Defs on semi active accounts are now 2T+ and coverts are like 10T usually. The new players cant hit or even see that easily or mass anyone or actually take part in any warring. Its just a non stop GnR collection fest for them til they decide to stop ascending or just trade in for a better account...
I dont know how everyone else felt about it but even when defs were easy to smash and people were doing bi-weekly page 1 massings, I found ascending to be the most tedious aspect of the game... it was just so long.
Cut it down to 10 ascensions, make the ascensions faster or let people keep their covert/AC levels after ascending... (I'm sure folks like EtL, JT, R8 etc would love that should Jason put in more ascensions
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Either one of those suggestions would at least make the new players competitive once more and give them a reason to keep playing