Gravel
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Give it a shot, as you can make some decent progress in an hour.
But I played a good bit yesterday and I'm still only like level 20.
EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)
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But I played a good bit yesterday and I'm still only like level 20.
Drakain
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I also rolled on Stormhaven. It's fun and the content is nicely tuned, but it is slow and it's not really EQ to me. Yes it's the same classes, races, skills, etc... but I've never played some of these zones before. I'm used to knowing most of the classic OG/Kun/Vel items and progression and through the first 20 levels on Storm haven it's all different. It's really nice, but very different.
So I take it there was no luck with the more recent backup? I'd be willing to play on NL with a few bugs and some Rerolled GM for the occasional odd issue.
Louis
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Best backup they had was from the 4th? SirJames has a server up currently right now. Think I may just continue to play on that for the time being until I hit roadblocks of needing groups.
Drakain
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I know they had the one from the 4th or 5th, but there was talk a page or so ago of another backup from a day before the nuke. Didn't know if that fell through
Deruvian
Lord Nagafen Raider
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Gave SH a run. Basically played all night and got to 60 on an enchanter. Find myself stuck in some zone I've never seen before with a bunch of generic alien looking mobs (DON maybe?) and everything rapes me. All my gear is from like 5 expansions beyond anywhere I've ever played and I feel like the path forward takes me to increasingly random zones that I don't care about. Verdict is that level is definitely faster and more straightforward than NL, but something just seems to be missing for me.
Hosix
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Deruvian
Lord Nagafen Raider
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I mean I guess it depends on what you're looking for. Your merc will basically rape everything's face off and there is definitely autoscribing and tons of QOL stuff. It's just not the version EQ that I really want to play.
And I mean I got to 60 and an epic in an evening, which is faster than NL was by a lot. It's just not for me.
And I mean I got to 60 and an epic in an evening, which is faster than NL was by a lot. It's just not for me.
Evernothing
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I think the raids will be cool. Hopefully harder than NL raids, because they have all been a pushover so far.
Louis
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Louis
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Basically, SirJames said he'd be willing to make someone a GM to deal with things of that nature, but I'm pretty sure there's no one with actual eqemu dev experience to fix bugs and such on this one.
Secrets said all this in the discord channel.
Deruvian
Lord Nagafen Raider
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The gist, as I've come to understand it, is that Secrets has wanted to do a revamp of the underlying guts of the emu code for some time now and it was something that he and Maze were working towards. Paraphrasing, but I believe the idea is that he wants to be able to easily scale mobs etc across the entire game, which is different than what is on NL right now. I think he wants a lot of the same similar ideas, but it's not going to be a 1:1 clone at all, and may take a month+ to release.
Gravel
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I'm going to amend this, because I tried using a merc today. Unfortunately, the game starts you off on a path that takes you to Nexus, but Guild Lobby is really the superior zone.
Mercs kind of make leveling stupid fast. Not sure if that's actually fun though.