Put the Despise rewards in the Void Pool and then give us real Despise back.
Void pool is kind of fun, but without the hat event there's just no reason to do it. Rewards are pure trash and as it stands I will never spend the billion void pool points I've accumulated recently.
Despise minigame is total crap. Someone farmed it enough at some point to put some quivers on the market, but in all these years I've literally never heard anyone talk about it. Ask a group of players "Hey what should we do?" and it'll come up zero percent of the time.
Even worse, the Despise minigame ruined what used to be the best dungeon for newbs/returnees who wanted to train up a character legitimately. Its addition amounted to vandalism of the game.
So kill two birds with one stone. Put the Despise rewards in the void pool so maybe there's something someone wants in there, maybe reset points first so we don't all get a billion items with the points we've hoarded. Then shoot the Despise minigame into the sun and restore Despise to its old configuration. It still exists in Fel, just copy it over sans champ spawn.
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On Atlantic it used to be *the* place you'd send a newb once they were done with Old Haven skeletons and wanted to know where to go next. On the other hand new Despise is super awkward and pure crap. It's not even a dungeon anymore. I have 100% never ever heard anyone talk about doing it or wanting to do it. It has to be one of the biggest flops they've ever pushed out.
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But then of course I'm not a very good player, obviously not because I use the EC daily and get along with it very well indeed. I don't find it matches your description of it as posted in this forum.
It's clear all the dev effort is going into New Legacy and we're just stuck getting mad lib seasonal events that are either a temp champ spawn or farming an area for points.
1. Haven incomplete it should have been expanded to take new players to GM
Despise and blackthorns were perfect for training
Also, the new Despise can be used for advanced training better than anything else in the game, starting from the moment that you can just take a tank’s pet and beat monsters without taking damage yourself and satyrs allow you to use a quick leveling technique + this is simple and fun encounter.
So the fact that the old Despise is the best place for beginners is absolutely not true, just like Blackthorn which was permanently populated by bots, please tell me how a beginner should train there? Oh, you probably want them to deal with the bot problem, but so far it looks like a bunch of bot owners want their place back - lol.
No offence ofc.