If you plan on being here for a while, you will have plenty of raid content coming in Kunark/Velious.

If you like socializing, the you'll like EQ raiding. EQ raids are long and repetitive and challenging for about 1 min every couple hours for the crowd controllers. The rest of the time its like gringing but with 30 people.

Boss raids on the other hand I wouldn't worry about. Unless you don't have a job, or at least have one that you can play EQ at, you'll probably only ever see a raid boss once every couple months. If you want boss fights stick with WoW. Frankly this isn't going to change with Kunark or even Velious.

If the GMs elect to change the raid rules to FFA, we could all see boss mobs whenever they pop, and the outcome will be exciting and no where near as predictable.

Dukat 50 Human SK [SUSPENDED]
Dural 17 High Elf Wiz

Taking longer to level doesn't equal being more difficult. This game isn't hard, especially the pve aspect, especially the low end part of it.

You mean it would be a lot more stupid as everyone trains each other for 3 hours. There's almost no respect between the raiding guilds as it is right now. The rules are the only thing keeping this from devolving into tzvz garbage. And no, we all wouldn't see raid mobs, it would still be just the people willing camp a boss in raid force for hours.

Getting punished more for fucking up = hard.

We aren't all mages/necros.

A WOW raid is similar to you having to walk into the kitchen to get a cookie.

A EQ raid is similar to you having to fly to the other side of the world, swim 5 miles to an island, and then sell your body until you can afford that cookie.

Your lack of faith in your fellow players is depressing to me. There is no respect between the guilds because there's no interaction between them. Why interact when you can just petition and wait and see what the GM says about the situation? If they would just step aside, we'd all realize the necessity of respect and sportsmanlike conduct.

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You guys are dumb as rocks if you think WoW classic raids are harder than EQ classic.

When WoW came out people knew about raiding and what to expect in a general sense.

When EQ came out wayyyyy back in the day, no one knew wtf was going on. How many guilds could break fear at level 50 back in 1999? I dont know the answer but I would wager you could count the number with 1 hand. Same thing goes for Trakanon, AoW etc. Very few guilds were able to handle EQ raid content as it was released.

Dont be fooled into thinking EQ is easier just because of how guilds kill stuff right now, 75% of the people have been there and done that and we still do wipe occasionally.

It's not easy.