Child's tear question

[Dreenk317]

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

Which only encourages the filthy greedy neckbeards to loot tears and sell for MQs.

Sadly it's true. They have such a grip on the golems now that you will NEVER loot the tear yourself, unless you too are a filthy greedy neckbeard that is in such a guild.

That's why being a shaman sucks on this server.

Either you spend millions of hours farming plats to pay a filthy neckbeard for your epic and for torpor, or you have to turn into a filthy neckbeard just so you can actually loot a tear and torpor yourself.

GL on getting a tear!

I don't neckbeard, and have killed three golems this month in pursuit of a tear. Never say never, just gotta try. Also, looted my torpor, for free, because I'm not an idiot and took a group to where it drops.

But I do think the price of torpor is absurdly high on this server.

[RDawg816]

Farming plat at seafuries is enough to make most people quit. I don't know why people torture themselves with toxic environments...

[NegaStoat]

On this top-heavy server, the time to get the shaman epic done was before the Fear revamp. The MQ for the tear was dirt cheap, relatively speaking. It was much cheaper than getting a JBB, assuming you did all your faction work for the last turn-in. It was even cheaper than the JBB assuming you paid a Druid to help max your faction with the teleport Butcherblock / Freeport scam.

That time window is done. Not much to suggest as it's a lot harder to obtain with the adjusted spawn times of the target, with far more competition. Myself, I'm currently leveling a character class in a casual manner with an end quest that is a lot easier to complete. Less disappointment that way.

[Lhancelot]

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

On this top-heavy server, the time to get the shaman epic done was before the Fear revamp. The MQ for the tear was dirt cheap, relatively speaking. It was much cheaper than getting a JBB, assuming you did all your faction work for the last turn-in. It was even cheaper than the JBB assuming you paid a Druid to help max your faction with the teleport Butcherblock / Freeport scam.

That time window is done. Not much to suggest as it's a lot harder to obtain with the adjusted spawn times of the target, with far more competition. Myself, I'm currently leveling a character class in a casual manner with an end quest that is a lot easier to complete. Less disappointment that way.

This is exactly my sentiment too. ^^^

I remember when shaman epics were very cheap a while back. I quit, came back to game after velious had been patched in and other changes too, and suddenly the tear is 60k or more? I was shocked.

I am pretty sure I recall it being less than 30k for sure, which is not too outlandish. But, 60k now?

I don't think it's a matter of spawn times hurting it, I think it's a matter of greedy people bottlenecking the tear to sell for MQ more than anything.

I am not going to mention guilds but I know for a fact one guild which advertises itself as "casual" that will gobble the tears up any chance they get as I seen it with my own eyes while being in that guild.

They didn't need it, did not give the tear to anyone to use, instead banked it for MQ.
I just wonder how many of these tears they have, as I left that guild shortly after this.

I understand why people are greedy and enjoy making plats but sometimes the way they go about it just puts a bad taste in my mouth.

That's pretty much why I don't care for raid guilds on this server. There's just way too much greed and disregard for other players on the server, and this is magnefied when the loots start revolving around MQuestable epic drops or other high end items that can be sold for plats.

I realize the server can't be a utopia, but ffs the greed is on a whole other level once you get to 50-60 lvl, and start seeing how pixel-crazed some players are.

[Bubbles]

Well, people spent 5 years on this forum romanticizing the unstunnable Ogre Shaman soloing WW dragons.

So everyone rolled a shaman.

For each new tear, another 50 shaman hit raiding levels. And the cycle repeats.

If you want to feel better about your situation, A tear + torpor together doesn't cost even close to a Green Dragon Scale (WAR) or White Dragon Scale (BRD).

So yeah, real sorry your epic is buyable. Must be rough. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[nevilshute]

I'm in the camp of those that didn't get around to doing it pre-revamp. My shammy was lvl 36 at the time and I had sorta soured on him. I knew eventually I wanted it for sure and just didn't really grasp the implications of waiting. Now I'm all about playing him again and while I could wait for it to become my turn in getting a tear I guess it's fairly likely that I'll farm the plat and just buy it.

Forgetting the old price I don't think 60k for the final piece of an epic (that is otherwise ridiculously easy in comparison to many others) is that bad. I know that might rub some people the wrong way and it does take the glitter off of the experience a bit to buy your way to epics like that but that's just the world we live in with a server this old.

Also, at least they nerfed the epics so we don't have lvl 5 twinks running around with epics equipped anymore. That got me bothered something awful.

I firmly believe, that if you have the patience and you are in a (even semi-serious) raiding guild then eventually you will get the tear if you focus on it. It's not like the golems are killed by the same guild every time.

