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  1. Pyros

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    And summoning stones were already there. They were simply absolute shit and no one bothered using them ever especially since everyone was bound in Kargath. Summoning stones basically were just a warlock summon, you had to summon 1by1 by having 3 people click the stone for a few seconds, same as...
  2. Pyros

    Shadowrun Returns

    It is a pretty bigger risk since almost everytime you're in melee range, you're not in cover, while you can kneecap from behind heavy cover. That said it is probably too much of a nerf and melee could use a nerf too, mostly I don't think katanas etc should remove AP as easily on any given hit...
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    EQ Never

    Right I guess, but at the same time they had just pushed the level cap to 70 when they did that. Not too sure what's the situation with those EQ2 chars vs cap, they're 85 and cap is 90 is that it? Not a big fan of the concept either way, but I guess it's a lot faster to implement than actually...
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    EQ Never

    The new class looks interesting, if it wasn't EQ2 combat.
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    EQ Never

    They're giving away full level chars so people can "experience endgame instantly", is that a new low for mmos?
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    EQ Never

    Maybe they're just putting all the casual shit in EQ2 to keep EQN pure hardcore. Right?Right?
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    New Arcanist shit has been datamined. It's not complete and it might not be fully accurate either(the description of the carbuncles and their skills sets don't really coincide) but it's something. As I kinda expected, Arcanist is not a healer in any way at this point, other than being able to...
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    DOTA 2

    On the Na'Vi thing I don't know the details but basically Na'Vi takes a cut of all the winnings supposedly 10%. At the same time they provide salaries and cover all expenses. I guess in general it's fine but that's a lot of money when it's The International so it kinda makes sense, with that...
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    DOTA 2

    Also to add confusion, Ars-Art replaced Artstyle after TI1 in Na'Vi. Artstyle is currently not playing pro anymore, even though following one of v1lat's random tweet(russian caster, equivalent of tobiwan) that announced a new pro team with legendary names people assumed it'd be...
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    DOTA 2

    With TI3 they're not gonna patch anything major for the next couple of weeks anyway so well. Btw for people interested in TI3 that don't follow the scenes too much, I recommend the articles on joindota about the various teams, they're a bit long but they're a good read to learn more about the...
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    DOTA 2

    Only that wow balance was quantifiable by running parses and theorycrafting optimal DPS. You can't really tell shit about how the mm work, if it's working correctly or not, because you don't have access to anything. I believe it's working fine, just the systems they use for it are shitty by...
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    DOTA 2

    Hmm yeah? It's even legal, check the steam marketplace, even though I guess if you were feeling adventurous you could use D2L or something similar to sell items without giving Valve a cut, but obviously scams galore even with a 3rd party. Note that most of the items aren't actually worth shit...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Oh yeah not saying it looks bad or anything, but it does say they completely fucked it up the first time around because the engine ran not very well unless you had a top of the line computer iirc, when really they didn't need the game to look that good at the time. Mostly though I like the art...
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    EQ Never

    Most of them have no reputation left though so it's not that much of a deal but eh, if you're an optimist I guess you see that as a good sign.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Well when they decided to make that shit work on PS3, I guess they had to. The first video showing PS3 footage showed atrocious FPS issues, but the next one was decent(it's still like 30FPS but first video was like 15). It is also kinda an old engine, and yet they reduced the quality(the...
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    DOTA 2

    That worked well enough, finished the trades. I'll keep the other cards for now I'll see if they do some more shit with them.
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    DOTA 2

    Edit: Done
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    EQ Never

    Oh so there's really nothing but a shitty CG movie today then? Already disapointed.
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    EQ Never

    So what time is the EQN panel again, too lazy to search for the post that's probably 6pages away and google is being gay so I'm sure one of you crazy people knows. Was it like 12PM PDT?
  20. Pyros

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I think ultimately the casual/family types won't buy a new console very often, and most of them already bought the Wii. The Wii U simply didn't offer anything big over the Wii especially for the non gamer types, why would they spend money again when they can still wiggle their Wii stick to play...
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    DOTA 2

