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knox posted:Took slight break last month but finally hit 9999 crests for the Triumphant jewelry replica. That's probably the most amount of time I've spent grinding an item in an MMO. Now I just need another 1200 for the Fortress weapon to stack -25% build times proc and I'm best-in-slot. If anybody is still playing or trying to level I'll be around leveling tank on Order/Destro. I bought a new PC & monitors also and the game performance increase will probably have me playing even more. I mess around mostly early EU time before work, leveling a healer and a DPS on Order and Destruction. Taking it easy and enjoying exploring the world while doing RvR. It's been a fun blast back to the past playing an early 2000s MMO, such a distinct feel and design that is pretty fun and very laid back. Destro during 4am -6am PST has a few consistent warband leaders: Papapapa - incredibly chill, soothing leader who likes good fights Zorbastank - loud Greek guy, funny and high energy, loves to flank and say "Take them from behind!" There's more leaders they are usually less known, those two have dedicated Discords and get a lot done.
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Twitch drop event for the next 10 days; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PRBM1rVlVc https://www.returnofreckoning.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=51289 Borrowed Orcapult things  
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knox posted:Twitch drop event for the next 10 days; Uhhhhh this seems like a quick way to get a Games Workshop lawyer on their case. Big difference between “oh we’re emulating a server!” And “we’re actively advertising using your IP and license”.
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Jul 23, 2023 19:00
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They've done drops before and came out of it ok.
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Jul 23, 2023 22:03
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Yeah they started doing them 3 years ago and for whatever reason Games Workshop just does not seem to care. You would think the famously litigious company would get mad, but they've flown as close to the sun as you can over and over again.
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Pryce posted:Uhhhhh this seems like a quick way to get a Games Workshop lawyer on their case. Big difference between “oh we’re emulating a server!” And “we’re actively advertising using your IP and license”. A lot of people were asking how they are able to do drops, but they've been doing it for like 3 years or so & have done at least 5 Twitch drops events with no issues; they have the blessing of the original dev team/game has been dead a long time/no money is being made/who knows.
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A little late to it but there's a Dev Q&A for a new WAR server (Interbellum), made by one of the devs of the original ROR server. https://discord.com/invite/5UmvWxbc I'll come back with highlights when I have them. Takeaways: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dh7Q19yRVkR_TZ8m5vbHe7Lxs4V-rZCw/view?pli=1 quote:General: Verisimilidude fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Jul 30, 2023 |
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Due to the amount of time I've put into RoR & the already low playerbase that I don't think can support splitting the population, I'm not too excited to learn about the new server in development. Can envision a 2nd server launching, splitting the population to point where both are gimped. I guess people have known it was being worked on/developed since 2021 maybe (on Zarbix stream he discussed it/streams the Q&A, etc and said as much). I just know how much work has gone into Return of Reckoning over the years, to get it to the point I started playing in 2020. And didn't watch the video so let me know if I'm wrong, but I don't think I saw a ETA/Roadmap to launch so honestly who knows when this will even be able to launch. If somehow it eventually launches within next 12 months, and has a good amount of players on it + good impression I would certainly look into getting on it, but that is a lot to get me there.
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Verisimilidude posted:A little late to it but there's a Dev Q&A for a new WAR server (Interbellum), made by one of the devs of the original ROR server. https://discord.com/invite/5UmvWxbc What? A new server?
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Honestly, the RoR server is strictly worse than live was before RR90/100 with the terrible balance that never changes and the weird design decisions that make progressing the campaign impossible with equal numbers, so if the new server is either decent or gets the RoR team to pick up pace then I'm good. Its gonna be weird seeing the new server pop be an unholy amalgamation of people banned from RoR for cheating/botting and the ones banned because they can't stop themselves from spewing slurs though.
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Wuxi posted:Honestly, the RoR server is strictly worse than live was before RR90/100 with the terrible balance that never changes and the weird design decisions that make progressing the campaign impossible with equal numbers, so if the new server is either decent or gets the RoR team to pick up pace then I'm good. Are you the Wux that's always in Zarbix chat?
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knox posted:Are you the Wux that's always in Zarbix chat? Yes
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Suuh duud. Don't remember if I ever played with you during that short window in 2020 when the two goon guilds were pretty active but I know I've seen you in Zarbix chat from beginning. Along with DeadNerve that makes 3 of us still watching. For the most part he's only streamer I consistently watch unless it's a really bad MMO he's currently trying.
