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Originally Posted by zelld52
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I also do not understand SSF in EQ, specifically p99.
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My thought is that people who do SSF want to experience the game in a manner that allows them to feel good about loot drops during the leveling process.
Normally you can just farm some plat and buy gear in EC that is better than just about anything that drops from levels 1-50 or so. You basically just ignore all loot and farm XP/Money, which doesn't always feel nice in a game designed around loot.
An SSF character can pick up a piece of loot that would be almost worthless in EC and use it as an upgrade.
The soloing aspect arises due to benefiting from EC gear by proxy. If you have a rogue with EC gear you are duoing with, you are benefiting from those items that you wouldn't normally be able to get during the leveling process. You would need to specifically find another self found player to duo with.
Auld Lang Syne was designed with this in mind from my understanding. You could group with other players that were also in level appropriate gear.
The Warrior class specifically is probably one of the best classes for SSF (if not the best), because there is more Warrior gear available in the lower levels than other classes, and upgrades are meaningful.
You can solo a caster to level 60 naked, so loot drops are less noticeable during SSF on those classes. You just need to farm money for spells, which ends up feeling the same as farming money for EC items.