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Nah there are people arguing that slow combat sucks or auto attack sucks or whatever. They shouldn't even judge if they haven't experienced it for themselves. It really did not suck. I'm in the middle though, I want it more or less like EQ but it needs to be made more interesting and...

Had a good experience in EQ the other day which reminded me why none instanced dungeons can be great. I was in mistmoore (a none instanced dungeon to you youngsters) and I had fought quite far inside, then a mob had a pathing issue and caused a train and I died. So I had a long journey back...

Been playing as athunea, but have several other guys I play a lot too. Also been tempted to try to make my own AoE team, 3 wiz, 1 bard, 1 cleric, 1 ench. Just not sure I could pull it off without getting some kind of multi boxing software.

Heres the deal with autoattack. You cant just engage autoattack and then go afk, any mob that gives you XP will destroy you in no time. You could only do that with much much lower level mobs that you would not want to bother fighting anyway - but in EQ a level 1 skeleton would attack a level 65...

Give it 10 more years... the budget of these games will be up to 500 million dollars.We'll get everything we want then.

Devs can't balance shit :P Takes too much time and effort. Thats why games with freedom like that just end up being cookie cutter builds. Thats a part of what ruined TSW for me.

Well I enjoyed some stuff. Some of the classes were a lot more advanced. I started with a warlock and didnt like it but I also tried a druid and loved how you could become a bear, or a wolf and then backstab shit. And then later on I became a moonkin which was nuke based. EQ druid felt old...

It does? Well I came straight from EQ to WoW so it did feel totally miles apart. As for dial up combat - you could still make slower based tactical combat but make it more modern. That's what I hope EQ Next will be. EQ's combat was great it was just old and low budget. But the pace of it...

I play it a lot, really love it, My guys are only 30 ish because i was busy but im back at it now. I'm making good progress now thanks to the generosity of others. I was struggling because my warrior was just such a bad tank with noob gear. But now he has lots of freebies from kunark era and...

No I mean for the players. Like if you can aim a fireball on the ground and it fires when theres a bunch of mobs there, cool. If you miss, tough crap. And lightning storms and frozen slippy ground or whatever, maybe grease which lowers mobs dex, and if you use fire it goes on fire like in Dragon...

I love ground targeted spells! (wish there were different shapes though). Other than that, GW2 was worthless to me. NWN more or less the same.

I suppse it depends where in the middle you go. I would say WoW was always on the extremely simple end. Personally I never liked vanilla wow. It was so dumbed down, the mobs would die with just autoattack, there was nothing aggro until you were like level 20 or something, the constant...

yepSame for me. On paper Eve is the greatest game ever made. In reality, Zzz. I totally respect it, I just don't want to play it. But turn it in to a fantasy world that I can run around on foot, and enemies I can engage in real combat, and it would make it more like the game I always wanted.

Hmm I think I downloaded that about 2 months ago and then forgot that I downloaded it.

Oh yea, a middle ground is what I always dreamt of since like 2001 or whatever. And that's the problem for me, there is nothing like that. On one side you have newer games where you log in for 5 minutes and you do a few warfronts, a few dungeons, and 20 quests and you make 15 levels and get 90...

can i quote you in my sig? 8)

nice post i agree! Lol

I think it's popular-ish, but probably not super popular. It's hard to say what is better, there is quite a lot of choice nowadays and they all have their own special angle. Like The Secret World plays kind of similar, but the combat is simpler, and instead of magic it's all guns, pretty good...

It sure is. Saved my bacon quite a lot. I remember a few weeks ago I was in a group and we were fighting stuff and were all low on mana and injured. And then some guy runs past with a train and he dies just beyond us, and I see the mobs all turn around and head straight back to us. I just hit...

You can tell you are new, but you can also tell that you are good at a lot of things. You play very carefully which is nice to see. Like how you wait for mobs to move out the way and then you run past safely. And when the PVP guy was nuking you, you ran behind a wall which is a pretty pro...

You what? Somehow you got the exact opposite of what I said. EQ is extremely involving. I am always thinking about things. There are long term thoughts like what spells am I going to focus on using for the next few fights, where should we be heading, are we in danger of getting respawns, is...

I watched you play for 20 minutesIt was pretty interesting to watch you play. Just a shame it's in Rift

Slower gameplay is not a "price" though to some people. I preferred it. In newer games I spam my buttons and everything explodes around me. In EQ I sometimes only cast one spell in a fight, or maybe not even that if I medded through an easy kill. But it was a tactical thing, it required some...

I was playing tonight and keeping an eye on all these things. The thing I find with mana regen, is that it is totally a "watched kettle never boils" situation. We had a HUGE fight and for the first time in maybe ever, I ended up completely out of mana on my wizard. So I sit him down, give him a...

The downtime made things far more fun, and I liked camping too. The only issue with EQ is that it was all just a bit too extreme and a bit too strict. Like it was only really the higher levels when it started getting slow and they refused to give anyone else access to Clarity or whatever, you...

Yea the respawn was terrible. And the downtime, if you had a bard or chanter it was no big deal. But if you had a bunch of casters and no chanter/bard then it was pretty painful. Thats why chanters became 'essential' in groups which was pretty dumb. I also found that early on, casters never...

Yes it aint nostalgia i play p99 and eqmac all the time, its the most fun ive had since.... eq. As for pvp, i would rather they make it so that the pve classes are all very different. For example I would hate to see pvp make it so that all the dps classes do more or less the same output. EQ...

Moar moar! I remember with vanguard there was that guy Oloh, he put a lot of info together.

Anyone know if there is a FAQ or something yet? All these tid bits of info from a million different tweets and 9 hour long boring SOE rambling fanfaire videos and whatever. Would be nice if just all the good stuff could be picked out and put in one easy to read web page.

"We only make good design decisions?" Lol no you don't... you're SOE. Look at EQ, EQ2, Vanguard, etc. But there's still time to change your ways

doesnt matter we'll know for sure soon. Pvp is tricky, i love it but some people would avoid the game just because of that. They should probably make it consensual or on specific servers or something.

Yep harder dungeons! But it doesnt have to be 5 minutes. I always thought eq was too strict with that stuff. After a really huge fight people would say well... i'll go make a sandwich. I always thought it should be more like 1 or 2 minutes not 5. But as long as there is at least SOME time to...

its all about the poontang

On soloing, they need to look no further than EQ for their template. I soloed a lot in EQ with various classes, and I loved the freedom of it. I could play in the middle of the night when my entire guild was asleep and I was so stoned I was more or less incapable of typing. It was cool. But...

That's about the best thing I've read. If they make the game like that I'll..... I don't know. But i'll start by changing my sig to something really cool to promote the game, and then I'll buy it and ill tell allllll my friends (a good 2 or 3 people) and I'll... be a very good boy. And i'll use...

Omg this! THIS! That's all I want from a new mmo. I can live with anything else they do, as long as it has this. That sounds great. I just hope they haven't taken it in the other extreme and made it so no mobs can be soloed. You need to group to kill anything.

Have you seen Vanguard recently? Something like a SSOY is going to cost you at least 4000 station cash!

Lol I remember all that happening in the early game too. It also happened if you ever ran over or on to an obstacle that the mob couldn't path through. It would just run 'inside' the rock or whatever, and then teleport on to you. The important thing.. is that the players died. That's all that...

eeg got wildstar mixed up with firefall. But I want wildstar to succeed too. A lot of people hate on WoW but unless something else comes along soon to capture people, the entire genre could just fade. I' only really interested in Shroud of the Avatar and Star Citizen. And eq next if it turns...