[EQ2] Game Update #39

[Boloboy]

About to make a char on ab. A few questions....are conjurors, dirge, monk and rangers good soloers? I know its a broad question just the class's I am interested in

[Boloboy]

nm went with a Ranger named Quinsareth. Wood elf! Any tips or advice much appreciated

[Dandai]

Have you ever played before? That would help narrow the subjects of advice offered.

[Boloboy]

Not eq2. Eq1 wow lotro and many others!

[Boloboy]

anyone wanna duo on the evil side? Let me know!

[Grizzlebeard]

Originally Posted by Boloboy

anyone wanna duo on the evil side? Let me know!

You're a ranger, why would you want to duo on the evil side?

[Avatar16789]

Originally Posted by The Hiram Key

Just a side note, everytime you spam me twice an hour on the hour for the LoN tournaments on the weekends, I want to punch you in the fucking face. It's your game, it's your world, blah blah fucking blah, but you fucking GM's are ruining my roleplay experience with your goddamn endless spam about your fucking card game.

Edit: Paring this down to get the focus on the important message.

Seconded, stop it you assholes.

[Keronos]

Originally Posted by Arrr

Shard definitely has the nostalgia value going for it. but it's definitely way too easy.

Best case scenario: they put it on par with Nizara and make the loot actually good.

I guess it's the cool internet bad guy thing to say it's LOL EZ MODE, but realistically SoF isn't that easy. I am not decked out in raid gear and neither are the pickup groups I did SoF with and for those (the average player) it's hard. I read someone saying that it's easier then Unrest, but I have to call bullshit, this zone is much harder then unrest. Haven't been to Nizara, but from what I read it might be harder then SoF, but from the viewpoint of the regular player SoF is hard.

I'd say the loot is on par with the difficulty, I got some upgrades there for slots I didn't have stuff from other EoF instances in. I'd sure wear AoN regardless of the -100 HP.

The zone has a lot of fear resistance gear that's situationally usefull in the zone and it might be a sign they are gonna have dragons fear a lot Kunark like in the old days.

Originally Posted by Arrr

Worst case scenario: they leave it like it is. and people run it 2-3 times this week for the few overpowered pieces. and then never run it again.

You're telling me that if the zone were harder you would keep clearing it even if you have all the pieces of loot you need from the zone ? I call bullshit. The only difference is that if the zone were harder it would take longer and make it impossible for the average lvl 70 to do until Kunark.

I can see from a raiders point of view (used to be one myself) that you want a single group zone that's suited towards people with raid gear and that offers upgrades to raiders, but what would the purpose of raiding be if the best loot you can get is in a single group instance (once you've done raiding with 20+ people).

I think SoF is a succes, it's harder then Unrest, offers some good loot, looks great and has a lot of nostalgia moments.

[Arrr]

It really is pretty easy. The mobs have almost no HP, INCLUDING the epic 2x mobs. who also appear to hit like girls. If your healers are quick with cures, you basically just win by default.

You're telling me that if the zone were harder you would keep clearing it even if you have all the pieces of loot you need from the zone ? I call bullshit. The only difference is that if the zone were harder it would take longer and make it impossible for the average lvl 70 to do until Kunark

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absolutely. I really can't upgrade much of anything in Nizara anymore, but it's still a fucking blast. That place is pretty damn hard.

[Qhue]

The Evil side is cooler, you only wish your starting city was as fabu as Neriak. All rangers should be Frogloks however. As amusing as Frogloks in platemail are they are even better dolled up like Robin Hood and plunking away on their shortbows.

[Brogarn]

Originally Posted by Qhue

The Evil side is cooler, you only wish your starting city was as fabu as Neriak. All rangers should be Frogloks however. As amusing as Frogloks in platemail are they are even better dolled up like Robin Hood and plunking away on their shortbows.

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Me thinks you just named Brogarn's 5,142nd reroll character. Well played, sir.

[Draegan]

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[Kendricke]

Originally Posted by Keronos

I can see from a raiders point of view (used to be one myself) that you want a single group zone that's suited towards people with raid gear and that offers upgrades to raiders, but what would the purpose of raiding be if the best loot you can get is in a single group instance (once you've done raiding with 20+ people).

I think SoF is a succes, it's harder then Unrest, offers some good loot, looks great and has a lot of nostalgia moments.

I appreciate the desire for Unrest 2.0 where ungeared players can go for the chance at good loot without too much ridiculous effort. And honestly, I'm not against the idea for more dungeons and more content for characters that might be a bit more casual or a bit less geared. I'm a huge fan of Unrest, Acadechism, Mistmoore Catacombs, Kaladim, Obelisk of Blight, and Crypt of Valdoon already. But this zone - THIS zone is the Shard of Fear.

You know...Fear? Cazic-Thule's doorstep? Home of the Faceless? Fear?

Yeah, I want my Shard of Fear hard. I want it ridiculously hard. I want it so hard groups are complaining about it being impossible because they haven't figured out encounters or puzzles yet.

Know what we did this week? We romped through Fear with a Wizard's alt Guardian who was in mostly Mastercrafted with a couple of Legendary set pieces. And we did just fine. Let me repeat: tank was in basic buddy gear, and we were multipulling yellow ^^^'s five at a time.

Several of our members went in with pick-up groups that were blowing the doors off the zone in broker gear.

My ideal Shard of Fear would have been scaled up to level 80+ right off. I would have stated up front that this zone was not intended to be cleared by current level 70's and that most players would actually be unable to completely more than a small part of the zone till after the level cap was raised.

This would have the benefit of (A) giving players a progressive zone to work through that comes out right before a major expansion, which (B) adds to the chance the zone will actually see significant traffic after said expansion actually releases, and (C) gives up front glory to the hardest of the hard while still giving down the road glory to players who need to level/gear up in Kunark a bit first.

I was still running the original Plane of Fear after Planes of Power released. I can't see myself touching Shard of Fear much after Rise of Kunark releases, except to run through for the achievements I'm missing out on now as a 70/100.

[daishinzo]

I really wish they'd take a page from WoW instancing and make a normal and heroic (x2) option with maybe even x3 final bosses with appropriate loot. Nothing 6 man in this game is even remotely hard and people whining about it either a) play with bad players b) are bad themselves. Gear means pretty much nothing when you are with competent people who know how to play their class. I pull down 3x the exp in groups with alts in shit gear who know what they are doing than with idiots in whatever the best tiered shit is for the level bracket. I clear instances in half the time with shit geared players who know what they are doing than dildos with full fabled who still don't know how to play their class (mostly it's KoS raid fabled tards cause EoF raids you have to kind of pretend to know how to play). I want my option for hard mode damnit. It makes people better at the game to have challenges as well in a small group setting so even idiots have a chance to get better by trying out the hard stuff.

[Pharazon]

Are paladins a good class to pvp with? I rolled one on Nagafen a few days ago to mess around with during the free period. Will make something else though if they suck for pvp.