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Dennis McClaren posted:So if I don't want to subscribe until later, would I still only be able to choose from the 4 classes? Or could I level a warrior until December, subscribe gold, and then change my lv30 warrior into a lv30 shadowknight? Free to play accounts can play any class now. You are restricted to 2 character slots, a couple hundred AAs, rank 1 spells, apprentice II mercs (worthless) and you can only chat in the NewPlayers chat channel. Level a healer with your warrior and stick to old school content and you shouldn't feel too much pain until higher levels.
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Ad by Khad posted:Vanilla wow raids were garbage, even by EQ standards. And alas, not two-thirds of people who jumped ship to WoW did return to EQ.  Dennis McClaren posted:So if I don't want to subscribe until later, would I still only be able to choose from the 4 classes? Or could I level a warrior until December, subscribe gold, and then change my lv30 warrior into a lv30 shadowknight? You can also buy a Doll of Character from the loyalty merchant in PoK in order to permanently gain up to 3 extra character slots to your F2P account.
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Oct 12, 2017 22:51
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Ok thats great news. I have no problem subscribing later, but I didn't want to have to pick a class I didn't want to play. If you can pick all classes from the start on silver, then I'll go that route for awhile just to see if I still like the game.
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AQ40 wasn't bad because of some nebulous concept of "complexity". AQ40 was bad because it was straight up broken, overtuned, and overloaded with respawning trash that would unpredictably dunk your entire raid. Oh, this guy spawned with the Meteor ability, guess we're all loving dead. I like wow quite a bit - I frequently get insulted in the wow subforum for playing the game too much - but vanilla had an abysmal raid scene that didn't pick up until around the middle of BC, when the guilds that cared hit Black Temple and the guilds that didn't had Karazhan to play around in.
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BWL was a great raid for it's time Rag in MC was also a lot of fun but MC looking back had far too much trash pulls, still really fun for it's time.
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I stopped playing WoW after BC came out bc I didn't have time anymore. I came back to EQ 15 years later because it was free. Playing a rogue in WoW was fuckin aces. I could sap-select my fights and take on four even-con mobs and then escape if i got ads. I could spec swords and tear poo poo up. Then spec daggers and gently caress UP single targets. Battlegrounds were fun as poo poo. I remember playing a rogue in vanilla EQ and around level seven figuring out that I couldn't even play the game as a half-elf rogue. One blue bear or goblin would annihilate me. I didn't have time always to get a group. WoW was the superior game if you wanted a rogue that felt like a bad-rear end 🙏.
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I was a gnome rogue who put all their points into agility because why the gently caress not., I couldn't wear a set of banded without becoming near encumbered with loot. Blackened Iron was right out.
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I personally feel like the best thing about WoW was the solo game. I played a rogue when I played EverQuest back in the day, and I hated that I had to sit there asking for groups for an hour+ sometimes just to play the game in any capacity. I moved on over to WoW during the open beta and I was like OH MY GOD I CAN SOLO HOLY poo poo.
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joem83 posted:I personally feel like the best thing about WoW was the solo game. I played a rogue when I played EverQuest back in the day, and I hated that I had to sit there asking for groups for an hour+ sometimes just to play the game in any capacity. I moved on over to WoW during the open beta and I was like OH MY GOD I CAN SOLO HOLY poo poo. Yeah but it slowly turned into a game where you never have to talk to anyone and that's not what an mmo is
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Doggir posted:Yeah but it slowly turned into a game where you never have to talk to anyone and that's not what an mmo is If by this you mean Everquest, then I agree. Even twelve years ago just about everyone who played hardcore was three or four boxing any time they wanted to actually go out and fight poo poo. Progression servers limit this to an extent but progression servers are also a clownshoe sideshow where people get to re-live the horrors of yesteryear. If we're talking Everquest, especially live everquest, you can be extremely successful no matter how anti-social you are.
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Ad by Khad posted:If by this you mean Everquest, then I agree. Even twelve years ago just about everyone who played hardcore was three or four boxing any time they wanted to actually go out and fight poo poo. Progression servers limit this to an extent but progression servers are also a clownshoe sideshow where people get to re-live the horrors of yesteryear. I did a brief 4 box stint on test after not having played since my rogue during LDON. I had so much fun being able to play without the assistance of others. Re: wow, yeah it has definitely gotten antisocial but I was mostly okay with that since I was mostly playing during work with the exception of raid nights. World quests were awesome for filling the gaps in a slow work day.
