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Sword and Board felt asstastic for soloing. As there's no need for taunt when solo, it's somewhat counter intuitive. I want to go deep 2Her and Dragon Knight this time around, maybe with a side of Resto Staff.

Valid question: What happens to all the backers funds if their game does not make enough money to go gold? According to Brad's interviews they are backpaying their current team for their contributions so it sounds like all the money they've raised is not going to 'future work'. I'm assuming...

I guess so, based on what they've passed on. It'd be far better if they dynamically appeared or they had specific large raid like public quests in areas that fit the setting, instead of pushing so many single player quests. Maybe that changes. Rift really did a poor job of, well, Rifts. It...

I was thinking more along the lines of the Warhammer Online awesome PQs.

On another annoying note, the 24" IPS 1920x1200 monitors I prefer seem to be more expensive than the 1440p korean guys. I currently have an old Dell and a few years old HP ZR24Ws and I was looking for something similar but they are all overpriced. I've always prefered 16:10 but I'm tempted to...

See, this is subjective. I find WOWs combat to be superior to GW2s in every way for my style of play. What I really liked were GW2's graphics and exploration although it did get a bit tedious as there wasn't much to it, and annoyingly jumping up on cliffs to try to reach a vista loses it's...

I generally agree as part of the PC Master Race, but this wasn't the case for Dark Souls. The PC version at best was equal to the PS3, and I'd argue far worse due to needing fixes to even play at a similar level as the console version. As someone with limited free time to 'game', my personal...

No, he's shown he played both. He's just a fucking engineer and misses the forest for the trees, like the Sojourn is the same as EQ topic...

I swapped between magicka and stamina abilities and never had any issues dodging. For the vast majority of regular critters I like using both for the far higher DPS and abilities.

Dark Elf Sorcerer with Dual Wield. Amazingly fun, great DPS, and nice stamina abilities. You don't want to use a staff on a mage until after 15 due to having no outlet to use stamina. Post 15 it's ok, as you can swap weapons. So far. I wouldn't be surprised if that changes.

I have two setup and no issues setting the resolution to use both monitors without doing anything in the CCC. The problem with dual monitor gaming is the middle of the screen is blocked. I'd suggest either going three or just using one.

Thanks Gaige. Are you Crossfiring GTX 780s? I mostly play RTS type games <Civ V, Fallen Enchantress, Patrician 4, Tropico 4>, RPGs <Skyrim, Legend of Grimrock, KOA, Diablo, etc>, FSX and MMOs. Any downside to Crossfire? I've always been scared off by microstuttering. I was debating upgrading my...

Opinion needed: I currently have 2 24" 1920x1200 monitors in my office I use for gaming/linux coding/work. I have an i5 2500 OCed with a 6970.. Currently, I just game on one but I've contemplated getting a 3rd monitor for gaming in 5760x1200 but I'm not sure if I have the video card horsepower...

Definitely. To be honest, my brief time PVPing was the lowlight of my last beta session. I'm thinking I missed something, and really hoping the group vs group is fun.

I'd say most of the criticism's of the game have been pretty fair. I like the game, but the combat is in dire need of polish, and the animations leave a lot to be desired.

I think quest hubs I think areas like vanilla WOW, Rift, or Wildstar where you have an area with a ton of guys with quests to finish in a small level range before heading to the next 'hub'. When I hit the non starter island this was not the case for me at all, in that I did maybe 10 quests...

No, it's not. You aren't led from quest hub to quest hub. I only made it to 15, but I didn't see a single quest hub. Most of my quests were individual POIs, or NPCs running up to me, or visiting guild halls. There also is a lot to explore and find. Yeah, it's still themeparkish, but not...

The open weekend beta caps at level 17, so most of us can't answer that question. There are a lot of videos out there, and opinions are pretty mixed. The quality of the game is a mixed bag. It looks gorgeous, and it veers away from stylized graphics which is great for me. There is a lot of...

I didn't play 1-3, but I played the heck out of Tropico 4. I liked the city management and it had good humor.

Tell me we don't have to redownload the client....

