Anyone going to be playing EQL? I tried to get into Everquest a few times in the very early 00's, but it never stuck, I was more of a UO guy. This one sounds fun though, they are making to be very solo and small group friendly, and you can do pretty much everything with one character (swap classes/races easily, like in FFXIV).
Yes, looking forward to it.
>>2665590Based, what are you going to play first? I'm thinking Paladin/Cleric/Bard. Either a Froglok or a Human, depending on if I want to be a funny little frog guy or a cute girl. Might depend on the name I manage to reserve.
Already have it downloaded, along with the ui grid program, and the map packs i like. Everquest was my first mmo and i have fond memories of it and the people (mostly) i met there.
>>2666629I'm looking forward to really exploring it for the first time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V01PD78dtI8
>>2666533You doing this for solo play or grouping? It seems like groups will be much rarer in this version of Everquest unless you put in work to make it happen.
>>2668014I'm mostly going to be solo, but I won't intentionally isolate myself either.
What's a good combo, with bard, magician or necro? Kind of want to be a supporty caster dps with bars/enchanter
>>2669393Bards pair well with most things because they can just passively buff themselves, plus they give access to dual wield. I would suggest watching this video for a good overview of all of the classes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKGGN1X3yukThis other guy goes over some good/bad combos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amJZ-htnw34
>>2668014Grouped for every +4 lockout in closed beta, just ask you'll find people thanks to personal loot and trading if each got loot the others need
>EQ with no consequences or socializing >run by a troonNah I'm good
I'm playing it now, Pld/Dru/Mnk at the moment, my biggest issue is that without all of the early dungeons being revamped, it feels like you're almost being funneled into Befallen, and I guess Blackburrow? The loot in those areas in particular is phenomenal, arguably overpowered.
It's been a nostalgia bomb everywhere I go. I hope they don't try to fuck us with the "micro"transactions.
>>2674734Not just 1, but 3 troons. Imagine giving your money to a team of disgusting troons.
>>2677394It's an eerie feeling but I question how much pushback the community would actually have for it, the fact it's a sub-based game is already iffy. But I'd rather they keep the subscription than try and nickel and dime us, realistically I probably won't even play past the first "Free" sub month from the box price.
>>2674734TRVTH NUKEI only see the most pathetic of boomers shilling this on youtube nonstop, all anti social style players.
Bard/Necro/Ench has been fun. just zooming mobs over
>>2678914I swapped from Pld/Dru/Mnk to Pld/Shm/Ber after getting to 25 and getting all the teleports I wanted, it feels way cleaner. Is a lot of your damage on that build primarily from being able to double-gear and buff pets?
>>2665131I played the beta. It gets pretty repetitive. There isn't anything to do other than kill kill kill, and sometimes you'll get a gear upgrade.All the other incidental activities have been stripped from the world. Don't need to go to merchants, or the bank, or the market. You don't need to interact with anyone for services or help. No need to do any quest hustling, like with bonechips or crushbone belts.It's a very narrow experience.
>>2679918I don't think the game will last very long content wise, even the "updates" to dungeons they have are just loot changes. And looking in chat, you can see all kinds of people who are either dumb as bricks or never played the game before asking why their Ogre can't easily get spells for classes they usually can't play.
>>2679958I caught the end of that stream. Someone had asked about quest itemization and the devs basically said "we'll see".It's all so dumb.I used to think poop sockers ruined the game, but now I realize it was the casuals who demanded the game change to suit them. I hate them. I've always been a casual player. I never raided much. I just liked chilling in the world, trying out different camps and seeing what other players were up. I never had any expectation I'd get top tier gear, never wanted it either. But it was cool being a small part in a big world.
>>2679972A lot of it seems to burn the fire of some of the changes Quarm made, where it's going to be an EQ+ kind of things. The reality is that it seems to be a way for Secrets and the other people at Gamejawn to eventually nickel and dime the playerbase by adding MTX, since people are already ready to defend only having two "loadouts" when the game is meant to allow you have hundreds of combos. The hypercasualization really is present from the tutorial as well, giving out Jbootsjr to every class.
>>2680010>lot of it seems to burn the fire of some of the changes Quarm made, where it's going to be an EQ+ kind of thingsBut even on Quarm, you still had to deal with certain realities. Coins had weight, you'd have to sell vendor trash to make money (and you can't origin so you are rewarded knowing local merchants)You needed other players for key buffs. No OOC regen.Just all the little things that added friction that felt rewarding to overcome, even though it didn't directly reward experience.All those little things are lacking in EQL.I think Quarm was probably the last opportunity to play something resembling EQ with a large leveling population, and I'm glad I was a part of it.>MTXI'm looking forward to seeing what kind of shit they pull with this. >>2679972>But it was cool being a small part in a big worldAnd to add to this, I'd rather never kill Nagafen than be able to kill Nagafen every week.
>>2680060It honestly feels like raids should've been left as group content, having an online game built around being entirely soloable feels awkward, and somewhat dishonest when it comes to being a game with a sub.
>>2674993That's exactly what's going on. Overland should have been given some love there especially after the dungeon exp nerf. They want people going everywhere in the game but only made a few worth going to other than for exploration purposes.
>>2680305I also think they put far too much stuff in Befallen, and that it'll make them being able to put worthwhile loot in other instances leading up to getting planar gear either infinitesimally small or just not worth getting. The power creep on gear is already insane, and it feels like it'll just get much worse.
>>2678815Everquest was made for antisocial retards. 90% of the community boxes instead of forming groups lol
Trying out Iksar Monk/Cleric/Enchanter 'cuz Iksar was my favorite race and those were my favorite classes back when I played the original Everquest when I was a kid.
>>2682422I really regret not just starting Iksar
>>2682620But this is a beta where everything gets wiped. There is nothing to regret about whatever you try. Feel free to mess around. Me and my friend have both agreed that we'll be trying a bunch of different things across different rerolls. No point in getting attached to something that will get erased. For example, I have determined that playing Iksar without Kunark is suicidal so at launch I will play something else. I can change to Iksar later using those tokens or whatever.
>>2682881Playing Iksar without Greenmist is like going a day without beating a gnome to death
>>2682881>without KunarkStarting in Kunark is my favorite perk of being a lizard at all. Who wants to start in the shitty desert!
Magician or necro with bard?
>>2685856You could do both, you'd have a ton of spell options though. What's your other third?
I like how the Iksar transported the ancient ruined stone from Kunark to Antonica. Like why would they do that? They must really like that stone.
I kind of hate how the race unlocks are stuff like handing in fifty million muffins
>>2685930just buy a token from the cash shop bruh
>>2685932That's the thing though, the reason it's "reasonable" for them to do this is because it's a faction gain thing instead of being a quest of some sort.
>>2685938>reasonableI don't understand.Nothing related to a cash shop is reasonable
>Human>Agnostic>Warrior>EyepatchYeah it'sEVERQUEST time
>>2682620u can unlock races through faction then race-change. you get ally (iksar is feeding bone chips) then u get the achievement to do it
>Secrets now claiming the closed beta storage numbers were unreasonable expectations for staying in>They set those expectations
>>2685947i want them to fully copy thj and put world buffs on the cash shop so that people will paypig to get namedropped in the world chat every few hoursso i can get all the buffs without having to buff myself... fuck that shit
>>2687738Are you judging a person by not only their words but their actions? You fool!>>2682920>GreenmistIksar SK/Shaman using Greenmist while wearing Scaled Mystic Armor oh baby.
So people are really trusting the discord tranny new?With none of those being buzz words in his case?
>>2681706It wasn't made with that in mind you disingenuous faggot, the pathetic loser boomers who still play today on TLPs and make youtube videos love that sort of anti social loser play and a server designed around making you a multibox army but combined into 1 character fits that perfectly for these sad sacks of loser.
