Incentivize RvR Frontiers through Feather Camps

I find myself late at night in Avalon City in a boring feather farm fest in a full group all the time. The group typically consists of 2-3 fresh 40s afk the entire time, while cabby, wizzy, cleric do all the work.

Feathers are a great currency for items on Phoenix. It was a superb idea.

Why not make them drop a lot more often and at higher rates in the Frontiers? Why not add that risk/reward element to zones that are not commonly frequented.

What if Hadrians Wall had feather farming spots? What about Mount Collory? It would create more RvR in Frontier Zones like this and give an alternative to players who are forced to afk feather farm in dungeons like Avalon City.

Think how many levelers head into the frontiers to do xp tasks? They have the incentive to do so. The risk is there, but the reward outweighs it.

Bringing feather drops more consistently to the Frontiers could be great for RvR and feather farming in general.

imagine at launch when the few known PvE feather farm spots are going to be camped constantly. Players can head to the Frontiers as an alternate and get some feathers there.

Sun 23 Sep 2018 12:42 AM by Tree

Bad idea. I said it on Uthgard again and again, you dont create quality RvR when you try to force people into it, neither XPers, crafters nor farmers. People will go to the frontier, if they want to experience RvR. The goal is to design the game in a way to make people want to RvR and have a pleasant experience XPing their character to 50.

Sun 23 Sep 2018 12:49 AM by defiasbandit

Tree wrote: ↑
Sun 23 Sep 2018 12:42 AM
Bad idea. I said it on Uthgard again and again, you dont create quality RvR when you try to force people into it, neither XPers, crafters nor farmers. People will go to the frontier, if they want to experience RvR. The goal is to design the game in a way to make people want to RvR and have a pleasant experience XPing their character to 50.

It's just an option for feather farming. I am not suggesting taking away feather farm from dungeons. I just think it would be an alternative as a higher risk/reward feather farm.

Frontier RvR is literally all about the tasks currently. The realm tasks are a good thing, but you gotta incentivize other zones and forms of RvR then just zerging realm tasks.

Sun 23 Sep 2018 1:16 AM by vadox

Remove feathers completely. People going nuts over them. Soon, we'll have hospitals overflowing with FOD - feather obsessive disorder patients.

Sun 23 Sep 2018 1:22 AM by Tree

Its a common misconception about any MMO that offering the same kind of thing just with a higher risk/reward ratio will make the game better. On the contrary its a good thing to have some game content that is at its most efficent playstyle a low risk full reward pastime.