is it currently impossible for a new guild to get into top10? no
well its not easy mode, ofc, but its not ment to be "easy" and its not that hard for a woe guild either.
is it currently impossible for a single person, or a small pvm guild? yes
is that a bad thing? No because,
in my opinion having a top10 brewer, was always ment to be one of the few things that only a organized guild can/shall achieve.
on some servers it wasnt even possible to come close to the top10 even for the bigger guilds, but thats the game, thats how the system is.
Mathy wrote:Rank decay for all classes that have it is planned, and has been planned for years, but for some reason I keep forgetting.
The plan is to remove a percentage every month. Possibly 2~5% per month.
Mathy wrote:Yes, but you stay on top, and as long as you keep up the brewing/forging/ranking pace, you STAY on top.
If you fall behind, it's faster for newer players to take over.
the idea isnt bad, UNTILL we all come to the point where ALL top10 brewers will brew all their points into the "tax/Penality" and all the top10 alche points of all brewers start to stagnate because the points are 2High to overcome that monthly penality.
in reality, im sure, atleast the current top8 wont stop to brew with a penality, no, the opposite will happen = They will brew even more.
and prolly will even start to brew reds, just to stay into the rank and overcome that penality
(instead of their currently legit 100% white brewings for woe)
So how can we help newcomers then?
we cant.
sadly the system is not ment to be newcomer friendly.
and atm we dont need to. if the 10th alchemist place got like 300/350 k , we can talk about that topic again, but now its to early.
currently there are way more important things to do for you guys 