Lots of people come here wanting to do Vox or Naggy and relive those memories, but they don't want to, or don't have the ability to, put in the amount of time your typical TMO player does. I don't think many of them even make it past 40 or so. Those who do make it past 50 quickly find out that if you're not in TMO, you're not going to kill Naggy, Vox, CT, or Inny. They might get some kills in a more casual guild like BDA, but their success in landing targets has varied over time and you still might have to resort to an odd-hours batphone to get those kills.
The cohesive world and lack of instancing is one of the things I love about EQ and I wouldn't want to change it. I'm not even trying to imply TMO doesn't deserve Vox/Naggy or that they're doing anything wrong by farming them.
Here's my opinion: I've raided on p99 and I fucking hated it. When there's poopsocking and batphones, everybody loses. I couldn't stand it for more than a month. I interpret this as being the fundamental downside to the EQ model, it's what we sacrifice to avoid WoW-style instancing and loot pinatas. You can't get the best gear unless you put in lots of time-- it harbors exclusivity, and I think that's been lost, or at least watered down, in modern MMO's... and it's one of the reasons I find them so boring now.
Quit bitching about the status quo. It's fair. TMO are faggots for killing mobs they don't even need. You're a faggot for being too casual/bad to get the mob yourself. I'm a faggot for posting in this thread.
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