Leveling was dead even in classic era. People just flock to the ZEM zones and you get power leveled even if you don't want it. It's why I quit playing after hitting 50 in the frenzy over getting legacy items and then started an alt. Once I got to 20s and 30s which is my most enjoyable grouping range every single time I logged in every zone was empty except the ZEM zone and in the ZEM zone the camps were all taken and the groups if you got in them always had someone outside the group buffing, pulling mobs, etc. Isn't that great? No, not really. Devs remain silent on why they encourage this kind of ridiculous leveling tread mill and trivialization of the leveling part of the game by having non-classic hot spots, broken channeling success rate, etc and so everyone stacks up at max level in short order completely out of alignment with any kind of classic consideration of leveling curve matching expansion timeline like Verant did when they looked at how fast people were progressing and how they were getting ahead of the designed curve and nerfed anything that allowed that.
P99 is collapsing into a raiding singularity where the entire game can be summed up as charmed pets, recharging items, power leveling guild groups, hot spot zones, and raid rules. It's pretty stagnant for a long time now. Green rather than being a refreshing new start was actually just a more spectacular display of how bad the problem has gotten and that the staff rather than resisting this stale meta encourages it instead.
I hadn't played TAKP yet and was just looking at their forums and this is one of the most recent posts:
https://www.takproject.net/forums/in...1-years.20309/
It seems like it's endemic for EQ and all MMOs these days. Everything is catered to the raid audience while ignoring the other large segments of players who really don't like raiding at all.
I guess to actually answer your question, yes, you will find someone to level with if you follow the ZEM treadmill zones and their power leveling friends will be there to "help" you. You'll be ready to raid, by which I mean AFK for long periods of time adding nothing of value because there are a dozen other people there who can replace you easily, in a few days.
11-16-2021, 01:09 AM
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