Camping Raid Mobs... gone on long enough ?!

[mitic]

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

if its not hard and requires no effort, then whats stopping anyone else from doing it? nothing that we do is stopping them, its only that they choose not to, for whatever reason i dont know, because it isnt hard, and dosent require effort, so why arent others doing it?

cause its a waste of time, plain and simple.

if 2 guilds wana compare the lenght of their e-peens by camping/batphoning over boss mobs, then more power to them.

tbh, its planar armor that counts for now. those eye candy boss drops rly aint worth it to WASTE someones lifetime sitting afk for days/weeks/months waiting on spawns

boss drops in kunark for epics is another story. but this expansion has yet to come.

[Shurid]

A Quick solution would be making raid loot drop randomly off all lvl 40+ enemies at a rare drop rate.

Then all the guilds can continue putting in 100's of hours waiting on 1 dragon to spawn while all the people who are here to have fun can pick up tons of phat lewtz.

Case closed.

[Zordana]

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

A Quick solution would be making raid loot drop randomly off all lvl 40+ enemies at a rare drop rate.

Then all the guilds can continue putting in 100's of hours waiting on 1 dragon to spawn while all the people who are here to have fun can pick up tons of phat lewtz.

Case closed.

the best solution would be instances - but just like all the good solutions, that would not be classic at all which is the main problem on fixing dis here! and we play p99 cause we want classic.. nothing to add..

[mitic]

all this QQ-posts about boss mobs here where the reason why soe started to dumb down the game with instanced content

so everyone bitching about camped boss mobs should ask themselves WHY they are playing on P99.

just think about this for a moment, it wasnt soes fault, it was the playerbase and we are starting to demand something (i.e.: instanced zones) that we didnt want in the first place.

[Bumamgar]

Screw that, instances killed the community and turned EQ into an MORPG instead of an MMORPG.

First in force/First to engage should be the rule, plain and simple.

First in force: If the target is up, the first raid force to arrive in zone and be actively working towards the target gets it.

First to engage: If the target isn't up and multiple raids are sitting around camping the spawn, when the target spawns, the first force to engage the target gets it.

Pretty simple and relatively fair to all involved. Sure, there will be some bickering over what constitutes a 'raid force' but frankly if you have sufficient force you'll be clearing your way in and engaging the boss, which makes it pretty clear who was first in force.

Don't know the history of this server well enough to know what this isn't the rule here, but it worked out pretty well on Live till instancing ruined the game [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh, and yes, some guilds on live chose to ignore first in force and tried to steamroll/leapfrog etc, but usually that didn't go so well for them, because the guild that was there in force usually had no problem engaging the target anyway, or in the case of a leapfrog (ie: running past a guild fighting Aary to attempt to take NToV) it was pretty simple for the GMs to determine what was going on and banish the offending guild from the zone. Sure, GMs didn't always show up in time to deal with it, but the fact that they did sometimes enforce a no-leapfrogging policy was enough to deter it most of the time.