If you ever need to explain to anyone under 30 why MTV was once great...

Look no futher.

I'd vote for an actual server reset just for the glorious thread of tears. Not enough popcorn in this world....

In all seriousness, its a fun idea. But it works better for p99-type places where depriving people of content is the norm. On EZ higher-ups actually help the newer population, so all a reset/2nd server would do is eliminate any help from 'higher powers'.

A full on progression server would be fun for bragging rights and weiner comparison, but i doubt it would generate a spike in player interest of people who don't currently play on EZ anyways. Logistically it would just be something for Akk to have to worry about without the benefit of an influx of real, new players.

Since Halloween only comes about once a year, people forget all-too-easily how ridiculously time-consuming gearing out teams with pets is.

Unless you are in some guild instance with 2 or 3 other guildies spam-killing its going to be a slow go... And if your guildies don't already have their own pets, it's going to be an extremely slow go.

There is always the dice roll of waiting for Raygan to /auc MOF pets for GSOAs for a day or two before everyone realizes the actual human beings are simply giving away their rots.

Long story short : buddy up with someone who doesn't need many pets. Your lower level will turn his yellow cons white, and, in the spirit of Hunter's vision: provide an experience beneficial to both the vet and the rookie!

So put a buff bot in PoK?

Its a filter...


If you remove the filter you will have people bitching about t6....how hard it is......then you "FIX" that and then T7 is so  unfair....


it is not an accident...

This is an extremely valid counter argument.

One of the more common issues in t5 is not being able to repop without spending a ton of plat. I empathize with that, but its pretty pointless to even address that when you truly can't do anything of value in t6 without either the FWP or joining a guild that has a couple. So like Balidet pointed out, fixing the cost/ability to repop in t5 would just shoe people into the complete brick wall that is t6.

Maybe look into bumping the t5 rares slightly?

What i would like to see is the Kill-All mobs/ bracer mobs removed from the Lotto Jackpot boss. Nothing is worse than clearing the zone entirely and seeing Corallium or Alkare as the lotto prize. Nothing... NOTHING. lol

And I really can't overstate how getting 5 random bosses a game day out of the mini was the perfect solution. Sadly, its a royal pain conceptually to stop exploitation and dev time better spent elsewhere, etc.

But that mini took 10-15 min tops, helped with progression in the hard to progress zone. Remember, the t7 mini does ZERO to help t7 progression. The Dranik does ZERO to help t1-t4 progression. The T5 mini was *huge* in helping t5 progression. Scoring a Bone Rot and a Aquamarine on a tuesday was a *great* tuesday. Scoring an extra White literally saved you two hours of corals as a youngling. It's the roughest thing for Akk and Co. to 'fix' (the t5 mini), but it has by far the greatest reward... It's the best solution to t5 help for the middle class, and I think everyone can agree on that.

I was working on my seventh UW XI when i took my latest hiatus.

I've seen Moe 4 f*cking times.

Team l337 can calm the hell down and let the middle class suggest rare triggers in t5 could be looked at.

Once upon a time the hushed banquest (2.5 epic) was by far the worst thing on the server. People would park in the first safe room and kill those 4 barrels on side screen for days.  The rate eventually was increased considerably.

I suppose the most important thing to remember is we are talking about a math formula. Do they need to kill 100 War Boars for Widowmaker, or 100,000? The difficulty is certainly not in killing the mob, its in getting kicked in the nuts on the proverbial dice roll.

It was the reason the t5 mini was such a nice thing. Bring that thing back by any means, I dont care if its an IP Lock, a station name lock, whatfreakingever. Just any way those poor shmucks get 5 free swings a day to nab a rare. It would be great because that mini makes that tier worlds less frustrating by lessening the impact of some of the "chance" elements.

And yes, the amusing part about that is not a single one of the high and mighty will even PRETEND that the guy in t5 *cant* kill the bosses. We're simply saying they didn't deserve it without the 100,000 kills.  There's a place for people who think that way. It's called p99, get on a batphone list and deprive people of content to your heart's content.

 EZ wasnt built that way. It was built to be easy at times. It was built to be hard at times. And it had a perfect marriage of higher crews helping lower crews in a format where both the haves and the have nots benefited from teaming up. In fact, the only way not to help someone is here:

On these forums.

In this thread.

And to remind us why so many are on hiatus instead of in a non-instanced t10 next to people...

Who think like you.

Using the archives to boost my memories, It happened in 2011, 12 and 14.... Hit or miss. It was without a doubt the only dbl loot before Halloween on the years it was enabled, though.

Maybe gave it to a pet?

lol seriously people.

I guess I could break out the druid and do the old MGB Circle of Lavastorm in nexus... clear things out a bit

Or just blow a stack of pearls with a mage to hide people all over the nexus.. Maybe spell out famous phrases or curse words from an aerial view.

I can fix all problems instantly:

Have the nexus public banker DT anyone who stays in his proximity for more than 15 minutes.

You'll see the nexus numbers drop by 80% immediately.

The delicious irony of the buff begging is I was one of the last hold outs who'd still go and buff out nexus a few times a day.

Since the lag in there is so bad these days I really no longer bother. So they are actually discouraging the buffs they are trying to cheese with the little lemming party. Seriously there is like 200 people idling in the nexus. I've been here off and on since 2008  and its never been even remotely that bad.

Very cool!

There is always ice strikes... Waaay back in the day you would juggle in a couple ice strikes to try and boost a little warrior dps while also battling aggro roll-over.

No idea if aggro rollover is still a thing, and those ice strikes were handed down to clerics and such long ago.

lol I'm with Mayo.... Took way to long to memorize that path through the hole to shortcut now.

If there is a Brellsrest for Phinny, tho.. all ears! I know the path to Phinny by heart.. But i still hate water