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Originally Posted by Pscottdai
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Nothing about the placement of the old entrance made it elite. All one had to do was trail behind a guild clearing NTOV to get to it. Now it was a PITA to figure how the quests worked, but that was why we had the PoM websites and forums.
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You write that as if your average player could just tag along behind an elite raiding guild clearing flurry drakes on their way to triplet.
No. Firstly, the vast majority of a classic server during Velious wasn't level 60, secondly, most of the players that were 50-60 absolutely feared traveling to zones where a Rez and corpse recovery are difficult, ToV would be the #1 example of a place where corpse recovery is impossible for your average Joe Schmoe. You say it and on paper it is sound fine but that's just not how it worked.
How it worked was at the end of a ToV clear, a few groups from that elite guild would zone in, a handful would bind and by the end of the week, when other mobs had respawned, almost every one of those characters had been moved out of PoM.
Fast forward to P99. There will be some people who devote an entire character to living in PoM, with a bind there. Many guild's will have CotH mages meaning once you connect a CotH chain, it's a DA Idol + SoW speeds run from PoM for very little effort. Guild's will regularly be clearing NToV as it respawns and I expect many will sell a Rez or CotH to the entrance because platinum rules this server. I have no doubts there will be tons of Torpor Shamans and Enchanter/Cleric duos locking down the best card camps for quite some time. I saw several specific shamans practicing this on beta.
PoM on P99, will be like raiding on P99. Advanced knowledge after 14 years + no-lifers will make it nothing like you remember during classic and there will be RNFs and there will be crying, petitioning, kill stealing, perma camping and price gouging. Outside of Sleepers Tomb/First Brood Dragons, I imagine PoM will be the largest concentration of pure evil on P99 come Velious.