Ebon Gate Wrap-up Kudos, Comments, Suggestions

[woeful flame]

Adding in my HUGE appreciation for Naidem and all the neighborhoods. I really wish I'd had more time and energy to appreciate it properly - maybe next year!

I also love love love LOVE Arena of the Abyss. I wasn't sure about it at first, but ended up spending so much time with it, which gave me extra shards for more goodies that I wasn't sure I needed until I got them. The price point on this was excellent for the return I got, especially because I went into it mostly for the exp and Voln Favor.

There were a lot of new items that had a few unexpected issues, and staff response, from what I saw, was fantastic.

I didn't get a chance to finish my guidebook quest this year; I hope we can pick up on it next year.

For the first time in a long time, I'm looking forward to next year's EG 🧡

[dusk wyvern]

So this EG was a huge improvement in almost all areas.

The Discord Push on merchants was super helpful for me to get into spins, and the spins didn't happen instantly after the announcement, the Raffles didn't require me to be on Town Crier's website to find everything, and folks seemed to really enjoy the life service games.

Also as a rule the merchants were much more timely about their spins, and offered them at a wide variety of times of day(again a huge improvement).

The fluff shop offerings were also great!

The downturn, the Eve of Reunion invites got shards generated at a crazy level, and there was really no outlet for them, if you didn't want VOLN armor and you didn't win a rare flare token.

The change to flares this year wasn't great, the flat cost on the flares was a little high(they should have been the ceiling rather then the floor), and having to win a raffle for the pleasure of spending 400k shards on your blink token wasn't great at all. the flare tokens being raffled at all wasn't great.

But over all a big improvement!