Everquest II

Penalty · Jun 27, 2017

Wait, so they changed every single spell in the game, and refuse to give any more information, numbers, etc. right before the new TLE goes live?

Fucking lol

Its nearly impossible to be more fucking retarded than the current Eq2 team

Calbiyum · Jun 27, 2017

Tearofsoul said:
Browsing eq2 forum, there are two semi-hardcore raiding guilds forming for the new TLE - Neustart (EST) and Dissonance (PST)

Which guild are you guys gonna be in? Personally I am more toward PST guild since I got home & stay up pretty late even I am on EST

If I was going to grind up to 50 I'd literally just get every player that is 20 levels above everyone else and kill everything before any guild was able to.

Anyone see any word on vit pots?

Jimbolini · Jun 27, 2017

Tearofsoul said:
Actually with the exp potion, grouping experience on the first TLE was enjoyable: Fallen Gate/Sormhold -> Ruins of Varsoon -> Runnyeye -> Temple of Cazic-Thule -> Solusek's Eye/Permafrost

Btw, I think I am going to join Dissonance and see how that guild does (unless there are other options), prob won't see much for the first month or two, will let you guys know.

I inquired with that guild as well....going to see if they have a stable setup.

Like you said, first couple weeks says alot about who will play semi-serious

Tearofsoul · Jun 27, 2017

chorboy said:
Sounds like some pussy shit to me but okay !

I know right? I mean relax people, it is just a TLE, but yet drama still exists.

Calbiyum said:
Anyone see any word on vit pots?

Pretty sure vit pots is/will be available, they are the $$$ for DBG

Jimbolini said:
I inquired with that guild as well....going to see if they have a stable setup.

Like you said, first couple weeks says alot about who will play semi-serious

Unless DBG made some serious changes on T5 contents, 90% of those raids aren't that meaningful as Calbiyum already pointed out. I am pretty sure we will see merges, disband of guilds upon DoF release and starting to stabilize from there.

Jysin · Jun 27, 2017

The biggest mess raiding EQ2 to me was the 24 person raid cap. They had 24 classes on release and some raids straight up needed 1 specific class in every raid group. It meant right out the gate that raids required fewer people than they even designed classes for. Not to mention, you had people coming from EQ1 used to raiding with 48-72 people. Guilds that moved over just had tons of people sitting out. That was the core of EQ2 raiding. You need to field enough active members to be successful, which meant having extras in case someone no-showed. Every single damn raid was full and had people sitting on the sidelines unable to participate. It never sat well with me. The cap of 24 is just far too small. (FWIW I played Beta through RoK, came back for SF and finally quit for good during the train wreck that was DoV)

Jimbolini · Jun 27, 2017

Just like old times lol

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The Fallen Gate server launch at Noon PT has been delayed for a bit. We'll update you as we have more information!

Penalty · Jun 27, 2017

Flood of players trying to log in no doubt causing this delay

Calbiyum · Jun 27, 2017

Their stormhold launch was actually pretty flawless i thought.

Calbiyum · Jun 27, 2017

Penalty said:
Flood of players trying to log in no doubt causing this delay

Id imagine there was more people last time around and they almost launched it a few hours early

jsquirrel · Jun 27, 2017

Fallen Gate's available now. I'm stuck at having my name approved though...

jsquirrel · Jun 27, 2017

Disconnected me now my name is taken @.@

jsquirrel · Jun 27, 2017

So I'm Volz the Ratonga Coercer now. LFG

Calbiyum · Jun 27, 2017

Adv vit pots are on marketplace

Sadre Spinegnawer · Jun 27, 2017

Friday said:
After Avatars were on farm for a bit I think. Stryph and the Officers performed a hostile take over of Defiance from Cosmic when he temporarily transferred guild leadership to Stryph so he could change his characters name to Gravitas.

Stryph kept the guild leadership and told Cosmic to bounce in ventrilo.

Its been so long I forget when this happened. I forget if you were still around by that time but I want to say it was well before the guild was doing Wuoshi. It was definitely around the time that the Avatar raids we're new.

Cosmic had gotten really sour in game and in vent threatening people with gkicks for even talking during the raid. It got real bad people were talking about leaving.

Anyways. Yea. EQ2 drama was super fiery back then.

Defiance got toxic. I eventually left the server, but it was after we had Emerald Halls to farm status. I used to chat with members still in the guild and they said all kinds of nonsense was happening. As near as I can remember, the GL just got very wrapped up in himself and his inner circle. Not sure who the GL even was, can't remember. I moved on cuz life is too short and eq2 was, ultimately, kind of ez when all is said and done. Think I moved on to Dracos Argent, but forget which server they were on.

edit: and not even sure if ACT is still the parse program of choice. But it was getting kind of ridiculous. I app'd to NPU at one point and auditioned, as it were. They simply measured my stats on ACT. I am not the sharpest dude on the block, but I am still reliable and was playing a lot those days. But no matter. ACT said I was 10% less dps than another coercer app.

I always wondered, do these people parse everything? Do they hook up ACT to their jaws as they eat dinner? "Hah, I was masticating 15.7 protein mass per chew, you only were hitting, at best, 13.8. My teeth outparse you."

I found that end result of parse madness so sad.

bytes · Jun 28, 2017

Calbiyum said:
Adv vit pots are on marketplace

This is really the only point of this server. Just tried to do Isle of Refuge. Finished my quests and ended up on level 3, my only remaining quests now are level 6.

Fantastic progression really.

Calbiyum · Jun 28, 2017

bytes said:
This is really the only point of this server. Just tried to do Isle of Refuge. Finished my quests and ended up on level 3, my only remaining quests now are level 6.

Fantastic progression really.

Go to neriak/frostfang peat bog etc. Gotta move around a lot. I agree the scaling is fucked but adding vit pots at launch is just a pay to win cash grab

RobXIII · Jun 30, 2017

Calbiyum said:
Go to neriak/frostfang peat bog etc. Gotta move around a lot. I agree the scaling is fucked but adding vit pots at launch is just a pay to win cash grab

Well yeah, this is why they release these a few times a year. Almost no dev costs and nearly pure profit. The amount of vitality pots and bags they sell must keep the lights on for DBG. A few guildies were bitching that one pot only got him one level in the 30s lol. /sigh I hit 10 and will wait for my vitality to naturally come abooot.

Calbiyum · Jul 1, 2017

I remember vitality on Stormhold was pretty insane when they released the pots but it wasn't for 2 or 3 weeks

RobXIII · Jul 3, 2017

This server makes me think DBG is testing just how many times people will do the 'fresh start' thing. This exp feels way slower than when Stormhold launched. Stormhold of course is now dead (/ all showed 24 people yesterday, probably bot groups who didnt get the memo). RIP

Raid guild mostly moved to this new server, and I can't stand the 0.005% a kill and .005% a quest exp without buying pot$, so I I'm out :*(

Kreugen · Jul 3, 2017

Mildly curious, this time did they take the level 10 quest items and move them to the raid bosses?

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