    Not sure if you understand how solo rating in a team matchmaking work. Works exactly the same way in LoL which has visible rating and low variance of ratings within one game, but people don't blame it on matchmaking there, just on shitty teammates. Now maybe some of these games are...
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    DOTA 2

    Part of the issue is south american servers have worse pings than US servers for most of south america outside of brazil(where the servers are located) due to shitty routing. Then you have a bunch of them that are just there to piss people off or because it queues faster. Same as russians on EUW...
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    EQ Never

    FFXIV doesn't have much to differentiate itself from the post-wow mmos, other than a good story, a strong IP they abuse properly(magitek armor, lightning event, FFXI classes, Nobuo Uematsu music, monsters from every FF etc) and a slower paced combat, but not that slow. I don't believe it'll have...
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    DOTA 2

    Add Lion/Rhasta to the list, instant hex him when he comes in charging then further disable him, and in Lion's case, a finger to the face, can deal with him ok as long as you're not alone(alone a full hp SB can tank Lion's ulti and still kill him easily). SB is a great hero, but laning him is...
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    EQ Never

    Googling it yeah I see wow did have day/night, I didn't remember it though, guess night was just not very night-like, other than the sky being darker and a blue hue on everything.
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    EQ Never

    They release one new game every 2 years at least. 2007 TF2+Portal, 2008 L4D, 2009 L4D2, 2011 Portal2, 2013 Dota2. Also CS:GO but they didn't make that iirc so probably doesn't count. In the meantime, Blizzard has released SC2 and Diablo3, and a bunch of wow expansions which hardly count as games.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Quest hubs, casual friendly(soloing possible, low death penalty/travel time/downtime/difficulty in entry content), no sandbox elements, that kind of stuff. Basically, similar to wow.
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    EQ Never

    Valve is still making games though?
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    EQ Never

    This shit isn't even being done in single player games, no way they'd do it in a mmo. Still the basics are important, day/night cycle, randomized weather, that kind of shit is pretty cool and has been done so it can be done again. The theme park mmo concept isn't just the mechanics design of...
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    EQ Never

    Na that's what I meant, current flow so you drift in one direction if you're not swimming, instead of having "rivers" made of still water. And yeah solo games sometimes have it but I don't think I remember another mmo having it.
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    EQ Never

    Vanguard had river flow shit iirc, which was mindblowing at the time, and still to this day isn't being done. It also had boats and shit.
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    EQ Never

    But they cover all the mmorpgs, even the F2P chinese ones no one ever plays. And with such good detailed objective articles too.
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    DOTA 2

    I think main difference is the sheer amount of new players getting put in placement matches which ruins a fuckton more games than it did before. That placement system might be new too though, I don't remember it happening on my smurf but that was like a year ago so maybe it was added inbetween...
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    EQ Never

    Nice didn't even remember VG had music or if I played with it, but listening to that stuff I did play with it and remember it. Certainly hope they make some good music, even though I might end up turning it off after a while, it's still a great part of a mmo.
  35. Pyros

    Dexter

    Calling it, Deb becomes a serial killer and her first kill is Dexter.
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    Shadowrun Returns

    Isn't it terribly unbalanced and shit? I downloaded it but haven't checked it out, do you get to create a high lvl or do you have to import one you've already played?
  37. Pyros

    Space Hulk for PC, Mac and iOS

    Na never played the board game, and yeah I can see how there's inherent advantages like being able to spawn from ambush points, a lot more movement tiles, turning taking action points because terms are slow as fuck and shit like that, but I don't know it feels very much like any other strategy...
  38. Pyros

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    No and yes, but client for P4 hasn't been released yet.
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    Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

    Tera had fairly small hitboxes/collision checks, so far in Wildstar all I've seen are aoe the size of a truck, I think it'll be hard to miss anything but fast moving mobs moving perpendicular to the direction you're facing or something. Probably will have 0 effect on raiding(boss stands...
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    DOTA 2

    Pretty sure you could get the Abaddon weapon + one or two rares for a kunkka one, it's the most valuable, in fact it's the only one that's worth more than the box itself, at least when I checked yesterday.