New sneak mechanics = trainfest?

[B4EQWASCOOL]

Lot of L2P issues ITT.

[Lazie]

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

The new sneak mechanic changes nothing related to how TOV was previously executed. The leash mechanic, however, changes everything. It will be interesting to see how the meta on the server adapts to these changes. Fte and TOV dragon kills will surely change. How this change occurs is up to the leadership of the top guilds as well as our support staff. Hopefully the adaptation of these mechanic changes produces a more formidable raid environment for all involved.

The leash change has made these fights and pulls far less trivial. How exciting!

Phatez <Aftermath>

Eh...Still pretty trivial. The only thing that would completely change gameplay mechanics is rooting of Dragons. Which won't happen on P99.

[kotton05]

No rules vp go!

[lurk]

Great changes. But..

Binds still need to be removed. Is there even a way to retroactively move bind points? A dev on another server had to ask me to move my binds from a certain zone stating he couldnt do it.

Certain drakes need to be removed for safe spots.

Hatchlings need to be charmable.

Getting the chase range right on dragons will be tough. Definitely most NToV dragons should assist vulak if theyre up. Maybe make them turn into his pets when agro'd. Idk.

Staff of forbidden rights was brought up a couple times and was 100% classic. Alas i think recharge value here is like 1 million.

[Lhancelot]

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

Would change absolutely nothing in regards to pulling dragons in this situation. DA idols are just insurance. 2 classes can cast 2 DAs and 2 others can cast or sing 1. It is always about resources raiding on this server. You take away DA idols and the resource for DA swaps to having characters available to cast it. People will just start sharing more accounts.

Seeing the widespread abuse of clickies on the server, it's time to take a serious look into disabling this major crutch that the so-called raiders utilize to conquer content.

1. Remove recharging items.

2. Make significant nerfs to said items that people seem intent on exploiting. (clicky complete heals, DA idols, easily obtained clicky slow items, etc.)

3. Seeing it is near impossible to stop all the exploitive tactics p99 raiders are intent on using, raid mobs, particularly dragons need to be rooted or have such a tight leash they cannot be pulled to any zonelines, period. This will force the fights to happen as they always were meant to.

Make the raiders actually have to fight and raid the way EQ1 was designed to, and stop this abomination of cheating the system for pixels. These whining, exploit-using players have milked dragons for easy pixels far too long, and it's time to make p99 raiding great again.

Crawling to big raid bosses, the intrigue and build up is what made raiding so exciting on classic. The insta-gib, pull to the zoneline crap these players literally pull should be stopped, and pixels should be earned from this point on.

These changes alone would create a far more immersive experience while raiding, and a true fulfillment of accomplishing something in an elfsim would be present again.

hardcore raiders would finally have the true challenge of competing against one another as they always remind us they want more than anything, that being a true competition of the best raid guilds against one another, proving who has what it really takes to conquer the games content in the way it was meant to be.

Remove socking, and "racing", and bring back raiding and crawling.



***Yes, maybe some of these changes wouldn't be "classic", but let's be real here players here on p99 are not playing with the same (lack) of knowledge players on live (classic) had with regards to all the tricks and exploits they now are aware of and intent on using. Seeing these same players have no self control and will always take the easiest road provided to milk maximum pixels for minimal effort, the devs here have no choice but to alter the raid meta with significant changes and rooting mobs/nerfing clickies would be a good start.

[Kodim]

Has anyone ever thought of making their own server, and having it be in their own vision and letting Nilbog and crew do what they want with theirs?

[lurk]

Skipping content is as classic as it gets. VP was always pulled in classic, even after nerfing rez staff in luclin because of VT skipping and adding straight up leashed bosses in PoP; i was still able to use a bug to run straight to rathe council and coth a raid, i did the same thing for coirnav and even managed to time ticks to legit swim there. i was able to time ticks as a solo mage to VZ and coth a raid, hell we would train up to the boss before saryrn and rez up there to avoid clearing. It is inevitable for people to find a way. The best we can do is just accept it and make it as classic as possible. The mechanics, not the feels...

After all these years so many people know the capabilities of each class and the mechanics of the game. You will never recreate a classic feel when the knowledge base is so vast. Mechanics should be classic, if players use them in a non classic way then its still classic, it just hurts your nostalgic feels

[kotton05]

I used to bang out full LDoN in 30 mins flat with a buddy for them sweet crystals and that was meant to be crawled too

[Lhancelot]

More changes coming soon™.

[Maner]

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

Seeing the widespread abuse of clickies on the server, it's time to take a serious look into disabling this major crutch that the so-called raiders utilize to conquer content.

1. Remove recharging items.

2. Make significant nerfs to said items that people seem intent on exploiting. (clicky complete heals, DA idols, easily obtained clicky slow items, etc.)

3. Seeing it is near impossible to stop all the exploitive tactics p99 raiders are intent on using, raid mobs, particularly dragons need to be rooted or have such a tight leash they cannot be pulled to any zonelines, period. This will force the fights to happen as they always were meant to.

Make the raiders actually have to fight and raid the way EQ1 was designed to, and stop this abomination of cheating the system for pixels. These whining, exploit-using players have milked dragons for easy pixels far too long, and it's time to make p99 raiding great again.

Crawling to big raid bosses, the intrigue and build up is what made raiding so exciting on classic. The insta-gib, pull to the zoneline crap these players literally pull should be stopped, and pixels should be earned from this point on.

These changes alone would create a far more immersive experience while raiding, and a true fulfillment of accomplishing something in an elfsim would be present again.

hardcore raiders would finally have the true challenge of competing against one another as they always remind us they want more than anything, that being a true competition of the best raid guilds against one another, proving who has what it really takes to conquer the games content in the way it was meant to be.

Remove socking, and "racing", and bring back raiding and crawling.



***Yes, maybe some of these changes wouldn't be "classic", but let's be real here players here on p99 are not playing with the same (lack) of knowledge players on live (classic) had with regards to all the tricks and exploits they now are aware of and intent on using. Seeing these same players have no self control and will always take the easiest road provided to milk maximum pixels for minimal effort, the devs here have no choice but to alter the raid meta with significant changes and rooting mobs/nerfing clickies would be a good start.

The lack of knowledge 15 years ago is the only reason these tactics weren't used then as wel. Your opinion on the raid scene doesn't matter as you have already stated you don't raid. It's funny how much someone will bitch about something that they don't even partake in. Perhaps p99 isn't the server for you if the only way you can suggest to fix something is to make completely unclassic changes to it...