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  1. Deruvian

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    My friends and I made a guild a few weeks ago with some of the pugs that we had been playing with. We're 7/7H and working on Mythic twins right now. The core of us are all older relaxed EQ vets and we're looking for a few more heads to fill out our mythic roster. Only basic requirement is to not...
  2. Deruvian

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I've left my clueless guild with some core friends and made a tiny 5 person guild to just hit raids with pugs. Within a week we've been able to clear to 6/7 H with basically no drama and unlimited class versatility. It's really too bad that we can't use this functionality for mythic.
  3. Deruvian

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I believe that Paragon specifically carried an enhance shaman through Mythic because of how imbalanced Fire Nova is on Imperator. I currently play enhance, not at a super high level, but on fights with lots of cleave, we're usually at or near the top. On single target or 2x target like Twins or...
  4. Deruvian

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I joined some friends on a backwater server for WoD, but found out that their guild's raids start at 11EST, despite being an eastern guild. I was wondering about the FoH guild here - the raid schedule above suits me really well. Is it basically wide open to forum people? Who to talk to etc?
  5. Deruvian

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Was going to say exactly this. As an enhance shaman, I felt that my ability to pop rather large instant offheals occasionally was not only helpful, but actually almost requires to prevent wipes in many cases. In UBRS, we started really switching up and using a lot of CC past the third boss...
  6. Deruvian

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    To me, the value of racing to 100 and doing heroics etc is just being able to experience the content when all party members will be under geared and generally unaware of the mechanics. I find that infinitely more fun than thrashing through a few weeks in when eveybody knows the fights and you...
  7. Deruvian

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Awesome, thanks. During the carry, is there a chance at other loots during the raid, or does the raid leader turn that functionality off? It's been a long time since I've raided and the loot mechanics seem very different.
  8. Deruvian

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Few newb questions about buying a heroic Garrosh carry: Is there any pre-quest work that is required, or can a fresh 90 jump on board? Is the heirloom a gauranteed loot? Generally pay before or pay after?
  9. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Should be on a lot tonight and tomorrow. Level 6 rogue. /Tell Deruvin for group!
  10. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Anyone able to set my lowbie rogue up with a stabber? Deruvin in game.
  11. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Finally have some time IRL, thinking of starting up here for fun. Years ago, bards had some mechanical issues on the EMU servers that I played on. Can anyone here who's played a bard on P99 at a high level tell me if these issues have been resolved at all?
  12. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Rais has definitely been around a while. He helped me out when I started up on P99 and this was several years ago.
  13. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    The RMAH added incentive for anti-social behavior and botting etc for profit. I haven't played on P99 in forever, but I think it's safe to say that RMT is a big reason why certain spawns are always camped.
  14. Deruvian

    The Al`kabor Project (EQMac) - PoP 1/5

    Was through my phone. Had been a few weeks since I've been to the site; spooked me.
  15. Deruvian

    The Al`kabor Project (EQMac) - PoP 1/5

    Tried to get on the website today and it seems to be down. Is this project still operational?
  16. Deruvian

    NFL 2014 - 2015 Season Thread

    Really looked like that Logan Mankins trade was a good call. Brady seriously can't even throw a ball over 25 yards with any semblance of accuracy. Last year at times I wanted to say that Brady's receivers were causing his decline, but he seriously looked like shit today.
  17. Deruvian

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Just me, or is this chick wearing cryosilk robe?
  18. Deruvian

    The Al`kabor Project (EQMac) - PoP 1/5

    Wow, very nice work. That sounds like a huge win.
  19. Deruvian

    The Al`kabor Project (EQMac) - PoP 1/5

    Are Speedz and Robregan the only two developers that are actually working on this project? It seems as if they've overlaid data which was mined from AK on top of the base PEQ code set, but with the server being untethered from the rest of EQEMU, I assume due to the project's use of the new...
  20. Deruvian

    EQ Classic? Not really.

    I don't claim to know a lot about this server, but it seems curious that instead of addressing the complete and total lack of a database, the lone developer seems to be content in fixing abstract bugs. Unless someone is going to bother developing actual content for the server, I can't think of...
  21. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Why are you thinking of re-rolling anyway? I thought you had a cleric that you liked. I've been studying like a madman for the GMAT all year and this thread has been making me crave some EQ.
  22. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Yeah, I almost brought up the Ogre Warrior one as well, but I don't think it's quite as bad. The need to be shrunk to operate in most classic dungeons and is a pain and it's value lies mostly in raiding. In a non raid situation, I'm not sure that I would prefer to be an Ogre. Having to shrink or...
  23. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    It's really too bad that the regeneration is so powerful for necros. All of the good necros I remember from classic EQ were Gnomes or Dark Elves. There were also a good mix of Erudite and Humans in there. To feel as if you're completely gimped by selecting any other race is horseshit. The whole...
  24. Deruvian

