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Every warrior I knew at some point in their EQ career had a big fucking meltdown about how the class sucked and was getting cheated. Just like every shaman bitched that all anyone wanted from them was slow and the class was shit otherwise. That was pretty much the staple of EVERY EQ class...

A valid point.

Wait, we have to have a point? I think my point was generally that the people behind the characters went a long way in EQ. We like to look back at the numbers and mechanics and give credit or criticism, when in reality it's a pretty relatively modern construct to only judge a class based on...

Even with parsers we used to group the 'low dps' classes. And yeah, there were plenty of times on my wizard I'd med until half, cast, med until nearly dead, cast, etc. But there were also times when shit was hitting the fan and being able to burn down a mob, root for ghetto cc, or evac saved...

I guess I just don't ever remember having to praise a wizard for their awesomeness, then. So, it's settled. Wizards and druids were both shit classes. Anyone else want to make their claims? Rangers? Warriors? Wait, Clerics were popular, but boring. Rogues, definitely. I don't know how...

Was ice comet the go-to spell for group dps? I always thought it was just for big-badda-boom sorta stuff. That's like saying wizards were rarely wanted for groups even after getting manaburn. I'm so confused!

I liked EQ because it was almost always better to have someone you liked to talk to and who wasn't an idiot. Of course, now days everyone knows everything, and it's all about gear checks and following the published strat. Yawn.

The only reason I remember not wanting druids for groups is because too many of the where antisocial fuckwads who thought they were entitled to a group because they'd suddenly come in from quad kitting to grace the rest of us lowly peons with their presence in a group. The druids who didn't...

In his defense... he DID find another class. Cleric. And then was a big-dicking bleeding-edge player for 5 fucking years! Or is your reading comprehension also that of a potato?! Yeah, that's right, he was a fucking badass! Like every other person who could manage to hit a c-heal button at...

This is getting awkward.

Your e-peen was probably bigger than mine. I raided and shit, but focused on having fun with friends, not killing shit that wasn't actually real. That meant when I couldn't find a group, I found something else fun to do (usually in game, but not always). I didn't sit at one zone-line lfg for...

Warrior LFG! How many hearts do you have? 5/10. Sorry, not interested. Need at least 7 hearts to do this content. /scene Shrug. Sub hearts for gear power for levels for overall skillups for whatever the relative measure of power is. Yup. Wheel = not-reinvented. So I'd...

Doesn't that same content also get trivialized in a non-levels game, like skill based? Or are you saying the entire game should scale to player power? Because that sounds like it would get pretty boring, to me. The first thing many people do in say a skill-based game is race to skill caps...

I misread you sitting at the zoneline waiting for a group as sitting at the zoneline with a group. But if we're going to start in on character-based insults, why the fuck was I having little trouble getting a group as a rogue and beastlord while you were apparently sitting for hours lfg as a...

It sounds to me like it wasn't fun having shitty friends or groups. I can't remember ever camping a zone line, because camping zone lines was lame, boring and not fun, so I didn't do it. Sometimes we'd kill stuff at zone while bored and waiting for the rest of the group to finally get there...

Maybe I'm bore-school, but I like the idea of key local NPCs knowing what's-what and will give the player hints through rumors and gossip. Instead of having to hunt for quests, the local innkeeper or tavern wench probably has a clue as to the latest happenings, so that's always a good place for...

Meaning there will be so many quests you don't have to do them all to quest-grind your way to max level!

lol? You're either terrible at communicating and meant 'you' in general, which is beside the point as there were plenty of drawbacks and situational weaknesses to balance blood mage power, or you're using the personal 'you' and are a moron if your reading comprehension turned into that...

Link? I love a good mmorpg.com thread! These are the gamers we'll be playing with! For instance, I looked a bit for the thread in question; got distracted reading the the thread "I spent over 550 dollars on WoW in Subscriptions alone and I hate the current incarnation of the game. As a...

Re-read the last 10 pages of this thread... seems pretty easy to me.

My favorite class ever was blood mage, and it's somewhat comical to me that you say it's OP because when I rolled a blood mage early in launch I literally had people laughing at me. I died more on my BMG than probably all other characters in all other mmorpgs I'd ever played combined, because...

Third-person perspective. Would not develop.

Or they might mean a good one?

I'm hoping if I post enough about my personal opinions on what a gamemusthave to be successful, or features itwill totally for surehave despite being in very early development and me not really having a clue, I'll finally be seen as the genius I am and get attention (or a job offer?!?!) from the...

What Muggle said wasn't wrong, just stupid to say. It's like saying "I bet that restaurant doesn't last" each time you pass a "Now Open" sign in a new restaurants window. Oh, your friend is getting married? My opinion is it's 50-50 whether they make it! Why, thank you for your amazing...

Fixed that for you.

Maaaan, you don't know jazz. Do you even Miles Davis?! I think you just accidentally Miles Davis and a coke bottle.

I'm a psychologist!

Exactly! All good writers just make shit up on the fly because they've just got so much talent stories and ideas just pour from their soul without much effort or forethought. Just like I'm pretty sure all musicians just make the songs up as they go, too, right? RIGHT?! Yeah. Pretty sure the...

So, reading way too far into everything, I'm going to assume this means he's possible not qualified or in over his head? OH NO GUYS THE GAME MIGHT FAIL!!!! Tsk, tsk, see, this is why..... -insert long-winded post about how I know how to make a game better and give personal warnings to Brad...

Unless the hero is stabbing skeletons to death! I'm pretty sure that's what sunk Schillings Amular/Copernicus project!

Ask about first person. I mean we know they're going to just go with third-person because... well they won't have a good reason, they'll just do it because that's what's done in WoW + since. But at least ask?

I'm pretty sure it's possible to have a solid, interesting art style/direction and not have it look like a fucking new-school tattoo. If the game is full of shoulderpads and swords like that, then fuck them in the ass with a shaft of freshly peeled ginger root. I want some fantasy art/style...

In modern games, you go through a zone, experience the area, lore, story, while doing quests. In EQ, you killed the same orcs until they no longer gave exp or spammed general chat with your willingness to buy orc belts so you could use the same quest as much and as long as possible to get every...

Sometimes I wonder if tad ever played EQ. People soloed in EQ all the fucking time, and it was rewarded so strongly I don't think it's been matched by a game since. EQ was the one game I played where everyone either soloed as much as possible if they could (far more classes than people want to...

Internal dev crews should, in theory, be the best at testing raid content (or any content for that matter) because they already know the underlying mechanics and can easily set up and repeat testing conditions. The problem is very often devs seem absolutely terrible at playing games, even their...

People say they want EQ combat as if it was the same in approach and feel for every class. It really wasn't. With my rogue I was mashing far fewer buttons than with my Beastlord. Whether people think that's for better or worse is personal opinion, but they were both EQ characters, EQ combat...

No shit. When people give the whole 'we aren't in college anymore' I wonder what kind of fucking idiot they have to be to have gotten a college degree (or at least gone to college) and not be able to comprehend there's an entire generation who ARE still young and wasting time like they don't...

Just make a game where the world is challenging, the loot desirable (whether item drops or harvested mats), death that stings... and turn on pvp. It's really not that hard. Have a few different rulesets for flavor and person preference. And when the carebear bluebie sandy-vaginas complain...

Someone make a joke about poop-bagging.