Stop the Socking

[Daldaen]

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

Part of classic EQ was 'this mob died at this time, and will likely be up around this time'. Removing that is just removing a large portion of what made EQ, EQ.

Variance already does that....

And no one was keeping exact respawns on raid mobs in classic. Sure they said "we killed Talendor on Sunday let's kill him again Sunday". They did NOT say "we killed him at 05:14:12 on Sunday let's arrive at 5:10:00 next Sunday and be prepared for him to spawn" It seems like an extremely weak argument to make that removing non-classic variance respawns and replacing them with non-classic sim repops takes the EQ out of EQ.

Taking out one non-classic mechanic that fosters all sorts of bad results like poopsocking, and replacing that with a mechanic that makes poopsocking basically impossible sounds like a good idea to me.

Dunno about others but that doesn't make EQ any less EQy for me. People aggroing raid bosses within 5 seconds of their spawning does make EQ less EQy for me though.