BDA to Phinigel

[Swish]

had our first raid night tonight. in 4 hours we did

instanced xanamech
instanced behemoth
instanced aerin`dar
instanced HoH trials
instanced mithaniel
instanced grummus
instanced carprin splits
instanced vallon
instanced tallon

was fun night!

made some slight alterations - well done on your guaranteed competitionless pixels, wear them with pride.

[nicemace]

made some slight alterations - well done on your guaranteed competitionless pixels, wear them with pride.

Yep. And it was a load of fun. I don't miss waking up in the middle of the night while I was raiding on p99. Done that. I've got nothing to prove.

[Daldaen]

Had the most competitive experience in EverQuest in the past 5 years across all servers.

Having a raid split between 7 picks of PoStorms swapping around to kill the minis racing other guilds to more quickly mobilize, pulls and DPS race these mobs. Way more competitive than running from a start line to a dragon to then wait 20min while people log in and then pulling it across the zone.

Was fun but I'm glad it's over. I now look forward to getting EP flagged tonight or tomorrow given the server cooperates.

[arsenalpow]

We did behemoth, AD, grummus, and carp last night. We should have split carp but we did zero beta PoP testing so we had an idea but played it safe. No flagging for us again until Monday. Everyone gets the weekend off to level.

[Daldaen]

We did behemoth, AD, grummus, and carp last night. We should have split carp but we did zero beta PoP testing so we had an idea but played it safe. No flagging for us again until Monday. Everyone gets the weekend off to level.

Wow so casual.

But you can level in CoD and Tactics, two great zones $$$.

[Man0warr]

Did Halls of Honor NW Basement for an hour or so and Tactics for a couple hours. HoH is way better exp, but Tactics has more loot (ornate/parchments/runes).

[Daldaen]

So how are you guys doing leveling? We have about 10 level 63s and 15-20 level 62s. Everyone else is just sitting at 61.

[Relbaic]

So how are you guys doing leveling? We have about 10 level 63s and 15-20 level 62s. Everyone else is just sitting at 61.

A handful of 63s, 10 or so 62s and a bunch of people deep in to 61. Poor Trollolololol lost 30% xp and 2 xp pots from rolbacks. HEHE

[arsenalpow]

My static group is shooting for 65 by next weekend at the absolute latest.

[Daldaen]

I'd settle with 62 by the end of the weekend but I am skeptical. Thinking we will be raiding EPs hard on Saturday.

Gonna be lolzy. Getting tons of EP Patters and EP gear that no one can equip because they aren't level 65.

[khysanth]

http://i.imgur.com/IrQUcJn.jpg

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[Papa]

RIP Feb 2015 account "TacoSmasher"

[khanable]

congratulations on your accomplishment

[arsenalpow]

Turbo nerd

[khanable]

in highschool we had a downs kid that everyone called turbo

he was a cool cat

[Daldaen]

Haven't taken any days off work and I'll probably be flagged into EP on same day as you bruh.

Though I'll still be a level 61 scrub, but so long as we don't have the ultra classic level 65 requirement for PoTime I doubt that even matter.

[Relbaic]

Fucking server crashed and rolled back 30% of my fucking exp bar last night and pissed me off so much. I'd be 65 right now without a rollback. Gonna try to hit 65 before raids start this afternoon but its questionable if I make it.

Games piss you off? :(

[Vallanor]

Is leveling super fast on Phinny or something? I feel like level 59 on P99 takes a solid 30-40 hours of grinding or more for the typical player. There are people who have gained 5 levels in 2 days on that server? Whaaat?

[arsenalpow]

Is leveling super fast on Phinny or something? I feel like level 59 on P99 takes a solid 30-40 hours of grinding or more for the typical player. There are people who have gained 5 levels in 2 days on that server? Whaaat?

Even if you're taking it easy you can get 10-20% of a level an hour. There's some no lifers though obviously.

[Papa]

Even if you're taking it easy you can get 10-20% of a level an hour.

10% an hour is super easy/casual even in a bad group

There's some no lifers though obviously.

OGC and AoS namely

[Daldaen]

Is leveling super fast on Phinny or something? I feel like level 59 on P99 takes a solid 30-40 hours of grinding or more for the typical player. There are people who have gained 5 levels in 2 days on that server? Whaaat?

Thus why Kunark was an awful expansion. Leveling took too long and there isn't enough interesting dungeon content to keep you entertained. Furthermore grouping in classic is a horrible idea if you have any option to solo. Getting at most a 20% bonus for a full group is so pitiful.

They eventually fixed this around PoP so that a full group is getting 160% bonus and splitting it 5 ways. Rather than the Velious 20% bonus.

[Daldaen]

If you aren't getting at least 20% an hr ur doin it wrong. 30% is a good bar.

EXP potions and RAF accounts are cheating.

[Raev]

Is leveling super fast on Phinny or something? I feel like level 59 on P99 takes a solid 30-40 hours of grinding or more for the typical player. There are people who have gained 5 levels in 2 days on that server? Whaaat?

Players on Phinigel use the Live combat system which involves huge bonuses. IIRC Naudee was talking about 'how their alt Rogues only did 200 dps to Tunare vs their main Rogues doing 250'. Compare vs P99 where a BIS Rogue will do maybe 75-80. Then remember that that those bosses have 'Mitigation of the Mighty' which reduces damage, but the normal dungeon trash does not, and you'll start to see how people can get 10 AA per hour in a normal group and clear Vex Thal in 2.5 hours.

[khanable]

lol what the fuck 250dps

gross

[Daldaen]

No RAF accounts. How is a cheap ass 25% potion cheating?
When they introduced micro transactions they promised they would never sell items with power.

Here we are years later and all the people rushing to beat content are burning EXP potions. It's dumb.

Calling it cheating was done tongue in cheek though. I just think they're both dumb things to have done from a development standpoint.

[maskedmelonpai]

Heres the thing though, Troll's xp pots are what allow all the rest of you to play for free there (^。~)v

[maskedmelonpai]

That not a knock on troll either. It just the thing about micro transactions is they need to be useful or transferrable to afford long term profitability.

[nhdjoseywales]

<-- Lvl 65 Rogue

[LostCause]

now time to farm content and get kronos for the next 4 and half months then GoD comes out.

[Nibblewitz]

I pray for y'all. Everyday.

[arsenalpow]

I pray for y'all. Everyday.

you don't believe in god

[Ravager]

you don't believe in god
Nibblewitz worships the one true God of Power and Smiting Solusek Ro. You fucking heathen.

[Papa]

someone killed rathe earlier (AoS?), Quarm probably dead tonight

[Daldaen]

[Fri Feb 03 21:52:58 2017] <SYSTEMWIDE_MESSAGE>: Quarm has been defeated by a group of hardy adventurers! Please join us in congratulating Qelyn along with everyone else who participated in this achievement!

Launched on Wednesday at 5PM EST.

53 Hours to complete the expansion. Impressive.

[khanable]

The fuck is a quarm

[Daldaen]

http://images.mmorpg.com/images/galleries/full/442007/02b37ea1-d3c7-4a4f-b43b-e82d90d0b913.JPG

[Relbaic]

OGC got fucking smoked

[Relbaic]

OGC doesn't do open world, remember? But they're still the best guild on the server.

[Swish]

[Fri Feb 03 21:52:58 2017] <SYSTEMWIDE_MESSAGE>: Quarm has been defeated by a group of hardy adventurers! Please join us in congratulating Qelyn along with everyone else who participated in this achievement!

Launched on Wednesday at 5PM EST.

53 Hours to complete the expansion. Impressive.

How long til the next one?

[Mistle]

Three months.

[Pokesan]

goddam thats embarassing jcr lol

[Daldaen]

Elemental Flagged guys!

[Relbaic]

Level 62 guys!

[Pokesan]

What's the embarrassing part? That DBG's servers fucked us or that our competition cheated?

mainly the part where you played eq for 3 days straight

the loss is extremely funny in that context and for other reasons

[Pokesan]

OGC did not get FTE on Quarm and must CONCEDE

[entruil]

[Fri Feb 03 21:52:58 2017] <SYSTEMWIDE_MESSAGE>: Quarm has been defeated by a group of hardy adventurers! Please join us in congratulating Qelyn along with everyone else who participated in this achievement!

Launched on Wednesday at 5PM EST.

53 Hours to complete the expansion. Impressive.

How long did it take originally on live?


Was Quarm (final raid in Planes of Power) first defeated before or after the release of the Legacy of Ykesha expansion? After (Quarm was beaten in July 2003 -- five months after LOY's release, by the guild Township Rebellion, who is still going strong today)


October 21, 2002: Planes of Power Goes Live

SAN DIEGO, CA – October 21, 2002– Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE),
a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online gaming, announced
today that EverQuest®: The Planes of Power™ will be available in retail
stores tomorrow. The Planes of Power introduces high-level EverQuest
gamers to an arching storyline and takes players on an adventure of
epic proportions with hundreds of powerful new weapons, spells and
creatures, 20 action-packed zones and an increased level cap maximum to
65 allowing players to become more powerful than ever before.

