This game, this community... holy crap.

[Ravager]

Raiding here sucks. Not raiding here doesn't suck. There's a lot of great content that gets ignored in everyone's rush to get to raiding.

[Danth]

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

So, I play here super casually. I played with the hope of raiding on here someday...

...but from the outside looking in - how the hell do people play this game?

Most the players on P1999 don't like the present high-end raid scene, and participate instead in other parts of the game. It's a fairly extensive game, after all. Only a small portion of the population here does high-end raids. As Zanderklocke posted--welcome to a reminder of why newer games typically make liberal use of instancing. Everquest demonstrated why it's bad for a small minority of nolifers to be able to dictate what content everyone else can or can't do; later games fixed that problem. Most the folks who stick with P99 year after year simply try to avoid the bad while enjoying the good.

Danth

[zanderklocke]

"Once Velious is released, all of the problems in the raid scene will be fixed because you can't just mow down mobs with more than 32K HP." [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Vallanor]

The raid scene on p99 is pretty bad, but there are many casual raid guilds you can join in which batphones are totally optional and raids are never required. Join one of those and raid as little or as often as you want to maximize your fun.

[Fountree]

Those who still raid competitively on this server must have some sort of chemical imbalance. There's little point since the content progression is over.

[Spyder73]

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

Those who still raid competitively on this server must have some sort of chemical imbalance. There's little point since the content progression is over.

There was a point in WoW where I had full tier 2 and all the goodies I needed out of BWL for my shaman - I looted my mace off of Nefarian and was full of joy. I went to Org after the raid and did all my town sh!t and then I stood there looking at my character, reveling in my glory. Enough of that I told myself, time to get back to work....only there was nothing left to do. My character was full BiS. Feelings of joy turned to feelings of wasted time, little Tekilya was crushed. I vowed to myself from that point forward that I would never get caught in a gear grind again.

At least with progression being locked your BiS char will always be shiny, expansions are what turn your gear to crap.

There is plenty to do in EQ without worry about Vulak loot

[Cecily]

Not a chance. We've been camping the GM spawn for years and you need to gtfo of our area or we'll petition you.

[Nadril]

Don't waste your time even thinking about raiding. Great game. Awful community. You have to realize, most of the high end raiders on here have a life that revolves around fighting over the 300th Trakanon spawn for their 4th level 60. The point at which I realized how pathetic these people are is when someone explained duck/coth casting to me....Wow.

[Swish]

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

Don't waste your time even thinking about raiding. Great game. Awful community. You have to realize, most of the high end raiders on here have a life that revolves around fighting over the 300th Trakanon spawn for their 4th level 60. The point at which I realized how pathetic these people are is when someone explained duck/coth casting to me....Wow.

[Kekephee]

Let's all go back to Archeage