Runes of Magic US / AU

How is the new battlefield? The one thing that worried me the most was that there would be a bug where you wouldn't get your gold/equipment back when you left, though seeing that there's hasn't been a million "OMG all my stuff are gone!" threads, I'm assuming that it isn't an issue.

Are there any decent rewards that might make it worthwile to do?

I have only done it once but was alot of fun... didnt get anything from it but keen to give it another crack been waiting hours on the que

Same problems with it that come with normal RoM PvP, balance issues etc with certain skills and their functionality, some skills are near useless with how the system functions.

Not that it isn't fun for a little bit but once everyone figures out what's what with the system there aren't going to be that many uhhh "builds"

As far as what you can win from it? It looks like just aggs to me.

from what ive experienced the winning team members get 50 warrior points(like new honor and arena points) you can view your current balance on the pvp section of the character interface.

Losing team members get 20 warrior points.

you can buy pieces of 1 set of cosmetic gear. no stats or base attributes to it. costs some gold and 1700 warrior points per piece. Think 6 pieces in total?

They need to change all the normal skills by reducing the DPS by at least half. Its too much of a one shot fest (or 2 quick shots) during the beginning of the game.

This discourages team play, and discourages farming the "creeps" and getting the supply bonuses.

Quoted from "bleedingblak;581987"

They need to change all the normal skills by reducing the DPS by at least half. Its too much of a one shot fest (or 2 quick shots) during the beginning of the game.

This discourages team play, and discourages farming the "creeps" and getting the supply bonuses.

idk about 50%, 25% seems more doable, rather do it by increments and find just the right % without going overboard on either side.

I wish they would add some kind of sound notification when the "Enter Battle" button pops up. Been a couple times I miss the queue due to being tabbed out. Convenience is all I'm asking.

This arena is tons of fun.. i havent gotten anything done in game b/c of it lolol... but i dont think there are any rewards to make it worth doing and when peopel find that oiut.....no one will be qeueing for it =(( ... jsut like 5 er 6 aggs... IF they had stats on em.. this arena would be SOO worth it.

Yeah, its very fun, nice pastime but, the rewards and the amount of time it takes to get them is eh. Maybe if it was *useful* pvp armor, kind of like the honor gear in OS, but scaled to our level. Crit resist or something, idk.

They do need to fix some skills, they're horribly OP, no matter which way you try to counter it - you can't, the DoT finishes you off too easy. When all of the opposite team is using it, just becomes who can spam ignite and heal better. Not much fun in those games.

The major issue with the arena's in game atm is just the rewards....even though it is a 1 hit fest (in normal pvp - Not Arcanium), if they updated the rewards and made it something valuable to aim for then so many more people would be queuing and spending much more time in game....

At the moment the pathetic 'Arena Package' which gives lvl 51 herbs and the 15 of so honor you get is just depressing and has no incentive about it.

With the Arcanium Arena its basicly the same...there will be those few that are obsessed with aggs and MUST HAVE IT but for those that care more for raiding and progressing...well its just another waste of time with no rewards. Another MMO i played had arena's that gave points for some of the top items around...i don't see why they dont do the same :/

Tried it out last night.
The arena was a lot less laggy then siege, I was getting about 7-8 FPS more than what I get in siege. I did it right before siege, and couldn't get used to the normal siege lag >.>

Also, VERY happy that Runewaker finally made a PvP thats not pay to win. Everyone gets same gear, equal access to runes, and no costly crafted buffs.

There's almost no PvE aspect to it. There's 1 or 2 mobs that you can kill for rune drops, but they're the same that can be bought, and you level up quickly whenever your team gets points from kills, though level seems to make no difference, I had no trouble killing people 5-6 levels higher.

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Terrain looks decent, and overall, its really fun. Just a bit disappointed at the lack of rewards, and it being a 2-3 shot fest. Though all the skills that people have complained about, like hide, T-storm have received a 5 second CD. Seems like they took all the class balance ideas and added it here. Also, I keep getting spammed by the message saying that I'm not in a guild.

And watch out for Raves. he might be a healer, but he's a beast in arena, bulldozing thru groups of us like a boss o.o

eh, horidly unbalanced is an understatement. i tried pretty much every combo of runes, skills, and strat, and people with that 1 build(ya, the OP one) still bulldoze through me. even stacking all the stam/def possible, you are still a 2-3 shot...

Quoted from "ruisen2000;582215"

And watch out for Raves. he might be a healer, but he's a beast in arena, bulldozing thru groups of us like a boss o.o

Lol aside from my mom's druid I played during EQ1 (I was like...9 years old?) RoM is the only MMO where I've been a healer. Started out as dps (scout during ch2) and went druid for my lowbie guild shortly after. In other MMO's im usually ranged dps or a rogue/stealth type. I love to keeel.

Quoted from "Cike;582217"

eh, horidly unbalanced is an understatement. i tried pretty much every combo of runes, skills, and strat, and people with that 1 build(ya, the OP one) still bulldoze through me. even stacking all the stam/def possible, you are still a 2-3 shot...

Stacking stam is not the way to go. You have to have a balance of all the survivability stats in order to live. You have to sacrifice some things in order to take hits. If I see someone with tons of hp - easy kill. Let's just leave it at that.