PEQ =/= EZ. Their custom zone files are different from ours.

Hate said the other morning to plan on DL 4th of july weekend, and after that is over he hopes to release t10 beta the same week if not close behind.

is that a direct quote or did you hear that from Chunka's sister?

Direct quote. It was said in OOC chat and he specifically said that t10 beta release will come AFTER DL on the weekend of the 4th so that t10 didn't drop DL for us lol.

Hate said the other morning to plan on DL 4th of july weekend, and after that is over he hopes to release t10 beta the same week if not close behind.

That was what it was pertaining too, yes.

4th of july weekend. Father's day is a "minor" holiday like memorial day 

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17.9) After the mini being exploited was disabled, essences are less common? That's just "terrible".

-Hate

I think what he meant by that, was that in comparison with the t1/2 and t7 mini's being active, t5 essences have become a huge bottleneck. People have become used to being able to grab 1-2 of drag minor/major and maybe a gods once a day thanks to the mini's. It actually makes it feel like you're progressing when gathering the things up for the lovely UW (the droprate on dragons minor is horrendous otherwise). The mini-dungeons provide us an alternate way of farming for things we might need. Not that since people are exploiting the huge stockpile of t5 essences is gone.

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Yeah, I can't really speak from a tanking perspective, because my gear wasn't on par I quickly found out. However, the mobs themselves were effing cool, and it was nice to see what I have to look forward to in a few months.

@Dina - There were a few who were training other players who pulled multiple mobs in order to steal loot. As soon as a mob would die if you had more than one, you'd get smashed by a group of other ones dragged by another player who would feign death and loot whatever you had killed.

I saw one person doing this, they got summoned near 3 mobs and GM bound to that spot. Death loops are apparently not as funny on the receiving end.


-Hate

Winning.

Yeah, I can't really speak from a tanking perspective, because my gear wasn't on par I quickly found out. However, the mobs themselves were effing cool, and it was nice to see what I have to look forward to in a few months.

@Dina - There were a few who were training other players who pulled multiple mobs in order to steal loot. As soon as a mob would die if you had more than one, you'd get smashed by a group of other ones dragged by another player who would feign death and loot whatever you had killed.

Same.

Interesting. I can definitely see why something like that is slapped real quick. I know when I used to GM for THF I would see the "warp detected" notices all the time, but thought nothing of it. It was explained to me as just a function of lag.

Id have to agree with darpey on that one. After about 1500 AAs you really have no ise for spending them anymore (though its diff for each class). Qvic.is super rough, and is a wonderful starting point for crystals.

Oh no! I cant log in now!

(I keed.)

Who was this fiend? And what is a warp? Using superspeed?

Another random suggestion - Would it perhaps be possible to make the essences something you could put in your "alt currency" tab?

Thinking on it some, one per week was probably a bad rate, yeah. Didnt take into account people that might buy/sell them.

After finishing my post on the GSoA, a little lightbulb went off. You want these things to be decently rare (maybe 1 dropping every week or two of constant nolife farming). And like it has been pointed out multiple times, there is 0 economy on EZ right now (I blame people hoarding things for their 12-18 box armies). Right now, there is just no incentive to trade. Anything. This kind of fucks the little guys who are still struggling their ways through the hell content, as where there used to be essence trading, and whatnot, theres just a fat round of silence.

1)  Use the goldmine you have already that is the mini. You have this amazing system set up that allows you to buy UC crystals, but nothing else of use to lower end players. They arent going to see an UW to apply those augs to until they are likely able to farm t5 fairly easily. So, the suggestion here? Add essences to the berry vendor.

Qvic - 3b
Tacvi - 4b

And so on. For characters who already have the UC, this would be a wonderful way to contribute to the group makeup. And with that, there is suddenly a decent amount of essences floating around that people are forced to work for, and the up and comers are not forced to rely on upper players for handouts.

Edit: Adding essences to vendors starting at the cost of a charm upgrade also solves the problem of tinkering with essences droprates based on amount looted.

2) Add a new item to the berry vendor - Shard of The Ages. Combine four in the magic box + 1 EoN ,to get a GSoA. Make the shards no-drop so you dont run the risk of someone dumping nine characters worth of berries into crystals and pooling them all. Each individual character needs to complete his or her own. Make the cost of each shard 100b or so. Yes, 40 days for a complete GSoA doing dranik, or 28ish for those doing the t7. Its still grindy enough to be a pain in the ass and a long term goal, but with tangible rewards that will keep people drinkin the coolaid. The other issue I could forsee with this one is the sudden spike in GSoA being made by people who have a few hundred saved already. Who cares? Theyll drain their berries and get their rewards, but the same thing happened with the release of the UW. Now, players still have to farm it. Long-term, it would even out.