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02-14-2021, 09:26 AM
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EQ raiding is staring blankly at a screen spamming tracking/pettracking or duckporting for several hours on end in the hopes of that something will pop. Then everyone logs on and rushes the boss in <20 secs. Items are dropped, the people who have the most unhealthy amount of hours staring at the screen gets the good drops. Rince and repeat. For all the shit WoW gets it is far more demanding in skill and the top end gear actually requires something more than unemployment status and autism. If you however like a social game with a big world full of dangers, EQ gives you that. | |||
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02-14-2021, 10:58 AM
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POP almost out an end to this by limiting the number of people who could be flagged, but even then you could still bring 100 people to actually kill the mob. I say implement a betting system. Each guild in contest gets to "bet" on the number of players with whom they can defeat an encounter. Then attempts proceed in ascending order. Guild with the fewest players gets first attempt - if they fail they're locked out of that specific mob til next spawn. I'll tell ya it's quite interesting how closely ClassicWOW has come to resemble P99. Groups now level only via AOE dungeon groups - you sit at the dungeon entrance and a level 60 clears the dungeon for your (after you've paid them, of course). The highest end guilds clear all the hard raid content, then you walk in and loot your items (after you've paid them, of course) etc etc | |||
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02-14-2021, 12:25 PM
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All raids are now GDKP (gold DKP), meaning step 1 is buy 50,000+ gold from websites. Step 2 is get into one of these raids where a core group of raiders carries a bunch of whales through the raid. Then bid your bought gold on items as they drop. The most expensive item I think went for like 185,000 gold or something like that So unless you buy gold, you will likely never save enough to be able to get any items, and since there are so many GDKP raids, normal guild runs are dying out. Also, botting is rampant. Bots fly hack and run under the ground. Bots are running on scripts 24/7. It is almost impossible to find certain materials used in high end flasks because the bots have them locked down 24/7. And blizz, just like daybreakgames for EQ, won't ban the bots or deal with the bot problem because bots = money for them EQ TLP is full of bot armies, all scripted to lock a particular zone down and farm it 24/7, then sell items for Krono (real $$). So these games have their own problems. Hopefully P99 never gets that bad | |||
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02-14-2021, 09:27 PM
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02-15-2021, 03:04 AM
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There is no more leveling anymore, the newbie zones on all but the biggest servers are empty. There is certainly no one going into low level dungeons as a 5 man. The reason is because mages sell "boosting" services, which is essentially a PL. The way they do it is they take a lowbie into Zul'Gurub (max level raid zonea), and pull about 20-25 elite mobs at a time. Then they hop up and down from this roped part on a bridge, which makes all the mobs path back and forth up and down the bridge but never reaching the mage (if they do they instant kill him). Then the mage slowly AoE's the clump down, which gives the noob char multiple levels. The payment is hundreds of gold per level. There is no point to level traditionally, it's about 500x slower than boosting, and so no one does it And max level like I said, there is no such thing as a Pick up group raid anymore. They are all now GDKP. And unless you walk into those with at least 10k gold, you aren't going to get any good items. 10k would be what a frugal non-mage (they make more) could have saved in their entire char's lifetime. But because people are willing to spend a few hundred dollars and buy more gold than that from sites, now the economy is ultra-inflated. No one has EVER been banned for buying gold, not even people who brag about it to their friends. So botting to farm and then sell gold is rampant Blizz does try to ban bots, they do it in waves every 3-4 months. The last wave I heard about hit 70,000 bots. The bans do exactly nothing. The bot armies (most based in china) have back up bot chars boosted to max level with burner credit cards ready to go. And because the ban waves are so infrequent, they are completely and totally ineffective. The bots blatantly fly hack, there's vids of it on youtube. There's no reason not to, there is a skeleton crew of GM's on classic who take weeks to get to any petition. And worst case scenario the hacking bot gets banned and his backup char is all ready to go. At any given time if you go into certain zones you will see nothing but mages, sometimes like 20-25 at once, all mages, with names like "dlwi" and "wjflw". All bots. People take screenshots of it, but nothing is done | |||
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02-15-2021, 10:51 AM
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Leaving in a pathing exploit 1000s people know about just so they can encourage more RMT to encourage more WoW slavery. Deliciously evil. | |||
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02-15-2021, 01:42 AM
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