FTE Raid Change

[Brut]

Flag things go way too far into unclassic territory methinks.

Give all raid targets ability to summon at 100% = no pulling to zoneline 4minutes away = race the raid to the mob instead of people logging in at where the mob is brought to hit autoattack and log off. And prohibit kiting zone trash altogether because having to clear parts of Fear is actual competition as compared to bards running circles and derps chain training Nwall until one manages to survive long enough to down the potato.

4 seconds sounds super slow btw. Javspam = constantly clicking the air and tabbing range hotkey, not just watching the screen and being rdy to click and range attack once your reaction time kicks in. Unless loading the dragon model gave people a 3second lag spike.

[Daldaen]

Yea unclassic mechanic I know. FTE is as well though. But regardless that's my ramblings and not the purpose of this post.

This is Faydedar we are talking about. I just pulled that example out to show how stupid letting trackers pull is. On more legit/desired mobs the FTE battles are even closer together. We had one of our pullers comment on Sev last time that he shouted FTE before it even appeared on our pullers screen (possibly lag on their end... But still, dumb).

I like your idea of engaging the mob where it stands to an extent. But that removes the skill/art of pulling from the game. Which is a very unique aspect of EQ that most other MMOs don't have, they just have derpfaceaggro. Now granted... Pulling Fay or Gore or Sev is no real challenge. But come Velious pulling Tormax to the zone, while it does negate part of the script, is extremely classic and extremely challenging to do quickly. You need some boss pullers to do that.

If the engage where it stands thing goes in the engages would likely end up going to which guild can group the most bards. Whereas my suggestion it would just go to which bard can zone in and get there quickest. Which seems a bit more reasonable IMO. (And doesn't require the winning guild to have 3+ bards each kill... With out broken 500 resist cap, bards are already valuable enough on raids)

[Brut]

There are alot of engages currently that both tier C guilds wipe on frequently, and wouldn't if they had a bard each group doing the appropriate resist song. There's rarely enough bards to go around, especially in the fast-engage-environment where you don't have the time to start assigning people to log on bards to have enough of them around. I'd imagine the only group that would run up with a bard is the MT group, rest would follow up at SoW speed. And this is only in a situation where the whole raid is camped at zoneline. If multiple targets were in window and people had to evac from KC to skyfire, it could go to any guild that happened to have the proper setup of classes available.

Still, all of this sounds like ohmygod a race.

Also VP pulling has been turned into practice where the mob aggros entire zone on it's way down and is singled out of the train like clockwork through means of clickies. I doubt Tormax will be much of a hassle.

Personally I just prefer the fight-at-spawn rule due to it fixing CT/Inny from the absolutely retarded trainfests that they degenerate into in the current rulesets. If people are genuinely disinterested in logging on for specific targets because said target is always a trainwreck of lag, desyncs and dying repeatedly to trains, something is seriously wrong with the ruleset there imo.

[Freakish]

Who remembers a month and change back when nobody could get out of vp? There was some anti-camp code put in and nobody could go up the ramp in picture room, walking over objects warped you back to the beginning of bedroom etc. Anti-camp rules are fun.

[Freakish]

I thought my sig was awesome. I'll make a new one at some point, an ms paint one.

[fishingme]

EQ raiding is too serious, nuke it.

[Clark]

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EQ raiding is too serious, nuke it.

Lol

[Socratic]

The current situation is pretty horrible for FTE spammers. I really do hope we can get something like this in the rules to make autofire useless and the whole process less miserable.