“EverQuest fans have been waiting for an expansion that reveals more of
the lore and history of Norrath,” said Scott McDaniel, vice president
of marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. “The development team has
worked hard to deliver an expansion pack that is incredibly rich in
content and rewards our veteran players. We’re confident EverQuest
players will find The Planes of Power an exciting addition.”

In The Planes of Power, a portal has been unveiled and now travelers
can experience a world unlike anything they have ever seen. Players can
share in the knowledge of this extraordinary discovery as they fight
the most powerful deities to bring justice to Norrath. Players will
fiercely battle the minions of Rallos Zek in the Plane of Tactics, join
arms with Karana to regain control of the Plane of Storms, and overcome
vile pestilence in the Plane of Disease in their quest to unlock the
mysteries of the Planes.

EverQuest: The Planes of Power Features List:

• More than 20 new action-packed “planes” challenging players and
pushing teamwork abilities to the limit

• Enormous planar city, the Plane of Knowledge, provides a hub for easy
travel and player interaction

• A new cast of visually stunning non-player characters including
Clockwork Golems, Mephits, and Elemental Guardians for earth, wind, air
and fire

• Challenging new quest system that allows unprecedented depths of
gameplay

• Over 50 new monsters, hundreds of new items and spells, and expanded
trade skill system, and hundreds of new items

• All-new raid system that allows up to 60 players to share exciting
adventures and gain experience

• Increased level cap to 65 including new spells and abilities

• A central storyline links the content from every zone into one epic
quest







took ~8 months?

should delete this but going to hit reply... answered my own question and deleted illogical text from a misread and leaving this here for RnF Quailfire.


also found this thread archived on daybreak thought it was kind of cool..

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/who-is-quarm.59704/

[Swish]

Three months.

So in 3 months time nobody will care, the loot will be outdated and those "server firsts" will only be remembered by the people who shut their lives down for a week and maybe Daldean

Feels good that characters I made in 2010 are still playable in 2017 and wont be movelogged when the train wreck reaches its final destination :)

[bigjerry]

So in 3 months time nobody will care, the loot will be outdated and those "server firsts" will only be remembered by the people who shut their lives down for a week and maybe Daldean

Feels good that characters I made in 2010 are still playable in 2017 and wont be movelogged when the train wreck reaches its final destination :)

lol it was a good post

but new characters are more fun neway peace

[bigjerry]

loy? oh lord

[nhdjoseywales]

The embarrassing part is you guys didn't contest a single open world one.

contest what? they had lvl 65 wizzies 15 min after xpac launched. that was game, set, and match for racing.

[Daldaen]

Elemental Sleeves acquired! I officially have elemental armor, such excitement some of these fights with 80% level 61s.

[entruil]

meh...

[entruil]

fuck it...

[Mistle]

So in 3 months time nobody will care, the loot will be outdated and those "server firsts" will only be remembered by the people who shut their lives down for a week and maybe Daldean

Well technically no. Next expansion is the casual-friendly LDoN the raiders won't care about (judging by the disdain for the evil casuals we see here, I'm surprised they don't demand it be released at the same time as the very casual unfriendly GoD), so its six months of raiding PoTime. But yes, these server firsts aren't something anyone would care about a few days from now. I had the first killing blow of a dragon on Tribunal, and nobody cares about that. :(

Feels good that characters I made in 2010 are still playable in 2017 and wont be movelogged when the train wreck reaches its final destination :)

Well even Fippy hasn't actually caught up entirely to live servers and no one has said anything about movelogging. However, it's not like people gave up their p99 characters either, or the PoP enabled emu servers won't become an option when the time comes. I log into my cleric sometimes to rez people in Unrest and all my ToV armor and VP drops etc are still there.

For these guys they'd rather have fun killling dragons and gods together in a place where they can actually do that at a relaxed, or not so relaxed in Troll's case, place, even if there will be an end to it someday. Can you say how that is wrong?

[AzzarTheGod]

How long did it take originally on live?









took ~8 months?

should delete this but going to hit reply... answered my own question and deleted illogical text from a misread and leaving this here for RnF Quailfire.


also found this thread archived on daybreak thought it was kind of cool..

https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/who-is-quarm.59704/


It didn't count, there is no legit Quarm timeline because SOE rolled out an incomplete expansion with built-in cockblocks and unfinished content/itemization was put behind unbeatable events during PoP.

It caused a lot of controversy and I believe was the ultimate reason Fires of Heaven leadership quit the game and went to work for Blizzard Entertainment on WoW.

But its a good post to give a little bit of perspective still.

You'd need to figure out when PoTime flagging was legalized and allowed by SOE via Plane of Earth, as well as the 3-4 individual Quarm patches that were done before he was killed from what I recall.

[Llodd]

53 hours?

Waaaaaaay too easy.

[Speedi]

So in 3 months time nobody will care, the loot will be outdated and those "server firsts" will only be remembered by the people who shut their lives down for a week and maybe Daldean

Feels good that characters I made in 2010 are still playable in 2017 and wont be movelogged when the train wreck reaches its final destination :)

Lol, Good post!

[Thana8088]

If you think players ruin Phinigel more than they ruin P99 you need your head checked. Immediately.

Still here, eh? Wow p99 has got its hooks in you bigtime.

[Fasttimes]

Catterine wru!

[Pokesan]

Yes the game I have not played in ~6 months that is free and still installed on my PC that I could easily fire up at any time definitely "has its hooks in me". Makes complete sense. Amazing how many cucks try to use this completely illogical argument.

you lost concede now

[Mead]

Actually we won and remain #1 guild on Phinigel

I'm wondering if you're waiting for someone to bite this troll bait. Nobody around here gives a shit about OGC, AoS, EoE, MIM, or any other Phinny guild's "accomplishments" lol. I don't think it's going to get you much. Unfortunately for you, DBG doesn't allow trolling on their forums, so I guess it's pretty difficult for you guys to flaunt and taunt AoS.

[Thana8088]

Unfortunately for you, DBG doesn't allow trolling on their forums, so I guess it's pretty difficult for you guys to flaunt and taunt AoS.

Ah. That explains everything.

<3 Fasttimes

Hi Poke :D

[Mead]

Ah. That explains everything.

It really does. They don't mess around on their forums. They are strict and enforce bans on any type of trolling. Which only stresses jcr's Swish-like desperation to troll his opposition. But like I said in previous post, nobody around here cares about the drama there. Very few AoS members around these parts and clearly none of them give a shit about p99 rnf.

[Swish]

It really does. They don't mess around on their forums. They are strict and enforce bans on any type of trolling. Which only stresses jcr's Swish-like desperation to troll his opposition. But like I said in previous post, nobody around here cares about the drama there. Very few AoS members around these parts and clearly none of them give a shit about p99 rnf.

The only opposition I have on these forums are a few haters. You're a fine example of one. What did I ever do to upset you, friend? PM me and we can talk it through.

Also nobody is talking about BDA in this thread, non-factor status confirmed...see you back here in a few months <3

[Relbaic]

Kinda baffling to me as well

/shrug

You play a cleric, that's about as easy as it comes.

[nhdjoseywales]

If I wanted to do nothing but auto attack and hit 1 button every 10 seconds I'd play Rogue.

It's really just hitting two keys then repositioning as needed.

[Swish]

So you're telling me someone with less than 90% 90 day RA had enough DKP to beat all the other Monk on Battlefist on Wed ands still had enough left over to beat them all for Shinai and then still more than any of them on Quarm hammer? That doesn't seem like sketchy office shit at all.

calm down bro, in 3 months PoP raids won't be the latest thing and his pixels will be outdated...then you can have a good laugh at him as you cash yours in :o

[Mead]

Autism levels about to peak in this thread.

[mr_jon3s]

calm down bro, in 3 months PoP raids won't be the latest thing and his pixels will be outdated...then you can have a good laugh at him as you cash yours in :o

Swish we get 6 months of PoP.

[heyokah]

http://i.imgur.com/Lxj6vr0.png

First PoP loot sexy as f

Why did you put an ornament on it when yer a dumb frog and you cant really see their armor anyway?

Also Moardots=the new Swish.

[Ahldagor]

Autism levels about to peak in this thread.

This is the hot spot bulging the earth like yellowstone.

[nhdjoseywales]

So you're telling me someone with less than 90% 90 day RA had enough DKP to beat all the other Monk on Battlefist on Wed ands still had enough left over to beat them all for Shinai and then still more than any of them on Quarm hammer? That doesn't seem like sketchy office shit at all.

he chose to spend all his dkp on those 2 items. he had more dkp than any other monk by quite a bit. everyone else figured "there will be more". I didn't bid to win anything this first run myself. I think a lot of people way overpaid for stuff this first run.

