Hello everyone,
after a transfer to Asura
I honestly think that’s the worst idea imaginable tbh.
I came back after quitting for 5+ years in 2016 on Siren server w/ a few old friends who migrated to Asura and definitely planned on going there to Asura to join them but then realized……….
I don’t have to wait 30min - 1 hour just to enter HTMB fights and can spam such w/ zero delay?
I can do DynD w/o waiting as well……
I can also do Odyssey w/o any delay whatsoever….
So I’m never leaving Siren. Asura would only end up holding me back via slowing me down. Only went to Asura recently to buy AH items that were vastly more cheap than on my server via sending a mule. That’s the only reason I suggest anyone as a “Returning” player ever go to that server.
I suggest leaving Asura behind via migrating to a far less populated server after finding an EGLS that is in demand of the Jobs you have to offer whom also setup Events during a timeframe where you can be online attending such routinely.
People always grossly overstate the wait times and other problems of Asura, TBH.
No, you don't often have to wait for HTBF. Only the Selbina ones occasionally have a wait now, but it's usually pretty short. Sometimes it's long (10min+ wait), but that's uncommon.
Ambuscade is more likely to have a 0-5 page wait than anything longer, unless you're queuing at an exceptionally busy time. Same with Omen. Those busy times
happen, sure -- card campaigns can see Omen have an hour long wait, for instance -- but it's far from the majority of the time. Exceptions rather than the rule.
Even Einherjar is generally not bad. In the past week I've farmed ~60k ichor, and have only had to wait longer than 2 minutes... once or twice? Just create a trade macro and communicate; people are generally nice about sharing lamps.
Odyssey, being current content, is obviously more busy, but even it has short/non-existent wait times more often than not. Only gets to be 10+ pages (15-30min) on select nights nowadays, though it was popping after the v20 update.
It's also abundantly possible to progress on Asura without paying mercs or RMT for a solitary thing, you just have to find an LS or actively engage in PUGing. And if it's PUGing one wants, there's no more active server. Just filter out the yell spam with an addon and you're golden.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Bahamut and Odin are perfectly fine, and deader servers serviceable for a multi-boxer, but the Asura complaints are always hilariously hyperbolic. If anything, I wish there was a larger server than Asura; it's only had ~2500 characters online lately, as opposed to ~3500-4000+ in 2020.