My personal review of P99 Green: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[unsunghero]

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

If you're selling items at market value, it's likely going to take a while to find a buyer. So you send out your auction message, go do laundry, browse Reddit, etc., then come back in a few minutes. Staring at your screen the entire time you're in the tunnel is a good way to go crazy, and make 20 minutes feel like two hours. That's why it often takes time to respond, and has nothing to do with being a "real player" or not.

Hmmm I don’t do any of this. I personally hate selling in the EC tunnel, so I purposefully don’t sell at whatever arbitrary number the price gougers have decided to set. For example, don’t ever pay 3k for clarity II. It’s not scarce, like at all. It used to be like 500 appropriately priced for its rarity until spell price gougers decided to all make it 3k for literally no reason at all other than greed, and the only reason it stays that way is people cave and pay

The prices of stuff are completely made up on the spot. They just all match each other’s made up price not based on scarcity to form a little oligopoly on that item or spell to try to force you to pay it. After all, if they’re the only one no life camping that item, what other choice do you have?

Anyway, I don’t sell big ticket items so I purposefully discount mine half or less than the wiki price. I also consider it rude to put up an auction and then go afk so I sit there waiting for /tells, sometimes I’ll even hold off using the bathroom to be available for people. But again I’m not a price gouging power seller so I don’t expect others to be like me

[Jimjam]

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

I used to raid where there was like one necro out of 50 ppl. Out of 6 clerics I didn't often get twitched unless the three og clerics with years raiding in the guild were dead.

I honestly don't think it matters what race/starting stats any one has.

From a raid twitch perspective the min max race for necromancer is one that can play a cleric instead.

[Swish]

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

From a raid twitch perspective the min max race for necromancer is one that can play a cleric instead.

I disagree, necros make raid progress more efficient with twitching and even some patch heals on those last 1-2 groups with the worst tank/knight or rogue that takes a few hits.

[Tethler]

The only raid rotation on green is plane of sky, which is a necessity due to spawn mechanics.

The price difference for items between green and blue is due to blue being around for more than 10 years compared to 2 years for green. People have farmed a whole lot more stuff on blue, making things a lot cheaper. It's not related to the population.

The missing "basic features" you listed are not there because they were not in the original game or first two expansions (with the exception of the broken 7-0 hotkeys on green, no idea why they dropped the ball there).

[mattydef]

I have enough characters fashioned out on blue to cover the whole server. Fuck min/max, having a cool looking character is far superior.

[Gugg]

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

If you're selling items at market value, it's likely going to take a while to find a buyer. So you send out your auction message, go do laundry, browse Reddit, etc., then come back in a few minutes. Staring at your screen the entire time you're in the tunnel is a good way to go crazy, and make 20 minutes feel like two hours. That's why it often takes time to respond, and has nothing to do with being a "real player" or not.

And you call yourself 'eqsales' and charge 5 x more than usual and stand in the same spot for 24 hours?

[ReoDobbs]

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

And you call yourself 'eqsales' and charge 5 x more than usual and stand in the same spot for 24 hours?

Sepho*

[Gugg]

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

Fair comment honestly, lol. I think that's somewhat due to a druid's limitations in a group as well... they fall behind with healing, their nukes aren't great, their dots arent useful in a fast paced group, and while their DS is good... a mage adds more DPS in total.

I very recently logged into AB server and a L119 female Wood Elf Druid gave me SOW in PoK. I said, 'Some things never change'.

This Druid wasn't a taxi though and to get L119 takes a ton of work; L44 not so much.

The most difficult thing about making a Druid on P99 is coming up with an eye catching porting slogan to stand out from the rest of the taxi's at the taxi rank.

There was no porting guild in classic.

[starkind]

I tried being a serious druid but no one took me serious

i think the only serious druid on p99 is Kimm

[unsunghero]

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

I very recently logged into AB server and a L119 female Wood Elf Druid gave me SOW in PoK. I said, 'Some things never change'.

This Druid wasn't a taxi though and to get L119 takes a ton of work; L44 not so much.

The most difficult thing about making a Druid on P99 is coming up with an eye catching porting slogan to stand out from the rest of the taxi's at the taxi rank.

There was no porting guild in classic.

Max lev on retail is not hard at all, especially if u want to pay2win

You can pay to skip, when I was playing it was to level 85. Then pay to get a max rank merc, then buy some XP potions from cash shop

The only thing that slows you down is eventually you hit a wall of mountainous mob hp as you start approaching the level cap. Your group-quality gear from 2 expansions ago just doesn’t do enough damage. Usually the merc can heal you indefinitely and never run oom as long as it’s the max rank you can only get with a paying sub, but it can take like 20 minutes of DPS’ing to kill a single mob with millions of hp

But then all you have to do is buy some current expansion group quality gear from bazaar