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Eh, do we really want to see the riskless "pet tank" as a primary ability? An ancillary part of a class should not be able to supplant an actual class of the preferred type. That isn't emergent gameplay; that is shitty design.

Too much =/ My mouse gaming will always be defined by the Logitek M518. The best I have ever used, bar none.

Used this, discovered a random 10 dollar credit to on my GMG account, so this game cost me a total of $12.50 It could crash in a week and I basically got my money's worth at this point.

I'll play wherever, as I always tend to play classes that are more needed than most. This tends to shorten both my queue time and my ability to join raids/groups by a substantial margin. I played on Pandemonium in FFXI, and it had some pretty gnarly high end action. I expect most servers to...

Odds are, crafting will be pretty important to endgame, unless they station ranks of loot as random drops on all mobs of a specific tier. Tier 1 raid bosses can drop any tier 1 raid loot, period. More than likely though, they will probably put lots of crafting shit on things and in the...

Not a whole lot of released information, just speculation on classes/release schedule. They hinted that you open up questlines that allow you to unlock classes depending on how you interact with the environment/npcs/players/et al. Then you further unlock abilities/traits for those classes as...

Honestly.. they really shouldn't be aiming for Rascal-riding mmo players. Nothing in life, actually, should cater to the Rascal riders. Different topic though! Depending on implementation, the lack of auto-attack and the mobility of combat could be really fun. As long as they steer clear...

Convo, I am positive that I have stated that you -aren't- part of the people I am questioning. You have actual thoughts on what could/should/might be better in most cases, and I have +'d you because of that. I was specifically referring to the people who just go "EQ" and then nothing when it...

Better question. To be considered a true sequel, what would you modify in the realm of mechanics (be specific) so that it isn't the same game with a new graphics engine and different zones, but a sequel that improves upon the original. Longer camps? Longer respawns? What is your version of...

Lots of doom and gloom while the wizard isn't just a man behind the curtain. The expected EQ:Reskinned folks are upset, so that makes complete sense. But there isn't really enough known about the game to make the kind of pass/fail judgments that are popping up.

Grim1: You are patently wrong with your last sentence, which I have to assume at this point is pure hyperbole for the sake of hyperbole. Shitty groups can and do wipe all the time in just about every game on the market. Just like good groups can and do steamroll content in every game. Just...

Game looks interesting. The stylized graphics look good so far, and the class switching thing feeds much more into the sand box design elements. City building = cool, blowing up all terrain still worries me that everything is going to look like shit for the majority of the time because people...

Never underestimate the ability to be in amazing physical shape when you are super rich and your job is to be in amazing physical shape all the time. And probably roids, but the other shit doesn't hurt!~

Clearly. Cool beans. Really? (usually when something unfortunate but not life altering happens)

Probably due to compression of the file giving the sense that the iris on the left (your right) eye is fully visible instead of partially obscured by the perspective, which is how it should be. This gives the derp look. Granted, I don't particularly like this specific piece of artwork, but the...

I believe that is correct. And his complaints about shitty moderating on p99 and how some people are cheating and on and on and on. Like several dozen EQFlames combined into one person.

The term is "stylized" not "cartoon." EQ2 tried to go heavily in the realistic look, after the stylized look of original EQ and not the shitty wannabe reality of Luclin Models. Community had a huge backlash against the luclin models because they took the -most- stylized races and turned them...

http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Nigh_Omnipresence Welp, that's certainly not terrible.

I was mostly saying to have two server types, and keep the stupid PVP bullshit from having an effect on the rest of the game to one server type. Duels and what not is OK, but putting rare resources in PVP zones on normal servers is retarded. This isn't Azeroth; it is Norrath. And Norrath is...

Cloth caps all around! PVP: don't put PVE required resources in PVP zones unless it is on a PVP server. Hell, don't have PVP enabled in zones even on PVE servers. Let that be the realm of instancing. Keep the shit holes separate from the real content, k?

Macs aren't really known as gaming stations, and since Apple refuses to join reality, it makes programming for a select few sort of a non-issue. Would you allocate resources to a platform that generally isn't known for purchasing games and intentionally doesn't join the world of standardized...

