Meh, end game geared Rangers are fantastic and it does make them worth it. You can solo pretty much anything out doors, track is fantastic, and tell me Zilo wont out dps the majority of this server.

Truth.

If you want to build a strawman in a vacuum, then sure, that's exactly what I meant.

Edit: I just wanted to add, I don't hate on anybody. Don't be so truculent.

What I intended to impart is that I have difficulty reconciling a player seeking such a place to experience an era of a very old online game and then trying to consume what they labored to find in a quick fashion.

I understand what makes players want to outdo one another... I just don't understand why it's so rampant here. We all have our own maudlin stories of classic EQ and many profess they are looking for the magic they once knew. I've found that magic. I'm savoring it. Hey I can work alongside power gamers no problem... that's how I can bottom feed and find great drops in EC. I can have great gear and not be guilded because of that upper echelon player.

I've been in his shoes. I've been in kick ass guilds that bent what the game offered to its will.

It's as simple as that. Maybe it can be construed as a hypocritical stance. Maybe it is a hypocritical stance. I still won't understand someone who professes a want to relive memories and then proceeds to undertake the task at all possible min/max speed.

/shrug

You will never ever hear me consciously begrudge another's playstyle so long as it doesn't cross the line of griefing.

I apologize for having to spell that out.

I approve of any post that has the word 'truculent' in it and used correctly. Well-played, sir. Well-played.

I think you are missing the point Lagaidh. Why would you come back to a game you already played before? To do it better. I think almost everyone who is playing on 1999 wants to 'improve' their EQ experience in some way. I never got to raid anything on Live and I got to here. Basically casual players want to become casual raiders, casual raiders want to become hardcore raiders, and hardcore raiders don't want to repeat something they did before.

Also +1 for truculent. Next, threaten to defenestrate him!

One could say that having played Live that we no longer wish to be gregarious, but rather are adapting to play egregiously.

lol this thread is getting pungent!

But as for me, coming back I just wanted to do it again, hang around with folks and do the ranger thing. I've raided and done all that before, I've been casual before. I just like hanging out in EQ I guess. My time online is pretty limited though, so maybe I'd feel differently if it weren't.

THANK you... this is one of the things I wondered in the post where I originally wondered out loud...

And boy does that progression you talked about perfectly describe my tenure on live =)

I'm glad folks "appreciate" the use of the word truculent. I spent 50k on an education at William & Mary, a school where I had to write a term paper in even math classes (WTF!)... and I learned the word truculent from an old sports interview between Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell.

I'm paraphrasing:
*Ali said something funny and instigating to Howard*
Cosell: Well now you're just being truculent.
Ali: Whatever that is, if it's good, I'm that!