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Ask just about anybody on a classic EQ forum what the worst thing about PoP was and you will get PoK books as the #1 answer. I hate teleports. The fewer the better. I would prefer zero of any kind (exceptions perhaps for a fear portal or similar) but of course I won't get what I want in...

That map was the reason I did not subscribe to the game, period.

The most sure-fire way to spawn a MMORPG with classic EQ gameplay is to kickstart or otherwise fund artists to release a generic high fantasy asset library with a commercial use allowable license. Art is the largest barrier to open source and indie games. Every popular multiplayer game has...

If I had known it would be so difficult to find 13 year old raid mobs available to parse, I probably wouldn't have bothered leveling up some characters. Who the fuck kills Mithaniel Marr anyway?

You ain't kiddin'. I developed a dozen addons for WoW, and a few times I discovered some broken API functions. When I tried to contact somebody at Blizzard, I realized I had absolutely no way of talking to a UI dev. The best I could do was report it in the bug forum and watch the post sink...

I was thinking more along the lines of males getting more strength and females more dex/agil.

I'm very pro-realism. Were I to make a game, I would deny female characters from being knights/warriors to begin with. I'm not sure the 'lifetime channel crowd' can use the realism card against boob armor. It's a small concern for me, though. But just to make things interesting (and to...

That's just it, it doesn't solve the problem. Not getting good loot is the result of the game having no item sink, not because int items drop on your barb. Crafted BoAs are a good example of this. I made my current shoulders after like 50 crafts, and I haven't been able to beat them after...

He criticizes live's MP system, but personally I think it works rather well. I think monsters scale well with the current player damages; granted I play using the most OP builds. Beats me why Blizzard decided to go with this automatic scaling crap. Ever since WoW, Blizzard designers have...

That thread just says he makes 250m/hr doing solo crypt runs. It doesn't make exp/time comparisons with VSORCS. You can't compare that exp/hr with the values in the thread I linked because they were from non-typical runs only done to compare exp per unit time on an individual map basis with...

I would be interested in reading any analysis that factored in time to search and prep when determining exp per unit time. I can see act 1 being the best in 4 mans with 4 people trying to find a crypt; but for solo I have a hard time seeing it beating act 2 when it can take upwards of 6-7 games...

Or you could just not use a hellfire ring. At mp10, a hellfire ring gives you 5.6% more exp, and a 31% ruby in helm only gives you 5% more exp. As soon as I saw how exp was calculated, I dropped both immediately. They are more powerful at lower MPs though. See this...

I'm not sure how small the minority is that doesn't like the removal of any form of trade in the game. I've seen more than one 'I'm going to quit the game over this' claim over it, although certainly most of us will just continue to play even though we dislike it. I will however end up playing...

Get rid of auction house Get rid of BoA flags on items except for hellfire rings Set up ladder system like D2's to act as a pseudo-item/character wipe Police spam, RMT, and botters as much as possible Create some sort of trade post game type that can have a lot more than 4 people in it, with...

Killing the franchise begun long before the BoAs. As terrible as no drop loot is in Diablo, I was just thinking how it wouldn't be worse than it is now. The combination of sanctioned RMT, AH, botting, and no item sinks is what really killed the game. I came back to the game 2-3 weeks ago, and...

Yeah, I did that before entering Oceangreen

Yeah, I am now. I was powerleveled from the mid 50s to 81 in a few hours, then tried to kill a light blue in Oceangreen with my monk+merc and got destroyed. I have to kill light blues in PoP to advance right now. I barely survived killing a dark blue in Hills of Shade with 2 tank mercs (one...

I went to the back area of PoFire and it was a hell of a lot easier than doing later expac zones. Got 120 AAs in a few hours using exp pots. Sony should probably make players get some AAs before leveling after a certain point, otherwise people will end up not being able to kill anything that...

Yes. 2 AAs. My monk has the three pieces from the quest the hot zone NPC in PoK gives (the only armor pieces people sell), mostly the level 59 req defiant gear, and a few slots with lower level defiant. Found a couple level 80 weapons in the bazaar though.

