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Originally Posted by Lhancelot
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it takes a good 5-6 hours of constant grinding to get your faction maxed, if this is cheating anything I don't see how.
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Originally Posted by https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/how-many-of-these-en-things-do-i-have-to-kill.30252/
/rant on
Please understand gentle readers that I have been hunting Frost Giants in Great Divide for almost 10 levels. Quite some time ago I maxxed out my Coldain faction. So when a guildmate offered to ** some of the Skyshrine armor with me I figured I should be getting close to Ally with CoV faction. Just to be sure I made the perilous journey through Kael to Wakening Land to present myself to Woushi and see how I stood with the dragons. How did I con you ask. Ally? Warmly? NO!!!! I was Apprehensive!!!!! After slaughtering countless Giants for endless hours I was apprehensive! What do I have to do? Slaughter all of Kael singlehanded? If I could do that I wouldn't need their stinking armor! ARRRRGHHHHH!!!!!! :smileymad:
/rant off
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... and that was in 2004 (several years post-Velious-release)
But, as I tried to explain, it's not "cheating" in any P99 sense, just in the sense that what's happening here is easier than what was on live. And again, my point in bringing this up wasn't to say "you're a non-classic cheater if you kill giants before the fix", it was just to say that if however many people playing Velious on live could do it without the bug, so can anyone here.
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Originally Posted by Lhancelot
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implemented because on Live it ALSO got changed
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I checked the patch notes and didn't see any mention of this, so I assumed it was a P99 thing. But I'll freely admit I didn't check very hard, so it's entirely possible I missed it and this is a classic fix. If so I apologize for implying otherwise, but my point remains the same.
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Exactly how does this help anything, or improve upon the game by making faction grind even longer than it is.
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There are many, many non-classic changes that would make the game better, and I'd donate $500 on the spot if it would make the devs spin up a "Classic+" server with those changes (bring back light blue mobs and buff timers!). But nevertheless live was brutal in a lot of things: slow raising of dragon faction from killing nameless giants is far from the only one. If you make those things less brutal here than it's simply not classic, and (I believe) that's what happened here.