War LootFollow

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Edited, Sat Jul 30 17:26:15 2005 by Railus

Loot appearing as a result of the war between the Guktans and Ykeshans is..

...Not going to see my hands anyway so who gives the proverbial rat's ***?

it brought Training back to eq, Ninja Looting Back to eq, Kill Stealing back to EQ it was a disgusting event to wtiness.

After 2 minutes the corpse is available to loot by anyone (correct me if I'm wrong). Ninja-looting, to me, is when someone in your group loots a MOB and keeps the item before it has been decided who should get the loot. After the two minutes it isn't really ninja-looting because VERANT/SOE(I mention Verant cause it was that way before sony took over) made a corpse become available to all. If your going after an uber drop you should have a plan in place about who/what should get the drop and then /roll, /loot within the timeframe. If you drop an uber MOB and you are preoccupied with adds/whatnot, someone in your group should be looting (you should know where/what you are going to experience ahead of time). If your solo, well I guess you should take a chance and loot before you die. At least you can summon your corpse with the item on your body. It becomes a suicide run, but that's what the latest GM events are becoming. They *are* holding these things in NEWBISH zones. Imagine how a level 5 feels running around in this crap. I know it sucks but if your expecting people to have some sort of decentcy VS. Greed sheesh you haven't played long.

Thems the rules, I didn't make em, but I play by em.

Lets see uber loot for those over 65's in raid guilds who can put people in the zone round the clock to keep the mobs to themselves and train anyone who tries to get one of "their" mobs... yea SOE rocks as usual

now what do you want to bet the new expansion's going to be for the high level raiders as well, come on SOE give us something that those of us who play for fun can get... you may remember that's why you play a game to have fun... I know it's a over rated concept but some of us still like to just regular group to get things and not have to join a raid to maybe have a chance to roll on something nice

I totally agree, they need to make like, flunky mobs that drop items for lower level people, and are in a different group that fight the flunkies from the opposing side or something.

I wouldnt mind comin t get loot on lower lvls, even if my main is 70 =)

I love it. It brings out the best in everyone. lets everyone really show thier true colors. Lets the whole server know who the asshats are , who the ninja looters are. I love it got to report 4 people for ninja looting its terrific. Plus we get to hear the lowbies cry up a river. Great . Cant beat 200 hp plus gear for twinks. I love to hear the lowbies cry they cant even kill the mobs 2 grped and the ubers 3man them for their twinks. Hell on Mealin server i sold some of the stuff for over 750k a piece. Cant wait for the next one

Who cares, I won't get it anyway...

Edit:

What the... ??? Lowbies don't like to explore? The existing zones are as good for them anyway? This is the biggest piece of s*%& I heard in a long time. Sockpuppet, Astucexxx, aren't you? Trying to provoke people? Why the hell should new content be high-level only??? This is what SOE does all the time!

Well, maybe and hopefully DoD will be different...

Edited, Sun Jul 31 05:49:13 2005 by bbot

The biggest problem is, there aren't even semi-decent Quest rewards relating to this War.

Also, as anyone who knows anything about military tactics knows... there should be ways to attack "supply lines", "reinforcements" & "reserve units".

This would enable lower level & less well geared people to still "be involved" and get loot appropriate to their level, but still notable upgrades. Besides, it's all scripted anyway... it doesn't matter if on one server everyone helps the Froggies while on another server everyone helps the Trolls. The outcome will end up the same no matter what.

To prevent high level people from "hogging all the weaker targets"... have it work like a combination of activated event (like the assault scripts in Grimling Forest) and average level sensitive quest-givers. For example, if a party who's average level was 68 or higher tried to get the event to attack the "reserve units", they'd get told that their skills more are needed on the front lines. Bigger events could require the person asking the quest-giver to be part of a Raid force (again, just like the scripts in Grimling Forest), and still discriminate against forces that were too powerful.

Further, everyone in the initial group/raid could gain a temporary "flag" that would enable them to engage the enemy. Outsiders would be totally unable to attack. Or, depending on how difficult it would be, instanced versions of some zones could be used.

I would also like to see the Sand Elves of Takish Hiz & the Orcs & Goblins of Rujark somehow involved. The attacking forces did head very close to these two groups.

The loot is nice no doubt, but I've become disillusioned with the events like that. Have them on the weekend so folks can actually go!!! They really also need to have content that the lower lvls can get into involving those events.

/wave Angelsyn

Long time no see

305hp items dropping from soloable (yes, soloable, if I can exploit kill ykesha on a 5000hp monk, it's not exactly hard) content is down right absurd, regardless of whether it's just one event. 200hp items would be on the outer edge of reason.

on FV, the only drops so far were gotten by 'uberguilds,' so it's not me objecting to casuals being able to get gear or anything.

This event was not limited to persons from Uber_Guild_012.
The drops were available to anyone. But only if you were able to find the means to accomplish the task.
For some that meant, gathering a couple of groups and pulling the mobs that dropped the loot and killing them. Others found ways of accomplishing this solo. Some still, used a full raid.

The point is that the event offered great rewards but at a great sacrifice. I personally, died at least 30 times on 2 different characters while attempting to get stuff.... and I got what I was looking for. To me that was an acceptable risk. To those that didn't feel the risk was worth it... well, my feeling is that these are the same people that won't go some places in the game because they are too "hard".

For those that just want something to complain about, go play WoW or EQ2. This game has been around for a long time now, and although the content has changed, the gameplay hasn't... whether you are on a quest, or just leveling, or looking for gear, it's all the same..... find said mob, try to kill it.