EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother

Korillo said:

It is still 4 months away though. If they just got rid of the 18 week unlocks for Luclin & PoP, this server will actually be super popular. Maybe it still will be thanks to the bonuses, but I'm not sure people understand just how long 4 months in 1 expansion with live xp actually is. Especially with random loot, and the bonus loot that comes with it.

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Pretty much. If they changed it to 8 weeks in Velious, 8 weeks in Luclin, 8 weeks in PoP (bonus if LDoN is included) and went from there, it would probably be as popular as Teek and have more longevity in the population, contrary to their belief over there. A lot more people would actually get to experience some post-PoP expansions before the server gets cannibalized by the next one.

The one thing I like about the new server is that the live exp rates will let you level personas quick. On Teek I had probably half the personas at max level and frequently switched to things like Cleric and Mage to plug gaps on raids. The issue was that with the exp being so slow, most of them didn't have enough AAs to really be viable, outside of whatever my main was at any given expansion. Getting half of the personas to 60 in Velious was a lot of work but useful. The addition of AAs is where keeping them current really went to die.

If it were this new server I would have been able to probably have everyone at 60 and with enough AAs for viability, with the same time committment.

Tuco said:

Never say never! Unfettered Emerald Excellence was accidentally hard and nerfed after only... one? guild could beat it.



I sometimes wonder if original EQ was actually hard or if most people were just bad at it. Wasnt AoW only killed like, a week before Luclin release?

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UEE on Phinigel was the best win I've ever been a part of in EQ. Demands perfect execution from everyone, and aside from a mess-up by one guy (I'll call him "Bobni" to protect the innocent), we executed.

The Burning Lands, in general, is a pretty great expansion, a real high point of the post-100 game (which is full of low points). The challenge level of the final boss brings back something we hadn't really seen in EQ since the days of Tunat Muram or Mata Muram in-era in 2004, an actual wall to climb. And the general content of the expansion is really cool and interesting, finally making some major use of the extended elemental planes (Fire/Air sides) and the djinn/efreeti races that have been around since the beginning but never really explored. Shame most people never see it, and shame it never got the obvious sequel expansion covering the Earth/Water sides of the planes and Loruella the Citadel of Water.

Pharone said:

The game in its current state (and especially with the rule sets voted on) is very, very easy. At this point, its more about just playing through the game to play through the game because you enjoy... playing through the game.

Honestly, if some asshole jacks your shit right in front of you while using 3rd party software (and, trust me someone will because reasons), move on to something else and come back later. It doesn't have the same sting as it did in the past.

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Tell that to the guy on Vaniki who lost some DPS races to me and spent THREE DAYS flipping out about me in general channels to the point that he got suspended for disturbing the peace, then logged on with a different account and did the same thing with the same results. When I logged back on I had all these people asking me what I did to generate tons of hate in the general channel.

Long story short, I (level 40 SK, which was max level at the time IIRC) was soloing the Frenzy room when this level 40 Cleric popped in out of nowhere and just sat there. Frenzy spawns and I DPS race him on it. Knowing he's got potent undead nukes, I drop Harm Touch and win easily. Guy flips out at me for "appearing in my camp and stealing it" which is the exact same thing he was doing to me. I told him I'd been there for like an hour already and he said that was a total lie, HE'D been there. (I later realized that he was probably in a pick that collapsed and didn't realize it due to being afk or something like that, causing him to appear in the room with me). He stuck around and kept trying to nuke my mobs down, but even without Harm Touch I got the kill on every mob and the next Frenzy as well. I lied and said I had four FBSSes in the loot window (I'd gotten one) and the guy gated out, then spent days ranting about the experience. Edit: I think he tried to train me out before he gated and that obviously backfired. Not even sure he gated, he might have just died out, was 3 years ago.

A good cleric probably could have beaten me on the non-HT DPS races, but not one that was juiced to the gills on SSRIs.