I never really understood the totalitarian stance against 2-boxing here. EQ is not a solo friendly game, and on a server with low population, one that takes away even a smidgen of the noob friendliness of later expacs, its even more unfriendly here.
I can understand the part about how 2-boxers ruin games when taken to extremes, ala Sam Deathwalker, but that guy was nothing more than a sad joke. The fact is melee players are screwed on P1999 at the mercy of LFG and the charity of others. I don't know exactly what the server makeup is, but I bet a very large portion of it is mages, necros, and druids just because of the impossibility of soloing a melee. I tried a bard, the easiest melee class, and even that is a royal pain.
Most people who I played with on live who had a melee class boxed a shaman. Its just how it was. Shaman group very well with wars, sks, and monks. It didn't stop these guys from forming groups, it started the core of many groups, and if the group filled up the boxed shaman would just be boxed out of the group for extra heals or slows or whatever was needed while all the mains got xp.
With the IP exemption thing it would still keep down out of control boxing, you are only allowing one exemption per account, at least that is how I think it works. It would be a lot easier to form groups of 3 boxers than it would to solo a warrior to 60.
Just my 2cp on the issue.
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