GAYBREAK GAMES WILL PAY
>>2688266lmao
>EQL wiki>Donate button at the bottom>Copypasted P99 wiki pages with huge OUT OF ERA buttons over stuff that was put in post base game
>>2688204Yeah. And people who get mad when they play certain unwanted classes and don't want to deal with the consequences, although that's not a problem unique to Everquest.
>>2689099No one else can tank, no one wants to pull?Ranger gods its OUR time.
Which pride flag are you guys buying first from the mtx store?
Having no placeholders in "revamped" dungeons makes going to other dungeons feel really weird, in that it almost feels like it reinforces that you'll get most of your gear doing Befallen/Najena because you can KNOW you're getting drops there.
>>2692737I liked the old PH system/camping and I really liked knowing if the mob had a particular weapon by seeing it. I presume the lazy upgrade system they introduced and the player-specific loot system are what got those removed. Kind of a bummer but I might be in the minority.
>>2692839Honestly, I get that there's "personal loot" but if it's personal loot it shouldn't differentiate with what the mob is holding in my opinion. I admit, I never played classic everquest, I've played P99 and Quarm, but even early on not having that feeling of seeing a skeleton with a cracked staff and beelining toward it for the cash feels weird. I also don't mind the PH/Camping system, but I feel like they've set a really odd precedent with how revamped dungeons operate and it feels like they plan to eventually have that encompass the entire game. I think it's an overall bad change because people will have to go through lower level content over and over and it'll make it feel like you're getting less and less out of doing it because you're not going to get that lucky spawn, or that lucky drop.
>>2692875While we are complaining, let me add another: They're putting in a forgiveness system for Plane of Sky that will favor your current 3 classes over the ones you aren't using- as far as drops are concerned. I worry that will either cause balancing headaches or it's going to be a pain in the ass to get things for alternative setups you suck at but enjoy playing. >revamped dungeonsI'd rather they added new dungeons/overland zones instead of mutilating the old ones, but I understand the laziness behind it. The loot concerns you have are substantial. I wonder what the detriment to the gameplay loop that's already handicapped by the limited content that is vanilla Everquest will end up being. Is everybody really going to grind their one character to full 50s classes? Can't be me.
>>2692958>While we are complaining, let me add another: They're putting in a forgiveness system for Plane of Sky that will favor your current 3 classes over the ones you aren't using- as far as drops are concerned. I worry that will either cause balancing headaches or it's going to be a pain in the ass to get things for alternative setups you suck at but enjoy playing.That sounds kind of shitty, considering the way to unlock other primary classes is by finishing their Sky quests. Or at least it sounds like it'd be shitty. I also agree that a lack of overland play is weird, on the first day of the buy-to-beta it was full of people in /1 asking for their ogres or whatever to get group ported to Befallen. A version of Everquest that actively discourages exploration feels really out of place.
>>2692737I hate the revamped dungeons and gear. As the days go on I just think more and more than I want to get off Secrets' wild ride. I don't want to play tranny OC I want to play EQ, but like the version that I was playing that they took down and replaced with this shit.
>>2693204I think gear being as good as it is in Befallen is incredibly short-sighted and they're now afraid to nerf it because of community backlash. Even playing P99 I fondly remember getting my first set of banded gear and being so excited for that stat and visual change, having my character look like that much more an experienced adventurer. And Befallen shits out stuff that's magnitudes better than stuff that's ridiculously strong.
>>2693214Between the revamps and spell upgrades and loadout slots and inventory slots and character slots it's clear to me they have no idea wtf they're doing. It very much comes across as a bunch of disjointed ideas without any actual design behind them. I honestly don't think this will interest me past the first included month.
>>2693226I think with the loadouts and other things that are going to be shoved in as mtx/achievements that both "Game Jawn" and Daybreak overplayed their hand, but being that Daybreak has managed to keep games like DCUO up based around boomers paying for stupid dogshit I imagine they'll be able to keep the game afloat on pensions for a while.
How have you guys been enjoying pet classes?After finally getting access to Shm's it changed up my playstyle a bit. I was thinking on launch that I might want to go Brd/Shm/Nec because it's so often been better to tank up in evasive stance and let my pet do a little extra work while DoTs tick
For me, it's SoloQuest
The fact that they are limiting it to old school models already makes this superior to THJ. The fact that one of the THJ devs preferred new models always made it a schizophrenic mess to look at.I will also play this because now I won't be pressured into multiboxing 3 characters.
Innoruk is based btw
>>2696931Yeah his loot's pretty nice
This time I'm gonna get a fucking Rain Caller
>>2693214>I fondly remember getting my first set of banded gear and being so excited for that stat and visual change, having my character look like that much more an experienced adventurerThis
>>2693204>I hate the revamped dungeonsI think it was Broken Stoic who said it, but some streamer mentioned that the team wants to revamp Kunark's starting experience. I'm more worried about that than I should be- I love Kunark.*edited to fix my retardation
>>2704262And why shouldn't you be worried about it? Have you seen what they are doing so far? People talking about getting fucking "befallen geared" to prep for endgame. It's rancid. I don't want to kill the same guaranteed spawns for dupes of the same guaranteed drops so I can merge them like a fucking phone game. Nothing about that is EQ to me. I'm glad that I think the game sucks otherwise I would be even more pissed off about the in-game shop. Having a fake currency at all is shit and charging $5 for a single loadout slot is shit. It's all shit. The revamps and custom content are exactly what Secrets was trying to do on Quarm before DBG shut that shit down. His ideas are just bad.
>>2704433I really don't see how they're going to actually put gear better than Befallen's in some of these areas since it seems like you're meant to go from Pristine Leather to Planar. I was excited to get a Ykesha from LGuk then realized outside of the proc (Which can be removed from it), it's not even that much better, if at all better than the weapons I'd gotten from a fucking level 25ish dungeon mob
>>2704433I knew nothing of Secrets and when EQL was announced I was warned not to trust the tranny. I see wisdom in those words now. Was losing interest in EQL seeing how they are completely fucking the old-world itemization and the cash show was the final nail. The paypigs defending it too are just rancid.How about emu servers? Anything worth playing? Is that Evangelical anon still running that solo server? I tried perkeycrew but I really don’t want to use macroquest.
>>2704651>I see wisdom in those words nowThese dudes are really going to waste their development time cashgrabbing housing. In Everquest.
>>2704651>EvangelicalI'm Catholic. SoloQuest is and will remain running for the foreseeable future. Legends looks like quite the shitshow, huh? That cash shop lmao.
>>2706238Is that why some self-righteous Christfag had a fit once in the thread? That was you? Lol.
I feel like the main audience that would have done all the stupid fucking achievements to get races and such unlocked at the EXACT same boomers who will pay for the race unlocks instead.
>>2708110Are you Jewish?
>>2708529Christ was out there at the EC tunnel helping the Israelites out daily
>>2704433>>2704651secrets was known for making unblanced jank eqemu servers exactly like thjeql is meant to be an officially monetized funserver and is probably the first ever mmo to do so
>>2714988THJ felt a lot less jank than EQL. It felt a lot more like EQ too, where you run around and explore and progress through stuff instead of nolifing it in a tiny number of revamped dungeons with completely fucked itemization. Even if they finish revamping the dungeons before launch (they won't), what is the point of the rest of the zones? You have no reason to do fucking anything in the actual world on EQL. Things can be fun if they're unbalanced jank but EQL isn't even that. It's just a bunch of systems thrown together incoherently. They put in a lot more work than the THJ devs for a much worse product which, ironically, is setting them up to put even more work in to keep things going because they've fucked things up so fundamentally. They're going to be expected to revamp more and more things and redo all itemization going forward.
