Dread and Terror questionFollow

After many years I decided to get my warrior alt his Jagged Blade of War. I'm down to needing one drop, the ball of everliving golem that drops from Dread or Terror in Fear.

Up until this point the various locations in the quest were untouched, that is to say nothing was camped. But holy cow WHY are Dread and Terror STILL perma-camped? I've checked their loot here on ZAM and I don't see what the big deal is.

This isn't a complaint, I'm just curious.

If they would remove the AoN from these mobs... the farming of fear would be greatly reduced.

Puppet Strings market was greatly reduced with the (bizarre) decision to make a shroud with charm.

Slime Blood sits in baz for huge plat and occasionally sells, but also pops up dirt cheap sometimes. SBoCT alone isn't worth farming fear repeatedly.

My preference would be having the epic drops from fear moved into Temple of Cazic Thule, even if this meant adding a couple of triggered by the class spawns for the meant-to-be more difficult parts (the chanter fear mob is not hard to kill... good luck finding it up). Then they could revamp Fear as a HARD level 100 raid zone. Why they've let the farmers own this zone for the past 8 years is beyond me.

True enough.

(been ages since I've seen Felicite post here).

I killed them maybe a year ago on Drinal for the SK epic. I was 2 boxing, with my SK, beastlord and 2 mercs. Beastlord was kind enough to take the DT. I didn't have much trouble finding them up though. There are so many ways to get the skeleton illusion now that the AoN wasn't as in demand as it once was.

Yeah, anyone who goes "way back" remembers with terror Fear raid wipeouts and recoveries. The key was to go into those raids with your game face on or be prepared for a long grueling recovery effort. I sincerely think one thing missing from the game today is RISK and that was a key part of the challenge---and yes the FUN (sometimes perversely)---of classic Everquest.

I was a raid leader for awhile in those days and like I said to guild members don't even zone into Fear if you weren't mentally prepared to lose all the gear on your toon if we couldn't recover after a wipeout. This never happened under my watch but it could have and we came close a few times. As a raid organizer I'd contrast those raids very favorably for sheer difficulty and pressure against ANY EQ raid introduced since those days.