4 years of Kunark along with two years of a steady Chardok AOE machine (essentially created by the neckbeards who wanted their guild to "win" and lock out everybody else) has bloated the top end of this server beyond all repair. All the comments about "classic" guilds are right on...even people who paid for two Gold accounts were spending a pretty penny to play EQ, someone with 10 lvl 60 alts was not only impossible from a time standpoint but also from a financial standpoint.
The server has nowhere to go and there's way too many 60s. Chardok AOE from a mechanic standpoint is "classic" but it really has negatively affected the server. It would be easier to nerf Chardok AOE than this two years + of Lawyerquest culture. It is currently beyond all repair. So much of "classic" EQ was the adventure and "difficulty" of making it to 60, not coming over from another MMO and plvling your alts to 60 as fast as possible so you can be Mr. Cool on Teamspeak, which by the way also didn't really exist back then. 100 people in a VOIP program in 2001??? Come on now people. Elaborate guild forums and DKP counters? Not "classic" at all.
With the appropriate level distribution, patch repops, lack of variance, and non-zerg guilds, "classic" EQ didn't NEED instances. The metagame here has completely changed EQ and has turned it into a miserable experience. This metagame DKP and raid attendance % ripped from MMOs that came years later changes the game drastically. Most players on this server can't even really "play" EQ. At all. Its sad really.
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