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I find the breadth and depth of the changes a very exciting prospect. For me, this game has been in a coffin for the last 6 months or so, slowly being lowered into the cold dark earth. At this point, an overhaul on this scale seems like the only thing that could bring it back to life. I've got nothing left to lose. On top…
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They stated that there would still be a couple sources of lifesteal. Lifedrinker and Bloodtheft enchants seem like the perfect candidates for that. So instead of them being gutted or changed, you might see them become the new hotness for soloing. They could also throw in an extra item or two, like a Ring of Vampiric…
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The reason NW Wizards look so much like D&D Sorcerers is because in 4E, Wizards were turned into flamethrowers instead of their classic "I've got a spell for every situation" selves. When Sorcerers came out in 4E, they were basically Wizards with a small extra damage bonus. That said, in 5E, Wizards look a lot more like 3E…
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I'm actually rather excited by most of the changes announced in the dev blogs! I have reservations about a couple things, but those mainly revolve around a certain lack of faith in them executing the changes well, because of abundant history. The main thing I'm excited about though is the (likely temporary) flattening out…
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I've been advocating for GWFs being Barbs for years! I'm glad to see the class alignment with 5E.
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No one is asking for a nail that can be screwed in, just that we be allowed to hammer in our own nails if we want to. "Solo players" often get treated like there's this binary state where you either belong to knitting clubs, Eagles Lodges, church groups, and have bunches of friends, otherwise you must be some anti-social…
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Because some people read MMO as "Massively Multiplayer Online", while others read it as "Massively Coerced Interdependence Online" or "Massively Sociable Online". One of those is correct, while the others would require completely different acronyms. As per it's *actual* definition, the only substantive difference between…
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I know how weird it may seem to some that anyone would want to solo an explicitly multiplayer game. I still can't help but get my nerves tweaked though when told that people like us don't belong here. I get the sentiment and don't think ill of those expressing it, but it still irks me. The only reason I even care though is…
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I think what the OP is complaining about is that you have to form a *pre-made party* to do K-Team, not that they have a problem with playing any and all multiplayer content. There is an extra layer of effort and difficulty for some between being able to queue up solo and get grouped with others vs. having to manually…
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A very simple solution would be only group pre-70 characters together and only group level 70s together. You would basically have 2 separate queuing pools. Sure, queues would pop a little slower for the pre-70s, but it would largely stop all this nonsense. Also, if a 70 and a pre-70 were in a queue group together and…
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@justicesupreme Yeah, it can be really annoying going both ways, and has been talked about A LOT. Unfortunately, next to nothing has been done to improve these situations since random queues were added. @"elsiehelps#2667" 1. Taking away the available abilities would be really aggravating, but a second option could be to…
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Aww! I had a glimmer of hope for a perception-like stat to pair up against stealth.
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Sounds like that's just normal behavior. Zone Chat covers every instance of the same zone just like in non-instanced areas like PE and Chult. I remember way-back-when in Demo and Tiamat runs seeing Zone Chat stuff from other instances, followed by people in other instances telling them to stop it and switch to "/say". You…
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Wait a second. Are you talking about the Castle Ravenloft dungeon you have to queue for, or are you talking about the quest you get to go save the damsel in distress? If it's the dungeon, then yeah, you need to go in with a full team, but if it's the rescue quest, you need to pick up the sunsword in the beginning after it…
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No, I think he means tack. That's the name for the mount speed. It sounds like he hasn't bought any Zen mounts and would like an option to get faster travel speed for his chars without having to buy an epic mount. That said though, you can pick up free epic mounts these days from several events (siege, summerfest, etc.)…
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No, apparently there is a new, 5th treasure called "Treasure of the Drow" that's getting fished up this year, but there is no vendor to exchange them. Presumably, they would be used to get Underdark/Maze Engine campaign currencies, but the merchant never got updated. Hopefully it will be sorted by the end of the fest.…
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I never really minded the SOMI fishing for what it was, but I really liked the more laid-back winter version better. Thankfully, I have no reason to fish this year (all my alts are complete up to thru Mod 9), but if I did, I don't think I would bother. To play devil's advocate, it does make sense to have one fishing rod…
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I always look on in a little bit of wonder when everyone goes on about being gift-scammed, or the fear of it. I have opened SEVERAL THOUSAND gifts over the years and have never been scammed (except like a couple gifts in the first year, which very well may have just been confusion). What I commonly DO see is people opening…
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Sounds like a fine idea. As someone who has no interest in guilds, I still recognize how helpful that would be to the majority who are. It doesn't have to replace anything either, just make the box a little bigger or shuffle things around a little and add another button. Even if it did replace something (which there's no…
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I chuckled when I read the title because I knew how everyone would respond. I actually expected worse. This is sizeable chunk of why I've gone from playing 3-4 hours per day to 2-3 hours per week. Add on the 4-support meta, the de facto requirement to be in a guild (to pad IL for the elitists, kinda the same issue), and…
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Yeah, I have to admit to some creeping apprehension towards how housing would be done here these days. I still love the idea, but I'm not sure they could/would do it right. The new Workshops seem to be a step in that direction, but I'm not thrilled with the implementation. Housing could be expanded from that I suppose. I…
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Yeah, I'm not feeling it at all. I was already pretty tuned out, this just makes it worse. A self-parody of D&D is rather uninspiring to me and the profession changes just seem like a buggy, tangled pile of hamsters not worth climbing. I'm doing the campaign on one character because of my OCD, but that's about it. I've…
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I'm not feeling motivated to do anything or even get started with professions at all. At the very least, I think it would be wise to wait a couple weeks for a handful of the most dire bugs to shake out, then just slow-walk it from there. Probably only do one character at that. Meh.
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I haven't seriously PvP'd in like 2 years and I STILL find myself reflexively jump-dodging from time to time!
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Oh my goodness! This just gave me the best idea EVAR!! "A rough tavern on the outskirts of town, where drinks are cheap and life is cheaper..." It's a large tavern instance where everyone is flagged for PvP! It's just a giant, ongoing bar fight! It would be like the Moonstone Mask for the criminally insane! I suppose you…
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Yeah, I've wondered when and if we would ever see a follow up to that. I would think it was something WotC had/let them drop to foreshadow one of their own later storylines, but nothing like that has come up yet. I've also wondered about the end of the Cloaked Ascendancy, where Gyrion seemed convinced that something SO BAD…
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As is, this idea is a non-starter for reasons others have stated. However, something along these lines could have been possible where as someone donated tons of stuff they could have been given credit for that and maybe walk away with something, but I'm 99% sure they never kept track of donations. That makes fair…
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So it sounds like Preview would be the place to do something like this then, not Owlbear. Even then it sounds a little shaky. Thanks for the heads up. I don't get any dungeon runs anyway and I'm not interested in playing the 'social game'. I've always known MMOs are a bad fit for me, but I've really been feeling it hard…
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Yeah, those are some of the things I wondered about. It would be annoying to have to redo everything. I've never spent much time on Owlbear, just a bit of Preview over the years when new mods are coming.
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HAHA, that thing's still up there!!? I reported that about 6 months ago, and apparently wasn't the first. I think it's awesome, I just wish there was a way to get up to it. Not being able to get up on it is the bug!