>>2715033i think you're on crack desuin thj you leveled in 4-5 good grind zones for your combo and then did raidsthere was no reason to go anywhere(besides epic quests) unless you wanted to collect the waypoints and everyone zoomed through the lower levels so fast that you might as well have started at level 50idk how you came to that conclusion at all, if anything EQL seems annoyingly insistent on having actual progression instead of getting 100+AAs per pull and full grinding your class in a day
I'm going to play it. I never got to see Nagafen or Innoruuk or Cazic alive, despite being there when they were current. Got death touched by dread and got half the book for Fiery Defender but when Gates of War came out everyone stopped playing.Since I'm an old player I already know what I want to play. A paladin, but with stronger heals and stronger melee dps. So, cleric + melee with a caster as a third.Once I've seen the sights I want to see I will unsub til next expansion because I'm not grinding up to +10 on crap.Glad the game exist, community seems clueless and the wiki gives shitty info for raising factions. They removed velious newbie armor quest npcs but not velious armor quests etc so I'm going to complete as many epic quests as I am able.I'm also going to put the sol ro iridescent wand on an Enc Monk for stunlock giggles.I get it, the game is old and you're gonna have a lot of people that weren't born yet playing, but I remember having erp sessions in town and we all swore at each other pretty loosely.I'm gonna be mad if I fat shame an ogre in Sol B because he wanted frontal stun immunity and didn't think about how most dungeons are mostly toilet paper tubes.
*Be mad if someone sasses me for fat shaming them or worse, get banned for suggesting to lube the butterball
F. Impressive run.
>>2717331>I'm going to play it.I am too, but I'm not going to level up every class to 50. I'll stick to a few combinations I enjoy. If that means I have to create alts on different servers due to character creation limit then so be it. My favorite part of Everquest is experiencing foreign zones and the racial cultures through alting and I'm not buying character slots fuck that. Also to add to your ogre comment, I remember troll and ogre players heavily roleplaying for no reason in groups and finding it quite amusing. Those fatties were easily the most devoted to their characters.
>>2715125>in thj you leveled in 4-5 good grind zones for your combo and then did raidsUntil they revamp more dungeons, EQL is incentivized to be just like this - especially because getting repeat items increases their power.
>Crushbone and Splitpaw reworked tomorrowYippee
>>2719426I've been in Crushbone for multiple hours and never saw Dvinn once. That's all the reworking it needs is to bring back that bad mother fucker.
Is this version of EQ alright for people who've never played? Would people even group even though you already have a lot of personal power, or is it a solo only server? I'd need someone to hold my hand for a little so that sort of determines if I'd even try playing or not.
>>2719767I'm sure guilds will prop up that are welcoming to new players, but EQL is really solo friendly it's true. Still, I do miss playing with friends doing things we probably shouldn't be able to, and EQL only encourages that type of thing because of the power fantasy it instills. I also have to mention this whole project is a memberberries situation with less shame and more cash shop. So be prepared for that.
>>2719782I don't mind it as long as it's not "Oh you didn't buy this? Sorry you're not welcome." If it's just random bits and bobs or cosmetics I don't really care that much. I'll have to give it a look. I played P1999 once and I didn't stick around because I had no one to play with.
>>2719785>P1999That version is for the most part still in line with original EQ where grouping is required for a lot of the content. EQL is certainly not that. You can do all the content solo if you care to play the game like that. I myself would prefer to duo for funsies but it's certainly not required.
>>2719792Well I want to group but I went in by myself and really didn't see another person at all when I was outside attempting to kill things alone.
>>2719785>If it's just random bits and bobsThe game is designed around the need to buy those bits and bobs though. You only get two load outs. If you want more you have to buy them. If there is a way to unlock them in game, it will be grindy and limited. They have an incentive to design the game to push you to the cash shop instead of designing the game for satisfying gameplay>or cosmeticsThis is acceptable, if i can turn off all extra cosmetics on my end. I don't want to see the stupid shit other people buy because they think it looks cool.
>>2665131Isn't this basically soloquest?
>>2719172Yeah they were a lot of fun and without them the entire Grow/Shrink shaman spells and their importance would have went over my human head.I'm gonna be so sad if everyone is boring and I get in trouble for calling a dark elf an inky or some dumb bullshit.
>>2721552>I'm gonna be so sad if everyone is boring and I get in trouble for calling a dark elf an inky or some dumb bullshit.you'll deserve it for giving money to troonquest
>>2719795the races start in different areas, so its possible your early levels will be a bit lonely but its hard for me to say what the interest in legends will be
>>2721581Probably, I'm hoping deep down in my heart the community is still the same one I remember from 2004 but I'm not gonna get my hopes up.Just kidding I totally am, please let people be fun.
>>2719426Where are you getting your updates about the game? please don't tell me the gay discord.
Crushbone is a loot pinata now in the Befallen model. Are all dungeons getting this treatment?
>>2723022I think so. It would make sense for them to all get looked at.I don't get the dungeon craze though. I checked out Crushbone and yeah each of the bosses drop a piece of gear but unless you think X dungeon is the coolest thing ever, I don't see why people aren't just hanging out in the world and then when you're ready for end game just crank all the baby dungeons to +4 and grab all the goodies you want with no stress
>>2723229Sounds like a really fun way to approach it. I could see myself doing something similar, and taking Druid and Wizard for reasons of exploration instead of power gaming.
Is there any way to know what quests are worth doing without googling?
>>2723229The people who rushed to fifty definitely seemed to be running builds that would clear difficulty 0 quickly, it's not like the difference is that big while leveling when it comes down to being able to go in later to get stuff.
>>2725339The game isn't very upfront. You can pull procs off of weapons if you level them up, so I'd go and see what weapons have procs you like and collect them.If I do enchanter monk I'm pulling the stun off of the temple of sol ro wand, etc.
>>2726095Honestly I think it's insane how little of the extra stuff in the game is explained, if anywhere that isn't in-game in chat or the discord.
>>2726862A lot of the stuff I know already because I played EQ 25ish years ago, but they added new stuff to Crushbone like a slave master key and a Sarialyin lute and I can't figure out what they're for.It's good too in a way. When things are convoluted the herd doesn't catch on to things quick so it takes a while for things like the Paineel guards to get a faction attached to them etc.One thing I noticed is they removed the Indigo Brotherhood hit from Crushbone so if you wanted you could do the orc pawn pick quest to raise your Indigo Brotherhood faction then kill in Crushbone to restore Elf and human warrior faction. Little stuff like that is possible now.
>>2696441I wouldn't mind newer models when Shadows of Luclin came out if not for the fact that it was such a half ass implementation back in 2001 where all the new player models looked stiff and hollow as fuck while much of the world was still using pre-Luclin model. It was and still is jarring as fuck looking at EQlive utilizing a mixture of pre and post luclin models together, especially in cities. That type of massive project should've been an expansion that should've been in the oven for 2 1/2 years before it came out.And "schizophrenic mess" is probably the best way to describe it.
>>2728053They've already told players they won't be adding Luclin models, the entire game they're looking to "add" after Kunark is really nebulous itself. A lot of what they actually do add is going to make or break the game because I don't see anyone paying for this each month for a long time just to grind Sky and Planar gear to +10.
>>2728053>>2728063You can enable Luclin models using GlobalLoad.txt, at least on the beta. It'll get overwritten by the patcher so launch with eqgame.exe patchme to bypass. Supposedly they weren't allowed to let players use them because they weren't able to license them from Daybreak.
I was thinking that Brd and Shm might be good as free classes but I think the Knights might be better just because of how unlocks actually work, that or Warrior. Ogres having full frontal stun immunity is also somehow more broken here.
