When I first started PvPing I knew very little about what it meant let alone playing as part of a team. I was very fortunate to be a Beta player so the experience was not all that bad as I was lumped together with a whole group of newbies who similarly didn’t have a clue of what they were doing!
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ver that first year a lot happened to us, and we became more observant of the mechanics and dynamics entrenched in the game engine. Pathfinders link Mavairo, dontdrunkimshoot, Hilbert, Naz and a host of others started to examine the pure mathematics of PvP and a new culture of analysis and breakdown of skills and abilities evolved on the forum. These exercises proved to be invaluable for the community as a whole, as it allowed new players to find help in an environment that thrived on questions. It wasn’t long before even some of the developers realized that they could themselves harness the community as a means of effectively addressing longstanding balance issues.
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believe that the best is yet to come, that we have only just begun to scratch the surface of what’s to come.
~ drkfrontiers
companion guide BOOT Camp
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