What day is the 50-55 launch? My 50 Necro might take you up on that!
Weds at 5 PM EST. You down?
2 hours?! Guessing that's with an xp pot going and xp bonus, gonna be using charm too??
I'm probably not going to be able to level until the Friday which is annoying. Just have to do a necro now rather than a 4 box so might not be too bad. No XP bonus, but will have a pot and can solo if needed but should hopefully have a group for most of it. As long as i'm 55 by Sunday for our raids i'll be happy!
Yeah, I'll be running charm, would be cool to get another charm class for the last spot.
I thought about leveling a necro on another account this week with the bonus, but I figured it'd be redundant for trueboxing later since I have an Enc already for soloing stuff while my SK (actual main) sits in a corner.
What’s the status / focus / server pop on Vaniki? Is it one guild focused on progression or more? Is it a shitload of enchanters for charm? How’s gear being handled as a means of progression? OW vs DZ schedule? Bazaar used much? Boxing prevalent (or even required)? What are people and guilds focused on?
I imagine it feels like small man crew stuff on one very long expansion launch, which sounds interesting and fun.
Server pop is pretty good on Vaniki, saw a ton of people playing on July 4th when I expected it to be empty. Apparently the numbers aren't super high but you can't really tell from the amount of activity in the zones.
Bind Rush is focused on progression but a couple others seem to be competing as well. We'll see how things shake out at 55 when multiple guilds are probably gonna go for Emperor, Vex Thal, and Planes targets.
There are a lot of enchanters but not as many as I've seen on other server launches TBH. Saw a pretty good diversity of classes with this one, especially with Beastlord and Berserker available for once. Charm is about as OP as usual, can charm higher targets, but also get more breaks it seems like even on lower level mobs. Casters in general are OP on here with the resist changes while melees have it a bit rougher (constant misses).
I dunno how different guilds are doing gear. BR was doing loot council now DKP. Gear was generally funneled to main tanks and clerics first. As far as OW vs DZ goes I dunno how it is at the moment but I don't think a lot of batphoning is going on because there isn't much need. Bazaar is heavily used. Not a lot of boxing. Guilds are focused on all kinds of stuff but I've seen a bunch doing Luclin progression.
There's a hard cap on what raid mobs we can take down with the level limits, and the cap goes across a few expansions. Like I don't think anyone's doing NTOV or anything past the first couple of GoD zones. At 55 with AAs we're gonna see a ton of targets suddenly be doable.