How was ring war even possible in 2001?

[xeffo]

Did my ring10 on Povar in 2001. First of all, cable/DSL were already common by then, so your gripe about dialup is just wrong. People weren't disconnecting for Ringwar. Performance issues back then were more related to the graphical load from many players, not internet latency. I remember getting something like 3-5 FPS during the SK BOTB in Arena, and that was playing top-down view to minimize the amount of models on screen having to be drawn.

Ring War isn't done much differently on p99 than it was on Live. Instead of actively kiting high priests, they were just fought and killed in camp but separate enough to not heal others. And instead of actively running to each new wave spawn, fighting just occurred out front along the river.

[Solist]

God I love the slow moving health bars, not this instant update bullshit we have.

Casually walk in, group CH, noone feared. Dragon facing everyone, noone taking obscene damage. Just full chill spec.

P99 is outright broken, always has been. But videos like that are glorious reminders of what EQ was, and what P99 was meant to be, and never became.

[Fammaden]

Not sure what all this bs is that people were wearing bronze to ToV and shit. I started in Kunark and by late Kunark/early Velious the resident uber guild members were all rocking full planar suits. I remember memorizing how to recognize a class by armor, like purple clerics.

[Worry]

Now that you mention it, I do vividly recall soloing ToV raid mobs on a Warrior in Banded during Velious, personally.

[Boptop]

Only bronze in TOV that I remember were people giving bronze armor to w wing mobs to troll armor farmers

[starkind]

velius wasn't playable until luclin

[starkind]

neither was vp rly lol

[starkind]

most normal ppl raided 2 expansions back and didn't do stuff the day it launched

[AenorVZ]

Had 130 players in butcherblock for a player-run PvP event pre-Kunark. It was laggy as hell but the zone didn't crash. This is why I roll my eyes whenever someone says EQ isn't a PvP game. Crowfall got something like $20 million in funding and lags with a single party of players on screen.

[azxten]

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

most normal ppl raided 2 expansions back and didn't do stuff the day it launched

This is actually the truth. The top guilds everyone remembers across all servers were barely able to clear expansions before the next expansion came out. Easily 99%+ of players never even raided the easiest stuff in an expansion by the time a new expansion was already coming out. Seeing a level 50 in classic was rare and confirmed someone had no life. Same for 60 in Kunark and ToV raiders in Velious let alone Sleeper.

P99 has a broken leveling curve for various reasons that causes everyone to level way too fast and stack up at max level with multiple alts before classic even ends. Charmed pets are abused in basically every group and raid scenario when in reality you can see the classic era posts from Enchanters wishing they hadn't played their class because it's broken as fuck and mob MR in planes was so high they weren't even trusted to mez mobs and instead just acted as buff bots.