Before Reading I am reviewing off of what I noticed in the time I played, you are free to check this server out and judge for yourself, again and most importantly this is only what I noticed.
Server: Sylvanas RO
Stability: 9/10
I notice lag from time to time just here and there.
Availability: 10/10
Community:
Friendliness: 4/10
Trying to talk, and you get bashed,flamed and all if you say one thing somebody finds funny. Feels like its a bunch of 4channers around a lot of the time. Players report you for trivial things, like expecting you to wait for them to get done gathering speed pots on 5 accounts(did cuss and rant at my friend and still reported my friend for grief play). Few people that are decent to talk to, sad to say they were guild mates.
Eventfulness: 5/10
Automated events, so there are events(Devil Square and some Monster invasion). Never saw a GM run an event, something actually fun rather than who can kill the monsters not everyone has been on the server long enough to kill faster than others.
Game Masters or GM:
Friendliness: 4/10
From when I did talk a GM during the WoE problems, and when I reported a bug, rather unpleasant. Reason for saying it was unpleasant, I had reported a bug on iron wrist that my blacksmith was not able to wear it. Hours later the GM was on looking for ppl to test it, I had pm them saying I reported the bug and was still a blacksmith at the moment but would be reborning shortly, No reply for awhile. I continued to level and had just reborned and started leveling with my friends in a party, at which point I was recalled by the GM and was called a liar saying I wasnt a blacksmith, I told her I would like to go back to leveling and would like it if she could warp me to my party(didnt happen).
Availability: 2/10
The times I did see a GM on, was to reloadscripts(during woe messing it up) and then to reboot it a few times during the same woe "due to a bug/problem". The other as the mentioned above moment with the iron wrist. The only other time was when i first joined the server and my friend was informing me you can warp to the SM map with the warper, so curious I went out there with SM at the portal and the GM sitting with people while it was being killed(didnt stick around dunno what was going on).
Helpfulness: 6/10
Problem with the iron wrist could of handled better giving some lead way.
Game-Play:
Economy: 4/10
The economy isnt really there drop rate is 1k meaning easy to get money and items are jacked way higher. Merchants over pricing items, easier to hunt the item itself than to pay. Donations can be obtained in game but not that easy, selling of them is outrageous(donations being sold for in game money those who donate can easily be rich.)
Class Balance: 7/10
Classes over all fairly balanced, the fact you can buy alot of items a class uses tips into the favor of classes.
Guild Competition: 5/10
The guild competition is fairly alright, though if your a new trying guild you get bashed for not being able to take on the bigger guilds.
PVP: They have PVP rooms but it might as well as be WoE, players only attacked people not in their guild, let alone if you did kill somebody they would start double teaming you if not more and then calling you noob etc.
To be more extent the first WoE SE was "bugged", which it was bugged for over 30 minutes. While me and my guild couldn't find any reason for there to be a problem with it the GM somehow found a bug. Which the noticing of bugs only happened at convenient times. While talking to the GM about it they stated it wasnt their fault yet eAthena's problem. Which makes me wonder if they test things out before running them. I know alot of big servers such as Legend and they have test servers which they have scripts sit on before running them in the server. Blaming eAthena rather than saying "We did not check it out before implementing this" last I checked eAthena does have releases that can be buggy, but they dont force a server to implement it.
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So overall I would not tell any of my friends to join this server, you can check it out for yourself maybe they can change. I have gone off to better servers myself though.
