diablo three out tomorrow, guild wars 2, new wow expansion, mothers day, nice weather...
LD/P@in has chessy locked down anyways... just saying. Solus ran back to Atl, PITS has seemed to taken more of an interest in peerless and your guild has been no where to be found.
For someone who is 1. Hardly on 2. Slower than molasses and 3. A pretty useless pvper you sure do like to act as if you have done something.
Why hasnt MM been on chessy? Lets see
1. Points - Someone decided to go into TB, and raise the point requirement for rank 10 to absurd levels. 80% of the guild, does not have rank 10, and while this doesnt effect people who only play Chessy (Like PAIN), for a guild that tries to play multiple shards it isnt that easy. This will be a rare occurrence that I AGREE with Stuii, that EA dropped the ball big time.
2. Activity is low - Checking spawns is tiresome when 60% of the time, NOTHING is happening. Yew gate is pretty dead
3. Activity on ATL - HIGH - ALWAYS people at yew gate, 90% chance when checking spawns, you will find someone doing one.
4. Market - The Atlantic shard is 100% easier to sell things on. Not only can you get more gold, but you sell things MUCH faster.
5. Outnumbered - Lets face it, LD outnumbers MM and DOTA. There is no denying that fact. LD not only absorbed the remaining PAIN, they also recruited back any PAIN that had left (Sending countless icqs asking others to join as well). While, MM sort of had the same thing (When PAIN came to us originally for the alliance), MM still NEVER had all of our members on Chessy with PAIN.
6. Variety - Chessy = Raiding the same people over and over. Its either LD or DOTA, thats it. Now look at Atlantic, you have CREW, W@R?, N@N, CoW?, HEAT/HOT, LNR, and countless other guilds.
7. "Zerging" And while Stuii is correct about "LNR" being at a harrower of ours, I must explain. Currently THREE members of LNR (Pretty much a trammy guild with a few pvpers), wanted to get back into PVPing. We dont do spawns with LNR, and we have even raided LNR (if they are on their pvpers, they help, if not, they die). When they are with us, the THREE people, they help. So , at the last Harrower, one of them got on their sampire to tank the Harrower by himself. Now, I KNOW 2 LD were there, so you would have seen it was pretty even numbers with N@N + W@R? both raiding.
A. And just to explain even further, there is hardly "Zerging" on ATL. N@N can get heavy numbers, Slipknots guild W@R? can get alot (nonfactions), and MM can usually match them as well. So I guess you can say LD gets zerged, since every guild on Atlantic has more people on at once than LD.
8. Not our home shard - Any MM who came to Chessy , all came from Atlantic. People who CALLED their home Chessy (IE Libby + Mash) have pretty much moved over to Atlantic. Other people who came from PAIN (Lee, Sora, English) All originally came from Atlantic. The other two? (Shelly + Conan) have both brought characters to Atlantic, and are doing their roles well.
Add this all together, and you realize the problem. Why play Chessy consistently? I dont plan for us to disband on the shard, or to move our characters off....But really, right now there is NO reason to play it.
** Just to address Stuii's point 2, the scroll market isnt what it used to be yes...But, reflect on the following:
On Atlantic:
120 Magery - 11m+
120 Mystic - 6.5m+
120 Resist - 6m+
120 Eval - 5m+
120 Bushido - 4m+
120 Swords - 4m+
+25 Stat - 4m+
Replica:
Royal Guard Investigator - 35m+ (Abyssal Infernal)
Lt Sash - 25m+ (Oaks, Lich, Rikktor, Semidar)
Glad Collar - 20m+ (Semidar)
+4 Int Boots - 10m+ (Abyssal Infernal, Barracoon, Oaks, Neira)
Pier - 10m+ (Oaks)
Robe of Britannia- 10m+ (Harrower)
Skull Pole - 8m+ (Harrower)
Evil Idol - 7m+ (Harrower)
Lights Rampart - 7m+ (Lich)
Protector of the Battle Mage - 5m+ (Lich)
Magical Door - 5m+ (Abyssal Infernal)
Archdemon Statue - 4m+ (Abyss Infernal)
Now, obviously some of these can be had in Ilshenar, but it still helps create a way to gain money from raiding spawns in Fel. I agree with Stuii that the scroll market is Abyssmal (luckily they atleast sell fast). Replicas definately help pvpers make some money, but look at how grouped up it is.
Barraccoon has ONE Replica which is over 4m (Which can drop as lower tier boots). - Easiest champ - one most raided - worst drops
Oaks (How often do you raid it realistically?) has 2.
Neira has ONE, which is SHARED by 3 other champs. -> A reason that this spawn hardly gets worked (When it is, its a uncommon occurrence, from people hoping to not get raided)
Rikktor has ONE, which is shared by 2 other champs.
Harrower has 3 (But are guild efforts IE you cant solo them on an active shard, with a low drop rate)
Semidar has TWO, which are both 20m+
Lich has 3
Abyssal Infernal has 4.
Now this is from a pure pvper view - No pvming included. So when you raid, which spawns are you raiding the most? Yes, its Barracoon. The market value on scrolls is horrible, and the replicas it gives aren't good. Now if you DO find someone working another, sure you have a chance of getting a good Replica, but the chances are low ( and again, raids are usually guild efforts, which results in some kind of rolling/sharing method). The worst part is, in order to create fairness in the Ilshenar spawns (IE someone working a whole spawn, having people just waiting for the champ + getting a replica chance) they drastically hurt a pvpers chance at a Replica. How?
1. Decreased chance to get a Replica (due to not having worked the spawn itself)
2. The original spawner just has to be rezed, and in the dungeon to GET their Replica (EVEN if you as raiders, HEAL the champ to full) The radius for this, is INCREDIBLE.
Now A LOT of pvpers, would keep the raids up at a high pace thanks to imbuing/faction arties making it so much easier to be on multiple shards. Now, in an attempt to fix faction points (I mean, they DID need to be fixed), they have made it really hard for MANY people to have access to these artifacts. Now if your only UO income is from PVP (Which is true for a lot of people), it is hard for them to have to 1. Remake their whole suit 2. Make gold on a shard they only pvp on 3. Get gold for more transfers 4. Buy the artifacts they need. Now lets not forget, it is A LOT easier to fix your characters, if its on your main shard.
(Got to keep myself busy, 1 hr until the D3 servers go live)