Search results

I managed to do it yesterday: probably painful if the group sucks and if the average dps is close to zero (Sparky wasn't exactly dying quickly). I didn't like 1 of the bosses at all and the last had some graphic glitch for me which made the whole fight an ordeal and not very entertaining. Let's...

Still have to check it out, what did they remove?

Yes, I tend to rant over too many things, must be that I'm turning 40 in a couple months and this world is going to the gutters (or so they tell me... but who are "they"?), but when I unleash my fake hatred towards modern game design it's just because I don't understand it, or better, I do...

Going back to Kunark (2000) or WoW vanilla (2005) I used to do groups for dungeons with pet classes and no real healers (necro+mages) and/or duo/trio in dungeons with the most absurd setup of classes. It doesn't work in raids, but raids are shit anyway and should be deleted, but I disgress. The...

No, not really. I played MMOs since late 1999 and never felt forced to do anything I didn't want, yet I played mostly healers and sometimes tanks. What I always wanted was a way for healers to kill stuff when grouping wasn't happening, first helpful contribution to this cause was the summoned...

PvE: most of EQ raids, but Emperor Ssra and later on Bertoxx with 39 people (9 were boxed chars) made me literally jump out of my chair. For some reason recovering from very bad attempts in EQ, where 10 out of 50 were alive 1 minute after the pull, has always been a blast. It sucks that it's no...

Definitely. Couple this with things that make more sense in a world, to find again a little bit of the mystical immersion (or suspension of disbelief if we want to be picky): no storebought loot, no currency other than coin, no to excessive power creep inside the same period of the game and so...

Couple things: Metrica province is harder than Queensdale, Wayfarer foothills and Caledon forest. It's not hard per se, but Inquest mobs have a ton of annoying abilities, so do their golems. Mob density is high, respawn is stupidly fast and it takes a bit of experience or a forgiving class to...

They trimmed a lot of skills and honestly it was a bullshit move, just as it was a bullshit move to have some classes with 100% mobility and others close to 0% (hyperbole, before you point it out). I didn't like all those procs either, imo destrolock during WotLK was stupidly fun and...

Out of curiosity, how many people still play Rift? Is there an estimate number around? I enjoyed it for a while, got mage, rogue and priest to 50, but then people just... disappeared. I was in a medium sized guild, at one point there were barely 5 people online. Tried it again when it was f2p...

Everyone on this forum is or has been in some beta test with NDAs, so it's freaking obvious that "friends" say this and that. Been like this for the last dozen years. It's not exactly something new and imaginative, given that most use the same email and nicks all over the world (and some are...

If you do your personal story and complete a zone, you'll likely end up two levels higher than needed for the following. Also Elementalist is a bitch to learn, you don't sit in one attunement if you want to do quick damage (for levelling, that is). Mine is not 80, I gave up quite early, class is...

The problem is that this encounter is not easy: being in the wrong place at the wrong time makes it a lot harder. Coming with zerker gear is just like asking to die over and over. There are so many things that can go wrong, it's not even funny for a massive PuG. Doesn't help that in Overflow...

Is there a trick to avoid overflow for Tequatl outside of living in Sparkfly Fen 24/7? Overflow groups are generally pretty terrible, it's not even worth an attempt most of the times.

This lady states that EQ was a sexist environment. She's wrong. EQ was populated by nerds that probably never saw a vagina live and a pixellated one was giving them enormous boner issues, so they had to violently masturbate at wood elves asses to get some relief from all that pressure down...

So true, one yesterday in the easy FotM 1: bear/bow. Mine uses sword/warhorn most of the time, (jaguar/drake or fern dog), on swap something useful for the content I'm facing or greatsword 'cause I like leaping ahead :P. Admittely I parked my ranger since a few weeks, I'm mostly playing thief...

GW2 is a good game, but it's not good for everyone and could be refined here and there. EQN is a question mark at this point. Rift was fun for a while, WoW was fun for a long time, so was EQ2 until I played it. Many MMOs were fun enough and interesting enough to have me pay a monthly sub for...

To be honest necro is now quite good compared to the release status. In sPvP is dangerous (so they tell me) and in PvE it's good enough to be worth a slot in every group. Life force generation is a lot better and some DS builds, if undisturbed (very rare occurrence) can spam lifeblast for ages...

Some things have been improved, some were left untouched. Necromancers can play power builds with 100% crit in death shroud that can actually hurt at range, but are still limited by a (imo) shitty weapon choice: no cleaving, dagger only for top dps and autoattacking is the only thing worth...

