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They should really crank mitigation, nerf player power and/or set instance caps at 36 if this is the plan... Especially in Luclin and PoP. The trivial-ness of VT in like week 3 of Luclin is what broke me on Phinny. Having it actually take a few months to get into Time would also make PoP more...

Painful death makes a balancing problem that is hard to solve and that Pantheon would fail to solve. One of the worst parts of EQ for me was grinding through the LOIO->OT->DL treadmill in Kunark, which was pretty horribly boring. But groups were rare/unreliable in most dungeons. I think that...

I wonder what percent of these people also have day jobs (this guy's a lawyer)? How many FTEs do we think they are at?

There are a lot of ways to get items, and a lot of people don't like raiding let alone poopsocking. The best plan would be to split up how you get BiS items at the end game into sixpaths: --Contested raid mobs --Uncontested raid mobs --EQ style camped item (lotto style with RNG) --long involved...

I would have guessed they were just milking, but from that link, it sounds like they are actually trying to make a new game:

But yeah, Soloing is brutal as in the old days, and especially slow on Phinny because of how they set the experience rates. Except charm is way too powerful so necros can solo pretty well if they are smart.

So shit happened in the fall and I ended up with pretty limited time to play--about 10-12 hours a week which I spent almost solely in ~72 man raids. Raids that size are awful if your core group of buds don't show up/quit. I dropped the game in December but kind of miss it. My question for the...

I think your timing is off there. EQ was on omens of war by the time WoW released. Maybe you are thinking WoW beta? So there were 4 expansions between PoP and WoW release, two of which (LoY and LDoN) were pretty specifically aimed at casuals. I was playing casually around then (I think I quit...

Well that was fast. Sounds like 150 Quarm kills if you keep up Aten pace over 6 months. I'm not sure how you keep people logging in for that.

That's awesome. I remember the playtest getting some excited media coverage too. Like EverQuest Next has a big internal playtest today

That's a pretty solid run through of what makes EQ combat more interesting than it seems. Death had consequences sure but fucking up and blowing all of your mana did too even with no one dying. Efficiency wasn't always simple, but then again too often playing it safe and turning the game into a...

See that perspective is why we couldn't have nice things before Phinigel. I wouldn't blame Daybreak's faster spawns, though. P99's raid scene is plenty shitty with slower spawn times. Anyways, I don't see why you couldn't define top guild as "we can [almost] always take what we want". Rather...

This decision was fine until people made it horrible by STILL deciding they needed to monopolize these.

I don't hate raiding but it being the sole form of progress is just dumb. I've been enjoying the EQ 1 progression servers and actually think they kind of nailed this in the Kunark era. On my pally there were ~5 raid items I really wanted, mostly from single target mobs, and then a bunch of group...

This seems true but unfortunate for those of us who love that style. It is a little bit like if they stopped making Civilization when Warcraft came out. Why wouldn't both exist (and the market for them)? Then again, I've never really understood why the production of (or maybe market for) certain...

That's not what the video looks like. The targeted mage is way out of melee range.

Haha pretty shitty thing to do. Didn't AoS already win the server? Why so fucking salty?

That sounds exhausting. I think for most people just keeping up with the instanced content is plenty of raid time. Though I imagine you guys have the #s and gear to make this all go somewhat faster.

My personal biggest complaint with this server so far is the way that XP is structured to make soloing/duoing so shitty. Basically if you don't have an Enc with a charmed pet in your group, just give up. It is a big problem for classes that are solid soloers but have trouble getting a group...

I doubt this would work. Playing catch-up already becomes a huge barrier to people joining these servers. This seems like it would make it worse.

Yeah I've been trained more times on this server then like, the rest of my EQing. Been The Kingsmen a few times, not sure if they're a real guild.

Catch 22 with raiding feels like either everything is stupidly slow or you just murder everything and wonder why you bothered showing up.

Chardok is definitely faster. Faster respawns, lower HP mobs, and possibility for 3 classes to charm all help a lot. Finding a group with a shaman 55+ might be tough, though.

I finally got over the extent to which they left Lockjaw and Ragefire in the dust with Phinny release. I rolled a wizard, now 34, and boy is it a useless class at this point. Biggest problems with leveling are the ridiculous concentration of people in a few zones (Unrest, Lower Guk and City of...

I like my lockjaw guild and am having fun raiding with them. On top of that, I just did the grind to 60 (plus Epic, too much time in Sky/Fear, VP key camps etc) and have no interest in doing any of that again so soon for features that should have just been patched into RF/LJ. My concern is...

Isn't everyone getting easy mode in levels right now, though? Will anyone care by then?

That's too bad. Why do you think that's the right move exactly? Too many people would flip their shit?

Can't grind at all during this double XP time. What do you think the odds are that they allow transfers from Ragefire and Lockjaw to Phinigel come Luclin? Phinigel is scheduled to get there first.

This couldn't be played any better to get me to unsubscribe. My guild on LJ probably isn't going to have the numbers to raid going forward. Redoing the grind I basically *just* finished would be bad enough, but they made it even more time consuming to get back to where I already am. I'll...

So is Faceless Insanity the only legit NA time zone raid guild left on LJ/RF? That's kind of amazing.

Fun read Zaide. Feels like old time drama, for mostly worse. It is hard to read that and walk away convinced FI's hands are clean though. You all certainly have enough scumbags I would not be surprised, but also seems like a face-saving claim.

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Anyone know if any of the higher-end guilds are going to end up transferring servers? Any guesses on what will happen to the rest of the server populations? I'm happily casual but have to admit I'm curious how this little social experiment will pan out. I'm not sure how much to play now that...

Shaman will be part blood mage part necromancer. Obviously.

To me art style is meaningful because it signifies what the game is about. On the other hand, I couldn't care less about graphical quality as in taking advantage of bleeding edge technology.

After playing a White Mage in FFXIV I thought about how cool and fun it would be to play an EQ cleric. In a group situation, clerics actually had a good number of abilities to use: 4 or so types of heals that mattered which you chose from an efficiency/downtime minimizing standpoint, stuns...

This doesn't make sense to me. No modern games have the features that you indicate as causing games to start failing for you. Shouldn't your statement be like "only the many available games that offer convenient features and low time-related consequences work for me. Thank god that's all of them!"

I took a look at the comments on massively, MMORPG.com and f13.net. Rerolled is by far the most positive/optimistic, which is some Bizarro shit.

What Brad should be held culpable for isn't the pills but their effect. Firing his entire staff in the parking lot was horrid. Wasting millions on a game that was released in the state Vanguard was released in was a disaster. Hell, if Brad is the last hope, it is in large part because he killed...

Rangers also get panic animal in Velious, which allows them to fear-kite animals for very little mana. IMO, it makes them the best melee/hybrid soloers, other than bards of course. You just have to find places with lots of animals (mammoths, cougars, etc).