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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...

Yeah that's where I'm at too. I really have no desire to try to duo anything. Moving through the content is pretty fun and I like trying to see how much I can get out of the character combo in terms of run times, single fight dps, etc. Working on alts makes the economy piece of it fun as well...

From what Ive read, Zeb's atk is so high stacking AC/atk debuffs are completely irrelevant. Most of the big guys say AC is not a focus of theirs at all. Target stats seem to be shielding and hdex. Many recommend having a monk/bst on the tank for extra block and bard runes.

I've been playing a lot less too. Don't really care about Zeb. Main has a few pieces/augs I could stand to upgrade, but I can already steamroll all of the content so I'm not really sure what I'd gain by doing so. That said I enjoyed the whole thing a lot. Fun theory crafting and optimizing...

I've mostly just been doing 4/4 Serus. Takes only a few minutes and augs sell well.

Checked my kronos after all the posts here, definitely down 2-3. Super weak.

Seen a lot of super low level rangers with the epic for sure.

For Rogue, maybe there's a MQ step that lets you skip this, but having done it a few weeks ago, I'm pretty sure one of those early steps dealing with Anson or Stanos require 46 for them to talk to you. Not to say you can't complete, but if you're doing straight up, need to be higher I believe.

@Elderan what's the chat channel etc analysis for Teek so far? How does it rate in terms of overall popularity and what has the falloff looked like? Seems very full still, but obviously only a month out or so.

I dunno Cinge, I think bards are possibly the most impactful class in OW racing. Wizards without a bard, even with max resist gear, are basically running all over the place a quarter of the time

Queue started on Monday, I assume in response to what was horrific server lag on Sunday night.

Possibly we were just young and bad, but when I remember EQ being hard, I want to say we didn't have: Super relaxed AC/ATK tables Reagent free symbols Monk fist changes Spell reworks (almost always to the upside) Potions I'm not convinced the resists are materially different, but maybe? I...

In some ways it's less hardcore than a classic launch. In classic you can probably reasonably hit 50 without sleeping if you go hard enough. For a 60 launch that's really out of the window and becomes more of a marathon than a sprint. I think going no sleep night one is a mistake unless you're...