roadkillrobin wrote:Penril wrote:
I have farmed Ruin a LOT the past 2 weeks. I have 20 alts with full Ruin (both Order and Destro).
Destro invaded the Eataine PQ a bazillion times while i was there. Order? I only ever saw a WL and Engie a few times (easily dealt with) and a solo DPS AM (even easier to kill him). They didn't return after dying. Nothing like Destro, who have sometimes invaded the Order PQ with half a WB.
And I've farmed Ruin on the Destro PQ when on the rank 41 Hero spawned 2 groups of Order charged in on our PQ.
I've seen AM hiding out of LoS and dotting people up. I've seen a full 6man premade storm that PQ aswell. I've also seen the Order being completly wiped by the lowbie Destro farmers.
So it happens once in a month and suddenly it's equal?
I have farmed Ruin with 8-8 characters recently. Each side took somewhere between 8-12 days, with 4-8 hours a day.
In the "Blind Justice", the most popular Destruction PQ to do where you have a good chance for the gold bags, I have never, ever seen an Order character. Now I don't doubt that occasionally someone tries their luck there, but I had a pretty good sample size to say it's a very rare thing. As is people doing the PQ flagged: I have 2 healers and 2 tanks on Destruction so it's hard to miss PvP flagged players even if you don't specifically pay attention; RvR flagged players are also very rare.
On "Da Orcwerks" PQ, the Order's most popular PQ, Destruction players showed up every day. There was a marauder in particular who kept coming back, I've seen him there at least 10 times every day. Rank 40, in full Mercenary gear and other T4 BiS items, with r38 potions. There were other Destruction players who came to the PQ as well, about 1-2 times a day.
As for the RvR flag - as noted, you get flagged when you arrive in the Eataine warcamp. You have to get out of the RvR area and relog to unflag, or your "alternative" is to fly to DW, which puts you on the opposite side of the DW map from Eataine, so you have to ride across 2 whole zones. Now it's true that you can unflag, but let's be honest - this is a PUG situation. Most people don't bother with such things, especially since probably many of them aren't even aware that it will matter. You also need teammates to complete these PQs unless you have some kind of monster build who doesn't need the Ruin pieces anymore anyways, so you don't get to choose who you support and get flagged for it yourself. And I'm going to say that if Destruction was in the exact same situation Flight Master-wise, they would be all flagged too. But they're not.
This is the reason all those Destruction players come to the Order PQ, constantly, to the point that it's extremely disruptive - if there is no Destruction player chasing your healers around, you (quite rightly) are paranoid about one turning up during a boss fight and so not paying as much attention to the PQ as you should. They don't just go there and stand in the AoE to get the (low rank and poorly geared) Order players flagged that may happen otherwise, they
know there will be plenty of low rank flagged players to begin with. They can even come unflagged and pick them off at their leasure. With other words, they are exploiting a weakness in the system they are well aware of.