>>2729981>Ogres having full frontal stun immunityA lot of players/builds aren't using CC and are tanking a room of mobs at a time. Ogre is so very good in that situation. The AA Steadfast Will may make up for it, but I don't know how high it goes.
>>2730075Steadfast goes up to 80%, and ogres have a fuckton of Strength and the cap is so ridiculously high they still won't hit it, so as long as you have enough resources you can play the BIG RETARD smack around build.
>>2728063>>2729020Sorry, I meant "I didn't mind the concept of newer models with Shadows of Luclin" as in when the expansion came out in 2001, not anything to do with this specific server.Also am I the only one who felt that Velious's layout sucked and was too focused on dungeon chokepoints for most of the overland zones?
I have a feeling players are going to really dislike how difficult it is to +10 not only gear but spells. Call people autistic, but not having a max item or spell will feel bad. 100% cash shop fix coming.
>>2729020I don't get why anyone would want Luclin models. They were never finished properly and are half assed. Especially ogre, troll and Iksar.If your idiot races aren't scratching their asses, its over.>>2730075Steadfast will overrides everything that makes ogre special, does need shrink to navigate dungeons and lets you play a race that has sneak so you can use any vendor at any time without class juggling to rogue or monk. People going ogre for an advantage are being sold a boat for a shallow lake.>>2730140Yeah I remember when Velious was current I'd live in Iceclad Ocean, Tower of Frozen Shadow and Thurgadin because going any deeper was too risky for casual play.
>>2730475The amount of people who are piping up about how ready they are to do things like buy bags and AA potions means that enough of the community will ignore any slippery slopes and just keep buying stuff, that's kind of the daybreak MO from what I've played of their games, though. People continually go on about the game being in continual development as the reasoning for a subscription fee but the game will still subsist almost entirely off whales.
>>2731720I dunno, there's only so many bags and AA you can buy, and to be honest it feels like the only thing worth buying is that 50 slot bank bag.I hope they sell cosmetics like bikinis and nude skins.>but it's a game rated TI'm joking, but I'm not buying armor dyes.
>>2677955kek theres 3 now? i only know of secrets and his fatfuck "girlfriend" running the show
>>2732728I like how if you google 'Everquest legends secrets' as in, looking for tips and tricks etc it deadnames him. Google wants its cracker, Jeremy.
>>2731720>piping up about how ready they are to do things like buy bags and AA potionsI have seen this as well. Not only are they eager about making these purchases, they are announcing it with pride in an open forum as if they were the moral authority. As miser, it doesn't make sense to me. If only they were sock accounts being used by Daybreak to normalize this dumbfuckery. I'm going to misuse that Frenchman's quote, but hell is other people.
>>2732947Fortunately I don't think anyone with at least a moderate level of internet savvy looks at reddit or discord as places of serious thought.If the devs want to smell their own farts while bathing in the hubris of internet idiots, that'll be their chapter in this book of EverQuest.On the other side I hope they're not going to be a bunch of 'We looked at the numbers and adjusted' like the Dead by Daylight devs that while they have a popular game, the community pretty loudly agree the dev team is not a great fit for the their game.They're going to have to do something that even the live server EverQuest devs don't do..Listen to the casual EQ player, that isn't going to be posting on forums or in game, of which there should be many due to the nature of Legends.How? They better figure it out. Or like I said, succumb to hubris. I'm just going to enjoy what they put out and leave if the game becomes annoying, which I think is fair.
>>2733008i dont think the game will be a massive failure, but secrets will make it shitty. especially if hes already made claims that he will or wont do a specific thing, you can bet that he will 180 on it at some point. i still have no idea why hes even involved. dbg must be clueless if they believe hes some pillar of eqemu
>>2733176Unless you're Kojima or Shigeru Miyamoto etc, game devs hop around like crazy. If they do good, they'll get promoted, if they do bad, they'll get let go, but I doubt they'll just stay here on this project forever and ever.At least you already know they're known for making promises like Elon Musk does. That means you can pretty much ignore them.Ideally.
>>2733290Secrets isn't a game dev.
>>2733290like the other anon said, secrets isnt a game dev. he couldnt even fix a camera bug when quarm launched and basically told everyone to get over it. the zeal add on devs are the one who fixed it on their own
>>2733680>>2734370What does Secrets even do, then?Are they a literal ideas man?
>>2734518thats the thing, anon. he doesnt do anything.
>>2734518>are theyJust fuck off you faggot
>aa exp is fucking horrible unless your playing at low level>aa potions getting added to the store>the mote system is fucking dog-shit unless your killing greens and light-blues at low level>this encourages playing multiple classes fucking people who don't want to>people are getting leveled and full bis in three to four days>the game doesn't have enough content to justify a box price let alone a box price and subscription>instead of releasing kunark to solve the lack of content they are re-working low level zones (re-working these zones is fine but content aka kunark should come first)>the game has it so you can change races at the snap of a finger if you unlock them>unlocking races is now being added to the store removing even more of what little content the game does have>it takes 35aa to get stun immune making you a retard if you don't start ogre>planar armor is and has always been shit itemized making your leveling moted armor better then it>the planar armor will be better once moted so your expected to go grind even more motes for shit armor>the planar armor drops were changed for whatever retarded ass reason>instead of different mobs dropping full sets of armor aka spites sham & kiris warrior the armor now drops slots per different mobs so spites helmets (for everyone) & kiris bracers (for everyone)>plane of sky lulThe sky shit is at least decently itemized and worth grinding for but fuck me there are a whole lotta dumbass decisions going on with this game
>>2734783I think the upgrade system throws a really big wrench into gearing in general that shouldn't exist, or at least not up to +10. The power creep they've set in place for how good gear will have to be a place like a revamped LGuk to then continue to overtake planes, which will need it's own revamp is silly. Gearing honestly should have been kept as it was in the base game and revamped dungeons feel more like a mistake the more they're implemented. No placeholders is also going to hurt the game more and more going forward. The game will see a surge in revenue from people not wanting to unlock races/classes on release day to start "how they want" then nosedive after people get bored.
>>2734989This is basically my prediction; THJ numbers on launch quickly followed by a steep and steady decline
>>2734989All of the revamped zones would be cool if it was more widespread. But currently its just reducing the scope of the game down to a few zones. Upgrading is definitely amplifying that, but they could make it work if they put more effort into it. I think they screwed up by having a streamable beta so early. The game feels like its being rushed out before the average gamer dad realizes how little EQL actually offers once you've settled on a trio you like. Its not even good as a nostalgia romp because theres little reason to go to most zones. When you have befallen gear being good enough to solo the planes, you end up with even less incentive to leave the few designated leveling areas. Beastlords are in an embarrassing state. AA are all over the place in value. The spell upgrade system was put in earlier than they planned as a bandaid to the caster problem. Theres so many things that show the game isn't ready but they want the money to keep it going before people lose interest.
>>2735367They definitely wanted to put the game out before summer ends to try and catch people who were going to buy just the box and sub for a bit who've not played EQ before as well.
This project flopping would honestly be the best possible outcome for all Everquest fans.
>>2735720The best outcome for all REAL EverQuest fans would be for the project to limp along holding just enough attention from Secrets and DBG devs to ignore all the actual good servers that real fans want to play.
>>2735367>Baby players sit in their dungeons, stare at the wall and wait for repops>Older players run around the karanas quad kiting and then go back to the dungeons at +4 and snort up all the upgraded loot>Older players know the quests to quickly unlock the races they want, turn in the items before turning to their meta build>Newbies end up crying because of how obtuse some things areSomething that makes me giggle is watching newbies explain tracking to another player.For non Rangers/Druids/Bards, it's a tiny ass circle you can see by just manually looking around.For rangers it's a gigantic sphere of multicolored dots. That's not helpful.You have to use the track menu, scroll through to find who/what you want, then go to that NPC.We used to use Sense Animal/Detect undead etc to find things.Also watch them give the SolA gnomes loot but keep the faction hits in so if you hunt there gnomes become even more of a pain in the ass to unlock.