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Was thinking of coming back but then i read the class changes. They really kicked WH in the balls. Was the WH class really that overpowered that the dev's needed to nerf it into the ground? I got a full level WH i stopped playing about a year ago when the dev's buffed every other class and ignored the WH.
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FreeWifi!! posted:Was thinking of coming back but then i read the class changes. WH (and WE) is the most broken class in the game right now for everything besides large scale fights
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I still play couple hours 3+ days a week, but the population getting low is discouraging & the balance changes note to me will only hurt the player base even more. The RvR campaign needs to be refreshed with some changes & just overall new content instead of talking about how they poured over 12 year old bad resolution youtubes to see how abilities functioned on retail or whatever.
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Oh dont get me wrong, the balance changes are absolutely stupid, but the WE/WH nerfs are easily the best part of it
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quote:Azarael Color me surprised. I thought he was completely done after that train wreck. I didn't mind his general approach to balance.
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Wuxi posted:WH (and WE) is the most broken class in the game right now for everything besides large scale fights
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Pants Donkey posted:Isn’t the endgame mostly large scale fights or did they make roaming solo or with a small group able to contribute meaningfully to RvR? Contribute meaningfully isn't an actual thing anymore anyway. Zones end up in complete stalemates if the numbers are roughly even and during off-hours one side is just dominating with double or more the numbers. The campaign progress doesn't do anything either besides giving you different zones to fight in. Cities are on a set timer (as is LotD) and with one currency for all rewards there isn't much reason to run those anyway. WH/WEs have their place in single target groups even in organized 24v24 (aka the city meta) and are increasingly oppressive in smaller scales than that. Yeah, they are mostly poo poo trying to storm the lords room in a fort, but I cant even remember the last time I saw a closely fought fort - most of the times one side just decides they'd lose anyway and bail to take a different zone. Everywhere where the big zergs don't clash (and even on the outskirts of those fights), WH/WE excel. They have a ridiculously overtuned kit with literally everything thats not AoE damage in it - high mobility, high burst, high sustained dps, strong defenses and sustain and some of the best CC in the game. They can fight at mid-range with their ranged finishers (and Witch Brew/Kisses), making them even harder to kite while they in turn can kite melee builds while still doing damage.
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knox posted:I still play couple hours 3+ days a week, but the population getting low is discouraging & the balance changes note to me will only hurt the player base even more. The RvR campaign needs to be refreshed with some changes & just overall new content instead of talking about how they poured over 12 year old bad resolution youtubes to see how abilities functioned on retail or whatever. I guess I'm too used to the 32/30 days, but there are 631 online atm with 544 in T2+. That doesn't seem terribly awful to me, tbh. It's not them glory days when the guild was brimming and we were goonrolling right up to keeps with zero fucks left to give, but what can be in this day and age? e: I'm sure Az has something up his sleeve, but https://www.returnofreckoning.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51417&sid=e107ca06802aff57937d22d803198ef2 actually made me hopeful for the state of the game than anything else they've done in recent memory. Zeg fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Aug 14, 2023 |
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Yeah spring 2020 was good ole days. The low population now just worries me; low-500 during prime time is the worst I've seen it, so anything I feel like could bring it even lower jeopardizes the server. The ability rework or reverting back to an old retail version might drive more people to quit, then you got this new server news. I don't want to see the population split even worse & have two unviable servers. But can't make judgements based on that, I'm enjoying RoR so much lately I just need another Order character to grind gear for pronto. I have 10 SM, 7 BW, 9 IB; I think those are my choices honestly. I wanted to play SM but as a Runepriest already and dwarf supremacy factor I may have to play IB. I need a consistent warband to play with on Destro after 12PM EST when Formosa logs off on Order. AoE Sorc is still my favorite Destro class + I've always enjoyed Choppa, too bad no one plays DoKs anymore unless it's 6v6 shield or dw DoKs as it was my best geared character before I got Runepriest 95% BiS. Hopefully few others see this and get back on board. edit; drat typing Best Regards, is a sign I'm losing my mind working from home knox fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Aug 15, 2023 |
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knox posted:Yeah spring 2020 was good ole days. The low population now just worries me; low-500 during prime time is the worst I've seen it, so anything I feel like could bring it even lower jeopardizes the server. The ability rework or reverting back to an old retail version might drive more people to quit, then you got this new server news. I don't want to see the population split even worse & have two unviable servers. But can't make judgements based on that, I'm enjoying RoR so much lately I just need another Order character to grind gear for pronto. I have 10 SM, 7 BW, 9 IB; I think those are my choices honestly. I wanted to play SM but as a Runepriest already and dwarf supremacy factor I may have to play IB. If i remember correctly in the 2020 area there was a admin, i forget his name, but he would go apeshit if anyone posted anything about balance or a minor bug they found in game. He's gone now but watching someone post a legit bug or op class after a patch was a great. Just wait a few minutes and watch the fireworks. And yea i feel that low pop is going kill the server.
