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I came back to the game after over a decade away for Aradune and played for about a month before the server woes drove me off. Played an enchanter but never enjoyed charming. Going to try again for Mischief, was thinking of group tanking. Are there any grossly over-used classes in the TLPs? Does it even matter? I'm considering SK, but they seem to be by far the most common suggested tank in early expansions? Was also looking bard with a boxed cleric and tank (I was considering warrior but everyone says they're terrible outside raids?). It would be super casual, I don't expect I'll ever have the ability to commit time to raids.
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May 2, 2021 20:03
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Indecisive posted:wood elf > high elf > freeport > neriak (I think trolls can start here?) > dwarf > gnome > halfling > troll > ogre > qeynos > erudin > barbarian I understand freeport on down, but why are wood elf and high elf so good?
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May 13, 2021 02:45
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I tried playing on Aradune before the queue issues drove me away after a couple months, that was the first time I've played since around 2005. Figured I'd give it a try again, since Mischief seems like a neat idea and I didn't really get the full nostalgia fix I was trying for last time. It turns out my habit of never throwing out old PC hardware has resulted in me having enough stuff to truebox six characters, I only had to purchase one copy of windows 10 and some number pads:   Any suggestions on party composition? I like the idea of playing a Bard as a main, and I've got a somewhat unique requirement that I need to be able to AFK at a moment's notice for 30-60 minutes at a time (thus wanting to box so I don't inconvenience other players) so I figured the bard invis song and Wizard evacs/ports were invaluable. I'm thinking: Bard (Main) Tank (SK?) Cleric Wizard Mage Mage (to be subbed out for my friend's shaman when we're playing together) My initial tank plan was an ogre SK, just because everyone says they're the best to start out, but I am also considering a dwarf warrior or paladin. Do any of the tanks require less active attention to do their job half decently? Given Mischief's FV loot system, I was also wondering if the less-played tank gear will be any less expensive. I'd also considered replacing the bard with an enchanter, but I'm not going to be charming, given the need for fast AFKs. Seems like bard is more generally useful if you're not charming? Also, any opinions on mixing good and evil races for classic/first two expansions? Assuming using a shadow knight, I could go Human/Ogre/Dark Elves (or perhaps just Human/Dark Elves and live with frontal bashes?), but even human bards seem to have issues in most of the evil towns (was primarily thinking things like the fort in the Overthere) without the dark elf mask. Could also do Half Elf/Ogre/Dwarf/Gnomes, which would let me re-live my old leveling path of hunting mostly in Faydwer, but then I'll have to sneak the ogre everywhere and he starts a good ways from everyone else.
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May 19, 2021 01:29
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Thanks for all the suggestions!milkman dad posted:I'm going to 2nd/3rd replacing your 2nd mage with a shaman. Slow is just really really good to have. I had considered it, but a friend I intend to play with regularly wants to play shaman, and boxing the class he's interested in seems like a bit of a dick move. Solarin posted:Enchanter provides a ridiculous level of control to a group that nobody else can, plus tash, slows, and you are caster heavy so you gain a lot from not relying on clarity potions. You might value the safety that added control gives you. Solarin posted:If you stick with the game into Velious and Luclin I'd suggest shifting to a melee dps oriented group. Especially on a server where you can easily buy prior raid tier weapons for boxes. koreban posted:or melee like monk/ranger.
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May 19, 2021 07:53
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ist posted:My 6box comp is somewhat similar. I've been playing around with it more and I think I'm also going to end up starting with SK + CLR + ENC + DRU + MAG + BRD. Likely replacing the DRU + MAG with some kind of physical DPS later on. I managed to pack my 1x6 monitor layout into a 2x3 and it makes me way more comfortable with the idea of charm DPS, which lets me get away with way more utility, at least for the first few expansions. koreban posted:As for software kvm, I use InputDirector. It’s not without its own quirks, some of which are nonstarters for some folks, but I don’t have networking or reliability issues with ID like multiplicity seems to have. Does InputDirector allow me to define specific keys to never be shared? Multiplicity is doing everything I need of it so far (though the multi-monitor support in InputDirector would be very nice) but I'm using an array of numpads as quick hotkey banks for the individual clients, and I want the numpad hooked up to the driver PC to stick to that PC regardless of where the rest of the keyboard/mouse input is going.
