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Yup. One main raid to down the Miasma deployments, one additional raid to defend the rally points, and a couple groups going round to rescue citizens. x3 for each area (I hate Toxics btw. The Finish Him is a pain). It's starting to get organized, but the constant overflow is a pain. For a...

Mana, HP, and click rez. Is there anything else necessary?

I suspect people think they're going to see one of these. And are going to get the other:

It is a Lemarchand puzzle box, indeed.

Also, unlike WoW, you don't get intermediate content patches; the expansion is pretty much all there is until the next.

Nope. One of the thing they remember from the days of the Icecrown buff was that, when people got uberstats (due to buff), and then left and their stats deflated, they were unhappy. That's why progressive nerfs now deflate the bosses rather than inflate the players. Doing that for an entire...

No. But it sounds like you are completely single-minded: TESO is all there is, and it's the shiznitz! It's kinda hard to take you seriously. About every "real gamer" has multiple interests, follow/reminisce about multiple games, and so on. You? TESO. And you wonder why people think you're a...

The primary output of an engineer isn't powerpoint. The primary salesmanship of an engineer is powerpoint. You can have the best project, but if you end up making apowerpoint from hell, your project will never even exist. Style and design should be part of any advanced curriculum, because...

An evil twin? Of Garrosh? The universe would explode from evilness concentration! (come to think of it, that's pretty much what it does)

There's a few tools that take a mesh from 3DS or Maya and spit out sheets with each voxel plane required to make it.

Why get rid of the sub fee when you can have the sub fee AND the cash store.

The industry chews and spits out people with a very high regularity. A fairly large number of people don't last and get out as fast as they can when the hollywood-level shine wears out and the truth comes out. I lasted 15 months.

A more proper name would be "Recycle". You can put back any tool/prop you made and get some of the materials back. You probably won't recover the cobalt pick when recycling a failed Indigo, but you'll get back some of the elemental rubicite and rubies. (the ability is currently disabled until...

That's not a pick, that's a borehole drilling rig!

Thing is, those shapes must be done using cubic voxels. The sphere look nice if you make them big and don't go close, but, from close up, you see that the sphere is in fact made of smoothed facets. Disable voxel smoothing for a better look. Arbitrary shapes, and worse, arbitrary aligned...

Exactly. I might have been tempted to give it a try, but by the time it's going to go F2P, it's going to be empty as well, which means I'm not going to check it then, which means a pass.

For a better idea about what the EQNL/EQN tech can lead to, have a look at the various Adventure maps of Minecraft or the various PVP servers. (including Spleef, a PVP activity in which you're supposed to make your opponent's ground open up below him. Usually over lava)

Everyone loves Elder Scrolls for their wide open world and play freedom, right? (I get flashbacks of EQ2's newbie island suddenly)

Template early, template often.

I'm still expecting EQN "housing" to be really EQNL, with the Ley Line hubs being used to transport from EQN to EQNL and back. Given that both games use the same technologies and most assets, that should be doable. We'll see.

No. If two people screwed up, you wiped. A good tank+a good healer could save a bad enchanter. And a good team could survive any bad pull (god, I know we survived hairy pulls when "one inc" became "uh, some more inc"). Sure, you had situations in which your group wiped, but you really, really...

As far as I can tell, those are basically Heroic-mode dungeons. i.e. dungeons recycled for max level, with a sprucing of Explorable-mode GW2 type dungeon stuff (i.e. the dungeon assumes the consequences of the quest line you were supposed to follow on your first visit). Their answer on the...

SimCity: Infiltration!

I'm a bit miffed at the Accessory system. Right now (thanks to the repeat bugs), you juggle between Assessor's Bands when grabbing Elemental ores, Rings of Bounty when you finally find that Sapphire or Ruby vein, Mastercraft Bracers to make your picks, and now Glowing Charm of Gusts when...

Basically, it's yet another BC-era type on-rail quest-based MMO peppered with people with a silver symbol offering you quests to let you level, gear up, with a relatively good looking style, the apparent addition of Rift-Style events (called Dark Anchors, but that's exactly the same: the sky...

Left Nevrax before we ever got in crunch time, thank god.

Apparently, they're taking an extra-long weekend for Valentine's day to compensate for the alpha launch dev woes ("Hi honey, I'm home early! Let's party, given that you won't see me again for the next three months of crunch time")

Think of the number of subs that are going to be reactivated just for March 1st!

I think we're facing the finance equivalent of the Magic Patch that will fix the beta three weeks from release.

No, I'm not free. Because forming a group require that there are enough people willing to tackle the dungeon with me, which, if your game has incentives working against that very playstyle, isn't going to happen very often, unless you explode the population massively (using the LFG system...

Plus the rubies. As said elsewhere, if you can find a Tradesman Sifter (anyone got one of those around?), Sapphires are not that big a problem. The only mandatory use of the Indigo pick is to dig Mithril to make a Mihtril one. For current content, the Cobalt Pick digs anything, so making a...

One: It was an endless carrot. Except for maybe a couple persons here and there, you couldn't "finish" the AA. Which made it a frustrating goal; you could imagine yourself downing "one day" the baddass bosses of EQ, but unlike levels, youknewyou'd never finish the AAs. Two: AA came out of XP...

Interesting that you consider LFR being "solo". I wouldn't absolutely disagree, but you evade my question: Do you think a game that is called a Massively Multiplayer Game should be mainly played solo? Not that you can make one playable solo (although in my opinion, it's basically calling...

So, the next biomes are snowy (Everfrost) and swamp (feerrott). The Crystal Caverns is of course the underground stuff. But... alchemy?

Oh, forgot to mention, I'm (of course), Ukerric the Trailblazer. Not that I play that much, but I do.

Uh? You just said it. The game WILL force you to group. At the end game. So, is that going to work, or is that not going to work. It's one or the other. What we're arguing, and have been for a number of years, in a number of threads, is whether or not mainly-solo play has aPLACEin MMOs...

Castles are dime a dozen. If you want to be notable, you need something different (and original, which is real hard).

Closed beta in (probably late) march. The biggest expected differences between alpha and closed beta should be: - Liquids, notably lakes and seas (no more square islands ending in emptiness), but also ice and snow, tar, lava - Harvesting plants using sickles on proper plants (instead of...

Except, you know, for the incentive thing? Did you miss the part where doing quests shower you with XP and loot, and not doing quests... does not. If the game tells you, clearly and unambiguously: QUEST OR BUST, then you quest. And if you quest, a-la-WoW then you solo. If you want a game...