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My interest in this product stands and falls with the game title, so they better figure out a good one. I'm at least semi-serious here.

Yea its very annoying, several world bosses have that problem (Mark II for example). If you are grouped you should be able to mark the head to get the target back quickly. Imo the jury is still out if this remains unsuitable for the open world. Like I said above I just think that with waning...

It's not PUGable, I agree. The majority of people need to know what they are doing. Two randoms standing in the wrong spot isnt going to wipe everyone though, its just that currently you have 120 people there of which 60 dont know what to do and *think* they are above listening to the...

You can get into the same version of the zone as your group members (your mutual main server or an overflow), right click the other player in group window should have an option to join them. However the zones also have a hard limit (200 players afaik) at which even that doesnt work anymore. I'm...

How long until this and Rift go on the station pass? I mean this cant be worse then that dragon pokemon game SOE pushes valiantly.

We are talking about Mtg now! I think if they make it as easy as you describe, EQN will just end with everyone being 5Ccontrol with every spoiler. I dont know if you would want that but I dont, its the recipe to a boring meta, even if the deck itself us a blast.

Well if you want a recent example I had alot of fun banging my head against Tequatl in GW2 during the last few days, with two kills in about a dozen tries. But most of that is nostalgia for open world raiding I think, especially since I havent done any serious raiding in a long time (never...

I dunno, I remember really dislking the EQ2 characters from videos and screenshots, but I didnt pick the game up at launch. When I tried it years later they (still) looked bad.

MTG does punish for mixing colors though, which I would consider the class or role equivalent. You will have to deal with mana issues (no mtg example nitpicking please) that ultimately weaken you in all chosen roles, compared to the pure (single color) deck. The way I understand it is within...

I think rigid classes are easier to balance because for the first balance check you only have to consider the class itself, so to speak. Of course you need to consider buffs from all classes. On the other hand with the EQN multi-classing, even if it is ok with 40 classes at first, as the game...

Ya we are going to have to agree to disagree here because which classes were wanted and which were tolerated went back and forth during my time in EQ (2000 - 2004). WoW doesnt figure into my opinion in this regard. of course not everyone auto-kicked people for being the wrong class, but if you...

I was hoping I did that. SC2 was close to SC1 for me and Diablo 2 getting that facelift in D3 instead would've been fine with me. But eh, that's spilt milk, here's hoping that their second attempt is what I was looking for.

Like he said, every system has that problem. Your class based system has the same 4 FOTM classes, and then 12 classes that are picked last for dodgeball. If warrior tanking falls out of favor with the populace I have to log over to my paladin and reskill from healer to tank. Big fucking deal...

I'd prefer some races never getting some of the class options, and druid and necro or paladin and sk not going together. That said, I take no offense from that video either. It makes sense. I can deal with all classes being open to every race, if it comes with the baggage it should bring. So...

Probably because it was a joke. That's how I understood up until now anyway. Now I'm having seconds thoughts.

It also stimulates a last revenue spike from it.

It's my impression, I'm not passing it off as fact. It 'seems' EQN is going for a large casual audience. A game that releases with or even worse adds difficult content alienates that audience. Latest example see the new GW2 patch. Or the GW2 patch before that. Or the one before that (Tequatl...

Theres not going to be difficult content in a game that is from the ground up build to appeal to the biggest possible casual audience, which seems to be the direction of EQN. Time will tell I suppose but the magic 8-ball says 'Fat chance'.

Absolutely agree, the game is best when you dont follow the optimal path to your next milestone and instead just do what you feel like when you load it up. I am ok with tequatl loot for just that reason.

Was a big dissapointment back then, but the classes had some fun designs. Loved my ironbreaker. I wonder if GW has plans for the IP.

My server beat it twice today, with the main server failures I attended being 60%ish. Overflows usually lose at 85%-95%. I think the "new and shiny" effect is causing more problems then helping, because of overflow issues. However it does require decent leadership and everyone know what they are...

