The Vulak Standoff

Because when they pay Ice-T to trash talk the other guild, waiting for Vulak for hours adds to their street cred.

Original intent is impossible to discern, Clarence.

I can testify they used to set up a mock area for a mock event called "Soloing: The Heart of Everquest."

The original intent was to get these lunatics from around the world to kill mobs and do it in groups and pay for the privilege once a month.

Thank you for agreeing with me? <3

I would rather not raid than play with a large band of mouth breathers, I can stand an idiot or two in discord so long as I mute them immediately.

The "top" guilds with 100's of people have 100's of idiots, again not my idea of fun but you do you

Whens the last TLP that had people contesting open world mobs?

Imagine thinking that's remotely a pro... People with a consistent team learn to be much more efficient together than fandoms where it ends up different every week.

There's not much difference between public raids and multiraid group zergs at the end of the day. And plenty of people have limited patience for public raids.

Randoms... Apparently autocorrect thinks fandom is a more appropriate word, lol...

There is a solution and it only takes as long as waiting around for the flurry drakes to respawn. Contested content is not for the faint of heart.

My Mischief guild ran/runs like a well oiled machine with 2-3 splits every raid night, very efficient. Will be a lot of the same for Teek. Maybe you've just been in bad guilds.

Back then there was no raid window, a lot of "raids" happend with random players from random guilds and the loot was shared between all who took part, with a random group of 6 getting the kill shot and exp.

An actual developer spouting their opinion means more than you, a nobody spouting yours...

This is how you remember it, I can tell you with 100% certainty that this didn't happen on Xev.

That isn't what I remember happening on many servers that had rotations for when each guild could get a shot at a raid and they would lose it if they didn't kill it fast enough.

You sound like a person who tabs out to watch Netflix while raiding and chugs along bottom third of the dps charts.

I've been in both - the difference is night and day. And similarly, public raids are sometimes "well-oiled" but they share the same types of chaos.

Some of the efficiency I was directly referring to was the element of fun and building a social element. I'm sure for you, EQ is a simple "insert time, get loot" equation be it for that being the carrot to keep you playing or because you RMT - but for many of us, social is the more valuable thing - you're not going to make lasting social bonds randomly jumping around every week between many raid groups.

You're also routinely going to be less efficient because of those lessened social bonds - in my Phin guild during complex encounters with multiple responses that my healer would have to watch me for we'd gotten so used to things that we skipped writing hotkeys for things and would shorthand calling out things like Lethar curse cures (or even more complex in EoK+) - something a new person would likely take weeks of getting to know before we found a groove that worked for both of us.

Also, generally those mega-raids are rife with boxes - a liability soon enough in the EQ timeline when it comes to the expansions where raiding becomes "real" - punisher effects get far more complex than OMM soon enough, and even OMM's simple response mechanic can still be a liability with decent boxers if they get multiple of their chars called at once. (unlikely, but still, seen it happen!)

Wrong

Post them parses there, big guy.

I didn't say which part you were wrong about. I don't watch netflix while raiding.

More of a Crunchyroll guy?

So you're admitting to being terrible? Lol