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I understood his comment as refering to skill point totals, not the individual skills. Simply because his comparison makes it sound like starting EVE a while after release is a huge penalty, which doesnt make sense if he meant how hard it is to max med pulse lasers. On the other hand total skill...

But that's not actually true for EVE, hopefully wont be true here. You say it's bad unless they have a cap? What would a skill point cap be good for in EVE (or here, assuming this game is similar in their skill design)?

That sound pretty good, although it's a mix of things we've heard before. Implementation pending, I guess. I do like that they are including collision detection and no tab targeting. Not sure yet what to think of the MOBA approach to characters instead of a classic race/class choice. And I...

That says as much about the living story content as it says about wvw/pvp. They keep saying that, but did we see the results? I sure didnt. Would be interesting to know how many actual people are on those 4 teams. Given the amount of content LS had per year the total of all 4 teams cant be much...

Definitely liking the many references to EVE here and it even coming up in their FAQ.

You sound awfully defensive there, hiding something?

PVP balancing doesnt allow for too many interesting skills, and they rarely take advantage of the fact that their system allows skills to work differently depending on game mode. Instead, we get +0,5% to dmg vs walls. That totally makes me want to max it out. I hope the masteries are not the...

I'm ok with shield, it's odd and unexpected. Given the way you handle a greatsword in combat, the shield might surprise us. I'm hoping for some nice small buckler skins though, that and a rapier fits the profession. Dual pistols seems more like a thief thing anyway. Only one spec is weak...

Well GW1 wasnt a MMORPG to begin with, so of course there are many differences. I loved the skill variety and Heroes in GW1 but that's just a different game/genre. That and a decade of changes in the gaming landscape are reason enough for being vastly different games even if they had the very...

I'm expecting weapon switch and all the main profession features to stay. To me the secondary profession sould like a package of a new weapon and selection of skills that are (supposed to be) balanced with the main profession in mind, but opening up new playstyles for that profession. The upside...

I'm about to board the hype train, but let the minutes show that I did so with great reluctance.

If the current marketing campaign isnt the prelude to a kickstarter I'll be very surprised.

What do the stop starts have to do with how long ago they held Sand Art 2013 / gave the last info about EQN? That was the discussion you jumped into, not how long or since when some version of a new Everquest was in the works.

Fact would be that 3 years ago was January 2012. SandArt 2013 as Heallun puts it wasnt that long ago really. Maybe you are overreacting to someone injecting common sense here? That said, I was dissapointed that they fired up the hype without an actual way to sustain it. I got over that year...

Did you actually play EQ? We did pay a sub to beta that game for years.

I didnt even know they are in open beta already, thought it was a still a "pay me for access" closed beta. Anyway, I dont consider it more then a builder game, and afaik that part works? Sure they might test AI, combat and (lol?) pvp, but it's not the foundation of the game.

I havent followed Landmark but isnt the core system of that game "build shit with voxels"? The last two pages sound like people expecting Landmark to be an MMO*RPG* in its own right.

I think most of the dates are guesswork. I know I estimated late 2015 after the reveal 2.5 years ago... but obviously they arent nearly far enough for that given the state of landmark. Their other pillar, storybricks, is entirely missing, too. Right now I'd guess it comes out late 2017. Maybe in...

It's really unfortunate, because I think the core mechanics they have are a decent. They've dropped enough balls with the post-release management to fill the Grand Canyon though.

I did say I'll skip it for now, I'm not declaring SOE to be the devil incarnate. I think you jump to conclusions when you take a few "meh, maybe later" posts and treat that as everyone saying "SOE, never again". Actually I'm surprised at the negative tone towards them based on PS2 of all...

I tend to speed-send folks on missions via the add-on, rarely bother to place/collect my work orders anymore and have actually torn down my barn because I couldnt be arsed to go catch elite beasts since christmas. Although I didnt play any non-garrison content during the last week either so I...

