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Originally Posted by loramin
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But here's the thing: people back on live may have been ignorant, but they weren't stupid. If you were leveling off gnoll fangs, then you hit level 15, and gnoll fangs were still giving better XP than anywhere else, it's not like you went "It's 1999 therefore I will stop doing a quest that gives great XP".
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Originally Posted by loramin
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No, you stopped doing the quest because it stopped giving good XP.
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A lot of people never leveled there, and many people just didn't pursue it because they assumed it would flatline (and the loot sucks ass, plus the rest of the EQ world is new, whereas you've been in the same place for days, and the place was so permacamped you couldn't camp the place uninhibited for hours like you can here (if you go during off hours as I have a bunch of times, you can). Plus, there are tons of ridiculous exploits from live that took months/years to actually surface because people just didn't widely share them.
Assuming "If it provides good exp people will just keep doing it" is far too simplistic. Truth is they won't - a vast majority of the server, despite far more knowledge of the fact, completely ignores BB or has still never done the tooth quest. That should prove to you that your premises aren't quite accurate.
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Originally Posted by loramin
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This happened naturally on live for years. People reached a certain level and they moved on from Blackburrow, not because of ignorance, but because the mechanics supported it. While I don't have exact facts on how much XP a gnoll fang gave at level 15 on live, I know that in 1999 level 15-20+ characters weren't dominating the zone to collect fangs, and I know they would have if if the mechanics encouraged it. Therefore, I can infer that something about the mechanics here on 99 are off.
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You can guess they might be, but BB isn't currently dominated by 15-20s except during peak or sub-peak hours. I went there all the time early AM (EST) or mid-day on weekdays recently.
Again, this server is populated by people who know the game incomprehensibly better than in 1999 and the abuse of this exp is still extremely minimal. It stands to reason that with a vastly lower knowledge of the exp in 1999 they'd utilize it far less than we do here in terms of population - which means it's not even a blip on your radar in 1999, and it's barely one nowadays (the server has been up for almost 5 years and this has never been a consistent complaint until recently)?