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…and gave me my first gold bag!

From the magical golden Santa bag I pulled my first piece of the Devastator set. Getting it kind of re-ignited some desire to get my character leveled up.

To be honest with you, I haven’t really been putting too much time into WAR lately. It’s probably because of the holidays and the bevy of new games I now have to play, but it may also be because the Warrior Priest went through a serious grind to 20; afterward, … well, he needed some time on the sofa with a Sigmarite Brand Baked Cheddar chips and +20 Reality Show Resist remote control.  He is now 23, and a lot of the past level has been primarily RvR in order to keep on my break from quest/PQ grinding. I’ve been using a steady mix of both open RvR and Scenario RvR. Most of the exp came from scenarios, and most of the fun came from open RvR, which is just wrong. Which brings up something that’s been itching away at my brain for the past couple weeks namely the promise we were made by Mark Jacobs on the 25th of November:

” Finally, I want to close this out with a brief explanation about the role that we believe that oRvR should play in WAR. It’s really as simple as this, oRvR should be a major focus for leveling, item gain, etc. in WAR. Some of the systems are already in place and in Tier 4, oRvR is alive and well. On other Tiers, however, oRvR is not being engaged in as often as we had hoped when we launched WAR. Our goal is to ensure that oRvR is the place where players can level the fastest, get the best items and overall, have a great time while doing it. It is supposed to be riskier, more challenging but ultimately, more rewarding than any other place within WAR. What is outlined in this letter are some of the ways we plan on making this happen over the next few months and beyond. “

You can read the entire post here.

I guess I’d like to know that Mythic is at least working on the exp issue in open RvR. Maybe they are trying to fix the hitching/lag/performance issues before they unleash rewards that would send tons of players to do battle in the same zone. All I know is, currently, it’s very hard to get any worthwhile experience in open RvR. Renown points, yes. But I’d like to see that XP bar move when I kill something. I’ve already made my suggestions for open RvR. I just hope Mythic has something in mind to make the system worth using.