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I thought this was the server that Vicious, Atabishi, the ghost of Brad McQuaid, Furor and Brianthemage formed Crusty Rapiers to finally take down Zaide?! :eek:

Is this part of the RI recruitment drive?

I don't know anyone who warps, but I do know a mage who can jump really high in Vex Thal.

I thought you could buy the perks with krono, they just didn't auto-renew which meant you would randomly delevel in a raid and look like a dumbass?

Everquest is a very old game written in a tank engine. Picks help with mob contention and spreading out the players who are on the server, but it doesn't magically make their server able to handle more load. Then there are the bottlenecks like login servers, etc. To be fair, if you're that far...

They don't need enhanced technology or even to go after the buyers. They could have one GM pick hop through SG on the two relevant TLPs during Velious. The fact that they don't proves they actually don't give a shit. The game isn't that big that they can't find the obvious botters and need some...

Even that gear is only 'good' in comparison to what else is around. A simple solution I've always liked was Aeth's idea to just put the lower tiers of defiant gear on the loot table of motm mobs in the earlier expansions. VP would be a lot less terrible if it wasn't just a bunch of weapons...

Same as it always was. Hanging out talking shit with your bros while auto attacking a big blocky dragon. EQ does a good job of providing a place to hang out for large scale group content while staying out of the way enough that you're freed up to bullshit in voice chat or /gu.

Again Daybreak fumbles the ball. If they wanted a true Aradune clone all they had to do was kill one of the more prominent devs and then unleash a virus that would cause a world-wide pandemic.

The main difference for this server is it's 12 weeks of Kunark instead of 4/8 split classic/kunark.

So what people can already do with a box? Cross class clicky abilities would def be the coolest benefit from it though. Might make some of the odd spell clicky armor pieces more useful when they're not on a class that doesn't need it. Combat calcs should take care of a lot of the egregious...

Most of the people who don't make it to live tank in RA two weeks prior to the next xpac anyway. Keeping a server perpetually locked to a particular era is just going to have it be mostly a ghost town. PoP sort of works cause it's fueled on nostalgia. If their tech is set up that they could...

Any info about the server come out at the PAX panel today?

A lot of the changes they already made work well wrt spawn times and ground spawns. FTE kind of makes it dumb again, but at least with double loot for epic drops on vaniki, you had people working together even on annoying shit like vessel or verina tomb. I'm sure there is still room for...

Painful. Here you have to decide if you want to spend your time watching 3 WARs melee the mob down or 2/3 ROGs constantly running back on a corpse run.

Esp with selos mounts / sow pots the benefits of bard are slightly diminished. I was bard on live and go enc on TLP and I've never regretted it (except gear is boring).

Second enc adds nothing except a second charm pet. Dealing with a second charm pet seems like more trouble than casting dots on the necro. You would just pay the local box crew to sit at the zone in and merk anyone who zones in.

I like Aeth's idea of throwing different early tiers of defiant on the motm mobs for the first few expansions. Esp something like VP loot which doesn't make a lot of sense when epics are so easily obtainable.

Elaida is taking this server to live.

PvEvP. No AoC, no FTE, no play nice policy/train rules. Creatively use your environment to vanquish the foes (and the raid mob I guess if you can be arsed).

On Oakwynd it seems like the big boxers mostly stayed in their DZs and didn't try to contest OW unless it was up for a while. Not sure how it went after the plat dupe era though since everyone stopped playing. On a random loot server, do you really still just sit in guk? I'd imagine the boxers...

I can't wait to hear all the classic stories and juicy drama that happened behind the scenes of Everquest Expansion 29!

Doing GoD zones extremely underleveled was some of the best EQ in recent memory. As a player I don't give a shit if a server has 'mass appeal', I want interesting and challenging shit to do. It's too bad they had no idea what to do with later challenges/rewards. The first few unlocked were...

Why would they purposefully target their coworkers?

DPG really needs another famous developer to die.

It must be a game that takes place in a Star Trek like future where everyone has unlimited money and can replicate items at will.

I am not sure how APs could trivialize already trivial raid content any more than someone just having an alt could? Cause it shortens the turn around time to swap? Esp with heirloom gear all it does is ease the swapping to a mirror/alt. It feels like the same conversation in WoW about allowing...

I wonder if the people with these great ideas ever think of their 'mmo' being played by more than a group or two people at a time. It seems like their imaginary player base is a bunch of old dads exploring content and not hundreds of rabid exploiters looking to min/max every piece of geometry in...

Word is Quarm hasn't died yet on Oakwynd? Plat dupe + bans + SoD seem to have really put the nail in the coffin for poor little Oakwynd.

You lose the legacy bonus when the level increase happens. So Luclin launch with 10 60s means 100% bonus XP for the AA grind for mirrors. After PoP launch, you lose all of your bonus and have to relevel all of those characters again before you can get the legacy bonus back. By the time they...

PoP's bonus being +25% plat drops immediately following a plat dupe is hilarious. Also the AA shit being broken for the only period on the server's lifespan when it would actually matter (Luclin launch) and SoD coming out was too much for the poor little retarded Oakwynd to take. Mirrors /...

This isn't true. Furor isn't our leader anymore.

I can confirm it's all pretty consistent with what I experienced. The game was only 'hard' because it was clunky. If the engine was fluid and the abilities weren't laggy, it would be trivial for anyone except mouth breathing retards. We held the 'super hard' undead camp with a single healer that...

They extended the alpha week to add a stress test for all alpha testers today. Does anyone have a valid timeline of the last time they did a full 'reset' wrt engine/combat/etc? Feels like if this was a 2 year old project it would be on schedule.

There is a town. Each of the classes have a little starting area in the town, but really only the spell vendor is of importance. There are a few quests, one to climb a wall and look at a tower, a bunch of gathering and then the 'carry heavy things to random people' quest line. I didn't dig...

Rolled a bunch of characters. Went with the Spiderman meta of full stam Dire Lord so I could try to climb out of the world. The big castle on the horizon wasn't open and climbing up on the cliffs to look down inside, it was just a bunch of walls unfortunately. By the end I started getting the...

Played most of the day. Ran out to the edges and climbed as much as I could. It's one zone.

I'll see you guys tomorrow in the zone.