WoW - US only? and what's the minimum level of lazynes is acceptable?

Oh I'm sorry is cooperative twitch group play not you guys thing?

So who is playing this game? We were thinking of coming over

Albion, LOL you want to compare that thing to Perpetuum? Funny.

(c) only nia

Tbh the main argument isn't the population, it's the fact that it's well designed around 5-10 man guilds for end-game territory control content.

Gathering->Refining->Crafting->Accumulating is well thought out and extremely easy to do compared to Perp. In the time it takes you to mine out a titan field, you got 5-10 sets of T4-T5 gear.

Having to import T2 resources into Red and Black zones is a good way of creating caravans. They will probably expand on that and include T3 resources.

Newbie guy coming into the game is PVP-ready in 1-2 hours in any role not just tackle. Later on when gear levels escalate it will increase, but T4 will always be decent enough like T2 in Perp.

Can't really AFK Scarab in Albion because resources are nodes with a finite amount in them that slowly replenishes over time.

You would need a long-ass script that waypoints nodes, travel between those nodes, and includes 5 clicks per node, mount/dismount, unload when 1 or 2 stacks of 999 is reached, and loop.

A degree more complicated then slapping a small miner on a hauler or recording your mouse movement between cargo and container then looping it every X minutes with a variable of +- 1-10 seconds.

Problems with living in Blackzones are as follows (this is how we encountered them);

- The blawb is real -> 20+ man "caravans" are a daily reality you have to play around one way or another.
- T2 resources -> You need to import them, kinda like "no titan on Beta" in Perp.
- Town exit zones are gankerino centralino -> Works both ways of course...

All in all biggest hurdle is getting your first batch of PVP gear & tools into a Blackzone town. After that, you'll be hauling in T2 stone exclusively to upgrade guild island to T4-T5 so you can start crafting your own ***. Then you'll have to start importing T2 metal bars, planks, cloth, leather so that you can start gathering locally and refining in the Blackzone.

Once you got that sorted it's pretty much smooth sailing for small scale PVP or blobchasing. Group compositions are a reality (just make sure you have a greathammer/claymore with you for tackling, T5 must-have) and everything else is "bring whatever" weapon-wise.

For comparison, full set of T5 PVP gear (for myself) is like 32 T5 leather, and I don't remember how much metal/leather for my T5 claymore but it's dirt cheap. Comparatively, 1 T5 animal gives roughly 9 T5 hide, which requires 9T2+9T3+9T4 to process into leather.

TL;DR

Once the heavy lifting I mentioned above is done, most people can be self-sufficient from there on out. Weekly run of 999(stack) T2 metal or planks or leather, and you're so fine you'll be running into bankspace problems.

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So how's everyone been?

2 more wipes for Albion ....

Raid times 830 to 1100 EST Wed/Thur/Friday.  We have a group of about 40ish people.