Leveling on F2P and P2P

[Amputechture]

Is the leveling process different from RU Servers?
I mean that: RU F2P servers now is a big cancer because i think it's dead: autolvl to 75, free 6lvl runes, autocompleting all main quests, 5 - 75 lvl content is absolutely dead. All game for old players, I dont see newcomers
On ru P2P there are certainly differences from F2P but it bad whatever.
You start playing on P2P server and there is a feeling that you play single-player game not MMO.
All 1 -75 lvl content absolutely solo. Empty start locations, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mercenaries (i dont know how are they called on eng servers but these are the guys who is help you complete instances without any players), dead Asee-Teph PVP because all enemy fraction players absolutely ignore me and more more more through the game content to highlvl.

I want as before in ~2012y level from start with other players, complete quests and instances together without any mercenaries, fight with enemies on PVP locations and play exactly in MMO, not single player.

Is it possible on the eng F2P or P2P servers?

[ReZZiT]

no it is the same on the eng. servers
Just play for Endgamecontent

[Krag]

True, it's mostly solo content on F2P Equilibrium, athough you meet other players quite often. Whether you join them for group instances or fight them is up to you. Even if you don't join a group, other players of your faction will help you most of the time if you're in trouble at the time you meet them.

I don't know what endgame is like since I'm starting over all the time to try new builds and new spel/abilitiesl rotations, but low to mid level is fun. Well, some quest chains are really boring, but when trying out new classes or new abilities the game is always interesting.

To be honest I don't think you actually NEED other players when levelling, apart from the group instances you have to complete once in a while. Levelling quests keep you busy, there's a lot to do, so waiting for others can be a pain.

[Amputechture]

Originally posted by Krag:

To be honest I don't think you actually NEED other players when levelling, apart from the group instances you have to complete once in a while. Levelling quests keep you busy, there's a lot to do, so waiting for others can be a pain.

For the first time I played this game in 2011 (on RU servers because Im russian). Start locations were full of players with whom I could talk, complete quests, complete first instances. Asee Teph was big WAR location where to do any quest you had to fight with enemy fraction every minute. Each hour, groups were assembled, headed by a chorusman (i dont know how this thing named in english, but this is the man who picked up the flag) looking for enemies and killing them. This things is also worked on Eljune and Coba Plateau. Then you went further and met new and new and new players with which you could always interact, talk, etc.
It was the best time with lot of fun. That thing called MMO

And now.
I dont know what im supposed to say.
Maybe about old stuff in our days.
Start locations is absolutely dead. You can write in chat for days and no one will respond you.
All instances (excluding astral insts and actual raid) is absolutely dead, I will say more: it killed by mercenaries.
Asee Teph and next PVP locations absolutely dead. World PVP is absolutely dead.
Then you went further and met no one.
You are alone as if you play single player game.

That not MMO
And highlvl content does not save the situation.

A couple of battlegrounds, endless flights in astral, endless one-raid tries - a small part of the content that everyone plays now. And that "endless" format makes this process maximally disgusting.
I remember about reincarnation but stop... see what was written before - lowlvl content dead and for reincarnation it dead too.

I see empty servers, they are merged and nothing happens
Forr 2013 was TEN (10) RU servers now number is 6 and there are already conversations about new server merge

I thinkthis gives reason to believe that the game alreday slowly dying (on RU servers of course)


This is the reason why I came here looking for best server in eng community

[Krag]

Well... I admit I killed 3 players of the oposite faction on Eljune only a couple of days ago, playing lvl 30, not HL. So you see, maybe it's the RU servers.

There's not a lot of players, it's true. But I see some every day, everywhere, on Equilibrium. I'm told that New Frontier has way more players but I'm not sure I'd like to feel crowded anyway. I mean, when you join a group, it's for a purpose. Namely, you're here to pick one specific piece of gear. Add other players and you get almost nothing. At least mercenaries don't pick up stuff. Also, I'm no teenager, and I'd rather play with people who don't insult others because we don't follow stupid orders. Since there isn't many people on this server, you can't really "choose" who you're gonna play with. So be prepared to be disappointed if you want to join a party. Sad, but true.

[ReZZiT]

i play on the P2P Server and having fun with leveling.. endcontent u can play with guilds :)

[Krag]

You can interact with members of your Guild on any server, be it F2P or P2P, and it can be done as soon as you join a guild, no need to wait for high level. There are at least two "quests" at mid level where you need help because these are "raid".

[Amputechture]

Okay. That all is fine but i want as example clear the Oreshek Fortress with peoples like the good old days. But it is not possible because AOTeam create the mercenaries and mercenaries killed all non-raid instances in game (except maybe Astral isles)

[OgreLeg]

Unfortunately, this is the fate of all p2w games in the West. They did a great job coming out with Smuggler's Paradise but it may have been too little, too late. The only hope for this game is to make the whole thing like Smuggler's Paradise and only have cosmetics and convenience items in the cash shop. Sell mounts, costumes, unlimited respecs, et cetera. Runes killed the game. PvP is a joke.

[Amputechture]

Not only on the west (if you talked about west Europe and US). In Russia (where this game was created) we have the same since 2012 - 2013 and becomes worse every year