Coth Ducking

[sanforce]

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

Personally, I think if Taken wants to undertake this tactic, more power to them. If the extra effort gives them an edge over their competition because the competition isn't willing to go to that effort, why should the competition get to ban that tactic? Man up or shut up. Personally, I'm surprised so many people are for banning this. Yeah it sucks big donkey nuts. Not gonna deny that. So does every other form of tracking in EQ. We don't have a requirement to CoTH duck or anything like that in TMO, but we do require trackers to be vigilant and at the keyboard. Staring at a blank wall doing nothing is the very definition of boring to me. In a game environment where seconds or even fractions of a second is the difference between getting the shiny treasure and not, combined with new measures to prevent auto-firing, CoTH ducking was the inevitable evolution. I'm very happy that Class C was able to come to an agreement on how to race for mobs that didn't involve CoTH ducking, but FFA stand for Free For All last I checked.

If we are gonna trash on Taken, let's talk about how they avoid getting punished for being ass-hats at Sev.

If the trolls could have focused on the fact that Catherin was cheating instead of whatever personal issues she may have, maybe something would have come of that too.

I agree, more power to Taken for evolving under the current set of rules. With 9000 rules governing the raid scene, new tactics are bound to come up. Why does the solution have to be more rules? I'll never coth duck for hours on end, and I won't be upset if Taken does and wins a mob because of it.

[TMBLOW]

this thread is so dumb

Taken has never asked any of our mages to COH duck.... ( sound familiar TMO lawl)

its so easy to type that shit out and act like its gospel.

I was there tracking FFA VS the other week for 8 hours....guess which out of the 4 mages there started COH ducking first and continued to for over 4 hours while the others just watched him do it.....yea it was TMO

Obvious strats are obvious, like Chest said it would have been figured out quickly by anyone who does FFA mobs with a mage tracker but because TMO/IB have nothing else to bitch about in their quest to lock the raid mobs down they pick up Taken which barely gets 1 FFA mob every other week

the horror!!!!

quick lets try to ban a strat that other guilds use so TMO/IB can gain yet another advantage by using the footrace their pullers have been mastering for years now, combined with the Frapsquesting camera coverage of a Michael Bay film

Get bent and come up with a real solution, not more rules that give the advantage to the pixel overlords.

[Cyrano]

I thought the use of mage CoH was being outlawed at raid targets outside of Trak?

[kotton05]

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

I thought the use of mage CoH was being outlawed at raid targets outside of Trak?

That would be cool, I do miss the days of logging in at trak ledge tho and not leaving behind half the raid for an engage. Where you here that from

[Detoxx]

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

That would be cool, I do miss the days of logging in at trak ledge tho and not leaving behind half the raid for an engage. Where you here that from

That was definitely more convenient, but the way its done now is actually quite fun. Its fun to engage trakanon with 9 people and get a successful kill, and it allows for real competition. Trakanon used to be a huge shit show, and now its probably the cleanest, funnest engage with little drama.

[GnashingOfTeeth]

Such a broken record. Let em track and coth and poop sock till they blow up.
Its classic.

[Brawley17]

Wow raiding on this server is such a joke…..

[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by Brawley17 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wow raiding on this server is such a joke…..

Welcome, to Everquest!

[Pint]

Rogean should just shut this box down alrdy

[Tasslehofp99]

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

If we (BDA) wanted max pixels then we wouldn't have been the spearhead for the rotation. You're an idiot.

You weren't getting many pixels before the rotation. One could also say that BDA had every reason to "spearhead for the rotation" since they weren't really a powerful raiding force on the server prior to the changes. They had everything to gain from it; just step in line and wait for your welfare pixels. Unlike before the changes when you occasionally got a vox or Inny kill, or maybe snagged a few mobs during a repop.

You should be thanking those who were in FE for standing up to TMO back then. BDA certainly wouldn't have been able to make enough of a splash in the raiding scene to bring about reform in the raiding scene; by your own admission you've always been unwilling to earn your pixels.