>>2736468>gnomes become even more of a pain in the ass to unlock.gnomes are not for unlocking they are for eating
>>2736482Oh (g)no(me)
>>2734989i think the main problem they had was the huge disparity in weapons between classic/kunark causing issues. when kunark launches you basically have to nuke melee or they will be op, or you need to leave them shitty until kunark.all because verant "fixed" melee by forcing people to buy an expansion and invalidating all old weapons rather than just making melee better.
>>2736603I hadn't really thought of that, but I'd only played P99 and Quarm in the past, but it does remind me of getting a Green Jade Broadsword for the first time on P99 and it feeling like I'd finally gotten ahold of a "Real" weapon.
>mfw literally everything has to be paid for in a game that has an upfront buy in and subscription
>>2737445World of Warcraft set a terrible precedent. I already know what I want and how I want to play so I can shrug most of that off, but newbies to the game/genre/etc might see that stuff as useful.
>>2737596not even wow is this jewish
>>2737596I feel that the way I intend on playing the game, will keep me from being enticed by their shitty cash shop at all. If that ever changes then I'm out. They can pretend to hand wave the sub fee off all they want. Plenty of emulated servers out there.
>>2737445I honestly probably plan to main a Knight class and not get all lost in the sauce of too many of the things they want to sell, race and class unlocks being the way they are price wise is pretty nasty given the disparity in how some races are unlocked, but that more or less incentivizes people who care to start as ogres.
>>2737445most of this shit is totally unneeded unless you are a hoarder or allergic to grinding. as it is this game doesn't have enough content to last. leveling is quite fast and weekly lockouts on raids basically means there is nothing to do at all besides unlocks when you are done grinding the few higher level dungeons.>>2738046the races seem like they will be pretty easy to unlock, esp with everyone having illusion access. the faction rates are extremely boosted and losses are minimal in comparison.knight is a good call since they are actually functional and complete.casters besides shaman/cleric/enchanter seem extremely half-baked and pet stuff is just straight up broken/unimplemented. i really don't think they will all be finished even in a month or two.
>>2738307The races for the most part are easy, I'm not even sure Troll is fully implemented out of the "base" races and that Ogre requires a multiple hour foraging grind while a lot of the other races just rely on handing in a lot of vendor bought items.
>>2738329merchants of oggok is actually literally impossible to raise(in any version of eq), they will probably fix it at some point.if grobb is working right it should only need a few newbie mob grinds, bone chips etc. but who knows what's broke there.
>>2738552>merchants of oggok is actually literally impossible to raiseIt'd be hilarious if they didn't fix it by release and the only way to get ogre if you didn't choose it was for $15
Well they have a week to implement dollar store Vah Shir, all the race unlocks and have more than crushbone and befallen ready. I'm curious on what they'll do.
>>2740788I'm interested to see what they said will be in at "launch" that'll be missing for months.
>>2741775Right. They are releasing this game like there's an earnings call happening the day of.
>>2741775i dunno, most of the revamps are done alreadyi think what will be missing for launch will be mostly bug fixes and balancing rather than content
Which god will your character worship?
>>2742729The Tribunal or Karana. I love that old man no homo.
>>2742729imagine worshiping a god weaker than you, agnostic is the only real choice.
>>2742773I was thinking Tribunal as well, but only because I wanted to make something along the lines of a Shm/Pal/Ber Barb>>2743539There isn't any sicknasty gear of (you) though
>>2677394you can expect everything to be sold in denominations of krono. Give it time
>>2742729>he doesnt worship tunare's feetngmi
>>2743734you just know that hippy slut walks around barefoot and has earthworms between her tootsies
>>2743734She does give pretty good Paladin gear
>>2742729Bristlebane because it's the server I'm originally from. People say its a neutral god but if you look at faction adjustments outside of like, one faction it gets treated as a good deity and offers no benefits.Neutral my ass.Still, Bristlebane is a fun concept so its fun to roleplay with it so I'm happy.
>mfw charm is so OP people are killing multiple bosses at the same time in sky>mfw people are crying about it being to good>mfw thousands are going to roll enc at launch and it will be nerfed into the ground
I just want to say that if you give Secrets money you are a terrible person and should be ashamed of yourself. Good day.
>>2744541you can change class whenever and charm doesn't stop being op on a server that raises the level limit of charm spells so high. effectively removing the level restriction on charm is going to be outrageously powerful even if one or two broken mobs gain immunity. enchanter is a safe bet, great for leveling too.>>2744583rogean was also working on this and i like him but daybreak makes money too which is even worse than secrets... it is what it is.
>>2745283>must consoomYou're pathetic.
>>2744583im just gonna wait until pop comes out and basically play all the content at once instead of being milked for a year
>>2744541I dunno. This is the power fantasy version of the game. I've never given a shit how powerful someone's single player character was before.
I'm trying to decide on a serverTo my understanding (which may not be accurate)Qeynos is west coast AmericaFreeport is east coast AmericaNeriak is for try hardsRivervale is for RP and streamersEU servers are for people born in the incorrect placeI don't know what the other servers skew towards, but I want to play with people that are awake when I am...or maybe I don't so they'll all be asleep and I'll get the open world spawns to myself...Decisions...
Servers gone for a weekGame sleep.
>>2747626>it takes them one week to launch a 25 year old game againgrim
>>2746990Personally, I'm probably going to have a character on every server. Forget that paying for character slots crap. Might be jarring to log into what ever the E(RP) server ends up being.
>>2745593they won't allow multipets because secrets or someone else's genius build on thj was slightly weaker than nec/mag/bstbut this server's dev team is like is the all-star charm jerkoff team so i don't expect it to ever get nerfed regardless of how much it dominates the meta.
>>2747679It's been very hard to implement Kerran
my interest in this evaporated the nanosecond i saw secrets was involved and reading this thread makes me so glad i made that choice
>do war cleric bard>everything takes a year to kill>wipe to eye half the time due to mah slow resists RPG and always with eye at 5% to 10%>my slow is rank 6 and overchannel stance lowers enemy resists by -150>eye still resists slow with it at that rank and in overchannel over half the time>my victory on eye all depends if slow is resisted half the fight or notBard is so fucking shit I don't care what anybody else says
>>2746990Way too many servers. They're all going to be merged into 1 within 2 months. Secrets is a fucking retard.
As someone who never played EQ and has no idea what they're doing, I had fun in the beta. Looking forward to release next week
>>2748191yeah he really ruins the whole project. i still have no idea why hes even involved. is dbg just clueless?
>>2744583>>2748191Every single day. You are one obsessed newfag.
>>2749352Hiring troons makes this fat dyke feel good.
>>2749352idk i feel like a male presenting dev who did even half the shit secrets did would have been rightfully run out of the scene and no one would trust him or anything attached to him again but troon armor i guess lol
>>2749018bard has an aoe nuke with 0 recast that's stronger than ice comet... it's literally the top dps
>>2749358Like a scorned lover.
>>2749018Warrior really is kind of fucked compared to the Knights, at least SK gets some damage from dots, you can heal far too well with a /clr/ in your combo for their HP regen to even matter.
