Everquest - Phinigel server

Arbitrary said:

No really, this stuff is incredibly common. Every TLP I've been a part of going all the way back to Sleeper/Combine has used some flavor of this.

If people aren't contesting open world stuff it's because they don't think they are going to win rather than because they can't field a tracker.

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Pretty much this and people use it for other stuff too.

Quarm dead!

Seems fast?

porkchop sandwiches said:

lol...wut. If that were true there'd be multiple guilds fighting for open world stuff, immediately when it spawns. Most guilds raid in instances = no need for a ShowEQ twitter batphone. Nice side step though

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Haha, this guy.

Most people use seq for boxing and getting named mobs in group/solo content. Every guild has people using it. On Vulak when we had a veritable witch hunt against it we knew members were using it. You just cant stop it because its so convenient.

Even the SoE and DBG staff in our guilds used it, sometimes they were the most prolific users and they did it all while at work too.

DBG may as well push their own MQ compile, charge for it and then ban people using competing software.

Congrats on Quarm gents. Well done!

Arbitrary said:

Seems fast?

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I mean yeah, there was a lot of downtime due to instability issues with the server so we probably lost 8-10 hours from that and sleep, which mostly overlapped. There's some advantages on quarm since you can double dip with OW/Instances for the stuff that's not 72 flags etc. I bet if Storms wasn't the Shitshow they made it into and the servers were totally stable it would have been done in like 36 hours or less.

grats on the quarm kill

Faggots only killed Quarm because of that showeq bullshit

Kinda crazy Time / Quarm is doable without farming EP armor whatsoever. Time is supposed to be pretty damn hard / impossible without proper resists.

What allows the content to be so trivial this time around?

Jysin said:

What allows the content to be so trivial this time around?

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Better computers, better internet connections, and experience are the biggest factors. The top guilds are full of people that have played a ton of EQ.

That's obvious, but there is a massive gear gap (mainly resists) needed for Time coming right out of Luclin.

Well, how many guilds went in to PoP with 70+ Aten ha ra kills through open world and instances, maxed on aa's, all best in slot gear, and most members with absolute knowledge of what to do in PoP?

Better raid composition, better raid leading and better raiders. Also like others mentioned, theres a ton of extra AHR loot there which is pretty close to EP quality.

Also I assume you guys are running 72 players which is a huge difference.

NO IT WAS ALL SHOWEQ

I vaguely recall the upper end of PoP being a buggy mess back when it was "new" as well. I wasn't even remotely close to being in bleeding edge guild, but seem to recall council wasn't the first Dev cockblock when the top guilds were bashing their heads against that content.

DBG should have brought back that "classic" feel for PoP lol

It seems like the Zeks were bugged to some extent. I definitely remember the Rathe Council being a problem. I don't think Corinav was bugged but we did struggle with that kill some. The biggest frustration in terms of stuff that was tweaked or changed I guess was Rathe but there several other frustrations along the way that I can't remember if it was us or them. Regardless, It's still may favorite expansion.... maybe second behind Kunark but that was the high point in EQ for me and then it slowly declined for me following PoP.