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Hold The Ashes posted:I'm thinking about coming back to play on either of the two newest progression servers but need to know about the True Box poo poo first. I don't like playing just one character since it's so dependent on other people, logging in and then seeing no groups and thinking "well I guess I can't play tonight" blows so I'd like to play 3 characters. My setup is one extremely good PC and an 80" 4k monitor. Can't speak on the VMs. But you can use lovely laptops (less than $200 on newegg). There is a program called synergy (which a few friends save 1 cant get to work) and one called multiplicity(sp?) which a few have used. They allow you pull the screens off laptops and put them onto main monitor and use 1 key/mouse for all of them, based on which window you are on.
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Stumbled upon a file called "revision.txt" in my EQ directory, which stems from an ancient Kunark CD install and has been upgraded ever since. Man, the devs were such amateurs back then. Check out this bunch of patch notes from 1999, including a public shaming list of people who got banned for distruptive behavior.quote:2/10/99 10:41am
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Hold The Ashes posted:I'm thinking about coming back to play on either of the two newest progression servers but need to know about the True Box poo poo first. I don't like playing just one character since it's so dependent on other people, logging in and then seeing no groups and thinking "well I guess I can't play tonight" blows so I'd like to play 3 characters. My setup is one extremely good PC and an 80" 4k monitor. Technically, software to send keyboard commands to multiple pcs is also forbidden (like VMs are). True box also has ways to monitor if you're trying to control things through 1 keyboard mouse. If it detects input across your characters at the same time, it'll kick all your characters offline. I don't know the exact specifics as I don't box, but we have a crazy guy that runs like a 12 box crew, and sometimes we'll be raiding and he'll be "gently caress, got true boxed" as all his toons go offline. Not saying you can't do it, but most of the boxers (just the 1-2 extra box people) I know don't try to really fight the system too much. They have spare comps and lovely laptops, and just line 'em up. Here's the 12 boxer guy's setup:  My previous guild had a 9 boxer, his setup was 9 laptops surrounding him (he sent us a panorama video of it lol). Pilsner posted:Stumbled upon a file called "revision.txt" in my EQ directory, which stems from an ancient Kunark CD install and has been upgraded ever since. Man, the devs were such amateurs back then. Check out this bunch of patch notes from 1999, including a public shaming list of people who got banned for distruptive behavior. That's awesome.
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quote:- We believe we have solved one of the problems that occurs when people  e: RE: public shaming of people that got banned, didn't SOE also publish a list of people that change servers or paid for name changes, resulting in people knowing who the scumbags were at all times? suuma fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Sep 18, 2017 |
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Sep 18, 2017 14:52
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suuma posted:
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xZAOx posted:Here's the 12 boxer guy's setup: This guy is single
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I imagine the 12 boxer guy to be either an absolute nightmare to play with on raids or some sort of virtuoso with no in between. Why 12 though? I can at least understand 6 boxing (though I would never do it in a million years, 3 is fine with me on live and most I'd want to do true box is 2).
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Stanos posted:I imagine the 12 boxer guy to be either an absolute nightmare to play with on raids or some sort of virtuoso with no in between. Why 12 though? I can at least understand 6 boxing (though I would never do it in a million years, 3 is fine with me on live and most I'd want to do true box is 2). He's a super nice, chill dude. I don't know how he got to 12 or why.
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Agnarr news: they (tentatively) unfucked the Jade Chokidai Prod part of the Howling Stones key. Dude who drops it is popping all over the place constantly and now the Sarnak fort is a feeding frenzy! I heard something about the VP key getting easier too, I don't know about the rest of the lovely parts of the game. Anyone got the scoop on all the poo poo that was changed during downtime?
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Turpitude posted:Agnarr news: they (tentatively) unfucked the Jade Chokidai Prod part of the Howling Stones key. Dude who drops it is popping all over the place constantly and now the Sarnak fort is a feeding frenzy! VP key pieces are no longer MQable presumably removing most of the incentive to be fuckshits
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Turpitude posted:Agnarr news: they (tentatively) unfucked the Jade Chokidai Prod part of the Howling Stones key. Dude who drops it is popping all over the place constantly and now the Sarnak fort is a feeding frenzy! I imagine this story more as one poor dude feeling sorry for people and increasing the spawn rates, then the B List celebrity devs that still work at this shitshow of a company finding out and dragging the guy off kicking and screaming while they berate him over something called "The Vision™". Then they change all spawns to be half of what they were 16 years ago.
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Tomahawk posted:VP key pieces are no longer MQable presumably removing most of the incentive to be fuckshits I hope this ends up being the case instead of people trying to sell "loot rights" instead. I guess it'll still help though.
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Ramulack posted:I hope this ends up being the case instead of people trying to sell "loot rights" instead. I guess it'll still help though. Yeah, selling LRs to ground spawns is going to go well.
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Completed my epic 2.0 on Phinny - I didn't notice the clicky effect was reduced to 3 minutes compared to 6 for the 1.5 - very nice ! There doesn't appear to be much in the way of quests in Omens of War so I may bite the bullet and do the BiC quest. Only 10.5 weeks till DoN opens...
