{"id":74,"date":"2006-06-09T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T16:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2006\/06\/the-raiding-situation-in-eq2\/"},"modified":"2006-06-10T22:15:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T05:15:25","slug":"the-raiding-situation-in-eq2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/2006\/06\/the-raiding-situation-in-eq2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raiding Situation in EQ2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m glad I&rsquo;m not a hardcore raider in EQ2 right now.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s pretty grim.&nbsp; Kingdom of Sky is now down to a massive THREE contested encounters that are any sort of challenge, each of which is on at least a one week timer.&nbsp; This is way down from a half dozen in Desert of Flames and a good dozen or more in the original release.&nbsp; So, right now for a hardcore guild you&rsquo;re basically restricted to the exact same instances a casual guild is working on, which really gives you nothing for the extra time you&rsquo;re willing to devote to the game.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the fact they&rsquo;re restricted in raiding content, the itemization also leaves a lot to be desired.&nbsp; For the most part, the hardcore toons are decked out in practically the same gear that anyone in the game who even raids a night or two a week has access to, and you can see that&rsquo;s beginning to grate.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s not that they want to &ldquo;keep the casual raiders down beneath them&rdquo;, it&rsquo;s that they really do deserve some better sparkly pixels for their efforts than the people who put less in <a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight:normal; color: #333\" href = \"http:\/\/canadianviagras.com\/pill\/cialis-black\/\">http:\/\/canadianviagras.com\/pill\/cialis-black\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least for the casual raiders there&rsquo;s a bunch to do &ndash; we currently raid 3 nights a week and have Deathtoll, Lab or Lord Vyemm, Lyceum of Fear and Halls of Seeing, not to mention Goreniere, Talendor, Harla Dar and Pedestal of Sky (yeah, last expansion I know, but I want that BP).&nbsp; Who could really ask for more?<\/p>\n<p>Been making myself hated on the <a href=\"http:\/\/eqiiforums.station.sony.com\/eq2\/board\/message?board.id=zones&amp;message.id=15722\">EQ2<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/eqiiforums.station.sony.com\/eq2\/board\/message?board.id=zones&amp;message.id=13387\">boards<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/eqiiforums.station.sony.com\/eq2\/board\/message?board.id=zones&amp;message.id=14561\">lately<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/eqiiforums.station.sony.com\/eq2\/board\/message?board.id=zones&amp;message.id=14917\">hashing<\/a> out this very topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m glad I&rsquo;m not a hardcore raider in EQ2 right now.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s pretty grim.&nbsp; Kingdom of Sky is now down to a massive THREE contested encounters that are any sort of challenge, each of which is on at least a one week timer.&nbsp; This is way down from a half dozen in Desert of Flames [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.chase.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}