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The thing is, if you played a couple of characters to like level 20, you could afford the next tier of xp zones via the earned turbine points. If you did another character to 20, I think you could unlock everything up to 50. It's been awhile since I messed around on it, but while it appeared...

You're taking the current implementation in a game that started with factions and unique currencies after one expansion and comparing it to a game that lacks factions and the unique currencies are obtained in very mundane ways that are already implemented. It's not wishful thinking, it's just...

Expected response. This would mean, if the idea isn't P2W, that simply getting to max skill/max level/max whatever isn't the doorway into the endgame. It's something that happens as you go, so that a cash shop could speed that up without directly impacting progression vs. those who don't use...

That's a strong assumption as so far there aren't any "factions" in the game, so to speak. Leves can be saved up over the course of multiple periods, leading to a building stack that you can use on your days off (holy shit why didn't WoW do this?) to do multiples at once. The concept of a...

Totally agree. Ingame gating via ingame currency or something to expand inventory (WoW's bank mechanic, EQ's weight restriction and inventory space increases dropping off raid targets) is just dandy, but don't make it a cash shop shenanigan. And travel speed should be directly related to...

Devil's advocate, but I remember PoT looking very similar with 80% of the people running around having bright colors of varying tiers of raid shit and weapons with varying amounts of particle effects and "unique" graphics in that every other person of that class had something similar/the same...

On Dailies: So far, the only currencies I've seen in game is the regular old coin currency and the grand company currencies, which can be earned through a variety of means. Also, unless it is fairly behind the scenes (minus the star rating for teleports that reduces the cost by a % from doing...

In that chat interface, you can select specific words that will display, and can use them to make rudimentary sentences, sort of. It's why you see the words with the little arrow brackets around them in chat occasionally. That's the international chat system that translates whatever you select...

It really comes down to making leveling -other- characters more smooth than normal. Since there are gaps in levels between dungeons, unless all you do is run them to get green+ items consistently, you can shorten the amount of time you need to spend in them vs. doing other things by having HQ...

These days, level cap means everything, as it is the entrance to the "real" game. Your post makes zero sense =/ I am still a huge fan of the gaming ideology that shit should be just like the oldschool raidgame from day one. You pick up your sword, you are required to go do shit that most...

I am in the same boat. I will look at what I -can- accomplish without spending a dime, and then do my level best to achieve that as quickly as possible. Then I look at the next plateau that doesn't require me spending any money, and aim for that. One of the worst F2P players in history.

Fucking awesome, Seventh. Great stuff.

Level 15 is pretty trivial to get (well, 16 I guess) as long as you have a high potion or two and a couple of antidotes (just do quests in the area, you'll get antidotes easily enough) for the last fight or be a cnj, you'll be fine. Don't be afraid to sprint away a bit to pop a potion and give...

The "Dumar" personality could just be a forum persona he has adopted to mitigate his anxieties in RL. This is his way of tilting, albeit loudly, at windmills. Because otherwise, this is a person who hates the shit out of every game in the last decade yet still plays them. That is a recipe...

Only 50 DKP minus? Sad times for the angry eastern european guildleader indeed. The "new" zones look the tits.

From my experience playing one character with Cnj at 20 and a couple others at 8 with both gathering skills to 13ish and leatherworking to like 14 (way too lazy to remember) the key is definitely doing leves. But I also didn't do a single quest from 15+ that wasn't the main story and zero...

Just adding, it was Kain the Dragoon and Cecil the Dark Knight. You know, for posterity. And yeah, most groups that wanted damage done did it with multiple Black Mages in FFXI for most of the game, until much later in the lifecycle when the melee cleave groups became popular or samurai TP...

Nah, all the jobs (at least the ones released so far) have the look of bringing flavor/utility without being a gigantic paradigm change. Certain fights will most definitely cater to specific builds/setups, but as far as gameplay goes it appears both more forgiving and more variable for having...

Or too much old, not enough new. The pendulum swings both ways, as it were.

There are definitely a few areas where ignore works wonders, even if it turns entire pages of threads into 80% "This user is being ignored" type messages. I mean, with Laura/Dumar/etchazz/qwerty on ignore, the EQ:N thread is borderline incomprehensible unless I commit myself to reading the...

