Returning player

[HolySpartan]

Considering coming back to the game now that I'm done with school and will have much more free time. A couple questions really quickly.

1) About how long would it take someone to catch up?

2) Is RvR active up until level cap? or is it dull up until then?

3) Order side: any classes needed? Prefer to play melee classes. Mained a 2h SM on live, but that was ages ago.

4) Again, Order side: any guilds recruiting?

[szejoza]

1. Catch up to what? Top tier players with full anni/merc/ruin gear? RR/40? Getting to R40 isn't big deal (but there players that whine that leveling is too slow but you can ignore them :> )
Getting rr40 and gear is another thing, it took me 3 weeks to get full merc gear running scenarios with pugs and got no ruin/anni piece yet
2. I can say how it is in EU primetime hours: T1 is fine, T2 is worse but playable, T3 is somewhat dead from what I've heard, T4 is weird, sometimes alive as never just to be dead next day.
About sc - in T1 they pop quite often, in T4 it's almost instant pop. T2/T3 - didn't have even one pop in several days x)
3. From my point of view (as kotbs/slayer) there are too many kotbs (had sc's with 4 of them in one party), as always we are in need of a healer and tanks that tank (I dont see S&B IBs or SM lately). Other than that I can say we have enough SW, other dps classes are quite good with their numbers (just my opinion - others are fine to state otherwise)
4. Not specified enough, what type of guild you are looking for? Heavy ORVR? Premade SC? Casual RvR? There are lots of them, you just need to say what you want to do

[Krasus]

I'm also a returning player. I'm struggling to pick a class to stick with. Currently I've been playing with a Shadow Warrior and a Rune Priest. I understand healers are wanted, but I'm worried that lvling is going to be horribly slow because of the Rune Priests TTK. I'm not bothered about T1 or much about T2, as I'll be able to just do SC and RVR, but I've heard from multiple people that T3 ends up being a grind for mobs, which is really boring.

[NSKaneda]

Welcome back!

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In about 2 weeks I lvled up from 1 to 38 without grinding a single mob.
Just lvl up the way you want to and screw pve

[Krasus]

@NSKaneda - That sounds promising! Could you give some tips? What did you mostly do to lvl?

[NSKaneda]

25 Kills repeatable quests + 50/50/50 player kills + defend keep quests + scenarios, rvr and lots of solo roaming

[DeTosc]

I've heard from multiple people that T3 ends up being a grind for mobs, which is really boring.

Well unfortunately in the evening T3 Order RvR is full of people doing stupid things like "pushing Destro way to far away from the keep and not letting them hit the door". And there is no way to make them understand why it is smarter to fight close to the keep. And during the day there are few players online in T3.

So if you are planing to rush to 40/40 fast, you will have to do some boring stuff during T3

[Krasus]

I'm not looking to rush, I quite enjoy T1 & T2 pvp

I noticed the split seems to be slightly more Destro in peak times, so I decided to go Order. The two classes I've been playing with are Rune Priest and Shadow Warrior. Is there an over abundance of certain classes on Order side? I see a lot of Bright Wizards, but that's just in T1 at the moment.