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Perky has been cool. It took a while to get rolling, but I am fully hooked atm. About to do rebirths on my primary guys. I get the impression it plays very differently than THJ at the high end, but the gear is in many ways a lot more interesting.

Making serious change to the THJ model I think is a major mistake and shows major hubris.

Did end up taking Perky a bit further. Having a lot of fun actually. The bazaar is a lot better when the server doesn't keep going down. Grinding MMM, just hit 40 and huge power spike with mythic armor and weapons.

If you start out SSF on Perky it's not very fast, at least in my experience.

Ive been really casually playing perky when I can. SSF. But despite the concept seeming pretty cool, I think the stability issues are just too much for me. Crashing or disconnecting fairly regularly. Weird mob pathing and agro stuff. Through walls etc. may be too frustrating to be worth my thin...

Yeah at very high end I think Fire and Vex Thal were best. But functionally DN was just insanely better than most anything for a long time. Also pet cuck was totally ridiculous forever. And most melee builds were trash? I think plenty of balance issues existed there.

I dunno, to me, Secrets and Rogean seem like a great combo to shepherd this forward. On the vision thing, first off, I assume they'll be able to involve other devs and parties give it's a super cool and unique project given the Daybreak partnership. I have a hard time blaming either of them on...

If we can get a Daybreak sanctioned expansion of EQ content through this channel where they can attract a slightly larger dev team and people don't have to be afraid of their actions being scrutinized, I see this as a win for EQ long term.

I still have a lot to learn, only level 30, but wanted to share a few things I've observed. One is that any mob that drops weapons or armor has a chance for those weapons/armor to be upgraded. I think most of the legendary drops are level 20 or 25 to start, but the epic ones can be lower and...

I'm still trying to figure it out a bit. Overcons in Perky are super hard. I was doing main room unrest with a 3 box and the pathing skeletal monk caught agro from the stairs and was hitting for like 180 a round. Gear probably gets crazy and Im just not used to it, but attacking reds seems...

I looked into it and then decided to do Perky crew instead. The weird stuff on the website about getting alt currencies for recommending friends to the server seemed really shady to me.

Crazy, I try to check this thread out from time to time for updates and its always the same 3 doomers endlessly reeeeeing to the wind. Give it a rest guys.

Thanks for this. Was the caster DPS buff you refer to just something at the 120+ level? Or is this retroactive in some way (similar to the dot revamps)?

I played for maybe an hour or two a few cycles ago and thought it was a bit laggy and punishing. But I will definitely give the game a look once it goes live. Digging in for ever 4-hour long playtest just isn't interesting to me. I would take any extrapolation from the playtest dropoffs with a...

@Tuco I feel like you've gone through a few iterations of your six box setup over the years. Had a few questions if you could indulge: Could you describe a few different six box class setups that you've used and/or considered, and pros and cons of each To frame the above, what is the...

So is this guy just reporting on things he's claiming to have heard from industry sources? It's a little weird because he uses the same writing style on all the different posts he makes, though these are supposed to be from different sources. Perhaps he's summarizing or paraphrasing.

Yeah, doing it 5-man for the quest was very hard. The hyper fast roamer respawn and the care you needed to pull some of those rooms was always at odds. The zone respawn was also quite short so after a few rooms a wipe was usually a full reset iirc. And MC gear wasn't really a thing yet. Just...

We used shackle undead, mine control, and sap a ton in early pre nerf scholomance runs.

That list doesn't seem to have a + singing skill buff. Were those invalidated at some point? Voice of the Serpent or the Shei cloak are examples?

Not sure if related, but I believe OOC regen was added in DoDH, which would allow for these sorts of things much more readily than was previously possible.

I don't understand, are you trying to lecture me on if THJ was hard? I played on it, and live, and on emu easy servers. It wasn't hard. Chill. The challenges in all of these games are what you make them. If you are afk in a 40 man Luclin raid or afk pet cucking a Luclin boss on THJ, it's the...

And to be clear, THJ is vastly superior to the 3 box server for many reasons. But they were very similar. If you didn't play it's hard to know - which is the same as THJ. I don't like boxing either. I'd prefer not to. But you could choose 3 things (each of which were absurdly strong) that...

I mean I was able to take a home grown build, max it, make first on the server to 65 and kill Quarm within a 2-3 week window. I didn't know anything about PoP mechanics. In any iteration of actual EQ that's basically impossible. Sure, you can't be under geared, under AA'd or have a build that...

I mean THJ was definitely pretty easy mode. It was also fun and engaging in a way that other EZ servers were not. Torrid said he didn't get the appeal, which makes sense as he didn't play it and doesn't seem to really get how it's differentiated from other EZ servers. I do think there was one...

They were going until DoN I believe? There was a lot of space ahead.

The interplay between the multiple class AA's and the spell power/etc concepts they added made for a lot of fun builds. Things could be surprisingly powerful (or total shit). While there were certainly some meta builds, people were discovering new powerful setups all the time. Sometimes a new...

So is this game something we can play right now, or is it just random weekend alpha tests like EverCraft?

They may both have been, I don't remember. He has Kalaran the rogue who was I think the first true 50 behind some druid who was cheating. And then Kartak Dorfbruiser who was an ogre warrior in full planar and everything. I want to say was banned using kilns to transfer no drop planar stuff...

Randomly I seem to recall when Furor's ogre warrior was banned in classic, he rolled the namesake human with the xp bonus, Nagafen teeth and FoH hardcore power leveling him up to 50. IIRC it was a little over 7 days played. It's hard to really assess apples to apples though. Like Lower guk when...

There it is. Shutting down in one hour. RIP.

RIP

I love this site. I don't get how this thread got onto not ripping youtube from some weird ass site makes you a tard, but I love it.

I don't know that I agree on the pacing part. It was maybe a bit janky, but I liked the flow. I would stop at high 20s/low 30s and grind a few hundred aa. That definitely felt like it mimics the live game a bit as you're in Mistmoore, Guk, Sol b, or wherever, just slamming mobs and getting...

I liked it. But I also had a class combo that could giga grind. I liked as a poor scappy up and comer there I could buy stuff that was super cheap and make it 5x better. Even as a lowbie in guk I could get a few things for a few plat that would take me into a totally different tier once leveled...

I'll miss this server. Haven't played in months but I can't remember the last time I had that much fun in EQ. Good community, very active, great economy. If it wasn't on its last legs I think I'd come back and play for a few more months. It's also too bad. I don't think I'd pay to play what...

Rogue has SoS at level one on THJ. For shame.

If there's a market for this stuff and Daybreak is unwilling or unable to develop this sort of content, I wonder why they don't just consider some sort of licensing agreement? I can't imagine brand dilution is an issue for a 25 year old game. I have a hard time believing THJ is cannibalizing...

Nice dude

Is that a bug? That's ridiculous

Yeah, exactly. If some broken combo can do 4/4 Seru in era, but no others can (e.g., petcuck), suddenly you see a huge funnel of people copying that build and abandoning everything else as useless. Makes balancing hard. I wish there was more hard content (maybe 2/4 Seru hard) and that there...