This community has sucked the joy out of EQ

[Delekhan]

The main difference in P99 is that you have to race and FTE immediately which requires more coordination and planning because you don't have time to clear first. That makes the encounters far more challenging.

Infinite accounts are also a major difference. If you don't/won't play a holy trinity class, then yes you will have to deal with a very specific role in Velious and you may find that boring.

[zanderklocke]

This guy has been creating these types posts for over 10 years. That sort of makes me sad.

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[fastboy21]

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

This guy has been creating these types posts for over 10 years. That sort of makes me sad.

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yikes!

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Darlore]

Come try red. Different problems, but a lot more fun to have.

Someone camping the mobs you want to camp? Cool. Kill 'em or be killed. Find a few pals and get deep into some out-of-the-way zone for some xp? Great--plus some nice xp boost on Red. All around great time.

[Lightbringer55]

Back on live there were always 1 or 2 large, raid-heavy guilds, but there were usually also several guilds with reduced numbers that were skilled enough to still take on raid targets. People on p99 talk about 'skill' and 'hard work' but I fail to see how those exist when 75 players go and kill Gorenaire.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Originally Posted by Lightbringer55 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Back on live there were always 1 or 2 large, raid-heavy guilds, but there were usually also several guilds with reduced numbers that were skilled enough to still take on raid targets. People on p99 talk about 'skill' and 'hard work' but I fail to see how those exist when 75 players go and kill Gorenaire.

Well, back on Live, there were continued expansions with bleeding edge content that the large hard-core raid guilds would move on to, freeing up older raid content for smaller, more casual guilds. If Trakanon was monopolized consistently by the uber guilds, you could at least tell yourselves that you could eventually have a shot at that content and the rewards thereof while the big boys were focusing on flagging in Planes of Power.

Here, capped at Velious, there's nowhere for them to move on to. At least on an Earthquake, unless the competitive guilds hypocritically agreed to rotate VP and NTOV so they could go after other targets first, the top 2 guilds should be tied up with First Brood dragons to key up for ST, then NTOV, and VP to concern themselves with other 7-day targets. Well, and Trak, to prevent a 3rd guild from establishing a foothold in VP.

[strongNpretty]

No matter where you go, or what game you play, there were always be a handful of folks who take things too far. In everything in life there are these groups of people.. They will always exist, they will always have more than you.. Maybe more time, maybe more money, maybe more resources.. Nothing u can do.. Stay in your own lane man

[cd288]

(assuming that's what he got banned for, Idk for sure)

[Bardp1999]

I have the screenshot buried away somewhere, anyhow it's of 450+ people in Feerot waiting for CT to pop when he had sub 30 minutes left in window. Funny thing is the Blue server has slid so far that that's more than the total population most days.

P99 was great until they split the population - both are basically low pop solo/duo servers now - it's all very sad to me. I'm not even sure merging Blue/Green is going to end up helping but I guess we will see.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Bardp1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have the screenshot buried away somewhere, anyhow it's of 450+ people in Feerot waiting for CT to pop when he had sub 30 minutes left in window. Funny thing is the Blue server has slid so far that that's more than the total population most days.

P99 was great until they split the population - both are basically low pop solo/duo servers now - it's all very sad to me. I'm not even sure merging Blue/Green is going to end up helping but I guess we will see.

I mean I loved Blue and still log in on it occasionally, but they really needed a fresh server. Blue's economy is so ridiculous at this point making it easy to twink every alt to the gills with minimal plat. Not really a real EQ experience.