2012-04-28, 02:19 AM
The population obviously jumped up since the West servers and East servers merged back in mid-Feburary, but I think a lot of people quit over the past two months since we basically got nothing but PvP updates. You're lucky to have party listings go anywhere past 3 pages in the West server.
You can still find a Cerberus party on a Friday night, but not for the reasons you'd expect. People are only doing it now because there's an event where you have to complete every single Nest (minus Manticore and Apocalypse Hell) and use up every single run over 7 weeks in order to get free crafting material for Apocalypse gear (and it only gives you like 1/3rd of the total amount of gear you need anyways).
I think we're now at Week 5, and Week 6 starts in about an hour. So if you're doing it on a Friday night, you're partying with all the procrastinators or people who can't play at any other time of the week.
However, DN SEA just got Academic, so I think it's safe to say that we're probably getting Academic in about 2-3 weeks as well. People will probably come back for that, although there will be an obvious class imbalance. Right now, I don't expect DN NA to get 50 cap until July at the earliest, although I would not be surprised if the recent kDN skill revamp is to be included in our 50 cap release.
You can still find a Cerberus party on a Friday night, but not for the reasons you'd expect. People are only doing it now because there's an event where you have to complete every single Nest (minus Manticore and Apocalypse Hell) and use up every single run over 7 weeks in order to get free crafting material for Apocalypse gear (and it only gives you like 1/3rd of the total amount of gear you need anyways).
I think we're now at Week 5, and Week 6 starts in about an hour. So if you're doing it on a Friday night, you're partying with all the procrastinators or people who can't play at any other time of the week.
However, DN SEA just got Academic, so I think it's safe to say that we're probably getting Academic in about 2-3 weeks as well. People will probably come back for that, although there will be an obvious class imbalance. Right now, I don't expect DN NA to get 50 cap until July at the earliest, although I would not be surprised if the recent kDN skill revamp is to be included in our 50 cap release.