the wharf rat wrote:
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MM (monster missions) suck :-)
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No they don't.
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You can do them at level 1, because all the characters become "monsters" - sort of npc's - for the thing. You don't need to know how to play your class because the monster classes are all very different (mostly simplified) versions of player classes.
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Not entirely true. You need to know how to heal if you play a cleric in
the Dain missions, for example. You don't need to be able to play an EQ
PC Cleric, but you need to know how to play a cleric that can handle
aggro, use long casting big heals, etc.
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For instance, in the Dain 1 MM, if you know the strategy, the players with the cleric characters remember to click "heal" every so often, and the warrior knows that he's supposed to click a mob and type 'a' you can hardly lose.
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Well, considering the number of people who do lose, I'm not sure that's
accurate. You need to be able to work as a team, co-ordinate,
communicate and use your skills.
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They're also boring as hell. I sometimes take a MM group if I've been lfg for more than an hour. It's a good way to grind out AAs. But it's boring as hell.
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Doing the same mission over and over is as boring as hell, just like
anything, but doing the missions for the first time, or a few times to
help friends can be fun. Doing the Rivervale zombie mission was some of
the best fun I ever had in EQ. Brraiiiinnnnnnnssssssssssssssss.
Monster Missions are another aspect to EQ, which some people enjoy, some
hate, some abuse and some ignore. But they can be fun, entertaining,
low entry requirements, and a good way to pass a set amount of time with
people you may or may not know.
The only real problem is that in a lot of cases, because people are
farming them for XP or a specific drop, they learn the 'quickest' way to
beat the mission, and then just do it over and over and over, and they
may well invite others and not communicate the slightest bit of
information to them, and just run through the steps. That's a problem
with people, not monster missions.
Do the Naggy mission in Lavastorm and listen to the people 'raiding' him
crying out when they die - it's hilarious.
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Tony Evans
Saving trees and wasting electrons since 1993
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http://perception-is-truth.blogspot.com/
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what about missions? 
what about missions?
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