Conclusion could be : Summoners (esp. Conju) fully broken, Sk fun, Beaslords not, druids as always cool, avoidance tanks rare. Tanks. sk 153 Paladin 64 217 Guardian 30 Zerk 90 120 Bruiser 24 Monk 49 73 ----------------- Priests. Fury 86 warden 90 176 templar 39 inquisitor 74 113 Defiler 51 Mystic 70 121 channeler 79 ------------------ Mages. necro 85 conjurer 43 128 walock 86 wizzard 78 164 illu 86 coercer 93 179 -------------------- Scouts. Dirge 105 Trouba 84 189 Assas. 57 Ranger 73 130 Swash 58 Brig. 44 102 ---------------- KItties. Bestlords. 57
That's a ballpark of about 1700 L90s on Fallen Gate. I wouldn't have thought there were that many. And that doesn't count any of the other characters under level 90. Jeez, I hope they don't shut down Fallen Gate once this new TL-PvE server launches in March (or is it just being announced in March?), and I hope this new TL-PvE server has a different twist and isn't just replicating FG. In which case, why bother?
They really want to kill a lively community, they nerfed the XP really hard just for that. I truly love this modern " lovely" management. I m sure that the next TLE will have even more P2Win features, it may even be that P2W will be compulsory since it was optionnal; we cleared most raid content without much P2W raiders.
That's characters, not players. Most people have several alts, then there are the bot armies, and how many of those 1700 characters belong to people who quit since SF came out? The highest I have seen as of recently was just before the pvp Beta launched, and it was less than ~200 level 90s online.
Lively? Fallen Gate is the epitome of a dead server. You think the next server will have more p2w based on what evidence? Stormhold didn't really have much of any other than XP potions. The upcoming PvP server won't have any p2w. So FG is actually in the minority of specialty servers. It is more likely that the next TLE will have little to no p2w options.
FG has less than 1/10th the population of Maj'dul, it's far worse than Antonia Bayle. It is the deadest server, by a landslide. I'm just wondering how long until free tokens are given and it's merged. They lost a huge number with the delay for SF and it dropped significantly thereafter since it was and continues to be FUBAR. Perspective of "maxed toons" on servers per eq2u (taken a week ago): On Maj'Dul (110/350AA): Top 4: Necro (703), SK (684), Conj (658), Rgr (597) Bottom 4: Bruiser (207), Brig (223), Channeler (240), Guard (248) On AB (110/350AA): Top 4: SK (292), Necro (270), Wiz (239), Warden (221) Bottom 4: Channeler (72), Brig (82), Bruiser (87), Guard (91) On FG (90/250AA): Top 4: SK (82), Dirge (62), Troub (52), Necro (46) Bottom 4: Bruiser (7), Conjy (15), Monk (16), Brig (19)
I made a break last november and the server was super active, a combination of illwill, bad management and a real will to destroy Fallen Gate led to the current situation : trivial heroic content, insane price of the mark gear (all item cost as much as spauler which used to be the super expansive slot), refusal to fix summoners, completely stupid levels of DPS mod, haste, MA allowing insane parse from auto-attack ... and finally XP so bad that to level we have to use Loping Plain instances or Najena, commonland ones ... And well you cannot really compare F2P servers to TLE which require membership.
I hate to break it to you, but even in November, Fallen Gate was the lowest population server. Poor itemization, Poorly balance raid / heroic content, severely imbalanced classes, is nothing new. It happened all of SH, and it was the reality for most of FG. They both died for mainly the same reasons and about the same time. And well, yes you can compare Live servers to TLE, because regardless of what it takes to play on it you need those other people to make the server not die. But if you are referring to Splatterpunks post, membership doesn't mean anything because you have no idea out of those numbers, how many are currently subbed or currently playing.
The announcement of the PvP event and the new TLE server this month was the final nail in the coffin. The server went from super active in TSO, to dead two weeks after SF to just a throw away server at this point. The few people saying DoV will revive this server are just... Naive. Until these servers gets the real work they deserve, from heroic to raid content and class balance they will never make it past SF.
Not sure I would call ~10 guilds that were even trying to raid compared to the 20+ in KoS "super active".
