server player rankings?

[Ferok]

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

Similarly, ranking players by measurable stats would be as useful as ranking people by how yummy they think cookies are. Ranking highest by stats if you aren't a good player of your class and/or the game means nothing, so why bother with it at all?

People are still interested, even if you aren't.

[YendorLootmonkey]

Yup, and that will perpetuate the sort of people who perma-camp mobs and leapfrog raid targets, etc. to not only get the uber gear for themselves but to deprive everyone else of it just so they can rank #1 on some goofy website to increase the size of their e-peen. I dunno about you, but that's one aspect of EQ I don't care to re-live, and from the looks of some of the threads on the forum, it's happening already. All over again. Some things never change. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] oh well!

[guineapig]

Purely to compare stats, resists, hp and mana I completely agree withyou in order to have benchmarks to shoot for. The only problem with that is the fact that we are dealing with classic vanilla eq gear. Just about everybody I know has at least a bag or 2 of different gear that they use for different purposes.

Sure I can get my charisma or magic resist up super high but it comes at the cost of a ton of hitpoints and mana. In modern eq each item has like a bijillion of each stat so u only swap out to permanently upgrade. Long story short, it can be useful but we will most likely end up seeing extremely unrealistic stats on the charts.