[loramin]

Originally Posted by zodium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What? Efreeti isn't a "known Druid charm spot", in fact it hasn't a single animal. PoM isn't all about charming rats in the rat maze. There are no rats in the rat maze. Ratmen are not animals and cannot be charmed by druids.

Look Lora, please have a seat here. All your friends are here, and we all love you. But we'd like to have a talk about your addiction to "confabulating EverQuest game advice," and just tell you how that has affected all of us. It was one thing when you wrote that guide telling shamans a global cooldown clear item probably isn't strictly necessary, but this is going too far. This is a safe space. We're just worried about you. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We're all human, and we all have only so much time on each character. And while we're not all stoners ... I am, and my memory is far from perfect. I'll be the first to admit it, and often (but not always, and this is my bad) I say as much and couch my suggestions in "I think" or "I believe" or something.

In this case I did PoM on my Shaman, so I didn't know the ratmen weren't charmable; I remembered the rat maze was a druid spot in the Per-Level guide, and forgot this line (because again, I haven't taken my Druid there): "Skunks are animals for druid charming, the rat men are not". And now that I'm writing this it makes no sense to me, because I don't remember ever seeing skunks in the maze, so there's something to update in the guide ...

As for Efreeti I could have sworn I'd heard of people charming those bats, but I guess my stoner memory was mistaken on that too.

Originally Posted by zodium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My favorite part of Loraguides is when he says something trivially wrong, but still pretends like it comes from personal experience and not half remembered third hand information.

The Per-Level guide currently has 246 different hunting spots and the Treasure guide has ... more (I need to add a counter). It's really, really hard for one person to compile a resource that comprehensive from 100% personal experience. It's even harder/impossible if that person is a stoner like myself.

So, a great deal of what's in the guide is based on forum posts, other guides, etc., and yes it's all written with the same style. If I get one thing trivially wrong and make it sound like experience it's not because I intended to, but because I created a guide with 100% consistent style, 99% accurate information, and I'm human and got a small trivial thing wrong using that consistent style.

You get what you get with me. A hard-working wiki editor who has wasted literally hundreds of hours of his life trying to put useful info together in one place on the wiki so that there's a definitive answer to questions like "where should I go when looking for a place to hunt?" or "what buffs can I stack to get the most Wisdom?" ... and also a stoner who chimes in on the forums with the occasional half-baked not-remembered-perfectly-correctly post. If the sum of my contributions isn't net positive (I'd like to hope they are, but if not) just skip the guides.

P.S.

Originally Posted by bigjeff100 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Praise Druids!!!