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How's Blizzard going to give up on gaming again? I must've missed that giant digital distribution platform they have.

Can confirm. Made it to level 22 or so on sleeper, server made me want to die.

To answer your last question... It's because the whole fucking genre is filled with people who hate mmo's fundamentally. They like the idea of persistence (of character) and progression but dislike actually interacting with the world they're playing in. Most don't even want to play or learn...

Kegz, I wanted to like EpicEmu but everything about that server is a fucking abortion. Maybe you're fixing it, but when I quit it wasn't even close in any regard.

Torpor, malo, superior slow, increased total hp (full hp buffs). It isn't even close. Shamans are alpha as fuck even through PoP. CLR is only really needed in the trio when the mobs get super serious and the charm pets require complete healing (trio'ing lower tier raid mobs).

enc/clr/shm, shaman having access to puppet strings is objectively the best trio in the game. Pretty much unbeatable :P

Azeth, weren't you on P99 with us?

Honestly, just duo efreeti 51-60. It's by far the best exp you'll get. HS solo for certain classes (nec/shm) works, can also solo LDCs up til about 57/58 for good xp. Druids solo in perma pits quite a bit if they got the balls to charm. Err, you're a knight, so you're kind of dead weight...

Mining in eve works because of bots, really. Pretty much people keycloning / botting handle the mining :P Granted, more people would mine if bots didn't run nullsec ores into the fucking dirt, so w/e.

Samwise :3 It's good to see another P99er. also vaz, but he likely sold that damn forum account too ><

All of SWTOR's healing classes (and others, but healing in dis case) had this resource system. When force/ammo/energy was low, it regenerated slower and lowered your overall throughput. You could still get your resources back up in seconds, though, not minutes. The genre will not abide by...

I think the fact that I have one character and can spend a while simply leveling all the classes to 50 will really eat into my time :3 I'm no completionist but it's kinda cool having everything on the same character. Helps ya keep track of people! That'll be my endgame for some time :P

And for the first 4-5 expacs of EQ...Oh, we have one our paladin, one sk, one beastlord. Closing applications :P

I hear that, I really do. I just want to believe it's true. Orc pawn with the scythe kinda badassery :P

It's funny, too. Making it difficult to kill that zombie at the pyramid is so key to overall dungeon design, too. In EQ, open world dungeons only worked because each mob took a bit to kill and there was a little bit of downtime related to what you were killing. I'm just really, really, really...

I dunno, there was always Fish Bait if you were looking for a shitty community in Classic. Something for everyone I guess :P

Original Diablo had that for sure. People impaled upside down with an amazing sound score went a long way to make a relatively slow paced game feel full of tension. So many bodies farnham, so many bodies :3

~~ <goblin> <hand> <job> <10 gil> ~~

Lol. I remember going to blackburrow and seeing the cave to EF. Weird, I thought. I just took a giant ass boatride to EF. Then I went to EF and...halas is nowhere to be found. What the fuck, sundering.

talking with the japs would be cool, though. I guess we'll have to go back to <goblin> <hand> <job> <10 gil>

Not quite enough effects, really. What we really need is some DoT shielding, strikethrough, advanced stats, and kilva's random ass focus effect VIII. Goddamn modern EQ items are just abominations. WoW's kept the stats simple but the amount of stat inflation is getting excessive, especially...

Because a lot of us can clear all available content if they gave us a straight month, lol.

That the market for a game that I would find challenging is large enough to warrant a mmo.

It's similar to kids brought in boarding schools. They defend the system of abuse and it makes them stronger compatriots through shared suffering. :P

Which is essentially what WoW has done. And most people on this board absolutely hate it for it.

Lol. I imagine people have just become acclimated to it. Some people bought shit in early EQ era (ebay, playerauctions, etc etc), too. It's just incredibly widespread now. Earning things in games is relegated to basically just Eve, and even that has PLEX.

Given with how many people RMT on P99, I'd imagine they'd be alright with them, too.

I don't have statistics, but I know most people I've seen attempt to pick up Dark souls / demon souls are damn near unable to make it through the tutorial. For a game that is paid for up front this works well, but with F2P being the new hotness, you're killing the majority of your sales right...

Anyone over 150 latency removed from the servers would be a good start :P There are some skill-based challenges even in modern WoW, they're just relegated to heroic raiding and some of the brawlers guild fights. Very tight movement, skill useage, etc. Even the coordination required in Rift...

This doesn't translate well into the mmo-sphere. It'd work well in a buy to play game, but locking out the majority of potential gamers because they are unskilled simply won't work. If things like Monster Hunter Online came released in Western markets I think the market could be primed for a...

If your leveling process is so fucking boring that people want to skip it, you need to rework that leveling process not add items to speed past it. Leveling a character is one of the best experiences in EQ--Having played WoW Pandaria recently, I feel like the game is insulting my intelligence...

Common wisdom so far is that P4 chars will not be wiped.

How does one create an open world if you can travel immediately to your destination? You end up with a lobby based game like modern WoW. If you want a sandbox, do you also want persistence? If you have a limited time to play, people are gonna knock over your sand castle if it isn't defended...

A certain demographic? You mean the one with at least $15/mo income? :P But you're right, it's tough to make a compelling game that can be played in 30 minute intervals and every single mmo is being designed to be consumed in 30 minute chunks. I can't think of a single remarkable thing I...

Serious cleric, reporting! Soooo many years :P

I dunno. Flying in my Mossie day 1 I'm getting air-2-air'd, dual burster max'd and skyguarded. On like my first few trips out--day fucking one. Do you have any idea how helpless a mossie is without flares against a2a? That motherfucker paid money and beat me without a chance. I could...

It's a good server, but unless you're absolutely prepared to be dedicated, don't plan on raiding. Everything up to raiding is good, but most of the players who are still leveling are stone cold retarded. :|

I got a buddy who lives in vegas, but I'm pretty sure I'll still be too poor by august to go to soelive/sigh

DO YOU BESMIRCH MY SOFTCORE HONOR!?! But, seriously, pure hp node builds were soooo boring and we didn't all play in teams. Solo 75+ mapping is brutal in HC. Gotta constantly roll pathetic affixes.