Recent content by Torrid

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    Path of Exile

    Yeah it's the map mods. Multi projectile wrecked me several times. (including the Niko deposit death) I leaped right next to them ahead of my snake and they shotgunned me. I'm a one league a year or two player so I have to re-learn much of the game every time because I forget so much, plus...
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    Daybreak Sues The Heroes Journey EQ EMU Server Devs

    TAKP has all of 45 people online right now and we never advertised our server anywhere because it was a preservation project and not a money making endeavor. TAKP has always had a low population problem which was kind of depressing for me because I thought the project was very successful in...
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    Path of Exile

    I have a 4800 armor chest with 8% phys reduction, 10% phys damage to fire implicit on it, my merc has Kaom's Binding, I have 82% all resists, 5.6k life, armor and evasion flasks on a Marauder and I die so much I'm stuck in level 94. I just died to the golem things on a Niko deposit.
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    Daybreak Sues The Heroes Journey EQ EMU Server Devs

    I would help Daybreak with a true classic server for free. I would also love to see some kind of profit sharing arrangement with studios and amateurs which allow for an explosion of creativity of game design but I understand that's not very realistic unless the game from the ground up was...
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    Daybreak Sues The Heroes Journey EQ EMU Server Devs

    I worked on EQ emus for 10 years so here's my take. I don't blame Daybreak for shutting down emus that are profiting from their IP like this. Some of us emu guys are mad because they're not only profiting from Daybreak's assets but also our emu dev work. They broke the big rule. This brings...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    The DeFi contracts they made do actually work: you can use them permissionlessly. You don't actually need Uniswap's website to exist to use the contracts and exchange tokens, it's just that it takes some technical ability to do so. Uniswap in fact banned some tokens from their frontend website...
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    Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

    It's always amusing when people tell me I'm wrong about something I wrote
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    Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

    Dex does increase wizard innate crit chance, but not AA crits. Dex and Int both increase wizard innate crit chance by an equal amount. Dual wield chance is entirely skill and level based.
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    Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

    Some observations (these are not necessarily intended to be complaints or suggestions) after playing today: * Melee hits can stun, which make your character turn. In EQ this only occurred (not always) from a bash (or an attack from behind if moving), and turning you only if your character was...
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    Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

    Give everybody a 10x exp bonus then. It's quality of life!!! And yes rangers are considerably stronger than classic warriors. My groups have a ranger tank and he's got more AC than the paladin right now and aggros better than anybody. Our wizard can quickly delete the first mob in a large...
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    Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

    When people say "QoL" I read it as "EZ mode". WTB a server without EZ mode. Pets taking exp and class exp penalties were there for a reason: because those classes were OP. That's how games were designed back then, they 'balanced' classes with these kinds of penalties instead of making...
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    Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

    Assuming the code is working as intended, the rule works like this: a SINGLE pet must outdamage EVERY OTHER ENTITY combined to take an exp share. If the mage and necro are tossing in a few nukes then this is unlikely to occur as the higher damage pet would need to out damage the lower damage...
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    Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

    I can't tell what is a parody or not anymore
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    Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

    Exp on Quarm is faster than what it was in 1999 with the removal of class penalties and the quests I investigated are using the higher end of my estimates for what they were, and some of the quests gave higher exp than they should have (Kelethin mail gave 2x what it should have before the nerf)...
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    Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

    Whites grant a ton more exp than blues, so max your defense skill by having level 1s beat on you and buy all the armor you can so you can kill whites, then leveling won't feel bad