Runes of Magic US / AU

Lol im glad im on travel because this runes of Magic xmas sux, GF and RW have showed that they care more about not being exploited than the wellness of their players.
You cant avoid the use of alts without ip restrictions and account creation restrictions.
Asking people to run something hard is a good way, but the sad reality is that servers barely got active and enough geared players for this.
I would say, give all instances lvl 50+ a chance to drop a Gift box, then opening the box will have a chance of receive a Proof of myth, set up an initial %rate and adjust it acording to the daily current stocks of the game, and put a cap on how many boxes you can open a day, that way can control pom market, also put an expiration date on poms so everybody os forced to exchange them and make the market more dynamic increasing players activity.
Anyway this is too hard for GF RW who only thinks on getting $$ from players for their xmas, they wont bother working on it till 2nd january, all we can expect is a compensation crappy event lile 3 free poms on our mail.
Also coming : POMs in item shop

For those running hm, it's free extra stuff from vor. That's an extra orange stat every 2 runs.

Talked to a midgame (ex. +16 rings/weps, beth level stam/dex stats, etc) guild that was running bp first with relative ease without even a full party (2 healers, 1 tank, 2 dps. R/m tanking a boss, etc). POMs in addition to decent tp, t6 blues, mems, and bag stats (by value) for people who still struggle with grotto is actually a fairly solid run.

Is this event harder than previous ones? Sure, but compare running IDK for a single pom from the chef on a dozen characters to running vor?

When it takes thousands of poms to get one set of POM stats for one level cap for one set of gear, "a little extra" 1 pom per boss in the hardest instances in the game is not enough. If anything they should make this a permanent addition to instances from now on. 1 pom per boss. Proof events should be times to allow people to get the hundreds of poms that are necessary but that it's impossible to get any other way.

Dear Community,

Unfortunately, after a long brainstorming we have decided not to risk our currently running event by adding an easy mood (as you requested) right before Christmas to avoid of possible technical problems.

I have gathered all your positive and negative comments regarding POM event and those will be used to improve the event next time it runs.

I am sorry if i was very promising earlier, i really tried but there were too many technical blockers and had not enough time before weekly maintenance starts...

Best,

Well I doubt next proof event they'll be any players left to run an event for xD

Really? You didn't have enough time to just do the exact same thing you already did except just adding the modes right below the current ones?

It's already been like a year since the last proof event. Is the player base expected to wait until next Christmas for a real event that doesnt suck?

Pathetic.

Just whip up an easy event like last year. You guys are losing players to private servers. You don't have leverage to be stingy with PoMs now.

If anything, having an easy event might bring those players back.

And as someone said, having lots of PoMs around is an incentive to regear or restat. So you guys still earn in the end. And like someone said, you'll need thousands of PoMs to completely gear up. So I don't see any harm in a flood of PoMs really. It's temporary anyway, they'll dry up once new gears are available.

They just don't want to be bothered to do it. Let it go.

you know why the problem with alts getting PoMs started? It can be summed up easily; GF and/or RW got greedy. They were hoping to generate some $$ by making players use tp/portal runes to port all over the zones to collect black bars which would than be needed to be brought to varanas to turn in. this back fired as ppl dragged their alts around too and got so many PoMs. and I am pretty sure that they didn't really get any revenue as tp/portal runes can be easily gotten through means other than dias.

IF they have used PoMs from bosses in HoS/DL/ZS directly, the issue would be somewhat contained as not many alt accounts are geared enough to run them by themselves. I, myself have 4-5 accounts that wouldn't be able to do it by themselves.

IF for whatever reason you don't want to use HoS/ZS/DL; you should start giving PoMs out from GCH; 3 PoMs per boss from food boss onwards.
skip SC
1,2 and 3 PoMs per boss in tosh-e, n and h respectively.
skip ac
3, 5 and 10 PoMs on last boss KBN-e, n and h respectively.
3 PoMs from CoB-n last boss
beth and bela should be same as KBN.
5 PoMs last boss grotto-e, 3 PoMs per boss from 3rd boss onwards grotto-n and 5 PoMs per boss from 3rd boss onwards grotto-h
pillars should be same as KBN
can't remember how CoE goes so reserving it for later
1,3 and 5 PoMs per boss in veiled crypt e, n and h respectively.
same as veiled crypt for the rest, with an additional orange stat gear dropping from last bosses on normal and hard.

note that this is for PoM event only. you should add the PoM amounts on the last bosses for these instances in normal operations too, this will result in more instance, new and old, runs as you can't always get the right geared ppl all the time to run latest instances.

