Damn I've been wanting to try them.

I wouldnt know the first thing to do i just about found out how to get in a private server let alone coding and what not, im just saying that in the current state it makes progression so much easier then it should be.

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Are they back up yet? Any word on if they are being worked on or not?

Also is there any fix down the road planed for /emotes?

Lastly conquest is really buggy in keeping track of progress. Expeditionary Forces would be fun to be able to do again, Garrisons as well, but I can imagine, it would be hell to code. Just a someday wish I guess. I do notice players exploiting conquest by dying over and over again at starter towns (which make it common for starter towns areas not to be owned by their own nation.) This really shouldn't be an everyday occurrence.

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Read up on conquest.

OWNMs have loot tables again. Honestly the biggest problem with them is the fact that they can crash zones. This plays havoc with places like Dragons Aery, Valley of Sorrow, Jugner Forest ect.. where crashing the zone then causes the 21-24 hour repop NMs to reset to 24-48 hours. Nothing sucks more than waiting 3 hours for a HNM to pop and then it doesn't because someone (purposely or accidentally) crashed the zone.

That said, OWNMs are fun and if you're honest it makes many items much more difficult to obtain (as long as the BCNMs are broken) because you can only fight 1-2 monsters per-day with a chance of dropping specific items that you're looking for. This means you pretty much *have* to farm them with a group to get many of the items, because there just aren't many for sale as people move on once they have the gear they need.

Nas did change the loot table on them a bit. There is now a chance of 0 loot.