Does Hybrid Penalty (still) apply to group?

[Sethius]

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

Pretty much everything in this paragraph is wrong

Min-maxers existed on EQ from as far back as anyone can remember. Seriously dude, people parsing text logs and calculating exactly which stats stop being useful after which soft/hard cap is as min-maxy as it gets, and they were doing it in UO/muds/etc before EQ even hit the scene. I think you have rose-colored glasses on if you don't think most everquest players were as bad as their wow counterparts. As soon as kunark opened, the LOIO highway became the norm and was populted 24/7, not the exception. Getting anyone outside of guild/friends to go do something fun/challenging like dalnir, nurga, and other dungeons was an exercise in frustration. "LEAVE MY DREADLANDS? I DONT THINK SO BUDDY"

Most people back then barely knew what stats were, and everyone was lost 90% of the time, in my experience anyway.

I don't know who you hung out with on Live in the old days, but it sounds like you got screwed in the nostalgia department. I, on the other hand, had fun.