Watched the Nag kill, is classic raiding just cheese?

[aaezil]

You have become better at clicking Soulfire! (200)

[Lhord99]

Grats, guys! Great achievement! I'm a little jealous I haven't committed to getting to that point on Green, as that must have felt pretty good on a rainy, Fall Thursday!

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But, I've seen't and heard this too much not to say anything: "It was a zerg, but they won, so kudos!"

100% the criticism of Blue Raid scene is now par for the course. I, personally, don't see that as a bad thing. BUT, first big raid mob downed on Green and it's done on the Blue standard, and there's so much shade being thrown around on how 'toxic' the old p99 mentality is.

Can we now just admit there's far more to this game than raid mechanics, so we can stop this constant criticism of 'denying other pixels' and crap like that?

[Wwen42]

Raid mechanics in EQ are pretty basic anyway. It's the stone-age compared to modern MMO encounters.

[Raclen]

Oh also the reason the red server has gone to nearly 0 is because:

1) With the low numbers rooted dragons made it impossible for the guilds left to do content easily.

2) PvP servers get stale and need some sort of seasons. The life of a PvP server without more expansions coming out is going to be capped at 2-3 years.

3) Rise of Zek is providing what Red99 doesn't and is coming out with a new server on December 13. PvPers that are aware of this have given up on Red99 until Rogean announces a new server.

[Widan]

Also Velious is not an expansion conducive to PvP because it forces you to raid (gross) or be severely under geared vs. those who do. Classic and Kunark do not have such gear imbalances.

[Lhord99]

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

Also Velious is not an expansion conducive to PvP because it forces you to raid (gross) or be severely under geared vs. those who do. Classic and Kunark do not have such gear imbalances.

I hear your point, certainly, but clicky DPS exists in a broken, broken way in Kunark.
Clicky Stun. Clicky 250 dmg cold nukes. Clicky 333 dmg fire nukes with ABSURD ranges. Clicky Fear. Clicky Snare. Clicky str/hp buffs. And, root nets (rechargeable) carry over from vanilla. That's all stat-free insanity.

[worm4real]

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

Red players want more players so their PVP is more fun. That's not rocket science.

And EQ PVP IS pretty well balanced. Just not in a moba/wow arena/1v1 sense like you're probably thinking of.

That's kind of the core issue with it though. After decades of PVPers trying to pitch it as a more pure and perfect experience I'm numb to those lines because all they want is more warm bodies. I don't like it and I feel like most other people don't.

[bwe]

nerf soulfire

[stewe]

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

nerf soulfire

I been saying this all along but it wont happen, seems the powers that be have no prob with items that trivialize raids, why even worry about your clerics going OOM when you can just have your tank CH himself for a few rounds while they get their mana back

[bwe]

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

I been saying this all along but it wont happen, seems the powers that be have no prob with items that trivialize raids, why even worry about your clerics going OOM when you can just have your tank CH himself for a few rounds while they get their mana back

Yeah the raid scene here is stupid. It's all clickies.