Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)
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Zaide
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TLP raids are far harder than P99 raids, that's for sure. Classic TLP raid buffs:
1. Mobs have 4x the HP of original classic. This is closer to Velious mob HP than it is to original classic.
2. They mitigate 60% of all incoming damage (This is calculated after AC etc).
3. Being within like 200 range of them reduces all your resists by 40 points. It's like having a negative bard song going.
4. They do double damage, so Nagafen is hitting for 600 damage. Plane of Sky mobs are pushing like 1200-1500 damage, VP dragons are similar.
5. The more pets attacking the mob the less damage the pets do and more damage they take (assuming they take any damage since most people use an unfixed geometry exploit).
6. All pets xfer aggro to their owners, raid mobs will not attack pets other than w/ riposte and AE's.
The buffs that cause this are called Mitigation of the Mighty, Mark of the Old Ways and Presence of the Mighty, they're on all raid targets from classic - pop with the strength dialed back a bit in Velious and beyond.
After playing on TLP's for a decade I tried P99 Green/Teal, I did the server first dragon raids there and I was amazed at how braindead and easy it was. Nevermind the buffs TLP mobs have, but clickies, manastones etc further trivialize already easy content.
I like AoC's because they keep a server alive but produce raid content at 1/7th the rate (roughly) of OW, meaning it still pays to be a winner, and there is reason to do classic EQ shit.
I really dislike pickzones. Pickzones aren't really what people imagine when they think instancing, it doesn't feel instanced since you still have 60 people in Lguk, it's never a private dungeon experience, it just keeps the zones always close to their maximum classic occupancy.
The bad thing with pickzones is that it turns Classic EQ into GukQuest and UnrestQuest. Before pickzones there was a good reason to explore the rest of the world. Now you never see people in 90% of the classic zones and I think that's a shame.
1. Mobs have 4x the HP of original classic. This is closer to Velious mob HP than it is to original classic.
2. They mitigate 60% of all incoming damage (This is calculated after AC etc).
3. Being within like 200 range of them reduces all your resists by 40 points. It's like having a negative bard song going.
4. They do double damage, so Nagafen is hitting for 600 damage. Plane of Sky mobs are pushing like 1200-1500 damage, VP dragons are similar.
5. The more pets attacking the mob the less damage the pets do and more damage they take (assuming they take any damage since most people use an unfixed geometry exploit).
6. All pets xfer aggro to their owners, raid mobs will not attack pets other than w/ riposte and AE's.
The buffs that cause this are called Mitigation of the Mighty, Mark of the Old Ways and Presence of the Mighty, they're on all raid targets from classic - pop with the strength dialed back a bit in Velious and beyond.
After playing on TLP's for a decade I tried P99 Green/Teal, I did the server first dragon raids there and I was amazed at how braindead and easy it was. Nevermind the buffs TLP mobs have, but clickies, manastones etc further trivialize already easy content.
I like AoC's because they keep a server alive but produce raid content at 1/7th the rate (roughly) of OW, meaning it still pays to be a winner, and there is reason to do classic EQ shit.
I really dislike pickzones. Pickzones aren't really what people imagine when they think instancing, it doesn't feel instanced since you still have 60 people in Lguk, it's never a private dungeon experience, it just keeps the zones always close to their maximum classic occupancy.
The bad thing with pickzones is that it turns Classic EQ into GukQuest and UnrestQuest. Before pickzones there was a good reason to explore the rest of the world. Now you never see people in 90% of the classic zones and I think that's a shame.
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Kharzette
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24 was the limit in ye olden days. Any more than that and you'd flood out people's modems. They eventually added the commands to have the server send less spam but I kind of think that was in kunark maybe?
I remember having 30ish for VP so I guess we bumped it up a little.
I remember having 30ish for VP so I guess we bumped it up a little.
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Tuco
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What do you think a TLP would be like without pick zones?
Have they ever talked about limiting the # of pick zones based on the current population (meta pick zones, lol) such that if there were 500 level 50s online they would open 3 guks, but if there were only 100 level 50s online they'd open one?
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A week after Kunark releases does the game go from being GukQuest to being SebQuest?
Arbitrary
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The two different bundles with their 40 slot bags are bought with dollars but when Aradune launches and you're playing there you can buy the full suite of four hour pots and services.
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It's not quite as extreme but yes
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buy group exp pots, sell clicks for plat/krono, sell krono for cash, use cash to buy bundles.
its the circle of life
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Tuco
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Not sure what you mean by full suite there. When Aradune launches what in the below list will be available for Daybreak cash?
I'm tryna decide whether I want to use accounts with huge amounts of DB cash or the ones with less DB cash so I can build some up with the 500 monthly DB cash I'll get on those accounts.
Zaide
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The first few TLPs we didn't have pickzones and it was fine. The big issue was newbie zone content because you have thousands of players packing into like 5 zones all at once. They did picks just for those at first (North Qeynos, WFP, Nektulous etc) and it worked very well. Slippery slope happened though and they added them universally.
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Sterling
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You won't be able to use the daybreak cash for bags, those open up later. you can use all that cash to buy xp and other potions and stuff though. also the 500 monthly db cash can be 3 25 percent xp pots or sometimes heritage crates at a reduced cost.
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yerm
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51-60 in only kunark is still nowhere near as awful as 30-50 in classic. Seb really only supports 2 groups with decent spots for the latter 50s but it tends to get enough traffic of early 50s to spawn picks. Chardok can support a LOT of groups, and massive multi-charming or out of group mage pet ones at that. Most of chardok and shrooms+ seb are better late 50s than guk is for late 40s; classic really only has freeti (which is its own strain of aids) and oot goblins as "good" xp spots at the end of the spectrum. Kunark gives a massive quantity of 50- spots that let people spread out and not face the same options of either shitloot+boring oot goblins or RMT honeyhole freeti, or shit xp.
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