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Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist
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I am not sure why you think people would change their raiding strategies if instancing was added to P99. They would still use the same strategies, which are not classic because people didn't have 20 years of game knowledge in 2001. There really isn't a way to put the genie back in the bottle in terms of player knowledge. People are going to play differently on P99. There wasn't instancing in 2001, so that wouldn't be raiding "the classic way" either.
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I was referring to the unclassic "PvP" aspect of the current raid scene (eg. racing for mobs, starting at a race line ... a race line that
never existed on Live, and so by definition is unclassic). Obviously the PvE aspects would remain (largely) the same.
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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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"Classic" is a super elastic term anyway.
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This is the crux of it. Our current raid scene
is unclassic in key ways. For instance, back in 2001 guilds didn't compete directly (eg. by racing for a mob), because there wasn't the kind of competition for those mobs that there is here, there weren't the same FTE rules as we have here, etc.
Instances would solve that unclassic aspect of P99 ... but in return they would require a sacrifice of making something else unclassic (instances obviously didn't exist in 2001). It's impossible to make P99 100% classic in every way, so no one is (really) talking about classic or unclassic: they're talking about making their preferred aspect of the game classic.