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Originally Posted by cd288
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This is probably the thing I hate the most about the end game raiding scene. It totally makes everything boring and trivial.
You have armies of bots, COTH bots, several cleric bots parked at every possible major raid target, etc.
I miss raiding from back in the day where for the most part everyone played their own characters. It created actual motivation to roll a certain class because you'd be valuable and wanted, and it could make a real impact on your guild's raid force. Now it's like why would I ever roll a cleric? The guilds already have tons of bot clerics parked everywhere. Shit, there are even tank bots all over the place so why roll a tank?
It just makes raiding way less challenging. I would love if they found some way to limit or ban bots altogether.
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This is a valid point too. I mean if I die and someone is going to log onto a cleric and instantly 96% rez me, maybe even give me some buffs and a POTG, I'm obviously going to take it, but the game feels really trivialized right now, even from a leveling experience. I bet there's a 90% chance if I go to City of Mist on the character I'm leveling right now, some friendly Druid will show up and give me POTG, which is awesome and nice of them, but a lot of times when I'm in these zones, I don't feel like it's classic.
I grouped with a husband/wife duo who were warrior and cleric and they asked me to stop CC'ing and slowing mobs because it was faster for him to just mow everything down. And it turned out he was right. (Full Skyshrine armor on both of them, insane weapons, haste items and drive by buffs from guild mates). Like that to me is not really a classic experience even though the people are nice and it's better than solo'ing.
And also it triggers me how Magicians did kind of get relegated to COTH bots because I remember Magician as being a badass class back in the day (they still are pretty bad ass on P99 before Kunark launches). I feel like Enchanters charm being so damn good has made Magicians feel a lot weaker because their pets dull in comparison. I never got that vibe from Magicians before. But I also didn't know really any Enchanters who were reliably charming the way we do now. But it feels like an indirect nerf to magicians in terms of relative power.