What I meant was simple: there is no correlation between subs rise/fall and changes in the "accessibility" of content. For what we know, sticking to a vanilla/tbc style of design may have mantained the same number of subs over the years. What they likely lost is long term retention (many on...

Let's put aside your opinions about what is better, which is subjective enough and let's talk about the "necessity" to change the game approach towards a more bite sized consumption rate. As of today, there is no proof large enough, or none that I've seen anyway, that in the western market (the...

To make a "hardcore game" for lack of a better description, one has to take risks. To make a random shit game, one just copies. Both are potentially profitable. Copying is just easier. This is pretty much why we will never see another game going backwards in terms of design, but they are going...

I still don't know how is combat, you know, the shit I do 98% of the time I'm online, because even when exploring I tend to get my hammer dirty on everything that moves. I still don't know if I can beat this game by flinging shit on the keyboard or if I have to dodge/block some stuff. I still...

I'm a bit late to reply to this, but it's exactly what is going to happen. EQN is shaping to be a wonderful trainwreck for my expectations (which were already pretty low). This genre is pretty much dead, gotta deal with it. I hope in some indie studio now.

Stepping in between angry people to ask a simple question: when is this going to be released? Curious. Thanks in advance for the answer.

My biggest worry, grown after reading 300 and change pages in this thread and watching every video from SoE live is that even developers don't really know what they are doing, they are winging it and hoping Landmark gives them enough content to work with, while they make eveyone overpowered...

I'm 40, I have a family, job and a kid, I still want MMORPGs, I don't want them a shit boring snore fest, I want involving games. Who cares if it's taking me 3 years to see it all? Somebody will see it in less time, so what? EQ is too old, graphically it makes me cry, EQ2 is old and changed too...

Problem is: during the pull, especially those that took long, only the puller was actually playing, everyone else (up to several dozen of players in raids) were sitting with a thumb up their asses trying to not fall asleep waiting for the single mob to come in camp. It can be worked on, so that...

I reinstalled EQ, I mean the real one, after ten years, just as a trip down memory lane. I managed to remember the account/password/email combo and the server where I had my characters (apparently only 4 of them are accessible). Apparently I have a silver status, because probably I gave them so...

Just saying, EQ2 had some very well done thunderstorms back in the days: I remember Antonica being dark, couldn't see shit more than 20 meters away and it was loud thunder after loud thunder, with lightnings brightening up the landscape. It felt fucking real and I remember being very impressed...

User upvoting and downvoting. Best content will emerge by itself, shit content won't be looked by anybody but the creator's dog. I think that's what they are aiming for as it makes sense imo. Neverwinter has something similar if I recall correctly.

Thanks everyone and thank you for the link, will have a look at it as soon as I can

I got a couple questions, maybe you guys can help: I quit EQ in 2004 and I'd like to have a look at the game once again, so I was wondering if my characters would still be available and where can I find info on what happened to spells/skills, game changes, etc. past 2004. I used to play 2...

During EoF/RoK it was brought up by some, maybe devs or players, don't remember. There were rumors about some skill consolidation (direly needed as my SK had something like 8 ae skills). At that point EQ2 had a small-ish healthy population of devoted fans to the game. Changing that game (5 years...

You can buy gems with RL cash, 800 gems for 10?. 100 gems convert to 3g (price fluctuates), so you buy 24g for 10?. A legendary weapon costs about 1200g or more depending on skin/type. So you are looking at a modest 500? investment for a weapon that offers a tiny stat boost and no real game...

Bag slots are QoL above a certain minimum, but hotbars? Exp gain rate is stupid, the way they did it, because now if I follow the questlines on rails, I eventually fall behind and face content above my level. Should have made the usual xp potions, but they had to be creative. SWtoR won't get a...

R.I.P Swtor. Fuck them. EDIT: there is something that keeps me on the "meh" side about EQ Next, hopefully I'm wrong, but still...

Fuck, now I have to download DDO... gonna ask a friend or two as well. Thanks Zehn.

Not denying it in the least, but I find it depressingly artificial. Every hoop you have to jump through is so fake it makes me laugh, avoid ae while dpsing may be too simple, after many years, but some fights get borderline comical in the amount of silly stuff you have to perform, the moscow...

In all honesty, I thought EQ2 was worse than WoW mainly for combat and some crappy animations, but I liked it for a lot of other features above wow, from dungeon design, to heritage quests and similar stuff. WoW was superior as a whole, but in the end it was the spammy 24 hotkey per rotation...