Axe Bite(s) (the Dust) Server Transfer

We received the news a couple of days ago that Axe Bite was being given free charecter transfers to Karag-Azgal or Karag-something else due to low population. Logging on last night we were also greeted by a pop up saying this was a very low pop server and we should move. I have been long complaining about the lack of people on Axe Bite, and investigations around in game showed that a lot of people where going to take up this offer. In addition, Karag-Azgal also apparently held a thriving population with active RvR.

As a guild then, Draconea Corda packs its collective bags last night and moved on mass to the new server. Congrats to Mythic, the transfer process was very quick and painless and also enabled the guild to not lose any of it’s progress.

The new server is busy, almost immediately I was greeted with a Stonewatch Fortess is under attack by the Forces of Destruction message and promptly flew over to Kadrin Valley to check it out. Huge amount of Destructions were there with at least 4/5 warbands moving enmasse to the Fortress. Unfortunately, the large influx of players must have been all to much for the server as we crashed at least 4 times while attacking the fortress and ported back to IC!! Hopefully that will be addressed shortly!

Ding!

There it is,  the most aupsicious moment of any mmo players virtual life in game - the reaching of the level cap/the glass ceiling/the begining of the end/anticlimax [delete as appropriate].

For a zealot reaching 40 presents two particuarly choice additions to the armoury, firstly the self rez skill (……), oh how I wish this had been granted a little earlier! On a 10 minute timer, this buff will give a self rez to you or another player (although I don’t think this works in scenario RvR, but I need to double check this, as I may have just buffed someone else). The second nice skill is your rank 4 Morale skil. I had already unlocked the one at the top of the …….. tree, which grants 250 action points to the group and allows everyone to absorb around 1700 damage for a set time. The other from the career trainer allows for everyone in your group around you to be rezzed and deal extra damage for a period. Another skill I got somewhere in the late 30s, ………….., I am finding hugely useful in RvR, particularly Serpant’s Passage (the only tier 4 scenario!), and is a short snare spell, which you can use on the move. There have been a number of occasions where I have been able to stop the Order player with the salvage piece just long enough for the baying pack of Destruction snapping at their heals to catch up with them. So.Satisfying!