Project Quarm - 1 Box Planes of Power

[shokar]

ty secret. ty takp people. thx for nothing rogaine.

[Deathrydar]

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

Project Quarm isn't going to just split the player base, it's going to decimate it.

It will definitely do a number on the population, but it will not decimate it:

1. Most of the players that will jump ship are those that like to move fast and did so with P99 already so they haven't really played the game outside of raiding and selling in the tunnel for a while. There are still plenty of purists, myself included, that love the game for the game itself and don't care about raiding and end game content as much as playing for the player interaction.

2. Since it is only a single character progression unlocked era server; those that want to play an Iksar will have to wait six months after release to play on the server, and those that wish to play a Vah Shir (although I cannot imagine what would drive such a wish) or a Beastlord will have to wait a whopping 18 months after release to play. Those people probably already aren't playing on P99 or, if they are, they will stay on P99 to wait out that time frame, so it won't affect the population anyway.

I would expect a huge exodus of players at launch of this server, as hype always generates hype, but some will be back after they out level the content and have to wait for the next expansion and players that want to play toons only available in later expansions, will have to wait as well. If you combine that with the players that will not leave, or plan to play on both servers, Project 1999 may need to combine the Blue and Green servers, but it will carry on and have a healthy population! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Evia]

How are Rogues in PoP? Still among top dps?

[Landroval]

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

How are Rogues in PoP? Still among top dps?

They're about 85% of a wizard with POTime weaponry with both having AA capped, but there are some anti-wizard mechanics on certain raid mobs allowing them to pull ahead on those ones, and are about 90% of ranger DPS with a bow on fights where ranged is feasible.

[Evia]

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

They're about 85% of a wizard with POTime weaponry with both having AA capped, but there are some anti-wizard mechanics on certain raid mobs allowing them to pull ahead on those ones, and are about 90% of ranger DPS with a bow on fights where ranged is feasible.

So in general, is it
1)wiz
2)ranger
3)rogue
4)monk
? For top dps?

And do bards get bandolier and/or melody macro? I don't recall what era that came out.
Are warriors the only viable raid tanks still? Or do knights begin to be reliable raid tanks as well?
And what epic 1.0 items are still used at the end of a pop timeline? Just clerics and bard?

[Walex]

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

So in general, is it
1)wiz
2)ranger
3)rogue
4)monk
? For top dps?

And do bards get bandolier and/or melody macro? I don't recall what era that came out.
Are warriors the only viable raid tanks still? Or do knights begin to be reliable raid tanks as well?
And what epic 1.0 items are still used at the end of a pop timeline? Just clerics and bard?

There is no bandolier or /melody. Maybe Secrets would be willing to add that stuff but it's out of era.

Warriors are still top dogs for tanking raid stuff. But PoP (and to a lesser degree Luclin) adds encounters with moving parts like offtanking, mezzing adds, etc, and knights are still used for that. And in a group setting knights are still king with their aggro snap abilities which warriors lack.

Cleric 1.0 will always be useful.
Bard epic is useful all the way up until plane of time when it finally gets replaced. PoP adds armor slots that have instrument modifiers on them removing the need to always hold the epic.
The click from the wizard epic is also always useful for the mana regen component, unless you're grouped with a beastlord as their mana regen is superior and doesn't stack with the epic.

[aussenseiter]

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

2)ranger

Will arrow wall glitch be fixed for PQ?

[Landroval]

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

So in general, is it
1)wiz
2)ranger
3)rogue
4)monk
? For top dps?

And do bards get bandolier and/or melody macro? I don't recall what era that came out.
Are warriors the only viable raid tanks still? Or do knights begin to be reliable raid tanks as well?
And what epic 1.0 items are still used at the end of a pop timeline? Just clerics and bard?

The MT generally outdamages monks due to the ripostes but yeah

No bandolier (added in GoD), no melody

[Walex]

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

How are Rogues in PoP? Still among top dps?

Yes indeed! Rogue DPS is terrific and the best sustained DPS around. Rangers with Trueshot or a wizard going hard will still beat them, though.

Edit: Here's a post from Torven (one of the TAKP developers) where he set up some parses on a dev server. Some of what he did wasn't completely 100% optimal (like using dagger of distraction instead of hammer of the timeweaver on the rogue, or 30% vs 35% fire damage focus on the wizard) but it should give you a very good idea: https://www.takproject.net/forums/in...e-9#post-69973

[Trexller]

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

How are Rogues in PoP? Still among top dps?

among yeah, but they don't dominate melee dps to the degree that rogues do on P99.