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Lmao, I go on holiday for 10 days and AoS disbands on phinny. So what are the drama rumours flying around since I don't have my laptop with me to connect to Skype, TS3 etc
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Essentially AoS just reformed under the name name Wild Treasures without Grisvok. The officer core got fed up with him not listening or budging on things and basically said gently caress that and everyone went with them. AFAIK the only person who quit was Grisvok. New dkp system based on time instead of boss kills, 40% raid attendance to remain member, old dkp was carried over and basically stat squished in to new system. (3000 old dkp is now roughly ~235 dkp with new system). wild-treasures.com is new website and thats about it I think.
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Hour time dkp is just better. If such a thing as "progression raids" with little chance on loot still existed people actually show up. Double dkp/hour can also be a thing. Otherwise people only show up on raids with the most bossDKP/hour. Agnarr Talk : totally sick of raiding atm. Our guild can barely get 60ppl in the raid on prime nights. But I guess that's normal as we've been raiding pretty much the same content for 4 months now. Velious will be better, it should, it is....right?
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Evernoob posted:
Yeah it should be, until everyone realizes its just more of the same fighting MotM mobs for no real reason, slogging through NToV however often you do it. At least there are new quests and tradeskills to work on! Its not as bad as Kunark, but it can still be pretty sloggy. Luckily we had Quarm server to break up our Velious time or we prob would have lost a lot more people to Velious I think.
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Well once Agnarr gets to LDON, those only take 54 people anyways! So 60 is fine. And honestly, if you're tired of the same content after 4 months, Agnarr might not be the best fit, server-wise for you. Velious does get better - a lot better, IMO. That's when gear actually starts to be good. It has good normal stats and resists, on the same pieces! You'll have Kael, Dain, and Yeli to all kill weekly and compete for open world. Then there's NTOV which is a crap ton of way too long fights because MOTM is a terrible, terrible loving thing. As well as HoT farming during offnights for armor, and the mountain of BiS poo poo for...poo poo I just blanked on his name, but that dragon in ToV, that you put the quest pieces together with from the named drakes. Then there's the Fear revamp, with CT's new great loot. Then there's Shawl and Ring to work on, with the last step(s) needing small-to-medium raids to do. Also constantly fixing faction so you can turn in armor pieces and quest items. So yeah, tons and tons of stuff to raid in Velious. Plus hitting up older content if needed, wrapping up epics on slow players / boxes, etc.
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Are the bottlenecks on the enchanter epic still going to be camped to bejesus mid-late velious? When does it become less of a shitshow?
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Solarin posted:Are the bottlenecks on the enchanter epic still going to be camped to bejesus mid-late velious? When does it become less of a shitshow? On Phinigel it never has
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There recent banwave was interesting - 2 friends got banned for account sharing (though not with each other). One was unbanned when he added the 2 factor authentication, and the other is very much still banned. I think one who is still banned used a PL service so I'm guessing thats the account sharing that got him.
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From what I hear from guildmates that basically live on the redguides board, if you've ever shown signs of suspicious account activity, you're at risk of being banned until you add 2-factor authentication. And even then, if you add 2-factor, you can get banned again and this time they won't do anything about it. For whatever reason, they've had enough of the shady PLing and RMTing going on and are cracking down on it. A former guild member who went on to be like super king man casino and Kronolord on Agnarr isn't just banned, he's IP banned and Daybreak sent him an email saying 'you need to find another company to fulfill your gaming needs.' and that they will never unban him. He created a new account and it was banned less than 24 hours later, even though he created it and didn't even play it for several hours.
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Hoohah posted:A former guild member who went on to be like super king man casino and Kronolord on Agnarr isn't just banned, he's IP banned and Daybreak sent him an email saying 'you need to find another company to fulfill your gaming needs.' and that they will never unban him. He created a new account and it was banned less than 24 hours later, even though he created it and didn't even play it for several hours. Was that Mabbu?
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Aragosta posted:Was that Mabbu? That's who i thought of also. I don't know though. I quit the game soon into Kunark.
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Yeah it was Mabbu.
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Solarin posted:wonder if this is why the resident idol farmer in the Hole on Agnarr was mysteriously absent yesterday Raster camp? Maybe he finally spawned :-v
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Doggir posted:Raster camp? Maybe he finally spawned :-v Raster is in lguk.
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Hoohah posted:Yeah it was Mabbu. no fuckin way, mabbu got banned so hard by daybreak and said that? wow. i actually feel bad for him.
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Hoohah posted:From what I hear from guildmates that basically live on the redguides board, if you've ever shown signs of suspicious account activity, you're at risk of being banned until you add 2-factor authentication. They seem to be chasing the people hording Krono, as it's a 'liability'. Had 2 friends that don't even know redguides exists get axed for handing Krono to alts in empty trades. Strange times.
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Hopefully they will finish their witch hunt soon and go back to processing petitions - been waiting 5 days for regular petition to be answered now that needs a GM.
