What did player moan about during EQ's live peak?

[Arteker]

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

People used to bitch about Furor Planedefiler of the infamous Fires of Heaven, but the man put together one of the original hardcore guilds, where they often did new and fucked up content and wiped to it night after night ("You ain't dyin, you ain't tryin" he would say), and more than anything, the man put together some of the best all time rants on the FoH front page I've ever seen since.

Nothing compares to his front page rants about the Rathe Council, or what he posted when they finally got into PoT only to find it was not really working well.

Furor was one of a mutherfuckin kind. But those were those times! You actually could get *furious* (pun intended) and lots of people laughed, but lots more nodded their head.

People gave fucks. In all seriousness, it is hard to give much fucks nowadays.

Maybe another game will come along someday that merits the vigorous giving of a fuck, but it hasn't happened yet, and I was glad I was there when Furor was regularly posting shit like this:

"The Plane of Time
2003-05-09 18:50:26 - Furor Planedefiler

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You have 14 Days. If after that time the Plane is not properly tuned, I am deleting my characters, and cancelling all of my accounts. The rest of my guild will follow suit, as will several other guilds and people that play Everquest.

To be brief, I did not work my ass off, jumping through your idiotic hoops with my friends and guildmates, so I could go to a zone where only groups of 18 could enjoy the content. EVEN if past these initial moronic events I can finally get my entire guild in to raid with me, FUCK YOU GUYS. Seriously, FUCK YOU.

I cannot believe this... right now I'm just so pissed off. I am sitting here in the Plane of Time, and 3/4 of my guild is just sitting around while a group of 18 is repeatedly trying to beat one of the mini ring encounters. Don't you people have ANY FUCKING DECENCY? SMEDLEY WHY DON'T YOU STOP COUNTING YOUR MONEY AND START ISSUING ORDERS?

The tragic irony of creating the ultimate cockblock encounter in the form of the Rathe which requires 80 people to defeat and then to limit encounters in the Plane of Time to 18.

14 Days.... after that this site will change from the most popular EQ fan site on the internet to the most popular World of Warcraft fan site on the internet. I'm done playing ball with you useless fuckers... it's my turn."


Before you lol at this, *of course* it is funny now. That is my point. The OP asked, what was bitchin like back in the day. This is what it looked like. And it was not so funny back then.

EQ used to sometimes be a genuine and utter pita.

Fortunately, p99 catches a bit of that flavor. But there will never be another Furor or FoH (or Triton, or Afterlife, etc....)

Unless.... some future game comes out that can actually create that level of immersion and hardass fuckery again.

pfft make it real put his bitchingannoying assfagot mouth about when TR beat FOH to quarm [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[susvain0362]

One reason that made me quit was SK and Pally becoming the preferred tanks in exp/aa groups in PoP. Clerics, enchanters preferred the knights because of pally stuns and sk snap aggro. I was a warrior, and to get to level 65 with only using auto attack, kick, taunt and the occasional disc it was DEVASTATING to be defferrd to pallys and sk for tanking roles when they had SPELLS was such bullshit. Warriors had to be the most boring class ever in. Mmo, having two buttons. Sk and pallys get fun spells to mKe the game fun, and now they get to tank over me??? Why the fuck did i spend years pressing auto attack, kick and taunt to get replaced by pallys and sk??? Fuck that i couldnt take it...was the final straw for me.

But i remember druids complaining about having worse buffs and heals than clerics...they were like...well whats the point of a druid? I can level up solo, cast sow and port but thats it. Mo other uses.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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

pfft make it real put his bitchingannoying assfagot mouth about when TR beat FOH to quarm [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if you really are serious, and comparing township rebellion to foh,you are kinda proving you do not know what you are talking about. TR was on a special server at that time, with different rules, and constant GM handholding.

Remember? Hello?

[Atlis]

Working as Intended.(tm)

As for sit-ins:
http://www.evilgamer.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3668

Shadow Knights never actually had a "sit-in" - they had the stones to cancel accounts. And since SHD weren't part of the trinity, many of them canceled 2-6 accounts. Prathun had to do some neat circus tricks to save his job after that one.

