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Just buy herbs with China gold. I guess nowdays it's Vietnam gold?

So disappointed with the Nemesis. Farmed 20 exotic upgrade mats in anticipation and now I don't wanna use it over my M44. Hope the exotic AR is decent else I won't be using any orange stuff.

EQ had some extra 'twitch' in the form of melee strikes and some spells pushing NPCs and PCs around, which I'm not sure I've seen replicated in other games but that I sorely missed. That helped keep melee players engaged. The auto attack snoozing of EQ I think mostly comes from corner tanking...

I recently saw a Youtube video titled "Best Pistol DPS Build Guide *Nerf Proof* 1.6 Mil Shots!" which was: use unstoppable force + get 20% pistol damage from brand set + stack weapon/elite damage. (oh, and use Liberty's special deal to get a high damage shot) This differs from the AR build...

There are large differences between PEQ and TAKP. Stock EQEmu lacks many mechanics that TAKP implemented, or simply implemented later era mechanics or coded up their own version of certain mechanics based on my research that may not be as precise. TAKP also has the older verions of cerain...

This list is a bit old. Let me know if they've changed any of these: All raid bosses were granted the 'Mitigation of the Mighty' perma-buff which multiplies several combat statistics. This was implemented instead of reverting all the changes that made players more powerful over the years...

I played two agents to 30+ and three agents to 19+. One thing that struck me was how difficult the first control point (at level 3 or 4?) was when doing it over again. It honestly felt harder than doing one in WT. And yeah, the itemization guys in this game don't seem to know what they're doing

I did Space HQ (challenging) last night and was looking forward to the boss fight because it's one of the harder bosses. I blew it up-- before killing the adds-- faster than I ever did in the 1-30 game and I was stacking elite damage then too. I one-shot the end boss in Jefferson Trade with my...

If they make the game any easier I'm going to seriously lose enjoyment. Maybe I just lucked out on a good p416 but I'm melting elites now. I think damage to elites from armor is too high.

I think that the recent HP nerf was a large boost to AR builds. With ARs you pop a mob and reload while acquiring a new target, so the reload is less noticed. If the content is very bullet spongey, then it highly favors LMGs. Post-nerf the end game is more like the 1-30 game. Most of my WT5...

Interesting. I wasn't aware of the infinite ammo trick. Actually I don't think I've gotten a weapon with unhinged or even frenzy yet (certainly not recently) for some reason, and my hours played is 192. Although I spent much (half?) of that time re-leveling other characters and farming level...

I generally agree with you guys, which is why I haven't been posting here as my opinion has already been expressed by others and my playtime was limited for awhile so I was behind. I however do think the 30 round mag needed a nerf. Also the best mods should be the hardest to get, not found in...

I agree that this is the worst thing about Classic. I would actually like to see Blizzard make both 'true classic' and 'classic with adjustments' servers. They're in a position to do this because they have a large enough userbase and have the dev resources. This way if they screw it up, we...

I mostly just played WoW to PvP anyway, which I found surprisingly enjoyable before Blizzard neglected BGs and allowed them to turn into premade vs. PUG stomps and free loot for AFK botters. I'm of the view that classic EverQuest had superior gameplay to WoW (particularly post-BC WoW) when it...

I played Cataclysm at launch just to level one character up to 85 before quickly dumping it and even that felt like a chore because... I was playing Project 1999 at the time and enjoying that way more. I've since spent the last 5.5 years working on another EQ emu project. The people who have...

Rank 1 blizzard with extra snare talent (which was quite strong) from inside Drek's room to super snare anybody trying to pull warmasters out

I played on two servers in Classic. I never saw general races until patch 1.12, which is when xserver BGs went in. From what I gathered at the time, it started becoming common on some (but not nearly all) servers in 1.11 after they removed many NPCs and made the remainder weaker. NPCs will...

So anyway, this free weekend thing allows me to buy WoW tokens with the stupid amount of gold I made 10 years ago using my addon. Question for people who still play this ruined game: buy tokens now or wait until Classic launch? Any idea how prices might change? I noticed the price dropped...

Alliance could also skip all of the NPCs in the horde base after 1.11, while the horde still had to kill many of them. (i.e. the blacksmith) A single alliance of any class could take the relief hut, solo, which meant that it was just a matter of how fast they could ride there. The NPCs...

