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Uber guilders got the loot ? of course they did. To be in an uber guild, you have to devote enourmous amounts of time to the game. This not only means your gear is better, but that you gain experience and skill at the game faster than most other people, and that is what really counts.

I was at the GFay war with 3 friends. We got our twinks equipped with drops and even sold a few to people who were auctioning to buy them.

We picked an out of the way spot, sent out a puller who brought us the captains with just 1-2 adds. Then we poured on the dps to ensure we got the kill, and when possible we made sure the looter was in the group and could loot right away. If not, we locked the corpse.

We all died multiple times, but virtually every death was from getting trained by someone running around like a headless chicken or deliberately training us. When we moved closer to Kelethin, this happened more often.

The majority of people I saw were hanging around Kelethin, and when they saw a loot dropper being fought by a bunch of people, they leaped in hammering away. You'll never get the kill like that.

To many of us, this is how EQ used to be. Zones like Mistmoore, Cazic Thule, Lower Guk, SolB - packed with groups pulling from overlapping areas. A named pops and everyone rushes to be the first to pull it. The principle is the same whether in an event or an xp group. Form a solid group, pick a safe spot to fight, send out a puller, and if something is already being killed, leave it alone and find something of your own.

I think the loots were great, the war is awesome, and the events are very challenging to survive and win loots from. Part of that being beating out the KSers, and opposing mobs.
Now KS I think is a relative term in this event to a certain extent. It is a war...If the goal is to assist your team, (good or bad) to survive and replulse the invaders, you should be attacking all the baddies from the other side. If that means ya get some help from someone else, and they end up doing more damage then you do and get the loot, well...find another baddie and start over. As a ranger, I often am attacking a mob from a distance. If that mob is engaged by some of the NPC army and taking damage, and someone else spots my target, how can they tell I am already damaging it? /Shrug. If I dont get the kill, grit my teeth and move on, glad I didnt die at least.

Lui

Why don't people realise that the louder you shout, the less people listen to you.

Astucexxx sux big time. i love to explore. i can also say, that n-ro used to be fun to explore..now i cant do that coz there might be an army there. this really sux.

Another event aimed purely at 65 to 70 levels. I voted "What War?"

I wish They'd come out with something to include everyone.

I am torn. I like the event as an alternative way to get great gear for players who will never see high end GoD or Time. i also like the interactive events. On the other hand having been through the Freeport and Kelethin events, I stayed away. I am 62/40 and would stand a chance out there. The Freeprot and Kelethin RAIDS were mirrors in that they took an eternity to organize and no-one had the patience to wait that long so they all just tried kiting etc to see what they could do. In so doing they managed to get them selves killed and then all the clerics busy rezzing. It would be nice to see one of these events open to participation by 46+ at least

Well, I can't say too much, but I play the Open Beta for DDH, as SOE is using the acronym. It's a much wider range of levels it seems for content, from 20-70. There is raid content AND low level content. Maybe even low level raid content. not everything is in, so we'l have to wait and see...

Here's the way I would do it.

1. The encounters are triggered, by talking to the Captain to start the raid. this would remove the "Whaa it's never when I'm on" problem.

2. Raids are formed before the trigger, any person not in the raid that gets on the Hate list of any of the mobs are kicked to a point far from the encounter alla Naggy/Vox. Heals from outside the raid would be ineffective if the distance was far enough.

3. Range of difficulty and drops based on the level of the people in the raid alla DoN & LDoN. So that stupid high end drops are limited to those at lvl 70 with a raid force of 40+ while still allowing 1 group of lvl 20 to gain Decent gear for thier level (I.e 30 Hit points / +5 on a couple of stats, which is better than you get in Bazaar but not broken.)

4. Reward points to spend with captains on sucessful missions perhaps instead of loot might be another option, maybe only Augs that are slot 7 that are of a decent value.

Ninja Looter (n) [NI'N-jah lut-ur]: A group member who removes the contents of a corpse/box/chest/barrel/etc. the moment it becomes available to do so, usually in hopes of retrieving a particularly valuable item without leaving an opportunity for his or her groupmates to discuss who the valuable item should go to. A typical Ninja Looter will not remain online long enough to be corrected in their behavior.

hmm yeah thats about the description of a ninja looter...happens all the time..right as you finish your tell "Ninja_Looter_01 is not online at this time."

uhh, yeah, most servers had this event monopolized by SOLOERS, and not always raid geared ones.

THIS WAS NOT HIGH END ONLY CONTENT.
THIS WAS NOT HIGH END ONLY CONTENT.
THIS WAS NOT HIGH END ONLY CONTENT.
THIS WAS NOT HIGH END ONLY CONTENT.
THIS WAS NOT HIGH END ONLY CONTENT.
THIS WAS NOT HIGH END ONLY CONTENT.
THIS WAS NOT HIGH END ONLY CONTENT.

it was an utterly ****** up event, for everyone, beccause of how much it promoted ninjalooting/training.