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Originally Posted by azxten
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This is actually the truth. The top guilds everyone remembers across all servers were barely able to clear expansions before the next expansion came out. Easily 99%+ of players never even raided the easiest stuff in an expansion by the time a new expansion was already coming out. Seeing a level 50 in classic was rare and confirmed someone had no life. Same for 60 in Kunark and ToV raiders in Velious let alone Sleeper.
P99 has a broken leveling curve for various reasons that causes everyone to level way too fast and stack up at max level with multiple alts before classic even ends. Charmed pets are abused in basically every group and raid scenario when in reality you can see the classic era posts from Enchanters wishing they hadn't played their class because it's broken as fuck and mob MR in planes was so high they weren't even trusted to mez mobs and instead just acted as buff bots.
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While this may have been the case on your server, it most certainly wasn't on Xegony. The knowledge gap was the biggest factor contributing to this delay in raid encounters occurring during a later time line.
I was in a top 5 raiding guild during Luclin on Xegony. While we weren't doing VT's week in and week out, every single other raid content in Luclin was raided before PoP dropped. We went back and did a few select targets from previous expansions, such as Velious - Vulak / AoW's and in Luclin - Ssra Temple / The Deep mob / some VT.
All of this was done pre PoP dropping. Once PoP dropped we still went back for some of those targets. When Gates of Discord came out, the raid encounters were so broken that we could not complete them. It wasn't until later on during Omens of War that we could actually go back and complete raid encounters during GoD due to all the bugs, etc.
Dragons of Norrath was a fun expansion.