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[Beastagoog]

Symb you're a good dude and in my time in Apex you def played as an active EQer which is alot to ask for from your members of a 17 year emulated game.

You're kinda getting strung along in this thread tho - people love to live off other's reactions.

In my experience:

Once you stop raiding Velious it's actually a burden off your gaming life/time. ToV consumes peoples souls and turns them into pixel fanatics. I myself could not stand ToV and having to deal with people who are power trippin' and shit drove me up the wall. Those sorts of people are empowered by the limited numbers of the server (I can act like a jerk coz my pal is the leader and you got no where else to go - this mentality).

You'll find even if Ragnarok stops your guild from raiding you'll go back to doing the fun stuff in EQ that all hardcore raids stop doing -- socializing, farming (not pom), making alts, perhaps even PvP.

To put things in to perspective: it's one more pixel on a 150 pop box that people are wigging over. I highly doubt besides been interuptive Ragnarok are even going to raid. To raid ToV you gotta have the pixel lust and that flame starts as a spark and grows to a flame, but once you extinguish that flame it's hard to get it back because you move on and see it for what its worth.

Like what you said, enjoy the PvP for now because aimchat crew spent a year of their lives gearing their toons, you guys spent a year of your lives gearing your toons -- all that time is finally been used to effect in the form of tons of /oocin', pvping, lurikeen behaviour aka the social side of the game.

Sitting in ToV for 30 hours per week week in and week out for 1 extra pixel is actually insanity, logging in to fight each other and spam /ooc is what it's about.

This turn of events is the breathe you guys need to shake up your playtime.

I mean it's EverQuest after all not like it hasnt been done before 100,000,000x before.