Best 4 person all caster/priest group

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

It is a pretty silly argument to say "you made a mistake in a video game, therefore you know nothing about said video game".

Sure. But it's not the only thing to point at. Speaking as someone who only entered this thread recently, there are a lot of signs that you (and some others) are firmly playing EQ as it's 'intended' to be played. That is to say, like we used to play it in 1999. Back then there were no farm crews, planes were 100% the domain of raiding guilds and definitely not any small unaffiliated groups, and a Ring War was finished maybe once every few months. Your tactics, ideas, and gameplay mirror what someone who never progressed from 1999-era EQ1 would come up with.

You slow, malo, canni/torpor, and dot mobs. No DA earring to save the day, your Magelo doesn't show a FD ring, nothing in your videos even alludes to 'advanced' gameplay using clickies and the like. It's just all very standard, and then when something unexpected like a train happens, you just shrug, chalk it up to 'bad pathing', and wipe.

If people take anything from this thread, it should be this: always try to find a way to solve a sticky situation in EQ1. Usually there's a clicky you could've had, a spell you could've had memmed, or a strategy you could have tried. I guarantee you that you would have made those 2 inexperienced players' day if you DA held like a boss and told them to gate out while you held the line.

Even if all the mobs were firmly locked on 1 of the others, the other one could have gated out and while the end result would have been similar (needed a cleric to rez), you would have been a hero. And that's with minimal effort--just a DA earring clicky and a buff/heal on whoever the mobs were on.

People trash talk your videos because they're just very basic. They could have been made in 1999 if people had the hardware/software. Now a video of a shaman using AE slow combined with a DA earring into idol DA to rip a huge train off of his party, into the party successfully escaping... that would have gotten you some props I bet.

But you can't come up with a plan like that because I think you just don't really care about becoming better or coming up with original ideas. You're the type of guy who spends 10 years optimizing malo slow torpor dot canni-ing mobs down without ever peeking outside of that cramped little box.