Was Enchanter epic such a poopsock on live?

[Lojik]

Biggest problem is 9 year old server(6 or 7 of kunark) has backlogs of enchanters wanting epics. This time period on live was like 1.5 years

[trite]

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

Biggest problem is 9 year old server(6 or 7 of kunark) has backlogs of enchanters wanting epics. This time period on live was like 1.5 years

There aren't backlogs of competent enchanters, anyone who really wants this can get it. If you don't have the time or wherewithal you aren't hardcore enough. Absolutely everyone who has an enchanter alt, that i know at least, was able to do this because they weren't dumb about how they did it.

[Troxx]

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

Biggest problem is 9 year old server(6 or 7 of kunark) has backlogs of enchanters wanting epics. This time period on live was like 1.5 years

This.

On live there was a fairly decent tempo of new expansions/content. The game is also old and everything is known (to include tricks most didn’t know about). Stagnation/Age hurts this issue for a bunch of reasons:

-Population: a majority of the population did not have a single level 60 toon when Velious went live. Even during luclin, most of a guild’s raid force was not level 60 unless you were in the top two guilds per server. I distinctly remember raiding velious (during luclin) and lesser luclin targets where our guild had a handful of 60s with the majority of people fielding toons from 46-56. These were dedicated mains, mind you. Classic timeline content was released frequently enough that you didn’t find the dynamic we have on p99 where we have an extreme glut of level 60s - many of which who have multiple 60s. People had alts, sure, but few had multiple high level toons (much less multiple 60s)

-Content: the elites raided kunark during kunark, moved to velious during velious, luclin during luclin (etc) and rarely looked back. As expansions marched on the more casuals had older content more to themselves. The big boys had more lucrative content to spend time on. P99 stops at velious. The content that makes epics etc more obsolete won’t exist here, thus they’re still worth chasing down. The elites who get their BiS now gear out alts ... because honestly what else is there to do? On live you never had BiS velious toons camping/farming/socking fear, hate, trak, etc. Even for elite guilds only a few members had BiS gear all over before the next expansion hit.

Economy: this really doesn’t need an explanation. MQ sales and classic/kunark gear still hold good value on a server that’s not going further. Those umpteen alts people have need twinking dontchaknow.

Information: guides are everywhere. Nothing is secret. The majority of players on live weren’t “in the know”. Even those “in the know” didn’t know a fraction of what a quick p99 wiki search will yield.

Play style: on p99 we like to train NToV to the zone line. Crawling took time and clearing to dragons would occupy a lot of time. Raiding for the top guilds on this server takes a lot less time other than staring at walls and watching track. Furthermore, we like to dump clickies on incoming to secure Aggro. Members carry complete heal clickies. This and more trivialize the encounters and make the practice of raiding less risky and time consuming, freeing up the folks to wander around looking for other things to do. Oh and those clickies? They cost money to recharge for the guild, so the guild needs a steady flow of cash - financed through farming old content to include Epic MQs.

[Phenyo]

The epic is trivial to complete if you want to, even at this point on a forever velious box. Infact its even easier to complete now with simulated repops and soon to be fix of the windows. Age of the server is irrelevant and top end guilds certainly arnt going out of their way to sell kindle/sissar loot right to fund clickie recharges.