Look, there are basically two types of people on this server. About 90% of the server is here because we played EQ back in the day, but because we quit early/joined late/weren't in an uberguild/didn't play 24/7 we never got to experience a good bit of the content. For this group of people the main goal is to kill a few of the mobs we never got to do back in the day, pick up an item or two we never got before, and maybe play the classes that we envied back then. It's kind of like a do over at life, although that analogy scares me.
The other 10% is here to prevent the 90% from doing this. These are the people that were in the uberguilds back in the day, and have already done all the content, but since then they haven't had any challenges that meet their unique skillset of sitting in front of the computer for 24 hours per day. This group of people derives their self esteem from being better at Everquest than other people, and P1999 is a way to return to their glory days, like a 40 year old pitcher going back to high school. Most of these people are in TMO/IB and some were in VD but most have quit. When you make comments like "What we dont like is a guild that rides coat tails into the raiding scene then demands that we share mobs. That will get you no where with TMO." its clear that EQ for you is about status - there are the "hardcore" and the "others" and the others had better know their place.
What I am trying to explain to you is that Everquest is not a PVP game nor is it a hard game. Sure there are some strategies for raid mobs, like CH rotation, MR potions, bards playing resist songs and stacking resist gear, using the staff of runes to dispell effects or mallets for aggro, etc. But most of them are known. Let me put it to you this way: anyone with basic intelligence and the willingness to spend 50+ hours a week in Norrath can be a productive member of TMO with a week or two of training. Do you think those same people could join a competitive Quake league? Those guys don't just know strats, their hand to eye coordination and reflexes are off the charts. Or a Starcraft league where the APM is 100+? Same deal. Or chess, where the spatial memory requirements are huge?
I'm just trying to make you understand how silly the concept of competitive Everquest is. It's like competitive eating: it's just retarded and wasteful, and the only people who enjoy it are the ones who aren't good at anything else.
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