This game, this community... holy crap.

[EQBallzz]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On P99, the entire zone of Chardok is pulled in 1 pull and AoE’d down. The standard procedure is to assemble a group of wizards/enchanters/clerics and have the wizards outside of group AoE the shit down to low life and then gate out of the zone. At this point the “inside DPS” wizard will finish the mobs off and get XP for every single mob. The entire time chanters are stun locking the zerg of mobs and the cleric uses divine aura and heal agro to get the mobs grouped up properly.

The problem is that these guys sell “proxy” spots (where you just sit in group and leech XP…you pay a premium platinum price for this)…So you can imagine that continuously pulling the entire zone every 20 minutes and selling group spots for 2k per pull equals a lot of levels and money changing hands. It’s a RMT cesspool and it has made it where people can level from 50-60 in one weekend (NOT CLASSIC). heaven forbid if a Monk needs to go camp the Pipe for his epic - you must buy for 3k from some Wizard sh!tlord who has the zone on lock down or sit and patiently wait for one to drop and then buy it.

Classic Charok AoE is killing like 10-20 mobs at once, not 200

Ok, thanks for the clarification. I understand now. When we did it we might have up to 50 mobs at any one time but certainly not the entire zone and nobody ported out or anything. It was just a monk rounding up huge groups and bringing them to group to kill. By the time we killed that group the monk would have another group so it was constant killing.

Has there been any public comments from P99 indicating if they approve of this behavior or if they might take any action at some point? How long has that been going on? I must say that sounds a bit disappointing to hear if it's allowed to just go unchecked.

[Spyder73]

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

sounds a bit disappointing to hear if it's allowed to just go unchecked.

The staff is fully aware of what's going on and gives 0 shits.

Only the wealthy of P99 can afford proxy though, so its not really in play for new players and doesn't typically ruin the "first" play through. It is essentially an alt leveling puppy mill.

I will admit I burned through all of level 59 buying proxys - thats how I know this process is not how EQ was intended to be played

[EQBallzz]

So I been wondering about this since my last post. Does this activity happen constantly? Is Chardok completely off-limits for a group to XP in or does it just happen from time to time? I will be sad if I can't ever XP in Chardok with a regular group due to this disruption because that was one of my favorite dungeons in EQ. Are there other dungeons this happens in as well like Seb or is this confined to Chardok?

[Kileras]

if you wanna take a exp group in there go ahead, they will have to shut down chardok AoE if you go park a group in their path.