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Originally Posted by jayrebb  The majority of the peanut gallery has a different definition than you of "in an evening". To yourself that probably means between 6-12 hour shifts.
People just simply don't have time to go LFG for 2-3 hours, group for a few hours, and get a few AAs that get them nowhere. EQ1 has other roadblocks besides AAXP values. LFG time and group consistency is incredible.
EQ1 is still a very elitist game. And this modifier better be HUGE, or else dont bother doing it.
Fulorian is one of such elitists. |
Yeah, I'll admit that 50 AA in a session will take 4+ hours. I wasn't suggesting you max your AA out in 10 days, either. Nobody said it's a quick game to max your character out on - but nobody said it's unfeasible, either. 20 AA an evening (2-3 hours with a random guild or high quality pickup group) for a month will have you in perfect shape for raiding with a midrange guild - and they'll probably pick you up long before you hit that point, on the assumption you'll get there.
And I have to say, if you have >200 AA and a max level character and you can't get a group in under an hour, then you are an antisocial retard that is too stupid, stubborn, or casual to join a reasonable raiding guild. And by casual, I mean so casual that you really shouldn't be playing an MMO.
I'm not going to throw names of actual examples into this discussion, but the #2 guild on Xegony has a warrior with 500 AA and >20k hp unbuffed. They will beg non-max level <300 AA clerics to join them, and will take <500 AA dps classes, or really anything they need at the time. There's at least 6 guilds beneath them... one of which raids the Demiplane of Blood and recently accepted a friend of mine, who has less than 100 AA and was 5+ levels under the level cap. A PALADIN.
Guilds that aren't at the absolute bleeding edge (the guild in question just beat Solteris, which is the previous expansion's top content, and was tuned for 5 levels lower) still need less-than-perfect characters. EQ has bled out a lot of players over the years and a lot of what remains don't have the time commitment.
My point is, if you want to play EQ and are willing to dedicate yourself to SOME kind of raid schedule - some guilds are as little as 1 day a week raiding - you can easily find a raid guild to accommodate you and NEVER, EVER spend more than an hour looking for a group. When you do find a group, it will likely be fairly effective at boosting your AA.
Basically, my point is that you're using guildless LFG as a strawman for a game that no longer accommodates that - but does accommodate guild groups very easily. I don't know anyone who participates in a guild that has any problems finding a group, and when they do so, being able to accumulate AA quickly. Obviously some guilds will do so faster than others, but the investment is not what you're making it out to be.