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Plenty of info about the instanced dungeons out there. Some guys were even streaming the veteran dungeons (basically Heroics) on twitch the other night and I think there's a VOD of that stream, though I can't recall who it was. Entropy Rising maybe?

Heals are all smart heals or AE. Buffs always affect your entire party. Healing in ESO is more about positioning and awareness, when to use what ability, and what you can do to prevent future damage instead of just healing it. It's certainly not for everyone, but in case you were just...

Those of you having trouble with friends being in different phases: make sure you've actually added the person to your friends list. A lot of people don't do this in a beta. It does affect who you see. Secondly, there's currently a bug that requires a reload to shift group members into the...

Advantages: You can always play with your friends, new and old. No struggling to get everyone you know on the same realm or paying for server transfers. Hardware can easily be upgraded and maintained to avoid issues seen in past MMOs where some servers were just worse than others until upgraded...

And CC break which a lot of players don't seem to even know about even though it's incredibly useful in PVE and PVP both. Click both mouse buttons when CC'd and if you have enough Stamina you'll instantly break out.

Decent talk about some PVE stuff since most vids here are PVP-related.

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This is extremely viable. One of my favorite setups actually. It's borderline OP if you build it right.

What do you guys hope to see from Adventure Zones?

Resto Staff deals damage to an enemy and spreads healing based on that damage to your group. Think of it more like a lifedrain staff. Although you're also possibly not misremembering, because it used to work the way you describe, but it felt weird having one weapon that couldn't damage...

Rift is in and finished, otherwise EP players couldn't advance to CH and into the other alliance content, which plenty have done. Vid is just a bug, although admittedly it is interesting that it didn't just load up the proper zone. Not sure why it wouldn't either.

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That is correct. If you add a player to your friends list (which most people in a beta don't bother to do) the megaserver will generally keep you with them even ungrouped, but if you join a group with someone and find you're not in their instance, you just open the party menu and you can move to...

A lot of the "broken" quests aren't actually broken, but the server wasn't handling load well. /forcereload would almost always fix the problem because it would give the script another chance to run, but a lot of players didn't know to do that. It's not necessarily an excuse since servers will...

Proof I'm not Rescorla: I prefer bullet points to numbered lists!

Not sure how public it is, just have some friends at Turbine that were on LOTRO and they lost their jobs along with most others from what I understand. I guess Turbine is putting it into life-support mode. Not really that surprising, but it's always sad to hear even if it's the norm for game...

Yep. Thanks to Curt giving me the opportunity I was able to prove I could actually do real stuff beyond verbose design ideas posted on the old boards. Learned a lot, made some cool stuff, met a lot of people that are now friends or industry connections and I'm still at it. It's a tougher gig...

Is that video hinting at some sort of repeatable challenges like WoW scenarios or what? Not sure what I just watched.

Correct. Except we did meet the milestone.

Wow. You know, back on the old boards I found your rants to be agreeable more often than not, if a little too Scarlet Crusade. I think you might be off the deep end a bit here though. Also, I wasn't even shilling the game or denying any of the very valid points made here over the course of the...

Wait, you're saying I'm also Rescorla? Am I reading this right? Awesome. I hope I'm the Tyler Durden of the pair, I guess.

They had been to China more than once before my demo. I don't know much else.

Greatest art team I've ever seen. Many of them went on to do work on Bioshock Infinite, EQ Next, Pixar films, etc. I'm really glad we're at least seeing their talent, but it's truly a shame that the combined unit never got to show the world their finished product. The leaked stuff doesn't do it...

So apparently the majority of the LOTRO team was fired today. Sad.

It's true. I was one of the people this happened to and I'm still paying on that fucking bill. :P However, Curt is not to blame. He was the face of the company so he gets a lot of flak, but it's completely illogical to think a guy like Curt had anything to do with...

We were close to getting investment from a major Chinese publisher who was very interested in the game. I was actually in the room demoing one of my zones for them when they were in Providence. It was a very positive reception and while I wasn't privy to all the business-talk that meeting ended...

So wait, lowering the PVP entry level is now part of some conspiracy to hide PVE content from players? As opposed to, I don't know, responding to feedback that people who really love Cyrodiil and want to level exclusively through PVP just wanted to go there faster? Not sure I get that. Also...

It's not that that flavor isn't cool, but I'd rather select one of the existing races and then have stuff like skeleton/lich form depending on class.

Not feeling the Undead. Just give me my vanilla EQ races pls.

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This just randomly appeared. No Warrior? wut.

Oh, and in case it helps, it's probably worth bringing up how a lot of people see the game based on the current kickstarter main page. I work at a game dev studio with a lot of hardcore gamers and a lot of dudes that played UO, EQ, AC, DAOC and so on, so I expected a tone more similar to this...

Amidst the numerous complaints (I personally don't care about a class name) one thing is ringing pretty true and it's something I brought up back with the Cleric - class reveals and slow trickles of lore are not going to garner excitement and interest enough to get backers. You need to stop...

It absolutely is. I find it really interesting, actually. I thought we'd just be old codgers longing for more challenging and complex experiences offered by the old days, but indies and successes like Dark Souls are causing a slow but very real trend back towards sandboxy and/or difficult or...

That sort of thing is exactly what I mean though. "That would be epic" is the kind of stuff in design meetings that will sink this thing. They can't afford epic. Their "that would be epic" vision needs to be nothing more than "let's see if we can actually make a dungeon as good as Sebilis" or...

Eh, I find that to be a weird stretch goal and a good example of something that could cause things to go sideways. Don't get me wrong - unlike many players I actually really enjoy underwater content and I completely agree with Brad's opinion that if done well it's this really unique and...

That's what happens when you build a content model around tons and tons of quests that require voice acting paired with a poorly managed content development pipeline. I feel an EQ successor shouldn't cost more than $20M even today, but you'd have to be really smart about it from the outset...

It's probably already been commented on, but I can't keep up with this thread at work. Haha. Grammar/punctuation errors and poor wording aside (but seriously, that thing reads like it was just word vomited this morning and posted) I would really suggest reworking the class reveals to actually...

I personally liked slow regen in both EQ1 and FFXI. It was a really nice way to gauge character power and group efficiency on smaller encounters as you really noticed not only how fast you were killing but how much downtime you had. When things were good and you were chewing through mobs it felt...

Brad said MS was unable to give them 6 more months of funding (which, let's be real, you know it needed more than 6 months) which is less about mismanaged funding and more about a mismanaged development schedule / overblown scope like I mentioned before. Also, not sure what happened on the art...