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This is why we need to hear the nuance of the ruleset sooner than later. I'd like to poll most casuals and ask them what happened more often / what was a more salient memory. Being DPS raced, having mobs stolen, worrying about PLers? Or was it running to the EC tunnel with too big a pull and...

That's the point, it doesn't have to be a necro anymore. It can be a warrior and his cleric box and they can take 45 minutes auto attacking the king down in front of you while you watch.

"Cheaters" can target and engage the mob before it renders on your client. The only difference now is you have 0% chance against a cheater. At least in the past they would be required to keep enough necros to out race you. Now they can just tap it and take as long as they want to kill it while...

Vaniki was really fun for a while, esp as an enchanter. Crawling around through Ferubi where everything was deep red gave that 'old school' dungeon crawl vibe before everything became 'solved' and lost that feeling of danger. Our guild died from a perfect storm of WotLK + ill timed ban waves +...

Maybe it was a clerical error and they accidentally swapped the April fools server with the real one in the producer's letter.

They want it like 2016 WoW, since even WoW gave up on mob tagging and uses shared credit now. If you tag the mob at all you get credit/loot. Let them add that feature if they want to prevent DPS racing. Another feature they could steal would be the ability to link accounts so that the XP bonus...

This post makes me doubt Elderan's pop numbers more than any other on the forum.

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Yeah, I couldn't find it there. Also makes it easy for oog monks to clear a path through all the trash for you :)

It really depends how it's handled on the code side, and I'm sure knowing EQ it's going to be hilarious. The fact that you can't damage/land spells on things you're not engaged with means any 'aggro leaking' between people not in the encounter can be used to essentially stick mobs on a group...

What are the chances that their original plan was the whole EQ2 personal loot shit and they had to pivot last minute so only took shitty EQ2 xp bonuses and encounter tagging?

Jfc. Where was this posted?

Aggro management / manipulation is such a core part of the classic "EQ" experience, that this would be a fundamental changing of nature of the game.

The amount of griefing you can do to 'normal' players with these rules is out of control. This is the most degenerate server in a long time.

As the population ages and dies out, the ones that remain have more access to disposable income. We will just keep spending our retirement on additional laptops to fill in the void of players with boxes. If DB was smart, they'd get get into the commodity hardware business and package boxing...

Both of these seem to look to shake up the default leveling path. If you're doing TSS start you're probably already avoiding most of the leveling highway of the regular TLP.

lmao those Legion / Cataclysm direct rip offs remind me of when that mobile game did a shot for shot rip off of the ff14 trailer.

Double loot on Vaniki completely spoiled me. Doing epic with dual quest drops was great teaming up with other people from your class vs having to compete with them for spawns.

I recall bishi/teb leadership saying he would let the GMs know before a guild event since they'd be giving out a bunch of krono. I guess to prevent getting pinched by whatever mechanisms they have in place to detect these things.

It's time to slay that creature.

Do you have any idea of the spend curve on the server? I'm sure early days TLP are when spending peaks, but is there a significant different between the 'special' servers and the vanilla TLPs?

Aradune was two account rule but was still truebox in that they expected you to play those accounts on separate machines. I'm guessing they don't want to remove truebox so people aren't fielding raids on a single machine, but I feel like there are better ways to handle it for people who just...

Mage is a useful box and is popular in VT as a coth bitch. :D Fortunately in modern EQ pets can't break mez. Holding a charm pet means you can never go to the bathroom or afk ever while in a group (unless you have a necro/bard/enc in the group). Your charm pet is really strong and breaks...

You'd need to implement mob tagging, where once you hit a mob, nobody else can damage/debuff it. Otherwise you'd just have a bunch of people OOG slowing and nuking down mobs if the person ever got into danger. Yeah this felt bad on Vaniki where you'd be in these odd level ranges with unlocked...

If you're maxed out dragonriding (specifically At Home Aloft), it's pretty easy to stay up indefinitely by abusing skyward ascent and thrill of the skies regen. The fact that your alts get all of your unlocks means they are maxed out upon arrival. It's really only a pita for things where you...

I feel like if the double-jump to take off thing was free, that would alleviate the remaining friction when running around doing little quests or gathering. I'm guessing there will be additional abilities/talents that come along as the xpac progresses.

lol, lmao even

I always though this was funny. "Wrongthink" is so bad, not even their villians can be sexist, racist, etc. "Oppression" is a fate worst than death. The villian might slaughter your family, but he certainly would never dead name a transgender centaur.

You can get by pretty easily as a regular player without SEQ (I know, I've done it), but if you think you're in a batphone guild and not benefiting from SOMEONE using SEQ, well...

Yeah it's hard to split which is the most responsible for the server pop atm. The content being quasi post oow, the banwave, the lack of reasonable achievements or the 3 month level range.

I don't think I agree that they should change the fight to be easier just for the achievement. The idea of the challenge server is to do things at a level that you normally wouldn't, not to fight neutered 'challenge server only' versions of the fight. I think it's better if they just picked more...

They should just sell a "Potion of Ogre Vision" in the shop that gives you showeq functionality right on your map. "Classic" TLP play is so far from legit anyway with store pots, xtar, etc, might as well go the blizzard route and roll "add ons" into the base game to make everyone equal.

Like anything, enforcement hits the casual users more than people who have the basic means to work around it. - Enchanter stun nerf? Great just bring more enchanters oog. - Ban MySEQ? Buy a $30 switch with port mirroring and run showeq on a separate box. - Ban software KVM? Buy a hardware key...

Yeah, that's the discussion. Nobody is questioning MySEQ, showeq, MQ, etc. People just want clarification on 'grey area' tools that are not cheating but are still third party programs. You truebox on two machines, is it allowed to run Synergy/Multiplicity to mouse over to the other machine and...

That's the funny part about the forums thinking they spent any time at all thinking about the consequences of the target. The second half is basically copy and pasted from someone who can't even post on the forums anymore.

Not sure they would have the ability to tell whether you were just using it seamless or broadcasting strokes. I have a fresh account I started on Vaniki, only ever ran on my laptop and I use multiplicity in seamless mode, No suspensions. I use Parsec on my second monitor for one account and a...

Outside of DZ she's only up for 6 min, so it might not even be doable then.

I know you can delete spellsnew.eff and edd then launch with patchme to get some of the old spell effects back. The hand tracking on animations is still broken, but I normally play old models, old spell gems and old spell effects by removing those files. Running the launcher will replace them...

After playing on Vaniki and other 'special ruleset' servers, the idea of poopsocking Trak on YELINAK turns my stomach a little bit.

Here is one you guys can use, for free: