SoF was when they standardized gear and just tiered everything.When do focuses on gear become standardized? I feel like one of the few things that makes gear selection non brain dead is juggling focuses in the 70 era.
Yeah the specific slots having specific foci are fairly standardized with the SoF armor and forward, although even that is tweaked slightly over a longer span of time.SoF was when they standardized gear and just tiered everything.
I would agree Mangler is more on the Phinny trajectory than Coirnav, but I'm more talking about the kind of universal TLP trend we've seen and how truebox really starts to eat away at your player base past a certain inflection point. So far we have seen this on every single server (including Phinny) that has had a truebox ruleset. It's possible Mangler bucks the trend but I've not seen any reason to assume it will. Much like Phinny as long as you're willing to merge into another guild or absorb other guilds, at least some people there will reach live. But if you're not a tank or melee DPS main (and I really just mean Monk and Berserker) you're going to hit eras where I think the game isn't very fun outside of raiding, and some people are okay with that but a lot of people aren't.All that's true but Mangler is more similar to Phinigel than Coirnav is my only point. Zaide mentioned how Mangler was the most popular TLP according to a dev.
Mangler and Selo gutted an already struggling Coirnav. Mangler survived Aradune fine, probably because of the queue and lag issues Aradune had for a long time. Thriving through even one wave of new TLPs makes its future a lot better than it might have otherwise been.
Phinny has Resolute and Rosengard III still going in addition to OGC. Resolute still has more than a full roster of mains, but is more casual. They recently (I believe) announced they would not pursue beating TBL in era due to the 4-clears (or technically 3.5) required for each tier to unlock the next and the difficulty of the encounters. Rosengard I know is still raiding but I think at a reduced level compared to OGC and Resolute. Phinny I think was still at 5-6 guilds in VoA and then by TDS it ended up just being the same 3 guilds that are there now. This is not at all surprising, while the level 70 stretch is the first "bad time" on a TLP, the CotF-->TDS back to back are pretty brutal, two of the worst expansions ever released and one of them being a level increase expansion means Phinny was in it for 12 weeks.Is phinny down to just OGC at this point? i feel a huge part of that server surviving is Dima keeping that guild going, fippy died pretty late in the game too once the core membership had really shifted focus to phinny. I think mangler will be fine depending on when they launch the next TLP, launch it in March when people are really burning out in demi plane and its still a month and a half to TSS and you will hurt the population more than if it launches after TSS reinvigorates peoples desire to play.
At the end of the day the poor pacing by DBG in the 65 and 70 era is a huge drag on TLPs. They really should enable some of the catch up mechanics earlier like mercs and defiant gear to keep people coming in. Agree, they should also turn truebox off starting in DODH since that is when truebox ended on live servers.
Yeah so after a campaign of many months we've finally been told they have reached a decision about Selo, but we can't be told the decision until "sometime soon."The biggest issue is they still have is there is no end game with these TLPs. I mean Selo still doesnt know whats going to happen with them. Are they just going to be the only live server with AOCs and Truebox still enabled? All the dead servers which will limp along for years just wasting space basically have no idea whats going to happen either.
X2 I can’t believe I fell for those negativity on the internetI gotta say the TLP experience of EQ so far has been great.
I'm not into doing the same thing over and over again, such as classic, over and over, so this incremental TLP is really nice. And with MQ2 and boxes, it is really fun to play with a full group.
Right now this Covorterum flagging on underfoot is not bad at all. Underfoot is a great expansion so far.