Recent content by Deruvian

Thanks for this. Was the caster DPS buff you refer to just something at the 120+ level? Or is this retroactive in some way (similar to the dot revamps)?

I played for maybe an hour or two a few cycles ago and thought it was a bit laggy and punishing. But I will definitely give the game a look once it goes live. Digging in for ever 4-hour long playtest just isn't interesting to me. I would take any extrapolation from the playtest dropoffs with a...

@Tuco I feel like you've gone through a few iterations of your six box setup over the years. Had a few questions if you could indulge: Could you describe a few different six box class setups that you've used and/or considered, and pros and cons of each To frame the above, what is the...

So is this guy just reporting on things he's claiming to have heard from industry sources? It's a little weird because he uses the same writing style on all the different posts he makes, though these are supposed to be from different sources. Perhaps he's summarizing or paraphrasing.

Yeah, doing it 5-man for the quest was very hard. The hyper fast roamer respawn and the care you needed to pull some of those rooms was always at odds. The zone respawn was also quite short so after a few rooms a wipe was usually a full reset iirc. And MC gear wasn't really a thing yet. Just...

We used shackle undead, mine control, and sap a ton in early pre nerf scholomance runs.

That list doesn't seem to have a + singing skill buff. Were those invalidated at some point? Voice of the Serpent or the Shei cloak are examples?

Not sure if related, but I believe OOC regen was added in DoDH, which would allow for these sorts of things much more readily than was previously possible.

I don't understand, are you trying to lecture me on if THJ was hard? I played on it, and live, and on emu easy servers. It wasn't hard. Chill. The challenges in all of these games are what you make them. If you are afk in a 40 man Luclin raid or afk pet cucking a Luclin boss on THJ, it's the...

And to be clear, THJ is vastly superior to the 3 box server for many reasons. But they were very similar. If you didn't play it's hard to know - which is the same as THJ. I don't like boxing either. I'd prefer not to. But you could choose 3 things (each of which were absurdly strong) that...

I mean I was able to take a home grown build, max it, make first on the server to 65 and kill Quarm within a 2-3 week window. I didn't know anything about PoP mechanics. In any iteration of actual EQ that's basically impossible. Sure, you can't be under geared, under AA'd or have a build that...

I mean THJ was definitely pretty easy mode. It was also fun and engaging in a way that other EZ servers were not. Torrid said he didn't get the appeal, which makes sense as he didn't play it and doesn't seem to really get how it's differentiated from other EZ servers. I do think there was one...

They were going until DoN I believe? There was a lot of space ahead.

The interplay between the multiple class AA's and the spell power/etc concepts they added made for a lot of fun builds. Things could be surprisingly powerful (or total shit). While there were certainly some meta builds, people were discovering new powerful setups all the time. Sometimes a new...

So is this game something we can play right now, or is it just random weekend alpha tests like EverCraft?