Boxing wasn't necessary for most of the server's lifespan. It would have been helpful right in the beginning because there were only one or two hundred players, but the playerbase grew quickly enough to a point where it wasn't needed. Everything was great up until about six months into Kunark, and now it's getting to a point where it's just barely acceptable. If the online tally shrinks by another couple hundred, it's probably gonna be really bad. Getting groups in your 20s and 30s is really problematic and just straight up impossible in the off-peak hours, so people either play solo classes, twink up in fungi and 300k worth of gear so they can solo their melees up, or pay for PLing. Even when you do get groups, you can sit a whole day without seeing a cleric in the zone because hardly anybody would want to level a cleric or tank up the old-fashioned way these days. Grouping looks fine at 50+, but especially 20-40 is an exercise in futility if you can't play peak hours and don't want to solo the whole way.
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05-02-2012, 05:25 PM
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