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Isn't this like, the entire challenge of being a DPS class? I always thought threat meters were cheating. (really should be called 'hate' instead of 'threat' though, as it makes more sense) Managing threat is how DPS classes can outshine others. I recall one time for that dragon in BWL, I...

This started as a generic rogue DPS rant before you turned it into a fury warrior rant, but whatever you win on the internet. If the emus can't even get basic things like mana and health regen right, (according to Tip's video) what makes anybody think they have things like rage gen right? Fury...

Easy. Implementation errors, to start with. Even if you have the precise calcs, doesn't mean they are all implemented correctly. I found many errors in my own code over the years when I implemented EQ combat mechanics. Granted they were relatively minor as testing finds anything major...

I plead guilty

One thing that really bothered me while working on EQ emus was how little everybody seemed to care about NPC statistics accuracy. Like I was wasting my life trying to get accurate stats for NPCs and nobody would even notice what is a significant difference between actual values vs. numbers...

That 'best flag carrier ever' video of Venruki shaming an Alliance premade in a Horde PUG without healers (fucking horde never had healers) was the most classic video I ever saw. Reminded me of my days in 2005. I wasn't at his level, but I had the Alliance uber guild accusing me and my other...

Honestly I think the most determining factor that made people love or hate old school MMOGs is the company they kept. If you hung out with cool dudes, then you probably liked the older games. If you hung out with shitheads, then you probably love dungeon finder insta-port pseudoanonymous...

Machine shut off mid-game, now refuses to power on with video card installed, so I guess it's super dead. Amazes me how computer hardware is so unbelievably fragile when the only moving parts are fans. Last two video cards were Sapphire and both became unusable on me, so I guess that brand is...

This is such utter nonsense on the level of faked moon landing conspiracy. Those morons just got used to playing an inaccurate recreation and want to think that it's better. Blizzard would never commit to Classic if they did not have the source and database available. Why would Blizzard lie...

lulz

I had similar thoughts. They could just largely re-use the old geometry and quests with minor modifications (so areas are reachable without flying mounts) if they wanted to be cheap about it. This still has issues though; what do you decide on what to 'stay Classic' and what not to...

Pro tip to mages in large scale PvP: use invis potions before charging in for the AoE bombs

So now Bloodsucker armor is great for the raid? I'm sure all of us destroyed a great Bloodsucker chest at some point, thinking it was garbage. This game just loves to force you to refarm for gear you once destroyed because you have no way to know if something is good or will be good; or even...

Am I the only guy who DETESTS this nonsensical 'do stupid shit at stupid times because the boss is unkillable otherwise' stuff that plagues every game since WoW? I stopped raiding in WoW largely because of this crap. I guess it even infects shooters nowadays. Can designers not think up other...

2.0 came out like a month or 5 weeks or whatever before TBC landed, so there was a window of time where people had the new talents in the vanilla game

I was watching some 'Classicast' youtube videos because they had some interesting guests on. Asmond casually mentioned that his mother bought his first flying mount for him. I immediately asked myself why was I watching this guy

So I'm raiding just for 20% pulse skill power gear sets?

If there is a single raid that is doable once a week, could you not merely leave at the end to farm it for 515s or whatever? Assuming 515s don't just drop from the last boss? Playing with matchmade idiots could be beneficial

Just buy herbs with China gold. I guess nowdays it's Vietnam gold?

So disappointed with the Nemesis. Farmed 20 exotic upgrade mats in anticipation and now I don't wanna use it over my M44. Hope the exotic AR is decent else I won't be using any orange stuff.

EQ had some extra 'twitch' in the form of melee strikes and some spells pushing NPCs and PCs around, which I'm not sure I've seen replicated in other games but that I sorely missed. That helped keep melee players engaged. The auto attack snoozing of EQ I think mostly comes from corner tanking...

I recently saw a Youtube video titled "Best Pistol DPS Build Guide *Nerf Proof* 1.6 Mil Shots!" which was: use unstoppable force + get 20% pistol damage from brand set + stack weapon/elite damage. (oh, and use Liberty's special deal to get a high damage shot) This differs from the AR build...

