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There could be a chance it lags and misses a tick and spawns at 72 instead of 66 sometimes. Who knows

I dunno if that would bring me back or not. I didn't mind the queues so much just for getting in, but it really screwed up meeting friends to play.

Aw yeah, bonus faction!

Bonus XP! and thier down.

Ok gentlemen. I am running a small guild for the first time in many years, and I need help to not look like a complete dumb ass lol.

We are not a hardcore raid guild, and don't want to be. We just want to have fun playing the game. That obviously includes raiding which brings me to the point of this post. I need strats.

Everything has been killed a gazillion times before, so I know there has to be strats out there on the interwebs. I plan to do some searching of course, but I was hoping my fellow FoHers would have tips and links to decent strats for classic EQ raiding.

Again, we are a super small guild (the way I like it honestly), and not rushing anything. I'm planning on taking my guild up to Hate to do some gear farming to start off. Then we will do some Fear for gear farming, and go from there. I don't really expect to take on any big raid targets for a while yet as we only have about 2 groups worth of raid level guild members at this point.

Anything helps. Thanks guys.

If it was part of a larger plan to strip out more and more out of era stuff from the early expansions I wouldn't object to it but in its current form I don't like it. The additions of Mitigation of the Mighty, Presence of the Mighty and Mark of the Old Ways were the counterbalance fix to the existence of focus effects and other out of era mechanics. If they weren't doing their job I'd rather they were tinkered than foci getting turned off. Caster itemization is just so damned terrible.

So, focus effects launched in the Luclin era. The fact that they retroactively went back and put focus on all the existing items in the game probably indicates that they would have liked to have them in there from the start. And, there are a LOT of items that are just straight garbage without their focus effects. They get passed over in current era because they have no effect, then people level/gear passed them in later era's because there are just better options. It is a bad TLP design decision to not include focus effects.

To Arbitrary point, they balanced content after the fact on TLPs, so allowing the items to have their focus effects seems fine. It just comes down to enjoyment, fun factor, and being able to use items relevant to their era.