Daldaen, I used to think like you. Then I realized that fixing the Kunark raid scene on a mob by mob basis is fundamentally impossible. The mobs are simply too easy, so the "competition" will revolve around silly things like who jav spams, who poopsocks, who camps out, who has an SSD to log in fast, who is fastest at scrolling through the tracking list, who levels the most ranger alts, whatever.
There are only three legitimate ways to fix the Kunark raid scene:
- Spawn targets via simultaneous repops only. At this point the competition becomes about moving around as quickly as possible and killing the minimum of trash.
- Increase mob hp by 2-4x, to the point where 30 idiots can't buy 20k of resist gear and faceroll their keyboards for 60 seconds successfully. In other words, the Velious expansion.
- Enable PVP
Unfortunately Nilbog will never allow deliberately non-classic changes, and EQ PVP is pretty bad, so we are left with repops. And the repops we have are great, although I think we have only had 1 in the past month? The reality is the raid scene for Class R guilds has massively improved over the past 4 months. Of course now we have Doljo* to drag us back into the FTE hell <shrug>