>>2751437Classes on here are meant to feel strong out the gate, its why Warriors got Cleave as an example. Bards are the only class that didn't get anything to help them feel not shit until they are leveled, moted, and aa'd and I personally think that that is a problem. A Bard in this version of Everquest shouldn't feel like a P99 Bard until its fucking level50, aa'd and moted. Even live Everquest knew this was a problem and gave them an aa called Selo's kick which is a nuke built into the kick that can't miss. Zero reason this shouldn't be added to help improve the experience or at least SOMETHING to make it not feel like p99
>>2665131Im not. Quite frankly im sick of the attempts at trying to re-release old content because everything modern is shit. The solution isnt to add quality of life to old games. Todays developers are retarded. This wouldnt even exist if they didnt shutdown the private server that allowed for multiclassing. Even modern day official servers feel like private servers.>May shut down any day, may not take off, may be developed in a retarded way, may be pay2winI like Everquest, but giving everyone the ability NOT to work together goes against what "old school" mmos were all about. It may be fun doing multiple things, but i believe its a huge step back for mmos in general.
>>2752881>giving everyone the ability NOT to work together goes against what "old school" mmos were all about.Not only does Runescape disprove this but in 2026 not working together and having a more of a Runescape like adventure is what the majority of the people prefer. If you play other MMOs you would know this, when people group they don't talk, in voip they don't have mics, general channels are mainly only used as advertisements. This of course isn't how it always is but its how it is more often then not. The old school MMO dream is dead and the future of MMOs will be Runescape like and or something we have yet to experience yet.
Requiring people to group to make meaningful progress/do all the content was actually novel to EQ when it released. MUDs and proto MMOs were mostly very solo friendly. This isn't to say you should play EQL (you shouldn't).
>>2751620What do you mean? Compared to Knights, Warriors get:>Higher HP>Higher AC>Higher Crit Chance>Dual Wield>Triple AttackSeems pretty good to me
>>2752872sadly that's how it is, you can swap classes whenever so they don't really seem to care much if they are shit or lategame only or w/e.for example bard might be bad without AAs but look at a class like druid, purely useless, shaman but bad. zerkers are great for leveling but useless for anything that hits hard. there are also the extremely restrictive, borderline useless classes like mage/beastlord that hardly stack well with anything. beastlord in particular will never be good in any build for the time being because the cap is 50, which means they don't get a decent slow, etc.>>2754811they also get a regen AA that scales with maxhp which is incredibly good
>Harm touch is now a lifetapKekkypow
>>2756622so its just a self only lay on hands that does damage now?
>>2756836Yes, praise Cazic-Thule
>>2752952runescape is arguably a single player game so im not sure why youre using it as an example. not that i disagree mmos werent ever about working together. they were always about fucking over the other guy and getting loot
Modern MMOs are about selling microtransactions to people who are easily tricked.
>>2750892Armor of TroonTransgender Innate (1)Increases armor by 50Heals for 58 hour durationYou feel more womanlySoandso thinks he's a woman
>>2757854kek
>>2756842Yes the guy was bitching that EQL being single player mainly goes against the spirit of MMOs and I used Runescape as an example along with an example of how players act today that MMOs are headed in a single player direction, that or a direction we have yet to see yet.>>2751620Don't worry bro the 8aa Rampage ability that hits all targets around you on a 15minute cooldown is now on a 8min cooldown, warriors are back baby!WARRIOR / BERSERKERFrenzy and Cleave now reduce the cooldown of rampage
>>2760285>warrior becomes a meme compared to the other tanks anytime 3rd party people are involved with game balancewhy are private server troons like this? this shit happens with wow too
>>2760285>Frenzy and Cleave now reduce the cooldown of rampageI dont like the direct reliance on another classes ability to make your class specific ability work. that feels like bad design.
>>2760352Rampage is an AA available to Warriors and Berserkers, who get Cleave and Frenzy respectively. Rampage is something like a singular attack all the mobs around you every three years even with added cooldown reduction. It's bad design because when you attach other classes, Paladins can smite forever and SKs can Reave forever whereas the Warriors and Berserkers could do that anyway but aren't getting nearly as much from their abilities and don't exist in a vacuum.
>>2760362I'm retarded I thought Rampage was just Warriors carry on I'll stfu
it's sad that they are clearly balancing classes around future content instead of what the game is launching with.these niggers are lazy fucks, just buff the strongest shit already even more...they don't seem to want people to run any trio other than tank/sham/x or tank/enc/x or some ranger+dps build>>2760347war is actually great but you are almost forced to pair it with monk(or pal) so that it can equip weapons that aren't shit, sk is still worse than warrior i think.mnk/pal is also pretty good though.
>>2760456SK is going to be doing a lot better after the Harm Touch changes, I think access to Pal weapons still makes Pal the best, though.I'll be playing an Iksar so I refuse to be a Paladin.
>>2760631i think in meta sk is more for bulk in caster builds since it's considered an arcane caster for that invocationchain aoe stun aoe grind, ice comet machinegun etc
The EQL SDCC panel, wow!
Woah, the Kernan race!
>>2762859I really hate that they're making mounts a thing again. I hated that part of Luclin.
>>2762687Sean has the only character build that isn't shit.The other four are going to hit end game and get slapped by the Eye of Veeshan.
>>2763647Befitting of their job titles
>>2762687Imagine giving this thing your hard earned money
So Kerran can be>Bard, Berserker, Beastlord, Druid, Rogue, Shaman, WarriorAnd get some level of >Sneak and safe fallMay be interesting to choose as a starting pick if their race is hard to unlock, choosing anything over Ogre from a usefulness perspective is still hard
>>2764030It's just a Vah Shir, but here's my thing:You can get the steadfast AA for physical stun immunity. If you want to utilize ogre stun immunity, you have to play with ogre. Which means you need that shrink clicky from Blackburrow and a bunch of other caveats.There's no AA to get sneak, sure you can switch to a rogue or monk, but if you're just playing a race where sneak is innate, you don't have to think about it. Not all vendors are in towns.Cats could be a good roll, depending on what deity they have to worship.
>>2764078It'd be nice if they had a fun custom god, but I imagine for a while they'll just be agnostic and they'll tell people to haha just unlock the gods later by questing.
>>2764081I dunno, the gods in EQ were barely utilized as it was. Some gods could only be worshiped by a very small niche of class/race combos (Veeshan by bards, Prexus by a few, Solusek by a few, The Tribunal, Rodcet Nife etc).It's basically a Bertoxxulus, Innoruuk, Cazic Thule, Brell, Agnostic, Tunare and Karana world.It would be neat if they found a reason to utilize a very not often worshiped god before they branched off into new ones.
>>2764086Hopefully it plays somewhere into the custom content they have down the road.
>>2764088lollmao even
>>2762859>obvious typo>no mention of FoV slider grim
>>2764882thats an ai version. the original is much harder to read.
>>2764900What fucking retard took this pic?
>>2763915ol smeagol lookin ass nigga
>>2763915>>2765549
>>2765567It's uncanny.
>>2764882>FoV sliderdoesn't /viewport accomplish this?
I only play Legends in first person on the smallest resolution
>>2767242No.
>>2767259do they have the meme ui like quarm? that was ludokino and easily the best part of the server. i leveled with it all the way for shits since i was soloing.
alright which one of you posted this
>>2767669>Nazrinkekfunny rat!>SurgeryBut secrets just looks like Edward furlong
>>2762687>bunch of 40 somethings with empty seats between themanother 10 years and they might as well host the panel at a bingo hall
>>2768578The main audience for this game is boomers who are easily separated from their money and people who've never played EQ because it was SO HARD to group and now can solo level their dicks off.
>>2768945there are plenty of solo classes in (classic)eq, chanter and necro both solo extremely well, also wizard because it's forced whether you want to or not.
>>2768945>boomers who are easily separated from their moneyit is funny that the same dudes looking to min/max at all cost are also the same dudes dying for the cash shop to open. Candy Crush: Everquest Edition.
>>2770474The only cards these guys are gonna be handing in at the Keledim Warriors guild are credit cards, and it'll mean they get bored of the game faster too.
