I'm not really feelin' these ideas.

Thanks for the constructive post.

My suggestion is to allow warriors to trade in two 3.0/4.0's and recieve a two handed epic, similiar to the Ranger bow.  I have two friends that both play warriors and it would be nice for one to have a viable 2 handed option.

Why does everyone think that the only way to progress is to have other people run you through the content? 

Making the FG/CG items no drop is a great idea.  I remember the first time I tried to camp Knuckle Dusters, I sat there for hours watching one person loot KD after KD because he was "going to trade them for LDON runs." 

While instancing can solve some specific problems, it also creates a giant problem of turning a MMO into a Diablo like multiplayer game.  

Instancing may make things more convenient now, but in the long run it just takes away from over all experience that comes from having to compete and work with other people in mutual zones.  

What is the point of playing a MMO if you never have to interact with other people?  As awesome as this servers content is, I would not play here if the community did not exist.

I voted no.   

Cool story.  Happy Fathers Day 

I've referenced this guide about 50 times now.  Good work, thanks!

No matter which way you put it, the general player base does not view looting after the 27:30 mark as ninja looting.  

I was very surprised when after my first few hours on the server some dude went off on me for looting a corpse that was about 10 minutes from rot.  I tried talking to him about it, but he was obsessed with this no ninja looting rule that made absolutely no sense to me.  My entire 12 year old MMO experience was telling me that once a game allowed anyone to loot something, then it was fair game for anyone.

A quick visit to these forums and a little bit of searching later, and I found this thread.  Now, even if I come across a page sitting on a boss mob in a LDON and I am the only person in the zone, I will let it rot.  I know it makes zero sense to do so, but rules are rules, so I let it rot and wait for a respawn.

While I respect the rules Hunter has put out on this issue, and now abide by them to the T, I still want to remind everyone that the entire "Unless you kill it, DONT LOOT!  Even if the game lets you do so!" is not common knowledge.  I have never heard anything like this in my life and if newbs are going to get banned for looting an NPC in Dulak that is about to rot, then this rule should take precedence over everything else in the server /motd.

Lol, noone in OOC believed me last night when I was claiming that EVERY NPC I killed in PoTimea was dropping a piece of armor.

Awesome!!!  It was very cool to see someone get their 4.0 today! 

I am writing this post to introduce myself to the community and attempt to offer something back.

A couple weeks ago, a friend finally convinced me to give this server a try.  He and I have played on EQ servers together off and on since the live release of Kunark and are always looking for an enjoyable EqEmu experience.

When I initially began playing on this server, I took it to be just another god mode server that you could master within an hour.  I quickly came to realize that the server was not EZ at all, but actually had a long drawn out progression structure available.

I realized that we needed to get serious, figure out logical boxes, and get to work.  So far, we each play a clr/war and monk/bard box and are LDON geared with all 2.5's.  We are in the process of farming our warriors Ring of the Ancients and as tedious as it is, we realize that it is necessary to progress to Qvic.

So far we have done virtually everything ourselves except for MoW, which seems to be unreasonably difficult for his reward.  We had help on our first couple Dragon Slave kills, but the help was not necessarily invited and I know that we would have managed it eventually.

The point of my post, however?  I want to thank Hunter for this wonderful server and the community for assisting in making it great.  This is easily the best EqEmu server I have ever played on and  it is exciting that I am not even half way through conquering the content offered.  As for the community... aside from a few particular individuals, I have met nothing but polite and considerate human beings on the EZ server.  Thank you.

In my own small way, I want to give back to the community by offering an hour a night of my own time to anyone who reserves it first.  If you are new to the server and have taken the time to look up the forums and read this post, please feel free to message me here or in game and I will schedule with you an hour out of my evening where I assist you with anything 2.5 or below.  (Minus MoW)  I can help you get any 1.5 pages or book or any 2.0 pages, for one hour. 

Thanks again to Hunter and the wonderful community!