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IDK how much it really factored in but it's one of the few new areas EQ2 added that fits in the vanilla EQ map. EQ2 fucked up the world map by splitting Antonica into a bunch of islands so many of the new EQ2 dungeons wouldn't really make sense. A castle on the outskirts of Nektulos though feels...

I'm not suggesting it's great content but here's what's kept me logging in: Leveling OP or core classes to 50 Unlocking all classes (and playing the storage game with quest drops leading into class specific gear that may or may not be bis) Testing out the meta builds (enc charm, bard ddd, this...

It's looking like, for dungeons in your level range at least, 3ish motes 1 level higher than your difficulty (major for D4) plus some additional zone loot. It appears the bonus loot is fixed and has nothing to do with zone size, number of named, or anything like that. A 10 minute befallen or...

We'll see on Sky. I'm done so it's unlikely I ever go back unless motes drop like candy. I view the "rare" and named tags as a double edged sword in Sky though. If you just cherry pick the quest drops you may not kill enough to trigger the end loot. If, for example, you need to kill both small...

From my understanding, every mob on isle 7 is flagged as "rare" and will be triple class on D4. Combined with being red you get maximum mote potential per kill. The question then becomes are you killing at the same speed as other D4s? I know the marginal gains are what power gamers are all...

This is also a great method if you're not strong enough to kill all 4 boss bees in one nonstop sequence. When the second boss spawns after killing the first, that spot becomes his spawn point and he will never path back to the front. At this point, even if you die, you can rebuff and invis back...

If you are any kind of enc or bard combo by far the easiest strat for bee is: invis to back side paci one of the little outside bees from max range - shouldn't draw agro if done correctly and/or range extension focus from through the cog pull the big middle bee which will also pull the other...

Yeah, hard to give up +10 weapons but part of this game to me is solving the gear puzzle. Things like CT gloves instantly rise to bis even if it's not for every class specifically because every class can use it. Same with the kerran neck. They may not be bis for every class or situation but...

I suppose for someone on their first run up to 50 bonus xp is nice but you quickly reach a point where motes are the only progression. While technically motes and xp are completely separate systems it's no secret that leveling on D4 red named is one of the highest mote yields vs difficulty...

I didn't hit my stride really until Kunark so I can't speak to the original original Sky but, really, it wasn't that out of family for those early EQ expansions. Veeshan's Peak and ToV are basically the same kind of raid zone. They went away from quests for gear for VP (epics were the class...

I don't have an answer for you because I'm fully in the nostalgia to separate the two but I'd be curious the answer. I've come across first time EQ players in groups and guild chat and they seem to enjoy things. You have all the benefits of 25+ years of maturity on classes, combat, and systems...

I know we're not the same players we were 25+ years ago but I think they've struck a nice balance of how things were with modern QoL. Admittedly I barely hit 50 before Kunark so I didn't grind the vanilla end game but I'm happy with EQL being a time-locked trip down memory lane. If you've...

I'm sure her version and mine would be hugely divergent but with regards to this movie she's not wrong.

Not only is "nothing on the line" but we don't have any sense of what the threat really is. All we have is Thor's monologue about how this scares him more than anything in the past. Yes, multiverse incursions are scary but we've seen it a dozen times already in Loki, What If, Strange 2, and...

I think one of the problems with the stingers and post credits post-IW is that we've rarely had any payoff. Maybe that changes with Doom but we'll see. In phases 1-3 the stingers almost always led directly into the next movie. Thor's hammer and Capt Marvel's pager being two obvious examples...

We'll have to see how much of the post-Endgame stuff gets incorporated. One of the main problems I see at this point is there have been a bunch of what can best be described as "false starts." The whole Kang situation. Whatever the Eternals was trying to show us. The ending of Multiverse of...

That was probably originally put in to account for marvel/disney kids programming. Marvel owns/creates the animated Spidey and his amazing friends shows that get a lot of airtime on Disney Jr as well as other kids animations that include Sony owned characters.

The Rebecca actress is pregnant right now (and as far as you all know I'm the father). I wonder if that's part of the delay. They managed Beth's pregnancy on Yellowstone but her wardrobe and demeanor is more conducive to hiding that kind of stuff. Beth wrapped in a blanket on the porch is...

I only watched season 1 of Mando and haven't watched any of the other SW streaming shows so feel free to tell me I'm wrong here. The impression I get from reading these threads, and also with the post IW Marvel offerings, is that they lack any kind of consequence to the larger universe. There's...

