World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Noodleface
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17% on aggramar. Wiped because the other tank couldn't differentiate between foebreaker and flame rend when their names changed. Ahhhhhh
Fyff
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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I played a chanter. Empower Sszra was the worst. Stand in the back corner and mez this add for the next 2 hours.
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kaid
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Or like the old plane of hate I think raid where your entire raid basically sits in one of the starting rooms as your monks go out and bring stuff back to you. I don't miss eq1 raiding. I am pretty sure a lot of them any one person could get away with just watching tv slowly hitting their one or two buttons they needed to hit and nobody would notice. A lot of them were such endurance long duration fights most casters had to really really pace themselves so they did not burn to fast and run out of mana especially before the flowing thought I think gear.
Grim1
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The amount of work and skill involved in EQ1 raiding depended a lot on your class, the encounter and how bleeding edge you were. Once you knew the strats in EQ it was mainly about showing up. The real challenge was figuring out the strats before everyone else. Knowing your class was important, but not as much as it is now.
Modern raiding is a very different game than during EQ. Strats are posted and youtubed immediately. The mechanics are more twitch style while you learn the moves and timing. It requires a different skill set. It's a lot harder to kill the endgame content in WoW because so many people in the raid are required to be doing their classes role to the fullest and to know the encounter ahead of time.
I played a shadowknight in EQ and did a lot of pulling and off tanking in our raids while we fought for server firsts, and later world firsts. That was a lot of fun. Being stuck in camp didn't appeal to me. Plus we were trying to figure out how to kill the latest content, didn't have youtube or anyone to feed us strats. But once we did figure out the content, it then went in to farm mode. Boring. That's usually when I took a break and waited for the next expansion, to start the race again.
kaid
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Yes for a few people in the raids in eq1 there was a good bit of skill. I had a lot of respect for the monks and SK pulling was an art and doing it without getting the raid murdered especially when learning new raids was challenging. But most people in the raid you stood where the leader told you hit your couple buttons at a steady pace over a pretty long period of time and then hopefully collect some loot.
kaid
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Random eq memory for raiding I would often get invited by major guilds to I think the old veeshan raid because I had not trashed my rep with the dragons so I would get in zone with my magician and summon hordes of mod rods and other stuff and drag corpses and what not and specifically was told DO NOT attack anything. So most of my raid was 10 minutes of shitting out summoned stuff then watching TV for 20 minutes then helping with recovery if they wiped or shitting out more mod rods. I got some good gear from it so I could not complain.
I hit 1M gold and unsubbed until they do some event prior to BfA hopefully some level faster one.
I only have Monk/Mage/DH not at 110 and two of those are over 100.
I only have Monk/Mage/DH not at 110 and two of those are over 100.
Sumdain x
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i retired during our aggramar progression, right after that the guild recruited a druid tank that stayed around until aggramar died, then the guild recruited another BrM and druid for argus. After they killed Argus both tanks quit and about 5 other guild members left. looks like everyone is in the same boat right now, struggling to find any reason to continue farming content that won't matter when bfa drops. the stat squish is so hard that everyone even if you are 980 equipped are going to feel gimped until your in mythic+ gear.
Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
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I'll stick around for this guild after Argus in case people want mounts, but that's the only reason in can see people still playing at that point.
CaughtCross
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I keep logging in to do the Stormheim WQs for the rep chests that have a chance to drop the storm drake mount. Its such an aids grind but that storm drake looks so sweet.
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McCheese
SW: Sean, CW: Crone, GW: Wizardhawk
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I'm still playing, if anyone is in the mood for some pet battles. I'll hold down the fort with whatshisname until all you old raiding fuddyduddys come back just before BfA. But man, you guys are missing out on some prime pet battle achievement time right now.