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FreeWifi!! posted:And yea i feel that low pop is going kill the server. It's really not. Until The Big Boom, the game used to coast on low 400s/high 300s for a very long time. And thinking back on it, there were plenty of nights it was down in the 100s. Pre-T4. The guy that runs the show made a long post drat near a decade or so ago talking about how it literally didn't matter how the population went, the game would still be worked on and (this was before we knew anything about GW not giving a poo poo) updates would keep coming. And they did. And surprise, surprise, the population picked up. But the game isn't dead and isn't going to die unless they pull the plug, regardless of how hard all the doomsaying gets pushed. There were two other servers for the game that have come and gone to compete with RoR and neither are around today. Torquemadra was honestly the worst part about RoR for a very long time, but the game ain't been the same since the talent that was carrying the poo poo out of the dev team quit because of him. Them dumping the tech debt has me hopeful, because it unfucks so much "personal touches" to classes some of them devs played. There is bias, but it's literally not where people expect it to be and soon it'll be out the door. knox posted:edit; drat typing Best Regards, is a sign I'm losing my mind working from home Haha, that WFH life will give you brain rot like that. e: So I can't tell if anyone wants to play or not, so nvm I suppose Zeg fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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I've been playing Order whole time; usually Tuesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday 9AM EST to 1 PM EST roughly is when Formosa guild I'm in plays on Order, haven't leveled 2nd character on Order yet so I still just play Runepriest every time. I might start joining the pug bands on Destro to gear out one of those characters as well. Only warband can't compete with would be Nightmare/Daydream which is the best guild on server that most can't compete with so no biggie. I try to tell Hellogigi to coordinate morale & dps channel drops more but he plays more, kite back and kill as they overextend type usually because don't have full 24man WB so outnumbered. VOD from warband other day; https://twitch.tv/videos/1896867816?t=4165s And yeah I've seen people bring up the idea of just how many people have had their hands on the balance/class changes on this server over the years it's loving nuts and probably a clusterfuck to fix, hence the ability re-work they've been working on for years. Resetting to an old patch and then making common sense changes by comparing the numbers would be a good way to go about it. I liked the morale cap to 24 changes, helps break up zergs. I've seen RoR forum posters say morale cap increase somehow helps zergs but that makes no sense.
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MaxHayman developer update video on the ability rework which they've been working on almost 2 years + some of the upcoming changes. As opposed to the big wall of text post about it this video has me excited. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVZwYf3glAM
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knox posted:MaxHayman developer update video on the ability rework which they've been working on almost 2 years + some of the upcoming changes. As opposed to the big wall of text post about it this video has me excited. 
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I've been playing this throughout the 2x exp/renown weekend, getting a number of characters to T2, and I can't believe how much more streamlined everything is. You do the initial quests, a couple of public quests, then immediately hop into scenarios/RVR, no tedious questing. I have a few order characters but the people playing on Destruction seem to own, Ork roleplayers and all, so I started a DoK today. The 2x exp/renown has been extended until tomorrow as well.
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Noise Complaint posted:I've been playing this throughout the 2x exp/renown weekend, getting a number of characters to T2, and I can't believe how much more streamlined everything is. Been really busy with work which hosed my ability to level anything with the double XP like I've wanted to, but got a few warbands in with Formosa guild I play with that recently swapped to Destro. Population has jumped up like 30% lately, obviously the event effects that but I saw some popular French streamer(s) started playing with their own guild & fully organized warband on Order. With the ability rework on the horizon finally I think it's going to be good year for RoR.