There are large differences between PEQ and TAKP. Stock EQEmu lacks many mechanics that TAKP implemented, or simply implemented later era mechanics or coded up their own version of certain mechanics based on my research that may not be as precise. TAKP also has the older verions of cerain...

This list is a bit old. Let me know if they've changed any of these: All raid bosses were granted the 'Mitigation of the Mighty' perma-buff which multiplies several combat statistics. This was implemented instead of reverting all the changes that made players more powerful over the years...

I played two agents to 30+ and three agents to 19+. One thing that struck me was how difficult the first control point (at level 3 or 4?) was when doing it over again. It honestly felt harder than doing one in WT. And yeah, the itemization guys in this game don't seem to know what they're doing

I did Space HQ (challenging) last night and was looking forward to the boss fight because it's one of the harder bosses. I blew it up-- before killing the adds-- faster than I ever did in the 1-30 game and I was stacking elite damage then too. I one-shot the end boss in Jefferson Trade with my...

If they make the game any easier I'm going to seriously lose enjoyment. Maybe I just lucked out on a good p416 but I'm melting elites now. I think damage to elites from armor is too high.

I think that the recent HP nerf was a large boost to AR builds. With ARs you pop a mob and reload while acquiring a new target, so the reload is less noticed. If the content is very bullet spongey, then it highly favors LMGs. Post-nerf the end game is more like the 1-30 game. Most of my WT5...

Interesting. I wasn't aware of the infinite ammo trick. Actually I don't think I've gotten a weapon with unhinged or even frenzy yet (certainly not recently) for some reason, and my hours played is 192. Although I spent much (half?) of that time re-leveling other characters and farming level...

I generally agree with you guys, which is why I haven't been posting here as my opinion has already been expressed by others and my playtime was limited for awhile so I was behind. I however do think the 30 round mag needed a nerf. Also the best mods should be the hardest to get, not found in...

I agree that this is the worst thing about Classic. I would actually like to see Blizzard make both 'true classic' and 'classic with adjustments' servers. They're in a position to do this because they have a large enough userbase and have the dev resources. This way if they screw it up, we...

I mostly just played WoW to PvP anyway, which I found surprisingly enjoyable before Blizzard neglected BGs and allowed them to turn into premade vs. PUG stomps and free loot for AFK botters. I'm of the view that classic EverQuest had superior gameplay to WoW (particularly post-BC WoW) when it...

I played Cataclysm at launch just to level one character up to 85 before quickly dumping it and even that felt like a chore because... I was playing Project 1999 at the time and enjoying that way more. I've since spent the last 5.5 years working on another EQ emu project. The people who have...

Rank 1 blizzard with extra snare talent (which was quite strong) from inside Drek's room to super snare anybody trying to pull warmasters out

I played on two servers in Classic. I never saw general races until patch 1.12, which is when xserver BGs went in. From what I gathered at the time, it started becoming common on some (but not nearly all) servers in 1.11 after they removed many NPCs and made the remainder weaker. NPCs will...

So anyway, this free weekend thing allows me to buy WoW tokens with the stupid amount of gold I made 10 years ago using my addon. Question for people who still play this ruined game: buy tokens now or wait until Classic launch? Any idea how prices might change? I noticed the price dropped...

Alliance could also skip all of the NPCs in the horde base after 1.11, while the horde still had to kill many of them. (i.e. the blacksmith) A single alliance of any class could take the relief hut, solo, which meant that it was just a matter of how fast they could ride there. The NPCs...

Actually my primary concern about Classic servers is that all static servers degenerate over time as users discover exploits and degenerative metas which become more and more abused. #nochanges people will fight any attempts to enforce an environment that was more like the original game, and...

I once got a suspension for saying something highly inflammatory to a guy who was sitting at an alliance held graveyard and instead of taking the graveyard, would allow the NPCs to respawn and kill them over and over to farm cloth. When I clicked the banner as I rode by, he complained to me...