I'm going to skip this for now... would've bought it back when Smed first teased it, but any interest that was sparked half a year ago is long gone. That and right now I have enough games on my plate to fill my gaming time and then some.

Once you are down to only getting one important mission every other day (raid or maybe ilvl645 depending on your gear), do you really need high stamina to guarantee success where it matters? Epic mount allows you to sweep through those 2-8h missions that still need 2-4 counters quickly, both to...

I wouldnt say they were losing money. They got 85 EUR out of me they wouldnt have gotten otherwise (most likely it would've gone to Valve). I'm sure the same goes for many, many people. If anything they are throwing away potential revenue. A 10% coin-back offer is no huge incentive to buy packs...

You dont actually lose rank on a loss until you reach 19 or better, so the card back at rank 20 is guaranteed as long as you take some time to play games during the month.

I doubt that's useful. As long as you put up the War Mill before you do Nagrand rares and quests it'll be fine (you're likely to hit before going there), leveling is dead easy regardless of gear.

After two fruitless days of trying to get in on the US amazon deal, the promotion becomes available in Europe as well. Of course we get to pay through the nose compared to the $ prices, but I guess I get "free" health care for that. Bought 178 packs (67 classic and 111 GvG) that yielded the...

Scavengers are the best income. Make sure you send them on anything with 50%+ odds, dont waste those for a 100% normal yield. I went from fumbling around with an early barn (hindsight: dont do that) to going lumber mill just to get those followers and keeping it for a few days worth to pad my...

Build a small GR cushion with lumbermill/evergreen boost and then switch to Inn and optimize your followers, imo. If you dont already have the aforementioned 2-3 scavengers get those first, then plug the holes in your team. Long term, barn and trade post are both gold sources with some extra...

Same guy that calls Tungsten Druidium. Between Mithril and Paladinium, I'll take Mithril.

You only need the Inn for an hour per week, so unless you are poor you can switch back to whatever else you like for nearly two weeks. If your followers are shit, essentially buying two followers for the 2k gold/GR or whatever it costs to switch the plots around should be a no-brainer.

That's bonus xp from a trait, look for the hearthstone pro icon there in his screenshot.

I had a barn while leveling so I already had most of those orders in. 12 days was just a ballpark for the time you have the barn up between making the switch to the Inn for two days. My line of thought with this experiment is: The Inn at lvl2 only really benefits me once per week. If I get my...

I axed my lvl2 Inn after getting the follower for this weekly reset to get a barn going for the next 12 days, going to rebuild an Inn on Monday to get the follower for that week, another after on the week after and then probably drop it again. The barn easily pays for itself as far as the gold...

Cant lose it due to reroll? Is that certain? If so, I'm gonna teach the fat guy to dance.

I only have the weekly Inn recruit in the lowbie range. Used to blow them through missions asap for salvage but now it's enough if they get to 95 before I shanghai me a new one each week. I suppose there might be rare missions with stuff like the dancing manual in the 90-94 range?

They managed to drop a troll raid into Pandaria, they'll find a way for Draenor. Not that I mind, having a troll-based content patch seems a bit of a tradition. Here's my take: the desperate and beaten shadow council contacts the Zandalari and opens a new portal for them on the other side of...

Given the surplus of of GR that is building I am considering building an Inn for a couple of hours to recruit a new follower, then replace it with a barn until the next week. I do not have every building at lvl3 since they're achievement-locked and frankly I didnt bother with stuff like the...

On the other hand you are encouraged to go to the Inn for epic mounts all the time now (once you have 1-3 scavengers) in order to speed run the 100s. Another thing I noticed is that the success chance for a mission varies depending on the order you place the same 3 followers on that mission...

I'll try to re-check it. On that note, is the actual math behind the success chance known? I also found it odd that adding a second counter for a threat that occurs only once on the mission still raises your odds higher then having a totally unrelated follower tag along.