How are people struggling with aggro in 2024?

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Non-tank class boggles at aggro?

We're going to dig deeper into this, tonight at 11. Back to you Bob.

[Wakanda]

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

My theory is that:

1. Family/friend/acquaintance of people related to the game, more likely since he started before the game blew up to a mainstream one in Kunark and Velious

And/or

2. They treated him like a 'diamond' level member, since he purchases the game, pays subscription, re-joins after ban, while being a full time tester 18 hours a day, proactively gives suggestions (usually via complaints), markets indirectly with his guild forums, actively tries toget people to join the game, usually from other games, etc, something only a paid worker would do. Top few guilds really helped adding hype to the game, which helped with sales and subscription, and he was basically one of the top influencer of the game at that time

There was a player on our server who had a bunch of items that no one understood how he got. Like he had full lustrous russet despite never raiding. Among other weird items. And at the time it was controversial. A staff member made a notice, I believe in a patch, about how they awarded him these items because he had helped them discover bugs/glitches. But anyways, when I first started playing on P99, no one believed me when I said this player had these items because a lot of them were never supposed to be in the game. So out of curiosity I googled the player's name to see if I could find old threads that corroborate this claim. What I found instead ..... was this player on quora.com talking about how badly addicted he was to EQ and how he worked as a GM the entire time on top of playing it with all of his free time, and it made me realize that the way he likely got all of these items was by being a GM and/or friends with staff.

He also did really controversial things, like he had his epic an hour after the servers came up that patched the epics into the game.

I've also always wondered if Musk from the Tunare server was Elon Musk IRL. Dude had the only Fiery Avenger on any server, and it was explained that the staff helped him get it for his contributions outside of the game. At the time one of the main things paypal was actually being used for was buying EQ characters and items off of ebay. If I ever met him and could ask him one question I would ask him if that was him.

[Namsaknoi]

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

There was a player on our server who had a bunch of items that no one understood how he got. Like he had full lustrous russet despite never raiding. Among other weird items. And at the time it was controversial. A staff member made a notice, I believe in a patch, about how they awarded him these items because he had helped them discover bugs/glitches. But anyways, when I first started playing on P99, no one believed me when I said this player had these items because a lot of them were never supposed to be in the game. So out of curiosity I googled the player's name to see if I could find old threads that corroborate this claim. What I found instead ..... was this player on quora.com talking about how badly addicted he was to EQ and how he worked as a GM the entire time on top of playing it with all of his free time, and it made me realize that the way he likely got all of these items was by being a GM and/or friends with staff.

He also did really controversial things, like he had his epic an hour after the servers came up that patched the epics into the game.

I've also always wondered if Musk from the Tunare server was Elon Musk IRL. Dude had the only Fiery Avenger on any server, and it was explained that the staff helped him get it for his contributions outside of the game. At the time one of the main things paypal was actually being used for was buying EQ characters and items off of ebay. If I ever met him and could ask him one question I would ask him if that was him.

Wow, interesting, I do remember seeing on forums how some GMs on some servers abused their power in this regard and eventually removed, it became less during Velious time then eventually stopped afterwards. They probably vetted and monitored candidates much more strictly as the game became bigger. I think some of the quests, or at least parts of them, were near impossible to solve just by trial and error at least in such short period, so those people may have been giving out hints and spoilers on them too. There is also his siblings Kimbal and Tosca Musk also, haha.