same time, most of which are max level, new players aren't going to find people to party with via quick battle. And nobody wants to sit on a boat waiting for hours hoping a random stumbles onto it and joins the party, they are just going to solo it. At best it might help some max level players find the occasional party if they have notifications turned on.
Lol. Only endgame content is neamhain. S3 raids have been a joke for a while now with the power creep and the easy access to lvl 90 weapons/gear.
I think most of the players who are active are going to be people who are at end game, regardless of server. This is just one of those games that are pretty top heavy, kind of like guild wars. Obviously a larger server population helps though. Its a pity that the game has just lost way too many people to games like BDO or Tera, or people rage quitting because the content is too hard or due to the enhancing/enchanting system.
Easy access to level 90 orange gear doesnt mean anything when getting enchants is still a PITA and +10 is pretty much the bare minimum to be useful.
Guild Wars had AI to compensate for lack of playerbase at all brackets. This game doesn't. Also max level in Guild Wars took like 2-3hrs. Where as max level in this takes a week. The entire new player experience is a shitty lobby based single player game at this point.