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We probably had some overlap then. I might have run into Otto a few times too, but I wasnt really as active until right around the time Valero's (I think it was his anyway) ring war happened. That would have been my Freshman year of college in the dorms, didnt have anything but dialup at home...

I was! Was in EV until Gates, then moved to Torv and raided with Blades of Wrath for a couple years

The couple devs I knew/talked to went out of their way to be very quiet in game when it came to talking about strats or drop locations/rarity, and didnt provide things external to what they legitimately could do; one played an enchanter and enchanted a few things for me when I was working on...

I have alts in 14, but most were from an era where you had daily capped tradeskill items tied to beast tribes, and alts let me make gear MUCH faster. I made one this expansion to play with a friend who moved datacenters. It only takes 4-5 days played to get 1-2 jobs to 80 and all crafters...

Turnins + barracks right next to the aetheryte is the best. People love them some limsa, and the glam set is decent, but its not right next to the port in, so ehhhhhh

Not sure what you'd expect given who his family is. He's directly tied to Old Man Flareface, Little Miss DONTTOUCHTHATOMGWHY, and The tiny tactician who couldnt. His major character trait is thinking people trying to stop the world from burning are stupid. Our major character trait is being...

I prefer Ranger at the levels TLP's are mostly alive. If you know what you're doing, you'll always be an asset, and by the time you arent a good enough tank, you're at level cap for 6-12 months and at the top end of the damage spectrum. SK's arent walking piles of nonsense until some of the...

The only thing of note I have done in the last few months is make my forge house, and I wish i was less okay with that statement.

I had more fun on my ranger on Agnarr tanking Classic and Kunark groups than I have ever had at lower levels on a real tank class. You're wearing very similar gear in the ~5 slots you arent wearing identical gear As much as I would absolutely love test to be free trade, its just a boring...

Leveling my last alt, I took screenshots of all the bots hiding under the world grinding mobs. It gets hilarious when you know the areas they use.

If I wasn't there for those things happening, I might think "that doesn't happen", but I was. It was really not a secret a lot of Sony and EQ specific staff raided with top end guilds. Bonus, she webcammed with a few of us during VT raids. Hard to deny you're that person when you're sitting...

I haven't played much recently, log in, send submarines off, log out. Most everyone I've known has quit and crystal has almost nobody on Pacific or later time, so holding out until either x-datacenter groups or until I decide I'm done. Every update just makes things sound worse, with one sort...

Always been the case. Several people in your guild about to be banhammered for cheating? Broadcast how easy it is to trade nodrop items using bag within a bag exploits? Good thing your one bard officer who never says anything is the wife of a Sony VP, or the enchanter who pops in every so...

Its about the farthest thing away from old school feel I can imagine.

"We can't release any info ahead of time because SOMETHING BIG IS IN THE WORKS". Released info is exactly what was data mined (and feels like its just getting worse every year). Oh, and a raffle for a Firona Vie heroforge.

They're highly emphasizing "HELLO NEW PEOPLE, THIS CONTENT TOTALLY ISNT DEAD" in this relic cycle, thanks to their free trial now having HW. "look, ishgard isnt dead, the non-combat stuff happens here!" "Look, HW isnt dead, fate groups are happening". "Look, alliance raids arent dead, people...

Its been downhill since they axed more than half their QA people near the beginning of the end of Ghostcrawlers time. I went from knowing almost the entirety of that department to knowing exactly 1 person, who didnt make it much longer. Those guys reined in a lot of the worst ideas thrown...

"Yes, thats a nice description, but what can you actually do". I can spreadsheet. And tell you later what I have spreadshat.

I've found weapon swapping is significantly less responsive than other button presses (though not anywhere as bad as something like pressing buttons in ff14 while animation locked for whatever reason that game animation locked you this time)

I do love LDoN and DoN, but that era is full of half expansions. LDoN/LoY and PoP together works, since LDoN was very much about the augments for your PoP gear (and maybe the 1 piece you could make slightly better than one piece of time gear, maybe, if you had the stars align with the worst...

I can manage it once a decade for krono to fund my test copy kits, but I have no idea how people can sit there and do the base game for months, then kunark for months, up to Luclin when they go "naaah, wanna do classic again", except for the sole purpose of krono farming. The game gets so much...

Spinners Garments. Zone drops in Malabal Tor. Better than Julianos until you hit the spell pen caps. Mag builds hit this much easier than sta builds, as you get just under 5k from armor passives (cap is 18.2k), and in any organized group where pen will matter, you should be getting at least...

