Recent content by Torrid

I always wondered why they didn't just make a server with new/different items and change the rare NPC spawns. So like you would enter gukbottom and not know where any of the loot was, and everybody got excited to check the modern equivalent to EQlizer to see this new stuff. That's the custom...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

It's always amusing when people tell me I'm wrong about something I wrote

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

I can't tell what is a parody or not anymore

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)...