[nhdjoseywales]

So you're telling me someone with less than 90% 90 day RA had enough DKP to beat all the other Monk on Battlefist on Wed ands still had enough left over to beat them all for Shinai and then still more than any of them on Quarm hammer? That doesn't seem like sketchy office shit at all.

we have open bid dkp, everyone knows what people pay. everyone chooses whether to bid or not. people do keep up with other peoples dkp. nothing sketchy at all, keep your fuckin nose in yer own yard

[Relbaic]

nothing sketchy at all, keep your fuckin nose in yer own yard

Does that apply to people in your own guild as well?

[nhdjoseywales]

Does that apply to people in your own guild as well?

keep me out of your bda/healbro drama

[Relbaic]

You put yourself in it by going along with this entire thread then telling someone else yo keep their nose out of your guild.

[Papa]

Love DKP guilds where you end up with Beastlords having timeweavers

DKP cucked again

[Raev]

Love DKP guilds where you end up with Beastlords having timeweavers

when you are completely clearing an expansion with 6 months left until the next one, does it really matter who gets what?

[nhdjoseywales]

You put yourself in it by going along with this entire thread then telling someone else yo keep their nose out of your guild.

I don't think I have ever commented negatively on bda in this thread had little experience with them on p99. I'm just here because as pointed out, there really isn't any other forum for phinigel. I think suggesting that someone winning nice stuff is shady with zero idea of what the fuck he is talking about is stupid, don't you agree?

[Swish]

Sounds like a toxic raid scene you got over there.

[Raev]

Sounds like a toxic raid scene you got over there.

DPS racing and training are both pretty dumb, and yet they would be a huge improvement over what we have here.

[Mistle]

Sounds like a toxic raid scene you got over there.

These aren't even raids they're fucking each other over in.

[Papa]

yea it's open world, git gud swish, sorry you live in your own safe space fenced off server with nobody around you

[Swish]

keep it coming, after 720 pages this thred might have potential

http://i.imgur.com/GyfF8Tg.gif

[Pokesan]

all phinny players can drink my cum lol

[Kagey]

Level 60 Rog in 5 days 12hrs played.

Demonn

[Daldaen]

https://i.imgur.com/xa0Lpvx.png

https://i.imgur.com/TLXuPC0.png

https://i.imgur.com/4CBy7yj.png

https://i.imgur.com/5HIQJYh.png

Not too bad of a pixel haul. Never raided before 6PM... though there were one or two nights that went late.

Finally got into some content that is semi-challenging. Granted when everyone is 65 with their spells it won't be but rushing to do it when most of the guild is 61/62 made it pretty tough.

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/xa0Lpvx.png

https://i.imgur.com/TLXuPC0.png

https://i.imgur.com/4CBy7yj.png

https://i.imgur.com/5HIQJYh.png

Not too bad of a pixel haul. Never raided before 6PM... though there were one or two nights that went late.

Finally got into some content that is semi-challenging. Granted when everyone is 65 with their spells it won't be but rushing to do it when most of the guild is 61/62 made it pretty tough.

Out of date in 3 months, bet everyone can't wait for the next expansion :)

[GraveD]

Is 255 still the cap per stat in PoP? If so, what the hell is even the point of all this gear with ridiculously high stat bonuses on it?

[arsenalpow]

No the caps go up with level 65 and planar power AAs.

[Daldaen]

Is 255 still the cap per stat in PoP? If so, what the hell is even the point of all this gear with ridiculously high stat bonuses on it?

Every level beyond 60 increases your stat cap by 5. Up to 280 at level 65 in this expansion.

Planar Power AA increases your stat cap by 5, with 5 ranks, your stat cap can get to 305.

Innate Enlightenment increases Caster/Priests Wisdom/Intelligence cap by 10, with 5 ranks, your Wis/Int can get to 355.

The point is to max your main stats and secondary stats and have some to go over for the variety of stat debuff AEs in the expansion. Plus it lets you focus on other things when considering gear. AC, HP/Mana, ATK, FT, Regen, Focuses, Mod2s/Heroics

[Kagey]

Daldaen is a planes of power prophet of knowledge.

Thanks for the flags!

Cheers Healbro, if only you had your elemental reverse DS pants during lguk.

[Daldaen]

We also had a dumb applicant break the Zebuxoruk cocoon at the end of Time when half the loot was still being awarded. Guy got kicked on the spot and both loots got looted 10 seconds before the instance collapsed and we got ported back to the Library.

Man PoP was great. Can't wait to do random groups in any of 7-8 solid EXP zones in the expansion. Should be plenty of Variance in zones to keep us entertained until LDoN and GoD.

[arsenalpow]

Meh I'll stick with HF for exp. 24-30% an hour with a pot and I don't have to worry about anyone else. Like 6 AA an hour too at 65.

[arsenalpow]

Also, Dald use your powers and tell me where the stupid 65 monk disc tome is purchased. It wasn't in PoK at the usual guy.

[Daldaen]

Meh I'll stick with HF for exp. 24-30% an hour with a pot and I don't have to worry about anyone else. Like 6 AA an hour too at 65.

Ugh. I can do HF to get to 65, but for AAs I'd prefer to alternate between the Planes.

The reason Kunark sucked so much dick was level 51-60 was so slow and you had like 4 dungeons to grind in.

PoP you can do 61-65 or AAs in like 10 zones. Fire, Water, Earth, ToSR, HoH, BoT, Tactics, CoD, PoV, PoS are all good even at 65. Keeps you entertained with constantly different mobs, different drops and different camps.

Atleast until LDoN then you can cycle through different themes and then GoD drops $$$.

As for your 65 tome, I assume you mean Earthwalk? Maybe check Commonlands near Shady.

[Daldaen]

Dald trade me your duplicate spectral and rune words for my druid. He has Summers Flame and Karanas Renewal already needs everything else.

I've won 0 Ethereal, Spectral or Glyphed turn in drops. Shit luck is shit.

[Erati]

Whats BDAs Elemental Plane plans - what is left to access them?

that LoY mission task gets so dull, not a big fan.

[arsenalpow]

We took the weekend off to level up. We have about 30 BoT keys. Tonight is Terris Thule, HoH trials, then Mith Marr. Tomorrow is tactics. Wednesday will be Saryn and something else, Thursday is another carpin plus bertoxx.

We are going crazy to get into EP/Time. It will be there next week.

[Daldaen]

Whats BDAs Elemental Plane plans - what is left to access them?

that LoY mission task gets so dull, not a big fan.

Yea reminds me a lot of Creator in DoN and 69.1 in DoD. Just a big old boring trash clear with minimal pixel drops and not all that challenging.

I'm looking to try creating and aggro kite AE Group here in Fire in a bit to test out some theories I have.

[arsenalpow]

Yea reminds me a lot of Creator in DoN and 69.1 in DoD. Just a big old boring trash clear with minimal pixel drops and not all that challenging.

I'm looking to try creating and aggro kite AE Group here in Fire in a bit to test out some theories I have.

I'm fine with HF to just ding 65 asap, then I need about 30 AAs to finish off my PoP stuff. The aug the boss drops isn't bad though.

[Daldaen]

I'm fine with HF to just ding 65 asap, then I need about 30 AAs to finish off my PoP stuff. The aug the boss drops isn't bad though.

Be careful using that aug though. Recommended level 70 will lower the stats on whatever you put it in. It won't end up being worth it since you'll hit the 250 ATK cap once you're in some EP Leather and PoTime gear.

Time drops so many pixels. Think it was 44 drops total last night. Basically everyone walked away with 1 piece.

[khysanth]

http://i.imgur.com/IrQUcJn.jpg

42

[Papa]

Time drops so many pixels. Think it was 44 drops total last night. Basically everyone walked away with 1 piece.

the new VT :D

how long does a full PoTime clear take? (without grey area exploits!)

[Daldaen]

the new VT :D

how long does a full PoTime clear take? (without grey area exploits!)

Time unlike VT has no trash (outside of those tied to events). So your exploits to aggro shit through walls and do big train pulls doesn't really matter. It also needs to be done linearly so no skipping stuff.

For our first clear I think it was like 4 hours?

I expect time will be a 2 hour clear for top guilds at maximum farm status. We were running with only 60 toons about 20 of whom are level 65 and most of us lack important spells. So I expect next weeks clear should be closer to the 3 hour mark.

About an hour for the trash clear P1/2/3, about 40-60 min for Phase 4 and Phase 5 and about 10 min for Quarm.

Also we are into real instance territory. So we may just clear P1-5 and then drop the instance come back tomorrow and split raid Phase 1 with 2-3 splits and then kill Quarm 2-3 times.

