To the 8? or so remaining raiding mains that made it to VoA for finally being able to cast a group Ferocity spell. The days of audio triggers, timers, and hotkeys are finally over.
And it has quite a healthy population too. Crazy to think not everybody wants to restart with every duplicate server, right!?
I believe citizen petered out on TDS after coming close to beating it. EQ gets good again in ROF and then again in EOK.
I mean, either way they will go all the way! Since they don't need to beat anything to progress, one way or another Phinny will reach live within the next little while.
Casting my first group ferocity almost felt as good as having sex for the first time. We Rosengard are now the final surviving european guild that raids on phinny and we do have a very healthy population. On average close to full raids without any boxes. Hell on a new expansion opening, we'll have some sitouts occasionally. The launch of selo and mangler did not hurt us at all. In total we lost like 4 people, if that. Last weeks we even see people coming back from those 2 servers and had a few people come back from longer breaks as well. Hot was a really good expansion for casuals to have fun in and even for people coming back to catch up and Voa does not seem worse. Hell the simple fact that no zone is locked means people can group at 65ish with a 95 and get boosted to max level in less then a week, with normal play time. Apart from that, the group gear that drops is close enough to last expacs raid gear to make people catching up feel like they're not a waste of a spot in raids as well. And let's face it, grouping and raiding in the era phinny is in now, is a lot more exiting then autoattacking stuff for hours on end to get a new item with 3 more ac and 2 cha.
Need to grind a lil bit more, 88% into 93 currently, but this is the one buff Ive been most excited about and can't wait. I think the melee in the guild is maybe more excited than I am tho lol. Also, Phinny definitly feels plenty healthy still. We have folks have to sit out raids at the start of expacs still and our population (guild) only really seems to dip as an expac is coming to a close and folks get bored. Here for the duration.
By my calculations Phinny will catch up to live in the spring of 2021. Assuming Daybreak keeps putting out annual expansions and if they have level increases or not that is. I'm still having fun on it, I decided to play there to experience all the raids I missed after I had originally quit EQ back in Dragons of Norrath days, I did return years later to live but never raided again till Phinny... have not been disappointed.