Why were we so bad in 1999?
 

So, I played during this time period and one thing I remember even during luclin was that people almost never chain pulled. It was always camping just a few mobs generally and killing slowly one at a time, medding, and then doing it again. People would pretty much only fight at zone lines and the thought of a corpse run was a dangerous, complicated thing.

When wow released people brought in this eq mentality as well but it slowly got overtaken by speedrunning the instances where it was possible. Now eq in 2019 it's basically the wow mentality(not saying it's bad) - fastest exp/loot per hour, willing to take noticeable risk if you get rewarded for it. What in the early 2000s were we doing that made the game so much harder? Looking for honest thoughts.

Hard to chain pull when there's 70 people in Guk and your entire camp consists of ~6 mobs in maybe two rooms.

I started playing during the POP era and seemed like chain pulling was a thing, if my memory serves. As long as the zone wasn't crowded.

me personally? i was like 16. i was stoked to get share wolf form. didnt have any aspiration to raid whatsoever. spent every evening in ec just lookin at stuff. between my eq-wife candidate and my fireworks business, i spent my time camping 1 single spawn every 10 min or so

i remember someone told me what quadding was and i didnt believe him. i guess my insight is now im not a 6th grader and i forgot how to have fun while i grind to 50 asap

once i bound myself on top of the windmills for some reason and clicked on them, that set me back a level or two

People had less zone knowledge and most people were far more casual. Imagine there are 10,000 eq players back on live what percent were hardcore raiders?

Now imagine p99... What percent are raiders or aspire to be?

You were maybe just young and bad OP? People chain pulled in high level groups in late Kunark and Velious. So it only took a year or so and people had shit way more dialed in than in 1999. Sorry if you were still level 36 when Luclin dropped but others were indeed pulling their asses off to go from 51 to 60 and then for AA's/65 all bets were off on chain pulls by raid geared guild groups.

Yea I'm gonna go with this answer. Shit during Kunark I remember there being literally 10+ full groups in The Dreadlands pulling (chain pulling!) to the KC walls cuz EVERYTHING else was completely camped at all times.

Yes! I remember the windmill in LOIO was poppin off in the early Kunark days -- there were people doing banking services for a fee, hosting dice casinos, and groups along every wall of the sarnak fort! But now, due to ZEM, I won't be surprised if that zone will be a complete ghost town even when green and teal re-merge.

live had high population, for example HHK basement which is considered one camp on p99 was considered 4 camps on live

I have vivid nostalgic memories of chain pulling in OT wall groups. You pretty much had to otherwise you'd lose all the spawns to the 40 other OT wall groups. Also did the same in DL. (But eq was never that crowded back then according to some...)