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Originally Posted by Seducio
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TAKP is quite different from Live. It's attempting to mimic PoP era locked Mac based EQ server. Max level is 60 so it is closer to p99 than Live. TAKP has a different rule set than p99 like OP mentioned though.
I never played with late stage Mercs on Live. I stopped on LIve at LDON. No interest to play with Mercs either to be honest.
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Mercs simply allowed more freedom in smaller box compositions. You could run a 2dps team with 2 healer mercs. Or you could run a tank + dps team with a healer merc and a dps. The only thing you couldn’t do well was use the tank merc. When I was playing live, the tank mercs were always underpowered. Apparently the devs didn’t want merc tanks to come even remotely close to surpassing players
Without mercs, then the process for me (and I imagine most people) to box was to have 2+ instances of the game running and hit alt+tab. I was playing mag+Necro and 2 healer mercs, and sometimes I would be alt tabbing 50+ times per fight. It got super hectic. I eventually tried to set up /castsequence macros in game. But I found out those were far too restrictive, and there was no way to “break” out of them. So if something went awry (as things often do), your char would not cast what you wanted but instead still be following the sequence, and it would get me killed. So I eventually ditched the /castsequence macros
Not sure how people box 3+ accounts nowadays on servers like TAKP. They must have a better system than alt-tab