Patch Notes: Sunday, April 19th, 2020

[Asteria]

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

All these people in here praising these changes when they have never tanked a mob, or ripped a pull, or are even able to begin to comprehend what these clickies even do or why they are necessary. These changes won't even effect you, and yet you are happy that they were made. Can someone explain why they are so happy about these changes? Give me an example of how your "classic" experience was wronged by an instant or rechargeable click item?

I know i'm just feeding the trolls at this point, but it's frustrating. Implementing changes that people may think are minor when they are really fucking major. This shit changes the entire raid scene. (In before "the raid scene is toxic anyway, you are the reason this server is shit blah blah" - The raid scene IS toxic, but this sure as shit won't help that.. unless the goal is to have everyone quit that isn't in the top zerg guild on the server, or join it)

Just because you want to casually play EQ, and you think that a wand or a root net is unbalanced, doesn't mean that there aren't thousands of other people in the raid scene who absolutely need aggro clickies, and other items, to succeed and sustain.

I don't usually post about any of this shit, but this one got me worked up.

To the trolls, you are welcome. To the rest, I can only hope my "bitchy" posts actually make a fucking difference.

Try to take your RL Elf as seriously as this Emu free game, and you could easily be a millionaire with a big family..maybe even president of the company or president of the country! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Dolalin]

Highly awesome possum once again. You guys are on a roll this month.

[stephenc44]

Grats Riot.

[Ashenden]

Bug: Items raised the skill ceiling.

This has been corrected.

Nerf Reaper tho

[hotkarlmarxbros]

Rogean: Resolved an issue where group heal spells were generating way more aggro than they should.
Rogean: Adjusted Rune spell aggro to be more in line with direct healing spells.

Imagine raiding for months to afford a bladestopper. Not for yourself, but because you want to help the raid. Now you get slapped with a cast time (I think?) and it no longer pulls aggro any better than a see invis bracer. 4-500k item now worthless. RIP some people's banks.

[danansomehandsom]

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

Imagine raiding for months to afford a bladestopper. Not for yourself, but because you want to help the raid. Now you get slapped with a cast time (I think?) and it no longer pulls aggro any better than a see invis bracer. 4-500k item now worthless. RIP some people's banks.

That's the idea.

[Sivaeb]

Classic!

[danansomehandsom]

1.) Paladins instantly have value again especially in Raids.
2.) RaidPuller/RaidTank elitism and corruption is 1000% harder because cheat items are less cheaty.
3.) Guilds must be based on cooperation/numbers more than ever instead of ruthless greed.

Thank you! Amazing changes, and we're finally ready for them as a community I think! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jimjam]

So are WC caps 'can equip', but still rechargeable, now?

Will we all be rolling exclusively halfling cleric, war, rogue raid forces now (with halfling druids, of course, as transport)?

[hotkarlmarxbros]

Item added to game. Players find unintented use for. That use is observed by guides and brought to the attention of devs. Item is earmarked for nerf. Then comes patch day. And, as it was in classic, here are the community reactions.

Yeah, but if that was the case, there are plenty of balance and QOL changes that came in later expansions that could've been implemented, but were deliberately ignored instead. In fact, they went so far as to REMOVE shit that "wasn't classic" like the pet window. Like, pick a side of the fence, make the best game you can. Great. This mix and match shit depending on how they feel at the time can make people that wind up with the short end of the stick understandably annoyed.