Guilds always have and always will. I remember the Gates of Discord era ban waves hit so many people after they brought on their new "anti-cheat specialist" that they had to quietly rescind a shitload of them in order to retain any sense of an active playerbase. People were all over forums and...

Caster early gearing is easy too. Yoir fallback food is a Halloween event food, Witchmothers Potent Brew, and its dirt cheap. You can run 5 piece mothers sorrow (overworld drops/chests in Deshaan and usually cheap except staves) and 5 piece Julianos (Crafted) can last you until you get trial...

Spears from sky Glowy orb (can also be 'set on fire') Sunbeam Meteor (either flavor, Templar or Mage Guild. My magplar is illiterate so Templar meteor it is) Jabjabjabjab Jabjabjabjab Make sure to be weaving in there. Repeat if worldboss. Replace jabjabjabjab with Beam of light while...

I think the worst few days of my gaming life was Agnarr's overworld VP keying. Fighting autoclicker wars with 100+ people was awful. And then half our guild ended up having one of our resident 6boxers get it for them because he at one point had 23 in a row from knowing the exact pixel to...

There's a set or two of the glam stuff I'd buy/use if I didn't have to buy the unlock to use it. Why using that isn't free with a subscription ill never know.

We had members of other guilds "defect" to ours for a week or two at a time to pick up strategies with how we dealt with rampage (it was not common knowledge how it worked for far too long), adds and positioning in Velious / Luclin fights, the biggest one being our positioning for Emp ssra. You...

EQ TLP's are profitable if you put even a little effort into them. The last TLP I played paid for 5 years of a sub + 6 level 110/115 test copies + 40 krono of fun shit for test copying. And its still a chore I don't think I can bear to do again.

This is just the usual monthly patch. It usually doesnt have emergency fixes baked in. Fun thing to note, the patch lines about the charm change are NOT in the test patch notes, so this is either a this week change, or they didnt want to give it away ahead of time, which is a thing they're...

Basically this. You can spend a couple hours with a quick macro for syrup (and one for refined natron too!) and make plenty of scrips. The mh relics launched on a syrup day for me, 62 of them later, I had all the necessary mats for all of them. If you can buy it with yellows, it's not going...

I have no doubt there is a dev build somewhere that actually has charm breaking at a minimum of 5%. (It probably does average out to something like 5% on lower level charms) This is the group of people who have, at times, legitimately thought things were working because it worked on the dev...

Yeah, dude leads off with "people were playing wrong", and we get a list of things that are either game-provided tools that didnt exist, or external technology we didnt have for years (and ignores that every guild and community had forums, and pinging through AIM and ICQ, and voice chat in ts...

I've played a lot the last 3 leagues (though delirium didnt keep me interested too long when it was realized how stupid cluster jewel stacking was) because every MMO has decided to stagnate at the same times the last year, and I still have no fucking clue what I'm doing other than tweaking...

I think that one might be part of the truebox shit working behind the scenes, because that's not at all replicable on test. It SOUNDS similar to an issue we saw in DoN (maybe omens?), when their new "anti-mq guru" came in and tried to crack down on some of the warp fuckery, which resulted in...

I think 5.3 will be the cheapest it's ever been to full overmeld a set. Crafting is currently so brain-dead easy to level that even my long-time solid markets have been crashed. No more 400k troupe stages or 750k+ primal weapons, hah.

Those were the prices when the last revamp hit and everyone was rushing to re-meld for the newest craftsmanship requirements. I looked at it, realized the market for 5.2 battle gear wasnt worth the expensive re-meld to get down to 1 button with new craft melding, and melded my offhand to hit it.

I just want one game that has fantastic dungeon crawl content. I'd take EQ graphics. No cutscenes. No voice acting. No 300 step long world sprawling main story quest. Let me grab 3 or 4 or 5 people, and queue up into Guk, and go through it top to bottom, side to side, murderhobo'ing frogs. I...

Pre no-skip, msq was really good for daily tomes. Even at half the reward, you could do it in 10-15 minutes. Unfortunately, cutting the 2nd combat tribe to split gather and craft was a conscious decision, which would have been okay if they didnt make the gatherer rewards absolute trash. The...

"Can I get brells?" YOU HIT THINGS WITH A WEAPON, CLICK THAT SHIT OFF AND TAKE TUNARE. I had to yell at people for that back in the day (as a paladin) and I had to yell at people for that on Agnarr as a ranger. I wasnt in the best guild (I was trying to prod the foh p99 guild through Agnarr...