So like, are tank mercs useless after a certain level? I'm practically chain healing my merc after slowing light blue mobs at 81. Makes the game difficult when my monk can't tank at all

Funny. On Al'Kabor I beat the trial of execution, 6 boxing, by pulling mobs to a corner and spamming PBAoEs, having casters tank the mobs who were wearing several pieces of 2g vendor cloth and adviser robes. Some of the other trials were pretty brutal (flame) but if you couldn't get into...

I've been going to hot zones, but not using DS potions. Can you DS your mercs with them? My monk seems to be doing shit for DPS; way less than half that of a tank merc. Oddly enough melee damage mercs seem to do less than tank mercs too, at least at my level.

56. Seems kind of slower than guides have mentioned though; not sure how people get level 60 in 10 hours without powerleveling. Perhaps I am neglecting something.

No. I really loathe bugging people for favors; particularly people I don't know. I do have 3 heirloom 50% 30 minute potions on a character I am copying over twice a day though which I am stockpiling.

Is there a level I should stop and farm AAs at? I figure there has to be some sweet spots on the way up, what with the new way AA exp is granted nowadays.

They removed the ring event years ago, and I think they changed his damage when they did it. I still have a log from when I tanked him back in 2001, and it has 87 hits from him in it, which is many times over the number of hits required to determine the min and max hits with certainty. I can...

That's nice. It still doesn't prove the sleeper was regularly woken up. Kegz would have to know who did it to know it was happening. Even if people were crashing ST, it seems to me it would make more sense to crash it after killing everything but ventani anyway.

They had already decided to make them not rechargable before I spoke to him, before the server even went up. Rogean thought the changes were already made but somehow they didn't go in or something.

I would guess monk gear would have more avoidance than shielding too, so that sounds good. I do sort of like to box though, and killing mobs fast to factor out regen is an issue. Monk + Shaman still good?

Ok, so who are these people and how did they crash both zones? You realize there were people duping items, so the number of SoDs isn't proof of anything.

Spell mitigation and melee avoidance are fine, I just need to avoid effects that alter a mob's DB or DI (i.e. shielding). I would wear inferior gear and simply play more characters if it made the content undoable. edit: also I know the min/max hits on most raid bosses anyway, it's the max hp...

Hi guys. I require the wisdom of somebody familiar with the modern EverQuest. Ever since the shutdown notice of Al'kabor, I've given myself the mission of making the emulator databases more accurate. I've collected a lot of data on trash mobs before the shutdown, but I was of course time...

Sounds like the GMs are doing a bang up job. Keep up the great work guys.

You're assuming Kegz is telling the truth. If that were true, then why would Hobart have to intervene after IB woke it up? 'because they didn't know the exploit' doesn't really work as an explanation because you would somehow have to know this mythical exploit existed beforehand, and you only...

You forgot some stuff. 4) Bolt spells had NO LoS check at all, allowing magicians to nuke through walls at ranges so distant that you couldn't even see the 'soandso begins to cast' message. 5) Whirl stuns were lasting upwards of FOUR TICKS. Enchanter casts a 55 mana, 2.5 second cast spell...

Funny, I never got a single 'anti-PC' comment from anybody and I literally wrote the how-to installation guide. Perhaps the hatred didn't stem from what client you guys used but rather your so-called 'best of intentions' attitude. Wait, you guys were only trained three times? Malignant called...

Am I correct in assuming that you guys are using Project EQ's database? I've been working to make the classic to PoP eras more accurate since the Al'Kabor shutdown notice because PEQ's info is very wrong, and to that end I've been parsing logs and suiciding on raid mobs the last few weeks...

Keep in mind though, the database has a lot of inaccurate data. Tunare for example is actually level 70; the level 66 version disappears when attacked and spawns the 'real' version outside the tree. She hits for a range of 165-925.

1) A challenging game from day one level one mob one. No ez-mode for 20 levels bullshit. 2) No wizards and melee doing the same DPS with unlimited low-damage spells 3) no super fast OOC regen. No 'modes' that disable abilities in or out of 'combat mode' 4) ZERO instances 5) weather 6)...

Haha Nihilum is still blatantly exploiting raid mobs? And in front of rivals no less? That guild has to be the most pathetic and dirty guild I've ever seen. Is wheelchair druid going to play three servers when teams comes out? Another server to RMT on so most likely. Did Rogean ever get...