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knox posted:Been really busy with work which hosed my ability to level anything with the double XP like I've wanted to, but got a few warbands in with Formosa guild I play with that recently swapped to Destro. Population has jumped up like 30% lately, obviously the event effects that but I saw some popular French streamer(s) started playing with their own guild & fully organized warband on Order. With the ability rework on the horizon finally I think it's going to be good year for RoR. I've been having a load of fun. I wound up last minute making a DoK and rushing it to T2 yesterday. I have some order characters as well. There's a ton going on even at the lower levels, so it's a blast. Destro players can be a lot of fun too, especially all the dudes semi-RPing ork boys. Just some great content all around.
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RoR had a rollback to Sept. 26th, so all the people who were brought in by the 2x exp and Amazon drops got kind of screwed. They were able to replace people's levels, but not their gear. Which puts you at an incredibly awful disadvantage given the way the level sync works in PVP. Here's hoping the devs figure a way out how to fix it, because the characters I was working on are stuck in a purgatory of wearing gear that doesn't scale properly, being 15 levels out of date, so I get one shot, as a tank, and I've also lost all of the currency I earned in the game. I also can't get influence or quest rewards I had since those are marked as being done, but the gear doesn't exist anymore.
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What the fuckkk that's wild there was a rollback, first time I've seen such a long one on this server. Thankfully I didn't waste a bunch of my life leveling a toon or two like I've wanted & planned to do during next 2x. Hopefully they are planning some extended 2x to make up for it or something?
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Yeah they extended 2x with double tokens, which is great, but my SM can't even solo even level PVE content at the moment with the T1 gear it was rolled back to. Edit: Lol, I used the original events to level and get initial gear for like 6 different characters, and some are just gone, the rest are in starter gear/naked and all my currency is gone on everything including the money from twitch drops. Noise Complaint fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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If you need some gold or whatever because of the problem let me know I'll do what I can, which is being a broke mfer asking Formosa people with millions of gold to give me some.
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knox posted:If you need some gold or whatever because of the problem let me know I'll do what I can, which is being a broke mfer asking Formosa people with millions of gold to give me some. I need to figure out how to get gear on my SM, which is what I've been playing as my main. It's 28 and absolutely not survivable with the T1 gear I have, and all the influence rewards I could get to gear up, I had already gotten and can't get again. I know the gloves and boots are BOE, but the weapon, shield, jewlery, and rest of the armor is a serious hinderance as I play a completely support oriented tank that now can't survive in RVR or scenarios. If you know how I can gear up quickly without being absolutely miserable I'd be glad for advice since even PQ grinding groups won't take a deadweight tank. I also lost all of my crafting levels so I can't make my talismans for the gear. Previously, I soloed PQ's, but I can't do that anymore as I can't out damage mobs unless I pull one at a time which takes forever when you need to kill 75+ for a PQ. Forgot to add, my SM's name is Gearan, the set I lost was my Devastator set Noise Complaint fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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Noise Complaint posted:I need to figure out how to get gear on my SM, which is what I've been playing as my main. It's 28 and absolutely not survivable with the T1 gear I have, and all the influence rewards I could get to gear up, I had already gotten and can't get again. I know the gloves and boots are BOE, but the weapon, shield, jewlery, and rest of the armor is a serious hinderance as I play a completely support oriented tank that now can't survive in RVR or scenarios. Honestly I would probably just perma-queue for SCs, look to join up premades where possible and healbot to RR40+. Join warband when population gets up there for ORvR or run a smaller man group that does ORvR while queueing for scenarios to get the crests and XP/renown. PvE'ing to get beyond some of the armor wards is also highly highly preferable though I have not had to do it yet , though surely will have to while leveling a tank or shaman to 40. Definitely join the discord for anybody still playing to get me on.
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Noise Complaint posted:I need to figure out how to get gear on my SM, which is what I've been playing as my main. It's 28 and absolutely not survivable with the T1 gear I have, and all the influence rewards I could get to gear up, I had already gotten and can't get again. I know the gloves and boots are BOE, but the weapon, shield, jewlery, and rest of the armor is a serious hinderance as I play a completely support oriented tank that now can't survive in RVR or scenarios.
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