I plan on six boxing on the new server. Send me a tell anytime for a spot in my group. As far as I'm concerned, my boxes are slaves I use to do my mains bidding. I'll drop one for a player in a heartbeat if anyone of you guys need a group.
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I plan on playing too, but I'm not sure if I'll be boxing. I'm a gimp if I box more than 2 PC's.
Vaclav
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Word - and since I didn't elaborate - Laura and I tend to do duos that work for moderate XP without anyone that really sing adding a healer w/ plenty of DPS spots. (i.e. SK/Bard - wonderful core that can go almost anywhere do almost anything as long as it's blue duo, but also great for adding almost all of the "always need groups" classes onto - although I am lightly debating a healer bot, but he'd be dropped for humans whenever a spot was needed)
Hell, I'd rather be entertained by grouping with 4 other humans even if I was making twice the XP duo/trio at the time - defeats the purpose of playing IMO without other people. [Although like Freznic implied - I'll always try to work someone in unless it's all filled with humans, but definitely more of a "respond to asking" thing than me hunting passive LFG's after a bit - I might min-max to try to work humans in early, but once it's running, time melts and I stop hunting for people even though I still prefer them]
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Ya.. I think I may just play here too. I fired up eq to mess around, but I am still not sure what I want to play. I kinda want to play a class I have never messed with before. The problem is all those classes tend to be ones that may not do well with a prog server. Berserker is like a monk with one hand tied behind his back, and druid.. I dunno. I may just go enchanter.. ugg. (hell never played a cleric either.. may do that)
Obviously Twisted Legion are going to try their hand on the new server. Assuming decent rule set, are any other guilds confirmed? I heard Faceless Order might give it a go? I'm always curious to see what guilds form pre launch.
Just placed my vote for option 3. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a server capped at velious!
Hmm, is it worth going necro and putting up with the twitching/useless for dps era until Necros get crazy powerful on raids? Or should I just go cleric or rogue. hmm
B_Mizzle
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So when looking at P1999 spells vs allakazam spells, I can see that SOE went through and pretty much buffed the shit out of all the spells. Example Frost Rift L5 shaman spell has a max damage of 15 on P1999. I remember that being accurate from my original shaman. Live shows Frost Rift doing a max damage of 53 at level 11. That is a huge increase. If all the spells are like that I expect most content to be trivial in the extreme.
I didn't play on the last set of progression servers, but was that a problem? Content being trivial?
I didn't play on the last set of progression servers, but was that a problem? Content being trivial?
Zaide
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Necro dps won't be bad even early. Your pet should be OP, your taps are good even in Sky I believe and you can duo Cazic Thule (the raid mob) at 50 with a Cleric, so that's pretty cool.
Crone
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Ya, I mained a necro on Vulak the last time around, and you don't really turn into a twitch whore until like Luclin, in VT when the fights get considerably longer.
I don't have any active accounts to vote, but I really hope that a server isn't capped at a certain expansion. It doesn't make any sense to just stop it completely. I've asked before, but anyone care to explain why this is a good idea, and how the server would expect to retain subs after the content gets stale?
I don't have any active accounts to vote, but I really hope that a server isn't capped at a certain expansion. It doesn't make any sense to just stop it completely. I've asked before, but anyone care to explain why this is a good idea, and how the server would expect to retain subs after the content gets stale?
B_Mizzle
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I guess P1999 would be the example, it's been on Kunark for 4 years and has up to 1500 players on at peak on weekends. I don't think playing old Everquest is really all about the content, its more about the community and the social aspects. I think that 1500 players is probably the same if not more than the number of players on any given live server currently.
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Crone
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Fair enough, and I guess EQ Mac had a fairly popular following. The ruleset wouldn't stop me from playing, but the entire thing wasn't so bad on Prog 2.0 going through all the expansions. To me though, I had never raided GoD or after, so seeing all of that for the first time was pretty fun.
But I do agree, it's the social aspect that keeps people around far longer than the content does. Here's hoping for a release sometime in the next few months.
True. Knowing me I'll go with a cleric for the 10th time though since I'm a masochist =P. You going to bring TFO here? We can drag Nitsude over too!
Zaide
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I mean, I've been planning for a new progression server since we left the previous one, but if it releases pre august I most likely won't be able to play.
Also the prospect of TL and EoE teaming up is interesting. It would be challenging to beat them since like 90% of all hardcore progression players have previously been in one or the other.
I saw Zithax post here, anyone know if Zain, Fleury, Arduin and Skie will be playing?