Any casual guilds that still do some high end stuff on Green recruiting?

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Depends on what u consider "high end." Many guilds can get you planar armor and Sky items and in Velious the same will true of Thurg/SS armors.

When you start taking about contested raid mob loots it's a totally different game you're playing.

[Local]

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

Depends on what u consider "high end." Many guilds can get you planar armor and Sky items and in Velious the same will true of Thurg/SS armors.

When you start taking about contested raid mob loots it's a totally different game you're playing.

This sums it up. For competitive content on Green, there's like 4? guilds that ever even attempt it, 2 guilds that attempt it consistently, and 1 guild that wins the majority of that content (same guild that is the only guild in Veeshan's Peak right now).

For Planar content, lot more options. And planar armor's still damned good, so if you consider that "high end" content, it's plenty approachable.

[Feracitus]

My game designer side would solve this by giving every account an "heroic deeds" counter. Every time you kill a named you lose X points, and once you hit zero you cant engage nameds until you recover. Make it a monthly thing.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by GMT6 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

when all bosses are killed within 10 seconds of spawning by the dominant guild, how can other guilds do high end stuff?

You must want help with your epic

Ouch, that’s disheartening. So only 1 guild gets to do bosses on P99? At least I’m far more interested in the beginning and middle game rather than the end. I guess once I get to a certain end-game level I’ll just re-roll

No need to worry about epic help, I specifically picked enchanter because their epic seemed a bit more not-completely-necessary than others. Looks like more of a mana and time saver than class function item. My reroll would probably be druid who also I don’t think absolutely needs an epic

I did do the necro 2.0 and 2.5 epic back in the day on live realms, but this was completely solo with a merc healer when I was very much over-leveled for the content. On live the necro epic was super necessary for years because it was one of the only ways to have good DPS via DoT crit chance. It was so long ago now that I barely remember any parts of the quests though

Edit: speaking of live servers, I actually wasted $15 subscribing to daybreak to check out Aradune TLP recently. Didn’t like the UI, new textures, definitely didn’t like the new char models although I know those could be turned off. AND their newbie zones were already completely dead, unlike P99

[Vizax_Xaziv]

Originally Posted by GMT6 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

when all bosses are killed within 10 seconds of spawning by the dominant guild, how can other guilds do high end stuff?

You must want help with your epic

Casual players can reasonably expect planar (and maybe sky) gear and when Velious opens, reasonably expect Thurg Armor and likely SS eventually.

EVENTUALLY VP will become an option as the "top tier" guilds decide it's not worth the time/effort anymore once they're in TOV & Kael as well.

[azxten]

Dragons in classic weren't even itemized if I remember correctly. First live Naggy or Vox kill there was no loot on it and GMs had to intervene. Devs thought players wouldn't get there so fast. Kunark was likely a partial answer to this. Give them a bunch more retarded dragons to keep the no life neck beards busy and stem some of the crying by these vocal losers which would equate to bad PR for the game.

Raiding in EQ was always an afterthought and something only 1% of players did until Velious and really not even until PoP with multiple expansions released without raising level cap was the average casual able to start raiding regularly.

Don't bother. Planes trash loot is good enough. Eventually in Velious you'll be able to raid and beyond that if Green merges into Blue you'll get a lot of chances for casual raiding.