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Surprise! PoP Heroic zones now REQUIRE 3 toons

Discussion in 'EverQuest II General Discussion' started by Mermut, Apr 11, 2018.

  1. Dellmon

    Dellmon Member


    Well...I am sure a gameplay mechanic such as this was mentioned and discussed in and amongst the EQ2 Community Roundtable to get feedback / thoughts / input from a variety of active players who represent a broad background of various play styles

    As for the lack of documentation, I would refer to this...
    https://eq2wire.com/2017/07/02/everquest-iis-black-box-problem/
     
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  2. Charlice

    Charlice Active Member

    Makes no sense to me. PoP is so damn boring why take something away?
    My time online is now spent doing old Heritage quests and raid zones. I haven't set foot in PoP for weeks.

    I've had to put Sigrdrifa on ignore. It's such an arrogant, know it all pos, I'm scared I'll be rude to it and get banned again.
     
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  3. RhodrisNZ

    RhodrisNZ Geographically Challenged

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  4. Errrorr

    Errrorr Active Member

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  5. Shmogre

    Shmogre Active Member

    Way back on December 1st (a mere three days into the new expansion), I pinged a dev to let them know that people were already duoing heroics. I admitted that I didn't know if it involved an exploit or not, but that being able to duo a zone so soon meant there might be a bug or something off with the balance at the very least.

    I'm curious as to what made them address the solo/duoing now, when it's been happening for quite some time...
     
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  6. Tekka

    Tekka That Village Idiot



    Following the chain of events I think it went something like this, and is purely reactionary, rather than proactive:

    1. Heroics are too easy with certain class combos and pure fighter tanks have been left behind - again.

    2. Introduce the 'bring a fighter or get wiped mechanic'.

    3. Fighters, and only fighters, are now solo'ing/duo'ing heroics, because the mechanics of the game are so out of whack they literally can't fix them.

    4. Introduce a 'bring X amount of players or get wiped mechanic' paired with a 'if you somehow manage to kill something, you still get no reward mechanic'.

    The entire thing has been SUPER POPULAR, as you can imagine.
     
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  7. Fuli

    Fuli Well-Known Member

    The sarcasm is strong in this thread.
     
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  8. Anaogi

    Anaogi Active Member

    I'm honestly no longer sure if these things happen because they're short on staff and resources, only marginally competent, or both.
     
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  9. Feldon

    Feldon Administrator Staff Member

    "You are damaging the mob too quickly." -Gninja
     
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  10. Khendrask

    Khendrask Active Member

    Short on staff, short on resources, and not even marginally competent.
     
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  11. CoLDMeTaL

    CoLDMeTaL Active Member

    Gninja posted they would reverse this change until they had a better way to implement it.
     
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  12. Malleria

    Malleria Member

    Guys, guys, it's ok! There are new mercenary crates in the marketplace!
     
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  13. Khendrask

    Khendrask Active Member

    But honestly, if it's Gninja's "Better Way", it will be much, much worse. Probably have to have raid drops before doing a heroic, since all he likes is raiding; and he's a mean spirited little gnome anyway.
     
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  14. Sweatypie

    Sweatypie Active Member

    What would be a better way is to add a functional LFG tool that any other MMO on the market has in 2018. That way people dont have to spam a channel for hours looking for a fighter AND you keep the grouping element alive.
     
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  15. Mizgamer62

    Mizgamer62 Active Member

    I think they are doing this as a result of the growing disparity among the player base with regard to stats/gear and the negative effects on grouping.

    It is their fault because they added layers of requirements for reaching end game and designed the tools for getting there especially catered to the hardcore min/maxers.

    These powerful players were easily able to solo/duo heroic content. As a result, casual and returning players have been left behind (even with baubles, gear crates, etc.). PUGS and PURS are basically non-existent.

    All of this is a result of their bad game design imo.
     
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  16. Mermut

    Mermut Well-Known Member

    For better or worse, this kind of change isn't going to get those super-geared people to group with the super casual players who are taking 45+ minutes in T1 PoP heroics.
    The players who were solo/duoing heroics are either going to grab a buddy (or 2), box in another toon or stop running zones at all.
     
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  17. Fuli

    Fuli Well-Known Member

    Well, we used to 2 or 3 man zones all the time (when I played). The purpose: ethereal/shinie farming and auction channel selling. Easy way to make plat.

    No raid gear. Just good heroic stuff.

    Eventually, many casuals just buy and sell kronos and gear themselves that way.

    Edit: plus, running full groups = 8 min minutes of boring a month in.
     
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  18. Mizgamer62

    Mizgamer62 Active Member

    I agree with you 100 percent. I was just stating my view on how their bad game design brought us to this point.
     
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  19. Mizgamer62

    Mizgamer62 Active Member

    They keep adding to the stat bloat and all that is doing is widening the gulf among the player base. Many people just throw their hands up in the air and give up. I guess like Dizzy said, when they run out of raiders they will really be up sh**ts creek.
     
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  20. CoLDMeTaL

    CoLDMeTaL Active Member

    In Discord they said the new changes are because some fighters are 1 shotting the heroic names now.
     

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