For dps I prefer strikes, and since each NS9 requires 3 NS8's, I think you'd be better off putting more eggs into less baskets. If I keep my strikes up to date, I generally am content with my dps with just 2 melee dps class in a 6 man.

Rogues place third in the single target game?

I've read that if they are constantly spamming backstab, they are about the same as monks (around t7 era)

Gear being equal what class is winning the DPS numbers at the moment? (single target)

It has been monk for as long as I can remember, but maybe spell changes have turned the tables.

I guess one thing I'd like to know is:

How much time should a competent player, assuming he knows what he's doing, take to grind out the value of 1 MBD while in T4, T5, T6, etc. respectively? I think the answer lies in Hunter's answer to this question.

Can we assume a T6 geared player should be raking in MBD's faster than a T4 character? Maybe Hunter doesn't want us to.

Rate of pp being dropped in T6 vs T4 ought to be proportional to how long Hunter wants us to grind MBD's in each tier.

Watch what happens in this use case scenario though:

Player A is T1 geared
Player B is T7 geared

T7 Player B could probably get enough plat for a MBD in about 2 hours of farming in T7, gathering the plat bags (assuming 6 box army with gear that is 'ok' for handling T7).

Player A could go farm SLS, sell them 250k a pop and have enough plat for a MBD in 45 minutes or less.

Therefore Player B has no real advantage over Player A despite being far more advanced.

All I'm asking is are we ok with this scenario? No judgement from me.

You could always make the no-trade crafter gems/bars drop.

Those are pretty much the main reason we all need pp, right? I could use about 20 magic blue diamonds.

I want to point out the obvious here: nobody is paying pp for anything in auc right now. The only pp sale I was able to do all weekend was for some SLS's. Essences would not sell for pp.

The current economy seems based around trades of essences and SLS's.

I thought it was illegal to use commands like /pause or use twist for anything other than songs. Is this not true?

I thought for every buff you cast, the user must issue a separate command.

Did you /disc stonewall on your warrior?

Have a cleric with the AOE heal, set up with an MQ2 macro on the TANK's UI? If not you really gotta do that. I can explain in more depth if you don't know what I mean.

Thanks a lot for sending it. I've been avoiding ToFS for over a year just because I didn't want to download the client again and break all my macros!

I think mine is too. Have the most up to date spell files. Can you pl send to kanis999@gmail.com?

Interesting how many people are actually in favor of removing UW altogether. I too am for it because I think of epic weapon progression as the 'main plot' of this custom rpg we got here.

That's just my opinion though, I don't presume to have any influence over the direction of the server.

I,m sure if you drag your feet threw, it could take a very long time but i just took a group threw t5 in 3 days on the 3rd day they all rocking t6 gear and one with 7.0

You're special. From all the people I've talked to in the game, the average amount of time spent in T5 from the moment they get flagged for T5 to the moment they get T6 flagged is measured in months.

Talking about people who are completely new to T5 and don't have any help, of course.

Not that this argument even matters.

Right cause 5.0 take 3 days to get

Not sure if srs, 5.0 takes way more than 3 days to get.

Maybe Hunter wants us to band together to kill the ToFS boss rather than do everything solo. Almost every MMO has a weapon that requires a bunch of people to work together to gear one player. Like the original epics in EQ or the legendary weapons in WoW.

It would make sense to make it required for every 5th combine because you are moving up an essence class. Every single combine is horrible change.

Yeah, that's a great idea. Make the level ups that increases stonewall and parry % a 'hell level'.

SoA is same as before, but add Essence of Norath (all the ores used for the SoA mold), for new SoA recipe (per level).

UW recipe is same as before, minus the vendor magical blue diamond ore, but add essence of plat (10 mil) and ToFS essence. Also for UW SLS went from 4 to 5.

Thanks!

Gonna pass on SoA upgrades for a long time. It isn't maxed out, but it has the highest parry % and stonewall available to me. That mold quest is the worst! Less fun than farming points in LDoN 4  back in the day even.

Feel very sorry for people who have to farm SoA from scratch now.