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Dark Souls 2 done. Okay, I was totally doing the Lud and Zallen fight wrong. If you fight them solo, the fight is WAY WAY easier. The second cat joins when the first is at like 30% HP, as opposed to 90% or so if you bring NPC allies. Also they have way less HP. Having NPCs distracting them isn't...

There's a pretty big difference between what I did in EQ and the stuff people are describing doing in WoW. I can't imagine grinding out dailies for rep every day for years and stuff like that. EQ wasn't really about grinding, I'd log on for raids and kill bosses / finish all of an expansion's...

All I have left is Frigid Outskirts and the two cats from hell, then I'm done with everything outside Elden Ring. Maybe I will Souls 3, there's like six weeks before SOTE. Depends on if time permits with the EQ stuff later this month. I've pretty much dropped Stellar Blade (for now) so that...

To be faaaaair, maybe since you were #1 DPS and he was last-place, she figured he needed stat improvements a lot more than you did and was trying to create another useful DPSer. I can't believe people spend their time this way. Played most of the WoW expansions for like one month each and did...

Oh that makes sense. Sounds like something necro and shaman could do more effectively than druid, in any case. Kinda want to try it now. Might do an SK bind rush of a certain epic mob that resides in a certain town and see how that goes with Boil Blood.

Agreed on VP. They did the same thing with Nu NTOV several expansions later. It's full of rare nameds (a lot of dragons that didn't get raid versions, like Vyemm and Dagarn) that are designed for very strong groups and drop really good stuff. Hardly anyone actually EXPed in there on Phinny...

All this talk about Veeshan's Peak reminded me that the Ring of Scale expansion (level 106-110) has VP as its final zone. It functions as both OW group content and a raid instance (most endgame zones are like that after a certain point). This VP revival is interesting because they re-did the...

Wait a minute, I remember this, or at least I remember Leycow and I remember hearing something about this happening, didn't know it was him. I was on the TT server at the time too. Leycow is the guide that showed up and gave me my JBoots after Hasten Bootstrutter ate my quest items (still, to...

By the time I was really playing for real (late 2004) the raid game was totally different and debatably a lot better. As a kid when I played in 99/00 before giving up for a few years, I didn't really get to raid much. I did a couple Velious raids that were kind of a flop as an un-epiced Rogue...

Went back to finish Dark Souls 2 DLCs. Man, these are super tough. I see why I never replayed them after the one time in 2015. Managed to beat Fume Knight thanks to someone putting down a summon sign. Guy with two giant swords with blue fire. I kept dying to Fume's second phase, but when I...

I asked about that after I finished the game and I don't think I got an answer. I'm not sure how the chapter select works. I think the best bet is to just load up the second to last chapter and run around doing everything in that if going for the plat, then start over at Chapter 1 for the Hard...

Not gonna lie, all of this sounds AWESOME. I imagine VP now is a pale shadow of a shadow of what it was then though. Still gonna be cool to finally see it.

At this point I'd hold over Metroid Prime 4 and make it a Switch 2 launch game. This would also give it around 4 more months of development time for them to try and up the resolution or whatever improvements Switch 2 allows. Think it'd be way more beneficial to them as a launch game than as a...

Yeah I'm not sure what they're thinking here. At least single-character people won't have as much work to do to keep up. The one thing I don't like about Teek is that the unlock cadence is a little too drawn-out. Also I'm surprised they still aren't consolidating expansions. LDON should be put...

Hard for me to imagine a time when your epic and all your other stuff would rot if you died in Veeshan's Peak and there was no backup raid available to do recovery. It was like Plane of Fear on steroids. IIRC you couldn't gate or teleport out once you zoned in either (you could be rezzed out...

That's a part of it for sure. Body Snatchers '77 was once my 2nd-favorite movie (probably) and now just gives me a combination of depression and dread. WOTW TV show was so good. Here's a shot from the first episode. The aliens were being stored in barrels at a nuclear dumpsite, and some...

VP medallion pieces can drop from anything in a zone now? How is this the first I've heard of this? That's huge. I assume the Burnished Wooden Stave medallion piece is unchanged. Also the ground spawns are what they should have put on mobs as well, and are what will cause drama, blech. Yeah...

Reminds me of me when I've been on painkillers, I'd bang out a big list of things I wanted to play and just plow them. What I'm playing: Eiyuden Chronicles (good, but kind of plain), Stellar Blade (hot main character, step down from the Fromsoft games I've been playing in every other regard)...

To add someone to a cheevo fight, do they have to be in the raid or can they just be in the DZ? IIRC mercs don't work in a raid setting and I imagine some of these fights are significantly easier with mercs. Wouldn't be able to drop them mid-fight to add people if it's /raidinvite. Every...

IIRC if one hadn't read anything giving it away, Covenant wasn't clearly a direct Prometheus sequel until around halfway through when they picked up the distress signal and David showed up. Up until that it was just an Alien movie that happened to have the same model android as Prometheus. It's...

