Nerf The "Red Wood Wand" Please!

[fastboy21]

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

Sounds good/bad but it's not real, these camps just dont exist, players have come close to breaking even but only in a few areas that I've ever heard of.

I mean...the wiki page even suggests to use it to quad spectres in oasis.

You do make a good point in one of your posts that it isn't so bad to leave them in for some time as a special nod to enjoying a brand new time-line correct EQ server in vanilla.

[Fammaden]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

100% even Verant would have nerfed this if it was going on during live.

Gameplay emerges differently here than it did on live or even blue. The mission statement of the server isn't to recreate all the rules and decisions from live, it is to recreate classic EQ. Sometimes, to do that, you have to create rules specific to the gameplay emerging today in order to protect the mission.

If a new emerging gameplay is changing the game then the devs have the precedent and the reason to step in. Honestly, I'm not sure how bad this in changing gameplay here. According to some the prevalence is already beyond super saturated...

Right on.

[ChooChoo Train]

Why would you group with these when you can solo an entire camp then just recharge while you wait on respawns with the money you just made...

[Jibartik]

Yeah true but that is a subjective goal, but I can tell you this much, I promise we wont see these items breaking anyones gameplay on green and maybe only being a factor at those 150 person raids.

And its true verant didnt nerf this, and the item did exist back then, so what better place to go experience that than then a resetting p99 server?

Removing the item objectively takes away what others subjectively think is classic while its not the other way around. You don't have to use them and they wont stop you from playing.

So that's why I argue against this.

Edit: On blue, where the game lasts forever, nerf em up, change the game however idc, but not on the OG resetting server. This wont feel like it did back then, ever, you cant chase that dragon.

Edit Edit: I feel this way about the lists too, I also think we shoulda been looking at black while medding to level 35 until we figured out something better. So I fully expect to be on the wrong side of this one too and that we will see a nerf. Also item linking! Coulda got rid of that too, but you guys are so fickle! :P

But I don't agree!

[Jibartik]

Im sorry I am bored from being inside all day and am just sad to see item nerfs cus I like magical artifacts, I made my case. I give up to let the gods decide!

[Pringles]

If chardok was nerfed with the overriding reasoning being the proliferation of throwaway accounts I see little reason why the recharge cost of these would not be fixed. As I recall the current prices are just a copy paste of Al'Kabor and hardly definitively classic on their own.

edit: by overriding I mean at the time the damage from Chardok had already been done and the change enacted was to prevent a similar occurrence with the absurd proliferation of high level accounts on the next server. Yes it also fixed Bard swarm/RMT however you could always thread the needle to blatantly not classic mechanics being implemented for a better tomorrow

[Swish]

Every time something "not classic" gets adjusted in the direction of "classic"...people complain.

The same people came here to play Classic EQ.

[Jibartik]

Haha I did figure out a way to remove item linking from green during the last day of the UI project, but it was decided that you guys would kill us if we just threw that in.

[BlackBellamy]

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

Haha I did figure out a way to remove item linking from green during the last day of the UI project, but it was decided that you guys would kill us if we just threw that in.

I'm sure it played a part in the decision but from other comments I saw wasn't the primary concern that item linking prevented a massive /petition scam storm?

[Jibartik]

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

I'm sure it played a part in the decision but from other comments I saw wasn't the primary concern that item linking prevented a massive /petition scam storm?

with great power... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] but yea that was a factor, though I still cant imagine all us players actually falling for that dunedigger shield scam let alone someone saying "these boots are +100 hit points!" and then someone buying them without realising they were fine steel in the trade window.

edit: imagine the rnf's we're missing out on [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] "Kababo is a LIAR! He told me my boots were magical but they were not!"