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Originally Posted by Expediency
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The level limit is 52, so players 53+ are summoned away.
And they do it by having a few chars naturally at that level + an army of alts they level to 52 then park forever at either sol b or permafrost, depending on target.
If you are really a baller you either MQ a set of velious armor or you delevel a char that already has it to really drain the last bit of fun out of the encounter.
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Thank you for your answer. This explains almost everything except "why" they do this. I can only assume it is to control the market for epic quest items that drop from both these dragons.
Would this be an accurate assessment?
Forgive me for sharing my personal opinion but I just don't understand why the staff has allowed essentially a cartel of guilds to control many of the spawns on the server. I played EQ back when it first came out up until WoW came out. Sure there was some healthy competition for some raid targets but I did not recall the the high level of toxicity and monopolization of spawns that we see today here on P1999.
Currently I solo and occasionally group (when I can find a group) but after learning about the P1999 raid scene I would never subject myself to be part of broken and dysfunctional "endgame" where people must pay hundreds of thousands of platinum just to get epic quest items from bosses and purchase certain must have spells (Torpor).
P1999 may look like classic EQ but it sure doesn't feel like it when you hit the low 50's and want to progress your character. I hope the staff does something about this.
It seems the only time I see happy players on P1999 is when the top guilds get suspended. I have a few friends who raid in lesser guilds so I hear from them and they are jubilant when this happens. It's like the munch-kins in the Wizard of Oz singing "Ding, dong the witch is dead" and everyone cheering. Perhaps the staff should take a cue from this and transfer these top guilds to their own penal colony server where they can fight it out with each other and leave the rest of us to have fun.