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I voted utterly ridiculous. Whats even more sad, is the AA dev asked players for ideas, gave some guidelines(one being that it didnt steal from another classes ability), there was a 20+ page thread with tons of ideas, some great, some not so much. And after all that, they choose this POS, which blatantly further bastardizes wizard and druid teleport abilities. Then when they announced it, it got flamed enough to make Hell look like Antarctica, and the tard that is the AA dev comes out with 'Well, I thought it was a good idea, we're stickin with it'. It is really pathetic how out of touch the game designers are with the playerbase anymore. I can honestly say if I didn't enjoy raiding with my current guild so much, my time in EQ would be at an end.

Yes, EQ is a good online game still, and one of the best available. However, you can look at all of the things that have been done over time and see where a few have been nice improvements to the game, alot really just fixed broken or buggy stuff, and a few hurt the game. This veteran award falls into the 'hurt the game' category in my opinion since the system was developed as a reward for being a paying subscriber. To me it says, we are glad to take your money, and here is your thanks. It is not a big slam in the face, but the point is, it is supposed to be something all people will benefit from, and to casters, especially druids (my main) and wizards, this reward is of no use at all. Why should we care though? After all it is true that it does not effect the game play, we can still enjoy the game with our friends and guild. True enough, but do you remember how you used to be able to zone into most any zone and shout 50 <class> LFG and almost always get an invite? Try this now and revere in the silence for a minutes or two, then do a /who...ahhh dang I have the whole zone to myself. Each time we get a slap in the face, people DO leave the game. And does SOE care? Hell no, they want us to leave and play SWG or EQ2. They could make more money if they supported one less game. Now that is just an opinion as well, but I strongly suspect the CEO of SOE shares that concept. It could also explain why the developers seem to have drifted further and further away from the player base.

WoW anyone? Or will it be EQ2? /shudder

I think self gate is awesome, esp for non-self-gaters, like warriors stuck someplace. So it sucks not because of the feature, but because its the manner of obtaining it. I started in '90 with my first char, and its such a pain, everyone in raid is saying you have to use this button and that effect etc, except only one of my chars can do any of them, so its just sort of frustrating to have the year bonus things.

What i really need is another AA page showing just those AA's that i have buttons for - and a bonus would be to have those i can currently use on top, split line, those needing refresh time (and how much time until next use.)... that would be helpful. I switch between accounts and chars and you have to push so many buttons and do much scanning to find anything (now was that a DoN button or a PoP button, OOW?.. nah... oh wrong char.. shiiiittt... ) :-)..

Like 90% of you are being blind!! If your bind is in PoK and you think SOE should let you have a bind at some named mob for easy checking on raid nights.. MOVE YOUR BIND!! You have a gate to GL.. put your real bind wherever you want! Secondly.. as a melee, yes.. I look forward to getting it.. and not in 6 years from now.. that's next years reward and I'll be glad to not run home 90% of the time so I have gate in a pinch.. and origin is home town.. that's atleast three zl from guild lobby which is where everyone says to meet. I would think after all you 8 year vets have played you'd see the usefulness.. so your an 8 year caster.. move your bind somewhere else and use this to get in pok neighborhood.. so you have a gate hammer.. woopdy doo.. why risk your life hoping for proc when you can just click. And whatever shortsighted person said this is less useful than the jeter.. OPEN YOUR EYES! Yea, I'm like a week late commenting but after reading you all trashing a perfectly good idea for plenty of mains and alts alike I had to say it outloud.. you people are b*tching for kicks and talking out your rear ends. There's nothing wrong with this as an AA .. I would agree it'd be a nice replacement to the jester and have him done away with but still.. I don't care when I get it.. I didn't start playing 7 years ago thinking man I hope that 8th year vet aa is good.. I'm not gonna complain in the slightest

I use this one very often as a mage. I bind myself to the zone I solo exp in to burn my lesson each day then I click throne to go back to guild lobby to meet for raid time. Also you can do this solo with lesson till out of mana then throne it back med up for 5 min while lesson burning but timer on hold then gate back to bind and start killing again. like a free mana potion.