I don't give a shit that she's an actor and hasn't heard of the source material. I care that she graduated from a supposed "S tier" US university and, as zzeris said, has no clue about a foundational document for western civilization. Why is that? If your upbringing didn't adequately prepare you...

One of the issues I've noticed with heartbreaker, memento, and other stacking builds is there's a weird balance to difficulty levels. Challenging or lower and you often just don't get enough bad guys to really roll the stacks, but heroic or legendary it's more risky trying to grab backpack...

I don't know what the long term roadmap is, but protos are not really any different than other systems that have been put in place over the course of the game. Initially gear was all rng and you had to farm. Then once the no-lifers got full god roll sets they opened it up to optimization. Same...

I'm just curious how many upgrades I dismantled during my ronin farm. Barely enough time to even dismantle all much less actually look at what was dropping. Probably not any when I think about it as it was on normal.

I would say it's pretty friendly to get back into either from a long absence or completely fresh. With targeted loot you can get completely functional builds on the easiest settings which don't even require any cohesive gear to be successful. That gear will be marginal stats but the set bonuses...

I love the pestilence but I realize I don't know how it actually works in conjunction with other stuff. Is the dot the amount that direct hits from the pesti land for? So with overdogs I target a red first I'll get a 30% bigger dot? And what happens when it transfers after kill? Are all the...

If it really is fixed I wonder if they'll tweak the intended drop rate. The community blew past the first reward faster than anticipated but my guess is donations grind to a halt. The players most likely to donate because they already had god rolled named were the ones hammering the spawn bug...

That's a tough one. Sure, for the people running around with the sole intent of farming Kits a fast cooldown would be nice but there are people trying to do other things open world. It's easy to say "they should want kit spawns anyway even if they don't think they do" but think how annoying it...

Maybe I've just been lucky on key drops but I think the drop chance is per individual kill, not the group. I've gotten at least two keys per spawn at least twice now which is why I think this is the case. So a normal 10 minute spawn gives you 5-6 chances at a key which should be around a 25%...

The old me would hope any "retcon" isn't really changing the story and just showing something from an angle we didn't see in Endgame. Perhaps lost in the background of that final fight was some X-Men or F4 or someone. They were there but we didn't see them in Endgame. The story and result were...

I don't know if it's real or not but it "feels" like the various reward caches give stat rolls at least on par with challenging. I guess it makes sense since the caches themselves aren't tagged with difficulty tier. Following the quantity over quality idea you could speed run cache rewarding...

When I say I made a bulwark build what I really meant is I put on a crappy IA mask and holster. Never bothered to mod anything or look for better drops. I only played it for one mission to check it out. In hind sight I probably should have at least tried to put some skill cores on to boost the...

Yeah, I got the Tempest blueprint on one of my first retaliations and promptly made a bulwark pistol build to lol face tank shit. Of course I suck at paying attention to getting flanked while laughing and get killed anyway.

It almost feels bad coming back after a long time off. I worked my ass off for some rare items and exotics back in the day and they drop like candy now. An hour or two of priority missions and you get as many exotics as you used to get in a week of farming.

This is what I've been running a lot lately too except I'm using UA mask that I got god rolled. I'm not even sure Capacitor is that much less in real terms. The stat sheet does a weird thing where it doesn't immediately apply the skill tiers to the damage unless you flip to the stats page and...

While I don't have it personally, there are quite a few people with the quickstep manhunt still in their log. You can farm the robo dogs without killing the main target and get the Quickstep and other xmas drops pretty quickly.

End game is tough to answer in LOTRO. Currently there's one raid and 3 instances at max level. They each have 3 difficulty tiers. There's also 4 landscape raid targets that are essentially zerg fests since there's no cap on how many players can engage. That would be end game in the traditional...

The Harad instances are alright. They feel a bit long currently but that will get better as people gear up and learn the strats. I'm not a fan of moving the harad dailies to quest boards rather than auto bestowed. Sure it sucked the first cycle figuring out where to go, but now that they're...

That's kind of been the challenge the whole life of this game. The "plot" and main gameplay intends for you to explore the galaxy, make your way to the core, and keep finding new places. Then they put in decent base building, farming/mining/production loops, and surface based gameplay like this...

It's been a long time but I recall having success with melee mounted using the /follow command. Matches speed and usually turns fast enough to keep within skill range. Might be worth trying.

I seem to remember at the end of S1 when Monty died they said MTex was wholly owned by Monty/Demi. They just made a new board on the spot in the hospital of Demi, BBT, and the lawyer. There are individuals/companies/banks that have contracts with MTex but I'm pretty sure BBT and Demi told them...