Luclin was classic, PoP was not.

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

The cutthroat first come first serve raid scene is not for me anymore.

Man - that line is another personal rant for me. I had the same mindset when I was playing. So I joined a more casual guild and spent my week "raiding" hate and fear trash for armor and doing a weekly joint sky raid of the first handful of islands.

I probably spent a solid 2-3 hours in a night doing hate. Another 2-3 doing fear and then who knows how long crawling islands in sky.

My friends in TMO? They played alts, or earned dkp scouting raid targets. Their raids consisted of switching characters, killing a high value target, and then going back to what they were doing before.

If they weren't online when a spawn happened - oh well. Some were more OCD about it than others.

At the time, I told myself I was just a casual raider and didn't want to get into that "hardcore" scene. In hindsight, its hard to say who was really more hardcore.

I definitely feel like a dummy though because I proceeded to further regress and started playing utopia again after everquest. And what did I do there? You bet your ass I woke up at 2am to send my armies out and coordinate attacks during wars.

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

Even though I haven't really played on P99 much, I would still be saddened to hear that the most popular classic EQ emu introduced instancing. Luckily, I don't think that will ever happen!

Oh - I agree to the extent that it would never happen. =) I still think you can strike a balance.

I remember being in hate pulling trash to the zone in with about 20 people. Then Maestro spawned - and while we figured out how we were going to pull, one of the top guilds pulled, trained it ontop of us, stayed alive long enough for their crew to log in, killed most of us in the process, and killed maestro.

They naturally "helped" us by rezzing -- and I think offered to give us one of the drops, which was cool. But at the same time, we could have killed Maestro had we been given a chance. We were there first, we just weren't experienced in training the zone to get FTE like the top guilds were. I understand there is a bit more structure in place now though. Maybe it isn't as much of an issue.