Wow guys, sounds like some amazing changes... will be loading up EZ to check them out!! Thanks for all the hard work Akka and Rent. Rent not surprised to hear you're willing to put in so much work into this community, you've always had the passion for this place. Thanks mate! Happy holidays to all!

Harthek

Plus, in my humble opinion, scary HP output is much better than zones crashing often. Feel free to disagree, but zone crashes suck. :-(

Hate gonna respectfully disagree with this under the premise of "Active Healing"... without knowing your correct HP status you have no effective way to heal your tank... I have hotkeys to cast vie/drake/cleric heals. Not knowing Harthek HP status I have no way of knowing when to heal. Unless you have that automated - which is not legal use of MQ2 - or just heal with a paladin then its not so bad.. people who are doing that arent taking advantage of a style of play that is most effective for this server - which is farming the content as thoroughly and quickly as possible. Not having a HP indicator that is accurate makes t8/t9/t10 unplayable for me, and thus gonna take a break until that comes back. Hopefully you get the kink worked out hate! Thanks!

Sorry for my Maslow Style OOC Blow up - I Personally apologize to Godtank and Aythena. Although i vehemently disagree with your stances and complete lack of logical discussion as to why UW drops are a good thing in an event, other than who cares, which is an attitude that doesnt help keep the server thriving. There is no room for diatribes and personal attacks to you both which I threw out there. This time should be a cheerful time and everyone having fun. Its been a tough year and you two were my outlet of emotion, sorry. I don't ever want to be an EZ elitist, so sorry if I cam off that way. I ban myself from OOC for a week.

Merry Christmas,
Harthek

3 hours till game time!! Get ready you cheerful hooligans! All participants are guaranteed to walk away with something! Still need guys to video - let me know!

Merry Christmas.
Harthek

Only if Krudolph the red nose reindeer shows up!

Sup peeps! I am happy to announce Harthek's OG Santa Event #2. If you don't know, I enjoy being santa (aka giving out free shit, having fun, and bring some holiday cheer).

Event Details:
Name: Who Will Lead Harthek's Sleigh??
Time: 10:00 PM EST
Date: Tomorrow 12/17/15
Where: Harthek's Guild Instance for NEXUS (just /say enter guild harthek nexus - i will have it open)
What: Details of the event will be announced in nexus =)
What Do I Need To Bring: Bring a naked level 1 Gnome to nexus. That's it!

There will be plenty of prizes that will be worthwhile to all players. Vets and noobs alike are all ENCOURAGED to join in. event shouldn't take long - half hour to an hour. Only 1 toon per player, dont be dumb bringing multiple boxes trying to win more shit.

If anyone's interested in frapsing the event - let me know, I would like 2-3 people to tape.
Special thanks again to Wareash.

HoHoHo,
Harthek the OG Santa

PS - There will be a best name mini game that will receive a prize solely on name creativity. Deamonwarrior and Wareash and Myself will be the judge. First / Second / Third Place will win this mini game.

PSS - Class doesnt matter.

Me oh my!!! Nice brother, is that google fiber?

Agreed there - Kruciel is a machine in that zone and relaying a continuous feed of information to hateborne and us come and goers in T10 =). Thanks Kru and thanks Hate for staying on top of ironing everything out.

- Harthek

hey guys harthek here - dont post much on forums but most of you know me.  over the last few weeks ive felt compelled to post something. theres three things i love most about EZ - 1) the devs who make this all possible. 2) the community, whom ive spent literally years of PT (starting in 09) with. 3) the actual game content.

since weve been having some server issues its turned into pages of forum filth, frustration, and WHINY BITCHES. I am not trying to be elitist, however when hate and akka say they will rectify and resolve the issues why must we whine so damn much?

so point 1 - thanks devs, they event is sacred to us all including u guys and i know you will do halloween 2015 justice.

point 2 - this community has always been solid. few bad apples here and there but we spend a lot of time together so lets enjoy it. my dad died young at 59 this labor day. it makes you put things into perspective - mostly to enjoy life and dont sweat the small stuff. some remember me as sant, i was a red barbarian that held "santa" events where i would help anyone who needed kt. ive given things away countless times, helped when i could, and always tried to fair trade. all i ever asked innreturn was to pay it forward. so ill take this time to shout out my friends and thank them for good times playing a game we love, with RNG we hate hehe.

Deamonwarrior, kiwis, wareash, rymo, kruciel, daira, krunkley, rent, krinkle, darpey, tankbeard, sudrx, maslow (rip), tereg, myrx, zexan, phoddi, moruk, dimur, fugitutive, fuzy, sonaspud, watchyou, hurty, woodee, chunka, arkain, momentum, warbash, grogan, mrkitty, kaidor, mixlor, fonwar, calley, blighton (rip), raygan, blarr, and so many others that i am forgetting on the fly, im sorry!!!

point 3 - the content. the content is hard, breaks you, gets easy, the breals you again when you grind it a million times. i love nothing more than to challenge myself with everything i do, can i grind somethingnfaster? more efficiently? can i get a server first? (no since my boy rymo is always ten steps ahead of me, love ya my japanese brother - thats so getting lost in translation.). so yes this yrs event has been pretty shitty with so much lag - however i dont have an insane computer or google fiber - but i took the lag figured out what i can and cant do, died a few times, desynch constantly, but i PLOW thru. my halloween lag fest challenge has turned into more than 350 boss kills including every boss downed. also content is more fun with friends - everyone loves to say THIS IS A BOX SERVER BE GONE - it takes connotation to new players that we just mindlessly grind by ourselves. one of my most glorious EZ moments was last year halloween, deamonwarrior and i worked one hell of a week, bit no AF pet for his zerk yet. so its like down to the last hour before reset on last day and we are just pulling everything so hard then boom diablo spawns an AF it was amazing. thanks for sharing that with me deamon, and grats on the pet we did it.

you may think of this as aggressive, or elitist or whatever. you may flame me hard you keyboard warriors, but please dont do it on boards as ill never read it only hear about it. send me a tell in game while i crunching hard making phat lewtzzzzz, heh but seriously i like human interaction and most likely youll find that i typically think with logic and reason. this game takes a lot of time and dedication, so please, whiney bitches, dont ruin my beloved community. when shits fucked up and the bosses are notified they will get to it, be grown and relax. they love the server just as much as us and will make it right, but not if we act so god damned entitled. sorry for the soap box, and i do love you all just figured some need to be told tom stop being little girls.

