Savage guides are a nuisance (when posted this early)

[EdwinChucklenuts]

Yeah, unfortunately this is a symptom of a bigger problem with playing multiplayer games in the modern day. Back in the early WoW and EverQuest days nobody really knew what was going on and it had this whole unexplored frontier element. Now we've got shit like data mining, people who profit from day 1 guides, not to mention most players now typically follow cookie cutter type builds (when there's shit like talent trees involved). There's an obsession with optimization and speedrunning ever present. If you don't spoil yourself by doing a bunch of research beforehand on a dungeon you've never ran before, it's considered a bad thing.

[TaleraRistain]

Yeah, unfortunately this is a symptom of a bigger problem with playing multiplayer games in the modern day. Back in the early WoW and EverQuest days nobody really knew what was going on and it had this whole unexplored frontier element. Now we've got shit like data mining, people who profit from day 1 guides, not to mention most players now typically follow cookie cutter type builds (when there's shit like talent trees involved). There's an obsession with optimization and speedrunning ever present. If you don't spoil yourself by doing a bunch of research beforehand on a dungeon you've never ran before, it's considered a bad thing.

To be fair in regards to EQ, that was mostly because raids were contested so guilds took their raid strategies to the grave.

[Purrnauskis]

Yeah, unfortunately this is a symptom of a bigger problem with playing multiplayer games in the modern day. Back in the early WoW and EverQuest days nobody really knew what was going on and it had this whole unexplored frontier element. Now we've got shit like data mining, people who profit from day 1 guides, not to mention most players now typically follow cookie cutter type builds (when there's shit like talent trees involved). There's an obsession with optimization and speedrunning ever present. If you don't spoil yourself by doing a bunch of research beforehand on a dungeon you've never ran before, it's considered a bad thing.

Yeah except EQ raids on the mechanical complexity were on the level where a toddler could figure them out. And DBM or the like has existed in WoW since vanilla raiding.