disillusioned by the thoughts of revamping all my characters with the enhancement, the level cap and inevitable regearing of my characters, exhausted by the chronic TRing over the past few years, i excitedly read about the stacking 10% xp bonus on wayfinder until the end of the year.  i am going to take a hiatus there until the expansion comes out.  i rolled a 13 sorc/2 paladin bladesworn...starting at 15 allows me to try and get into eveningstar and EDs (where i'd like to try shiradi and see what the fuss is) quicker and may possibly allow me to do it before expansion comes.  so with enthusiasm i created my air savant, grabbed my Lederhosen, and headed for wayfinder.

it is a veritable wasteland.  there were three LFMs up (all below level 10), there was no one between the levels of 16 and 20 online...i went to the auction house and there were literally no tomes for sale on there.  sheesh, no use daydreaming about the epic elite fancy raid items i was going to get...in the first quest i was basically fighting with my bare hands as i couldn't afford any spell components, so i just spammed my electric loop SLA, used enervate and chopped down anything that survived.  i put a pug up (making a total of four pugs) and joined with some guy who had an identical 13 sorc/2 pal build and did some gianthold...i also got part way towards making my level 16 master artificer ring in an attempt to consolidate stuff (and get some SP!  i have 1400ish with 13 levels of sorc, no tomes and no ship buffs available and a +5 cha item, come on wizardry 6!)  it's bizarre having nothing, but it's also pretty cool knowing that no one else does either.  i guess long term goals will be a) to get my crafting level up to 77 so i can make absorption items and b) to run a raid!

on the whole it is very bizarre

If anyone solos through their lives, this might be interesting.  Transfer to Wayfinder for free, get your 3x completionist and then transfer to a real server.

NOTpopejubal wrote on Jul 4^th, 2013 at 10:47am:


For 10%? Even doing things solo you still probably depend on an economy to buy and sell stuff you need/dont need.

25% maybe. 50% sure.

painkiller wrote on Jul 4^th, 2013 at 8:36am:


You haven't seen the European Servers before they closed them...

Consider this :

- We were able to make a raid party with ALL the players of the server at peak time.
Then you can talk about wastelands.
- less than 10 guilds survived the last year in Europe, and only 2 or 3 were able to organize guild raids out of their own members. 

Then you'll be able to talk about wasteland... I don't think Wayfinder is at that stage... Yet...

Flav wrote on Jul 5^th, 2013 at 2:34am:


Playing at 5-11pm CDT we saw no more than 45 people online. There was only 3 main guilds over 60. A bunch under 20, and only 1 or 2 between 20-60. No players online in the 13-16 range, except a few BF. 3/4 were under level 10 and about 10 TR's.

in their defense, a fella bought me some spell components when I was fresh out of the creation forge

hmm, so roll toon, play toon.  wait for server to collapse then have toon free moved to another server....

I rolled up a sorcerer on there last night just to kill a few minutes. I ran out to the desert toget some components money and my first chest on the server had The Blood Stone. However, there's really no point in playing there. +10% is worthless when you consider having to give up your guildies/friends, and especially so since it is only 5% more than the airship shrine.

+5% xp
- guildies
- guild buffs
- regular running mates
- gear
- established second box openers
= another Turbine fail

I did enjoy getting the free TP's from getting to 100 favor on Wayfinder. I won't be back again