Raiding Guild Behavior

[Speedi]

Yea, performer and mayong was great back in the day. But now everything is known. So not nearly as challenging as it once was. VoA and RoF was good as well, first time around.

But your absolutely right about the entire raid having to pay attention at later expansions. Best have some AT's or gtfo.

[Daldaen]

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

It's adorable Daldaen is convinced that future raid content on phinny will be challenging and not the same face-roll to win that it has been to date.

#DreamOn

Most of the out of era things become in-era things by around DoN mostly. The updated combat tables on pets and monks are irrelevant at that point. Veteran AAs were actually released. Distillate potion revamp done here. Etc.

By the level 70/75 expansions for sure it will be a lot closer to those raids in era. And many of them can be failed by having just a handful of idiots. The top guild are always going to crush content in the first week or two unless artificial keying limitations prevent it (see Underfoot). But most regular guilds will take weeks or a few months to get it done.

Daldaen doesn't dream. He wills things into existence. I miss you PrimitivePal.

[kotton05]

Did you guys ever play DnD online? There was a raid on there called the abbot. I wish those mechanics was in EQ. The best part aside from the final fight is halfway your raid gets split into two with two people being up in the center of the room who picks up a pair of glasses that reveal the floor just to the guy with the glasses and they then have to verbalize how to move the raid on invisible tiles that change.

Any type of those mechanics ever added? I'm tempted alil bit just to see non typical eq encounters. What makes uqua diff? Pardon my ignorance daldaen but I was ran thru most raids long ago and I mostly only remember up till luclin.

[Sloshed]

Originally Posted by kotton05 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Did you guys ever play DnD online? There was a raid on there called the abbot. I wish those mechanics was in EQ. The best part aside from the final fight is halfway your raid gets split into two with two people being up in the center of the room who picks up a pair of glasses that reveal the floor just to the guy with the glasses and they then have to verbalize how to move the raid on invisible tiles that change.

Any type of those mechanics ever added? I'm tempted alil bit just to see non typical eq encounters. What makes uqua diff? Pardon my ignorance daldaen but I was ran thru most raids long ago and I mostly only remember up till luclin.

Wasn't there was some riddle you had to answer in Uqua to open a door or something? It was randomly sent to 1 member of your raid and you had so many seconds to answer before it changed. You miss the riddle and a aoe went off wiping your raid or something like that i recall. People were scared to death to speak up when they got the riddle so you would sit and sit until someone got the balls to speak up.

[Daldaen]

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

Wasn't there was some riddle you had to answer in Uqua to open a door or something? It was randomly sent to 1 member of your raid and you had so many seconds to answer before it changed. You miss the riddle and a aoe went off wiping your raid or something like that i recall. People were scared to death to speak up when they got the riddle so you would sit and sit until someone got the balls to speak up.

You're talking about the gas chambers. I think there are three in the zone.

Basically everyone has to enter the room in your raid and the door closes, then every 10 seconds two people in your raid receive an emote. One person gets an emote that lists two keys, one person gets an emote that lists one key. The person with the one key emote has to speak up and have the raid leader use that key to open the door. If you have some derps in your guild who can't read and speak up when they got the fake emote you get chain PBAEd and most of your raid dies, losing the zonewide debuffs Cure banes they previously looted.

Too many wipes can make the final fight unwinnable when you don't have enough people cured of the zonewide AE.

Uqua + Demiplane zonewide AEs were incredible designs. Demiplane especially because it makes the zone hard as hell to do your first run through and allows you to farm enough blockers eventually to make farm mode while you wait for the next expansion, quite a bit easier.

[FatMice]

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

You're talking about the gas chambers. I think there are three in the zone.

Basically everyone has to enter the room in your raid and the door closes, then every 10 seconds two people in your raid receive an emote. One person gets an emote that lists two keys, one person gets an emote that lists one key. The person with the one key emote has to speak up and have the raid leader use that key to open the door. If you have some derps in your guild who can't read and speak up when they got the fake emote you get chain PBAEd and most of your raid dies, losing the zonewide debuffs Cure banes they previously looted.

Too many wipes can make the final fight unwinnable when you don't have enough people cured of the zonewide AE.

Uqua + Demiplane zonewide AEs were incredible designs. Demiplane especially because it makes the zone hard as hell to do your first run through and allows you to farm enough blockers eventually to make farm mode while you wait for the next expansion, quite a bit easier.

Sounds like you haven't been outside in quite some time.

[Llodd]

How many hoops you gotta jump through to get to Quarm compared to Aow/Tunare? /chuckle

QUARM DEAD IN 3 DAYS

you really need to let that sink in and wake up

[Fifield]

Rushing to do quarm in 3 days is dumb and those guys are probably bored.

Take your time, progress through the expansions at your own pace. Thats kind of the point of the server.

[Maner]

Originally Posted by jcr4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

< -- Rushed to beat Quarm. Still not bored. Only really log in for raids but that's usually the case regardless.

Originally Posted by jcr4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

By the end of a 3 month expansion cycle I'm bored to fucking tears of raiding the same shit every week. Idk how these mouth breathers get motivated to stare at walls for hours and hours every week to kill the same fucking shit they've been killing for year(s). If it's not mental illness what would you call it?

Come again? Contradicting yourself in less than 3 pages?

So you get bored after 3 months, what would rotations or instancing on P99 do to the population after 3 years?

[Dreenk317]

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

Come again? Contradicting yourself in less than 3 pages?

So you get bored after 3 months, what would rotations or instancing on P99 do to the population after 3 years?

Instances would ruin it. Rotations would be great.