Actually my primary concern about Classic servers is that all static servers degenerate over time as users discover exploits and degenerative metas which become more and more abused. #nochanges people will fight any attempts to enforce an environment that was more like the original game, and...

I once got a suspension for saying something highly inflammatory to a guy who was sitting at an alliance held graveyard and instead of taking the graveyard, would allow the NPCs to respawn and kill them over and over to farm cloth. When I clicked the banner as I rode by, he complained to me...

1.11 and 1.12 were the patches where AV turned into races instead of PvP. Blizzard devs-- because they didn't PvP-- didn't understand that tough NPCs ENCOURAGED PvP because they prevented General races. Tough NPCs died quickly vs. 30+ mobs of players regardless. This got even worse mid-BC...

Nobody does the grimling war. *grumble*

Is the fire staff still incorrectly dropping from male revs here?

While there may be a majority in favor of 2 instead of 3, it's a slim majority, (not that we've polled this, so this is a 'feel') and some of those just want 2 box limits for certain zones or some form of compromise. Most of the anti-boxers left long ago and what remain are the pro-boxing crowd...

TAKP is still a fantastic server if you just wanna do stuff with a small group of friends and aren't concerned about wanting to relive the 2002 PC game era raid game. The boxing allows you do tackle otherwise undoable content. A minority of players highly enjoy the solo boxing experience. The...

The emulated EQ servers have to deal with the boxing issue more than any others because they emulate the older, simpler game which allows running many clients on one machine and slow gameplay allows for easy boxing. The Al'Kabor Project went with a 3 box limit (against my pleas), and four years...

Incidentally the 'Death of a Game' video includes footage from EverQuest for MAC and PC because we use the oldest client of any currently running emulator. It's the PoP era client, but can still be run using the old UI if you change a config file setting because it pre-dates the patch that...

Exp on TAKP is considerably faster: * Al'Kabor had a 20% server bonus. (and so does TAKP) * Sony put in the Ykesha era group bonus on AK not long after they launched it. (+20% for each member after the first) However they screwed it up and gave too much for groups of 4-6, and so Al'Kabor/TAKP...

Groups are somewhat hard to come by here, and are not always available-- particularly at the low to mid levels. Grouping would require your constant attention however, so if you want the freedom to AFK, then you'd probably prefer to box. Just a FYI for new people: Luclin launches in a month...

What's with the ridiculously large buildings fetish?

Well I have nothing against Tyen personally, but from what I can tell he gives p99 admins headaches. It's not like he's involved with running anything over there. I've had nothing but positive interactions with Secrets, so I don't see the issue with him. Regardless he's not in charge of...

Well I've poured thousands of hours of my life into recreating a classic experience, so I guess that makes me extra crazy. After working on an emu myself for the last several years after having played p99 for some time, I'll just say this: people who are banned are fucking liars and want to...

Rolling back 15 years is precisely what the emus are doing, yet the official TLPs get all the play. For the life of me I can't understand this. I'll spend 10 hours to parse statistics on a single NPC while Daybreak could merely pull up anything they need from Al'Kabor's source in minutes...

I became a developer when Al'Kabor sunset and I've been on a mission to preserve EQ ever since. For the last 4.5 years I've been parsing NPC statistics and deciphering game mechanics-- and that's pretty much all I've been doing in my free time since. (although did play Path of Exile for a few...

Bitcoin Foundation is just some large coin holders who want to promote BTC. They have no influence over the developers and haven't been relevant for years anyway. Bitcoin isn't like other coins where boards or 'alliances' have significant influence over the development of the project...

'Worsened by poor technicals'? I'm more excited by the 'technicals' than I ever have

The centralization of exchanges is absolutely one of the larger concerns. However it's possible to buy BTC without using an exchange. LocalBitcoins.com is a service that matches buyers and sellers of BTC locally so you can drive to somebody's house (or meet somewhere publicly or however they...

When you trade, you move your BTC into an exchange, where it's pooled with everybody else's and they keep track of how much of it is yours in their internal database. Trades are instant because it's a centralized database used by all the members of the exchange, so it's not touching a...

I think part of the confusion here is that, in crypto land, trades are extremely frictionless; so traders can be doing dozens in a night, or program a bot to do thousands. Combine that with insane volatility and basically day trading is trading. Certainly you have to very nimble. BTC traders...