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Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer
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OP's observations are one of the first intriguing reasons I've heard.
My somewhat weaker hypothesis is, that kind of massive mob swarming would have caused 90% of the player base at that time to LD alot, because of hardware/connectivity issues. so it was just not something people did. Hard to sell your product if the person buying it goes keeps going LD, or worse, the bard.
I just remember connectivity and not going LD, by either crashing clients or the zone, waqs a constant issue in classic. And bard kiting -- isn't that exactly the sort of thing that would crash or mega-lag a zone back in the day?
Correct me if I'm wrong of course. It's just my hypothesis why.... NERF BARDS.
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the biggest nerf you can give to a bard is to remember his name/guild name if he is being an ass.
imo, the biggest reason folks didn't do these things so openly and with reckless disregard to others on live is that the biggest fear would be having your reputation ruined. folks on live who behaved the way that folks dislike about bards (I'm not talking about the bards who don't cause mayhem) would have been blackballed from joining guilds, finding grps, even just getting ports.
p99 is a great community, but with so many alts running around any fear of injuring your reputation through asshattery has totally been taken out the equation.
you can't fix this problem by patching strafe and camera mechanics. its a p99 problem NOT a classic EQ problem and NOT a bard problem.