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Originally Posted by Herpa Derp
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This is from an outside perspective and I could be totally wrong but it'll always come down to your play style and how much time you can invest into the game. I'm not saying it's fair to rule out fully casuals that want to raid but that's the effect of releasing an emulator of an old ass game after a plethora of MMO's with raid content have been released. People are going to be conditioned from the raiding environments of the newer games and it's not going to be the same as it was in classic.
I don't think it's ok, nor am I elated about it but there's nothing that can really be done about it sans GM intervention or if people want to self enforce rotation. If you have the time and the willpower you can raid, but in many of the cases I've found you can't be a top end raider in any game and have a life and a job.
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There's a considerable difference between casuals on live and on here. Likewise, there's a significant difference between the extreme and high end here and that on live. P99 is a time sink and forces extreme and idiotic behavior (see RnF) that wasn't seen on live. Those who played in high end guilds on live would need to play (and track) exponentially longer to tackle the same targets or
even have a chance at engaging them.
Therefore it isn't an EQ problem but rather specifically a P99 problem. It's the P99 rules and the GMs that have favored these methods for years while pretending to condone it, or at best turning a blind eye. It's gotten so bad that people like Tiggles and whoever the hell else from FE are going so far as to dig up peoples' names and addresses... Seriously? Meanwhile the "casuals" who were at the top of their respective servers on live would need to partake in all of this nonsense and spend an obscene amount of time (that was never required on live) to join in. Why would I want to bother? I've seen VP and NToV and have accomplished more on live with only a fraction of the time and effort that's required here. And what about the hope for reasonable change? Well, you need only ask Rogean why he decides to do a complete 180 when he promises a semblance of reasonable change that was needed years ago. Rather than getting something to address the biggest underlying issues that a vast majority of people agreed with, he decides that applying a bandaid to the problem and screwing over the largest majority of the players on the server is the better route.
Enjoy it and when you're bored just throw it away, because this is the same server and GMs who make changes to classic mechanics that affect every NPC in the game just to keep a few people from abusing third party software at a poopsockfest. If you think you can stomach the bullshit and spend a crazy amount of time on here then, yes, raiding is perfect for you. If, on the other hand, you're only here to have fun then enjoy it while you can and then throw it away.