Renown was definately a step in the right direction. And I am sure a lot of the new players will benefit from it. Would it be to much to give all new players full boat of renown? or 2x the renown to mortals? This may promote more pk among them. Or trials could expand in the types of quests required, like pk quests as somone suggested or "group quests".
I would like to see more benefits from group running. More interaction between people. Curved exp/gold for each additional member or something.
Sigil cits are great! You can hide behind a big tank and still feel like you contributed or steal the enemy sigil, or contribute indirectly. (healing, northwind, fade, etc). This promotes mixing newcommers with veterans.
Mabey some quests that require newplayers and majors to coroborate, would give everyone something to do and help out.
The misty tower has a quest were you gather 3 pages and get + 30 to any stat (use to be + 50). That kind of quests will also help newbies.
The crafting system as is, is awesome, and it definately takes a long time to gather scraps/components. I would love to see random salvage in Every area with more combinations. If you were botting you would simply loose it
! Also the 18 hour wait is a killer. Even if they crafted gear wasn't that great it could be sold/traded to mortals. This would create a 'second economy' that everyone could participate in. If salvage accessable to only mortals (mortal only areas) was needed to make a really buff major weapon and vice versa this would further promote interaction between newbies and veterans.
I personally believe that augmenting ruined any chance of 'catching up'. The big get bigger.. and bigger. and This took a toll on pk. (it takes forever to fight someone now) You hardly see it now days and nodeka use to be a pk mud. (This is the reason I was attracted to it, else I would be playing nwn2 or some other mmo).
Many clan members hold grudges for killing their cronies. and everyone bots all day. Someone said that nodeka has become something you just let run in the background... So true.
I dunno what can be done about it. And that is why we are brain storming!
Sasuke
p.s. I like the idea of everyone grouping up against endless waves of monsters
oh and someclasses need revamping
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