People of appropriate level can no longer get jboots

[Lhancelot]

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

This guy made a Reddit post a few weeks ago and got laughed at then deleted all his posts in shame.

Is higher levels camping mid to low level stuff for farming purposes despicable? Perhaps, but that's how it always was on live. This guy should track Brad McQuaid down and whine to him, not the forums.

Too bad we don't have a viable way to communicate to Brad! That would be great. 17 years later, and the guy still gets flack for EQ1. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Bruno]

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

It's a huge playability issue. Some classes need jboots just to level, like wizards. You can't join the server and get jboots like you could on Live, or here before the 2014 patch.

The 2014 patch made it so that instead of having a fixed spawn, the SRO AC spawns randomly, some place in the zone, at 9pm. (Technically he spawns somewhere along his wandering path.) What this means is that a high level tracker can just zone in at 9pm and if it pops, they get it. It's happened to me twice. After days of camping, a high level druid zones in at 9pm, the AC pops and they run right to it. The odds of getting it yourself vs. a jboot farmer are now basically zero.

Before, there was a fixed spawn that you could time. No matter how many people were hovering around, only I would know the instant when it would pop, and that would let me get jboots at the appropriate level, i.e. mid 30's.

I've resigned myself to not getting jboots until the 50's, when I'll have to camp the OOT AC for them. Until then it's sow potions. I'm not ever going to get extorted for 7k by a piece of shit like the trackers who go to SRO at 9pm. Not ever. These shitbags have basically said: you can't play on P99 unless you give us 7k to use an exploit that's outside the rules of the game.

So until then, whenever I see someone selling jboots, I'm killing Hasten.

It happened just now. Here you go:

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If these shitbags can use an exploit to extort the whole server, I don't see why I can't kill a single blue wandering mob. If I wasn't supposed to kill him he'd have more than 3k hps.

This really needs to be fixed. I understand that the change was probably intended to make the SRO AC more fair, but what it actually did was make it impossible to get jboots unless you're a high level tracker. Instead of getting 3k for blocking honest players from playing the game as intended, jboot farmers now get 7k. Instead of helping the situation, the patch actually made these assholes richer.

Guy talks about honest people and is griefing with hasten to block MQ. lulz. You aren't just preventing someone from getting paid their MQ $$, but you're also preventing someone from acquiring their Jboots. Basically just making yourself look like a complete dickhead. Quit being psychotic, go farm your ring, and move on.

[Trollhide]

WTS Jboots MQ 7k, get at me on Heart or Pendrell, muah

[Gumbo]

I noticed that getting a shadowed rapier is harder at times then getting an ancient ring. I'm serious... I have more trouble killing and getting a rapier from a Shadowed Man then killing an Ancient Cyclops.

[countytime]

Who's this handsome fellow?

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He keeps appearing after I kill Hasten a bunch of times?

[ridiculousmoose]

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

Who's this handsome fellow?

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He keeps appearing after I kill Hasten a bunch of times?

You gonna do that every 4 hrs from now on? What a sad life you must have...

[Evia]

What a sociopath

[Pokesan]

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

What a sociopath

he should consider red

where the pixel package swish??

[paulgiamatti]

This thread classic as fuck

[Pumpedup]

sounds like brother zeph is griefing players who need j boots, i bet if you shitbags cry hard enough staff will despawn him

or maybe you can take the thousand players you have online and throw yourself at him till he dies?

maybe you can kill him with level 1 ogre warriors and can make a televised event out of it