Do not allow gnoll fangs to drop if killed by a level 18 and above

[Yonkec]

Pino you seem to not be grasping the reality of the situation. What you are bitching against IS classic EQ. Either you don't want classic EQ, or you forgot what classic EQ is, regardless of your claims to fame there.

I fight every day for a camp spot in zones with 30+ people in them. Don't bitch to us about a little competition, either embrace it or go find some instances elsewhere.

If you find Blackburrow so offensive you better /q and run away right now before you hit MM or KC.

[Nikon]

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

I just want an opportunity to enjoy the dungeon at level 7, dude. every time I have been here (I have been on this server for little over a month) its always the same shit. BB is where I took my sorry half elf ranger through the grind. I would like to do it again and enjoy it without level 19+ jerks raping the zone for the EASY Button.

Honestly, this is not live. Things are different here. Very similar game but different community. You're going to be very disappointed if you try to hold on too tight your original EQ experience and expect to replicate it exactly here. People here know a lot more than people did back in the day. They know how to streamline leveling and certain camps. Lots of people are on their 5th, 6th, or 7th character here and don't want to do the slo-mo grind from 1-20 again. It's just fact.

While that sounds like it sucks, it doesn't always. An example would be HHK goblins. Back on live the goblins could be broken up into multiple camps on some servers, but here goblins generally are done as one camp. In that case it's a benefit because otherwise you would have a crazy amount of downtime in that camp. I hope that there are other parts of the game that help to rekindle that old feeling for you other than just BB. Dungeons are generally very busy here, although I see zones like najena and soldunga mostly empty sometimes.

[Pinolian]

Dude I pulled Lower Guk. I pulled Sol B. I pulled KC. I pulled Sebilis. I pulled it all in 1999

I know all about competition for spawns. I know all about building enough aggro in your pull so some smart ass cant steal it as your running it back to your group. Which can be a bitch because you have that fine line between building aggro and doing too much damage and getting summoned. I know the game and how its played.

Its the fact that people are killing greens, making the dungeon a ghost town when, if fangs were implemented properly, it would not be an issue.

[fadetree]

Just for the record, I think Pinolian is 'right' in the sense that the gnoll fang quest isn't balanced properly. But thats of no account here, all that matters is : 'Is it classic?'

[daasgoot]

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

Dude I pulled Lower Guk. I pulled Sol B. I pulled KC. I pulled Sebilis. I pulled it all in 1999

I know all about competition for spawns. I know all about building enough aggro in your pull so some smart ass cant steal it as your running it back to your group. Which can be a bitch because you have that fine line between building aggro and doing too much damage and getting summoned. I know the game and how its played.

Its the fact that people are killing greens, making the dungeon a ghost town when, if fangs were implemented properly, it would not be an issue.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

[Pinolian]

Thanks for the responses. Its obvious that this behavior is just generally accepted here. And if you cant hack it, you just move on. Which is what you will do in a week or so.. so its all just forgotten right?

I am just standing up for what I think is right, because the way it is now, it just looks and feels all wrong.

It makes no sense that a dungeon is relatively unplayable because characters too high for it are farming items for an XP quest turn in. Adding all of that up = broke.

Like I said thanks for the responses

[GlassMachine]

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

Honestly, this is not live. Things are different here. Very similar game but different community. You're going to be very disappointed if you try to hold on too tight your original EQ experience and expect to replicate it exactly here. People here know a lot more than people did back in the day. They know how to streamline leveling and certain camps. Lots of people are on their 5th, 6th, or 7th character here and don't want to do the slo-mo grind from 1-20 again. It's just fact.

Add to that the fact that there's only 1 server and almost no expansions so the number of zones to choose from is so much smaller than live.

It's just very crowded. Any zone with a good ZEM will probably be a frustrating place to play.

I just move to another zone. The exp you get from having a lot more mobs to choose from makes up for any loss in exp modifiers, considering there's more downtime when you're sharing the zone with lots of other people.

I have a handful of people I played when when I was level 5 on my friendslist, and although we all play a similar amount... I am a lot higher than them, even though I have race and class penalties, and I don't play in heavily populated zones. I suspect many of them sit around LFG a lot. Not certain, though.

[lecompte]

I see two very good (I apologize for my immodesty) suggestions listed below:

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

If you have a problem with too many folks in blackburrow or not being able to loot fangs, join on the red server and send me a pm, I will try to help you out however I can.

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

Pinolian: Do what higher level people do, find a camp and stick to it -- pull mobs from outside your camp as available. Anyone kills mobs in your camp (no one should) talk to them about it, and if that doesn't work, report them.

[Yonkec]

If this entire thread is based around the assumption that a certain quest is "classic" in reward, find evidence and submit it to the devs.

Otherwise learn, adapt, and grats on your claims of "being old school". Those boasts will get you very far here.

[Clark]

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

Not classic - thank you, come again.