The Heroes Journey (Multiclass EQemu Progression Server)

mkopec said:

Reading some of the "bug" reports on discord, I think they are trying to sneak some AFK bullshit into the game. Basically if you are flagged as AFK, not moving for xxxx amount of time, no mobs will spawn in the zone.

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Yeah, noticed some AFK text around 9am central this morning when I was autoattack parsing against Jaled Dar. The AFK flagging seemed extremely aggressive (it didn't seem to take into account toggling attack or hard spellcasting at all), so they're not off to a great start. Thankfully I was able to AFK level up an item in DN overnight before this went into effect.

Edit: Text displays in the "Other" category. You can see that even though I was active, it still kept me as AFK until I actually moved (and in this case, it was Lev dropping that "moved" me). I'd also swapped out a bunch of pieces of gear/augs during the time I was AFK, so no cursor detection either. Don't see how a macro that toggled attack/casted spells couldn't be used to just press a direction as well heh.

[Sun Apr 06 09:25:47 2025] Auto attack is on. ---- this is about where I stopped moving
[Sun Apr 06 09:30:51 2025] You are now AFK. World positions will no longer update until you move.
[Sun Apr 06 09:32:21 2025] Auto attack is on.
[Sun Apr 06 09:32:22 2025] You begin casting Aspect of the Reptile.
[Sun Apr 06 09:39:18 2025] Auto attack is on.
[Sun Apr 06 09:39:24 2025] You begin casting Aspect of the Reptile.
[Sun Apr 06 09:39:18 2025] Auto attack is on.
[Sun Apr 06 09:39:24 2025] You begin casting Aspect of the Reptile.
[Sun Apr 06 09:43:02 2025] You can no longer levitate.
[Sun Apr 06 09:43:02 2025] You are no longer AFK. Syncing world positions.

Also triggered during the middle of a Seru fight (where I'm spamming spells and using discs), very nice implementation-
[Sun Apr 06 10:21:22 2025] You begin casting Ro's Shadowed Flame.
[Sun Apr 06 10:21:22 2025] Your Elder's Armbands of Ro (Legendary) begins to glow.
[Sun Apr 06 10:21:22 2025] Auto attack is on.
[Sun Apr 06 10:21:24 2025] Lord Inquisitor Seru shouts 'You have come uninvited. I invite you to die.'
[Sun Apr 06 10:21:24 2025] Lord Inquisitor Seru is surrounded by an outline of dark flames.
[Sun Apr 06 10:26:21 2025] You are now AFK. World positions will no longer update until you move.

Would be funny if you could stall Seru/Zeb out for 5 minutes to trigger the AFK, and then their adds wouldn't spawn in after.

mkopec said:

It looks like a shitty implementation since some bosses or better yet some bosses with some class combos take longer than 5 min, which im assuming is the AFK clock looking at your log. And while you are fighting a boss you dont necessarily move at all, lol.

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Yeah fixed my log to show when the start of the fight was (presumably I stopped moving right before casting).

Supposedly this AFK detection was only intended to be implemented for the Bazaar (would make sense to reduce the lag in the 200/200 shards), but it's still affecting players outside of it right now.

Signets were down to 160k yesterday so I used all the plat I've made in PoP so far and outfitted all my alts with them, 4 sets plus a single for 1 pet. I don't see them dropping much further than that and they are back to 240k right now, so nothing else to spend plat on now since the Zeb combines are kind of meh.

Funny I was trying to afk get some AA's on an alt last night. First time doing anything AFK since early March. Shit timing.

krismunich said:

On the topic of the afk exp situation I'm a bit worried lately that these guys take it too seriously after their huge success. Exp is so fast and who cares if some people afk their AA, really? THJ is amazing because you level fast, stuff is somewhat easy to kill and gear easy to get. That made the difference to live where everything is slow. Well not compared to 99 EQ you know what I mean.
The attunement changes to augs, T3 PoP, Sep and other changes I am bit worried that they fck up things, really. On the other hand their plans for hardcore and solo self found sounds good (recent podcast on YT with Stoic).

However if they want a challenging game with their three classes concept in which meta builds can't faceroll the content they can only achieve this at the cost of punishing the casual players. If encounters are designed to be challenging for BIS pet cucks and SK/ROG/SHM or MNK/BER/CLR then Dany the DRUID/WAR/RNG with this mediocre gear will be fucked forever.

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The problem is that it's a luxury only a certain combo gets access to. You can just afk level shit and save thousands of plat while you're at work.

Why should pet classes get the advantage of that, plus ALSO being arguably the strongest build when actually AT the keyboard as well? If they want "afk exp" to be a thing, it needs to be a mode you enable and it just gives you X amount of exp passively, then as soon as you interact with the game somehow, it automatically turns off. That way everybody can take advantage of it, rather than just the privileged classes.

Is Radiant Cure AA worth it for curse related fights, or is the 3 min cooldown too long to matter?