I would disagree with this statement, because when your most efficient spell is cast 10s in advance, and you literally cannot try to anticipate stuff because your tank dies twice during your cast time, then there is no other solution but a CH chain.
The only truly challenging content I have ever run up against in an mmo is PvP. In PvE the difficult challenges are usually those the players make up. Like being the first to finish an expansion, the first player to solo a named in Western Wastes or some such. And then the challege comes as much or more from the preparation and prerequisites as the encounter itself.
No, most our healers wereliterallystupid as fuck and some of the worst players I have seen in my entire life. I really cannot understate how bad some of them were. They weren't even the ones who came up with CH chains, our MT was because most of them could not think for themselves at all.
i love it when people like you use the word nostalgia like it's an insult. maybe you should look up the definition before you try using it? nostalgia is a word which precisely encapsulates how i recall my time playing everquest. you know what word comes to mind when recalling my time playing warcraft? forgettable.
They sucked at doing anything and everything. They were barely functional as people and I have no clue why they were even playing the game, if you could even call what they were doing playing.
I think moreso that a problem is healing classes attract people who only play a healer to be fast tracked and get special treatment because they know people NEED them, often desperately, which leads to having to put up with their shit and keep quiet about it because everyone wants to progress.
Yes, everyone ditched EQ the second something better came along and had 25-30x the population of EQ at its peak because of how "forgettable" it was.
Who here is saying that EQ is magic? There's many ditched features in EQ that enable some very entertaining aspects of MMOs. Some of us would like to see those features come back in addition to all the advancements made in the MMO space.
Uh have you not been reading this thread? There are at least three people in the last two pages that think EQ is magic.
Nowadays you don't feel the connection you used to in EQ because you're so busy hitting abilities and moving and other such distractions. I miss hitting the attack button and watching each and every animation until the fight was over. I'd spice it up every now and then and hit kick or bash every 10 seconds and when you'd see those hits for 15 sometimes even 20 damage you really knew you were affecting the world. Today's games lose sight of that and that's a shame