If you cant see the difference between horizontal progression and vertical progression you're retarded, intentionally ignoring it to troll, or both. That said, like I wrote about 2 pages and 20 pages ago, everything is napkin design right now and what we get in first alpha/beta might not confirm...

Yea, and quoting it was kinda pointless because I bet EVERYONE including Mahes never expected the AH to be removed.

RMAH isnt the design problem - any AH is problematic for a game thats based on loot acquisition. There are some longer replies to this already so I'll just say that removing only the RMAH wouldnt change anything to me, since I never used it anyway. Damn right it is a video game. If I want to...

Good example that points out they will probably use both methods - 5 tiers, 40 classes. How big the vertical or disparity is becomes the question. Tier 1 you do 100 dmg with your average attack, and the other tiers each add 10 damage for 140 at tier 5 is both a big difference for an individual...

I'm expecting some vertical advancement, just not to the point of being invincible Joe to the lower tiers like in a DIKU. I expect your power level to be similar to GW2 when in zones below your personal tier: you can take on more at once and kill faster, but you are not unhittable and outregen...

I didnt expect this at all, totally out of the blue. I'm happy about it though. Auction houses were one of the things I wanted most for D3 before it came out, but the design decisions that went in alongside *because* of the AH killed it for me. I am going to buy the expansion for sure (I was...

Some changes are probably in order not for difficulty but to counteract player behaviour. Like right now two of six turrets are afk and have been for long while we wait. If he spawns now, we're already fucked for this attempt. Not sure how to change this in a good way but thats their job...

Are you really arguing that a game that isnt anything but a visionT has to comply to your 2013 "semi-expensive laptop" specs? Forgelight runs fine today, by the time therer is an actual game to install this isnt even a topic anymore. And to repeat, Forgelight was just an example to illustrate...

When they changed Claw of jormag it took people a few days to learn the new spots, so I guess barring guild or alliance getting together for this specifically it'll be a few days until he is beaten. The mechanics seem pretty straightforward unless there are many new twists as he goes down...

Genre advancement is in the EQN thread, for better or worse your only current hope in this regard.

Confirming that. The encounter is great and I pray that Anet doesnt cave to the whiners and nerfs it. Done 4 attempts so far best was 85%. The open raid nature takes getting used to I think, especially for GW2 players that are used to facerolling. Alot of people just leeroyed in, died and didnt...

I think he was agreeing with you there, champ. Anyway the guess about Forgelight is just that, a guess. If he gets SOE support a proprietary engine that is proven to run decent is a good start, even moreso at the time this turns from a wet dream into a game when any pc that is less then 6...

Cant be worse then VG. And PS2 runs ok for me usually, could be better but meh. Free, supported, sorta current engine would be boon for a budget project any way you cut it.

Judging from the last part of Brad's bio that you can find under the twitter handle, this project isnt entirely independent. It will be supported by SOE, but wont be part of their portfolio to give the project the freedom to target a small niche, which an official SOE project just cant do...

Color me surprised, I sure as hell wouldnt have thought that. Did they expand the single player part beyond lvl18ish? The closed beta forum claimed the lvl cap was 50 and I'm wondering if that was just a false assumption or if everything I saw in beta is what you get now. Gonna buy the...

I likely will, I tend to throw small money at stuff like this quickly because corporate-produced games are likely to compromise on their initial goals. I do not share the admiration for Brad McQaid that's rampant here though so I am not quite the target audience I guess.

I dont see any expansions coming soon, the last statement was that they arent working on them and putting all their effort into the living story and fixing the pvp parts of the game. They might not tell the truth of course and have 50 people on that project, who knows. They have alot of good...

I thought they started over three times since then? What is it now? If they threw away the whole design except art assets, they havent been at this iteration for 6 years. So either blame them for starting over with each new fad in the genre or for taking 6 years for what they have now, but not...

Yea the last three patches really sucked on the lore side of things. They had something decent to build on in both molten alliance and aetherblades, and now they've thrown both in front of the same (short)bus as the minions of avery bad cliche villain. The Tequatl revamp seems to be...