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

[Gugg]

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

Max lev on retail is not hard at all, especially if u want to pay2win

You can pay to skip, when I was playing it was to level 85. Then pay to get a max rank merc, then buy some XP potions from cash shop

The only thing that slows you down is eventually you hit a wall of mountainous mob hp as you start approaching the level cap. Your group-quality gear from 2 expansions ago just doesn’t do enough damage. Usually the merc can heal you indefinitely and never run oom as long as it’s the max rank you can only get with a paying sub, but it can take like 20 minutes of DPS’ing to kill a single mob with millions of hp

But then all you have to do is buy some current expansion group quality gear from bazaar

Not everybody pays to win though, some people still do it legit. P99 is not hard because EQ in general is not hard; mobs are dumb so they are easy.

Side note: Thinking about it, evil races and classes soloing better actually makes sense. Good should rely on teamwork, because good is popular and therefore has friends, and evil relies on soloing because evil has no friends.

[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.

[Tethler]

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

P99 is not hard because EQ in general is not hard

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

I clicked off DMF instead of Lich and killed myself. Does life really have to be a 50/50 gamble in emergency situations?

[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.

[bigfun]

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

- There are login issues with P99 which you don't get on Live. I guess having to reboot my phone 10 times to log in is part of the 'no hand holding' classic experience?

you play on your phone??????????[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[starkind]

Tethered wireless mobile
Internet...

[bigfun]

That makes much more sense. I legit thought they meant they play on their phone. Was confused how you see anything on that tiny screen!