    EQ F2P- Returning Players & Current Content

    I'm not sure that the comparison to P99 is that valid. P99 has taken a long time to get to this state. A new progression server, due to out of era spells and weapons, is immediately trivial. You don't need developed characters to tackle content- the first nag was done by a small handful of...
  25. Deruvian

    EQ F2P- Returning Players & Current Content

    I love the first few months after the server opens, but honestly Vulak was a disaster in a lot of ways and I can't see this being much better. Pretty joyless to roll into encounters with 15 mages and 15 shadowknights and faceplow everything. I think at one point in EoE we had enough SKs to...
  26. Deruvian

    Men's Fashion

    I highly doubt that you're paying for the name. You could probably find a smaller outfit that does a similar job for a little bit less, but the price difference wouldn't be that much. I'm actually considering getting measured by them, as I'm already paying in the 100-120 range for a lot of my...
  27. Deruvian

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    She's a terrible actress, you're absolutely right. I also thought she was particularly bad this episode. She wears the same 3 or 4 facial expressions in every episode and is does a poor job bringing her scenes to life. She certainly looks the part, but it's a shame they casted someone so bad in...
  28. Deruvian

    Electronic Dance Music

    Wow. Based on this comment, found this video. Holy shitttt. I just got home from work and I'm usually beat and my energy level just shot to like level 45 and my palms are sweating. I might have to go to the gym and run through a wall.
  29. Deruvian

    Electronic Dance Music

    Really enjoying this set. Thanks.
  30. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Yup, I do remember. I want to say we played a bunch in GFay and Crushbone early on. Early combine was really fun, I wish I could have put more time into it. After the first few days, work caught up with me and all the good XP spots got super crowded because I got behind the curve.
  31. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Unrest is definitely one of my favorite zones, but I've always found trying to level there beyond 32 or so to be pretty futile, the level spread is just too big in the tougher areas and there are way fewer spawns. Unrest is a great zone for solo players, but for group play, I think that Upper...
  32. Deruvian

    Project 1999 - Making Norrath Great Again

    Agree. I believe the highest mobs in Unrest are 33 or maybe 34, and they are spread amongst a lot of stuff in the high 20s. I believe it's basically GDBs and Tents that can reach that level; Hags and Werebats top out a bit lower. Unless your kill speed is really slow and you don't need a lot of...
  33. Deruvian

    Why all the Emulated EQ servers if EQ is free to play?

    I duuno what planet you guys live on that a 100k profit is even remotely worth it for a huge company. I work for a company a small fraction of Sony's size and even our smallest products would be expected to produce several million a year in hopefully a steadily improving trend. Just because...
  34. Deruvian

    Laptop Computers

    Funny, I was only checking this thread to see if anyone had a review of that laptop; I've been drooling over it on Amazon for days. I think I'd go for the 24gb ram version - has same size SSD, but I was under the impression that it had Blu Ray and a nicer screen.
  35. Deruvian

    Tyen Reconciliation Thread

    Tyen is a true blue EQ junkie, which scores major points in my book. Couldn't matter to me less if he was reinstated, but I'm sure that enough people are scarred by the end of FoH that it'll never happen.
  36. Deruvian

    Home Workout Equipment

    Also have Power Blocks, vouch that they're extremely solid and easy to use. Grip feels great in your hand, don't get too bulky or long even with 70 or so per hand. Not sure how the other products work, but only downside is that removing the additional 5 pounds from the grip can be a hassle. I...
  37. Deruvian

    Calling all filthy classic beards: need help resolving this conundrum

    My memory may be a little foggy here, but I do not believe that any of the notables in that map, other than Innoruuk, were live at the time of this patch (Feb 2000). Furthermore, the 'Gate House' was a common reference to the zone-in building. If anything, the screenshot seems to be evidence...
  38. Deruvian

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    They did eventually remove iron maiden from Oblivion Knights. I don't think the damage from Gloams was ever adjusted. I liked the Immunity factory in D2. A lot of builds really came into their own during Nightmare, and by the time you were moving into Hell, you were a wrecking ball. The...
  39. Deruvian

    EQ Live - Swarm Balancing (Headshot, Decapitate etc)

    I found actually spending the AA's to be a huge hassle honestly, specially while powerleveling. If you could pre-spend them or they could come up with some non retarded pre-spend tracks instead of just banking them and getting stuck at 30aa, it would be a lot easier. When they do double xp on...