The interconnection between the tradeskills really solidifies my intent to focus on gathering/crafting as I level (instead of doing a variety of classes first to open up job options) especially early on. The level 15 ones didn't seem too impressive, but some of the 25 ones definitely seemed...

Yeah pretty much. I went far enough into leatherworking to see how interconnected it is with other trades (you start running into stuff that semi-requires other tradeskills in the 11-15 range, and it gets more crucial after that) and far enough into the gathering to see where you find mining...

Admittedly, EQ catered to the concept of the player up until the end of PoP without it seeming to be the case. Prior to 2003-4ish, the average playtime was sort of ambiguous due to the nebulous nature of logouts in EQ. I mean shit, I had 360 days played 3 years into release and I am positive...

Favorite band was/is NIN, first EQ character was named Rezznor, then deleted because I hated warriors, remade as an SK with Rezz as the moniker and it's been my go-to forum/character name since.

Shit seems legit. Going to definitely give it the go in august, for realz. I'm personally hoping it works out in spite of EQ:N.

Yoshitaka Amano basically created the visual style for Vampire Hunter D. Thus, he can be forgiven for making lots of FF characters look like thai ladyboys.

Yeah, I figure through working through leves for all the tradeskills and all the gathering stuff, I'll have plenty of time to work the Cnj up enough to clear the related combat shit. Especially since the synergy really becomes apparent once you get to the 16-21 level tradeskill stuff. Which...

I'm planning on playing on whatever server has the highest amount of forum folk on it, for the most part. Nobody I know in the reals of life are interested in this game because they are effectively gay ("Lawl that game tanked, I'm not playing a dead game!") and very dumb or in grad school with...

I'm digging it a lot, still trying to nail down where I want to start/what I want to do first. Definitely discovered that doing the leves is pretty much how you level the gathering skills/tradeskills with reasonable speed if you are out of discoveries for the current tier available to you...

Pretty sure we've had the challenging vs. tedious debate before and also how the early levels of EQ are one extreme end of the "challenge" spectrum compared to mid level and beyond. In summation: doing something that is merely time consuming (unless you are intentionally being reckless and...

Sks had plenty of time to chat while fd'd and waiting for shit to pat away. Or in the middle of casting a lifetap. Improved my typing speed 300% in those days.

Unless they are deviating heavily from the mentality that you only ever need one character(in ffxi extra characters were effectively mule accounts at like a dollar a month) I don't think choosing any class deal would permanently lock you out of doing the others. Since the souls are equippable...

Welp, I played sporadically for a few hours since the servers popped up. Now I'm setting the beta down til the game goes live (or characters are saved for release) because I am definitely purchasing this game. First time since early WoW-Wrath that I have had to restrain myself from playing a...

On Malboro as Rezz Darkraven , Conjurer atm. Do you need the surname to do searches or is first name enough?

From Kunark on, EQ did indeed "start at max level" unless you were 100% new to the game/genre. Even then, more people tried to experience endgame content than people who were rabid about low/midgame content. At that point in the game's cycle, people were largely trying the game based upon...

Most people have no idea what they mean when they say sandbox without completely ignoring games that have released since EQ/UO when they reference those games. It is pretty sad, honestly. And no, EQ is not a sandbox. WoW technically has just as many sandbox elements as EQ did. EQ had one...

Fable was the first game I had purchased that felt like I wasted the money. It wasn't a bad game, but it certainly wasn't 50 dollars worth of entertainment imo at the time. RPG games of a similar nature had much more replay and overall content than Fable shipped with at the time. Ah well, the...

Literally all you have to do to prepare is to just open all the sealed doors by killing the trap door monsters. By the time you get to the demon wall, you'll be plenty high enough to end it and the equipment you get from all the sealed rooms will put you over the top. Only time the Demon Wall...

Correct. Movie was good/fun (plot-hole-no-jutsu aside) and definitely still maintained the focus that the previous Star Trek movies prior to the 2009 film carried. Worth the money and I hope it continues to spawn successor films.

*unless you had FD. Talk about trivializing danger. I mean rogues could be sneaky and shit and get around things with time, but only SKs/Monks/Necros could just bullrush through shit, break LoS and then go *poof* before moving on. Never had a map printed, explored zones by accident multiple...