In interesting Asheron's Call news: News about the next update Once this next update is in the hands of the players, the updates to Asheron's Call will be limited. We intend to fix critical bugs and continue maintenance and support on the game. While there is always a chance we will put...

Maybe 45 minutes. It all really bored the heck out of me. I was pretty much pulled into Dark Souls from the get go, but never felt it with DD. I have the DD/Arisen game for the PS3.

I bought it based on reading a recommendation here, but couldn't get into it. The game just wasn't for me.

See Rust and DayZ. The answer is indeed yes.

From the horse's mouth: We will not be holding a traditional open beta, but if you sign up to participate in the ESO beta prior to launch and are eligible per our Terms of Service, you will get an invite to a future beta event. We will be holding several very large beta sessions that...

Two weeks. Amazon Prime better have this bastard on my doorstep early.

How much did Microsoft lose the first few years on the 360 with all the hardware failures? I think this article is kind of crap, but it does raise some valid points: Microsoft Should Consider Getting Out of Gaming - Forbes The new sales leader is Sony, but that should give no one reason to...

The bigger question is why haven't the 9ers done an extension? Do they feel he's not worth more than 5M a year and another coach can get the same results? I think where there's smoke, there's fire. I'm curious if it were a team other than the Browns if Harbaugh might have been more interested.

Meridian59. It wasn't in the same league as UO or EQ, though, but technically it was the first 3D MMO.

MMOs. We know drama. Pretty much everything at Vanguard was laid out by some of the insiders, story wise. The ironic thing is Teclisen appears to still be at SOE. I would love to get the lowdown on Warhammer Online. We've had a few small blurbs, but I'd like to get the entire story there...

Blizzards entire universe was pretty much lifted from Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy. I think taking from traditional AD&D and MUD sources is more acceptable and isn't half as lame as just completely copying another companies personal IP that is their livelihood.

Actually, it is. The classes of Sojourn are from AD&D. The combat mechanics are from AD&D (H2u roll for damage or events). The level system is from AD&D. The forced grouping is from... yes, AD&D. The game itself just leverages the DIKU code base which is a hack and slash system which EQ, WOW...

I'd be curious about this, too. I keep reading Templar + 2H + Resto seems to be really strong. I get the feeling OP builds for leveling and OP builds for endgame will be pretty distinct. I'm still going Mage most likely, but I'm intrigued by the healing Nightshade build someone mentioned.

It's a given almost everything fantasy ripped off AD&D which pretty much derived from traditional norse mythology and a lot of Tolkien. MUDs basically copied and borrow things that work, similar to FPS games today. I played MUDS for a long time. The thing is Everquest was a huge leap forward...

I was really underwhelmed by the Sith Marauder/Juggernaut story. They did way too much of the 'intel/spy' crap in that storyline. It felt out of place. I think I'll work on my operative next.

I personally played early Sojourn and I played EQ. Note, for the record I did not really like Sojourn, but I loved EQ. However, as I stated many of the things EQ took from Sojourn were piss poor design problems, which were fixed by the Blizzard guys in WOW. The design took death penalties...

I echo Mkopec's post, except I've become pickier. I liked FF14, but not enough to buy it yet. I wish the world was more sandbox, but it's not exactly boxing anyone in or going from quest hub to quest hub. I love the class design, but I believe we'll see wholesale changes and I also dislike...

I still cringe remembering how much I wasted on Yserbius/TSN/INN, Compuserve, and GEnie that one had to pay by the hour. Anyways, off my crappy nitpicking tangent. My first online RPG was a Phaze Door BBS in the early 80s.

Somewhat semantics, but my point is an iteration is not copying. EQ is not a copy of Sojourn. This is the part that is just silly: when I went to play EQ is was EXACTLY the same thing except it had graphics. As someone who played a ton of MUDS, EQ was very different from any MUD...

I doubt the feel will change that much. I had no issues with fighting. My problems were all quest bugs and phase issues. I had no combat ones. My big concern isn't the design or the systems, it's the backend infrastructure and megaserver technology not sucking with 500,000 people hitting it...