My self and a friend of mine had this conversation the other week. Our conversation consisted of the things we had to do versus what we could do. I played a bard, he played a wizard. All the camps that were good for exp or loot were always taken on live. You eventually get to the point you dont even try anymore. So now you have to get creative. This is were the real difficulty and skill come into play. To go out and do things no one else does. One easy thing we did was after bard pulls a single drop mezz and let it auto rehit. notify wizard when the mezz hits and count to 5. this is when he starts casting his nuke. His 6 sec nuke will hit 1 sec before mezz repops. The mobs graphical animation goes from arm down at sides to at a 90 degree angle. Basically it barely moves. We cleared alot of LDON dungeons this way. Wizard never left his mount.
The wizard appropiately gear was able to speed kite HoH hallways. he could never get a basements, so he said screw it. He never used snare. and he would clear every mob not in a basement that doesnt summon.
The second one wizard did was speed kite veksar. The goblins in the front were done the same way as hoh hallways, except shamans got nuked down before the kite. This involved ladders and narrow ledges.
Once you get accustomed to EQ's play style, the game is not hard. But it does make others seem easy. Skill in EQ comes from things you have to do out of need.
Of the classes bard was the most difficult. AoE dot kiting took skill, until the range AA affected it. Yeah it got nerfed. The drums from BoT would let you run around a pack of mobe so fast there swings fell behind you, this was the easy mode. Mass charm kiting took a bit to learn but after that was easy. Being able to tailor you self to each groups needs took quite a bit to learn. Timing chain pulling, trying to convince tanks they need to assist the bard when the mob is at 10% so they get a 2nd mob on them. Getting boned on raid gear because war/clr/pal/sk, armor was more usefull on them. But hey look at this awesome flute that dropped. "Why would i want that? So i can invis better? No thanks i have my epic"
Everything about EQ becomes easy with patience and practice. Newer MMO's skip that and go right to "whack-a-mole" button spamming.
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