E.y
40
My opinion, playing on an official PvE server.
Old purge: so broken that it is a waste of time waiting for it to happen, you are better off farming thralls on the map the good old way (on the official PvE servers, the environement is not punitive enough to feel a lack if you do not get thralls from purges anyway).
Why did it not work in my opinion? Many reasons, I will quote only few:
-
the range of time set by the server, which does not allow the purges outside of that time. Meaning that only people working office hours get to have fun. It is honestly frustrating. If someone knows why that rule was implemanted on the PvE servers, please enlighten me.
-
the gauge of purge decreases in time instead of saving your last progress and keeping it that way. Which means that there is a high chance of being left on the sidelines if you can only play once a week because of real life agenda. You will have to farm the exp of your purge gauge again, and cope with the time range imposed by the server at the same time. It’s pretty bad.
-
the one at a time purge rule, which restricts the number of active purges on the server at the same time. When you happen to be able to launch your purge in that range of time (after taking a day off because you’re not an office lady
), you can wait for hours for it to start, because the server does not allow many purges at once. You understand that the poor lad next to you has been waiting for his turn too, so… you wait too, for your turn. Still waiting, you have a look at the time: nooooo, the range of time has passed, so you cannot have your purge today, too bad (yes, yes, crapy experience) 
-
the inconvenient factors called bugs. One of them? Waiting for the other waves to come at you after you successfully defeated the first wave of mobs. But nothing happens, no one comes. After a while, you get the message that the purge is over. Yeah… just like that 
To sum up, the old system of purges was very fun on the private servers which lifted most of the restrictions (no time range!!). On the official PvE servers, the old purge is worse than the new system of purge, in my opinion. At least you get to have “something” that attacks you with the new system. And when there’s no attack? At least you got some pretty shiny treasures to decorate your base 
Also, the new system of purge feels like there’s a story behind it. You get attacked for your treasures. While in the old system? I dunno, really. I would understand dafaris attacking you to eat your flesh, maybe… As for the other barbarians? The reasons for the old purges happening are too unclear, sorry. They would build nothing on top of your destroyed base, so the land revendication must not be it. They would destroy an empty stack of fondations if needs be, so stealing your goods and wifes wasn’t it either. Come on, even if barbarians like to kill, I am sure they are not stupid enough to risk their lives without something to motivate them.
Yeah… the new system is an improvement for the lore.
1 Like