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I keep trying to keybind this game. By far one of the greatest exercises in futility.
LOL yeah it's retarded. You can't just fire off all the spells/skills on the macro with one key stroke. It's first available and last. So you need to hit the key a couple times to get all the skills fired off depending on cooldowns/cast times. It's almost more about just making more space on your bars than anything else.
 

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the way I used to have my buttons set up was all of my first hotbar was every ability grouped by color/similarity, then id map each ability seperately to the next few hot bars ( i dont remember if the second bar was ctrl + #, or alt + #, and then the third was ctrl shift + #). I would control all the abilities through an mmo mouse with the buttons set to the numpad.

That way I could kind of autopilot spam trash, or if I wanted to I could cast spells deliberately as well without touching keys from the second, third, and fourth hotbars. After a while everything would become muscle memory, and eventually I was able to play this game while barely conscious.
 
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Kriptini

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And this was on the Kaladim server which is the most 'classic' version right? lol

No, Kaladim is a Time Locked Progression server so it's unlocking expansions/features every few months. Kaladim is currently on the 6th expansion (2010) so it's very different from Tarinax which launched with the 2nd expansion (2006).
 

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Sometimes I think about playing this game cuz I like visuals & race choices more than wow, but then I watch someone actually play it. This game has the worst ability bloat I've ever seen. Was watching this guys stream for a few minutes and he was clicking some or all of his abilities... probably ran out of hotkeys. And this was on the Kaladim server which is the most 'classic' version right? lol

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Clicking is a part of EQ2 pvp. Rather than being a negative or for scrubs (WoW standards) how good you are in EQ2 depends on your click game. I've always been fine with that. I like the "collision" aspect of EQ2 pvp. Its less chess match bs and more let's fucking bang.

I always talk up WoW and VG in terms of ideal combat, but for PvP combat honestly the cheap brawler knock a bitch out aspects of EQ2 are hard to beat.

Its a lot of buttons, and yet, still plays like an arcade game PvP wise.

Having the best PvP reward system out of all existing MMOs helps too.
 
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RobXIII

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Is there a huge population imbalance in favor of the evil side? That always happens for these servers.
 

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any guilds from here going on either faction?
Dark Men of Odus is on Q right now.

Playing with a few Exodus, Dark Hand and others.

I've been chilling on a good amount of roaming and pvp, am 46 with good gathering skills.
 

Lunis

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Why do people click abilities though? Is there just not enough hotkeys or is there some other advantage/loophole?
 

Nirgon

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Why do people click abilities though? Is there just not enough hotkeys or is there some other advantage/loophole?
Many buttons. Some cast faster than others etc so they have their uses in pvp and I wouldn't want them jammed into some priority macro for the most part. I use almost everything keyboard so far minus buffs and pet summon.
 

Kriptini

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Why do people click abilities though? Is there just not enough hotkeys or is there some other advantage/loophole?

I hotkey my 10 most important buttons and click the rest. You really don't need to hotkey everything for this game, and there are so many buttons that trying to do so might drive you crazy and force you to use strange, uncomfortable keyboard modifiers. I also don't like putting them all into macros because for my class (Swashbuckler) there are different orders I want to use my abilities in depending on which debuffs I want to prioritize on a target since almost every single one of my combat arts has a debuff on it.
 
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It's been a long time, but for Dirge I had the DPS hotbars, had mostly macroed together dps skills and and "buffs" for dps. Then any skills in those macros that were situational, were on another Shift+ bank. Then I had ctrl+ and alt+ for lesser priority stuff. Many skills had similar timers, that just scream "macro & mash us together!"

Rarely did I click, mostly stuff that was buffs ect, and I had all of those on the first couple pages of spells/skills window, same with anything else that didn't require twitch timing. Saved some hotbar space too. Did the same for most other classes. IIRC you can open you social window and click off macros from there too? I did something like that for some of my raid/group macros for chat stuff.

I hate clicking shit all over like DDR, I'd go insane playing that way.

The default settings for the game are shit too, there's some stuff you need to change in there to make everything work better, honestly I just can't recall what those things are right now lol.
 

Nirgon

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Got a guild on Q side, dont need anymore pallies/sk but - dps of really any kind and a healer might be ok. Already clearing content.

Look for Thizz, Burnt, Jody or Deformities in game.

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RobXIII

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Is the server dead yet? This'll be the first TLE for EQ2 that I pass up on. I remember how cheese the pvp was. Are stuns still lasting 14 seconds and spammable? It felt like a laggy Korean MMO with all the crowd control to be honest lol
 

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Is the server dead yet? This'll be the first TLE for EQ2 that I pass up on. I remember how cheese the pvp was. Are stuns still lasting 14 seconds and spammable? It felt like a laggy Korean MMO with all the crowd control to be honest lol

Server is alive and well. Most CC durations are reduced, with the exception of Enchanter CC.
 
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Is the server dead yet? This'll be the first TLE for EQ2 that I pass up on. I remember how cheese the pvp was. Are stuns still lasting 14 seconds and spammable? It felt like a laggy Korean MMO with all the crowd control to be honest lol
its more alive on freeport side, but it looks like there is about 175-250 people actively playing on each side on average.

So maybe theres like 600-700 people total playing on average?

Hard to get an exact number because if people knew the actual number, they would probably laugh and quit.
 
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welp, someone found a pretty serious plat dupe, and now all servers are down.

oh and mentoring is disabled because it can be exploited.

pretty sure this new server is done for because this company does fuck all right. lol.
 
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Kriptini

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welp, someone found a pretty serious plat dupe, and now all servers are down.

oh and mentoring is disabled because it can be exploited.

pretty sure this new server is done for because this company does fuck all right. lol.

Sad to say but I think you're right. Mentoring has been re-enabled and dupers have been banned but there was no rollback so the amount of plat in the economy now is ridiculous. I'm waiting to see if broker prices go back to normal next week but if they don't I'm probably done, which was a shame because this server was really fun.
 

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Sad to say but I think you're right. Mentoring has been re-enabled and dupers have been banned but there was no rollback so the amount of plat in the economy now is ridiculous. I'm waiting to see if broker prices go back to normal next week but if they don't I'm probably done, which was a shame because this server was really fun.
I mean I don't want to be right. This game has a special place in my heart, especially pvp. I have just seen the responsive action to critical issues get worse and worse over the years.

They should have shut down the servers much sooner, and now since the money was so spread around ( literally everything in my broker was purchased, and im pretty sure every single raid piece, fabled and master was purchased on the broker) I have a feeling they cant even properly audit this situation because it just blew up so fast.

I think that the market will be pretty busted for a month or so, and that's if not many people quit because of this whole ordeal.