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Baconroll posted:Only 10.5 weeks till DoN opens... DoN doesn't add much.
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Agnarr Talk : I love Kunark expansion for what it adds to the grouping content and stuff you can do as a solo player.... but oh boy is it challenging to keep the guild motivated due to the lack of raiding content. Also we've been dealing with the obvious kronofarm grabs from people clearly using all their dkp on tradable loot (RBB, Tobrin, ...) and then going on a "break" and never to be seen again. Can't wait for the first true raiding expansion. Did Phinigel endure the same problems during the second half of Kunark? (Our raiding schedule looks like this : Always check for OW targets first, euroguild) -Monday : Faydedar x2 >Fear > Hate -Wednesday : Trakanon > Gorenaire > Talendor > Yaelx3 -Thursday : VS > Sev x2 > Naggy x3 > Vox x3 -Saturday : Optional Veeshan's Peak raid (we /random all loot as no dkp are gained. Over half of the guild is not comitting to camping the key parts, which is HORRIBLE on agnarr, recent fix hasn't changed the issue much) -Sunday : Plane of Sky (5x SL and 5x SotS) Raiding schedule feels quite full, but most of these fights we've been doing since the 5th week of Classic.
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Evernoob posted:Agnarr Talk : Man, I am there with you. I was super stoked for Kunark and I kinda still am because epics and stuff... But gently caress raiding content. -Tuesday: VS > Sev > Fay > Talendor (We did Gorenaire once and are skipping it probably forever now) -Thursday: Trak > Fear -Sunday: Vox x2 > Naggy x2 > Sky (skip Overseer and Hand and island 4 usually) > Hate (Only Ire, Maestro, Magi, Inny - and whatever is in our way). We are kinda ehhh on VP. Don't have the force keyed to clear ourselves. Trying to motivate folks like "Guys, lets just finish our our last slots for our friends, finish the grind, and we get rewarded with The Frozen Throne.. err Velious" Edit: Yeah, Krono DKP bids are getting dicey. We've also gotten a crazyyy amount of CoFs, so that doesnt help lol
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RU Frank the Ogre SK who i stumbled upon in the NE corner of Fear and let me loot my Wizzy Pants? I still love Kunark for the 6man content like Chardok Royals and Howling Stones, but this is also the best era for Kronofarmers and it feels like this server got it worse than any previous one. That they changed the Jade Prod drop and the VP MQ is proof enough for this. If they ever launch a new TLP I kind of hope they launch Classic + Kunark as one package, and then give us 24 weeks of Velious + Luclin in one go.
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I love Kunark zones, love epics, but I really never thought EQ figured out raiding and gear until Velious. That's when gear stops sucking, that's when they started kinda giving everyone some variety. At least that's my opinion. The way our Phinny guild does things, we do current era on DKP nights, then other stuff becomes off-night. I don't know how they did it back in Kunark though, with so much less to do, and the previous era content still being relevant since Kunark just adds "oh more dragons that give that same loot and a raiding zone that's a clusterfuck to get into". I'm loving Omens, but I'm also surprised at how quickly you beat the raid content. Compare it to GoD, which had several raid zones. Omens just has Anguish (like 2.5 hours) and the 6 trials (drops seem to be "oh yeah that's hot" to "grats a box"). I wish RSS had gotten that AoC, a few nice pieces there, and more to do. But we'll probably just end up doing one night as epics for a while. Really not a ton. xZAOx fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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I saw this months ago in regards to agnarr. Very few people (from phinny) went over to agnarr to take it serious. Most went over to krono farm and/or grab a CoF or something to sell. A bunch of faceless left and joined us cos that guild is a poo poo show with RMR problems, terrible members and low raid turn outs.
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Yeah, Phinny was a good experience all the way through pretty much. There were speedbumps with a lot of the same things but not nearly the level of assholery that Agnarr has. Phinny also had it easier on VP key with the ability to spawn a metric fuckton of picks at will pretty much. I used Kunark to make sure I had all my clickies, utility items and pre nerf gear secured and banked for the future. To hell with Veeshans Peak.
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Dumb question but it seems now they do a TLP bundle with a bag every time they launch a new progression server, does anyone know if you can buy it but not claim it until a new prog server comes out and then you would be able to have multiple on the new server when most people are rocking just one?
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Evernoob posted:RU Frank the Ogre SK who i stumbled upon in the NE corner of Fear and let me loot my Wizzy Pants? Haha, no, he's someone else. I'm the complete opposite, Frankdabank, the Erudite Pally. Whoever is the Librarian, you're the best, thanks for the rezzes in Hole last night.
