I've been duoing it for like the past like 3-4 years? I've been on p99 since about 2013. They changed the pathing of the ph/king - made it harder to solo pull but it is still possible again if you know what you are doing. Nothing else changed.

I’ve prob spent 30hrs in that camp on p99 and never have seen the king. So personally, I’d rather do anything solo and just buy one.

But could a shaman do it?

Anything that Loramin isn't personally benefiting from is unclassic and should be nerfed.

when you spend more on wort pots than the tunic is worth

But if you spend hundreds of hours you'll see 3 kings in a row with 3 tunics, that's the beauty of rng

beads and bio orb op

At this point we shouldn't take for granted that EQ's "random" engine is really random. It's probably flawed like all of its other programming.

What did this have to do with classic? I was asking on what changed on P99.

I guess, based on the claims here at least, people were duoing it before? That just seems strange to me, because I did a lot of groups there on Blue (most of my Torpor was paid for with fungi plat, plus I got one more after getting Torpor), and only once did we ever run into a trio. Never a duo ... and IIRC that trio gave up not long after we arrived (although it's literally been years now).

I guess all that changed was:

... but I would have thought it would make duoing harder, not easier.

Actually, that makes a lot of sense, because I think a lot (maybe all? again it's been years) of my fungi camp time was when Blue was Kunark-locked. I'd need to dig through my logs to be sure, but maybe the change was just "Blue got Velious."