Ok so I stopped playing a few years ago right around the time that they put in like a bazillion new plots and they were going threw all those corporate financial troubles and stuff. It was shortly after they added the beer elementals or whatever they were called. So Lineage 2 released right around then so I played that for a while untill World of Warcraft came out and have been there ever since. WoW is a sweet game but I'm a bit bored with it now and feel like I've done it all. I can't get past all the good times I had in Horizons and I still to this day think that nothing is the best mmo in terms of crafting that I have ever seen and none since can even compare.
So do I come back to Horizons? Well, I guess that all depends on what has changed. Can anyone answer some of the following questions for me because these were some of the things that I was hoping would get changed and want to know if they were...
1. That one main town in the desert area was laggy as heck. I think it was called Lagzoon or something like that. Or at least thats what I called it. Is it better?
2. I was a bit frustrated at the lack of creativity with new content. It seemed like at the time, the developers would just take an existing mob, change the color, give it a new name, then throw it in an empty spot and call it a patch. This resulted in like 80 different types of mobs but only like 15 different actual mob designs. Has this been fixed? Are there really NEW mobs now?
3. There was this dude named Lizardo who was in a guild with all the high level players and they would take their lowbie friends to this place that I dont remember the name but it was dangerous without a group. They would essentially power level them there up to max level really fast. It didnt seem fair and it also caused clumping of end game characters into those few places. Is that fixed?
4. There were some resources that dropped off of specific mobs that were only in certain places (thinking of like different mineral golems and stuff for instance). They would always be camped with lots of people because everyone would be farming the same things so it was a lot of just standing around waiting your turn to kill one. They were planning to consolodate servers which I feared would make that an even worse problem than it already was. Did they do anything about that?
5. Plots. While a great concept, and fun to build, the actual building process was a bit stupid. At the time, You would spend about 10% of the time actually farming the materials, 10% of the time applying the materials, and 80% of the time transporting the materials to the darn plot. Most of the time was spend running to the plot and porting because the materials were nowhere near the actual plot and you could often only carry a few of the items at a time. Have they done anything to help make this part of the game better?
6. did they add any mounts or make dragons ridable?
7. Are there still lots of active players? Would I be all alone in the lower levels because everyone is capped out on the end game?
8. How would you say the economy is doing with regards to gold farmers and such?
And last but not least. Would you recommend that I come back to Horizons? And Why? What were the big changes over the last 2 years?
Thanks!