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Yeah 100% on Blackburrow. They jammed way too many mobs in a tight area in several places. It was always a train-ey zone and now it's even worse.

Kerra isle is surprisingly good exp. The volume, density, respawn rate of 15-20 mobs there is enough that I don't think you could possibly run out of stuff to kill. The mobs on the good side for whatever reason don't summon pets, buff themselves/each other, and seemingly universally don't assist...

THJ was sort of like an ARPG. You could stack certain AA combos and get some broken results. You don't just accidently become unstoppable. You need to plan and tinker and farm through and eventually if you set it up right, you're a monster. but the builds can come online sort of slow and you...

What version of THJ is this? Busted bard shields songs?

Finally hit 50. Other than skips, rogue seems pretty insanely mediocre. May swap it for a wizard or something. Nec rogue Bard. It's not clear to me if the rogue poison passive is impacting the necro dots. Could obviously go shaman as well, but seems too easy.

How's the weather on Triune

I think it's hard to really decide what this game will be until Velious or so. Gear is too vanilla and unimportant. Stuff seems pretty easy, but I can't imagine THJ was a bastion of complexity in classic? What's funny is it seems we're basically playing to beta the thing, but there are a...

Yeah, it's definitely this. D4 agro range is significantly higher. Combined with the pet agro and the wall agro it can be a nightmare. Stuff just chains and chains and chains. I also found the same with pets, if you lull the mob, but not it's pet, the pet is very likely to independently draw...

Agreed on both points, Torrid. Places like d4 Mistmoore castle are basically unplayable if under leveled due to paper thin walls and thousands of pets everywhere. The pet issue also really diminishes the efficacy of lull. As far as I can tell, you need to lull the pet separate from the NPC. So...

and I guess doesn't require sitting?

Something that's weird is my nec has -2 hp regen (per the sheet) and I'm quickly regenning to full out of combat, not sitting. Seems like there's something above and beyond that I'm not understanding. Also I heard that if the mob has more than 1 class they have a higher chance of dropping...

What even happened to Lethar? Supposedly coming out in a month?

For the guys that have actually played this. Fun?

Server has been pretty cool as a casual. I'm multi boxing, taking my time. Exp as great. Tons of variety. Weird box combos etc. Maybe get into some small man raiding eventually. It's really no rush and the raid content is face roll, so not very concerned about it. People are chill. It's a good time.

Weird I was trying to check twitch and there's like 3 dudes streaming Frostreaver.

I think it's fair to go from EQL devs were likely involved in THJ shutdown -> disappointment the the THJ ripoff they produced is some totally different type of game. Especially after the initial billing made it seem like that was the intent. Everything ive seen implies the ousted THJ devs were...

The ten thousand years until PoP is just too much for me. I'd much rather a classic launch with normal expansion unlocks at that point. I think I'm going to end up rolling on Lethar instead because TSS is awesome.

Great summary. Thanks.

What's the TLDR on Ascendant? Most people boxing? Solo possible? Economy booming? Same triple build variety as THJ? If Perky didn't have that annoying scroll AA system and AA reset I may have stuck along longer. That combined with all of the jungle gear being infinitely better than anything...

Perky has been cool. It took a while to get rolling, but I am fully hooked atm. About to do rebirths on my primary guys. I get the impression it plays very differently than THJ at the high end, but the gear is in many ways a lot more interesting.

Making serious change to the THJ model I think is a major mistake and shows major hubris.

Did end up taking Perky a bit further. Having a lot of fun actually. The bazaar is a lot better when the server doesn't keep going down. Grinding MMM, just hit 40 and huge power spike with mythic armor and weapons.

If you start out SSF on Perky it's not very fast, at least in my experience.

Ive been really casually playing perky when I can. SSF. But despite the concept seeming pretty cool, I think the stability issues are just too much for me. Crashing or disconnecting fairly regularly. Weird mob pathing and agro stuff. Through walls etc. may be too frustrating to be worth my thin...

Yeah at very high end I think Fire and Vex Thal were best. But functionally DN was just insanely better than most anything for a long time. Also pet cuck was totally ridiculous forever. And most melee builds were trash? I think plenty of balance issues existed there.

I dunno, to me, Secrets and Rogean seem like a great combo to shepherd this forward. On the vision thing, first off, I assume they'll be able to involve other devs and parties give it's a super cool and unique project given the Daybreak partnership. I have a hard time blaming either of them on...

If we can get a Daybreak sanctioned expansion of EQ content through this channel where they can attract a slightly larger dev team and people don't have to be afraid of their actions being scrutinized, I see this as a win for EQ long term.

I still have a lot to learn, only level 30, but wanted to share a few things I've observed. One is that any mob that drops weapons or armor has a chance for those weapons/armor to be upgraded. I think most of the legendary drops are level 20 or 25 to start, but the epic ones can be lower and...

I'm still trying to figure it out a bit. Overcons in Perky are super hard. I was doing main room unrest with a 3 box and the pathing skeletal monk caught agro from the stairs and was hitting for like 180 a round. Gear probably gets crazy and Im just not used to it, but attacking reds seems...

I looked into it and then decided to do Perky crew instead. The weird stuff on the website about getting alt currencies for recommending friends to the server seemed really shady to me.

Crazy, I try to check this thread out from time to time for updates and its always the same 3 doomers endlessly reeeeeing to the wind. Give it a rest guys.

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...