Quoted from "illagong"

Talked to a midgame (ex. +16 rings/weps, beth level stam/dex stats, etc) guild that was running bp first with relative ease without even a full party (2 healers, 1 tank, 2 dps. R/m tanking a boss, etc).

I'm from erebos, I went with a midgame guild, 3 endgame mages, tank and heal and another... we got the first boss down to 20% (bonepeak first area consists of two bosses)

we will not be able to do this event

Quoted from "Polog"

I have gathered all your positive and negative comments regarding POM event and those will be used to improve the event next time it runs.

Well since the xmas event essentially botched, do you think you guys can push for another PoM event in the near future to make up for not being able to change this one?

Population was on a bad decline as it was. This will be the last nail in the coffin for some people.
Lost an od vor hm weapon in the last rollback.
1 extra stat after already getting 2... It's supposed to be a Christmas event not just make 'a solid run' for people haha
Last game I play from this company for however much longer that will be

You guys are funny good job again gf/RW your really doing a great job ppl can't exploit and they can't complain because you gave a pom event better than nothing right ?
And don't worry about ppl leaving they just talking they got too much to lose keep it up

Wow.. there's really not much more to say. GF is more interested in only helping the top 10% than the population of the servers.

Technical issues asside, just who put forth this idiotic plan? How is this the Spirit of Christmas?

If you're going to do this, at least do something else like years past when you could turn in 99 III Runes for gifts. This is something lowbies can do... 1 time a day.

Make random Christmas World Bosses pop up that drop gifts when killed. By random, I mean randomly placed in the world.

There's so much you can do to make Christmas fun for everyone, yet GF doesn't want to help anyone except the top 10%.

Quoted from "ycavan"

Wow.. there's really not much more to say. GF is more interested in only helping the top 10% than the population of the servers.
There's so much you can do to make Christmas fun for everyone, yet GF doesn't want to help anyone except the top 10%.

That 1 pom I won running VoR all night is sure gonna get me far

Midgamers be like "This excludes everyone but the endgamers!!"

Ya'll, this sucks big time for endgamers too. You don't honestly think 5 poms from a full VOR run is actually going to be something useful do you. This event excludes and is trash for everyone.

Methinks we would have been better off without this event at all...

In case gameforge forgot, stat drops from pom purchases are random, and there are a good chunk that aren't usable.

More poms = more people statting (assuming they even want to work with you at this point)

I can see I'm completely outspoken, but think the event is fine. Am I biased since I can solo the first boss in bp norm? Maybe. Does this mean I don't want to see more poms? Of course not! 1/2/4 per boss on easy/norm/hard would be nice.

Quoted from "lemony2"

I'm from erebos, I went with a midgame guild, 3 endgame mages, tank and heal and another... we got the first boss down to 20% (bonepeak first area consists of two bosses)

we will not be able to do this event

Then you need to practice, not give up. Who/what was the second tank? What skill killed people? Which boss did you attack first? Did the mages stand in the bladestorm? Did all cooldowns go off correctly? Try on easy. Stick buff alts outside. Use a phoenix, soulbond, try again, and learn it!

Three endgame dps cant have a problem doing 60m damage unless something went wrong. Since they're endgame mages, they're w/m and have a full str/stam set. At the very least, use some of that over int/ma gear (if you dont have pvp gear) so you dont die if bosses swap positions and change aggro. Bring a second healer. Kite during blade storm.

Quoted from "illagong"

I can see I'm completely outspoken, but think the event is fine. Am I biased since I can solo the first boss in bp norm? Maybe. Does this mean I don't want to see more poms? Of course not! 1/2/4 per boss on easy/norm/hard would be nice.

Quoted from "lemony2"

I'm from erebos, I went with a midgame guild, 3 endgame mages, tank and heal and another... we got the first boss down to 20% (bonepeak first area consists of two bosses)

we will not be able to do this event

Then you need to practice, not give up. Who/what was the second tank? What skill killed people? Which boss did you attack first? Did the mages stand in the bladestorm? Did all cooldowns go off correctly? Try on easy. Stick buff alts outside. Use a phoenix, soulbond, try again, and learn it!

Three endgame dps cant have a problem doing 60m damage unless something went wrong. Since they're endgame mages, they're w/m and have a full str/stam set. At the very least, use some of that over int/ma gear (if you dont have pvp gear) so you dont die if bosses swap positions and change aggro. Bring a second healer. Kite during blade storm.

My guild did BPN a few times over a year ago, back when the hardest instance we could run was Pillars Hard, and we didn't have any issues with burning first boss in Bone Peak normal mode. So if 3 endgame mages are having issues, then something is wrong.

But point taken, this event is just... sigh...