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I've come to the conclusion it's unrealistic to expect any MMO to launch smoothly with 100% of their systems perfectly designed and balanced. Anyone who expects that at launch and gives up on an MMO within the first month or two is never going to be satisfied. I took a break from TESO to...

Bots disappeared completely about 2 months ago. ZOS put loot drops from bosses on a long cooldown to stop the army of bots camping the spawn points. They also put in a cap of 3 character deletions per 24 hours. They also made a lot of the crafting mats sell to a vendor for 0 gold. When...

When the botters who use these scripts top the DPS meters, does their epeen get an erection?

I've got my protection warrior up to 53. So far its been a lot of fun to play with a lot of reactive abilities keeping me nonstop pushing buttons. In terms of complexity/skill required to play it well, how does protection warrior compare to the other tank specs?

Someone already beat me to it but the first and funniest memory I had of EQ1 was when Dvinn was a one mob wrecking crew against about a 100 players. First time I approached Crushbone on Day 1 of release I noticed a ton of players at the GFay zone line and I thought it was odd so many players...

You should go check out the Wildstar thread. Wildstar's PVE content was purposely difficult, essentially the exact 180 degree opposite of "face rollable", and it has tanked. If the majority of MMO gamers don't want face rollable PVE content, you would think they would all be flocking to...

Yes my question was from a PVE progression perspective. I'm just looking to get my newb up to 60 so I can convert him to 90 then start working on the legendary cloak quest before WoD comes out. The pet battles just look like a mini-game you do when you don't have anything else to do.

Unless you are an achievement completionist, is there a really good reason to spend a lot of time doing the pet battles?

I was under the impression that itemization in WoD was also getting revamped such that defensive stats like dodge and parry are getting removed from gear. The way I interpreted it was that from here on out you would only need one set of armor for all the roles your class can perform. Is that...

Is there a good reason for returning players to do the legendary cloak quest? My main goal was to prep for WoD by getting my 85s up to 90 and my newb up to 60. Wasn't planning on trying to gear any of them up since almost all gear becomes obsolete every time a new expansion comes out. Will...

What new PVE content is being added for those of us who have no interest in housing?

Rerolled a warrior to level him up to 60 so that when I boost him up to 90 his tradeskills are maxed. Does anyone know if the tradeskill boost is for all tradeskills (2 main + first aid, cooking and archaeology) or does it only boost your two main tradeskills, which means you still have to...

Sounds like something very suitable for the Zek server rule set.

Thanks for the response. I'm fine with ability pruning as long as gameplay is still fun. Wildstar and TESO are the recent MMOs I have played that restrict the number of abilities you can slot. They have also tried to make MMO combat more action based. TESO only allows 6 skills per action bar...

Can someone provide a somewhat objective explanation for what Blizzard is doing with the WoD class changes? I'm reading the beta forums to try and get an idea which class will be the most complex to play in WoD and all I see is "the sky is falling", "Blizzard hates <insert every class build>"...

After a couple years away from the game I played my 85 Enhancement shaman and 85 warlock (destro and affliction) for a couple of hours yesterday. For all three builds I played, it seems like rotations were all focused on 3-4 abilities. Just curious to know if that is how every class build...

Never played Hearthstone. Based on bixxby's reply, sounds like I just got lucky and got it for free.

For shits and giggles I resubbed today for the first time since early Cata. I never bought the MoP expansion but somehow it is active on my account. I bought D3 Reaper of Souls when it came out. Did Blizzard offer some bundle I was unaware of or are they just giving away MoP now for free?

I don't remember when it was added but eventually SOE added a /melody command that allowed you to repeat 3-4 songs over and over again until you stopped it.

Huge fan of vanilla/TBC WoW but stopped playing during Cata. Never bought Pandaria. For someone who is super casual now due to a lot of family stuff going on, will there be anything in WoD worthwhile for someone who solos most of the time now?

Wasn't that the intent behind Landmark all along? That is the impression I always had. Give the players a toolkit and if SOE likes what the players created, copy/paste it into EQNext.

First impression is that system isn't going to work very well. The hardcore raiding guilds with players who rush to level cap and play several hours a day will deservedly be the first ones to kill the major raid bosses. No problem with that whatsoever. In other MMOs, the Tier 1 raid boss...

In The Game That Can Not Be Mentioned (lest I get negged again for shitting up the thread) animation clipping is allowed. Knowing the animation priority system and how/when to clip maximizes DPS and is what separates the good players from the average ones. I agree with Vitality' assessment...

The challenge is making all those story bricks scripts function smoothly when there are 100+ players in a zone all at different locations looking for something to do. If the Orc camp script doesn't start over every 10-15 minutes, then some other AI script has to replace it otherwise there will...

SOE refers to that as their "anti-Vitality" AI script.

Using your example, you wipe out an orc camp and then move on to go do something else in another part of the zone. I login 15 minutes later and go to the spot where the Orc camp that you wiped out used to be. What can I expect to find there?

Assuming Storybricks offers the kind of complexity in your example, the king should offer a bounty for the death of Vitality for causing the king so much grief. Vitality would be KOS to all players until the bounty is collected. How realistic though is it that we will see that kind of AI...

Do you have reading comprehension problems? I wasn't the one who brought up phasing.

You got me there. I don't exploit game mechanics to increase my gold intake.

You claimed phasing had an impact on item values and the economy. That makes no sense whatsoever so your definition of what constitutes "phasing" sounds like its different than what everyone else is using.

The type of phasing I was describing was recently implemented in TESO. I tested it last night and confirmed it was working. There was a lot of criticism at TESO's launch with how ZOS implemented phasing. All of those complaints have been addressed. Now that phasing technology has been...

Are you confusing phasing with instancing? They are two different technologies.

Would you support phasing in a MMO if there were mechanisms in place to allow players in different phases of quest to still group up,physically be able to see one another, and help each other out completing the quest? For example, if a higher level person has already completed the quest, they...

The revamp to the VR system is following a phased approach. Phase 1 was nerfing of VR difficulty and already implemented. Phase 2 is supposed to get implemented in 1.4.0 patch and gets rid of Veteran Points and replaces them with regular Experience Points. Phase 3 is when the Champion Point...

If SOE can pull off all of these idealistic innovations in MMO technology, EQNext will become the Blue Pill of the MMO genre. I'll believe reactive AI from NPC mobs that varies from encounter to encounter when I see it.

I knew someone would say this. When was the last time you logged in? No way anyone who posts here has accurate information on TESO subs but anecdotal observation indicates that there are a lot more people playing TESO now compared to a couple of months ago (availability on Steam and returning...

FYI ZOS implemented some anti-botting/gold seller measures in TESO several weeks ago and it's been extremely successful. I have not gotten any gold seller email spam in well over a month. The swarms of botters camping bosses has also disappeared. Two things I know that have been done are 1)...

ArcheAge has all that. If ArcheAge proves your assumption is correct about all those things being good for player retention, EQNext has time to put their version of the system into the game.

Balance in GSF was fine when it was released. Haven't played since January so can't speak for what changes have been made since. The problem is rookie players whose ships aren't upgraded will get eaten alive by veteran players with decked out ships. I had an upgraded scout ship with the ship...

If you think that is what I actually said, you should probably reread what I wrote a little bit slower this time.