That particular thread was about the SOE staff stating they would fix the defunct arsenal of disciplines the shadow knight class had. Then, staff said they were linking lifetaps and lowering their ratios or some such. They were basically holding candy in their hands while kicking us in the balls.

Hell, even warriors were feeling sorry for the SHD class at that time.

[radditsu]

Didn't it take a decade for the original Rathe council to be defeated on eqmac? Seems like a legit cockblockery and worthy of rant and flame.

[Ahldagor]

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

Shamans were pretty chill, just like RL.

hehehehehe, some truth here

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

PoP was no joke. And I just have these vague memories, since my guild was just clawing and fighting to stay solidly in the top three on the Quellious server at release. But I seem to remember, it was a masterpiece of cockblockery. Flags and reflags and flat out unfinished or broken zones.

I forget what original problem was with Rathe council encounter, cuz as I said, neither my guild nor my server was at that high-end as these guilds like triton, foh, afterlife, and a precious few others, but I can attest, even the "fixed" (nerfed???) version, which my guild hit, was -- at that time -- just kind of nasty.

Hour+ encounter if things go well.

And this was an era of lags and linkdeaths. That too was sometimes what happened. Things could fall apart fast.

edit: it is an interesting question as to how p99 should, hypothetically, deal with these kinds of issues. It would not be classic for PoP to be released clean as a whistle and all encounters and loot tables gtg, I would argue.

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Shit would not be classic, agrees Planetary nebula IC 1396

[Arteker]

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

if you really are serious, and comparing township rebellion to foh,you are kinda proving you do not know what you are talking about. TR was on a special server at that time, with different rules, and constant GM handholding.

Remember? Hello?

TR was in a server with a ENFORCED GM rotation, something tasslefuck has been crying for long time .

TR did not had GM help but instead used and abused of Europa , stormhammer premiere euro guild wich was rising like hell to backflag apps.

rules where the same of all server and what is more important there was always a GM up wich took care rules where respected .
only real adventage of SH over a regular server: always a a GM up + a GM lead , gm events for lowbies and adventage over new revamped zones.

TR struggled with undead trial in potime so fucking hard because their paladins where so undergeared they couldnt do a proper work ,

when FOH struggled with CT and innoruck TR used paladin to try to tank them ..... and it worked.

The final insult was to have a paladin tanking damm quarm in pop age and leaking the video wich probably ended with furor left testicle explosion.[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Arteker]

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

PoP was no joke. And I just have these vague memories, since my guild was just clawing and fighting to stay solidly in the top three on the Quellious server at release. But I seem to remember, it was a masterpiece of cockblockery. Flags and reflags and flat out unfinished or broken zones.

I forget what original problem was with Rathe council encounter, cuz as I said, neither my guild nor my server was at that high-end as these guilds like triton, foh, afterlife, and a precious few others, but I can attest, even the "fixed" (nerfed???) version, which my guild hit, was -- at that time -- just kind of nasty.

Hour+ encounter if things go well.

And this was an era of lags and linkdeaths. That too was sometimes what happened. Things could fall apart fast.

edit: it is an interesting question as to how p99 should, hypothetically, deal with these kinds of issues. It would not be classic for PoP to be released clean as a whistle and all encounters and loot tables gtg, I would argue.

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Shit would not be classic, agrees Planetary nebula IC 1396

it happened in many expansions man, i remember killing the cursed triple DT when no one achieved it(and still not count as valid kill by soe) and the damm mob was empty.

u could skip whole ssra emp event by pulling him out the throne room , wich was how i killed him first time.

broken ldon for solo players as happened first week with broken xp(about 40% aa kill solo in mmc).



there was a lot of such shit going on back in the age .

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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

u could skip whole ssra emp event by pulling him out the throne room , wich was how i killed him first time .

get the fuck out. you could not do this. it was some pokemon card that never actually got implemented.