EQ2 is a hit! And they called it Wildfire!
 

From the ruleset of the new TLP:


Additionally, this server will be our first attempt at cock blocking. In short, once an NPC is engaged, it will be locked to that character, group, or raid. Characters not part of the lock cannot contribute damage. Spells from outside characters will not land on the NPC. If an actively locked NPC loses aggro for a short time period, the NPC will go home, reset, then unlock.


Straight outta 2004! Called a developers tool, call it isolation, an ice down, burstification, no doubt
You still ain't the killer!
Ice cubed mob goin' home since the gang wiped, you can try, but why, respawn come in five, and it's a cool down, control the clowns, lock em down?


No way.
Yes way!


This is pure straight up eq2.

Confirmed encounter locking literally was in EQ2 at launch since I played then, and they got rid of it within like the first month because everyone hated it

"Lets do stuff that everyone hates!" -videogame elf genius

yeah verant was nothing if they weren't shooting themselves in the foot

Prevents killstealing, solidifies FTE in the moment...there's no drawbacks. Stop bitching.

Yeah there's no drawbacks to the thing everyone hated so much they yanked it out of eq2 after a month lol

Oh .... there are drawbacks.


I am personally psyched. Oh yes encounter locking is a fickle master, a fickle master indeed!


Remember: the aggro is you. Not the mob. You erase you. The mob returns to original state. Rinse repeat.

Or, despawn. Or, put on its timer.

I'm personally excited to try out hardcoded FTE. It is afterall a familiar P99 mechanic!

What's the fastest casting spell? Tangling Weeds?

Or does it have to do damage like on here?

Yeah you and Magnetress are seeing the angle.



I haven't been on a live server in 2 years, so have forgotten live mechanics.



p99 FTE guild?


"Engaged and Locked: an everquest guild"


Someone else do it I'm to lazy.