u/Reasonable_Deer_1710

I know I'm late to the party, but when this first came out I kinda just gave it a real quick skim and didn't really pay it any mind.

I've been listening to this lately and it's actually kinda legit. Idk how everyone else feels about it but I probably like this more than either CTD, Gemini, and a lot of his other solo work. Krayzie's vibes and the production on this are all real solid. It is kinda weird hearing Krayzie do a bunch of love songs, but it's also good hearing him venture out into newer styles as well. Probably one of the better Bone solo or side projects.

I just started on Frostreaver about a week ago or so. It's my first time on a random loot server (I played on Aradune and Tormax before this). This week has been possibly the worst TLP experience I've had yet.

It didn't start off too bad at first, as a Dark Elf Necromancer, I did some of my newbie yards leveling, then went across the Commons to Befallen and leveled myself up for a bit before crossing over to Unrest. This was when things started to get frustrating.

I was actually looking to group up with people, but unfortunately the groups at that time were locked down and I could never get into one. Not too big a worry... I'd rather group, but as a Necromancer I can solo in Unrest without too much trouble.

Until I started seeing red con and max level players swooping through the yards and hallways swooping up every single visible mob in the place and claiming them for their own with encounter locking. It took me witnessing a couple examples before it registered to me what was happening. This meant that spawns that I was waiting on got taken up by the max levels just running through, and I was fighting for table scraps. Unrest was kind of turning into a bust, so I left and went to Timm Deep and leveled with some of the pirate skeletons, which went fairly quickly with the holiday XP boost. After a few levels I went back to Unrest and had a slightly better time, even getting a group and finally getting to kill some named and get some loot, albeit not much.

I moved on to Mistmoor where I did find another group briefly, but started to notice the same thing. Red cons and maxed level players camping all the spawns. Mistmoor wasn't working well for me so I tried some different places and ended up in City of Mist. Same thing, max levels taking and hogging all the spawns and camps. I again fought for some table scraps to get some XP, but there wasn't much to be had.

At pushing level 40 and still wearing cloth armor, I decided to try some more out of the way places. I was recommended Kaesora. And this was probably where it was most aggregious so far. First off was a full blown afk botter botting the librarian spawn. I filed the first report I've ever filed in my lifetime, while leveling up around the outside. After taking a break, I came back and the botter was gone, so I started working the camp on my own. Finally, for the first time on this server, I could hunt some names and get some loot!

And then a boxer comes in with his full 6 man box army, all max level and fully geared up, and with me right there in the room starts taking all the mobs and spawns for himself. I think I was able to FTE one named spawn away from him, and outside of that he just took over the entire camp.

So I ported out and logged. I love EQ so damn much and want to just enjoy it, but this server has probably been the worst EQ experience I've ever had. I knew I was gonna have problems with this ruleset from the beginning, but I was hoping that it wouldn't have been as bad as I'd feared, but unfortunately, it is.

There's no place I've been able to go that isn't already or doesn't eventually get taken over by botters and boxers.