[Valakut]

I just want to say thanks for keeping the lights on in RNF boys

[arsenalpow]

It's a trade off with HF. There you 24-30% an hour with zero interference, but you don't get the parchments you would somewhere like BoT. It's also super easy and consistent.

[dafier]

This thread:

http://i.imgur.com/HPguOM0.gif?noredirect

[Daldaen]

That's my only gripe about the EPs. No spectral parchments drop from the trash. Named can be a bit rare too. WTB new charm, heal, and HP buff. QQ.

[Baler]

Delete this Thread.

[Whirled]

Delete this Thread.

Then both servers. Start fresh .... or don't. Probably healthier for all to not

[Daldaen]

Can't delete the thread.

We need constant BDA updates on their PoP progression and any corrupt shadow council pixels Chest directs his underlings to give him. We also need to know how baller OGC is when they're split raiding Time and the scraps that Trollolol is thrown for being a Cleric.

Plus... we've got LDoN and GoD coming up here in the future. Many good posts to be had about Tipt trials, the Kod'Taz clusterfuck that will be inevitable in the NE corner of the zone with the ghosts and various tiers of guilds experiences with Uqua, Inkt'uta, Txevu and Tacvi. And of course the legendary clusterfuckery that will occur on open world M'shas. If they don't get mighty buffed holy shit will that zone be hilarious. Especially if they spawn in picks. Can't wait to see killcrews pick around with a chanter to memblur and manaburn down a goat.

[dafier]

Oh man, that reminds me of how much of a pain in the ass it was for me to get MS4. That damn thing dropped for everyone except for me. It took a long time for me to get that stupid spell. Dropped in that one sewer dungeon....LoDN I think.

[arsenalpow]

which task are you picking?

the hardest one, forgot the level range

[arsenalpow]

and now it doesn't matter because they removed one of the guys you talk to in order to fire the task

[nhdjoseywales]

Apparently HF instance is gone now. very sad. it was challenging.

[mr_jon3s]

Glad I got 65 this morning in Hates Fury. Was helping some guildies get 65 when they removed the guy and kicked us out of the zones.

[Ravager]

The real question: Does Chest use Luclin models?

[Llodd]

Is HoH the chanters playground grinding an AA every 10mins like it was on live?

[Swish]

Solo Exp is nerfed on Phinigel, AoE Groups or Just super strong groups who can wipe out tons of mobs very quickly are king.

http://i.imgur.com/EiCRrcp.gif

[Swish]

says the guy playing on a 25 pop pvp server

It's more than 25 people ACTUALLY

[LostCause]

im just trying get as many kronos as i can get before this server dies.. since it will at some point esp how fast content is released.. lets see how pop is after OoW

[AzzarTheGod]

im just trying get as many kronos as i can get before this server dies.. since it will at some point esp how fast content is released.. lets see how pop is after OoW

WHEN IS THE BEAST EXPAC DRAGONS OF NORRATH COMING OUT? THATS A REAL MONSTER IT ADDED A COOL NEW CURRENCY WITH COOL DRAGONS YOU CAN........RAID.....?

[dafier]

Bump

[Daldaen]

Didn't get a chance to level yesterday. Looking forward to doing some PoP exp groups. So many good options!

[bigjerry]

WHEN IS THE BEAST EXPAC DRAGONS OF NORRATH COMING OUT? THATS A REAL MONSTER IT ADDED A COOL NEW CURRENCY WITH COOL DRAGONS YOU CAN........RAID.....?

im lowkey excited for this 1 gonna have my boy heallun trade some of his krono pile for a blade of carnage so i can lvl fast

when do mercs come out again?? im real hyped for that

[Daldaen]

Mercenaries are SoD, 10 expansions down the line. About 2.5-3 years until that happens.

[booter]

Terris-Thule and Mith Marr down last night. VZ TZ RZ tonight!

[Fifield]

Didn't get a chance to level yesterday. Looking forward to doing some PoP exp groups. So many good options!

my slow ass is still 62, lets group sometime

[Fifield]

I would tell you what im flagged for but im so god damn lost in this expansion.

I have been leveling in HoH, easy pulls good xp, you flagged for it?

[Daldaen]

I would tell you what im flagged for but im so god damn lost in this expansion.

I have been leveling in HoH, easy pulls good xp, you flagged for it?

Flagged for everything! Sure I'll Group with you fifpal. Should be on some time tonight after work.

http://home.earthlink.net/~brucehalpern/everquest/eqpopflag.html

https://i.imgur.com/UplgjLV.jpg

That flow chart should help you understand PoP flagging a bit.

http://www.alkabor.com/flags.html

That link you basically just go to the Seer in PoK, say "guided meditation", and "unlock memories" to her and copy/paste the logs of the resulting purple text in that link and hit enter. It will tell you what you're missing/have done.

It does have issues with the Hedge/Terris/Saryrn chain of flags though because they updated the seer's messaging at some point. So if it's telling you that you aren't flagged for Hedge or Terris even though you know you are, it's probably wrong.

[Fifield]

I still got the bst/bard combo going but it seems that finding a tank is always a pain. with you being a healer i might have to switch up to bst/war instead.

you boxing or just playing druid?

[Daldaen]

Just playing Druid for now.

It's tempting to roll a Chanter or Paladin box, but I refuse to use MQ2 and I'm not exactly sure how people box using two computers. I'm sure there's some fuckery that would allow you to use a single wireless mouse and keyboard for two PCs but I'm not clever enough to figure that out yet.

Tank is usually the thing holding up my groups yea.

[arsenalpow]

Fifepal has a raid tonight. Your BL is flagged for lots of stuff, your bard for less stuff.

[Fifield]

new froggies can be paladins, i love my alts if you do make a paladin i'd make something with ya.

I dont use any crazy system either for boxing, just auto follow with 2 melee, run through mob and bard is on the rear all i gotta do is hit assist with my wireless mouse on the laptop. but granted the bard melody is a little more simpler then trying to box like a necro or something.

Lets do it up! Im sure your in the same boat as me and everyone else needing lots of parchments and shit so grouping will be a good time

[Daldaen]

I do too! But on a different server.

Cazic-Thule first time raid tonight on TAKP. Going to be an exciting attempt. You can actually pull him into a building without him warping on top like he does on P99. You can also actually resist his fear Proc on a tank with 250+ MR (I have a feeling the CT fear proc isn't correct on P99).

Will be a fun attempt. I was just gonna lazily heal a group on Phinny on the side. No worries Fifield. I'll just find some random group tonight to hang with. Perhaps later this week once you're off raiding I will hit you up.

[nyclin]

I'm sure there's some fuckery that would allow you to use a single wireless mouse and keyboard for two PCs but I'm not clever enough to figure that out yet.

Something like this would do the trick: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BD8I2OY/

Can also get fancier and get a KVM switch which will also work on the monitor

[Relbaic]

I do too! But on a different server.

Cazic-Thule first time raid tonight on TAKP. Going to be an exciting attempt. You can actually pull him into a building without him warping on top like he does on P99. You can also actually resist his fear Proc on a tank with 250+ MR (I have a feeling the CT fear proc isn't correct on P99).

Will be a fun attempt. I was just gonna lazily heal a group on Phinny on the side. No worries Fifield. I'll just find some random group tonight to hang with. Perhaps later this week once you're off raiding I will hit you up.

Tonight should be an early night, just doing Tactics which won't take too long. I need to get 65 so I'd be up for tanking if ya need one!

[Fifield]

Can confirm Relbaics SK is a god damn beast, when we grouped in GE back in luclin i think i healed him once or twice in 2 hrs.

[Daldaen]

Sounds like my kind of group.

Really want to hit 65 this week so I can coast through some AAs and enjoy the great content PoP has to offer while earning AAs.

[nicemace]

We got jewed by bertox lockout that we didn't even attempt. I'm guessing it's from cunts clicking throne

[Daldaen]

We got jewed by bertox lockout that we didn't even attempt. I'm guessing it's from cunts clicking throne

Lockouts on this server are almost always triggered when the first trigger mob dies. In this case the Spectre of Corruption.

If that died, I suspect that's where you ate a lockout.

[Mead]

Its k we got screwed out of server first Quarm over a bertox lockout from server crash. We actually progressed a lot faster than AoS did if it weren't for that bullshit. The fact that they corpse banked to 65 didn't help either but meh. I'm happy enough with 2nd place. Tons of people sent us tells saying "Gratz on server first legit Quarm kill" so. Seems most people acknowledge it wasn't exactly a fair race.

I'm happy you got 2nd too. This thread would have hit 800 pages by now with how many times you would have spammed OGC is number 1.

Matt Ryan sympathizes with you.

[Mead]

Your guild leader cost you a CHANCE at server first Quarm. You contested 0 of the open world spawns. Also your guild leader made you all /kneel to him to get the vial for time key. That is some real gay shit.