You want to get an epic, while not being in a raiding guild and not putting in 10-20 hours a week? Well you're in luck, you can sit on Seafury Island and grind pp whenever you have the time and eventually you will have enough money to buy the tear.

EQ - to me - was always about rewarding the dedicated players - almost exponentially. I just don't think it's reasonable to complain that you can't get an epic if you only play once or twice a week and one to two hours at a time. Sorry but the epics were meant as just that, EPIC rewards.

[Maner]

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

This is exactly my sentiment too. ^^^

I remember when shaman epics were very cheap a while back. I quit, came back to game after velious had been patched in and other changes too, and suddenly the tear is 60k or more? I was shocked.

I am pretty sure I recall it being less than 30k for sure, which is not too outlandish. But, 60k now?

I don't think it's a matter of spawn times hurting it, I think it's a matter of greedy people bottlenecking the tear to sell for MQ more than anything.

I am not going to mention guilds but I know for a fact one guild which advertises itself as "casual" that will gobble the tears up any chance they get as I seen it with my own eyes while being in that guild.

They didn't need it, did not give the tear to anyone to use, instead banked it for MQ.
I just wonder how many of these tears they have, as I left that guild shortly after this.

I understand why people are greedy and enjoy making plats but sometimes the way they go about it just puts a bad taste in my mouth.

That's pretty much why I don't care for raid guilds on this server. There's just way too much greed and disregard for other players on the server, and this is magnefied when the loots start revolving around MQuestable epic drops or other high end items that can be sold for plats.

I realize the server can't be a utopia, but ffs the greed is on a whole other level once you get to 50-60 lvl, and start seeing how pixel-crazed some players are.

All you do is continually prove you don't comprehend the game. The golems went from 8 hour spawns to 3 day spawns for one, for another they now drop CTs old loot table as well which includes AoNs and puppet strings which everyone wants. The Fear revamp made the golems more desirable and a much much longer respawn.

It has nothing to do with top end greed as the guilds who kill the most golems are guilds like FoH and anon who sit on their spawns 2 times a week for 16 hours. Its like you don't even play on this server but continue to bash the people who raid due to your own misconceptions and ignorance.

Wanna talk about greed, all you're doing it complaining about how no one would give you torpor or your epic so you stopped playing a character. Talk about greedy and entitled

[Lhancelot]

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

All you do is continually prove you don't comprehend the game. The golems went from 8 hour spawns to 3 day spawns for one, for another they now drop CTs old loot table as well which includes AoNs and puppet strings which everyone wants. The Fear revamp made the golems more desirable and a much much longer respawn.

It has nothing to do with top end greed as the guilds who kill the most golems are guilds like FoH and anon who sit on their spawns 2 times a week for 16 hours. Its like you don't even play on this server but continue to bash the people who raid due to your own misconceptions and ignorance.

Wanna talk about greed, all you're doing it complaining about how no one would give you torpor or your epic so you stopped playing a character. Talk about greedy and entitled

Whatever you say buddy. Just keep socking those tears and other epic piece no-drops to sell for MQs to "self-entitled" casuals.

I quit the shaman because it was not worth the sacrifice to me to gear it. If I loved the class maybe I would have coughed up the 200k to greedy neckbeards like you for the epic and spells, but alas I simply didn't and don't.

It just seems like this server has the largest collection of the most greedy raiders from all the past servers of 15 years ago.

There's a lot of really cool people on p99, but there is also a substantial collection of demented neckbeards who only serve to collect as many pixels as possible with zero sense of community towards their fellow gamers.

if thinking players should play less selfishly makes me "self-entitled" then fine I am guilty as charged.

[Maner]

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

Whatever you say buddy. Just keep socking those tears and other epic piece no-drops to sell for MQs to "self-entitled" casuals.

I quit the shaman because it was not worth the sacrifice to me to gear it. If I loved the class maybe I would have coughed up the 200k to greedy neckbeards like you for the epic and spells, but alas I simply didn't and don't.

It just seems like this server has the largest collection of the most greedy raiders from all the past servers of 15 years ago.

There's a lot of really cool people on p99, but there is also a substantial collection of demented neckbeards who only serve to collect as many pixels as possible with zero sense of community towards their fellow gamers.

if thinking players should play less selfishly makes me "self-entitled" then fine I am guilty as charged.

The problem is those people in the top raiding guilds aren't banking a ton of tears in order to make people like you pay more, like you're claiming. In fact i think the aftermath guild bank has 1 tear atm, if that. Perhaps you should ask fires of heaven or anon how many childs tears they have sitting in banks. AW and AA contest the golems that respawn when CT spawns. They don't camp out for or track the 2 respawns that happen during the week. That means those neckbeards at the top end aren't getting more tears, they are in fact getting less

[Life617]

just pray for pantheon to be released. This server is stuck in its old ways.