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Originally Posted by Swish
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Take the flaming out of Tuljin's posts though and you're left with some good points in places. Blue's raid scene could be so much better.
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It's not just the raid scene that could be better. The entire high end could be better. I am talking quests and drops in general.
Take the Tunarean Signet Ring quest. You need that stupid unicorn in PoM, right? Well, you aren't gonna get it unless you have an in with the super secret unicorn-killer club, which hoards spawn times and names like they're the nuclear launch codes. Me, I'm bound inside the horse room but I don't think I'm ever going to get the horn I need solely because the horses also drop throne cards and certain people want to farm them. It kills me because it's a simple no-drop drop that maybe 4 other people on the server need, but I can't get it because of the fucking throne cards (which are 17k a pop). The person I know who was killing on the regular is now in Rampage and therefore nowhere near PoM anymore so I'm stuck. (By the way, thanks to all the people who helped me get to PoM in the first place, and all my friends who helped with the other parts of the quest! No, I haven't deleted my other crests in a rage...yet.)
Your epic quests aren't any better. I'm going to have to negotiate with a raiding guild just to have a VS encounter, not because I can't find the people to fight VS, but because I need to have him not engaged by another group. It's probably the same for Faydedar. It's hard enough to get a group of semi-strangers together to take down one of these targets, but on p99 on top of that you have to find out who the hell is poopsocking the thing and convince them to let you have a shot.
I can't even get help doing something as simple as streaming a goofy event like bumfights because of high end raiding, since the DoF's streamer is in Rampage and therefore unavailable for over half the week. Any events I do will probably be confined to the early part of the week. Everything in this damn game is dictated by raiding. And you know what?
Raids are really fucking boring to do every day. If you're not the puller, you don't even get to see most of a zone. People only do them for good loot. You could do a ton of other interesting things with your time in this game.
If it's got something valuable on it, you are locked out if you aren't one of the hardcore poopsockers/raiders in a raiding guild. Everything else is left mostly deserted. I don't find it a valuable use of my time to sit around waiting for pixels or let a guild decide when and where my main will be at any given time during raid windows, so I will have a very hard time getting any decent drops or doing any of the big quests. Even getting as far as I have in some places is because I stumbled upon the right people to talk to.
It's ridiculous and nothing like the EQ I remember. I don't know how to change it. I know the staff probably won't help, and players won't help either because I'm not anyone important. So I guess we're all stuck until something turns the raiding culture on its head.