Im just referring to Maslow's scorched earth policy for everyfucking-thing. Remove T10 buffs for anyone <76... wipe all plat and nerf plat drops... you know, his usual. I figure fuck, why have half measures, just wipe the whole goddamn server.

Thats what I am referring to.

Yeah lets just wipe all plat and items (sans "donated/bought" items) off the server as well and put everyone at level 1 then if thats the case. Lets just start everyone off on equal footing. Then we can all be uber "together". Right Maslow?

I never asked for it to be EASY. And for the record, I know what the E and the Z in EZ server means. Noot outlines this in one of his videos on YT (I've watched them all). Asking for T10 buffs to not get dispelled and complaining about root/blind is not asking for it to be easy. If they removed dispel/root/blind it would make it easiER, true - but not easy. You people are reading too much into what I am saying and proposing. This server is still a pita what with the drops... PoDragons... the grind.. etc without low-tier dispel/root/blind. The only thing I asked for really was removing Dispel at low levels and maybe even blind. Nothing else. If you think I am asking for the server to be "EASY" with just those requests then none of you even read my post and have no idea what reading comprehension really is.

Im not asking for easy. Im asking to remove one tiny little bullshit mechanic.

Lolololol

EZ is the hardez.   Why you debuff, blind and root me devs?    I'm a Dev and know all about the EQ tables!    EZ is broken, you fix now!

Lolololol

Kill yourself

Thanks.

...words...

Youre right. I knew I would get blowback and I would ruffle some feathers. Hey thats cool and all, I guess thats what this subforum is for "Bitch about anything", which is what I was doing.

I appreciate your constructive feedback, unlike some other people on here...

Yeah, I was told it was a temporary thing, that would go away in later levels. I rolled some buffers (shaman/cleric/chanter) in my 18 man group so I can self buff WHEN i get to that point.

If T10 buffs arent meant to be on lowbies, then why not just disable them like Maslow said?
I dont really agree with that sentiment as this server is grindy as it is and it would hurt more than hinder new players than anything to just put a level restriction on them. Me bringing attention to this issue is not intended to hurt any new players, on the contrary.

If me bringing attention to this issue will just end up hurting new players because devs are gonna be all like "ok fine I will just disable the buffs for anyone <76"... then I guess this is the wrong community and server for me and I will just see myself through the door.

I was under the impression (Maslow notwithstanding) that you guys wanted people to stick around though.

This isnt a "give me what I want or I will leave" thing, this is supposed to be a a "here is what we can do to make the server more friendly and inviting to new players". But if certain people want to turn it into something else then whatever I guess.

Maybe take advice and not run only 6 mages.    

I do not think any development resources should be spent on a player that will not even roll the basic required toons for regular EQ let alone EZ.

In short, go play with your boy Otto's taint, scrub.

I dont have only 6 mages, I am running 18 characters. As I told you that day you jumped on my ass unprovoked when I came back that iw as just making the 6 mages as a test and for fun. But in your stubbornness you ignored that and talked down on me like you talk down to everyone else.

Maslow youre cool sometimes but sometimes you can be a real fuckin dick.

Scrub.

I am a fairly new player on here with EZ server and I love the server, but the new player experience has not been very forthcoming. Sub-tier 1 content has been especially frustrating when you go to nexus or stonehive to get the full T10 buff lineup and go to your zone of choice to farm or level up and some piece of shit nullifies all your buffs! Whose idea was this? Either make T10 buffs non-dispellable (i know you can do it, I run a server myself and the column is in the spell table) or remove dispel from lower tier mobs. Whats the point in dropping what I am doing to go get t10 buffs in nexus if in 5-10 minutes of getting them (1+ hour long buffs) they get dispelled?

People keep telling me to get my resists up... Well that would be great and all IF I COULD but its impossible to get my resists up before TOFS... Additionally, dispel (afaik) is NON RESISTABLE. Afaik you could have 10,000,000 in every resist and can have all your buffs stripped to the bone. So telling me to get my resists up does not help with avoiding dispel, unless this server is different in that regard with Live/Official.

