Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)
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Crone
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WorryPlaysGames
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They are doing quite a bit for the new TLP. Wonder what basic ideas that change - Kunark launch like Zaide said? They won't change BST/BER to make them playable earlier.
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Crone
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This is a good thing. Look forward to what future tlps bring us.
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RIP being able to lock the server out from doing Broken Golem...it was such a great wizard recruitment tool.
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Cinge
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I only ever play bard so I don't have personal knowledge of a lot of those, but looks good. A nice balance between just give away a epic and shit like enchanter/wizard/sk on a crowded server currently is.
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Sterling
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In kunark I think we had 27 wizards. Only 4 total wizards outside of TEB got their epic while we camped those 27 wizard epics. 3 of those were while TEB were racing expansion launch completion. Only 1 of those is while we were camping those 27 epics due to it spawning in the middle of us pulling OW trakanon in. You might have got some wiz epics in era, but it was definitely after we finished all 27 of our wizards and decided to open it to the server as we had recruited enough of em =)
Samuell, Monado and someone else is who finished their epic while we were doing the race. Playstation is who got it while we were doing OW trak.
Sunstrike from QM was another but we helped him get his.
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Evernothing
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Animosity
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We have been asking for years for a TLP that starts in Kunark. That would be an awesome change for once.
Bring back old Freeport and EC tunnel would too much of a pipedream.
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Yeah, the issue you ultimately run into is there isn't like a meaningfully difficult EQ raid until Vish in DoN, and even he can be beaten with like 20-30 characters in era. In some way DZ only would dissuade guilds from Zerging (you saw this on Selo where every guild other than mine actually turned members away for the first couple months), Selo having half dz lockouts and being into pure DZ content by like month 3 meant OW was only relevant on Selo for a short time and to a lesser degree than normal TLPs. But at the end of the day the mobs themselves are just extremely easy in EQ, even the hardest late era (like Underfoot+) content in EQ would be considered babymode PvE content in any modern PvE focused MMO.
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This isn't right, old era EQ management was pretty ban happy on people for being "creative." It's not like today where they see a strat they don't like (e.q. spamming clickies to play threat games, pulling Emp out of his room etc) and just patch it out, in the '99-02 era they would do big suspensions and bans for strategies GMs disliked even if there was no public "rule" about it. Back then server GMs were actually present on the servers daily and had tons of autonomy. Current CS only get involved if petitioned, and it goes to a team that doesn't even work out of the same office and has limited communication with the core Darkpaw employees, most of them barely understand what EQ is.
Conquest got banned back in 2000 or so in Velious for stuff that frankly was nothing compared to any of fifty exploits I've used on Daybreak era TLPs on raid content lol.
Edit-What's interesting is Blizzard kinda follows that old model with WoW. They regularly issue guild suspensions for doing anything during the early weeks of a new raid where it's obvious the guild is doing something against "the intended mechanics of the fight." Even if it's a Blizzard bug or whatever, they'll still do suspensions. The first couple guilds to actually do content Blizzard also monitors and will despawn events if a guild discovers a tactic they consider to be unintended gameplay, and won't let them pull the boss again until they hotfix it out.
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