Seriously, stop raping BB

[Supaskillz]

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

Suckling the teat of easy XP - although the rewards for this quest are not classic, that sure is.

Can you prove it?

[Frug]

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

Can you prove it?

Just my memory, which can be faulty, and the numerous threads and quotes and posts that are brought up in all the other threads about this craphole.

[BigHurb]

yup you can get some sweeet 'spee

[Kekephee]

Protip: Every time you post a thread shrieking about the fact that there are people who are farming gnoll fangs for easy exp beyond 20, a new person finds out that you can farm gnoll fangs for easy exp beyond 20 and decides to go to blackburrow

[JackFlash]

^^ true story

[loramin]

Y'all are missing the fact that the people starting these threads aren't grizzled forum questers, they're newbies to the server who think "hey this looks just like the EQ I remember from 1999" ... until they get to Blackburrow, and then they think "WTF is this? Live players never did this".

Telling them that they're only teaching people to abuse the quest doesn't help. The next person who starts a thread like this isn't going to have read this thread or your "protip".

As I keep saying, the only way to solve this is to fix the code. As long as higher levels kill all the low level mobs in a low level zone, lower level players are going to complain (with threads here). And as long as an experience exploit exists (IMHO a level 20 getting levels off a level 10 quest is an exploit), people are going to take advantage. You can't guilt them in to not taking advantage of it, because this is an exp (and gear) getting game; blaming someone for getting exp quickly is blaming them for playing EQ well.

[pharmakos]

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

Protip: Every time you post a thread shrieking about the fact that there are people who are farming gnoll fangs for easy exp beyond 20, a new person finds out that you can farm gnoll fangs for easy exp beyond 20 and decides to go to blackburrow

also every time you're alt-tabbed over to the forums to bitch in the gnoll fang thread, someone else beats you to a gnoll that just spawned

[Yonkec]

Did I miss something or are BB Gnolls now the sole source of experience for toons around level 10? There are so many places to exp at that level, why exactly is a single zone with one quest the source of so much drama? If you are familiar with EQ you know damn well what your alternatives are, stop trying to claim you are more important that someone elses alt and should have first claim to something.

[loramin]

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

Did I miss something or are BB Gnolls now the sole source of experience for toons around level 10? There are so many places to exp at that level

I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I started as a Barbarian, both on live and here on P99. For Barbarians, as well as for Qeynos humans (and really for Erudites too), Blackburrow is THE dungeon when you start, just as Crushbone is THE dungeon for elves/dwarves/gnomes. You can't tell me that's not classic EQ.

When you're new, whether new to EQ or new to P99, you don't think "gee, Blackburrow is crowded with high level characters, I'll go find a druid, get him to give me a free port since I'm new, go to a different dungeon that I found on the Per Level Hunting Guide, and then get a druid to port me back when I need to train/get spells". You think "what the hell are these people doing in my starting dungeon? This is the one place Barbarians/Humans/Erudites are supposed to learn how to play EQ."

Now of course you can XP in Everfrost plain, Qeynos Hills, or even Permafrost. But two of those aren't dungeons, and the third is essentially deserted. Newbies should have a starting dungeon. They learn important things about grouping, surviving trains, etc. that will matter later on in their EQ careers.

Instead of saying "let's have higher level characters prevent 1/3rd of all new characters from having a starting dungeon" and blaming the victims for not going somewhere that:

A) they probably don't know about
B) they don't know how to get to
C) is far from their starting city

how about we try to figure out a way to make our classic EQ emulator actually emulate classic EQ when it comes to something incredibly basic: starting dungeons?

[Swish]

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

Can you prove it?

"Proof" didn't stop anything when it came to the scorpion pincer quest getting nerfed on day 2-3 of Kunark. Lots of people were buying up scorp pincers at 10pp each, 20pp each etc... to try and get ahead on their iksar.

A big ole hammer got dropped, and it never got adjusted back :/