Originally Posted by
Kanoraukar
Well, you in fact got a point there. Problem is, that most of the creeps are still on their freeps to grind FAs and essence gear, same for 'normal' freeps. With the last update probably the biggest grind so far had been brought to the game. In order to get the top essence stuff you not only have to do the new DA quest but also need to grind older content dailies, like warbands to get the tokens for crafting scrolls etc.. So that means people are and probably will be busy quite a while if they want to max their multiple toons. That means the only freeps and creeps in moors right now are either hardcore pvpers that dont do anything else, or players who decided it's not worth the pain to grind for the essence stuff at all. There's no new raids coming, people are only farming t1s and like 95% of the players are to impatient to give t2c a serious try. That means the majority of players doesnt need to be top geared at all because they wont run t2c raids anyways and in moors you can be fine with lvl 95 jewellery and maybe a FA. So unless people figure out it's more or less a pointless grind and go to moors instead not much will change.
So the current state of imladris is pretty low. The earlier mentioned hardcore pvpers have mostly transfered to other servers where the action was higher already. A huge amount of players, for example almost all in my kin, let their vip run out because no new stuff was added and moors were dead. The rest still waits for the moors to recover and the action to grow again, which isnt going to work if you are not going there. So what players can do now to maybe get some more action is to go to moors again and show you're here. If creeps see more freeps coming back, the more creeps will show up again and vice versa. Not going to happen though if you just wait for ~5 creeps and freeps magically increase the numbers.
I've been out here for a week again now since i was pretty busy in rl the last month and already had some good fights. Ofc you have to search them and you'll be roaming around alone not finding people 90% of time right now. The biggest issue i've made out so far is that people are too afraid of dying. No idea why though. Maybe they think too much about others might call them bad players if they died or they just want to keep their rating for feeling better or whatever. Im not saying im not doing it myself, i also run quite a lot of times, mostly if there's two or more creeps trying to kill me, or if skamtor/malgil/durgwenor find me. What i mean is mostly wargs since they make like 85% of the creeps these days.
I heard it from other higher ranked freeps also that they've been followed by wargs for quite some time but none of them jumped unless they had npcs on them or were at low morale already for whatever reason. It also goes so far that there's wargs watching 1v1s at ggrim in stealth because they are too afraid to show up because someone might try to fight them or maybe even zerg them. So those wargs are mostly farming lvl scaled freeps because they are a 100% kill, no skill/luck/or anything needed. So pls, maybe try to jump other freeps than scaled ones or some without rank and gear. If you're about to die, take the death rather than hipsing/sprinting away. Some fights can be pretty close at the end and people still might die from bleeds. Dont be afraid to die, seriously i've died so many times creeps/freeps regularly call me a noob that needs to improve his skills, (some say it's pointless), that only runs in groups/only zergs, cant kill creeps solo, is the worst champ on imladris... do i look like i care?
Another thing i like to mention is group play. If players like Skamtor or any other veteran try to make a group, there's actually a reason for it so join it instead of mapping grams and qq in ooc if you're pveing, do your pve stuff after. I know you'll need the pve for maps, but if you got a chance to fight freeps you shouldnt be doing pve, just my point of view though.
Zergs like yesterday evening can happen. To assume that any side got a zerg raid though just because there's 8-10 freeps around isnt always right. In fact i only had a group of 5-6 and had a pretty good fight with Skam/Hellsweb at goldie ramp. We were just waiting for creeps to group up too so we could have a 6v6, but after a few mins Skams switched and said it's not going to happen.
Concerning group play i'd also ask to atleast try to stay reasonable. There's a huge lack of minis/rks/healers at all right now. So if you see it's a dps group on either side, try to avoid bringing heals, it will probably automatically destroy the action, maybe bring a wl/cappy instead. Worked fine so far though most of the time. This way both sides will get kills and everyone is happy.
Now to the most annoying part, OPs. No idea why there's this flipping all the time. Ofc we all know our warg/burg who constantly does it on either toon he is. But as mentioned in another thread already there's plenty of other creeps and this time it is mostly creeps that seem to camp ops, prevent people from taking it. No idea if they need all four OPs to feel like they can attack a freep then or they still think having four OPs doesnt mak a difference, anyways it's stupid. Try to keep them equal, especially when there's 1v1s going. Ofc i sometimes also take ops just to see if creeps show up but im not camping them except the one time this we, which we actually did to annoy our special friend, btw sorry again to cuthodroden and any other creep on at this time.
So in conclusion, most important thing is, bring your friends out. There's been times with really good fights on imladris, make sure we get them again. Join groups if veterans are actually making some, you wont regret it. Stop the pve if you see freep/creep around. Stay reasonable and maybe just let a questing scaled freep pass if you see them. I bet the majority of scaled freeps wont come back with higher lvl if they see they got killed without having any chance.
Good fights
Eisen
