Well, the main reasons I left were because I really felt Wizzies were getting the shaft in so many ways. And it seemed the updates only favored high levels. And any of us who lodged complaints were told to shut up, basically. The only way I could continue to make gold was to use my Giant and I hated that. I'd given up going on hunting parties because my mana cost was never compensated. I'd end up spending alot and I might come back with a stupid statue if I was lucky. Hunting above ground where I could get PP'd and have my mana stolen was out of the question. There were alot of reasons I left. I think some of this is all still true now. It's harder on Wizzies than on any other toon class. I think the proposed mana changes will make it better, to a degree. But I'm not sure if we'll have a problem with stamina on that during a fight. I don't look forward to being in the middle of a hard fight and finding I can no longer cast because my stamina is gone. We'll have to see how that goes. And if they make the PP thing worse that will also be a problem.

Realm has always had problems, but I still missed it. The simplicity of the fights, always knowing where you really stood with it. I missed all that. And in spite of the rotten treasure table drop, I still missed the treasure hunting.

I am curious to see exactly how the new changes will play out on the new server. Alot of the things they are proposing were things we were promised years ago, like the first aid and such. I think that was another reason I left, we were promised alot of things and nothing was panning out. I left kind of shortly after the Maze was put in. And I remember being very angry that they put that in and did not put in a new lower level cave as well. As I said, it favors high levels. Low levels get the shaft just as much as Wizzies do. And I tend to like to solo alot and I felt they were making it much harder for anyone to solo at the time I left. There had even been talk at that time that they were trying to eliminate soloing and that just really did it. I wasn't going to stay if I couldn't still solo. And ultimately, I got bored. The time between updates was too long and just not alot was happening. If I didn't do FHP a million times, I wasn't really finding anything that good. And I got tired of DH and a million other places. IH, I must have run that a lot. Maybe I was burnt out. You get burnt out on anything if you do it enough. And I was around level 750 to 800. I think I felt I wasn't strong enough for the really high level newer monsters and I was too high for the lower level ones. Kind of stuck in between. And all my friends were leaving for about the same reasons. Everyone was mad about something going on. Mostly it was that we had been promised so much and nothing was happening.

I think the changes they want to do for the new server are mostly positive ones. I think if we get used to the new changes and how we will fight, it might turn out better than what we've been doing. At least I hope so. I plan on trying the beta. That should give us a feel for what we are in for

I'm sorry I missed the compensation, would have liked that

The compensation was due to massive warps (over a full month period); it was insane lol

Well, I'm glad I missed the warping, wouldn't have liked that at all.

Drop rate is much better than when I left. When I left, it was really, really bad. Like most of the fights you got nothing, not even a piece of junk, there was just nothing. They have adjusted it better now.

Yes, more junk! lol

What is up with Sernnon's intense religious paranoia? All I did was suggest a Bunny Cave and he flipped out that bunnies are religious symbols of Easter, which is so not true. We have rabbits in the game, we should have a bunny or critter cave for them. This is exactly why so many people left Realm. We all tried to make fun suggestions and every time we said anything, we got squashed.

Anyway, I'm getting closer to being able to run FHP again Did they put snakes in there now? They didn't used to have snakes in there. If so, what room are those? I want to avoid them. And, do you have a good strategy for the big fights in Holy Caves for a wiz? Since they changed stuff, I'm not sure exactly how to go about it. WoL's cast Stun, that much I think stayed the same.

haha... Jesus rose from the grave; quick, hide the eggs...

I dont run FHP, nor have i in a while, but I think all evil things are in there, which may include BD's and/or Hell Snakes...

as for leveling a wiz, I stuck to rax with Wizzeh :nod:

I have a sneaking suspicion that Sandstorm and GoW drop in Faery Caverns, I just haven't run it yet. They drop elemental books, I just can't remember if I ever found one of those in there. No one runs such a low level cave. I'll have to try, then I won't have to worry about Holy Caves.