Question for 60 mages

[Goregasmic]

People sit in KC all day and every night you get a LCY/RCY group going and the leftovers are pulling stuff around entrance or soloing. Seen a couple basement groups too. I tried soloing but most of the time I charmed a mob and I couldn't find a target to use it so I just left. Plenty of 55+ too but if you're a class that can't really solo what are you gonna do. I don't think we're lacking players. On double exp weekends the zone basically has zero mobs up.

I think it is possible seb could be more viable if people couldn't just barge in and claim some of your named mobs. People claim wings all the time in HS even though you technically can't and I saw more traffic there even with the zone being a lot more hostile by design and thus being BYOG.

[Eisai]

Best bet is to chat some people up. Everyone secretly wants to do something fun with cool people that don't suck. If you can convince them you're "that dude" they will follow you anywhere. Also, prepark a pocket cleric so worst case scenario still makes you look like a boss.

[PatChapp]

Haven't been in a while,but usually whenever I wanted to goto seb everything but fungi and ng are open. Occasionally someone's doing a crypt mob or all of em but pretty rare.
This is on green though,maybe blues different

[eisley]

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

Around the same time, the staff also did something (fuzzy on the details) with the mobs around the king, making it possible to farm him without less than a full group. Again, if you can just trio (or whatever) a fungi tunic, there's no reason to have a full group involved, so that became the standard.

What do you think staff did with Fungi king? before sneak nerf, you could pull the PH solo over the water with sneak pull and push him onto the island, making for a very easy duo monk/shaman.

All they did was ban camping on the island, which only made things slightly harder as now you have to sit in the brain room or zone out, and sneak pulling is gone, but it's still just as easy to duo, you just can't login every 28 minutes and kill the PH then log out quickly. I've farmed a lot of fungi tunic duo dating back to Kunark and I can't think of any change to the mobs around king. It's absolutely harder now than it used to be, I agree with that, but it was the island ban and sneak pull nerf that caused that.

[loramin]

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

I've farmed a lot of fungi tunic duo dating back to Kunark and I can't think of any change to the mobs around king.

If you actually played since Kunark on Blue then you surely remember king as a full group encounter, because it was for years. Maybe you meant since Kunark on Green?

[Troxx]

The challenge with content being out for as long as it has is a lot of people’s memory goes into a time warp of sorts. A lot of the things people have been doing for eons on blue was not the case on blue before velious or early into kunark on blue.

There was a time when things actually were more challenging and the borderline exploits the broader community now uses were either not yet discovered or otherwise not widely known about.

That … and gear powerflation and full spell books …

Ya know?

[Snaggles]

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

The challenge with content being out for as long as it has is a lot of people’s memory goes into a time warp of sorts. A lot of the things people have been doing for eons on blue was not the case on blue before velious or early into kunark on blue.

There was a time when things actually were more challenging and the borderline exploits the broader community now uses were either not yet discovered or otherwise not widely known about.

That … and gear powerflation and full spell books …

Ya know?

Why I think if top guilds want to earn neckbeard points they should go back to killing velious dragons with kunark gear. Might as well have a golf handicap if there is no player competition.

[Eisai]

Mage is a plat farmer, a coth nexus and a summoned items vendor..?

[Danth]

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

If you actually played since Kunark on Blue then you surely remember king as a full group encounter, because it was for years. Maybe you meant since Kunark on Green?

Depended on the specific timeframe. Go back far enough, early on in Kunark it was mostly two/three man groups farming fungus tunic during the invis pulling era. When invis pulling got nerfed--mid 2012 if I recollect--that camp largely went to full groups pulling to the zoneout room for a good while. Even at the time I suspected it was more community culture and less strict need since many of those groups would invite characters who weren't absolutely needed and fill out to 6 when they didn't really have to. Camp was "open" enough that the majority of groups I got there during that period were random /tells from someone looking to replace another tank. Later still the smaller forces become predominant again. Camp spots changed now and then as rules shifted over time.

[Duik]

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

Why I think if top guilds want to earn neckbeard points they should go back to killing velious dragons with kunark gear. Might as well have a golf handicap if there is no player competition.

This is a great idea. Very few "beards" would do it though.