EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother
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Rajaah
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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.
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.
moonarchia
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Rajaah
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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.
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Pharone
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B_Mizzle
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Ive never done the random loot stuff, with that assassin can drop anything another 40ish rare can drop?
Mrniceguy
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Phinny had a bunch of 4 month unlocks, 6 months of PoP and still did fine. Selo didn't even do fine on Launch.
This whole "people leave after PoP because PoP takes too long" is just cope from people that like the game post PoP.
Mrniceguy
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There is a fairly accurate list somewhere. But for rare mobs it's based on level brackets+expansion. Like 30-39 Kunark rares would be a "bucket", 40-49 Classic Rares would be another "bucket" and every time you kill a mob you get loot from 2 of the random mobs in the same bucket as it.
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B_Mizzle
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And everything will be tradable? sounds like its gonna be a fun server.
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Arbitrary
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There are a few quest items associated with epics plus the epics themselves that cannot be traded. It's a pretty short list all things considered.
Cinge
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About that. It's basically gambling. Kill a random rare or raid mob that usually drops shit and get the items everyone chases from the end boss. But then go kill that very well known rare or end of expansion raid boss and get crap.
There's probably a spreadsheet somewhere that has all the buckets, what mobs share with what mobs etc. It's not 100% level relevant, at least with raid mobs. I didn't pay attention to group mobs too much, so not sure there.