Body Snatchers '77 hits very differently in the last few years after COVID/Floyd/CRT/etc. It's actually harder for me to watch now because it feels so much like real life. I also watched all of the WOTW show in 3rd grade ish. It coincided with when I got into the Zelda games, so I was playing A...

What are the odds that this will be the secret third movie in the Prometheus trilogy? It looks like it transpires on a space station full of sleeping colonists, there seems to be a horde of aliens, and the colonists were being killed in their hibernation pods. This is pretty much exactly how...

A few thoughts on classics that got remade: IMO The Thing 1982 is probably on the shortlist for best movie of all time. It says a lot that Quentin Tarantino's best movie, Hateful Eight, was heavily based on The Thing and even had the same star and composer. The 2011 prequel didn't understand...

I mean something that'll get wide attention / theater plays that is a major departure from the norm. Not the abundance of arthouse films out there, and they're great, but a big deal movie that might actually change the paradigm a bit and make it cooler to take risks. That's the vibe I get from...

You couldn't pay me to be in RI and most of that is due to stuff from Vaniki. Never played Oakwynd but not surprised at all that things went poorly over there. Nothing personal with anybody but there is such a thing as squandering good will, for sure. All of that said, the Luclin keys debacle...

Really rustles my jimmies that SKs get Endure Disease and Endure Cold, but only get Resist Cold. Makes no sense that they don't get Resist Disease, since their root class does (and Paladin does at 50). Most definitely this was a dev oversight that nobody ever noticed. Every time I look at the...

Yeah, an extraterrestrial race would have zero difficulty dispatching us if they had the technology to get here from somewhere else. For example, firing literally anything into the Earth at light speed (or even something close to it) could destabilize the entire planet, especially if it was...

Finally playing this. So far I'm not sure if I like it. The dodging and blocking are "off", or maybe they just have tiny windows of effectiveness. After playing through Bloodborne and having zero issues ducking and dodging through fights, in this game I'm pretty much getting hit by everything...

Nobody knows. Just a 60 FPS version of Bloodborne would be a huge deal and probably sell well. They don't even have to do anything else. I'm hoping it gets the full Demon Souls Remake treatment by Bluepoint though. It's the one thing that'd be worth doing that with next. They could do that as a...

What a bizarre story (the making/release of this movie). Having real people interact with the screen sounds like what James Cameron pioneered with the T2 3D film at Universal Studios. The synopsis sounds like a completely different movie from what the trailer shows. No idea what we're getting...

I'd bet money that the Eglin AFB UFO is some sort of secret project that's ahead of what China and Russia have, and they literally can't let it get out because it'd play our hand. If the disclosure people get their way, it's just going to turn out to be a super-advanced airplane from whatever...

Another one down in the Souls Speedrun, just have an ER replay left now which I'll prolly do in June. Thanks to the COVID I've had for 9 days I was able to plow Bloodborne already. Finished this one in 13 hours, similar number to the others. Str build for the first time ever. Only boss that...

Yeah that's a good call. Hell, as an SK I'm constantly dropping Ward Undead on mobs to get Evocation up at early levels so when I get decent-to-good undead nukes at 39, 49, and 55, they'll actually work right away instead of being completely useless out of the box. PSA: Ward Undead also works...

That was the thing that kept me from getting the 100% platinum in FO4 (after having a blast getting it in FO3 and FONV). The damn camp-building stuff. I did get the normal game plat, but only about 90% of the full game with DLCs. I tried doing the camp-building stuff and got totally lost with...

Didn't realize Cease and Desist were Luclin spells, but at least they still have Stun at level 28 or so. Still think they're the most Enc-friendly tank, since Ranger and SK's best aggro-generation spells are also DoTs. Paladin can also save the Enc with heals if the situation is dire. Agreed...

Worth noting that Paladin is the best tank for protecting Enchanters in a launch group. Best SK aggro at low to mid levels all involves damage, while Paladin can no-damage aggro their way through the mobs without breaking any mezzes right from the get-go. Hopefully more people play Paladins...

Is BA purchasable or is it a drop? Either way it'll be on the market quicker than the research-only spells. Lot of people will probably just skip over Allure because it simply isn't available in a timely manner (AKA in the first few days). Dammit, all of this making me want to run enchanter at...

Yeah, that's what I was saying before. The only downside to it is that you lose a bit of DPS time with the pet standing there. First mez should be your backup if stun fails on a charm break and stun should be the first go-to. The way things are now, if the stun doesn't work out, it's locked out...

It's true, that's pretty much me. 'Member Mearatas? I 'member. 'Member Grand Slam? I 'member.

Most fun I've ever had in EQ was swarm kiting as a bard box and PLing my main. Specifically in Underfoot, House of Thule, and Veil of Alaris. I don't remember doing it after that so that's probably when Vainglorious Shout got nerfed. I'd kite 40-50 mobs at a time and it was such a rush, because...