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Yeah, personas almost certainly live on your "character file" which that file being large is a major contributor to zone times. That being said, early era personas are likely to not meaningfully increase zone time--the character file has to get pretty "fat" before it really slows zoning down...

I do notice the guy so concerned Faceless was going to implode from bad morale because we lost OW Sev the other day doesn't seem to have similar concerns about a guild that socked Trakanon for 6 hours only to lose it. Weird huh.

The thing is, at some point are you a guild or are you a gear farming crew? They aren't 100% the same thing. I can't think of an MMO guild scenario where my goal would be to not at least clear all the raid content. Maybe it makes sense afterward to do things like deeper splits of Kael where you...

Yeah that could be true, I hadn't considered it since I am about as anti-ST 1.0 as it gets. I think it is stupid. The loot is stupid. The waking is stupid. Everything about it is bad / dumb. I would literally get erect if DPG said "hey we consider ST 1.0 a special event back in the year 2001...

Point of order: killing AoW at day 12 is actually fairly bad, the only real scenario I can imagine for it is if a raiding guild in that era simply had like 2-3 warriors and no others. Most servers I have done even some of the fairly casual guilds get an AoW down in the first week. Now certainly...

Zaide already posted a pic of your batphone, you guys phoned a sock before we did. It isn't really in dispute. Jokert also has openly said you guys "sock everything." No reason not to own it, you guys want to sock shit we've killed uncontested for 10 days (and then lose dramatically), more...

Vulak is canonically the end boss of Velious, because Sleeper isn't a boss you kill, just one you trigger by killing 4 dragon warders who aren't particularly hard, and lore wise Vulak is positioned as the Velious boss. On a weird server where a lower tier guild kills the first Vulak but then...

This is the way frankly, the # of people I have seen burn themselves out and even develop weird real life problems trying to attend every batphone is high. No guild should be based on you individually making every batphone. Attend what you can IMO. Where I'm running a guild on live and not...

I'm coming from a place of experience running multiple TLP guilds (I notice you refused to answer which Teek guild you are in, telling.) I actually never got more grief from my own guildies than when I decided not to batphone something. Not 100% sure how your "15 years experience on WoW" inform...

Where is the "over and over", dude? How many events do you think have happened. You realize you are talking about 1 60 second incident, right? There is virtually no impact to morale if you're trading off OW kills, I assure you. When was the last time you were actually in an OW raid racing...

I was raiding on live when it went down (I actually still run a live guild as my main EQ thing), but my understanding is both guilds were actually in PoSKy OW when Sev spawned. Faceless was on Bee Island just doing a clear up to get people keyed etc, RI was I believe on Spiroc island (maybe...

When was the last time you actually played a TLP? I can assure you it just doesn't work that way. If your information is coming from these forums, where I think only a few people who really involve themselves in these guilds posts, you just aren't working with correct intel. OW TLP stuff in...

It isn't, actually. Amtrak lost DPS races to us all the time on Selo and it was fine for them, they still won a lot too. You realize when you do more than a couple TLPs that that is how OW raiding works. It is always more respectable to at least show up and try. This rhetoric is like Fippy /...

Not sure what that means. Any target you don't show up for you lose by default. OW guilds lose anytime another guild gets loot, doesn't matter if you "showed up" or not. That has been the governing rule of EQ since 1999.

I think the items are bad for game balance purposes, but I think everyone saying they are bad for server health are dead wrong. The one singular lesson, going back to the first AoC server (Phinigel) to today, is every change that has made the TLP game more casual friendly and easier, has been...

I don't give 2 shits how much coin I can make in an hour, if I ever bother to sell anything in game it is at firesale prices so I don't have to wait more than 30 seconds to leave EC tunnel.

That actually looks like a bug, but probably so few people do the quest that it hasn't been bug reported.

They were introduced a while back, I want to say sometime between 2015-2017. There has always been a few fake claims about them. One is that they always existed and were just never solved. The other is they were basically finished, but never turned on so they had been sitting dormant in the...

Could be a class issue too, I know some classes won't get invited by better pugs, so the ones willing to take them in are often worse players.

I've basically never pugged on a TLP going back to Lockjaw so I can't really get a good feel for that experience, but several of our guildies have mostly pugged up to 60 or near 60 over the long weekend. That would seem to be "good enough" to me, hitting 60 in the first week primarily pugging is...

