What if P99 blew up?

[RecondoJoe]

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

Eq is not competitive or hard lol.

mechanically its not.. like people like us have played EQ so much that like... its really dumbed down and simplistic

but 20 years ago with no wiki, no prior knowledge, not even being able to tab out to look at stuff... made it way harder

i remember dreading having to load because I didnt know if my computer would crash... like sometimes i would be at loading screen for 5+ minutes when i was getting ready to pull the plug and suddenly i realized the game was still running and hadnt crashed...

ya know now when i play, i alt tab out and watch youtube, i listen to podcasts in the background... back in the day it was just ... staring at a screen... not really knowing what to do.

but i also will say a lot of wow players would struggle with EQ, and not just because its a time sync (I find wow classic far more grueling than the grind in EQ), but the amount of preparation and thought that goes into things... like when I heal a dungeon in WoW, i know exactly how much mana im going to use before a pull... as long as I have a certain amount of mana, nothing can go wrong...

in EQ... like something very tiny could wipe your entire group unexpectedly... especially on Green when you couldnt duck to cancel castings... imagine starting a complete heal and accidentally moving, now youre locked into casting it for 10 seconds, and now the person you need to heal is super low and youre trying to cast another slow ass heal, but now actually a dps got aggro and you accidentally heal his corpse trying to keep him alive, but now that hes dead the mob is back on the tank that you didnt heal because you were trying to heal the enchanter..
like idk.

also mouse-clicking as a skill is something that has been lost to time. Mouse-clicking is universally seen as bad on WOW, but that's also stupid and I think modern games could bring back mouse clicking as a large part of game-play to add an extra layer of skill level that is missing.

im not talking about forcing players to click t heir spell buttons, but actually having to use their mouse to rapidly target things, open bags, swap items and spells in and out. its a real skill and not one i remembered until playing on green and having my enchanter be shocked at house fast i could target stuff (i came straight from overwatch so my mouse skills were lightning fast)...