INB4: get gud scrub
INB4: lrn2play scrub
INB4: use dummy buffs scrub
INB4: quityerbitchin scrub
INB4: learn to live without someone handing you T10 buffs
INB4: Don't like it here? Go back to live scrub (i dont want to play on Live, I want to play here! But I want to enjoy playing here and I cant enjoy it when my buffs are being dispelled every 5 minutes.)

The last point above is pretty much where I am at. When someone says "Casting 890%xp and T10 buffs in nexus center" my first thought used to be, fucking awesome!.. Now my first thought it "well i might as well not fucking bother because they will only last 10 fucking minutes".

I mean at least remove dispel up till ToFS or something. Mobs in BoT cast dispel, mobs in LDoN cast dispel, and Mobs in POTime cast dispel. You guys want new players, then stop pissing them off with this idiotic mechanic so they will stay!

Root: Root isnt near as bad as dispel, I can live with being rooted on pulls. It fucks up my pulls and I use my method of resetting the pull, which costs me time - but I can live with it. Its still fucking annoying though.

BLIND! Fucking blind... Blind is almost as bad as DISPEL, but not quite. When youre spending 80% of your time pulling with a solid black screen and your map up, something is wrong with your game. Blind needs to be removed or put more diversity in mob spell lines so they arent fucking casting blind (like dispel) every Goddamn pull.

Lastly, this is the only server ive played that has the mechanics listed above. Even on official servers mobs didnt blind, root, and dispel like they do on here. I realize there are work arounds, but the workarounds dont solve nor address root problem: why have good buffs that can be put on lowbies to help them if they are going to just be gone in one dispel? It's like you want lowbies to stay in PoFire for months or something...

/rant off

I found a workaround for this. After training with the dummies, when "invizzed" just take the invizzed characters and R-Click on a banker or a merchant. Its a pain doing this on 18 characters but at least its an out, and its something.

...the devs don't play the game so have no realistic way of viewing this. The economy really isn't so bad, though. Plat is NOT useless nor worthless, just inflated... and we have a very healthy barter system going through items.

I agree with you here but here is the problem.

I am a dev, I have my own eqemu server I am building at the moment. It's fun and challenging but after spending 3 weeks straight on it I got burned out and decided to come play here for a bit and see what had changed. Even if Dev's DID play it wouldnt help their outlook on certain mechanics much. Like with me, I could play on my own sever, alone... but what good would that do me? Just the fact that I am my own servers developer makes me have a biased and skewed perception because I am privy to the inner workings of what drop rates are, what drop tables are... etc etc.

The devs ON HERE get good feedback from us - it's players. That's pretty much as good as it's ever gonna get. It's like this with every game. The argument doesn't need to be "Dev's need to play their own game so they can see firsthand how jacked up such and such is...", it needs to be more like "Dev's need to listen to us giving them valuable feedback and act upon it".

I get that its to "remove aggro" but why is this even in place? The dummies are rooted in place and cant chase you, they do 1 damage, and couldn't the DB be changed so that when a player disengages them they become "memblurred" or lose aggro after 20 or 30 seconds of non-melee action? The reason I am complaining about this is, once you get invizzed (on RoF2 client) you get a "buff" or an "effect" that invizzes you and it doesn't appear in your buff list. You cannot click this buff off, cant remove it in any way afaik, and therefore - cant hail any NPC's or use the buff bot or teleporter. It took me 20 minutes today to figure out what was going on and someone told me that they noticed I was invizzed...

This is a great and wonderful server, I love this server - but mechanics like this are just silly. There is no reason for anyone to be "invizzed" after disengaging from a target dummy that is perma-rooted and only does 1 damage. the dummies are great for getting melee and defense skills up, but this mechanic is not.

Is there a specific reason why this mechanic exists? Is it because of my client?