The age of afk farming has begun.
Cool update for new peeps at least.
I am aware that this can be a problem.
This is what we are working on. When you go afk you will no longer be able to get items, just like with EXP.
As far as WS's not being useful, the problem is that you were forced to use them.
I plan on adding items to the forging list in the near future.
I also plan on opening a discussion on backpack, so that we can have some options. Like possibly having auto loot only work on rare item while we have the backpack for Greed effect.
In the end I felt that this was a much needed change to bring in new players.
We need to adapt improvise and overcome. Without doing those things we will die!
I have played many servers and heard about several that offer many things I wish ARO had, I'm talking successful servers that slowly added the things the majority of the players wanted and in the end the results were amazing!