It is quite bad for the server, obviously you need to do it ASAP as does everyone, because in a TLP environment you can't refuse literally 5 BiS items for free. But for most classes there is no arguable upgrade for these slots until Vex Thal loot, some until PoP. And we will be getting another...

Not to ruin people's fun, but frankly guild drama shit is a relic of a bygone age. Just be in w/e guild you like raiding with, it really doesn't matter. Also if that guild doesn't work out, just leave and join another guild. Everyone on these TLPs has bounced through a half dozen guilds or more...

Anyone who pretends EQ is anything but a cheat infested game missed the boat about 10 years ago, the company's own devs help guilds cheat on both TLP and live. If you personally don't want to cheat, cool, I respect it. If you personally want to cheat, I can't really pretend I'm outraged when...

Nah, the antiwarp is still in, it is just weak af and anyone doing a bit of testing will figure out how to avoid it.

Ice T and Rapaport were weirdly motivated 5 years ago, I think a lot of the cameo celebs back then were a lil more enthusiastic. I saw a Rapaport cameo not too long ago that was super phoned in.

Nah, it is just a dumb person from the forums. Dude named Jeskola on the forums, Pheerie on Discord, joined our new guild Discord and proceeded to say really dumb stuff. Frankthebank actually made fun of him and he left the discord in tears, but against reasonable judgment we invited him back...

This info is a little out of date. 3-4 years ago they did seem to be pretty reserved with real bannings, but now that I've been running a live guild since 2021 I see a lot more of the big picture. EQ Live is a lot different than TLP--Live has a lot of interminable grinds (leveling up evolving...

I didn't main a CLR until the TLP era, but CLR soloing "was a thing" in old era EQ, it typically took a few different forms: Stun / Nuke - Particularly effective against undead since CLR magic nukes were relatively poor dpm, but cycling stuns and nukes they could mostly stun lock a mob and...

I do have some weird nostalgia for my very first trek through High Pass and into the Karanas and exploring those vast zones. But overall it does end up being a lot of empty and mostly useless space.

"Mean man made fun of my website so I started to cry." Talk about snowflake.

This is a good, but pedantic (the best kind) of point. It isn't a dupe, which is an exploit in which you duplicate items in game, but actually obtaining elevated access to the client itself to straight up "generate" platinum that didn't exist at all before hand. But dupe is the word that is best...

Yeah I mean virtually any TLPer would take 10m plat in Kunark if handed to them, with the only hesitance being a fear of getting banned (in which case they may try to accept it on a burner account lol.) The big take away from this video is the people who were saying there wasn't a plat dupe on...

Gear checks I think are reasonable as long as they don't become obsessive or stupid. I think like having people regularly scan every raiders gear to make sure it is up to par is annoying, often seems to just produce guild drama, and isn't very productive. I also think a lot of individuals who...

I can't wade into all the autism here but I do tend to agree w/Bishi, as a long time TLP Cleric and someone who has made and managed CH rotations for all TLP content and managed the rot for a almost naked-guild Emperor Ssra kill, I just don't know of any realistic situation where 10 Clerics in...

Poopsocking kinda hit its peak on RF/LJ, the last big TLPs without AOC. The incentives for socking just weren't there after that, the way subsequent (AOC) servers went down is you had a clear top guild that very aggressively tracked a bunch of targets--SEQ helps with that because you can have a...

I don't really know anyone serious who doesn't think MySEQ is cheating, but not-using MySEQ is literally akin to being a 1990s baseball player and refusing to use steroids. Every top TLP open world guild since Ragefire/Lockjaw, has absolutely used MySEQ as an integral part of tracking open world...

Yeah, I think at the most, and we're trying to stitch things together here from what Redbot has been willing to say (he was one party that did also have discussions with Daybreak back in 2015) + what Mule has claimed, back in 2015 Mule may have been told something to the effect of "make it so...

There was never an agreement. That is something EQ Mule essentially fabricated. Redbot who runs Redguides has posted about this openly on their forums in the last few months. It's possible Mule (who has severe autism--and I don't mean in the way we bandy that term about, I mean he actually has a...

I see a lot of DPG simping in this thread. I've never had any of my own accounts banned/suspended for cheating, and I have actually cheated (allegedly) in the past. The idea that it's cool to have complete shitbag communication because a bunch of neckbeard mouthbreathers "know what they mean"...

Most other MMO companies navigate this problem fairly easily by laying out features that are disallowed in third party programs. DPG will not even commit to that.