Everquest Legends

I think it's fair to go from EQL devs were likely involved in THJ shutdown -> disappointment the the THJ ripoff they produced is some totally different type of game. Especially after the initial billing made it seem like that was the intent.

Everything ive seen implies the ousted THJ devs were just a lot better at this than the new guys. Doesn't mean this new server won't be enjoyable. Most EQ emu are to some extent. But it's a bit of a bummer the old guys were cut off right as they hit stride. I liked their brand of the game.

Man reading through that thread is eye opening. You know why no one can compare Classic THJ to Classic EQL?

It DIDN'T EXIST. Kunark was in at launch. You beat naggy+vox and you unlocked Kunark so there was a threshold, but there's literally no comparison.

Also a lot of those posts are about people consuming all the content too fast and just twiddling their thumbs until Velious. It's obvious a slower paced server would be better, but the fact it has a sub tied to it gets so much (possibly rightfully) flak.

Xevy said:

Not to say there's not the "I love EQ and can't wait to be an elf in Kelethin!" type that permeates through EQ who's just as bad in different ways. They offer no criticism, applaud everything, and end up playing the game for like a week and tossing it aside to play some 33% off steam games to 1/4 completion on an endless cycle of casualism that ends up fucking dad gamers and nolife gamers alike.

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I've never been so offended in my life

Flobee said:

I've never been so offended in my life

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Don't worry, that probably makes up 70% of the actual EQ base and probably 90% of DPG's funding because they don't use kronos for their account and forget to turn off their credit card billing long after they quit.

I played during beta and classic. I ran CLR/ROG/BST. I spent a bunch of time grinding in the hole. With enough MR you can do fear. I think I was using dual painbringers or CLR summon hammer + painbringer.

Since ROG could skip everything my routine near the end of classic was, Nag, VOX, Yael, Fear Golems, Draoliche, and then burn all cooldowns to burstdown CT before he summoned everything,

moonarchia said:

Just play it and have fun with it. Or don't. I am liking it,

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EQLegends is like a car crash where i know the driver of said car is an annoying tranny. Watching them fail is the fun part of EQLegends.

Xevy said:

It DIDN'T EXIST. Kunark was in at launch. You beat naggy+vox and you unlocked Kunark so there was a threshold, but there's literally no comparison.

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Kunark wasn't available on release. This schedule feels familiar:

pewpew2 said:

Kunark wasn't available on release. This schedule feels familiar:

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I stand corrected! It was hard to find for sure with their reddit posts and websites getting nuked.

Also I found there were SOME items with +spellpower (like 5 to 10 and it seemed rare). The only example I could find a picture of was in the thread from that time of the summoned cleric lvl 50 hammer:



So they did have some spell power, a lot of the itemization was bad for classic items so if stuff didn't have wis/int specifically I don't think it got spell/heal power.

I keep reading and am reminded some of the dumber shit from THJ like using your lvl 5 spells because all your power came from +spell power and +healing and sympathetic procs, so unlocking higher spells didn't always matter.

Xevy said:

I keep reading and am reminded some of the dumber shit from THJ like using your lvl 5 spells because all your power came from +spell power and +healing and sympathetic procs, so unlocking higher spells didn't always matter.

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Due to sympathetic strike you were incentivized to use lower cool downs for free DPS.

Also +Spell and + Heal was based off of Wisdom and Int

I think:
Int items gave spell damage based on Int stat once items were legendary
Wis Items gave spell (1/2) and heal based on Wis stat once items were legendary