I still can't get over how many servers they're launching with. Do they really think they'll have more players than completely free THJ? Why do you even need so many servers when everyone can spin up their own instance of every zone? It's so dumb. This whole project is a fucking trainwreck.
>>2770710I understand them having separate ones for US and EU, but having this many really does seem crazy, I agree. Especially since they'll all be diluted into one or two servers later on, I think it's more hubris on display than anything, and that they just need to let people have alts instead of saying "Well you can play it over there".
>>2770710>>2770734they want to ensure everybody can log in without a queue and use that cash shop. perhaps have paid name reservations for when servers merge as well.
I probably won't even try logging in tomorrow unless it's very clear to login, there's no real rush with the game anyway
>>2771233no way it will be playable until the weekend at least
>>2767669Bet them squirmed and bitched because someone dare sayeth that the emperor was naked, bereft of clothes.>>2771233Yeah I'm giving it a few days. I'm in no hurry, and if I were my grand reward would be competing with everyone for everything until they hide in their instance.Nah.Looking forward to playing the game, however. Being able to see Innoruuk, the dragons and Cazic eye alive and on demand is really cool.
>>2771257I'm excited to run around as some giga-Iksar, play around with different builds, butt Kunark isn't going to be here until Christmas(?) so it's not like missing a day or even a few means much, which is kind of nice in the mmo space nowadays.
>>2770710If they don't need the extra servers they can literally just merg them whenever. When teek/tormax launched teek for like 20,000 players while tormax got like 5000 players and literally within the first few hours of launching daybreak just restarted the servers throwing tormaxes extra server space over to teeks to manage the load
>>2771233I'm going to attempt to login when I get home from work tonight, but if there's issues, I'll just wait until next week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXhBT6dTLAYits up!
>>2772741zamn!
>>2772882I look like that and dress like that
>PH removals and respawn lowered in several still "Vanilla" dungeonsNice, I can get the gear I wanted from them while leveling now.
how are the servers holding up?
>Queues removedNeat
>>2773628lol no shit. why would they even need queues with all those soon to be empty servers?
>>2773285Looks playable right now. One of the servers are on Medium pop and the others are on high. Gonna wait til I actually have time to create my character, but unless the real life server falls over, things seem stable.
>People are buying primary class tokens to play the classes they want with the races they want>The devs never actually made the tokens work before level 11 so people are having meltdowns over MTX not working alreadykek
>>2768945I hate seeing this in person. And if you point it out, even nicely, they get royally offended.>Stop buying games full price and deluxe edition, you rarely play past a few hours.>You don't even play MTG anymore stop buying it.>You don't even paint your minis don't buy the launch box.And reminder these are said in nicer ways.
>>2773885I bet if they got the class/race combo they wanted, they wouldn't like the newbie area and move to a different one.Paineel's newbie area for baby Cazic worshippers into Warrens is top tier, but guarantee it's going unused.>But you have to play EruditeNeutrals start dubious
Thank you for abandoning your principles to consoom my product, anon.
>>2773974You're welcome Mr. Furlong
They completely nerfed the loot. D4 now has a chance to drop +4 but it’s very heavily weighted to give you a +2. They’re saying they simply forgot to mention this in the patch notes.
>>2774120Stage 1 of motes in the store : Prepping the base game
>>2773974My principles are to only buy games with male devs though.
>>2774120Dunno why everyone was going crazy over those +4 rusty long swords. Despite the wisdom of 'Stay in X dungeon for 50 days and upgrade 1 piece of gear' people should be getting to 50 at a reasonable pace then doing planes at each difficulty and absorbing actual gear.Alas, enjoy your befallen gear that will last you to the planes because you're gonna see the planes in 2028 and you've gotta be ready with opened condom wrapper +10
>pick literally any time of day to visit thread>newfag posting pictures of his favorite transsexual within the last five posts on multiple occasions.This shit writes itself.
>>2774184The last one was me, not him.
>>2774141based, you can be sure that no women were involved in the making of this game
>>2774736trvke
>Instances aren't expected to work until tomorrowAs expected
>>2774833Is that happening on every server? I randomly chose freeport and idk if I accidentally chose the most popular server but shit kinda sucks right now. No private instances, everything is camped, no one wants to group.
>>2774843I think Freeport or Rivervale is the most popular? I haven't even tried logging in all day since I figure it won't matter if I miss a day or two.
>>2774736why does it suck so bad then?
Unfortunately not as I hate the idea of multiclassing
>>2734518he's a mentally ill gay man in a dress with a really ugly face and giant ugly bird nose
I played P99 for a bit and enjoyed exploring the world and stuff, seeing all the NPCs and hidden zones and stuff, but I couldn't solo past a certain point.Is this a fun thing to try if I'm only really interested in exploring the world/mindless grinding?
>>2774967That's all there really is to do
>>2774967Just play SoloQuest if that's all you want to do. It's free and run by an anon.
>>2774846Rivervale ended up the RP/some streamers/Gay alphabet people server so they'll melt if something doesn't fit their cult ideal of how people should actFreeport has the big streamers and is supposed to be ESTQeynos already has the reputation of being the "Chud" server. As I was trolling during the beta I can't help but feel a little responsible for that but there's some "Chud" guilds there now.For people like us that means grouping opportunities without worrying about offending someone as the pansies aren't on that server.I'm kind of annoyed. I'm trying to keep tabs on news for this game since I'm going to play it this weekend but suddenly everything is barren news wise.The only new stuff I've gleamed is that people don't like how Kerrans run (its the Vah Shir skeleton) and the Kerra Isle NPCs don't show up on Find but use the modern task windows to track quests.So if you absolutely must have modern ways of doing thing, Kerrans are for you.
>>2774967p99 is very easy to solo as long as your starting class is Enchanter(the protagonist class). you can mostly solo anything that isn't a raid as long as you tryhard.necro and shaman are also good solo classes, shaman kind of sucks to play until around level 24-34 though but it can still solo those too.
so, we got a guild going yet?
>>2776610I'm just a passing shadow/streaming this time so I'm not planning to make one. Qeynos seems like a good place to hang out if anyone else wants to.
Double posting but there's a hp/mana/endurance regen item in the Kerran starting area.Take the quests from Sha'rr(sp?) and complete those then mote for the enchantment to use it on other things.
>>2776663What are the actual stats on it like? Regen stuff feels a lot less effective with how fast it already is in-combat.
>>2776700It's not super great, its +2 and basic baby gear stats. It's notable in that its one of the few endurance regen items which prolongs your stances.Kerrans are a good race so the NPC tier Ogre/Iksar race rollers that don't know any better are learning about how faction works in EQ the hard way so that's funny.It's not an item worth dropping whatever you're doing to go get, but if you're in the neighborhood its a nice enchant for your neck/any/any slot so its +6 regen.Definitely going to lose its luster as stats inevitably bloat but its a nice toy.
>>2777064I started as Iksar because I thought plat would be as prevalent as in the beta, but they've definitely dropped the rates on random trash gear that you can sell to line your pockets, I don't think unlocking a good race is still all that expensive, especially the elves/half-elf
>>2777064faction is the endgame, also ogres/iksar can just sub ench and go anywhere lol
>>2777081I mean overall you'll be fine. I'm specifically referring to actual newbies who read 'roll ogre and iksar' and are getting colonscopies from the Kerran guards because they didn't know that was going to be an issue.I'm personally going to roll halfling, hunt humanoids and golem in the Beholders maze, take the ore bricks and do blacksmithing, turn the rest into metal bits and turn into the Iksar person and turn the silver bars into the gnome in the karanas. Then just fill in the ore as necessary. Yes you can roll rogue for sneak but not all vendors will always be in town and once you play with sneak its kind of hard not to.
>>2776663thanks for the information. no way in hell im ever making a kerran so i may never have found out about this otherwise.
