Thanks. I'm debating whether I should join GL or ATL. I remember GL was dying out when I stopped playing, and this was years ago.
I'm glad to hear EM events still go on though, when I left there hadn't been an EM event in months and EA didn't seem too motivated to continue them.
How is the global chat system? I've never heard of it and that was always one of those user requests that went ignored a million times on the UHall.
I'm also seeing things sell for "billions" of gold..?! Has the economy really been ruined that much? How far does 100M go these days?
Anybody play both GL and ATL who could offer insight as to where to go? Thanks!
Global Chat varies between useful talk, fun talk, and smack talking about PvP that may or may not have actually occurred.
The stuff that goes for billions is rare or one of a kind items that are rarely, if ever, of any use and are deco only, mostly server birth stuff or from EM events.
The highest price I've heard of for something useful is from a very recent game-wide event, and there were only 2 on GL and like 3 on Atl, less on most shards, and that price was 500m.
So I wouldn't worry about it.
If anything the price of useful equipment is headed downwards, and may have bottomed out recently, due to the presence of a new crafting skill called Imbuing (which lets you fix certain mods on an item subject to strict limits and your item cannot be Fortified), and a new crafting technique called Runic Reforging (which lets you fix certain mods on an item, MUCH less limited than Imbuing, but also much more costly and you have much less control over what you get), and as I recall the number of runic tools you can get for traditional crafting has also been boosted.
There's also new loot from Shame, Covetous, and Wrong that can be quite awesome, with the price that most of the best stuff you find is either cursed, irrepairable, un-fortifiable, or some combination of the 3.
And as far as I can tell GL's always been more of a "do it for yourself" shard than it is a commerce-oriented shard. There's some commerce but mostly it seems like here we want you to do it for yourself if you at all possibly can. Very self-reliant. (I am not a native, I'm an import from LS and, to a lesser degree, Europa.)
It's a wide open field these days, don't be fooled by high prices.
Ask around in Global Chat about where to look for stuff, learn who to not listen to and who to listen to, and you'll do fine.
We are most definitely not a dead shard. And Thank The Dear Lord God that we are not as big as Atlantic.
Oh, on the EMs. Our two are, as far as I can tell, the best by a considerable margin. No offense to other shards or their EMs, I'm not saying your EMs suck, just saying ours are, comparatively, rather better.
-Galen's player
