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Originally Posted by EdTuBrutus
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This is at the heart of the question as to "what is Classic?". Is classic trying to reproduve the class distribution of 1999 or about trying to offer a realistic representation of what was like to play a class in 1999 or whether it should just be about creating the look and feel of the game in 1999.
My personal goal is the third of these, which P99 delivers. It looks like EQ 1999 and feels like EQ 1999. Delivering on that is enough for me, I don't need it to have the absolute skull numbing boredom of farming for hundreds of hours.
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Its in the eye of the beholder. There isn't much to do in a static EQ server, especially one that is helplessly behind the curve. Most of the players here have played this content ad nausiam for years on multiple fully "finished" characters. For those of us who keep playing past that point it isn't skull numbing boredom to log in and play just for the fun of playing: Meeting people, making a few k, helping someone out with a quest, random buffing, farming a rare item, etc.
Not everyone enjoys the game the same way. My sense is that as p99 gets older and approaches perma-static status the incentive to chase pixels for many of us dwindles, but we keep playing because the game is still fun for other reasons. There are tons of "casual" players on p99 that have amassed huge sums of plat just by playing here for years. One of the differences between live and p99 is that the extended nature of the servers allows even casuals who have been playing long enough to be loaded with items and cash.
In any case, my whole suggestion to the OP was that if you are the driven to get all the goodies the fastest way is to just join a guild. You'll be decked out in no time.