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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Muligan
Trakanon Raider
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I was responsible for the healer group for years and it was so much fun working the channels, suggesting how the spam should look, timing, etc. I think it's an element that will be missed by some but is a completely foreign idea to many. We had Ventrillo later but there's no better way to really coordinate how everything worked but through text channels. It was comical at time how it empowered people though. I guess some people had never felt more important than they did when leading some of that stuff. We had some real militaristic guys comes through and some super nice guys. Either way, it was really about how many targets you could take down in a night effectively, efficiently, and with minimal deaths and/or setup time.
Yeah, GoD pretty much made me quit EQ. I came back for a little while when OOW came out, but by then I was so far behind in gear and levels, I just said "fuck it" and moved on to WoW. Those two expansions definitely put the nail in the coffin for EQ.
Muligan
Trakanon Raider
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That was really my end too. Except I went to EQII after WoW just didn't feel or look right to me. WoW ended up being the better game but i'll give EQII some credit in doing several things right, though covered in crap, and the Nagafen Server was really some of the most enjoyable moments in my MMO career. There was a fairly toxic community but a lot of good people that reminded me of my time on Lanys T'vl.
It's really a shame that EQ is not, at least in all appearances, not going to open another chapter. I really wish they would pick a time from EQ1 and give us a sequel to that event. I personally believe you could do something with the Sleeper and/or PoP and Zeb. I really liked EQ lore up through PoP but lost interest after that...
Djay
Trakanon Raider
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I was just thinking about this the other day and have no idea how I did it. I had guild chat, group chat, the main raid chat, paladin chat, tank chat, leader chat, cc chat, and healer chat all coming at me at once while I was also typing out instructions and responding to people asking for buffs. I've never needed to, but I've flirted with the idea of putting on my resume that I was in charge of leading a 72-person team 7 nights per week. I actually did put something like that when I was briefly working in the game industry.
I think voice communication was one reason I never got into raiding in WoW...not only did I not want to be talking all night, but I didn't want to hear other people talking either.
Flobee
Vyemm Raider
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Voice chat makes raiding SO much easier, but it also makes you dislike people you would otherwise be fine with because they are annoying twats.
Jysin
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Bunch of god damn newbies. Way back we didn't have the user creatable chat channels as we know them today. I distinctly remember ToV raids where one guild would use ooc, the other use auction, or whatever.
Rangoth
Blackwing Lair Raider
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The FF games actually did an awesome job at keeping people around the old world. Between the daily dungeons for bonus and the any class on one character motto, even now the game feels alive in any zone. Also epic quests have you running back into the original world all the time. This class thing needs to be seriously taken for every future MMO. I just don't get the resistance. One character, one name, one friend list, one guild.....I just can just play different things.
Reht
Molten Core Raider
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And then others guild intentionally spamming the channel you were using just to fuck with people. It was probably the most fun (in a game) that i never want to have again.
Itlan
Blackwing Lair Raider
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It's a fucking gamble. For every normal dude, there's a whiney nerd or backwater hillbilly. Also, every girl you meet online will have the same annoying fucking laugh. And they're all bad. Like stand in fire bad.
Kuro
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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The best were healers who piped RP-shit into the chat channels macro'd to their spells.
Every fucking female wood-elf druid in the game.
As a Tank when I would See. the Blessings of Tunare bind your wounds when I got healed.. I knew I had a good healer.. SO true. !
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Jysin
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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When I moved in high school (after a year or two of EQ) my new school had a keyboarding class requirement. I asked if I could test out and the teacher told me it wasn't optional, but after our initial WPM test on the first day she made me her aide.
Also, hey Rezz... Druzzilboys! - Lothaine
Djay
Trakanon Raider
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I had something similar where my first school didn't have a requirement, but when I switched schools my senior year I was required to complete a keyboarding class. After spending a few classes trying to type using the home row like we were being taught, I just ignored everything and typed like I had taught myself over the years. I can type %t without looking at the keyboard, but don't ask me to find the brackets (although I got better at that once I started programming, too). Still don't type like other people, but it works.