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Ugh. This will have to be summarized so I can determine if I need to change my plans.

I have discovered through this thread that the only "principle" I have these days involving video games is: If it sounds fun I'll try it, and if it is fun I'll play it. And I'm totally good with that.

I guess "sources" oversells it a little lol. My sources are just reporters I follow that specifically cover this stuff. Fwiw it's super hard to get full/accurate/fast info on crypto-related things because: 1. It's still very much a tertiary concern for trad fin reporters. 2. Most of the...

Well, something just happened to turn the prediction markets negative. Not clear what. Someone got insider info.

Any of you with experience on this server have a read for Pal/Enc/Wiz? The more I keep seeing on here, the better the combos seems. Pally for survivability: plate, defensive stance, LoH, heals, buffs Enc for haste, clarity, CC, lull, aoe mez, AOE STUNS, charmed pet dps Wiz for pure fucking...

Ok fine it was a dumb thing to say lol. But just kind of proves my point that everyone is going to want stun resist via race or aa at some point.

Yep, market definitely seems to be anticipating passage. My sources are telling me that the White House has agreed on an "ethics package" which was the thing that was holding things up. I think that's boosting the sentiment. There's a big but there- some of the holdouts that were demanding the...

Good to hear. I think he was talking about melee stuns actually but he's not great at the game these days (if I'm being honest), so I took it w a grain of salt. That said from my own previous experience playing many eq server builds, ogre stun resist is always head and shoulders about every...

Going to give this a shot at launch. Very much want an Ogre pally main.

Yeah friend played beta briefly and was complaining about stuns. For 22 AAs you get ogre equivalent or better?

Anyone get a read on how important Ogre stun resist is? This one of those "you'd be crazy not to play an ogre" servers?

Lots of young people, actually. Gen z I guess? Whichever one is after that? Can't really understand it- hardly worth it other than a few rare exceptions

It's about $60 where I am after taxes for 2 tix, 1 large popcorn, and 2 large drinks. That's more or less the cost of the game and 4 months sub. Edit: looked it up- after taxes it's more than $60, actually. One reason I don't go to the movies much.

Tbf the box price plus the sub cost is next to nothing. I mean one night out at dinner with a couple old fashioneds equals the price of the game plus about a year worth of monthly sub fees. It's not that people care so little about their money, it's just very difficult to get worked up over so...

Looks like a bug. If you pick up a primary pet class, your pet hp increases by 100%. Picking a primary pet class first screws you because the enc isn't a primary pet class, so you don't get the bonus 100% increase. It's obviously unintended. Easy fix is simply increasing pet hp by 100% for...

I was envisioning aoe for mass trash mob killing for AA farming- rain spells apparently don't hit you here so nothing stopping you from spamming yourself with aoe and rain stuff after grabbing a group of trash mobs. Pally for heals/buffs/survivability and Chanter (or bard) for cc and mana regen...

Anyone fuck around with a wiz yet? I'm imagining some pretty badass burst/aoe combos involving a wiz/pally/enc mix but not sure how viable something like that would be when actually played But I haven't heard anything about wiz so far and I'm wondering if it's a lackluster class or no one has...

If you're haunting a thread about a game you think sucks, you're a loser. Sorry. Totally fine to think a game sucks. It's even totally fine to post in a thread and mention you think it sucks. But after that if you're still hanging around beating what you obviously think is a dead horse, you...

These are awesome. Adds whole new levels of strategy to the way the game is played.

Stances and invocations?

Seems like the hp regen from shm regen line, plus necro leech line, plus iksar race regen would be amazing. Damage output from monk would well exceed warrior, plus FD to bypass content, mend, monk weapons, etc. Slows, buffs, haste from the Sham (all the reasons mnk/shm make such a great duo)...

Was considering WAR/SHM/NEC but really seems like MNK/SHM/NEC would be one of the better combos out there.

Hearing good things about Warriors but not sure what the appeal is over something like a pally as the tank element in a trio. They have something particularly good on this server, or is the little extra AC/hp really worth it?

Games generally need to be at least be challenging to be enjoyable (unless you are a small child). But it's fair to say that more challenging doesn't necessarily equal more enjoyable.

Yeah it was some attack benefit that no other classes got. Maybe I'm thinking of monk weapons. I'm assuming that a monk/pal on this server can dual wield monk weapons but you can't dual wield 1h pally weapons, right?

No worries. I think there was some huge benefit of adding a monk to pretty much every melee class in thj that I heard doesn't apply here but honestly I can't remember the details so 🤷‍♂️

Iirc back on thj people were playing monk/pal largely for monk quad attack with pally weapons but I heard you can't do that on this server?

Plan to play live but have largely been too busy to pay much attention to beta. Sounds like pal/shm/monk is a pretty good combo. What makes it great? And why are you starting enc and swapping to shm at 40?

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Update: sold all my Bitcoin for KAS

This is pretty much exactly where I am. But the ETFs are new enough and significant enough to make me feel not so confident. I will absolutely sink some funds if we get down to 50K but I'll probably take some bites before then too honestly. I rarely try to catch the absolute bottom because I'm...

The current drawdown is the shallowest on record relative to prior cycles, roughly 41% off the all-time high, compared to 84% after 2017 and 77% after 2021. If the institutional absorption thesis is correct, the floor keeps rising. But Id be surprised if it is as high as 41%. Could be wrong tho...

Lot of whales buying. So funny. Saylor sells 32 BTC and causes a huge panic, the price crashes, and then he scoops up 1550 BTC at a huge discount a week later. Sheep will be sheep and wolves will be wolves, I guess. Fwiw, I don't think we've seen the bottom yet. We are still tracking the 4...

Crypto has never really left speculative asset territory. There's a huge pivot to AI right now, and that's acting like a huge vacuum, sucking up all the speculative money- a lot of which was previously going to crypto. Add to that the inflation/interest rate issues, which have dried up a lot...

I guess I'll be the contrarian here and say I don't mind paying a subscription at all. I didn't stop playing EQ live and start playing the emulators back in 2004 because of the subscription cost. It was simply that Live no longer offered what I was looking for. My gaming budget these days is...

I don't give a shit about any of that tbh. All I care about is the game they are making. I don't expect them to be "spotless" or "saints." I have no expectations at all, honestly. I'll check out the game when it's available and if it's fun I'll play it. If it's not, I won't.

You just invented Samdaman.

Yeah banks basically won that battle. And it was a big battle. Doesn't matter, tradfi's days are numbered. Their intransigence will only hasten their demise.

Him, then. Wasn't intentional

Personally wasn't interested until I saw that both Rogean and Secrets were collaborating on it. Rogean obviously has a really good grasp of what made classic EQ great. And after playing Project Quarm, I personally have a ton of respect for Secrets and her ability to balance common sense...