I've been playing this a bit ever since I left EQ a few months ago.

As an old school EQ player, it definitely has a different feel to me. I've been told it plays very similar to WoW which I can't speak from personal experience really since I only briefly dabbled in WoW during Beta/Vanilla.

It does ...

What's next, will they decide that Tweyene's Stone of Evocation and Stone Guardian's Conjuration Shard are too powerful and nerf those too?

In retrospect these augs probably are a little overpowered, but when your class is seemingly balanced around these effects, these nerfs are a nerf to the class ...

I use my bard and box the Welcome to My Nightmare (HoT Lower) and Redemption (HoT Upper) missions regularly for exp. Both are super quick with that setup and offer good exp for the time investment. Fall of Tae Ew is easy as well, but takes slightly longer than the others. Catostrophic Power and ...

It really seems to be that while our nukes got a very nice upgrade in HoT, which I am happy to see, our pets really did not scale very well and could use a DPS upgrade.

I would be interested to see what the average ratios of pet, servant, and nuke DPS to total DPS is on an average parse now ...

I didn't have time to do Beta this round because I have been extremely busy with RL stuff.

I'm confused about the AA mod rod, could someone explain a little better what this is?

From what I gather, it's an AE rod summon. Casting the AA can only be done out of combat, but you can click the rod ...

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Would be surprised if we get something other than the normal copy and paste with a 20%-ish increase in power across the board like we did for our 81-85 spells, 76-80 spells, etc, with a handful of possibly useful new spells thrown in.

Would be nice if they would put a little more thought into ...

As someone who routinely boxes mage + bard I can't imagine a combo that would allow me to do more than that combo did.

During SoD I was able to easily box every group named using those and cleric mercs except the guy in Korafax that mem blurs and shadow steps. You have a puller, mezzer, and a solid ...

Yeah we beat FoS1 2 weeks ago and FoS2 last week and haven't done FoS3 yet and it hasn't unlocked for me yet. So FoS3 is definitely part of the requirement.

Fos2 and FoS3 both being required sounds like it's probably right.

The highest UF group focus is EM6 which is from Tier 9. For unflagged zones, EM5 is available from Underquarry, and EM4 from Cooling Chamber.

Also, depending on what server you're on, I think some servers do pickup Pallorax raids in Korafax. Simply beating him unlocks an EM6 aug from Zeb in the ...