Something brought to my attention & clarification

[Aeolwind]

Something has been brought to my attention. Some folks that, well, have no idea about how the upper end game was played in EQ have made some comments that I want to clear up. I have flash cards, and a hand puppet to help with the break down. My apologies to IB in advance; but I need to curtail the "OMG Cheaters" BS that is being floated.

This is a raid mob
(>'.')> -Rawr!

This is a player
i - Aiee!

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                (>'.')> i
             iiiiiiiii 
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Now, when (>'.')> uses its "Woosh" attack that hits everyone, the people hiding behind that wall are not doing something wrong. What moron would stand in (>'.')>'s "Woosh" when you could hide from it? AE's were timable to allow folks to be able to "joust" the AE.

Mobs have a defense against this, it's called summon. Later, mobs were just rooted to stop the tactic (High priest, Creator, IV, Shei. This tactic was used by everyone under the sun. We used it on, every mob but Hoshkar and Silverwing in VP, Dozekar, Aaryonar, Vulak, all the Warders in ST, IV before they rooted him, Cursed cycle, tower mobs in pop the list goes on. The tactic is no different than standing beyond AE range and using missile weapons to burn the mob down. Which is how Ventani & Fennin Ro were designed to be defeated. Vox was designed against this as was Cazic Thule. Vox would warp all over hell and half of Georgia to catch you, and there were no walls in fear that would block the AE.

Side note: There is one more opportunity for retrieving a title. Whomever manages to kill CT or Inno will get one as well. There is also a title available for taking down Mayong atm, but he will be leaving soon.