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May 25, 2021 09:41
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koreban posted:So, I do something similar but I approach it differently. I don’t use input director on my main driver pc. I use the next easiest box to reach as my input director master. It’s on a laptop, so keyboard is baked in, and I just have one extra mouse on my desk that I can drive to the other PCs. I have the same sort of 2x3 setup, and my main driver is bottom-center, the master is bottom left, and the movement mirrors the layout, so I go up to the next pc, then right across the array. I tried doing what I was hoping by making a keybinding of all the number pad keys on the director to the number pad keys on the director, but that appears to just eat the keystrokes entirely, probably ends up in an infinite input loop before timing out. Looks like the solution is just going to be to insure that my 'driver' character (probably the SK most of the time) is on the driver PC. Input Director does the stuff I really wanted one of these KVMs to do, which is to support multiple monitors on a single PC intelligently, and handle mouse transitions between monitors of multiple resolutions by calculating mouse position as a percentage of the monitor's total size. But it's got some real quirks when it comes to mouse movement (the director gets mouse look input even when controlling the client PCs). I've still got my old Multiplicity setup, it's disabled for now, but I think I'll end up going back to it. For reference, here's what my hardware setup ended up looking like (numpads in 3x2 grid, in the same layout as the monitors they control. Each is a different color, the camera didn't pick up the differences very well.):   Now I understand how people use follow to line up melee characters, works surprisingly well when I can just bang out a hotkey that auto-follows, assists, and starts auto-attacking. BabelFish fucked around with this message at 11:57 on May 25, 2021 |
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May 25, 2021 11:14
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ist posted:I ended up swapping the DRU/BRD out to go SK + CLR + ENC + SHM + MAG + WIZ instead, with the plan to play SK + CLR + SHM + BRD + 2 RNG in Luclin-POP and swap the rangers out for zerkers if I make it past POP. Why the WIZ over the DRU? Just more damage since you have the SHM slow and SoW? BRD is kind of limiting my 5th-6th slot picks more than I'd like, but I want to play it as a main. I'm still trying to work out races as well. Frontal stun immunity on the ogre seems really good, but god drat are they just SO fat, it makes moving around small spaces such a chore. Edit: Trolls can start in Nek even in classic? BabelFish fucked around with this message at 01:28 on May 26, 2021 |
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May 26, 2021 01:24
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Solarin posted:Enchanter provides a ridiculous level of control to a group that nobody else can, plus tash, slows, and you are caster heavy so you gain a lot from not relying on clarity potions. You might value the safety that added control gives you. Coming back to this to say you were absolutely correct. I don't think I could have done half the dungeon stuff I've tried so far without the added control of the enchanter. Anyone else using Multiplicity having issues with the driver PC getting double mouse-look rates sometimes? I end up having to adjust my sensitivity a bunch as it seems to fix itself when I reboot the game then show up again sometime later, I think it's if I zone with the driver PC without having the mouse active?
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Jun 2, 2021 13:37
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BGrifter posted:Digging back a bit into the thread but what numeric keypads are those? https://www.amazon.com/MOTOSPEED-Mechanical-Portable-Backlight-Extended/dp/B0854L5XGT/
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Jun 8, 2021 21:05
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At what point does additional extended targets get added to TLPs? My enchanter could really use more than 5 targets when mezzing bigger pulls.
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Jun 13, 2021 00:05
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Rallos posted:I am. Which one? There was a splinter and Zaide left and made a new guild so now there is The Faceless and Faceless X In Virtue. Feel free to hit me up if you see me online. Szinga and Vaseline are the characters I pay attention to most. Is there a good writeup somewhere about what the heck happened to cause the split? I joined FXIV at launch to see if this GDKP idea would actually work and I'm pretty fed up with the utter mercenary attitude that's come to define the guild.
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Jul 9, 2021 22:14
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Nobody will be able to guess my character's name on Mischief, for I have cleverly obfuscated it.
BabelFish fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Oct 18, 2021 |
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Oct 18, 2021 00:38
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How's Mischief doing these days? I'm tempted to re-subscribe my 6-box and level casually now that I've got a little time again.
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May 15, 2022 21:01
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I'm starting to get the itch again. Is Mischief worth jumping back into if I stopped playing all the way back at the end of Luclin, or will I just be forever playing catch-up?
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Apr 7, 2023 07:12
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You guys are making it really hard to not spend $90 re-subbing my 6-box. Do people run melee or caster groups in later expansions? I ended Luclin capable of running both SK/Cleric/Ench/Bard/Mage/Druid and War/Cleric/Shaman/Bard/Monk/Monk at 60. (Mischief was my first EQ experience after originally quitting in 2002)
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Apr 8, 2023 07:48
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Malaria posted:How do you guys manage 6 character box squads?  My habit of collecting old PCs over the years eventually paid off. You don't need to splurge for the RGB numpads, but I found it helped me distinguish each account. My 11th hotbar on each computer is arranged in a 3x4 grid and mapped to the numpad keys. Every account has stuff like sit/follow/assist on the numpads, with roles using the rest of the keys for common actions (cleric has a 'heal tank' button, for example.) Tank account drives, multiplicity for doing anything special (buffing, non-tank healing, mezzing), the bard just sings and auto attacks, dps casters are set up with cast macros. It's not the fastest layout, and if unexpected stuff happens I tend to just die, but I'm following all the truebox rules (one instance per PC, only one game input per player action). MF_James posted:I really need to get a big monitor like 32" and run an HDMI splitter so I don't need 6 monitors. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0821WWXV6
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Apr 8, 2023 23:21
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Edit: Solved my issue! So it turns out something changed in the update to a 64-bit executable, and multiplicity (and apparently most other software KVMs?) were causing duplicated mouse inputs between the driving and following PCs. Here's the forum thread with a link to the patched executable that resolves the issue. BabelFish fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Apr 9, 2023 |
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Apr 9, 2023 04:51
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Malaria posted:So I got Multiplicity setup. It's shockingly easy to use. BabelFish posted:Edit: Solved my issue!
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Apr 11, 2023 00:52
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I was sort of hoping they would up the maximum level character XP bonus to 25% per/200% max. maintaining 10 characters seems like a ton of work for double XP.
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Apr 17, 2023 20:43
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I might just take this opportunity to build out a bunch of themed 6-box groups and focus on leveling them. Just logged back into mischief last night and defiant gear is dropping? But only up to Intricate it seems? Is there anywhere that says which defiant starts dropping when on TLPs? My normal internet sources say nothing.
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Apr 18, 2023 00:13
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How much would I hate myself if I built out a melee 6-box based around Quenos for the new TLP? I've spent almost no time around there and it would be kind of fun to build a themed group using barbarians and humans, but I kind of worry about getting stuck so far from the major locations without teleport.
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May 24, 2023 09:20
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I might have to dust off the boxing setup and try this one again. I had a lot of fun on mischief.
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