Doesn't have anything to do with level? I resisted 100% of Ragefire's fears, but only 25% of Talendor's.
All resists are effected by level - not sure what their levels are offhand - but assuming Ragefire is say L60 and Talendor is L70 Ragefire would be like a -150 resist check, and Talendor would be more akin to a -250 resist check (I think? It's been a while but -10 per level seems to be what I'm recalling, might be -20 or higher though)
There are two different fears used by the various dragons. Dragon Roar and Dragon Fear, one has a negative resist mod and the other does not. Ragefire uses the Nagafen AE (I believe) so it's much easier to resist. Sev/Tal/Gore use the -150 Fear so you need to be over 300 MR to reliably resist them.
yep we see that all the time, we just had a necro who was bragging he was #1 on magelo, but he never made any parses. then we asked him what he was doing and he said he was lifetapping the bosses.
I think its the nature of the beast playing on TLP's with such high attrition, you almost have to teach people to play if you want to keep going.
Necros dont really need gear tho, get the focuses and thats all you need to top parses. A strong knowledge of each bosses resist checks is the big thing you need I think, since you want as many dots as possible memmed that will land.
Or you know, you could just get a solid crew in the first place and try to make sure things are in place to keep attrition low....
I imagine if they do give DZs like the "Holidayish 2015 TLP" is going to have to RF/LJ they're going to remove the buff as well - having two modified variants of the same thing has caused issues before. [the instanced Nagafen thing was busted on Live for a bit and wouldn't work at all when Mitigation of the Mighty was first added on the TLPs - no idea how the code interaction happens, seems illogical to me - but clearly there's some sort of connection since even Devs weighed in and said as much when Live players were discussing it being borked]
If they kept the buff it would be cute, I wouldn't even call it challenging. We had to do Trak and VP with 35 people initially with the zone caps and even with MoM its not really even a challenge.
I enjoyed the buff personally - but I'll be really annoyed when they stop it after Velious or whatever and then the next xpac opens and it's literally hitting for half as much and is a complete joke in comparison... will remove the sense of progression to the progression server.
Funny, it's really not depending on who you play with - I've not played with flighty shits, so we had 80-90% of the same people throughout all my EQ experience from my first serious guild up through Combine-era - people that stuck out at least 2 years at a pop, more than a few of my guildees on Stromm where I still play lightly are still there after something like 12 years. [One of the leaders has been there for the entire time, mind you]
Man come on dude, you're known for being some random anonymous clown shit posting in the tens of thousands on the official forums and nothing else lol. This might be hard for you to understand but there is people like us who like to race and that's the reason we play. When DBG forced the rotation it caused a lot of attrition because we don't want the hand holding and instancing like you do.
Well, DHS originally pulled him at 100% untouched, but we were unprepared and got it to 67% before wiping. We rezzed and buffed and moved to where it had wandered, still un-engaged by others but our puller got too close to the group so we ended up fighting it with 4 adds, then 6, then 10, but got it to 37% before wiping. This is when whichever other guild (we thought it was Sad Dragons) that was there decided to pull him, wiping at 4 or 5%. We finished rezzing about 60% of our people and found it alone again at 7% so we finished him off. I'm not sure about the resists stuff. Most of our resistances came from spell buffs and bard songs. I believe we only had around 47 people and only had two levels 60's and 3 or 4 others over 58 and a lot of 50-54s. It was a rough fight and not worth the pathetic loots that dropped, but nice to get the kill.
He must have gone back up to 100% after Amicorum wiped on him 2-3 times. Someone was probably stoked to get some scales at least.
Yep, only sold multiple $2k+ value characters back in the day, because I'm a "nobody". Someone that enjoyed racing back in the day, and beat the shit out of basically everyone along the way. There's a world difference between normal civilized racing that happened on the half a dozen servers I played seriously on (not to mention the additional servers including FOH's home of Veeshan [why I originally joined this community] I experienced indirectly as a guide) and what happened on Vulak and RF/LJ - the only close fit I experienced was early Tallon Zek. [And note: Not even hit 10k posts on EQLive, doubt I ever will - much less multiples =p]
Hmmm... on all the servers I played on there was one guild that was miles ahead of everyone else and then the 2nd tier guilds rabidly fought each other and had GM interventions with at least 50% of their "races." Veeshan was probably one of the worst servers for this. I bet you there are logs still around of Fiends vs. Kratos and PD and all those guilds.
