POR is the death of EQ! NOT!

[Flehmen]

G'day all,

Just to beat everyone to the first exclimation that POR is the death of EQ. Here it is. Those of you who agree, need not read the below.

Okay, now that that's out of the way... I'm all for a recipe for a steaming hot cup of {pipe the heck down} for all those complainers who just can't hold it in for 1 week while the expansion gets sorted out.

There are some bugs that need to be addressed. Are you perfect? /bug, ask questions, describe the problem, but stop being insulting, childish, and very much overly critical.

The same people who complain that "noobs have it easy now", non-karana's have it hard, and the (very old now) tailoring nerf should be reversed are also the same people who are already complaining.... rudely... about how much everything sucks in the new POR.....


PLeeaZE

If you reconize yourself in this, go ahead, flame me with a big complaint... I know it makes you happy.

'nuff said 'cept it's a good thing Ngreth has a thick ogre skin. Thanks N lots of new stuff to play with. Maybe some won't work out... meh... still fun to play with.


P.S. Lol, the first post on here that kicked in the **** word filter.... I've re-edited to eliminate my somewhat strong language.

PPS. I've edited it better ~Maev

[Xenephex]

I don't remember the last time I saw a 'death of EQ' post here on EQTraders. There is one post that is a complaint about PoR, but it happens to be on an issue with enough legs that Ngreth already said he would consider changing it.

I'm just wondering why you would choose this arena to set up this particular strawman and knock it down?

[Flehmen]

Mostly to knock it down....

There is a lot of complaint already about how horrible it is in the world of EQ.... even here on EQtraders with new trophys being "pointless", alchemy being "all screwed up"... several of the posts(more than one complaint here on traders btw) are pretty harsh on the big ogre. I don't think he deserves that for doing a okay to pretty good job.

I don't particularly want to see it here... so I bring it up to take the wind out of everyone's sails... To poke fun at it... to head it off at the pass... to shore up the slippery slope.

S'all....

[Heynanni]

There's SO much being said about alchemy... I'm just sitting back and waiting for it all to be posted in the database here within a week, and then my baby shammie will be back in business The one legitmate concern I've seen so far is for non shammies who need certain potions for their combines, and those recipies haven't been figured out yet :/ That really isn't fair to them.

People who complain about the new trophies... nobody said they'd be easy... but imho they're darn worth it! You can walk around with 100% WR in ALL your bags! Think about acrylia or velium farming with that!

[Flehmen]

Thanks Mav, for the edit... I've also changed the subject but you beat me to the post.

ME bought Da LuRNn tA TaLK liKe DE orgE. WURk goOd Dat buK dOZ.

[Doomspark Deathfire]

Admittedly I haven't had much chance to play since the patch went in, but I have come to expect a "shakedown" of a week or so while things that slip through testing are found and fixed. As I recall, the Luclin expansion had the servers bouncing like yoyos for two weeks, if not longer.

I did take a short walk through North Ro, and thought the new graphics were impressive.

I look forward to spending some time in-game tomorrow, and perhaps finding things that can be contributed to this wonderful site.

[AbyssalMage]

Well you invited the flames....

...Please relize it's only a rant and i'll be logging into EQ right after this and playing =p

(The back ground)
As I read the posts on EQ Forums that we would get new bank space and new trade skill recipe's, I, like most tradeskillers got giddy. Well thats a lie, I got REAL GIDDY. So I patiently waited and played in game secretly hoping that they wouldn't nerf tailoring again the day of the patch. So off I went doing MM's before the nerf and having my guild collect tailoring combines for me(Thanks Bondien, Jeimz, Gurabb, and anyone else I may have forgotton).

(Two days after PoR launch)
Well due to the local stores not having a copy yet I'm unable to play PoR yet. But WTF....Alchemy got a huge overhaul as Jewel Craft, Tinkering, and Poisonmaking all got new recipe's(I think everyone actually got new recipe's except tailoring and smithing for skill ups). Where is tailoring or smithing? Please don't say the old line's, "give it time." I know more 300 skill trade skillers in every tradeskill except Tailoring. Yet the one tradeskill that NEEDS help doesn't get any. I'm happy for the Alchemist's if they get new potions that they can sell in the bazaar but they been making a killing on the clarity, haste, healing potions(that they also nerfed /grrr....) for awhile. What is the FEAR with SONY giving tailoring a break...it can't be cause they fear the market will become flooded cause if that was the case they would need to nerf smithing ALOT just to make it comaprible yet 300 smiths are a dime a dozen on most servers. you could probally do a /w Master Tailor all and wont get the "there are too many..." message if you could do such a thing. When some one said something about white jackets and tailoring I beleived them but I don't think I fully grasped it. But I am slowly understanding that Tailoring seems to be the lowest of the low of priorities.

(the conclusion)
Back to endless farming for the chance of a few more combines

Thanks I feel better now...kinda....not really but I'll pretend to be happy.

p.s. Ngereth...your doing a great job but you really need to use the brute side of the force....errr...ogre side of the club...And beat on the developers heads a few times until they "balance" tailoring out. There really should be as many tailors as there are smiths. Yes I know things work better if your patient but when was the last time an Ogre was patient? Change your avatar to an Erudite and become a pacifist Ok feeling better, now time to go play EQ cause I admit it...

My name is....And im an EQ'holic

[arryl]

hmm, this is supposed to be a primal scream, so i will get that out of the way... screech

whew, all better now

ya, most of the boards are filled w/the usual rants, my 2 coppers, i think this is the most ts friendly expansion since velious, the new trophy scheme is beyond belief... to think that there is something for those not already at the end game... awesome

since we are not supposed to attempt to contact devs here, let me simply say that imo, the fact that SOE actually hired a respected member of the fan community to tweak the tradeskills portion of EQ... actually restores my confidence that SOE really does want EQ to continue.

so, to all who have contributed to this board, and the realm of Norrath. over the years, warm hugs and sincere thanks

(i got so excited over the new ts quests that i had my 36 monk(yes, one of those ts naturals, you know, 122 wis an such) do all the abysmal sea freebies, and "sign up" for all the new beginner tests

/rant off!

[Flehmen]

Well, regarding the monk and brewing... you got to admit there is some RP value to having "Expert Brew Monk Soandso" over your head....

Personally that is why Seebi exists... She's my drunk Monk...