Scout Quest is Going Away (Woot)

[loramin]

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

why would we be happy to ditch the scout quest?

God forbid anyone gets decent loot without socking hours and days and years into raids

It's not classic EQ. Classic EQ didn't have lottery tickets: you had to go kill shit to get your loot.

If P99 was like live, and there was so little interest in the quest that guilds just did it whenever members wanted, that'd be classic. But the way it was here just felt wrong.

[Trexller]

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

But the way it was here just felt wrong.

no it didn't

[Jimjam]

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

It's not classic EQ. Classic EQ didn't have lottery tickets: you had to go kill shit to get your loot.

If P99 was like live, and there was so little interest in the quest that guilds just did it whenever members wanted, that'd be classic. But the way it was here just felt wrong.

This quest involves defeating an encounter with multiple giants, killing their powerful captain. /random is a hardcoded feature of eq.

Killing mobs and rolling for the loot is classicist thing ever.we’re all friends here.

[Reiwa]

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

This quest involves defeating an encounter with multiple giants, killing their powerful captain. /random is a hardcoded feature of eq.

Killing mobs and rolling for the loot is classicist thing ever.we’re all friends here.

Has the captain been soloed on here?

[Jimjam]

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

Has the captain been soloed on here?

Not by me [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. A addition it would make to the solo challenge tho.

[loramin]

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

This quest involves defeating an encounter with multiple giants, killing their powerful captain. /random is a hardcoded feature of eq.

Killing mobs and rolling for the loot is classicist thing ever.we’re all friends here.

Killing mobs with your guild would have been the "classicist thing ever'. That's how ring wars go, spirit of garzicor fights, etc.

Scout should have been like every other similar Velious quest: a guild event. It's just a fluke that its mechanics caused it to be distorted into a lottery ticket here.

[Jimjam]

Open raids classic and should happen more on p99 not less.

[Trexller]

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

Killing mobs with your guild would have been the "classicist thing ever'. That's how ring wars go, spirit of garzicor fights, etc.

Scout should have been like every other similar Velious quest: a guild event. It's just a fluke that its mechanics caused it to be distorted into a lottery ticket here.

it was obviously designed to be a small group event

by your logic every item that is rolled in a group is a distorted lottery ticket

we're gonna have to go back to giving every monk the tranquil staff because NBG

[loramin]

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

it was obviously designed to be a small group event

by your logic every item that is rolled in a group is a distorted lottery ticket

we're gonna have to go back to giving every monk the tranquil staff because NBG

If you can't see a difference between getting some friends (or strangers) together to go explore a dungeon and find treasure ... vs. going to an NPC, saying "I will accept this task lottery ticket", and then hoping a bunch of strange will hand you a prized item ... I can't help you.

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

Open raids classic and should happen more on p99 not less.

On Scout? No, they are 100% unclassic. There were zero open/lottery ticket scout raids on live in '99-'01 (that I'm aware of at least).

But look, I do agree with the larger sentiment: I led an open server-wide raid on Vox on Bristlebane (slightly post-Classic era, but open dragon raids did happen on other classic era servers). P99 absolutely should have more classic open Vox/Nagafen raids.

For the record, I'm in favor of other open raids too. And even with Scout, if it required you to bring your own raid force ... like it did in classic (and remember we're supposed to all be here for classic EQ) ... an open Scout fight where someone organizes the server into a raid force would be both classic and awesome!

But I'll go to my grave saying it: lottery tickets aren't classic.

[Ekco]

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

Open raids classic and should happen more on p99 not less.

this is the actual issue, it's not the game it's people playing it that are the problem.