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

I very much enjoyed EQ2 to a point. Looking back, it was a bit on rails up until level 30 or so. You could easily get more xp from completing quests than just grinding xp.

The locked encounters were good if, like me, you hate morons (/yell unlocked the encounter if you wanted to ask for help). So kill stealing and most other things some think of as "competition" in a PVE game were mostly eliminated. There were still some contested mobs at the raid level if that's your thing, but they were few and my guild mostly ignored them.

Raids were awesome though and, by extension, so were guilds. 24 players max. Period. That was all that could enter the largest raid encounters. No zergs allowed. Be good, or die. It separated the good players from the average. It also managed your guild for you. A good guild was no more than 30 of the best around. Even then we sometimes had to turn guild members back at the entrance to an encounter.

This would, of course, drive the average P99 raider bonkers. "What???? We cant have 17 clerics in a 1.5 second rotation?" ! It would totally screw them. No you couldn't pull a dragon to a zone line.

Almost no contested raiding spawns, but almost no guilds could truly raid the toughest encounters (there were only three on Kithicor and the third was iffy at best).

I can see where some wouldn't like it, but if you were at the top of it, it was a lot of fun.

Sorry but the idea that raid caps make raids instantly "hard" is drinking the Kool aid retarded. All it does it let the developer more closely tailor the encounter to a more predictable limitation I order to tune the difficulty. You can still have easy raids and overtuned raids with raid caps. Its a set lazy control by Dev teams in order to theme park raid content

To say a game with no raid caps can't be hard is also dellusional.... On p99 it's been figured out for over a decade with prior game knowledge. But getting 80+ ppl together without wanting to throw your computer monitor out of the window is a challenge in itself