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I keep a small amount at Coinbase and most in wallets on a mini PC that's rarely turned on and has nothing installed on it except wallets. 'not your keys, not your coins' is a phrase you'll hear a lot in this space. It means that any money you have at an exchnage isn't really yours because the...

I've heard people recommend cash.app to buy BTC because of the lower fees, (Coinbase fees are theft) but I've not personally used it. I think it's Jack's (twitter CEO) business so it should be safe. Still using Electrum personally, but use Exodus for a couple of alts. Both are good for BTC.

I leveled up two mages in classic era. The primary appeal of the class for me is the AoE spells. I had trouble finding locations to AoE grind on because Blizzard liked to grant mobs abilities that prevented pulling large numbers of them. Private/emu server mages are probably in for a wake-up...

Yeah, one thing that is noticeable on EQ emus is that people just tend to abuse exploits and 'tricks' far more often than they once did. I can't really think of anything that our current players actually invented-- what they do is just abuse things much more frequently that were maybe only done...

By the time AV is out I'll have two 60s and lots of 5 man gear. The chance of me joining a raid guild is low. I play WoW to PvP primarily. Large scale PvP is my favorite activity, and BGs killed world PvP, so if AV is dead then my primary activity is dead and by then I've relived the leveling...

Blizzard always was strongly compelled to ruin that battleground. Oh well, if AV ends up shitty races every game I'll just unsub and save myself $15/mo

Don't be silly. It's for reencoding high bitrate AVC porn to HEVC (or maybe AV1 in the future) because why is this shit encoded at 20mbit? it's fucking porn-- or maybe she's not pretty enough for 20mbit. (no I don't have a problem)

Incidentally this is what resists looked like on AK: I didn't have much time to produce long logs (I started collecting data after the shutdown notice) so it's not a very smooth graph, but they basically capped at 196 and allowed for a 2% chance at max resist then bugged out at high resist...

Don't forget the first level 50s outleveling the rest of the server by abusing rechargable wands then using that lead to slow down the leveling process of rivals and camping manastones to RMT by binding at the eye and making guk a no-go zone for everyone else after a certain level because as...

Back in the middle of TBC I was making a Horde AV tricks video because AV was my favorite thing to do in the game and I was sick of losing. Some of you might find it interesting. Just keep in mind that I had abandoned the project because Blizzard changed the BG and made towers pretty much...

Modern EQ and the classic era emus are very different games. I would think the modern game just doesn't accommodate PvP well. I didn't PvP much, but I did play red99 for two months and SZ for a few weeks. PvP in old EQ is really a team game, as the 1v1 PvP is terribly unbalanced. Team fights...

Meh. At least my work won't be made irrelevant any time soon. Amazes me how all these devs think EQ is like, just a bunch of lore or something and don't care one bit about mechanics. Blizzard really is doing a much better job with their Classic server; granted they have 100x the resources.

A lot of my addons/projects were never polished enough to release; that was one of them. Making a UI for that would have taken much much longer than the actual functionality. They disabled it in TBC along with a slew of other addons though, by preventing the changing of button behavior in combat.

The irony was that I queued alone most of the time, so my addon was being used against me and I hated it. I had never wanted it to be used to circumvent the matchmaking, just to get more friends into AV so it would just make AV like the other BGs where you could queue up everybody. Matchmaking...

I was a prolific addon author, and I concur with this. I made shit that was making me say, I can't believe they are letting me do this. As I mentioned, I did not like threat meters and thought they were bad for the game. I tried to make that before others did but couldn't figure out how to...

Yeah, it's a bit confusing/impractical/whatever, but most of the development is world building, art etc, so it's not a huge increase in development cost. Just hire 1-2 more devs to take the content developed by the main team and convert it to 'EQ mode'. Of course then, what do you call it...

I wish developers would just create servers with differing mechanics similar to how they have servers with different PvP rulesets so people can just choose which mechanics they prefer

Wizard hate at 65 with pants is 2740 - 20% subtlety - 400 = 1792 hate per cast at ~5s cast times with max spell haste; add in pants cast time plus some latency you get ~8s between casts ~ 224 hate/s Warrior (w/o augments) with BoW or Darkblade + EoE is going to do somewhere around 125-150...

Rogues had to worry about threat before they popped vanish half way through. Also there were more rogues than just us two. Feint (a threat reduction skill, which requires energy) was used to reduce threat prior to vanishing.

Isn't this like, the entire challenge of being a DPS class? I always thought threat meters were cheating. (really should be called 'hate' instead of 'threat' though, as it makes more sense) Managing threat is how DPS classes can outshine others. I recall one time for that dragon in BWL, I...

This started as a generic rogue DPS rant before you turned it into a fury warrior rant, but whatever you win on the internet. If the emus can't even get basic things like mana and health regen right, (according to Tip's video) what makes anybody think they have things like rage gen right? Fury...

Easy. Implementation errors, to start with. Even if you have the precise calcs, doesn't mean they are all implemented correctly. I found many errors in my own code over the years when I implemented EQ combat mechanics. Granted they were relatively minor as testing finds anything major...

I plead guilty

One thing that really bothered me while working on EQ emus was how little everybody seemed to care about NPC statistics accuracy. Like I was wasting my life trying to get accurate stats for NPCs and nobody would even notice what is a significant difference between actual values vs. numbers...

That 'best flag carrier ever' video of Venruki shaming an Alliance premade in a Horde PUG without healers (fucking horde never had healers) was the most classic video I ever saw. Reminded me of my days in 2005. I wasn't at his level, but I had the Alliance uber guild accusing me and my other...

Honestly I think the most determining factor that made people love or hate old school MMOGs is the company they kept. If you hung out with cool dudes, then you probably liked the older games. If you hung out with shitheads, then you probably love dungeon finder insta-port pseudoanonymous...

Machine shut off mid-game, now refuses to power on with video card installed, so I guess it's super dead. Amazes me how computer hardware is so unbelievably fragile when the only moving parts are fans. Last two video cards were Sapphire and both became unusable on me, so I guess that brand is...

This is such utter nonsense on the level of faked moon landing conspiracy. Those morons just got used to playing an inaccurate recreation and want to think that it's better. Blizzard would never commit to Classic if they did not have the source and database available. Why would Blizzard lie...

lulz

I had similar thoughts. They could just largely re-use the old geometry and quests with minor modifications (so areas are reachable without flying mounts) if they wanted to be cheap about it. This still has issues though; what do you decide on what to 'stay Classic' and what not to...

Pro tip to mages in large scale PvP: use invis potions before charging in for the AoE bombs

So now Bloodsucker armor is great for the raid? I'm sure all of us destroyed a great Bloodsucker chest at some point, thinking it was garbage. This game just loves to force you to refarm for gear you once destroyed because you have no way to know if something is good or will be good; or even...

Am I the only guy who DETESTS this nonsensical 'do stupid shit at stupid times because the boss is unkillable otherwise' stuff that plagues every game since WoW? I stopped raiding in WoW largely because of this crap. I guess it even infects shooters nowadays. Can designers not think up other...

2.0 came out like a month or 5 weeks or whatever before TBC landed, so there was a window of time where people had the new talents in the vanilla game

I was watching some 'Classicast' youtube videos because they had some interesting guests on. Asmond casually mentioned that his mother bought his first flying mount for him. I immediately asked myself why was I watching this guy

So I'm raiding just for 20% pulse skill power gear sets?

If there is a single raid that is doable once a week, could you not merely leave at the end to farm it for 515s or whatever? Assuming 515s don't just drop from the last boss? Playing with matchmade idiots could be beneficial