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FranktheBank posted:Haha, no, he's someone else. I'm the complete opposite, Frankdabank, the Erudite Pally. that'd be me and I'm glad I could help. Thank you for the clutch heal when I was at 10% and my charm wanted me dead real bad. Anyone know how camped the open world fear/hate planes are now? I've been wanting to go try and solo there as an enchanter and get some blue diamonds and such
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Solarin posted:that'd be me and I'm glad I could help. Thank you for the clutch heal when I was at 10% and my charm wanted me dead real bad. Hell yeah man, that was a hype fight lol. OW Fear and Hate are pretty dead. I did Hate a couple nights ago and there was 1 group near zone in, we were near maestro, just /ooc'd rots. Fear had 4-6 people
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Does Agnarr have the insanely low solo XP rate as Phinny?
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Hold The Ashes posted:Does Agnarr have the insanely low solo XP rate as Phinny? I don't think so, I level pretty fast.
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Phinny exp isn't super slow anymore, but yes Agnarr is much much slower. Solo you can get up to like 11% aa per kill at 70, I haven't tested it myself so not sure if that was with lesson or not.
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Krazuel posted:Phinny exp isn't super slow anymore, but yes Agnarr is much much slower. Solo you can get up to like 11% aa per kill at 70, I haven't tested it myself so not sure if that was with lesson or not. Did you typo and mean to say Phinny is much much slower? The FAQ on the launcher says XP is faster on Agnarr than Phinny.
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Agnarr is faster than Phinny was in the same era. However if you make a new character now on Phinny, you will level faster than you did a year ago. This speed is probably faster than current Agnarr. Soloing on Agnarr is very slow and tedious, because it is mostly the grouping experience that got a nice boost. Finding groups is usually pretty easy too, unless you are playing a less desired class. But then forming your group is usually the answer. Off topic, a friend who i'm playing on Agnarr with wishes to try out Live as a duo with me with Mercs. We will have member status off course, and have no interest in raiding on Live. Which server would be good to level in as a duo, with the odd chance of finding another player? Or should one of us box a 3rd free character + free merc?
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Phinegal has had two?(?) increases throughout expansion launches, so it's exp is faster than Agnarr until Agnarr hits ~Pop. I leveled in classic on both Phinegal and Agnarr and honestly I couldn't tell a difference both were slow as poo poo.
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The pace on Agnarr feels perfect to me. The levels fly by when grouped and in a good spot, but solo is decent enough for classes that can do it. Though the xp loss from dying hurts real bad when you're soloing, especially in the 50s.
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Solarin posted:The pace on Agnarr feels perfect to me. The levels fly by when grouped and in a good spot, but solo is decent enough for classes that can do it. Though the xp loss from dying hurts real bad when you're soloing, especially in the 50s. I agree. XP was absolutely flying in solid groups.
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Yep, If you are in a solid group in a solid spot (Crushbone / Unrest / Lguk / CoM) from 1 to 45 exp flies and you should get at least 1 level per hour. After 45 to 60 is does slow down quite a but taking several hours per level. Nothing like Live though where I just logged on out of curiousity, made a bard, grabbed a tank merc, and just a couple of hours later i was lvl 30+ after leaving the 2nd zone without even grouping.
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Oh Phinny I'm having a lot of fun single grouping the mini-named in Anguish. No complex mechanics but you do need a very solid tank and a healer (or 2) who are quick on the mark as even with defensive the damage can be very spikey. Getting a 150hp aug without paying any dkp is very nice ! I really don't know whether any SK or Pally could currently single group tank these reliably - maybe with 3 spam healers. The minis really have quite low HPs so you don't need a lot of dps.
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Baconroll posted:
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Baconroll posted:The minis really have quite low HPs so you don't need a lot of dps. Alternately, bring top DPS and watch them melt before your tank does. A good rule of thumb for 99% of EverQuest is that the application of more DPS solves all of your problems.
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So because I'm human garbage I've ended up getting ahold of 100 krono without even deciding which server I wanted to play on between Phinny and Agnarr and need the patented goon advice I'm the poopsocking type and want to raid and I really like velious/luclin/pop which Agnarr has coming up but I have the feeling the population is going to nose dive when it gets locked down to just PoP and I'm sure even I would get bored of nothing but PoP, so Phinny has that edge to me. But starting this late on Phinny and without knowing anybody could I even get a raiding spot as a cleric, chanter or shaman and if I could would I even have a shot at getting my 2.0 being behind so many other people?
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Hold The Ashes posted:So because I'm human garbage I've ended up getting ahold of 100 krono without even deciding which server I wanted to play on between Phinny and Agnarr and need the patented goon advice Yeah wouldn't take long either if you are willing to spend some of that krono dollars for a powerlevel on phinegal. 2.0 would probably be doable too, as most guilds would prioritize orbs to main over alts and they are rolling in pretty quickly. All those classes are pretty wanted roo with maybe a slight edge to enchanters this expansion
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Clerics never have trouble finding a raid guild. Orbs just depends on the guild. Some will loot council, some dkp, but there's basically 4.5 more months of Anguish raiding, with 4-5 orbs a week. They'll be at rot status (aka, boxes) long before then. Provided you join a competent guild that can clear Anguish of course.
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