EQ TLP 2025 Fangbreaker Expanded Start Resource Hunter Legacy Characters Encounter Locking

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It's that time of year again

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highlights include

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Along with better descriptions of how Resource Hunter works and explanations of Legacy characters and Encounter Locking. Also -

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Cinge

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Just a server to sell some packs to people playing other servers. No one says no to more 40 slot bags.
 
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Arbitrary

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FAQ Continued

Q: "Is anyone that anyone would give a shit about playing on Fangbreaker?"
A: "No"

Welp. Anyway.

I'm hoping at least one guild's worth of open world raiders shows up and goes hard so we can get footage of Trakanon eating a hundred level 50 people to end the fight at full health in a vain effort to make all the Bards stop complaining about their impossible epic but at the moment that is looking like a tall order. This launches the Wed after Memorial Day which is I guess theoretically better than the Wed before? A few names will probably level a character because why not but ain't no one really planning to play play.

I've got a bold prediction for the leveling meta

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With some careful planning you should be able to ensure capped exp from every kill or that you're plowing so much shit so fast it doesn't matter.

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I don't think I've ever done a careful comparison of Luclin versus pre-Luclin but stronger pets could be big.
 
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  • The Shadows of Luclin unlocks at Level 50 at Launch
  • The Shadows of Luclin continues at Level 51 on July 24, 2025
  • The Shadows of Luclin continues at Level 55 on September 18, 2025
  • The Shadows of Luclin continues at Level 60 on November 13, 2025
The Shadows of Luclin continues
The Shadows of Luclin continues
The Shadows of Luclin continues
The Shadows of Luclin continues

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This server actually looks decent for PoP & Beyond, but having to struggle through July 24th - Feb 5th sounds excruciating. We'll see what it looks like when it finally gets to PoP.
 
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For the general playing of the game encounter locking is great. Fuckheads can't train you and you can pull without giving a fuck. Every mob in Hate can be chasing some dude, kill him at your feet and it doesn't matter. Everything just walks away. Knowing that you really can't have a tagged mob stolen from you removes a lot of stress. Vaniki resist rates are nice. Getting to treat all instances of required item levels as recommended item levels is great. Later on the twinking possibilities are absurd as characters can wear anything. Legacy characters are a way to get in extra raids and acquire bonus exp.

But goddamn that unlock schedule is brutal and you've still got the four months of Planes of Power to somehow get through. There's no actual reason to try and see what the hardest things you can kill at 50, 51 and 55 are aside from a self imposed challenge.



Bind rushing is not a good time and the best guild is going to be priced in to bind rushing Statue, Idol, AoW and Tormax for four months until they can take those targets down normally. The best play is to put 100% of that loot on to your main tank and rampage tank but good luck swinging that without people freaking out.

I think this one has a chance if and only if the Resource Hunter bonuses are huge. They need to be big enough that people go out of their way to figure out what they are each day. If in practice you end up with shit like 50% increased experience in Trakanon's Teeth or 50% increased rares in West Karana than people won't change their behavior at all. Occasionally a zone you would have been in anyway will have a bonus. Very rarely it'll be something premium like bonus experience in Velks or bonus loot in Seb but most of the time you'll never even care.
 
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Arbitrary said:
For the general playing of the game encounter locking is great. Fuckheads can't train you and you can pull without giving a fuck. Every mob in Hate can be chasing some dude, kill him at your feet and it doesn't matter. Everything just walks away. Knowing that you really can't have a tagged mob stolen from you removes a lot of stress. Vaniki resist rates are nice. Getting to treat all instances of required item levels as recommended item levels is great. Later on the twinking possibilities are absurd as characters can wear anything. Legacy characters are a way to get in extra raids and acquire bonus exp.

But goddamn that unlock schedule is brutal and you've still got the four months of Planes of Power to somehow get through. There's no actual reason to try and see what the hardest things you can kill at 50, 51 and 55 are aside from a self imposed challenge.



