New Meta - Revert Recharge Item Nerfs

[Impact1983]

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

Item recharging is dumb and not something that's supposed to be in EQ.

What a weak argument. Intention has nothing to do with it. It was in the game, period. If you want to get into it, the game was never intended to be stuck in Velious for 10 years either with full guilds in Vulak loot.

The fact of the matter is that the server is on the decline with a dwindling player base. Changes need to be made (or reverted in this case) to attract players back and/or increase the enjoyment of the game.

Just because people know about something now, that was not widespread before, doesn't make a difference. I would argue many people originally came back to re-live the game with that increased knowledge on the second time around. If not, you wouldn't have had tons of manastones, fungi staves, CoS, Lockets, hogresh beds, BFGs, etc farmed into oblivion.

[Vexenu]

The fact that they nerfed the entire line of lifetap spells instead of just Ivandyr's Hoop itself is still one of the most inexplicable and ridiculous decisions made in the history of this project.

[zelld52]

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

Real talk. This Server is 15 years old with people constantly complaining about "stale" meta and how smaller guilds can't compete.

Instead of reverting back to this ridiculous poopsock meta, why not just revert the item recharge cast times, recharge cost, and lifetap un-resistibility?

The reason these were nerfed, in the first place, are over a decade old for players no longer on the server and no longer applicable. Reverting these custom changes back would not only restore the "classic" claim of the server, but also give guilds like PL, Gravity, SS, (not riot), ect... a fighting chance again to low man content with classic items.

I could even see a beneficial side effect of this also helping casual players kill content that they can no longer find groups for.

the whole point of this meta change is that it can be implemented without changing anything about the server databases or codes. the GMs are hosting this meta change - but the developers are only interested in restoring classic EQ (which it seems like theyve done and theyre finished)

its even in the announcement, that the CSR is hosting this meta change because they dont have any acces to change any scripts on the server, etc

[Tewaz]

I say just revert midnight mallet nerf.

It's stupid.

People that would be turning in rubies for that are instead camping 12-16 hours at Gagnar.

Pointless.

[Zuranthium]

These items are all bad game design to begin with. People shouldn't be gaining access to things like Root, Snare, Blind, Slow etc from clickies, particularly in a spammable form.

[shovelquest]

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

These items are all bad game design to begin with. People shouldn't be gaining access to things like Root, Snare, Blind, Slow etc from clickies, particularly in a spammable form.

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[cd288]

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

Real talk. This Server is 15 years old with people constantly complaining about "stale" meta and how smaller guilds can't compete.

Instead of reverting back to this ridiculous poopsock meta, why not just revert the item recharge cast times, recharge cost, and lifetap un-resistibility?

The reason these were nerfed, in the first place, are over a decade old for players no longer on the server and no longer applicable. Reverting these custom changes back would not only restore the "classic" claim of the server, but also give guilds like PL, Gravity, SS, (not riot), ect... a fighting chance again to low man content with classic items.

I could even see a beneficial side effect of this also helping casual players kill content that they can no longer find groups for.

I hate to break it to you but unnerfing these things would only result in making things easier for the larger guilds.

Also, seems sort of the opposite of EQ mentality to make changes with the goal of making it easy to take down raid targets. If you're a smaller guild, yeah it sucks that there's some content you can't do, but that's always been the case in classic EQ. That's a decision you make as a player when you decide what guild to join. Asking to make things easier for a smaller guild is like deciding to go to Taco Bell and complaining you can't buy a large pizza there. You can make a different decision on the guild you're a part of.

Also kinda lol to include PL on that list.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I hate to break it to you but unnerfing these things would only result in making things easier for the larger guilds.

Yes but also no. Things are trivial for the larger guilds disirregardlessfully. Let SKs have their battletaps back.

[Kubaton]

Same age old crying and innacurate claims from all sides... It never changes, ever, not even the topics... cycles after cycles...

Heres a thought. Play classic on live, or better yet try a modern game that actually runs properly with todays technology without having an IT background to keep it functional.

Overall... my new observation is that P99 is almost if not already dead. I've seen this trend before.. With Red. P99 days are numbered



I've seen more people playing at 3am on xmas eave yrs back than I do now.

Its not classic, it never will be! Classic does exist on live

Amazing

[Duik]

disirregardlessfully

Making words great again Jimbo. I appreciataficationist it muchfullnessly.