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"Richard Lawson" <nouma@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Hey, all.
>
> I've been on an EverQuest hiatus. I servermoved from Drinal to Quellious
> to join a guild there, only to have it dissolve underneath me. I joined
> another guild, and saw that it, too, quickly went into ruins.
>
> That took a lot of the wind out of my sails. Everyone was leaving in
> droves, and I just couldn't find a good, stable guild. I decided to try
> the Matrix Online, and currently I have a level 35 Arbalest (think
> Wizard).
>
> MxO has serious game balance and content issues, but you'd expect that for
> a brand-new MMO. My Arbalest has a Stun spell that seems almost
> completely unresistable and renders a mob completely unable to attack of
> defend for ten seconds, which is plenty of time for me to get in some very
> serious damage. I routinely kill mobs that are ten levels (or more) higher
> than me. The spell is so unbalancing as to make the game boring - but
> then again, I'd hate to think of life without it, either. It's the
> Complete Heal of MxO.
>
> I tried playing another class, a Spy. Alas, a recent change made the
> class completely useless. And I do mean completely; it currently has no
> viable function within the game. Think of a Rogue and taking away
> backstab and SoS. The developers have acknowledged that Spies have a
> problem at the moment and have promised a solution - eventually.
>
> My biggest complaint with MxO is the clunky interface makes talking to
> other people a chore. All messages - NPC emotes, /ooc messages, tells,
> says - go to the same box. Quite often people will send me a tell and
> I'll miss it completely. Currently there is no way to customize the UI,
> although that is apparently on the horizon. Meanwhile, I feel completely
> isolated. I solo a bunch of missions and have no one to talk to, ever.
> Yes, I could join a "crew" - the MxO term for guild - but I have no means
> to discover which are the good guilds and which are the bad ones. Someone
> from a guild with alternating capitals in the name - HaCkErS oF ZiOn or
> something - tried to recruit me but I wasn't interested.
>
> It's also quite obvious that the game could have used a few more months'
> beta. Oh, it's playable, but there are a ton of annoying bugs out there.
> For example, when you do a mission (much like an LDoN), bodies never
> decay. And if you kill several mobs in the same place, you're unable to
> loot any except the "top" mob, and often mission-critical items are on a
> mob at the bottom of the pile. I've had to learn to "spread out" my mob
> kills, but that's the kind of bug you'd think they'd've worked out before
> release. That's just one example of a list of bugs. The developers are
> obviously working quite hard to fix all these; they just released a
> massive patch that fixed a ton of issues, but there's still a ton more in
> the hopper.
>
> A couple of days ago I got an Instant Message from my former guildleader
> on Drinal, saying hi. We chatted for a bit and I asked him about the
> status of the game. He said that server populations appear to have
> stabilized at this point - while people still leave, it's not the flood of
> a couple of months ago. He's doing well in his new guild on Povar, and
> they're making good progress in the new expansion.
>
> That encouraged me, so I logged on Monual and did a /movelog to Povar.
> Playing a new MMO like MxO makes you really appreciate how well-aged EQ
> is. There is a definite advantage to playing a game that's got the major
> kinks straightened out and has made major balancing efforts over the
> years.
>
> I tried to check the EQClerics forums to see the current state of the
> cleric. Alas, those forums appear to have disappeared somewhere. Anyone
> know where?
>
> Anyway, when the movelog is complete I'll probably give EQ one last go.
> I'll check the guilds out and try to join a good one. I'd love to
> participate in some good high-end raiding once again. I just was strongly
> discouraged by the mass exodus of a couple months back. If that is indeed
> mostly done with, I'm willing to try again.
>
> I'll let y'all know how it goes. =)
>
> -Richard
>
> Monual Lifegiver
> Prelate of Rodcet Nife
> <no guild>
> <no server>
Very sad to hear you're serverless again
Drinal is a lot healthier now since the server merge - a lot more people
floating around. Being a family guild guild leader I don't really know how
the top end raiding guilds are doing as I don't have much to do with them,
however we're all having a hoot of a time with the new DoN expansion.
I also mourn the loss of the EQcleric site. It went down about a month ago
now and haven't found it resurrected anywhere yet either. Here's hoping
I'll find a similar one soon as I learnt a lot from there.
T.
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