First off let me apologise I am writing this on my iPhone so it may contain some errors.
I've been with the shard for 2 months (65 days to be exact) and I truely am loving every minute of it. I was lucky enough to find myself in a guild and the majority of people here have been fantastic helping me out along the way. I am very lucky in that I have a high disposable income due to my situation in life. So might have had a leg up on some others my age being able to afford an omni and 120 taming for example.
The issues I am having lie in the so called divide between vets and newbies and the changes to spawns.
With 15 or so days of grinding organics I was able to buy 2 18x18 houses a maxed nightmare and 2 maxed mules (thanks blaze
). I then hit doom, dreadhorn and a couple of other places and made my first million. With some afk macroing I had ledgendary archer with 3 maxed pets and decent gear after just 20 days and a donation for lore and taming. Before I had even lost my "young status". Having played on a few shards I can tell you the time grinding away to even make a 2 story house takes longer. So I don't really see a big divide in the shard bewteen the elite and newbs. Granted if it was a pvp shard I'm sure I would, no doubt I'd get owned, but in a Pvm shard I'm not forced to face off against people with stat scrolls out the wazoo.
Looking for more stuff to challenge me I took up blazes call for new players to come along to a champ. My first experience with Druid spells. So I got myself a Druid book and went out soloing champs. After a few champs I soloed my first champ moa spawn. (also punched out the mule and killed it anyway). After some reading of the wiki I found a path from rikktor, Moa and coon, back to gate, marble island, arachnid then to either ice or fire. In the months I have played I can tell you this I can count on one hand the amount of times I wasn't able to find a spawn active to solo or help out with.
As far as the alt camping at spawns I never really noticed it. As I said more often then not I found a spawn. That is not to say it doesn't happen. By all means the fact that the new rules stop it happening I think is great I am all for it. In fact when I found out how much running I did to get to spawns I was upset I didn't think of it ;P I can also live with 1 spawn every 8 hours. It means 3 a day upsetting but I can live with it.
My real gripe is with the drop in the number of scrolls. IMHO this will throw the economy out of wack. PS prices will skyrocket. As it is there is an 8 person wait for tactics, taming etc. In "tha book" from my understanding the lesser scrolls are traded in for better ones. If blaze or krazy were to solo 2 spawns they would have even with 110s enough to trade for a 115 etc thus making a higher probability for higher end scrolls. Now they are looking at doing 10-12 spawns to get the same amount of scrolls. 120s will become more scarce thus making prices rise.
Personaly I did my run yesterday about an hour of running through fel to do a spawn and walk away with ONE 110. Throw in 30k gold (if someone doesn't join after 15 candles, you let them in and they picky nettle and recall out, story for another topic) and I have about 37k for an hours work. Not worth the time. So will that mean more people like me deciding it's not worth the hassle and producing even less ps on an already thin market?
As I said I have no issue with the other changes. The less exploiting the better, but I feel the drop in ps will only have a negative effect on the shard. The other rules should stop alt camping. I don't see what this rule will do other than dry up the ps market. How long before we start seeing anat and tactics scrolls going for a mil?