Is it true that personal instances aren't working? Id love to play the game and be able to see/encounter other players in the world, even if it's only for a couple of days. It's what I liked about the beta.
>>2779583i've had no trouble making them though you have to be careful with using up the limited charges which is bullshit
>>2779583Freeport and Rivervale (The reddit and LGBT servers) were overloaded and they had to push a patch to fix those two specific servers.It was an issue for only those two servers, everyone else can play normally.
Necro/bst/enchanter has been fun mega rape pet + dotting feels nice
>>2780051charm pet+frenzied burnout is the true mega rape pet, can add shaman for puma too
>>2780139Oh yea forgot about burnout. I've just been doing bst proc buff and the dead buff line
>>2780144frenzied burnout is different from regular burnout, it's an AA dps cooldown for the pet.it gives like 300 atk or something stupid and some overhaste, which allows you to go past the hard haste cap. you can even buff players with it if you duel and charm them, you can break the charm right after and the buff still sticks.
>>2780273Oh wow I didn't know about that. Been mostly farming t3 dungeons with any warrior/whatever pets I've been able to charm
Probably not relevant for higher level players, but it looks like Iksars have an endurance recovering bracer available from their newbie zone from the Iksar Warrior guildmaster.
>>2780721Yeah, I've only played a little bit but I haven't found the scroll. Maybe I need to click more shelves.
How is the open world? Do you frequently see other players? Is it possible to rock up to a camp and join a group?That's "my way" to play, and if the game doesn't support "my way" I shant be purchasing the game.
>>2780933it might as well be a single player game. every change has been intentional to steer the game in that direction so dads with 5 wives and 12 children can find time to play
Has anyone tried out War/Nec/Healer? I've been considering trying it with Shaman, Cleric probably works better but I'd like all of the classes to be Iksar-accessible for the build.
>>2781484shaman is way stronger and is one of the top meta builds for having huge dot dps and being totally unkillable
>>2781569Nice, guess I'll enjoy my dots
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hey so this is a retarded question but when I wear armor/clothes I'm still nakedhow do I like actually wear clothes? do dark elves just like walk around buckass naked?
>>2781626not all armors have a graphic that shows on your model when worn
>>2781641Especially for Kerrans as of launch
>>2781641>>2781653okay, thanksI'm playing a dark elf but I think I bought the wrong size of cloth armor but my armor still goes up so I don't care
>>2780051>Necro/bstwait, you can have both pets out at once?
>>2781670Clothing size used to matter a lot, but they've ezmoded gear a bit and a lot of quests like mail quests aren't lore so you can stack them for faction runs.A special note is during early EQ the devs realized they made Erudite a shit race to play (night blind, low strength, low agi etc) so they compensated by giving them a lot of Erudite exclusive gear.In Legends that means a lot of that gear is free for all now. It's worth poking around Odus and seeing if your class needs some items from them
>>2781974No, pet classes stack more pet inv4 slots and bst|mag +3, necro +2, dru|enc|shm +1So they have 10 slots
>>2782399this probably won't do anything noticable until you start getting over 100 str per item slot
how lost am i going to be if i just go in blind?
>>2784117this version has no death penalty, not that many zones and class swapping so it shouldn't take you that long to figure out
Weren't you able to put a little blurb on your character sheet so people who inspected you could read it? I might be remembering wrong. I certainly can't remember how to do it at any rate.
>>2784390target yourself and use the /inspect command then you can write your bio
>>2784399Ooh crap thanks. Now I can devote the rest of the night to thinking up something clever/funny that will ultimately end up being cringe. Perfect.
>>2784399TDDHail Cazic-ThuleFuck Dragons
>>2784399You know they only did that so troons could put their pronouns there
>>2784467? it's been an eq thing since the game launched more than 25 years ago, it's for roleplayers
>>2784559>it's for roleplayersso yeah, for troons
>>2784399can i put in a link to like, per say. my steam account there? or is it strictly text only?
>>2784646you may as well just say "for a good time call...."
>>2784651i mean.. that's basically why im asking
>>2780933it's literally built for anti-social giga loser boomers aka the multiboxers and THJ tranny players.
>$5~ per cosmetic changed piece of armorNah I'll enjoy my clownsuit
>>2784978if cosmetic slots cost money then the clown suit becomes a badge of honor
>>2784978What's the point of those tokens when you're basically forced to stay in werewolf form
I feel that with the PH change to some of the older dungeons, you can amass quite a bit of plat just by camping valuable vendor trash in LGuk or SolB. Like Kobold King is usually up it seems, so you can get quite a few of those bracers that sell for about 150. Not that it matters anyways, I'll probably just powerlevel tradeskills for cheevos.
>>2785587for people who play real classes rather than enchanter faggots>>2785661that +10 jewelry ain't gonna make itself
>>2785587>basically forced to stay in werewolf formI never use werewolf form because it's retarded and pointless
>>2787532It's 100 dex for free, why wouldn't you take it as a melee
>>2788721I want to play a lizardman that looks like he has HIV with his best friend, a skeleton, not a werewolf.
>>2788898Secrets wtf are you doing out of Discord?
>>2788898But the werewolf looks like he grinded up a dps meter and snorted it like it was drugsThen a taxidermist gave him botox.
>>2788721>It's 100 dex for freefo real? I remember it only giving some modest atk boost
Two questions:1. Is there any appeal to this for someone who's never touched EQ before? I tried playing for an hour but nothing really clicked and by how much xp I got at lvl 1 from mobs it seems like it's a massive grind? I saw exactly one other player the whole time too, this was on an EU server.2. Since you can only play one character per realm, is there a way to race change if you get bored of your race? Or are you stuck unless you reroll on another realm? I like the Dark Elves but the Lizard and Frog men look cool too..
>>2784978jesus these clowns are greedy as fuck lol
>people unironically think kerran are a good additionis it mental illness?
>>27893151. the game is grinding and messing around with combos, that's it2. you can unlock different races with achievements, it's kind of annoying to do depending on which deity you start with though
>>278919330 attack 100 dex and a lifetap proc garou is retardedly good form, also stacks with shaman dex buff>>2789315Grind for loot get stronger to grind better loot>EURip. Everybody's in dungeons head to Befallen, I walk past a few people in Freeport thoughRace change you grind rephttps://eqlwiki.com/User:Alanna/Alanna%27s_Race_Unlock_Guide
>>2789315A lot of EverQuest, and it still is in the mainline game, is grinding monsters and shooting the shit with your party mates, of which are required because soloing is either very resource intensive or very risky.In Legends your character is strong enough to solo a lot of monsters that would otherwise rock your shit so you don't have to spend an hour making a group, an hour playing then going to bed.I like the faction system. Pretty much any entity you kill in the entire game will have a numerical value for how much he disliked you beating his ass, but somewhere in the world someone else's numerical number will increase for your actions.Some people want to be liked everywhere so they're very picky about who they beat up, while some people play the game like they're using a lawn mower in an exotic flower park.You can turn towns into dungeons, and it's pretty cool.It's pretty much the DM just rolls with whatever you want to do kind of game.
>>2790559Should I have picked US even as EU? I don't want ass ping in my MMOs but are EU servers dead?
>>2790586Shouldn't be playing this garbage to begin with
>>2790586I think all of the servers are located in Nevada so, I'd just make an alt and see if the game plays smooth or not.
>>2790788>I think all of the servers are located in NevadaThat makes them marking stuff as EU really shitty, honestly. There are definitely people who are playing this game from both timezones that are retired and playing at fucking 3 AM EST who can play with Europeans.
>>2790692Why
>>2791076It's gay
I think the Forage skill you buy from AA is broken, which isn't a big deal but it's annoying because you have to spend AA on it to find that out and I'm not going to the discord gay bar to tell someone.