Outlaw Powerleveling

[Arclanz]

Last I checked, only a couple classes are good at PL. Is every druid on the server recruiting their friends to play (and PL'ng them)? Anyone who has been uber knows the formula for EQ. Roll a druid; get it to max level then PL whatever toon(s) you really want.

[sykotic]

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

Last I checked, only a couple classes are good at PL. Is every druid on the server recruiting their friends to play (and PL'ng them)?

FD wipes damage tables here... Amazing to use while PLing

[Swish]

Guys come on now...you don't need to log on your "wife's" account to sit in EC with such things as this:- http://ahungry.com/eqauctions

As seen in the "two-boxing" thread stickied, I'm extremely anti-boxing because trying to get a group with my rogue and even cleric would be an even trickier task with anti-social boxers all over the place on the server.

If you really want to play two accounts at once, do it positively and play 1 character on blue, 1 on red. Or pick another EQemu server, plenty there.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

Last I checked, only a couple classes are good at PL.

Who/what did you check? Lol.

Druids? Strong PL, especially for lower levels.
Clerics? As strong or stronger than druids depending on gear.
Monks? Great for melees.
Shadowknights? Good for melees.
Necromancers? Great for anyone, even at 55+.
Magicians? Great for melees.
Shamans? Great for melees.
Bards? Great for casters with PBAOE.

Hell. Even enchanters could be a great PL all the way to 60, and for any class, with some more-or-less fancy charming tactics.


People just think druids are the only option for PL because they are used to getting a DS and regrowth at tunnel and think that because they can then own level 10 mobs in EC, a druid must be the best PL ever.

Also, leveling a druid to 50+ just so you can then PL other characters is incredibly stupid. Jesus.

[Orruar]

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

As seen in the "two-boxing" thread stickied, I'm extremely anti-boxing because trying to get a group with my rogue and even cleric would be an even trickier task with anti-social boxers all over the place on the server.

So your theory is that the no 2 boxing rule forces people to group with you who otherwise wouldn't want to? Seems kinda selfish. Of course, that's not really the case since the people who would 2 box by themselves just play a solo class now. Groups would actually be easier to find since they are easier to start when someone can box a tank or cleric when one can't be found.

[Ravager]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Powerleveling is fine. A lot of people who have L60 chars want to experiment with other classes and not grind up to 50+ solo again.

What is annoying is people who powerlevel in XP zones, i.e. Kurns, Unrest, Crushbone, Mistmoore. I see so many druids and monks who just have to clear in Mistmoore. Go to Kaesora where no one else is around. Go to Sol A where there are seldom groups. Go to Runnyeye.

PLer's stay out of Sol A and Runnyeye. Those are my zones. It amazes me how little they are used considering how good the loot is for those levels, the fact that you can bank/merch without leaving the zones, or if you can't sneak around, you don't have to go far at all to bank/merch. And since they're virtually empty, there is never a shortage of mobs. Not to mention how little hp the mobs have, they go down in a hurry. Nuts to MM and Unrest, where you're fighting 3 other groups or a single PLer for mobs, let the PLer's have their crappy zones with 12 mobs on the other side of the world.

[Mouse]

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

95% of the time PLing means either one of two things:

1) the two people are friends, or
2) the two people have both played the game a lot already.


God forbid friends should play together, and god forbid that high-level people who have nothing else to do should accept money from someone else who has a high-level character and wants to level a new character quickly, am I right?


Edit - of course there is the third possibility, the other 5% of the time, that the PLer is just helping someone out out of the goodness of his heart. That is the most vile form of PL, of course.

Good job here.

[Mouse]

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

Druids? Strong PL.
Clerics? Decent PL.
Monks? Great for melees.
Shadowknights? Good for no one, speed sucks balls.
Necromancers? Decent for anyone, even at 55+.
Magicians? Fastest available PL after lvl 12.
Shamans? Great for melees, kinda, speed sucks.
Bards? Great for casters with PBAOE.

fixt

[Swish]

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

So your theory is that the no 2 boxing rule forces people to group with you who otherwise wouldn't want to? Seems kinda selfish.

I don't doubt there's some boxers already who think they're getting away with it permanently. If boxing was suddenly allowed, players who don't want to box become at a disadvantage and will then be turned towards levelling necromancers etc. No point levelling a rogue if there's nobody to group with right?

Groups would actually be easier to find since they are easier to start when someone can box a tank or cleric when one can't be found.

This is a very subjective view. People come back to a server like this to recreate the old EQ experience they had in 1999-2001. If they turn up, roll a rogue and then get into the teen levels to see a bunch of boxers who don't want to slow their progress down, that guy probably either:-

A - Rolls a soloable class (probably not a cleric or tank unless they're extra committed)
B - Leaves the server.

So in fact, by opening up P99 to boxers might water down the existing 'real' population (I know I'd quit for THF or something) and then you have the R99 situation where nobody logs in because the server population is already so low and the experience essentially is logging on, putting on LFG for a while, then giving up.

The underlying point is that boxing isn't allowed, and it should stay that way - or scrap R99 and make it a blue "boxing allowed" server.

[Picked]

The whole 2 boxing issue to me doesn't hold water. Sure if you can roll a monk/shaman combo or something similar and duo you can. But in my EQ live experiences most of the groups I actually got into were functioning purely because there was someone 2 boxing a cleric or tank that was vital to starting the group in the first place.

I'm sure it would be different now then it was after 15+ expansions on live, but it isn't lightyears difference. We all know to have a good functioning group you need a tank, a healer, and a puller. Well what are the things you are looking for the most to hold a group together or form one? A tank and a healer.

Spent a ton of time with people boxing characters and got great exp I would have never gotten sitting LFG waiting for a "legit" group to form up.

Sure there will be 2 boxing camps for items, but most camps are already solo'd by 60s that are important.