There comes a point where you must either declare cult status for "preserving classic eq in any way possible" as you stroke off McQuaid in the back seat of his minivan, or you admit that a lot of classic mechanics are fucking pathetic and should have been fixed 15 years ago. Did you miss the part about the original devs admitting as much?
This is NOT classic EQ, this server is NOT classic EQ, we are not living in the year 2000 playing on our 15" CRTs spraying out eye cancer during our 4am play sesh's. I am not rocking a 500mhz P3 and a gateway mechanical mouse that can barely scroll sideways on account of the multiple layers of encrusted spunk on the wheel. I don't have to refer to printed/hand drawn maps to navigate any zone this side of Velious. I do not hail the efreeti in ToSR. Classic EQ involved gathering a huge group of friends and trying your best to down some difficult epic content, spending long hours camping rare named spawns as you slammed your face against the wall because your classes version of Raster would not spawn. People did not MQ their epics when Kunark was released.
Most of us earning it with "how much plat do I need to shit out to make that happen?" All I see are Karnors groups that tell their epicless monk puller to go fuck himself six ways from Tuesday because the pipe is greed and they are going to MQ it. Usually the monk loses the roll. I have seen Mistmoore groups reject a rogue from joining because they didn't have their epic at lvl 23. I have seen people camping one of their epic named have the camp stolen by another class who wants the MQ platz. If this is classic EQ, then Im not sure what I was playing back in 1999-2000.
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