New Patch Ruins EQ-Live, Switching to P1999!

[heartbrand]

Swarming was dumb. As a shadowknight I could pull an entire zone into a corner and kill it with ease. People crying over that being nerfed eight years later are lol. Thanks for this post I'll make sure to log into life to optimize my 7000 AA's for this change.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

With that being said, once I get an IP exemption, what boxes best with a Bard? My brother LOVES Magicians. He will probably go that route regardless [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lol, stop saying box. It's a naughty word around here. Boxing only means "one player playing multiple accounts at the same time" in p99. That said though, it is legal to play 1 account on red and 1 account on blue at the same time if that's your cup of tea.

Bards work decently with any other class, but they don't work great with any other class either imo. They are stronger the larger the group is because so many of their abilities make everyone else in the group stronger + enable faster pulling and stuff. But they still can make it work.

Make sure you read up on the overall mechanics of these classes before you pick one; I'm willing to bet none of them work much at all like they do on live: http://wiki.project1999.com/index.php/Main_Page

[mnemonikos82]

Not to be overly negative, but while we will get a good number of quality players from that exodus, we'll also get a crap ton of the crappy players. Can you imagine the sheer number of "I want a new server" and "Waaaaah prices are too high!!!" posts you will see now?

All this means to me is that I need to get my characters into their 40s and past the first hell levels before the wave hits us. You'll lose a bunch of players when they hit 30 and their xp bar just stops moving...

The beautiful thing is that unlike WoW and EQlive, Classic EQ was not tremendously easier at the lower levels so I'm sure the baddies will get weeded out.

[Man0warr]

Yeah people who have been used to getting to level 80 in 2 days with a merc and killing 3-5 mobs for an AA point aren't going to last long here.

[RiffDaemon]

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

Swarming was dumb. As a shadowknight I could pull an entire zone into a corner and kill it with ease. People crying over that being nerfed eight years later are lol. Thanks for this post I'll make sure to log into life to optimize my 7000 AA's for this change.

Thal is my SK's home [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Still interested to see what the finalized patch will be.

[Glain]

We were 1k server pop last night at 12 am pst

[Skywarp]

I used to swarm with an SK in fort mechanotus for hours days and weeks. Each pull could be 50 to 100 mobs. The only bad thing I saw was when my mortal coil didn't proc. Sometimes it could get laggy but no one in the zone ever complained. Most of the time you would see omg, holy shit, etc. I I know for a fact rangers in the feerott2 used to cry piss moan when they could gearshifts temples because it was perma camped. When the rain of fear launched people just moved deeper into HOT and raped. To many people crying is why they are nerfing this. Period. Plat sellers and farmers have ruined that game.

[Cyrano]

You're gonna love it here, shit is like crack. Gets in your veins.

[fastboy21]

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

Okay, I'm not sure if you are all familiar, but the new patch that is coming out this month on the live servers is literally driving away HUGE amounts of lifetime players. They have gone too far, I will link it (HERE) as I don't want to talk about it..

ANYWAYS..
I am looking to switch to Project 1999. I know I have some noob questions, so hopefully I don't get trolled and flamed like Universal Chat in EQ. Please bear with me.

If I started now, fresh on Project 1999, at a low level is there a lot of grouping to be had? I currently four-box on Live, but I would rather not do that unless its a necessity.

Also, if this is the wrong spot to post this or anything, I apologize right now. If its easier, send me a private message to talk about this. I am REALLY interested in Project 1999!

Thank you very much!!!

These changes are awesome. Going back to EQ live!

[gwideon]

EQLive was ruined years ago when they went into constant class re-balancing because of whine-quest.