8th Coldain Ring...the struggle.
 

Hello!

As many of you know, the 8th Coldain ring is a huge wall for many players, well as of today I'm officially fed up with this quest, as many others have been for months.

Today I won the roll on the 8th Coldain ring hand in, but because my guild is so casual, I didn't have the force on hand and set up to take down the ring. A member of Azure Guard offered to help me and he was awesome, but there were at least 10 Awakened members there, all on their alt monks, that basically bullied me out of my roll because apparently their 4th alt is more important than a main who legitly won the roll.

Anyway, now that the steam is gone. My request is that Gloradin Coldheart have her respawn timer greatly reduced so we can clear out this backlog of players that are aiming for this ring. I have spoken to several players that have been trying for this for at least a month or longer, and while we have a civilized way to handle it with the roll, schedule conflicts and bad rolls make it nearly impossible for those players to ever obtain this ring.

Again, today was a great example. Because so many end game players are rolling alts and PLing them up to end game quickly, a casual player, that should have had the right to his winning roll got pushed aside because a guild had nothing better to do, lost probably his only chance any time in the near future to get this done.

And before people say "Lowering the respawn time isn't classic!" This server isn't classic, it's "like classic." There are a lot of subtle changes on this server that don't line up with classic, so making one to improve the flow of the server and reduce tension between players would be greatly welcome.

I'm sure there will be a lot of flames to follow because trolls are everywhere, but I'm hoping those that have shared this pain will follow suit and support this request.

So why didn't you just do it?? Why would you let someone bully you out of something that you need for your main??

typical BDA bullshit.

No one bullied you out of turning in; you won fair and square. You definitely should have given it a shot since the other monk there was going to help you (the fight isn't hard), but it's also pertinent to note that if no one else there is free or wants to help you need to be ready to do the event yourself with your own help. You can't expect not to be fair to others who were also present and rdy to perform if they win. Not everyone there is rolling for their alts btw.

Also I understand the frustration, however you are a 47 rogue that expected the rest to assist without planning what you would do in the event that doesn't happen in advance. Expecting the guild to only come down on the moments notice might be tough given the time of day and the requirement of turning in soon as the npc spawns (in order to not delay the spawn/roll times), which is basically 8-10 mins from the roll.

In hindsight, I would recommend making arrangements prior with the people there (in tells) or having a few others with you present to help when you win to avoid that from happening again.

From what I'm reading and understanding: you are the asshole that showed up without the ability to complete the quest and then complain that others are understandably pissed that you were going to hold up the process for them.

How close am I to being correct?

That's some important info which is curiously missing from the original post.

Danth

unveiling that youre lvl 47 changes a lot of things. shoulda still went for it tho.

I was going to stop hating BDA.

But, then I realized, you can't stop hating something that you hate. Ya feel me?

I also hate rolling vs alts. But what I hate even more is rolling vs lvl 47. Go leveling, it will help you more than upgrading your ring.

Yes the once per day respawn sucks. But that's EQ, in the end not everyone can get everything they want. And this is 10x better than scout at least.

Quest can be solo'd by a 60 monk

Come prepared or Don't come at all to Ring 8

As for your request to shorten the spawn time, Good-Luck seriously there's far far worse on the server that minor improvements or un-classic changes could drastically change and improve the experiance for everyone, but they wont happen. The vision of this server is to be as close to classic as they can...and In order to do that inclusion of everyone is flat out impossible because simply put classic everquest server's where for the most part widely about EXCLUSION.

Simply put, Classic Everquest did a lot of things right, but because it was laying the groundwork for MMO's to come it also did a lot of things WRONG. But this server isn't about correcting those wrongs, its about recreating both the good and the bad

If they Did another Server maybe Green99, that would be a place to recreate classic EQ with more up to date mechanics like Raid instance's, triggered quests that don't have ridiculous bottleneck timers and other wrong's that the game developers didnt, or simply put couldnt predict 16 years ago

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