Wut

Please tell me this is troll.

[maskedmelonpai]

Also your guild leader made you all /kneel to him to get the vial for time key.

that true? that kinda cool actually. not something I would expect from a guild called Original Gangster Club ^^

[Man0warr]

Just playing Druid for now.

It's tempting to roll a Chanter or Paladin box, but I refuse to use MQ2 and I'm not exactly sure how people box using two computers. I'm sure there's some fuckery that would allow you to use a single wireless mouse and keyboard for two PCs but I'm not clever enough to figure that out yet.

Tank is usually the thing holding up my groups yea.

I use Synergy: https://symless.com/synergy/

Pretty easy to setup. It doesn't let you macro key-presses or anything so completely legal. It's just a software KVM switch. Really the only issue is mouse acceleration is kind of wonky on the client PCs.

There's also a free program called Mouse Without Borders.

[Papa]

LOL Nobody was forced to do anything. People did it for fun. You gotta show your respect to the Godfather. You shoulda heard the trump soundboards going off in Mumble during all that.

wow so glad im not in OGC lol

[nhdjoseywales]

We all are

[Daldaen]

Did a PoFire group last night for like 2 hours and got 40% with no exp pot. Was pretty casual nice group.

Looking forward to finishing the level grind this week.

[khanable]

Daldean why is threat fucking retarded on Phinny?

[arsenalpow]

Daldean why is threat fucking retarded on Phinny?

It's not retarded it's just different. Rampage is truly retarded though, that shit never acts right.

[Daldaen]

Daldean why is threat fucking retarded on Phinny?

Depends on the point in the game.

Basically Live factors in a few things into aggro. Proximity to target and the mobs total HP pool are enormous factors. That's why at low levels, aggro is basically not a thing and proximity is most all that matters (mobs have no HP).

Torven did some rather extensive testing on all this shit. If you want to better understand Phinigels aggro his parses should explain it.

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39819

As far as Rampage goes... my understanding is there are two major issues people come upon when it goes outside of what they would expect. The later of the two I'm unsure if it is still a thing on Live code but I think it is:

Distance - Basically Rampage will select based on time on hatelist but if you outrange it, it will pick the next entity in range. It however can get fucky and hit you very far out of range if you're the only other person on hatelist.

Voids - Basically when the Rampage list is created, it sets an order. However if one of those entities is cleared from the hatelist (death, feign death, fade, zoning, charm, etc.), then a void is left in the list in that position. If for example the Rampage tank dies 30 seconds in and at that point a wizard starts nuking they may fill in that void in the rampage list. This is also why many people claimed that Rampage could not be cleared via death nor zoning in the old 2001 posts about it. People would leave a void on death, get a Rez, and get back on the hatelist and instantly be back in their old position. This assumes no new entity got added to the hatelist from the time the rampage tank dies to the time they are rezzed or the wizard gets on the hatelist.

--Unsure if the Void thing is still active, it definitely was during PoP and on Al'Kabor. I bet that's something we could easily test with 3 people though. I'm pretty sure it's still a thing though.

[khanable]

Depends on the point in the game.

Basically Live factors in a few things into aggro. Proximity to target and the mobs total HP pool are enormous factors. That's why at low levels, aggro is basically not a thing and proximity is most all that matters (mobs have no HP).

Torven did some rather extensive testing on all this shit. If you want to better understand Phinigels aggro his parses should explain it.

http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39819

As far as Rampage goes... my understanding is there are two major issues people come upon when it goes outside of what they would expect. The later of the two I'm unsure if it is still a thing on Live code but I think it is:

Distance - Basically Rampage will select based on time on hatelist but if you outrange it, it will pick the next entity in range. It however can get fucky and hit you very far out of range if you're the only other person on hatelist.

Voids - Basically when the Rampage list is created, it sets an order. However if one of those entities is cleared from the hatelist (death, feign death, fade, zoning, charm, etc.), then a void is left in the list in that position. If for example the Rampage tank dies 30 seconds in and at that point a wizard starts nuking they may fill in that void in the rampage list. This is also why many people claimed that Rampage could not be cleared via death nor zoning in the old 2001 posts about it. People would leave a void on death, get a Rez, and get back on the hatelist and instantly be back in their old position. This assumes no new entity got added to the hatelist from the time the rampage tank dies to the time they are rezzed or the wizard gets on the hatelist.

--Unsure if the Void thing is still active, it definitely was during PoP and on Al'Kabor. I bet that's something we could easily test with 3 people though. I'm pretty sure it's still a thing though.

Thanks. I'll read up on that. And yes - that explains exactly what I was seeing. I can have 6 mobs on me at level 25 with nothing but social aggro in 5 of them and some dildo could ae the whole pack without issue.

But then the cleric sits and gets face fucked.

lul

[Fifield]

Yeah the proximity aggro gets my pet killed alot in groups when monks pull with nothing but a throwing dagger, mob comes into camp and hits first target in sight, usually a pet.

If i pull with bst slow they will run right by the pet and attack me.

[Daldaen]

65 wizard aggro is FUCKING AIDS.

Sucks to sucks. I still think you have SCS disabled or some shit.

[khanable]

Yeah I was able to deduce the proximity aspect.. stood closer and tried to make sure shit wasn't in the path of the mob on inc

Everything else was fuckery and black magic though

[Daldaen]

Once you're level 50-60 it stop being black magic and makes more sense.

[Erati]

Yeah I was able to deduce the proximity aspect.. stood closer and tried to make sure shit wasn't in the path of the mob on inc

Everything else was fuckery and black magic though

Tanks will never stop complaining about aggro issues, every group they are in someone is pulling 'their' aggro hehe.

[arsenalpow]

65 wizard aggro is FUCKING AIDS.

So we did Tallon for the first time last night. Had an SK tanking dumping tons of aggro in. Wizards start DPS at like 75%, one wizard nuke, dead wizards lol. So dumb.

[Daldaen]

Shh. Much better being a ranger and accidentally auto firing across a zone and pulling a train.

Then proceeding to make the mobs I root Summon because you don't turn off your autofire.

@Chest, I assume you're talking Vallon? Tallon doesnt summon in Tactics. The Rallos script one does I guess though.

[arsenalpow]

Just saying Tallon would turn and shoot the wizards dead

[Daldaen]

Just saying Tallon would turn and shoot the wizards dead

Yea Tallon is a very bad example to base aggro mechanics off.

Doesn't summon, Permarooted, shadowsteps around the room. He is just a dick. Doesn't follow typical rules. Especially who he chooses to attack or AE.

[arsenalpow]

Pretty sure Tallon randomly fires his AE around the room doesn't he? I don't think any amount of aggro could prevent his AE from hitting random ppl. That fight is all about staying spread out to minimize the damage.

When we did the RZ event version of Tallon he stayed stuck on the SK tank, so I'm honestly unsure. Was kinda worried about the tactics flag being a tough get but we utterly smashed it.

[Fifield]

When we did the RZ event version of Tallon he stayed stuck on the SK tank, so I'm honestly unsure. Was kinda worried about the tactics flag being a tough get but we utterly smashed it.

The higher lvl planes better be harder! I want to wipe a few times like old school raiding.

[arsenalpow]

The higher lvl planes better be harder! I want to wipe a few times like old school raiding.

I expect at least one rathe council fail.

[Erati]

The higher lvl planes better be harder! I want to wipe a few times like old school raiding.

Isnt it crazy how fast the Gods fall over compared to VT trash lol

[arsenalpow]

Isnt it crazy how fast the Gods fall over compared to VT trash lol

Fuck vex Thal.

[Daldaen]

The events that people will fail on:

Rallos (Time) - Melee is rough and if a tank death happens during trash spawn it could be a bad day
Bertox (Time) - If you don't have good resist and MGB HoTs, you're gonna have a bad day
Tallon (Time) - If you don't blow Planeshift on a rabbit and run OOM.
Vallon (Time) - If your tank strategy to deal with the FD/Stun isn't great.
Rathe Council - If your enchanters fall asleep or you're spread too thin on healing the tankables.
Xegony - Depending on add strategy, when I did it with AoS on Quarm their add strategy was retarded.
Coirnav - If you waste time killing minis in Waves 1-3 (hint they respawn in Wave 4)
Dust Ring - Spinstun rape spiders and 15 spiderling adds can fuck you up if you don't properly kite or CC the spiderlings.

Most everything should be walked over by 72 level 65s. Though if you're running with less some of these events will give you trouble.

Can't wait for GoD. Almost every event past Qvic will give most guilds some trouble. I think people will be in for a rude awakening when they get to the Txevu Zun. Modern updates have made that event way harder than it was in era.

[Raev]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=7683

looks like a really cool and creative event.

[Kushie]

How is sirkenquest going p99? Still fighting over Velious dragons?

[Daldaen]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=7683

looks like a really cool and creative event.

