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My personal opinion is that Empire raids a ton more than Nihilum did. This is a result of several factors, one being that there's simply a shit load more stuff to raid than there was in Classic/Kunark. Nihilum was able to knock out every mob in the game in 5-6 hours in Kunark one day a week, and then it was just Trakanon every 3 days for the suckers who showed up to that. Velious has tons of long tedious raids and clearing and pulling that simply require more time raiding.

Empire does "go harder" in my opinion as well though. This is because they have multiple officers who are capable of leading raids and pick up raids whereas in Nihilum, if Nizzar wasn't online or didn't feel like doing something, it wasn't going to happen period.

I also don't think I agree with the point that RA is easier to get in Empire, on the contrary, in Nihilum you just had to show up one day a week to hit every mob in the game other than 2 Trak's during the week. I don't recall ever really doing Vox or Nagafen in Nihilum once the level cap restriction was put in place, it turned into an optional /random for loot mob.

Classic will always be my favorite era with the constant PvP, somewhat equal fights, and great ForumQuest. Velious was the least fun I had of any part of P99's history.