Runes of Magic US / AU

A lot of people quit the game last week when they closed CoB (the level 77 dungeon) to fix an exploit. I would say that the server population, at least on Grimdal, is about 1/3 what it was even a month ago, let alone a year.

That said, even on Grimdal, which is one of the least populated servers, you can still get a group to run endgame. You might have to join an established guild though. I don't know about the other servers, but on Grimdal at least, PUGs don't even seem to exist anymore. People all hate each other, and no one can even remember why anymore, so they just feud for the sake of feuding.

Looking at World World (the trade channel), I would estimate that me and my alts are at least 20% of the entire server population.

Quoted from "Freetimes"

Hi. I was an active player 1 year ago in Artemis server. I'd like to ask a few questions about how's the game compared to 1 year ago.

1) Is Artemis still most populated server?
2) Did too many people leave? How less is the player amount compared to 1 year ago? (almost same, 1/2, 1/5... etc)
3) If i get geared, will i be able to find people to run end game instances or everyone will do it with their current guild/group and i'll be alone?
4) Are EU servers more populated than US servers? If so, which server is the most populated one there?

Thanks.

1) Yes, maybe. Artemis got hit the last couple weeks by really horrible hacking that messed up many people. I imagine many quit over that, or are waiting for things to get more stable.

2) Less people, yes. How many less... hard to say.

3) No clue how Artemis people are, but someone willing to level and gear will find help from many guilds in form of hand me downs, instance runs, free X and XI stats, etc.

4) No clue. German servers, supposedly. You probably need to know some German to play them.