It is! Need to kite the two goats to start, burn down 3 Ikaav and any non-charmable mastruq mobs they summon, offtank the Zun Muram, and have 2 rogue/bards posted up at the jail doors to let people out (pro-tip: max shrunk players can sneak out the corner of the jail door without it needing to be opened).

Then you have to continue killing the spawn adds until you get the mastruq you need to charm and kill the Zun Muram. Plus you have to kill the two goats you kited earlier and the final Ikaav to stop the add summoning, hopefully having enough mana to heal through the rest of the fight.

The main change I've experienced on it recently is the Wanton's AE goes through walls. So your healers need to constantly get healed and cured of it. With that change it's a very rough fight.

[nicemace]

Thankfully OW bert was up last night or we were gonna be fucked.

Did bert kos/saryrn rallos agnarr all of solro to finish our EP flag. Pretty good for our second raid night. Casual as fuck

[Daldaen]

Sorry pals that I couldn't help you last night. Seemed like a series of unfortunate events. I never heard of the fake Tylis placeholder being there. Also didn't even know you needed the preflag to get the port up but apparently I always just went with a few fully flagged people and it wasn't an issue in the past.

Still... beats P99 raiding.

I did get level 64 on the other hand. One more good 4-5 hour group should ding me into 65!

[Erati]

Daldaen let BDA down :(

[mefdinkins]

is 65 max level?

[Daldaen]

Yea buddy. Can't wait to ding 65 and grind out some AAs. I'm done with the Heal lines just a few random lines I wanna finish up before starting to bank for GoD launch in a few months.

[khanable]

is it possible to turn off ornaments for others?

[Daldaen]

is it possible to turn off ornaments for others?

A man can dream... but no.

[khanable]

weak

[Man0warr]

If you use old models, only ornaments that show up are weapons.

[khanable]

And personal effects/familiars/froglok armors and dumb hats

[Kagey]

I saw full platemail last night on a frog. looked pretty cool covering his whole head. Also new shoulder pads graphics.

I still play with velious graphics however. Gonna prolly turn on human and kitty.

[Erati]

Classic models and classic elementals is the only way to go

I also have classic spell icons haha

[Daldaen]

I assumed he was talking about weapons since those probably are the main thing ruining his immersion, especially if he is rolling with old models.

I think you can still enable stick figure models they patched in for one of the Aprils Fool patches by editing your eqclient.ini file. Dunno if they ever removed that but it was great for reducing lag.

[khysanth]

http://i.imgur.com/IrQUcJn.jpg

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[dafier]

you nerds are also 10x more hardcore then the average player was back then.

No. Triton on Povar never slept.

[LostCause]

shit back then there was no mmo like everquest... was very easy to play 16 hours a day back in 1999

[Daldaen]

Got level 65 last night. Was some good fun. Learned some decent methods of AEing parts of PoFire. We were pulling down about 15-18% or 2-3AAs per pull. Took minimal effort and lots of AFK time.

Love me some emergent gameplay.

[Swish]

Got level 65 last night. Was some good fun. Learned some decent methods of AEing parts of PoFire. We were pulling down about 15-18% or 2-3AAs per pull. Took minimal effort and lots of AFK time.

Love me some emergent gameplay.

Sounds really classic and nostalgic. Enjoy the next 11 weeks before TLP moves on to the next chapter.

[arsenalpow]

Got level 65 last night. Was some good fun. Learned some decent methods of AEing parts of PoFire. We were pulling down about 15-18% or 2-3AAs per pull. Took minimal effort and lots of AFK time.

Love me some emergent gameplay.

We're short only that prophet of marqeen portion to be flagged for elementals. The Bertoxx script was pretty fun last night, and the run up to agnarr was visually interesting.

[Daldaen]

We're short only that prophet of marqeen portion to be flagged for elementals. The Bertoxx script was pretty fun last night, and the run up to agnarr was visually interesting.

Nice! That does suck though.

On Al'Kabor you had to do the Bertox/Terris/KoS/Saryrn chain in order. If you killed Saryrn without Bertox or Terris or KoS your flag wouldn't count. It sucked.

I never knew that you were still required to have Bertox to get Tylis to talk to you though.

Sounds like you all will be Elemental some time this week(end).

[arsenalpow]

Nice! That does suck though.

On Al'Kabor you had to do the Bertox/Terris/KoS/Saryrn chain in order. If you killed Saryrn without Bertox or Terris or KoS your flag wouldn't count. It sucked.

I never knew that you were still required to have Bertox to get Tylis to talk to you though.

Sounds like you all will be Elemental some time this week(end).

We'll just try and snag an OW one. It died yesterday so we'll keep an eye out.

[Daldaen]

I look forward to hanging out with you pals in the Elemental Planes.

In other news, I heard 4 guilds were in Earth B last night contesting Rathe Council. Sounded like a total clusterfuck with the biggest neckbeards on the server trying to kill it even though they are already flagged. Sounded like neckbeardism was victorious too.

Sucks a few people blew their Earth B instance and had to wait a week to try again. The actual challenging content is here finally. I can't wait to watch Phinnykills on progress once they start updating it.

[Daldaen]

https://i.imgur.com/XW17f5M.jpg

The bane of some guild's PoP experience.

https://i.imgur.com/A1nuIDz.jpg

The bane of some guild's GoD experience.

Can't wait for GoD!

[dafier]

I went from 65 to 70 in PoF when GoD came out. Was great xp back in the day and almost no one was there. Then I had to get in those groups killing those random nameds to get the tokens or whatever it was for my spells.

DAMN! All this PoP talk makes me want to quit life for a while for a bit of nostalgia.

[maskedmelon]

none of this seems very immersive :c I can understand how your life can appreciate all the technical aspects and stuff, but I dunno... to me it like discussing the cast and filming techniques of movies or something. I never understood that, but know people who loved it. I just feel like, "I do t want to know that that guy doesn't really have a British accent!" Or "I don't care what that person does in real life!" I guess it just because I like to experience things :3

glad everyone having fun though ^^ to each zer own ^^

[Daldaen]

I can't even figure out what you're talking about...

But PoP and GoD are great. Did open world Coirnav last night, good fun.

[maskedmelon]

I know Dald ^^ it wasn't a criticism though ^^ it's just a different way of appreciating things ^^

[arsenalpow]

Been having fun even with wizard troubles so far. Daldaen left to go help BDA the other day in my fire group and it kicked me since my ranger wasn't flagged. Asshole.

Speaking of getting punted from lack of flags, that getting killed by all of seb and trakanon shit has got to change. That happens like 3 times a night and we've told people so many times how to keep it from happening and then people get all pissy when DBG takes 4 days to get them a Rez.

[Daldaen]

Speaking of getting punted from lack of flags, that getting killed by all of seb and trakanon shit has got to change. That happens like 3 times a night and we've told people so many times how to keep it from happening and then people get all pissy when DBG takes 4 days to get them a Rez.

I heard rumors that petitioning for it would get you a free exp potion or something???

[dafier]

Loved playing in PoW. Didn't like the over all Coirnav event though. It was very stupid and there was way too much death because of dumb ass adds.

[arsenalpow]

I heard rumors that petitioning for it would get you a free exp potion or something???

Ya, you just get a 50 pot...no res

We've had some people get rezzes, no pots though. It just takes 4-5 days.

[Daldaen]

Loved playing in PoW. Didn't like the over all Coirnav event though. It was very stupid and there was way too much death because of dumb ass adds.

Coirnav was a lovely event, you take that back!

All of the EP Gods are actually great events. They each challenge different aspects of your raid force.


Fennin is a lazy clear that eventually tests your ability to split minis, and in Fennin handle a hard hitting boss that is a 100% positional fight. Fail to position properly and you lose.
Coirnav is a great fight that tests your overall raid DPS and ability to CC some minis while you kill the trash, then Coirnav himself is a straight burn.
Xegony is a total control fight. Slow and steady wins the fight. Have a plan for handling each set of adds and keep Xegony debuffed and your CH chain rolling.
Rathe is a planning control fight. You need to assign roles for mezzing, tanking and healing. If you just try to faceroll in and figure it out as you go, you're probably going to have a bad time. The way this fight forces you to stretch your force so thin it shows you which members in your guild can't stand on their own and will be a true liability in later expansion.

[dafier]

Coirnav was a lovely event, you take that back!

All of the EP Gods are actually great events. They each challenge different aspects of your raid force.


Fennin is a lazy clear that eventually tests your ability to split minis, and in Fennin handle a hard hitting boss that is a 100% positional fight. Fail to position properly and you lose.
Coirnav is a great fight that tests your overall raid DPS and ability to CC some minis while you kill the trash, then Coirnav himself is a straight burn.
Xegony is a total control fight. Slow and steady wins the fight. Have a plan for handling each set of adds and keep Xegony debuffed and your CH chain rolling.
Rathe is a planning control fight. You need to assign roles for mezzing, tanking and healing. If you just try to faceroll in and figure it out as you go, you're probably going to have a bad time. The way this fight forces you to stretch your force so thin it shows you which members in your guild can't stand on their own and will be a true liability in later expansion.


