You're just looking for things to whine at. They're being honest. The way it was working, which was as intended, was not fun. It wasn't broken. It needed retooled to not suck.
Frustration at needing to remove a mechanic because
This event will be nice and unstressful for me because the gem auras are literally the only thing I even sort of like. WW was never going to be an exciting event for me because weapons/battle aren't really my aesthetic, but at least there was more variety in the fams last year than every single one being 'EAT KNIVES, SUCKER!!!!'-themed. Really not salty though. Plenty of cool items on site already to keep track of (and I loved most of the new WP stuff), so these going on the 'get one copy, awaken, and then never think about again' pile doesn't really matter.
Arvelle's stall, though...for all the hopes that the Grand Exchange system would fix a lot of existing problems with holiday obtainables, there being no sections, no filters, no searching, and no sorting besides the default is really a disappointment.
So can any embers elaborate on the fire Dom tea floating around on SMR? The anons are being quite vague and I'm interested in these top exalters leaving "due to discord toxicity"? Anyone have any experience/input or is it baseless anonymous pot stirring?
someone claiming to have been a top fire exalter talked about it in the comments here. no idea if its real or not but its the first person with details ive seen so far: https://saltminerising.tumblr.com/post/692308954367295488/huge-agree-about-the-fire-dom-thing-its-so
"Personally I didn't leave because the leads didn't trust our ability to rank on the leader boards, I left because they'd say they don't know what the community wants (I already suggested more events or higher incentive prizes). They don't really listen is what I'm saying
It's not even just the dom leads not trusting the flight to rank, it's the bigger exalters not being able to trust the leads to do anything
It's like why would I stay in a flight that does practically nothing? There's no reason I should be exalting hundreds of fodder a day for literally no reason other than I just enjoy it. Where is my nourishment my enrichment my fun enjoyable activity"
Weren't they the flight whose bank got banned a while ago? I seem to remember hearing something about that but I don't know how it ended, I think it was last year or so.
Seriously, deets would be nice. I wonder why they seem to only show up festival, and not much else. They could be up with Earth.
I will note, they'll be fine at getting their festival. No one is going to try to steal it(unless a leaving player is butthurt enough to organize it), and if there's a chance of it being taken, they'll end up with folks funneling them dragons.
No, it was actually several years ago, before SvF happened (2019 I think?). Same time as plague's bank person being banned as well, during their own fest push
Sorry, wording is hard - yes, Fire did have their bank banned but it was several years ago and they've had plenty of battles and whatnot in the meantime, which IMO shows they recovered well from whatever happened
It’s real. I’m a fire member, and also the og smr shitstirrer and I recognize the username. All I can say is that at least 4 dom heavy folks left fire for earth or plague directly because fire is very ineffective at dom despite the size and energy fire has.
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