I haven't felt that way in a long time

[Francois]

[Wed Apr 10 06:14:39 2019] Rogean says out of character, '220 Person Encounter Log >_>'

[Nexii]

The TOV open raid had around 200-250 if I recall. It was so many that pushing Vulak crashed the zone twice

[DMN]

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

The TOV open raid had around 200-250 if I recall. It was so many that pushing Vulak crashed the zone twice

This is why back in the day a 150 raid force was worse than a 100 one. And it wouldn't surpise me if the sleeper kill was actually under 100, too.

[Danth]

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

This is why back in the day a 150 raid force was worse than a 100 one. And it wouldn't surpise me if the sleeper kill was actually under 100, too.

200 plus at peak, though it dipped under 200 at times. Don't think it ever got under 100. Clerics alone numbered between 40-50. Zone stability was far better by that period than it had been during the game's early days.

Danth

[Fifield]

Im such a nerd, its 7:25pm, just got kid to bed, logging into EQ, still thinking about the fun last night.

Ahh good ol everquest

[Legidias]

Open vulak was stupid push lol. He just floated above everyone like 10 ft in the air and flew around the room due to massive push.

[Zuranthium]

Sorry to hear about this being a peak gaming experience for you. Standing around with that many people and just waiting for the other side to engage, or being allowed to fight only via "first to engage", is not what I call interesting.

Granted, it's less retarded than before, but this change is also just going to encourage as large of a raid force as possible and min/maxing the force to simultaneously handle as many guards as possible. Which means as many Clerics, Rogues, and Warriors as possible. Typical static PvE, with a further effect of warping the playerbase into playing these classes over others. With enough people and enough "power classes", the zerg guild can even split their force and simultaneously go for Vyem and Vulak at the same time.

A further complication is that other guilds can wait behind for their chance to "leapfrog". In the instance of a raid force not being able to handle all guards + boss at the same time (and most likely this will be case for awhile), other raid forces can sit behind and look for their chance to jump ahead to Vyem or Vulak. The latter dragon can't be engaged until Vyem is dead, which also opens up the scenario of competing raid forces just waiting there and spamming a tag on Vulak for the moment he becomes open. Thus the game remains the same stupid bullshit, random chance of who gets the lowest server ping to get the first tag on the mob.

Guilds doing weekly PvP tournaments, with an even number of players and equipment on each side, would be a far more skillful way of determining who gets the Raid rights. Winner of the tournament gets their first picks for raid targets, 2nd place gets next pick, etc. If a guild wipes on their target, then it becomes open to others. Limiting excess players in PvE encounters would also be better for the game, and actually technically classic, if you look at the actual composition of guilds back then and how people lagged when too many players were gathered in an area.

[Meguvin]

Most of people who killed everything and did not know Tov will know now. And ubber guilds cant clear the whole server in the first hours of an Earthquake. I know u want all the pixeles but instead It you Will have the most of them so dont cry.

[Nikkanu]

As someone who got their Vulak robe back when we were clearing to Vulak and before we started pulling dragons to zone in I approve this change and applaud those that put in the effort to down Vulak this week. You all rock. Thanks for the memories even though we didn't win this time. Grats Chillwin on the shiny stick. <3

[Lobster1071]

Definitely a memorable experience for me too.
Are people going to remember your 30th kill of Vulak, or the one where multiple guilds had a blast and banded together to beat a common enemy (and I'm not even referring to the dragons).

You see, for some of us, it's not about getting pixels all the time (or DENYING people pixels...Jesus Christ). It's about the experience. I received nothing in terms of loot the entire night, and would like to experience an event like that again and again. It was a bunch of fun, and was a joyous thing to see people band together for a good event, while at the same time stand up to a bully organization.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou