Not trying to start a flame war, but I wanted to ask people about their experiences lately with reds. Before I get into my experience, I'll say what I'm doing so I'm not flamed with the "you should try harder" or "you should have tracking" posts. I mainly farm the overworld so I can recall to escape. When I farm, I have potions, trap pouches, a character with a tracking macro, and use a PvM template without resist. That's why I choose overworld spawn, it's more easy to escape. Let me be clear, I am not farming a highly efficient spot, I'm farming middle tier difficulty content because those spots are less likely to be hunted by reds.
As far as my experience thus far, at first after server launch there weren't as many reds. But for the few weeks prior to the first rework of PK penalties, reds were overrunning all of my farming spots. At first after the rework, things calmed down a bit. But now, I've seen a resurgence of reds, and it seems worse than it was than in late November and early December. Usually I would farm overworld spawn in the morning when PKs are more likely to be in class or sleeping in, but lately, even in the morning, I cannot farm overworld for 10 minutes without being chased out of the spot by a red.
What's worse is that there are reds running tracking on alts at overworld hunting spots, and when they see blues, they have runes to different areas of the hunting spots and will recall to the general area of where the player is. Let me be clear, I'm not being killed (I can usually escape with pots, pouches, and recalling) however it's causing me to have a LOT of downtime. I'll get about 20 mins of farming and then 30 mins of downtime from reds. Each time I manage to escape, usually the reds will be stuck in combat so they'll kill my pets too. This causes more downtime. Even in the rare cases where my pets aren't killed, I have to go to the stable and recover them--which means I'm losing even more money.
Reds are camping farming spots and there are literally no anti-pks or blues that will come help. In my personal experience, I've been encountering more reds recently than at any other point in the servers history, and I'm curious about the data on this.
I'm a casual player, I'm a busy guy and I just like to chill and have fun. I don't want to play trammel. The risk of losing my stuff and dying keeps me on my toes and makes farming less boring. But man, right now I can't even farm. If I'm getting ran out of middle tier farming spots, I can't imagine what it's like farming the popular spots.
So I'm not trying to be alarmist. But is this just my experience, or do other people think reds are worse than they've ever been?
As far as my experience thus far, at first after server launch there weren't as many reds. But for the few weeks prior to the first rework of PK penalties, reds were overrunning all of my farming spots. At first after the rework, things calmed down a bit. But now, I've seen a resurgence of reds, and it seems worse than it was than in late November and early December. Usually I would farm overworld spawn in the morning when PKs are more likely to be in class or sleeping in, but lately, even in the morning, I cannot farm overworld for 10 minutes without being chased out of the spot by a red.
What's worse is that there are reds running tracking on alts at overworld hunting spots, and when they see blues, they have runes to different areas of the hunting spots and will recall to the general area of where the player is. Let me be clear, I'm not being killed (I can usually escape with pots, pouches, and recalling) however it's causing me to have a LOT of downtime. I'll get about 20 mins of farming and then 30 mins of downtime from reds. Each time I manage to escape, usually the reds will be stuck in combat so they'll kill my pets too. This causes more downtime. Even in the rare cases where my pets aren't killed, I have to go to the stable and recover them--which means I'm losing even more money.
Reds are camping farming spots and there are literally no anti-pks or blues that will come help. In my personal experience, I've been encountering more reds recently than at any other point in the servers history, and I'm curious about the data on this.
I'm a casual player, I'm a busy guy and I just like to chill and have fun. I don't want to play trammel. The risk of losing my stuff and dying keeps me on my toes and makes farming less boring. But man, right now I can't even farm. If I'm getting ran out of middle tier farming spots, I can't imagine what it's like farming the popular spots.
So I'm not trying to be alarmist. But is this just my experience, or do other people think reds are worse than they've ever been?
