Was Ghallanda affected by release notes?

[MondoGrunday]

i understand in your limited scope that everyone on the server cares who all the other people are on the server. i've obviously have not had the displeasure of grouping with you and I've been here as long as anyone (disclaimer: who purchased retail, beta testers are not included in "anyone")
Back to your cage troll

[MondoGrunday]

I guess you grew out of the easily memerable too. Don't remember you pal.

how will I ever overcome this

[Samadhi]

There is no popularity contest going on. Anyone who has been playing end game on this server for more than 6 months would know Coldest. Welcome to Ghallanda! Now GTFO.

Your assumption is skewed based on how much someone might PUG as well as hours of operation. I have run a couple abbotts with coldest, and to the best of my sobriety, that's it.

Is it because I don't play much? Or don't play much end game? No, it's because I would rather run shortman than throw up an LFM - so that's what I do.

All apologies if I took your post too literally and you were just having fun with el dudo, I'll go back to work now

[Accelerando]

meh.

[kamimitsu]

There is no popularity contest going on. Anyone who has been playing end game on this server for more than 6 months would know Coldest. Welcome to Ghallanda! Now GTFO.

I've been playing on Ghallanda for years, and I don't know Coldest (except from the forums). It's my own fault though, since I only play mornings (nights my time). As a matter of fact, I don't know a lot of the "famous" Ghallandians (excluding their forum personalities). I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad that I miss out on all the prime-time drama. I guess it's just not my fate to hang out with the cool kids in virtual worlds, either.

One of these days I'm going to go to bed really early and try to get up when the servers are hopping, maybe I'll get to see what all the fuss is about and meet some of the characters (and I mean that figuratively) behind the forum personalities.

edit: I have run with you a few times, though, Cache. Good times, as I recall.

[Accelerando]

edit: I have run with you a few times, though, Cache. Good times, as I recall.

Absolutely, Asian time zones FTW.

Haven't seen you about lately unfortunately.

[Venar]

On another note, i like the change do Divine Fervor duration, now it can match zeal and last 4 minutes.

[Riorik]

how will I ever overcome this

You won't, and you'll need to re-roll effective characters. I suggest Issa's alphabet theme....how about a, aa, aaa, aaaa, aaaaa for character names.

[Yurtrus]

WTS: WoP Rapier

Only 5 Large Scales!

I will give you 3 Lrg Scales if you are interested PM me..

[MondoGrunday]

You won't, and you'll need to re-roll effective characters. I suggest Issa's alphabet theme....how about a, aa, aaa, aaaa, aaaaa for character names.

oh i see , kinda like you but without the g and y included.

[Riorik]

oh i see , kinda like you but without the g and y included.

Interesting, now you're branching out to sexual harrassment.

Only Adogg is allowed to harrass his minions!

[MondoGrunday]

Interesting, now you're branching out to sexual harrassment.

Only Adogg is allowed to harrass his minions!

i meant "yag" , i don't know what you are referring too

[Mindspat]

I will give you 3 Lrg Scales if you are interested PM me..

You know I was kiding, right?

[Seregon]

From the point of a view of a strength based, dwarven, tempest, pure class ranger, in short no.

The wop nerf wasn't that big of a deal because my char is strength based, thus does alot of dps so it won't be that big of a deal to ditch my wops for min II's. On normal for almost every quest ingame I can almost dps mobs down as quick as I can wop them. But yes, I guess for hard and elite the wop nerf will have some impact. There are a couple of a options though, incapacitate all mobs attacking you with wop, then kill 1 by 1, vorpal, straight dps, WoE then dps, etc, in time I'm sure hard and elite will be conquered easily though.

The transmuting nerf, kinda effects me, not as bad though because im a min II user, not just a transmuting of X, so my weapon will still bypass most dr(mainhand has goodburst, offhand has holy). And for the Dr- that I can't break, it takes a big DR- to negate base swings are doing 35-50 a hit non-crit and 150+ crit. But again, tough to predict what type of dr new mobs will have.

The true rezz clicky wont affect me at all, I have a high umd so I just use scrolls, but I do feel for the people who wasted materials on them.

I think thats it I assumed you wanted to know about how the nerfs will affect people.

I'm actually looking foward to scaling of quest difficulty based on the amount of people in party because I love to solo and shortman stuff, so if this change is done right it will basically mean that I'll never have to pug again, but probably still will.

Torthur Hareft

[Seregon]

agreed, more than anything a big evening between extremely wealthy and only moderate/slightly wealthy players has occured.


There's almost nothing I do with my WoPs that I couldn't do with a vorpal (sos and prey are the two biggest exceptions, and the slowness of vorpal to wop over time would make a big impact when off by yourself in hound or the subterrane), but most of these factors are just reducing the incredible self-sufficiency of wop-bearing toons with other abilities - ac builds with wops can, right now, solo tons of things they have no business soloing, and if they are rangers with manyshot, that opens up even further (as they gain the ability to dispose of huge packs of mobs with imp precise+wop or weak/punct bow, and to deal with beholders that way).

It was probably not good for the game for those characters to be so completely independant of a need to be near, pay attention to or care about the locations of their party members, while other classes/builds focused on dps (barbarians, non-ac fighters and pallys, lower ac rogues, etc) are forced to actually play as a team and stay with people who can support and heal them .. while the ac pally/rangermonkthing/rogue are on the other side of the map by themselves killing things and ignoring the presence of everyone else.


Kinda fun for a while, if you are the pally/rangermonk/rogues in question, but probably a lot less fun for everyone else. 'i soloed the puzzle and opened the lever and killed all the mobs by the shrine before the vod group filled' was cool the first time Torthur did it, and I rather enjoyed it the first time I did it, but I kinda get the feeling it's also taking fun away from people, since their job is 'run to the quest, grab a chest on the way'

lazy players like that, people who want to actually do something, less so, people who's toons will never, ever be capable of that kind of thing because they don't mix ac and wop, even less.

My character is a s/b non-evasion ac tank; its not supposed to out-solo so many things. But W/P is a big part of letting it do so.

Sorry but I gotta disagree with ya here bro, I just solo'd to vod and opened the lever a few times(not saying this is difficult at all, using it as a baseline), not using wop at all, used min II's first time, minII's and vorps second time. I also did it quite easily. All the wop does for a character with a good build, is allow you to do, what you already can do, just faster. The nerf really affects characters with poor builds more than it does well built characters. Using only mineral II's I could easily take out 2 devils/orthons. 3devils/orthons plus some randoms was more difficult but still completly doable without wop and no deaths at all. Its all about tactics, and somewhat good rolls, not just one piece of gear, take pulling the lever for example, my wops have nothing do with me being able to sneak past all that stuff, my 50hide 50move silently do that. So I guess what I'm saying is, its not the wop that allows characters like mine to do what I do, its all the other gear combined with a solid build and good strategies that allow me to do what I do.

But I also do agree with you that completing the majority of an event solo for the group while you wait for the group to fill does rob people of content, and that any successfull group should always stick together. Just after 100 runs all I want to do is get the quest done as quick as possible but I understand that other people who havn't over-ran it to the point of boredom would want to go slow to make sure they can see and take everything in.