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Originally Posted by Grumph [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah that’s what’s hard to understand about raiding from the outside looking in:

It’s actually the only true multiplayer cooperative aspect of the game.

Xp? Wtf would you group with more than 1 other person for xp? I’m serious. 3 people MAX.

Plat? It doesn’t take a galaxy brain to realize the best plat grind is solo. MAYBE duo.

Major item farming? Yeah you need a snipe crew. Um but wtf do they need you?

...oh you want to play a class that’s not conducive to the above two/three strategies?
I’m glad you asked!
Step 1: make a class that IS compatible with 1 or more strats above.
Step 2: farm enough xp and especially plats to buy items and power leveling for the class and character you really want to play.
Step 3: enjoying having a high level well geared toon of a class that still no one sees any good reason to do anything valuable with!


And then there’s raiding.
Well most of the time, there’s actually nothing to raid.
But when there is?
Booya! Let’s get after it playa!
No one turns you down for slowing down their xp or leaching their plat gainz.
And as a matter of fact: literally every class adds value in som weird way. Somehow.

All the design pressure toward anti social isolation disappears immediately in a raid environment.
Now you could argue that it’s replaced with anti-social tribalism and dehumanizing your competition.
...but honestly that only escalated rapidly in a context where palace intrigues, he said she said, political games, and nihilistic will to power mind games are indulged or even encouraged.

Thankfully that’s not the competitive raid environment that’s nurtured here on p99.
We have healthy competition where disputes are settled primarily in game vid skill at playing the game.
For the most part.

Why do I group with more than a couple people total? Because I enjoy playing in a big group of people and having a good time. We’ve all leveled so many characters to max at this point that what’s the point of rushing through the levels and min maxing your xp when you’ll be stuck at 60 forever?

Anyone who has multiple high level chars on P99 and who is still min maxing their exp is pretty sad