Yeah, like I said, the game is fun if you do what is fun for you. Sailing around, robbing people and general PvP is still fun, at least until the people with super gear come into play
As for Auroria, dunno. We're trying for a castle today, see how that goes. We're big (2 guilds), we got NAPs (even with some reds) but we also have guilds that we specifically know will be targetting us. Going to be interesting for sure.
Lol, Auroria patch postponed again
Anyway, Vibe where the fuck is this info? We have NAP's with reds? Yesterday I went to pirate some reds with the Equilibrium guild.... and learned from them that we happen to have a NAP
Fukken frustrating.
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Overall I'm really frustrated about the way you can make progress in this game:
Farm Hasla -> yesterday I join our guild's raid to farm hasla, we had a really good spot, we managed to drive away the reds who tried to contest the spot, and there was nobody else in the raid that was rolling for the same tokens. So managed to get my t1 hasla shield in about 3 hours, not bad IMO. Now that I think of it, I was insanely lucky. If there had been one more player rolling for same stuff as I was, it would have doubled the time needed for me to grind that shit...
So, 150 tokens for t1, 200 more for t2, and 300 more for t3 hasla item. 650 tokens. So ~15 hours of similar streak as I had for t3, after the patch the competition will become insane, so maybe 45 hours if you're lucky? That will give you weapon that's pretty much the best this game has to offer.
Getting armor however is a bit tricky: I have GHA( Greater Howling Abyss) plate set, heroic body armor + 3 pieces are arcane. I've done maybe 10-15 runs of GHA. Next step would be getting Magnificent or better gear with at least arcane rarity -> Not gonna happen. Crafting all that isn't realistic. Buying it would cost ~1000g per piece. How to get that money? -> Credit card... or get RNG-lucky and sell a dozen Thunderstruck trees/something else to the credit card warriors.
So after this patch it's hasla farming, except that Hasla will be 10 times more crowded that it was before. And a credit card to get to yourself geared up -.-
I feel I'm done with this game. Gotta see how the Auroria patch goes. Guild stuff is pretty fun still, but as an individual player I feel there is no way I can ever compete against p2w players.