Freja, that entire post was a fail.
1. You said that Siege has been dead since AoS came out.
That's true, it had been dead sinse AoS
2. You said that people got tired of playing because they had to farm items.
- Stealth is probably the biggest debated issue on stratics (FACT)
- Doesn't this imply that insurance would fix the problem? (CONTRADICT?)
Sure stealth need a nerf too
No Insurance don't belong on Siege!
3. If the crafters need customers, why aren't they making the four pieces I requested for 3 million gold? Pre-AOS, the only money crafters made were 100GP for a GM halberd....
Because it take so long time and much work to get the relics and other resources to make it. You will need alot upper imbuing resources for that suit.
More arti drop will give cheaper relics and more drop of other imbuing resources would make them cheaper.
most imbuing resources do cost around 20k each and sometimes you use 10 for one mod on one piece, more if you fail.
4. Sure, it would be fine to equip for 25k. In fact, you can! No one says you have to suit up in a 4m suit like I do! Let's refer back to pre-aos. Say I buy a +25 Vanq Hally with 50 charges of ghouls touch for 150k. Would I utterly destroy someone running a GM halberd? Yes! Is it fair? Yes! I find it hilarious that gear is always a topic here, because back in the pre-aos days, gear actually mattered MORE! Remember the dexxers running 80AR with magic reflect items, teleport items, invis items, and 25 vanq DP weps? I guess that stuff doesn't matter when it makes a naked mage with a GM hally look like nothing but a fly.
Yes I remember, they called Lord Mark of UDL a vandering tresure chest. He rarely died but when he did, he lost mills, however he could affort it and the one who killed him could use the items or sell them.
Still, you could PvP in GM gear and skills did matter.
I sell several imbued mage or warrior suits for around 100k, I would love to be able to sell them for 25k so players who don't PvP to well still could have a nice farming suit and be able to replace it and poor PvP'ers still could have a useful suit.
Trust me, that would help the shard special if we got rif of overpowered faction items.
5. Faction artifacts and imbuing - I can see why you say its "healing" the damage done by AoS. In fact, I think imbuing is probably the best thing EA did since AoS. On an insurance shard pre-SA, it took players months to a year to suit out their character. On siege, it was the exact same, but you couldn't insure it! Faction artifacts and imbuing are definitely more beneficial to current-day gameplay than any other fix put in.
The diff between factions items and imbued items are, factioms items is from a npc system and do make the crafters and farmers busy.
You do not need factions items, you need cheaper PvP gear from the crafters.
To end this post - I'm just going to say that I actually play, so I know wtf I'm talking about. Freja, since I started playing this game six years ago, I saw you once sitting in your house. That's it. So who are you to say that you know what you're talking about when you probably haven't PvP'd since SE? Get with the times, old lady!
I do have a RL too. I had been here for almost 11 years, I had seen the shard alive before AoS, you had not!
And yes I had PvP'ed, but I both speak as a crafter and as a PvP'er.
I sure did PvP in the past, when I was UDL and before that. I had been red for 10 years, only the last year, I had been blue.
I don't hang out in the towns, maybe that why you don't see me and I sure hate Luna.
And yes I'm 55 years and female so I will never be a hardcore PvP'er, I'm to slow for that but I think I do ok.