The only thing either vid proves is that some people obsess way too much about a game. Just another series in 3.5 years of endless finger pointing.
Really, who cares? Rogean himself admitted that his anti MQ code cannot keep up with a developer type who wants to circumvent the check:
"MacroQuest itself can be updated quickly and easily enough that this technique would no longer work as soon as the MQ developers were to find out it was happening"
P1999 specific versions of MQ are available, vids are posted on youtube of all the different functions is has. The only thing keeping people from using MQ on this server is their self respect or their ignorance. I am sure the latter is a huge factor, but the former is non existent in either of the top guilds.
I have been chased at sow speed, strafing and juking, with lev up, through the tree tops in BW and had a melee beating on me before I could get half way through a 3 second cast.
I have been followed by a melee, again with sow, lev, and strafe juking, while I was just one skeleton among ~25, and struggled to get a 3 second cast off.
And one of those players, when I fought him on my melee, was completely shit at jousting. EQ does not even update that fast, which is why players skip all over when they strafe in certain ways.
I don't think a ton of people run MQ, and rarely do I get stuck in a situation where I know that no human could react so quickly, but to deny that a certain % of this player base is using MQ is completely ignorant.
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