My personal review of P99 Green: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[ReoDobbs]

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

And you call yourself 'eqsales' and charge 5 x more than usual and stand in the same spot for 24 hours?

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[greenspectre]

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

If you're selling items at market value, it's likely going to take a while to find a buyer. So you send out your auction message, go do laundry, browse Reddit, etc., then come back in a few minutes. Staring at your screen the entire time you're in the tunnel is a good way to go crazy, and make 20 minutes feel like two hours. That's why it often takes time to respond, and has nothing to do with being a "real player" or not.

I always choose to look at "market value" as flexible. The thing I consider most when buying/selling an item is what is my time worth.

Example: I bought a fungi tunic for 85k cash a couple weeks ago. Market value, most agree, is 75-80k on green. However, I'd been /auc to buy it for 80k for hours. Within 5 minutes of upping my price in my message to 85, somebody simply /auc's that they're selling a fungi for 85. I strongly suspect they were tipped off by a friend that "this guy is paying 85 cash for a fungi, get here".

Did I overpay vs the market value? Of course. But I spent hours already looking at 80. I could have spent hours more doing the same. A couple hours in Velks doing UD's or something could net me that 5k difference, and has done so since. My TIME was more valuable than the 5k difference. If I didn't have a 60 Shaman, the 5k difference might matter more.

Consequently, before OVP's stopped dropping they were maybe 8-9k and I had someone offer me a Crown of King Tranix and a Sash of the Dragonborn for mine, after I'd initially passed on the Crown alone. Obviously I took that deal. I had the time to spare at the time to sell the items individually as I was selling other things at the time too.

If you treat EC as an "easy come, easy go" thing, it's less maddening. Don't get hung up on one thing unless its the holy grail you're chasing and you just barely have enough to make it happen.

[Tann]

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

- Iksar regen makes all other Necro's technically inferior, forever. All Necro at 60 should be equal and you should play the race because you like the look of it not because it's min-max.

One of the most efficient classes gets a bit more efficient by choose Iksar, that's it. It's not game breaking, nothing an Iksar necro could do that another race couldn't.

Raid's don't wipe cause the necro twitching a cleric wasn't a lizard.

Disclaimer: I can't back up that last statement, haven't raided since Planes of Power.

[starkind]

I used to raid where there was like one necro out of 50 ppl. Out of 6 clerics I didn't often get twitched unless the three og clerics with years raiding in the guild were dead.

I honestly don't think it matters what race/starting stats any one has.

[Jimjam]

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

I used to raid where there was like one necro out of 50 ppl. Out of 6 clerics I didn't often get twitched unless the three og clerics with years raiding in the guild were dead.

I honestly don't think it matters what race/starting stats any one has.

From a raid twitch perspective the min max race for necromancer is one that can play a cleric instead.

[Swish]

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

From a raid twitch perspective the min max race for necromancer is one that can play a cleric instead.

I disagree, necros make raid progress more efficient with twitching and even some patch heals on those last 1-2 groups with the worst tank/knight or rogue that takes a few hits.

[Tethler]

The only raid rotation on green is plane of sky, which is a necessity due to spawn mechanics.

The price difference for items between green and blue is due to blue being around for more than 10 years compared to 2 years for green. People have farmed a whole lot more stuff on blue, making things a lot cheaper. It's not related to the population.

The missing "basic features" you listed are not there because they were not in the original game or first two expansions (with the exception of the broken 7-0 hotkeys on green, no idea why they dropped the ball there).

[mattydef]

I have enough characters fashioned out on blue to cover the whole server. Fuck min/max, having a cool looking character is far superior.

[starkind]

I tried being a serious druid but no one took me serious

i think the only serious druid on p99 is Kimm

[starkind]

My not safe TriGgEr wArning RevIewW

I deign not to post it in this thread..... I want to thank everyone who helped enable me to

 

write this today.

It is not the power of positive thinking, however one day I will be a lvl 60 mage without epic and likely using a lvl 52 water pet or something to do the same thing while I gear alts with trash drops.

So no hard feelings even to the aggressors on this project. I just don't think anyone has a clue.

I mean the upside is that the zone is being used.