Definitely in the boat that racial starting areas are great, even if a lot of dev time. You just have to link quests/content back to the starting area. Neriak remains one of my favorite combination of zones ever, because it presents everything that DEs are about in a visual package vs. an...

People disagree with racial starting areas? I didn't think that was a thing haw. It creates flavor for a class/character and shades your view of the game almost immediately, creating immense replay value. Also: AA being a subset of abilities/stats/character progression that isn't tied...

Reaction-based mentality. It's also slippery-slope conceptually, and they love that idea. "But but but, if they have instancing, nothing will matter!" or "If they sell xp pots, What stops them from selling raid loot?!?!" or other silly arguments. Internal integrity stops them from doing that...

PVP servers/instances = Fine! Resources only showing up in contested areas in a statistically favorable outcome of terrible PVP = Bad! Personally, I'm hoping that the -only- way PVP is enabled on normal servers is through the player made crap.

GLDs simply take less damage, which makes them a superior overall single target tank. I played with a few different glads (as CNJ) and Marauders and while I like the speed of clearing trash that Marauders bring, the Gladiators were just much more relaxed on healing when it came to the bosses...

I hope this doesn't mean Vanguard style crafting combined with EQ:2 crafting =/ That would be quite lames. FFXIV's approach is much better in general, and I hope that EQ:N emulates a portion of that awesome.

Only obvious answer: Tad is also drunk. Mad late edit: I hope SOE is having a strange reveal in that they are finalizing shit to a degree as we argue semantics and other retarded facets in this thread. That they haven't just stuck to stupid guns and hope that it will prevail like it did...

Who the hell is Sage? I only know the folks who post here =| Any inside information on how things are handled serverside, or is it just 1234 spam that can be macroed and thus forgotten?

I'll bite. You disagree with any stance I've taken because...? Please tell me it has something to do with mechanics, which is 99.99% of my posts in any mmorpg related train of thought. If you are disagreeing because of .01 of my posts, I'm gonna have to say you're being silly. I have no...

Confirmed drunk. I'll extrapolate: Tad10, even if I think he is fucking ludicrous on some of his stances, is borderline dead on about EQ:N expectation wise. People can "hope" for different shit, but what we are going to get is a combination of what has come before combined with player made...

Ut's drunken posts are confirming bad jokes/concepts I have posted previously. Not sure if I should worry for him or for Sony =\

Did you play LOTRO? Compared to contemporary games? The combat was fucking clunky and it borderline copied directly abilities from previous games but put them in a clunky ass combat system that had strange as fuck timing attached to it. This isn't new information UT. It isn't which director...

Pretty much exactly. The mix of queued/instant and strange cooldown timers between them was just jarring after having felt the fluidity that was Vanilla WoW. Even EQ and FFXI felt more responsive, which when you have a hotbar is absolutely pathetic. Rift initially looked like it was swinging...

Mechanics are the backbone. Combat being the most "visual" side of the mechanics. The world may suck you in initially, but the mechanics are what keep you in. Otherwise yeah, Second Life: Slightly Less Trannies. Community can do a lot to keep you involved as well, but it gets pretty hard to...

Yeah. Definitely trolling by stating an opinion backed by experience and 99% of the time logical discussion/concepts. I haven't said the game is going to blow or anything even close to it. What I have said is that the chance the game is exactly like EQ1 but "better" is basically zero, since...

Managing expectations by viewing expected results through the lens of statistically logical outcomes. It's nice to imagine that all lessons have been learned and that something truly innovative is imminent. It just isn't very likely given the times/technology/people working on it. Odds are if...

Yes, you can kill the people burning down the forest. Does it respawn instantly? Are you protecting the forest for a reason? Are you protecting every forest in the game world because people are destroying them for no reason? All of your solutions are aimed at normal people, not Trolls. Does...

The thing is, with all the alternatives available, and the infatuation with F2P that this game is almost certainly going with... that isn't much of a deterrent. For sane people, those are harsh penalties and if they wish to continue playing the game, they'll abide by the rules of the world...

You're looking at that example from the wrong angle. You are looking at it from the point of view of a normal person, not a fuckhead. Fuckheads destroy things just because they can, regardless of consequences. Does the forest pop back up overnight? Defeats the entire point of selling an idea...