Merging Made Sense Then COVID-19 - Unmerge

[magnetaress]

I am pretty sure millenial kids under the age of 40 don't respect boxing rules or personal boundaries and like to overshare so, good luck with that.

[cd288]

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

Yes.

And for me the core issue is my wife, a friend and another friends son are boycotting me continuing to take our group to kedge for level 50 group content.

That's not the classic experience my wife remembers or wants and the friends son hates watery deaths I guess because he's under 20.

My half elf warrior wife likes shinies and remembers camping the frenzied, king and efreeti with full groups and she would like that classic experience again. Farming plat and buying it in EC isn't enjoyable. If you're not playing the game as intended and in groups and with friends and family slaying monsters and getting upgrades from them then what are you doing?

So, again, the issue is that you want to be able to take your full group and camp a spot. That's not really realistic in classic EQ, or at least it's not a realistic expectation for those super popular camps you mention. You have to be willing to wait your turn.

I'd also add that if you think splitting the server will suddenly allow you to take a full group to the camps you named and expect it to be empty, you are in for a seriously rude awakening. Those camps will always have groups (or a soloer) at them due to their value, and you'll need to be prepared to surrender your static group in order to play at those camps because people will need to wait on the list to join. I played on both Green and Teal and once people got to sufficient level I saw those spots perma-camped on both servers...two servers will not suddenly cause very popular camps to be vacated. This is, yet again, why I suggested that a group of several people all wanting to play together and camp the very popular spots may be better suited for the TLPs where there are pick zones and instances.

[drackgon]

Will say when the split happen.. omg yes camps were open. My first day on teal I went from spending hours finding a group on my SK, to it took me 20 mins / Lfg tag on 2 find a group. Second day On teal, I met Lineage-_-, but still group in less then 30 mins. 3rd day I was in kingdom, and had camps/groups leveling fun with friends nonstop until remerge.

Now I log on try and level some alt in sro(20 others in zone plus a few lvl 50s farming DF belts), I move to Oasis(60+ in zone), move to WC, 50s farming Orcs, Devs camped. move to HHP(1 person farming idol at orcs), the 1 group in zone at gnolls full.. Wow, I just had tons of fun. Time to start running to EK.

[cd288]

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

Will say when the split happen.. omg yes camps were open. My first day on teal I went from spending hours finding a group on my SK, to it took me 20 mins / Lfg tag on 2 find a group. Second day On teal, I met Lineage-_-, but still group in less then 30 mins. 3rd day I was in kingdom, and had camps/groups leveling fun with friends nonstop until remerge.

Now I log on try and level some alt in sro(20 others in zone plus a few lvl 50s farming DF belts), I move to Oasis(60+ in zone), move to WC, 50s farming Orcs, Devs camped. move to HHP(1 person farming idol at orcs), the 1 group in zone at gnolls full.. Wow, I just had tons of fun. Time to start running to EK.

As far as the orcs go, often if you ask the person farming if you can kill the mobs for EXP they will usually agree. So both parties win.

[drackgon]

Duel boxing servers. As in on my same account I can play on green, and blue(lol red...)
Is annoying if bc they allowed it on green/teal

[Nirgon]

Good thing this sham of an economy closure is almost over then. /thread

[Sabin76]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As far as the orcs go, often if you ask the person farming if you can kill the mobs for EXP they will usually agree. So both parties win.

Been my experience as well. If they are just farming faction, they just need to get one hit on em and you do the rest... will probably even let you loot everything because what the hell do they need < 1pp vendor trash for?

[drackgon]

Df belts to pl their alts.

[Sabin76]

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

Df belts to pl their alts.

Wouldn't a level 50 have a much easier time just getting a couple hundred plat and buying them than sitting at the camp long enough to get those belts one by one?

[DMN]

Originally Posted by Sabin76 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wouldn't a level 50 have a much easier time just getting a couple hundred plat and buying them than sitting at the camp long enough to get those belts one by one?

Unfortunately the supply isn't unlimited. You have to wait for someone to sell them to you. additionally, it really depends on the class, both for determining how easy it is to farm them on your own versus farming plat to buy them.