Harthek

ps sorry for the length i wouldnt even read this post myself! also sorry for the shitty grammer and no caps, im wirting this on a tablet, give me a fucking break!

Man I swear i just looted a GSoA from Qvic right before I crashed... Hopefully that is in my inventory lol.. If not that would be the story of my life hah.

- Harthek

Thanks Akka - Mob push made EZ unplayable.

buffs stacking with Insane Goblin halloween buff is an issue and XP buff timer is off along with Incinerating Aura 3.

Also it seems like mobs hit me MUCH more often on my warrior for some reason, Not sure why that would be the case.

Thanks,
Harthek

/giggle... should be just fine

-Harthek

Hey guys, haven't been around much at all lately, very busy IRL. Actually just bought an engagment ring for the woman and getting the proposal all planned out.

Enough about me, I just wanted to ramble for a bit. Now please forgive me if this post is redundant to anything posted on the boards in the past month or two, as i've been away and haven't kept up with anything. To my many friends I have made on this server and to those who know me, I've always tried to be a fun, helpful, knowledgeable, and caring EZ player. The past few months, I found myself as a bitter, resentful, half-focused, bored EZ Player. I still enjoyed engaging with my buddies, the few that still remained active, my guildmates (again the few that remained active),  but man I found myself being more irritated playing the game than enjoying it. The community I felt was toxic, I couldn't even stand reading these boards, the EZ economy was so topsy-turvy (I am sure I contributed to it being EL BORKO, but thats what happens when you have Bill Gates Plat), my play styles completely changed due to some class tweaks, and ultimately all I had left to do was more brain numbing grinding. I am hopefuly for some new content and excited, as I love playing this game. What alarms me most is the community of EZ. Back when I started in 2009-2010, the EZ community was incredible. People were helpful, nice, and had just a great time playing the game. It was harder, there was grinds, but the grind ever ending. You could get away with playing a few toons and have fun. Not many rolled more than 6 and there was minimal game stress (imo).  Game pop's were around 400 on regular - non event times. And remember people played less toons so that 400 was more like 100 unique players instead of the 18 raid squad monstrosities we all run now. There are a ton of AWESOME dudes (and gals) that play on this server. They have even more spirit for the progression of this server than I. This server also is blessed to have the presence and management/dev of HB and Akka, two very capable and talented individuals. Along with all the behind the scenes dev's that lend a hand, the EZ server has always been a place I felt safe investing time in playing, that I knew my time wouldnt be wasted, that the community and dev's would make sure the server stands the test of time.

I see that Peign/Maslow has been permabanned. Honestly, thats pretty crushing to me. I really enjoyed playing with Maslow. He helped me out in my progression, and when he returned from hiatus, we crushed some end game together. I understand the fact that some people saw him as annoying / mouthy / aggravating / pushed limits etc etc. but man, dont we have ways as players to control that? If you dont like someone /ignore. I cant imagine, being a player investing over a hundred days in PT, and being Perma banned for my personality. I get that you have to control the server and weed out bad apples, but is there a better way? I really like to think that Peign/Maslow really just talked with his opinion on how the game should progress and he really didnt hide his feelings. Im not going back to look at previous posts or what he did so i may be just talking out my ass, but if he was caught cheating the game, then I believe this is harsh. I think we sometimes cheat ourselves as a community. We allow ourselves to get so hurt by things and I constantly see banter back and forth on these boards and then it ends up in bans. The last thing I want to see from this server is skilled players who've invested a lot of time in this game get banned because of there personality. If a player is cheating the game, I get it, and I'd be all for a removal, but a personality? I tend to think thats a slippery slope. I hope you I do not offend you hate for voicing my disdain to your action, and I remain a supporter and fanboy of how you and akk run EZ. Understand I am just a player who has been around, off and on, for years of EZ and speak from experience. I've been meaning to get this off my chest for awhile, and just want my friendly, populated, helpful, and fun EZ server back. I am ANXIOUSLY awaiting the arrival of T10 and you will see me no-lifing EZ once again, even if the Fiancee (hopefully by that time) doesnt approve. However, after T10 is running smooth, I think the community and devs need to really talk about the future of EZ and how to create a better, more helpful, and fun EZ community and game. This is all my opinion and a vast majority of you may disagree. If that is the case, I can always find my solitude in gaming elsewhere. I guess seeing that Mas was permabanned really torked me and made me emotional.

Hope the epic lewtz have been droppin for you guys, and even as a burnt out EZ no-lifer, i still miss it.

-Harthek

I will have to test out the changes in game to really get a feel for the effect on playstyle.

I dont get however, the rearranging of the HP buffs. I may be dumb but help me out here, you are taking away 68k hps from sham and giving  55k hp from cleric.. why is total hp buffage getting nerfed? Was that really an issue that seemed op?

- Harthek

Thanks Akka for fixing the pack, much appreciation! Now I can actually enjoy that UW!
-Harthek