Soulfire

[Flamewraith]

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

just like SoulFire being clickable by any class [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Splorf22]

Originally Posted by Alarti0001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The only thing ever backing your opinions is "Its classic".

That's actually a pretty solid opinion though. Suppose we decide that 5 charges of instant complete heal is pretty ridiculously overpowered (it is). Well, what about:

• Hybrid XP penalties
• Donals BP
• Puppet strings
• WC caps
• Ridiculously low mana cost of enchanter spells
• Shamans getting a damage clicky while Wizards don't
• Iksar Planar Armor
• Dumb cockblocking key quests
• The Velious-tuned Magician epic pet roflstomping Kunark
• So many classes being worthless on the raid scene
• Not even close to enough content for the number of high-level players we have.

etc etc. If I were running the server, I would try and make a few of these changes. Then I'd add a few high-level zones from modern xpacs (like Gates of Discord) after retuning their difficulty and items to match Kunark. I'd borrow scripts from later xpacs to add to the boss strategy a little, like making them spawn guardians or have their abilities change or otherwise make raiding a little bit more challenging than 'put on resist gear and attack'.

But the sign on the door says Classic Everquest, not LoraenQuest or AlartiQuest or (god forbid) TigglesQuest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Flamewraith]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But the sign on the door says Classic Everquest, not LoraenQuest or AlartiQuest or (god forbid) TigglesQuest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Loraen +10

[Alarti0001]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's actually a pretty solid opinion though. Suppose we decide that 5 charges of instant complete heal is pretty ridiculously overpowered (it is). Well, what about:

• Hybrid XP penalties
• Donals BP
• Puppet strings
• WC caps
• Ridiculously low mana cost of enchanter spells
• Shamans getting a damage clicky while Wizards don't
• Iksar Planar Armor
• Dumb cockblocking key quests
• The Velious-tuned Magician epic pet roflstomping Kunark
• So many classes being worthless on the raid scene
• Not even close to enough content for the number of high-level players we have.

etc etc. If I were running the server, I would try and make a few of these changes. Then I'd add a few high-level zones from modern xpacs (like Gates of Discord) after retuning their difficulty and items to match Kunark. I'd borrow scripts from later xpacs to add to the boss strategy a little, like making them spawn guardians or have their abilities change or otherwise make raiding a little bit more challenging than 'put on resist gear and attack'.

But the sign on the door says Classic Everquest, not LoraenQuest or AlartiQuest or (god forbid) TigglesQuest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Making one change is definitely a slippery slope. But there was a reasons some of these changes were made.(some good, some bad).

The sensible thing would be to make this as classic as possible. Since it is impossible to be a fully classic emulation. (Modern PC's, Hoop nerf, VP dragons Quadding ((Any monster quadding)), Foreknowledge of the game)
Likely the single most game breaking mechanic I listed is the foreknowledge one... and there really isn't much you can do about that.

You need to think about "the vision"(tm). I think I can say with great certainty that "the vision" did not include healing for raid bosses with a soulfire.

[Widan]

Originally Posted by Alarti0001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think I can say with great certainty that "the vision" did not include healing for raid bosses with a soulfire.

The vision also didn't include using feign death to split mobs...so that's about how useful that argument is.

[Nirgon]

In town guards (notably freeport) are way too easy here vs even on live, makes soulfire completely trivial to obtain

[Sarius]

I'm sure their vision also did not include guilds monopolizing content by having fully buffed alt armies camped out at every raid mob. Slippery slope though.

[bubba]

I would let everyone have a pony with lazerbeam eyes

[Alarti0001]

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

I'm sure their vision also did not include guilds monopolizing content by having fully buffed alt armies camped out at every raid mob. Slippery slope though.

That is the server fault and nothing to do with gear or code. TMO could easily be challenged. Everyone just chooses not to and begs for rotations.

[Clark]

Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tiggles confirmed on suicide watch over losing 1 trak, has not been streaming all day like he was the past week. Someone should reach out to him and let him know its just a game, and there's plenty of other things to live for.

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