Was total BiS a thing during live?

[Mblake81]

I never seen a BIS item on live or a primal in use, didn't know they existed.

[Hrothgar]

This is going to be dependent entirely on class, of course, but I’ve found that there’s a veritable gear plateau on my torp shaman that I never really felt pre-luclin on live. Get to 3k hp and over 1k ac, and any gear improvement has felt roughly the same. This is probably not going to be the case on my SK, who has a real “thirst” for gear, but there’s definitely a plateau for many classes in terms of “good gear” vs “BiS” even making the game noticeably different for people.

Anyone want to chime in?

[JayDee]

For some reason, people feel entitled here and every casual believes they deserve raid loot. Most people on live didn't dream of the day

[Nuggie]

@Izmael

I didn't have an in-depth grasp of gaming mechanics or how to manipulate them back then like I learned from playing on P99.

[Jibartik]

"there is some way to recharge items with merchants some guy told me but I didn't understand" - my friend at the cafeteria

"when you get to 50 there is a quest to turn into a dark elf" - my guild mates

"after I finished the quest some guy asked me what webpage I learned it from, can you believe that? you can just look up quests online..." -my cafateria friend again with a sad face

this was all about when kunark launched lol

[Jibartik]

p99: everquest is easy
*reads and watches videos on how to do everything and still has multiple near heart attacks and loses job raiding a 20 year old game*

[Molitoth]

On P99, all BiS for Classic/Kunark was surely obtainable... but like many have said for Velious it's highly unlikely due to the amount of items on Vulak's loot table.

[Crawdad]

Near/the beginning of Luclin was probably the most likely to have as close to 'Total BiS' as possible due to the number of bottlenecks and blocking that took place. Also, Ssra temple wasn't itemized for a few weeks/couple months, so depending on your server's top-end scene, it was very easy to hog NToV and other desirable targets, then do VT at their leisure.

Total BiS? Probably not, like everyone keeps saying Vulak has too much loot and the timeline wouldn't allow for it. If you ignore Vulak, then yes, many people out there had ridiculous gear compared to the average 60 on a server. Nothing like on here, though.

[Jibartik]

Being good at EQ is like being good at driving. You can be good at it, but then you can also suck at it at the same time.

Not cutting people off left and right driving recklessly, but totally getting in everyone's way who is driving slightly above the speed limit.

Its only fairly obvious who is clearly bad at it and usually people agree, but usually that person is like rU KiDdInG Im ThE bEsT!

Also there is more than enough information online to give you all the direction you'd need to be great at it and even still you could totally end up dead trying any of it.

And the confidence of the best race car drivers of all time is only equal to the confidence of the best raid leaders

It's like 1:1 with driving.

[Ravager]

P99 takes as much skill as a paint by numbers picture. Don't oversell yourselves just because you're exceptionally skilled at staying in the lines.