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Originally Posted by Ennewi
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The conversation is about an in-game feature, not the technology at work outside of it. That being said, the longstanding 25 mob limit is an example of a "non-classic" feature that exists due to what you're talking about. It's been argued that Bards from 99-01 couldn't have swarmed entire zones with success--tech limitations being what they were--even though the game mechantics allowed for it. And, if it were somehow possible given the right conditions, few players were aware of it; if they had known, it would have been abused, petitioned, and addressed by the devs back then. That is the argument against MQing.
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No, this conversation is about people who didn't know things were possible on Live in era wishing that this server was the one they remember.
MQ's were common, you may not remember epic MQ's, but if you dont remember buying or seeing sold Jboots MQ's you were either blind or are lying.
AoE groups were common, Seb and Chardok were both common targets for them, in era, just not to you because you were not one of the cool kids who got invited.
Bards AoE kited, in era, all the way to 60. I knew several.
GM's were aware of all of this, which is why i knew many people who lost MQ'd items and couldn't petition because GM's just said you were SOL.
OT hammers were new to me here, but then again i played a wizard on live so i would never have needed to care.
All of these things are more common on P99 for the same reason P99 is popular at all. Many people loved EQ so much they never wanted to stop playing and they wanted to learn everything they possibly could about it to be the best they could be.
P99 is not and cannot be the perfect reincarnation of every individual's personal memories of old school EQ. It is the "
If i knew then what i know now" power fantasy of a lifetime. Embrace that and stop asking the world to conform to your personal narrow memories of an experience you barely scratched the surface of.