As I said, not everyone comes out of HK affected by the bad habits it
encourages. But, by and large, people who group up in the Highhold/highkeep
area tend to learn two things (at least on Veeshan):
1) KS is ok. I'm not sure how it is on other servers but on Veeshan just
about anything goes in the orc area of highpass. It's a huge KS festival
where no matter how long you're fighting a mob those around you will do
their best to nuke it from under you.
2) It's ok to pull too much, the guards are just around the corner.
3) It's ok to train someone, the zone is very close and/or the guards are
nearby.
Those are just the social attitudes. The skills that a players don't learn
or don't learn well because of these situations are critical later in life.
In short: You can't learn the skills needed to bust a difficult spawn in a
place where you can just Guard kill the extras unless you are in a
disciplined group who actually tries to learn them.
I spent some time in highkeep myself and left because the zone offers no
challenge. At 14-18 the gnolls are a lot of fun but the orcs are a KS
festival and the goblins inside highkeep are good XP but a lot of groups
tend to get lazy about pulling technique etc because safety is, litterly, a
stone's throw away.
It's not an insult against anyone. It's a fact about that zone. And anyone
JUST out of highkeep who's allowed their group skills to stagnate is more
dangerous than someone who went through their twenties in, say, Solusek.
Just my oppinion but a lot of people share it.
And it may be very different on other servers. But on veeshan the norm is
to see a group pull too much, kill 1 then take the rest to the guards, and
break the spawn using the guards to kill off anything they can't handle each
time.
Lyrnia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Bachman" <kbachman@...>
To: <eqbards@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Highpass Keep
> Kevin L. Crawford wrote:
> >
> > Actually Highkeep is notorious for attracting "dumb players" or rather
it
> > creates them.
> >
> > The total safety of the hunting there causes people to learn terrible
group
> > tactics (or not learn any at all).
> >
> > 99% of the time if I find myself grouped with someone who levelled
through
> > their upper 20's and lower 30's in highkeep I immediately leave the
group.
> > It's not that ALL people who played there are bad, it's that most are.
> >
> > No offense to anyone who's hunted there religiously but HK just isn't
the
> > same as SolA or GukTop or Cazic.
> >
> > Lyrn
>
> Hmmmm. I think I've been insulted.
>
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