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Originally Posted by Eliseus
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I was giving an example of the mana regen comment for krupt. I'll bite though, why would you ever put yourself in a dangerous situation and claim the game is harder because of that? So you are claiming EQ is harder because you are dumb? If I was lvl 15 in WoW, I wouldn't go walk into MC, then complain that no one knows how hard this game is until you try to run past a golem in MC @ lvl 15.
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TO BEAT THE GAME YOU HAVE TO FINISH ALL THE CONTENT
IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE ALL THE CONTENT YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE GAME
In EQ classic when you created your character there was a screen that would tell you "This class/race/religion combination is HIGH difficulty" or "LOW difficulty" etc.
Most EQ players found EQ
SO HARD that they would skip 99% of the content and stick to easy zones and easy classes. They did this because EQ is HARD, not because it is easy.
In EQ you had a way to change the difficulty of the game, just like in Doom or Quake or every other retro game.
Mages camping outdoor spawns have always been easy mode and everyone knows it.
So you are intentionally setting the difficulty dial down to "easy",
FAILING to complete the REAL content (which occurs in dungeons: Blackburrow, Qeynos Catacombs, Crushbone, Befallen, Minotaur Caves, Runnyeye, Unrest, Najena, HHK, Splitpaw Lair, Upper Guk, Lower Guk, Cazic Thule, Kedge Keep, Permafrost, Solusek) and then claiming that because YOU AVOIDED ALL THE ELITE CONTENT THE GAME IS EASY.
Playing an easy mode mage and avoiding all the hard content is probably still harder than playing an easy mode mage in WOW and avoiding all the hard content. WoW is just a game of mash the buttons until you win.... and if you die just keep mashing and the random number generator will work out in your favour eventually.
"Camping" isn't even EQ classic anyway. Camping is an invention by people who found the game too hard. EQ is meant to be CRAWLED. The proper way to play EQ is to crawl a dungeon with a 6 person group when the mobs are mostly blue to you with occasional whites, yellows, and reds.
No shit if you exploit bugs in the game (camping easy outdoor spawns) you can win. In Doom if you use cheat codes or exploit the wall pathing hacks you can make the game boring there too. If you exploit simple bugs in WOW that game gets even MORE easy and boring.
You haven't beat EQ classic unless you've killed every MOB in every dungeon at an appropriate level. Many many people have beat WOW this way, far far fewer have beat EQ. This is because EQ is hard and people are scared of it.
I had a group in upper guk on my level 15 enchanter the other day. We had a group of 6: Warrior, Cleric, Shaman, Enchanter, Monk, Mage or something like that. We were all veterans of the game who had multiple level 60s who have raided and so on. But after trying upper guk and getting lost in the dungeon or wiping due to very difficult encounters being mobbed by frogloks and so on the warrior started complaining: "I could be getting double the XP in Oasis right now where the crocs that /con KOS are too bugged to actually aggro you. Oasis crocs are such easy and fast XP, but crawling or even camping Upper Guk is so hard. Why do you guys want to do this? I want to go back to EASY MODE BECAUSE THIS DUNGEON IS TOO HARD."
So the warrior left and his shaman and mage buddies left with him. EQ was TOO HARD for them. They FAILED to complete level appropriate content and had to tuck tail and run away to a BUGGED CAMP in and EASY MODE outdoor zone.
Crocs are an exploit. Deepwater crocs /con KOS and should gang up and murder anyone trying to kill caimens.
If you go exploit the game to make it easy mode...
If you choose EASY MODE ACCORDING TO THE CHARACTER CREATION SCREEN class/race/religion combos...
then you can't complain that the game is set to easy mode.
Even still. Camping Oasis crocs is still harder than button mashing lions in the Crossroads in WOW. Equating whack a mole with skill is very stupid as demonstrated by the difference in skill between Texas Hold Em and Whack-a-mole. More whacking DOES NOT MEAN more skill.
Game knowledge is a HURDLE and camping a spawn still requires GAME KNOWLEDGE for instance the knowledge to EXPLOIT SPAWN POPS!!! This is an exploit in a game that was designed to be crawled.