[Infectious]

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

Great point - and it's a damning indictment of the bot system - a self-feeding, never-ending cycle of players using bots on raids to gear their alts - alts they will never play on raids because they use bots.

I was never a fan of the system of calling people out mid raid and commanding them to swap to a "more useful" character or a bot. Let people play what they want - especially people who are more casual. It's pretty foolish to assume people will be happy to leave the character they spent dozens of hours of grinding exp to get to raid level - to then swap to a toon they have absolutely 0 commitment or attachment to, so that people with large DKP banks can get their 11th BiS item.

My response was always to just log out and do something else. I play EQ for fun - I have a job that pays my bills - where I have responsibilities to a larger system - but many hardcore raiders treat P99 as if it was a job.. A job that they sink countless hours into and don't get any type of real-world gains from. As a matter of fact, I once had a well-known raid leader tell me "people put 8 hours a day into this job" talking about levelling bots, etc. My response, "this is a game, bro."

Whats wrong with a scrub like knuckle playing druid during raids and than out bidding a main for loot? Lol. He will be 60 by 2030 rofl