Bind rushing is not a good time and the best guild is going to be priced in to bind rushing Statue, Idol, AoW and Tormax for four months until they can take those targets down normally. The best play is to put 100% of that loot on to your main tank and rampage tank but good luck swinging that without people freaking out.

I think this one has a chance if and only if the Resource Hunter bonuses are huge. They need to be big enough that people go out of their way to figure out what they are each day. If in practice you end up with shit like 50% increased experience in Trakanon's Teeth or 50% increased rares in West Karana than people won't change their behavior at all. Occasionally a zone you would have been in anyway will have a bonus. Very rarely it'll be something premium like bonus experience in Velks or bonus loot in Seb but most of the time you'll never even care.
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The best part is we go from only being allowed to play 2 toons per person... and then pop comes out and you can play 72 on 1 computer. Imagine how pissed the karendune people are going to be when they spend almost a year petitioning people for playing 3+ toons and then pop rolls along and people are boxing entire raids right in their face.
 
Cinge

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Arbitrary said:
. Later on the twinking possibilities are absurd as characters can wear anything. Legacy characters are a way to get in extra raids and acquire bonus exp.
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Where do you see this? Twinking on vaniki was fun(At least later in server), because you could wear some OP shit like level 100+ wurmslayer on your level 1 guy or conflagrant gear. Your little FAQ says the recc level thing only last until pop launches, then its just back to normal. So sure you can wear luclin drops that have a required level and they will just scale down to you, but that's hardly "Absurd twinking" like you could on vaniki.

Super twinking could of been fun again.

The truebox going away super early is crazy though, usually its what TSS when that drops? Relaxed with omens. Probably a good thing, as there doesn't seem much excitement for this server, so people can at least box their own group much earlier, instead of later when servers are usually already desperate for characters but its too late.
 
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Cinge said:
Where do you see this? Twinking on vaniki was fun(At least later in server), because you could wear some OP shit like level 100+ wurmslayer on your level 1 guy or conflagrant gear. Your little FAQ says the recc level thing only last until pop launches, then its just back to normal. So sure you can wear luclin drops that have a required level and they will just scale down to you, but that's hardly "Absurd twinking" like you could on vaniki.

Super twinking could of been fun again.

The truebox going away super early is crazy though, usually its what TSS when that drops? Relaxed with omens. Probably a good thing, as there doesn't seem much excitement for this server, so people can at least box their own group much earlier, instead of later when servers are usually already desperate for characters but its too late.
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Bah, you're right. They attached some of these features to the Expanded Start ruleset that all turn off in PoP.

What a piece of shit.
 
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Well at least they're adding the vaniki resists system, otherwise this would be an even more miserable experience for non monks
 
Lambourne

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I levelled a druid on Vaniki and once you get the good dots going you can just casually grind reds solo for 10-14% xp per kill. It was really fun because it's exactly what the class is built for, the entire toolkit is built for soloing outdoors.

Too bad you end up as the fat kid in gym class at max level and become the "we can't find a cleric or wizard" choice of last resort.
 
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Lambourne said:
I levelled a druid on Vaniki and once you get the good dots going you can just casually grind reds solo for 10-14% xp per kill. It was really fun because it's exactly what the class is built for, the entire toolkit is built for soloing outdoors.

Too bad you end up as the fat kid in gym class at max level and become the "we can't find a cleric or wizard" choice of last resort.
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Gonna be doing the outdoor charm thing, taking advantage of the resist system making ensnare and charm easy to land on red cons.

After that I'll take advantage of the "nobody knows or really pays attention to WTF Druids even do on raids" to just casually heal or DPS as needed.
 
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This server has encounter locking so I'll repost my Oakwynd info graph of instant clicks to get tags

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I made this with only Classic in mind but I'll be damned if I could come up with any offensive instant clicks in Kunark through Luclin.
 
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I don't think anything with charges is a good idea for tags. Unless the mob is already spawned and the 3-6 second timer of not being able to be attacked is already gone.

Unless it doesn't use a charge if the mob is still in the unattackable form that it spawns in?
 
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