HAHA! Ya, it was all really fun over all. BUT! Xegony and Fennin were my favorite. Rathe was long (at first), then turned in to a literally few minute event.

Fennin ...the fight was boring for a caster, but I just like PoF. It's a beautiful zone that makes everyone look like ants. The ramps, the courtyards and the thrones (I call the spider/phoenix area a throne), just gorgeous.

Water was really fun to because it was SO dark. It was like scuba diving in the evening,(not midnight) around dusk.

[dafier]

Blah....I forgot to mention Blazzaxx the Omnifiend. Because of the name alone, it's one of my most favourite NPCs.

[nhdjoseywales]

I look forward to hanging out with you pals in the Elemental Planes.

In other news, I heard 4 guilds were in Earth B last night contesting Rathe Council. Sounded like a total clusterfuck with the biggest neckbeards on the server trying to kill it even though they are already flagged. Sounded like neckbeardism was victorious too.

Sucks a few people blew their Earth B instance and had to wait a week to try again. The actual challenging content is here finally. I can't wait to watch Phinnykills on progress once they start updating it.

Lemme give ya the scoop on that.....

IVAS was getting ready to do RC and Entendre was there planning to contest/wait for wipe/whatever. AOS shows up and ooc's to the zone that they intend to kill the avatar no matter who kills RC and the people in zone can either help them and get flags but no loot or not help them and fuck off. This didnt sit well with a lot of OGC so attempted to get IVAS and Entendre to work together so both of them got some flags/loot and we would provide extra dps for the race at no cost. Entendre turned down the offer but IVAS accepted so we sent a shitload of deeps to sit in poeb and ensure AOS didnt ks IVAS. AOS wilted at teh show of force and left giving IVAS their shot. Well almost, AOS had a person drop guild and repeatedly break IVAS mezzes on RC until IVAS left. We have screenshots of the person guilded then unguilded a half hour later.

I have to believe if i were half as shitty a person as the average AOS member i would have killed myself long ago to spare the world my existence. Oh wait, shitty people dont care.

[nhdjoseywales]

^ Anyone that thinks AoS and OGC are equal levels of scumbags very clearly doesn't know what they're talking about

Absolutely this. I'm an asshole. I am not a bottom feeding sack of scumshit that gets off on making other people unhappy.

[booter]

Shots from the last week of bad BDA raiding:

http://i.imgur.com/jFqW5fz.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4pAcSB4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/o85CsoY.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7WPgOrO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/B5Tp31j.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fFUzB2U.jpg

[Daldaen]

Those screenshots are all anyone should need to consider Phinigel.

@The Rathe Council story, just gives you more motivation to never screw up your crucial instanced flag raids that are open world. Plan ahead, plan ahead, plan ahead. That's the name of the game on TRC. Now granted if you are rolling with a guild of 72 ballers with a competent raid leader you can just lay out Raid roles as you go, but for your run of the mill guild you needa set up groups for CC, offtank order and associated healers in advance and you should win pretty handily so long as Chanters don't fall asleep and your pullers don't blow.

AoS is what P99's raid scene would be like without GM intervention. Makes me want Sirken to step away and only deal with reimbursement and stuck petitions just so that we get some quality RNF material.

If you think having your Rathe Council fucked with for 2-3 hours sucks, I can only imagine the nerd rage to have your Tunare kill sniped after a 7 hour PoGrowth clear. Would actually force guilds into some suboptimal engages and put challenge back into the raid scene when you can't Slow anymore with spam dispelling from an opposing guild and constant trains $$$.

[Bazia]

that content was beyond trivial to complete on phinny, I mean if u just wanna see content for the sake of seeing content there are many avenues available that dont involve lining daybreaks pockets (whose continued existence stifles any hope of a new p99 server)

[AzzarTheGod]

Those screenshots are all anyone should need to consider Phinigel.

@The Rathe Council story, just gives you more motivation to never screw up your crucial instanced flag raids that are open world. Plan ahead, plan ahead, plan ahead. That's the name of the game on TRC. Now granted if you are rolling with a guild of 72 ballers with a competent raid leader you can just lay out Raid roles as you go, but for your run of the mill guild you needa set up groups for CC, offtank order and associated healers in advance and you should win pretty handily so long as Chanters don't fall asleep and your pullers don't blow.

AoS is what P99's raid scene would be like without GM intervention. Makes me want Sirken to step away and only deal with reimbursement and stuck petitions just so that we get some quality RNF material.

If you think having your Rathe Council fucked with for 2-3 hours sucks, I can only imagine the nerd rage to have your Tunare kill sniped after a 7 hour PoGrowth clear. Would actually force guilds into some suboptimal engages and put challenge back into the raid scene when you can't Slow anymore with spam dispelling from an opposing guild and constant trains $$$.

It is the absolute pinnacle of EQ raiding. If you like raids and progression you will be on Phinigel. There is no reason for anyone not to be.

[mickmoranis]

Shots from the last week of bad BDA raiding:

http://i.imgur.com/jFqW5fz.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4pAcSB4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/o85CsoY.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7WPgOrO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/B5Tp31j.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fFUzB2U.jpg

holy shit you guys played classic eq, why? That shit looks like a mobile game had sex with a low budget PC game from india yikes

[mickmoranis]

ATTN: if you met BDA on p99 and are playing this shit up here^^ ?

You have been addiction quest hoodwinked/manipulated by hard core autistic sociopaths to raid for them so they can role play that they are their friends older brothers and winning this old shitty game nobody cared about.

[Papa]

idk im just mainly doing it to avoid my wife

[mickmoranis]

main point: if you came to p99 for classic eq but have settled with the above abommintation becuse your guild convinced you to move over, then you have been bamboozled

just FYI

[Papa]

people dont play on phinigel for classic eq feel

hth

[mickmoranis]

point being if you came to p99 for classic eq but met ppl here that told you to play on phinigel and they convinced you, you have been bamboozled

Im surprised I have to explain it 3 fucking times but to the average BDA'er that should count as 1

[contemptor]

point being if you came to p99 for classic eq but met ppl here that told you to play on phinigel and they convinced you, you have been bamboozled

Im surprised I have to explain it 3 fucking times but to the average BDA'er that should count as 1
We came to p99 for classic eq. But the server is no longer classic or fun. So we moved to another server that is more fun. Not sure how that is bamboozled.

If there was CSR on this server, or some way to make raiding less stupid, BDA never would have left.

[Swish]

We came to p99 for classic eq. But the server is no longer classic or fun. So we moved to another server that is more fun. Not sure how that is bamboozled.

If there was CSR on this server, or some way to make raiding less stupid, BDA never would have left.

"Raiding is stupid" - the guild that quit the server because of no rotation

git gud

[nicemace]

raided with DA in classic / early kunark. ramp/awakened for velious.

phinny is hands down superior.

[mickmoranis]

We came to p99 for classic eq. But the server is no longer classic or fun. So we moved to another server that is more fun. Not sure how that is bamboozled.

You are not sure how it was bamboozled becuse you have been bamboozled.. but let me tell you something kid.

You've been bamboolzed.

[mickmoranis]

also jcr you are garbage at eq so not suprised you went to an easier server

[nhdjoseywales]

First night of Time splits done. Shit got real. Then it got dead.

[Swish]

Gonna be loooots of loot this expansion.

11 weeks before GoD right? Better hurry.

[AzzarTheGod]

Really don't have time to read this thread or the dopamine supply.

Can we get a BDA progress update, OGC progress update?

[Tallahassee]

Naudee just posted an OGC update. We just did our first PoTime split tonight. Did our first clear with a full raid and 2nd clear we 3 split phase 1-3 and 2 split phase 4. Split raiding Tallon/Vallon Zek with VT/Ele gear isn't fun. Phase 5 and Quarm left for next time.

How long did it take ya? I sware you guys started at like 5pm my time and around 2 am you still weren't finished.

but man, that was a lot of rez effect rushing. I guess that is fun.

ive actually never heard of a guild running out of time before, how does that work?

[Tallahassee]

could very well work like that. But even if you do that for phase 1 you have a 12 hour CD before you can start again.

Now that you say that, it prolly does work that way. I guess that does make time a No fail.

[Tallahassee]

At a minimum, you guys took nine hours.

Seems pretty stupid

But after inspecting some of your wars and seeing items like orc fang earrings and heiro cloaks after as long as they have been in the guild.

I guess I can see why they are starving for pixels. Meanwhile AoS alts have bloodfrenzies and AHR necks in era simply because every main has one.

