Quote Originally Posted by Xylira View Post
Way to completely miss the point. Ranking up mettle is tedious but it's doable and not the real problem, the way Castrum Lacus Litore works is the problem. The way the encounter is designed makes it rare that it gets successfully cleared, or even ends up started when it comes up, because of the lack of people queuing. We arguably didn't have three months, we had two maybe three weeks after release to have a reasonable chance to get it done while everyone else was trying to do it, because the majority of people stopped wanting to do it at all. There's a bunch of people trying to do it now, but it's still apparently not enough to get enough people queuing for it, let alone enough to clear it.

I'm done my mettle grind, all there is left to do for me right now is sitting around inside Bozjan front waiting for Castrum to come up and very likely inevitably either not have enough people for it to start or for it to fail. There's always either still not enough people in the encounter or enough who know the encounter well enough to get it cleared, because most people who have done it don't want to go near it anymore. I wasted over two hours yesterday sitting around waiting in Bozjan front only to add two more failed Castrums to my count. How is this at all good design? At least let people queue for it from outside Bozjan front so they play the game between attempts.
No mate. I started 3 weeks ago, did rank 1 to 10 in 7 hours spamming all skirmish and critical, Castrum Litore after 2 days. So yes, we all had 3 months and took, if you don't have fortune, 1 month.