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I don't think it's krono related because in the last few weeks I've flipped over $1,200 of them in the last 2-3 weeks, some even to Xolve who didn't know I was a goon until now, and haven't had anything happen to me even though I did it all on a brand new account. Krycek posted:Since when did dbg get 2-factor auth? They just added it and I think that's the real problem, most people using MQ bypass the launcher so if you tried to directly log into the game skipping it then it would give you a ban message instead of the more elaborate one you get for not having set up 2FA, so a lot of people were posting "I've been banned!" because DBG wasn't sending emails or anything saying you need to get 2FA, if you were logging in the right way then it was just a popup saying "this account needs to be set up with 2FA if you want to keep using it". Then, I think, a lot of people on RG put in phone numbers that were tied to accounts that had been permabanned in the past and they just got their newer accounts banned too once DBG realized they were the same person. DBG was actually smart about the 2FA too because you have to use a real phone number to authenticate, they don't accept virtual numbers. Of course you can't post anything logical like this on RG because half of them are convinced the lead GM is leading a virtual crusade against them and is investigating every trade their character has ever made and if you were ever given a krono for anything whatsoever your account is totes gonna get banned.
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Hold The Ashes posted:Of course you can't post anything logical like this on RG because half of them are convinced the lead GM is leading a virtual crusade against them and is investigating every trade their character has ever made and if you were ever given a krono for anything whatsoever your account is totes gonna get banned. I just tool around on FV and don't really mess with TLP much. I saw a few people get the hammer, but none of them were major players in the Krono nonsense. Edit: Where my RG Feedback homie?
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Hey guys, my brother in law is playing on Agnarr as his very first mmo ever. He has literally never played an mmo before (he's a bit older, mid 40's). I was playing but have since stopped since I have no time to play. It's been fun seeing him learn the game. He didn't know how to chat or anything when he started. He's playing a cleric and last I heard he was level 40. His name is Gann if anyone want's to help show him the ropes. I think it would be fun for him to group with some cool/fun/good players. He was in lguk and I sent him on his way to Karnor's Castle. He may or may not have made it as he hasn't really figured out travel yet. Also, I sort of feel like an rear end in a top hat having him start with EQ instead of Guild Wars 2 or WoW.
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isn't Gann one of the possible summoned pet names? I'll see if I can catch him online and set him up with some jewelry if he needs any. Or take him on a tour of The Hole, I've been living in there for a few weeks now and still have fun hunting there and yeah you're kind of an rear end in a top hat but EQ has its own rhythm that is unlike more modern MMOs so it's got some novelty still, and leveling on Agnarr is fast with lots of people to group with
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Essential posted:Also, I sort of feel like an rear end in a top hat having him start with EQ instead of Guild Wars 2 or WoW. Yeah, you're a loving rear end in a top hat. I wouldn't recommend EQ to anyone I cared about.
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Solarin posted:isn't Gann one of the possible summoned pet names? Solarin posted:and yeah you're kind of an rear end in a top hat but EQ has its own rhythm that is unlike more modern MMOs so it's got some novelty still, and leveling on Agnarr is fast with lots of people to group with Node posted:Yeah, you're a loving rear end in a top hat. I wouldn't recommend EQ to anyone I cared about. LOL, yeah I guess I am. Node, I was thinking of writing up in the Pantheon thread about his experiences with EQ (I figured it would be relevant there, plus the thread has changed recently). It's pretty funny because he'll call me every few days to ask me EQ questions, I mean he literally doesn't know any of the mechanics, agro, healing agro, trains, etc. The first call I got from him was during character creation, he was asking why he couldn't change the look of his character. He specifically mentioned Skyrim and wanted to know where all the sliders were. He's also not much of a gamer, so that add's to his confusion.
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Have you shown him allahkazams yet? lots of old info still on that site even if current support is not as good as we'd like.
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Krycek posted:Have you shown him allahkazams yet? lots of old info still on that site even if current support is not as good as we'd like. I haven't yet. I didn't want to overwhelm him and as of 4 days ago he didn't understand that different servers had different rulesets. I didn't want him looking something up that isn't relevant on Agnarr.
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Baconroll posted:Hopefully they will finish their witch hunt soon and go back to processing petitions - been waiting 5 days for regular petition to be answered now that needs a GM. It took a while but the petition was finally answered and the GM fixed the buggy quest item I had - so got there in the end ! Any suggestions for fun single-group kills on Phinny ? Qvic is a fun single-group but I'm kinda limited on better places as they are still on the raid schedule so they are generally on lock-out. That probably leaves open-world Txevu and some PoP gods I guess. Sol Ro would certainly be single-groupable - not sure about Fennin Ro ?
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