But go ahead and spin it to your favor it is all about the epeen after all, take 9+ hours claim six, and a lot of other funny stuff in this post.

Did I also read a OGC guy calling people out to come race them? On what? Getting a AOC instance? Anyway have fun respawn zerging again tomorrow. Sucks you spawn with your gear and 20% mana.

[Tallahassee]

yeah that's believable that just happened to happen. The zone has a count down emote on your time, its even re announced and time added when you clear a phase.

Also again we saw what time you started raiding and the constant popping out with rez effects and clicking back in. Its cool man everyone has to tell there story where they have there head held high slightly.

You'll spend 20 + hours on this time clear cuz its no fail with the dz resets then claim to be the server first on something no one cares about.

Now if you would have said you raided for 3 hours and took a break then raided another 3 hours and took another break. That would have been prolly more believable.

If it wasn't this you would find something else to claim server first about with some retarded rules you placed on yourself.

Dunno

[Papa]

At a minimum, you guys took nine hours.

Seems pretty stupid

But after inspecting some of your wars and seeing items like orc fang earrings and heiro cloaks after as long as they have been in the guild.

I guess I can see why they are starving for pixels. Meanwhile AoS alts have bloodfrenzies and AHR necks in era simply because every main has one.


when you're the premiere zerg guild on phinigel with easily 200+ active raiders, there is no option BUT to split raid or people will jump ship without enough pixels floating around

they say they do it for the 'prestige' (heh) but really there is no other choice but to sustain it

[William_Munny15]

I like the OGC AoS drama, lets throw in a chest update for posterity, what's BDA up to this weekend? how's BDA progressing? When phinny runs it course later this year will they be coming back to any emu's?

[Tallahassee]

Which AoS member are you? Certainly sound like one of them. Maybe that's why you're so upset? Cause you know your guild cheated multiple times to win the PoP race? Or are you mad at yourself for trying to grief other guilds out of RC just to be assholes? I dunno just tossing out ideas. Let me know if I'm close.

i am mad that i am not apart of you guys death rushing mobs to feel validation yes.

i like the how you are trying to flip it from this.

[Tallahassee]

From skill with low numbers to there is nothing wrong with telebaning mobs for 9 hours. k

[Tallahassee]

what does this have to do with taking 9 + hours to do half a zone just to feel relevant?

more deflection.

AoS isn't the one screaming how casual they are putting in 20 hour days to just be 2nd and then 9 hour + raids to feel relevant spamming general chat about how great they are and selling loot rights to basically everything that drops =p

[Tallahassee]

k, ill stop posting here. however i do think you need a history lesson of ogc/citizen.

hope your wars upgrade there orc fang earings.

[AzzarTheGod]

So people bind rushed PoTime to get server firsts?


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[Swish]

I'd take my chanced on TAK Project for PoP content.

[AzzarTheGod]

Not sure if u can't read or just trollin but either way u dumb

Read the last page only. We used some rush tactics in Tier 4? is it? with the gods. We also rushed a lot when we were short on players and power.

I don't have a problem with it, when its on farm status.

I have a problem with it being done to get server firsts and I dont think thats the spirit of the game. sounds like u guys are the dumb ones here doing lame stuff.

[Pokesan]

I'd take my chanced on TAK Project for PoP content.

p99ers dont deserve tak. especially those feckless curs in CSG. good thing they're too cowardly to make the switrch.

[Papa]

So people bind rushed PoTime to get server firsts?


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server sloppy seconds

[nicemace]

good attempt at taking our RZ OGC :P

[Mead]

I'd take my chanced on TAK Project for PoP content.

The broken recording is still not done trying to stress his disdain for phinny. It's like a non-stop berg session with this one.

[Swish]

The great thing about regular servers is they aren't a train going 100mph through expansions heading for an inevitable crash...you can always go back to your P99 or TAKP characters.

Sorry for using common sense and logic in an argument - please continue to make this a personal thing.

[Mead]

The great thing about regular servers is they aren't a train going 100mph through expansions heading for an inevitable crash...you can always go back to your P99 or TAKP characters.

Sorry for using common sense and logic in an argument - please continue to make this a personal thing.

Common sense.. yea. You either think the rest of us are stupid or you just haven't come to terms with the fact that you have legitimate mental issues. You've said the same thing 900 times. We get it.

[Swish]

Common sense.. yea. You either think the rest of us are stupid or you just haven't come to terms with the fact that you have legitimate mental issues. You've said the same thing 900 times. We get it.

900 times? I think you have mental issues.

It is common sense. Where are all these TLP characters going when the train crashes? They roll onto the live servers where I assume nobody will be playing them anymore. I still play characters I rolled back in 2010...a much better time investment.

Also I'm not spending on XP pots, kronos and other Daybreak nasties...or dealing with the "new" Freeport, or any of that. Glad you're having fun though, please remain calm when telling the forums here about your instanced achievements.

[nhdjoseywales]

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[Mead]

900 times? I think you have mental issues.

It is common sense. Where are all these TLP characters going when the train crashes? They roll onto the live servers where I assume nobody will be playing them anymore. I still play characters I rolled back in 2010...a much better time investment.

Also I'm not spending on XP pots, kronos and other Daybreak nasties...or dealing with the "new" Freeport, or any of that. Glad you're having fun though, please remain calm when telling the forums here about your instanced achievements.

None of your weak digs affect me. I am having fun. I could care less about achievements on Phinny. Jcr was the only one bragging about achievements until OGC lost PoP according to his own ranking system. Most of the people I've spoken to said they're going to enjoy PoP one last time and then say goodbye to eq. That option might not exist for you?

[AzzarTheGod]

By "regular servers" I assume you mean P99? Most people wouldn't call P99 a regular server it's called an emulated server or private server. Regular servers are run by Daybreak. But we'll go with your downs syndrome definition of a regular server for the sake of argument. Agreed "regular servers" aren't going through expansions at all. They're sitting in the same old stale boring content year after year after year after year with the same toxic raid scene and poopsocking and screenshare tracking FTE races. 100+ neckbeards standing at the door in ToV waiting for Dozekar #934579. Boy that sounds fun idk why P99 isn't more popular.


Until Daybreak gets a bug up its ass and starts sending out cease and desists. Or a GM goes rogue and bans your account and RMT's your items on the black market to line his pockets. I'll stick to Phinny thx. I'm not that attached to my characters I just enjoy playing the game. If and when Phinny population dips low enough that I feel its too dead to continue enjoying it I will either quit EQ or jump to another higher pop TLP and continue enjoying the game. Hopefully by then there's a new game that catches my attention. God damnit Brad McQuaid if you fuck up Pantheon I'm gonna be pissed. At no point will I consider returning to this shit show raid scene unless a miracle happens and they decide to actually fix the toxic bullshit. I literally think there's a better chance I'll be struck by lightning.

This is a great post, those are legitimate concerns. Daybreak already is blocking additional server launches.

I'm not your enemy jcr, I thought I saw someone saying there was bind-rushed server first accomplishments and had read the post wrong.

[Swish]

By "regular servers" I assume you mean P99? Most people wouldn't call P99 a regular server it's called an emulated server or private server. Regular servers are run by Daybreak. But we'll go with your downs syndrome definition of a regular server for the sake of argument. Agreed "regular servers" aren't going through expansions at all. They're sitting in the same old stale boring content year after year after year after year with the same toxic raid scene and poopsocking and screenshare tracking FTE races. 100+ neckbeards standing at the door in ToV waiting for Dozekar #934579. Boy that sounds fun idk why P99 isn't more popular.


Until Daybreak gets a bug up its ass and starts sending out cease and desists. Or a GM goes rogue and bans your account and RMT's your items on the black market to line his pockets. I'll stick to Phinny thx. I'm not that attached to my characters I just enjoy playing the game. If and when Phinny population dips low enough that I feel its too dead to continue enjoying it I will either quit EQ or jump to another higher pop TLP and continue enjoying the game. Hopefully by then there's a new game that catches my attention. God damnit Brad McQuaid if you fuck up Pantheon I'm gonna be pissed. At no point will I consider returning to this shit show raid scene unless a miracle happens and they decide to actually fix the toxic bullshit. I literally think there's a better chance I'll be struck by lightning.

I'll pretend thank you for taking me off your pretend ignore list.

As long as they're making money I don't see any point in C&D'ing small servers of players who want to play something they don't offer anyway. If they did want to go full classic then maybe...

Regular servers are just normal servers that don't spit out expansions every 3-6 months. Your characters are dying soon when everyone else quits Phinny, mine aren't :)

Some of you will be back here hoping there's a fenced off rotation waiting for you because you hate P99 raiding etc. There won't be. Great time to roll red though as a guild, give it some thought.

[Swish]

Daybreak already is blocking additional server launches.

Are you going to cite a P99 forum quote for your source on that?