[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's because of both.

Look, if it was purely a random chance for some loot, and either you or your group had to kill something to get that random chance, it'd be classic (and like every other normal item in the game). If the loot required both random chance and a raid force, so you had to join a guild (or otherwise motivate a raid force yourself), that too would be classic: every raid mob and every Velious raid quest works that way ... except Scout.

In classic no one got a Talisman of Benevolence, Coldain Ring, or that spiffy Naginata, just for showing up and being lucky. That is 100% unique to P99, and it doesn't fit the "DNA" of classic. On live doing stuff by yourself got one level of gear, joining a group got you better gear, and joining a guild got you still better gear: that was the game.

Again, showing up and hoping to be handed raid gear for being lucky is not classic EQ ... it's a lottery ticket.

It isn’t showing up and being lucky. It is showing up and offering your help to an organised group of people with a chance of being the person who benefits from everyone’s offer to help. Scout is basically a dark guild.