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Originally Posted by Ezrick
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Wow! You really drank the cool-aid didn't you.
Raiding on P99 has absolutely nothing in common with live. Anyone who tells you this was the case was a ten-year-old with a level 18 l33t N3k0m@nz3r at the time. It is absolutely not true that guilds crawled all over each other in cut-throat competition to kill a mob.
If you zoned in to clear ToV there was a near 100% chance that your guild was the only one in the zone (maybe another guild was in HoT, no one did WToV). There simply weren't enough high level players at the time and the guilds that could do the content were very exclusive and level 60 only. They actually cooperated with each other. There are 200 times as many level 60 players on P99 as there were on a live server during the Velious era. Heck lower level players used to bitch constantly at Sony because "20 percent of the content is for 1% of the players." And it was true. On P99 70% of the players are trying to do that content.
It is absolutely true that WoW literally buried the original EQ in subscribers because literally everyone could raid. Those of us that did make the cut in EQ called it "EQ Lite" for many of the same reasons you list.
This idea that raiding was ultra competitive on Everquest live during it's original release is complete fiction. What P99 has become may appeal to some, but it certainly isn't the game being played in any way like it was ever intended.
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E'ci was somewhat cutthroat. If a mob was due and two or more guilds were tracking it, there was usually a race and shenanigans that followed. There was 3 western raiding forces and 2 Asian raiding forces during Velious.
If a raid force was already forming and pulling/buffing, it was usually respected. Patch day was totally fine, too, since there was plenty to do.
02-07-2019, 02:18 AM
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