How can you be bad at your class at 60?

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Past a certain age, intensive online gaming is a difficult physiological problem. I know gamers often discuss exercise routines, etc., but that's like a junkie describing how they avoid constipation. That *is* a win, but you know, zoom out a bit. Or, wait 20 years.

So at a certain point this is what a guild leader can seem like to you:
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That's life. Lots of fuckers gonna kill themselves and have from the unreal stress levels a proper bastard of a raid will rain down on all involved.

I feel sorry for the kids whose moms played eq when they were pregnant. That's like a cortisol Silkwood shower 8 hours a night if you are competitive. Fiesty fetus syndrome.

[Evia]

I realized on Green launch that many many people play EQ has a secondary task. So they afk a lot to do whatever they're primarily focused in and "check back " on the game. While I don't blame ppl for doing it (tbh it's kinda smart if you can get away with it) but it's annoying as fuck. When I play EQ I'm all in totally focused and I feel like that's not actually very common anymore.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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

I realized on Green launch that many many people play EQ has a secondary task. So they afk a lot to do whatever they're primarily focused in and "check back " on the game. While I don't blame ppl for doing it (tbh it's kinda smart if you can get away with it) but it's annoying as fuck. When I play EQ I'm all in totally focused and I feel like that's not actually very common anymore.

Peak hours players are normal people and this game is not that hard. So they are cooking food and stuff. Or, they might be glued to their seats, soaked in cold sweat because this game is pushing them to their limits but they are hiding it by *saying* they are sorry for being afk. In fact they blacked out from so much raw cortisol being dumped into their system and no one ever told them hell was inside a 20+ year old elf simulator.

People are coming from different places in life. You have to know when to pull the mob, when not to. When to join a group, when to walk away. And when to run.

[enjchanter]

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

I realized on Green launch that many many people play EQ has a secondary task. So they afk a lot to do whatever they're primarily focused in and "check back " on the game. While I don't blame ppl for doing it (tbh it's kinda smart if you can get away with it) but it's annoying as fuck. When I play EQ I'm all in totally focused and I feel like that's not actually very common anymore.

If eq was any slower paced , it'd be a crossword puzzle

[Ennewi]

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

If eq was any slower paced , it'd be a crossword puzzle

*autostereogram

[magnetaress]

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

I realized on Green launch that many many people play EQ has a secondary task. So they afk a lot to do whatever they're primarily focused in and "check back " on the game. While I don't blame ppl for doing it (tbh it's kinda smart if you can get away with it) but it's annoying as fuck. When I play EQ I'm all in totally focused and I feel like that's not actually very common anymore.

Try red [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].O;

[Ooloo]

I think a big part of it is that p99 is free and you can have basically unlimited accounts and freely share them. So the sense of stakes is a lot lower than in 1999 when you had to pay 10 bucks a month to play.
Filthy slacker casuals were less common for that reason, and the people playing had more of an incentive to pay attention and not suck since they were ostensibly paying money to see the full content of the game. And your reputation mattered more since you only had 8 character slots.

Also probably didn't hurt that you couldn't alt-tab out of the original client.

[Snaggles]

"Because you don't Bind Wound as a shaman"

An optimal shaman is canni dancing until 58 when timing becomes problematic. I'm not sure when the ideal "bandaging shaman" range comes into play but I got a good laugh nonetheless.

[unsunghero]

Speaking of sucking…

Made a pet on steroids with haste and offhand book of eternals. Was fighting with it outside when the game decided to do its favorite thing which is spawn 4 adds, and path them all directly into the pet, and also break charm…twice (on a low blue with tash + -10 MR when I have 255cha, but whatever, apparently charm never breaks on p99 amirite)

Ended up getting overwhelmed and ultimately dying because bad

Got back to my body but the mob with my book was gone. So I combed the entire fucking zone until I found the fucker who had my book, who was hiding in a corner far away from where I died waiting for his 4 friends to spawn like the little bitch that he is

Killed him, and even though the book was in his goddamn hands, no book on his body. This is likely because charm broke the first time the second I was handing him the book. Considering this is the second time this has happened in the span of 2 weeks where a charmed mob chomped my -Mr item, really makes me apprehensive about handing Mr gear to charmed mobs

Anyway, just wanted to rant. Charm never breaks on p99 btw

[Trexller]

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

Speaking of sucking…

any enchanter regardless of skill would be screwed in that situation

you had 5 mobs and one of em is buffed/hasted/dual wielding

when i find myself totally screwed in game, i just bust out laughing

this is why we like EQ so much, it's easy to play but on the other hand can go so wrong so fast without hope of recovery