Luclin was classic, PoP was not.

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Originally Posted by Vormotus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

P99 being permalocked, perhaps with some addition or revamp of classic zones, is the way for me to keep the original eq spirit alive.

I think you need to look at it from the perspective of what problem is anyone trying to actually solve.

The purpose of the server is to recreate the original experience as much as possible. I think most people agree that the "original" wow was Vanilla - Kunark and kind of Velious. Velious was really the point in which you get into WoW style expansions where prior content starts to become obsolete with every subsequent release.

I think by in large the server is successful at that. I know I definitely got my full "Classic" experience (I leveled up pre velious here).

Now on a complete personal tangent. The success of the prior comes at the expense of the long term health of the server - which is a bit of a silly statement given this server has kept a health population for a long time.

That said, I think everyone can agree that the ongoing "problem" of p99 is the end game raid scene. You keep the server classic and as such the top inflates. You get casual players such as myself who end up getting "fully geared" for vanilla standards -- full hate/fear + sky stuff. But cannot reasonably progress further because the hardcore controls the top indefinitely -- always new people joining the top, always another alt to level.

So then you get all this animosity brewing, all these stupid rules of engagement to try to accomodate. However, giving a group of capable casual players a 1-2-3 hour window to engage spawns doesn't help if the boss spawns at 2am in the morning. Capable, but casual players, need a schedule -- eg we log in at 5pm pst on Thursday and do x.

The only solution there, if I could magically snap my fingers and engineer whatever I wanted, is raid instances for the raid zones. Fear, Hate, Sky, VP, ToV, ST, PoG, PoM. Leave everything else world spawn open competitive - if aftermath wants to kill world dragons, trakanon, vs, etc every single spawn from now to eternity so be it. You can't make a zone like sebilis instanced to accommodate the 10 casual but trak capable guilds on the server - it would completely destroy what made EQ EQ. But the raid zones are by their nature designed for multi-group engagement.

Anyway - that is my completely unimportant complaint coming from someone that just logged back into p99 for the first time since late 2013 (I can't believe it has been that long). I basically quit after I "finished" my char since there was nothing left to do without quitting my guild and joining TMO back then.