Annoying EQ Things They Still Have to "Fix"!Follow

Time for another thread where we, the customers, inform the devs of THINGS THEY STILL HAVE TO "FIX"!

I put quotes around FIX since some of my suggestions aren't actually broken things (like quests, spells, abilities, etc.) but things which could seriously stand to be IMPROVED---sometimes at modest to insignificant cost in terms of time and effort---which is the best kind of suggestions to make if we ever hope to see such changes implemented.

I start off this one and will endeavor to add more if I remember to!

Use of Needlessly Cryptic Terminology.

Like "counters" for debuff spells. I can't tell you how many times when I used to raid guild clerics, shamans and druids would ask for explanation as to what it means for a "CounterAct Disease" type spell to "Decrease Disease Counter by 8." Can't they just say that when a bad spell is on a player it has a value of say "-10 points" (negative-10) and when you case CounterAct Disease it has a value of "+8 points" and so you need to cast it twice to "cure" the disease.

There's precedence for such simplification such as when they changed all references from "Flowing Thought" to "Mana Regeneration." At least here "FT" had some romance to the name where MR is purely functional. I doubt most players had a hard time remembering that one point of FT was +1 to your mana regen pace. Nonetheless they changed it and I suggest something similar with a cryptic term like "counters."

Also the whole "recourse" thing with respect to spells that have a secondary effect. Read almost any description of a recourse spell here on allakhazam (and that info comes from EQ's own spell databases so the blame isn't here) and see if you can make heads or tails of a lot of it. Just make it simple; "Spell X has a 10% chance of triggering Spell Y or Effect Z". KISS! (Keep It Simple, Stupid!")

Anyone have more?

-simplify focus effects. This includes combining tiers. The new improved damage I could cover level 1-65 and go on every 1-65 item that had a related school of effect. Rank II could go to 75. By rank 4 we'd be losing all sorts of oddly named and weird bracketed things.

-global drops 1. I'd like to see downwards compatability. So if I hunt in a level 75 zone and get tons of silks, extracts and such I can use them to do any of the lower combines too. Some precedent in EQ, and tons in other games of taking a high level tradeskill material and being able to split it down repeatedly to the level you want (in greater quantity). Vise versa is good too, as then there is a baz market for the lowbie stuff in mass quantity as you can combine it up to do higher skills.

-global drops 2. I'd like to see a vendor value on all global tradeskill drops. Then I'd like a toggle that allows you to "loot global tradeskill drops as currency". Or make the stack count 1000 for all of them. Most players I know destroy most of these items as they fill up inventory too fast and aren't worth selling in baz.

-let me set my home city. If my character is max ally and loved by another city... let me set it as my home. This would be a better use of the tribute system too (to build the faction, especially for the hard to work with races).

It hurts my brain to think about broken quests or useless junk that drops and has no earthly reason or use.
So many other things that could be changed or flat out eliminated, to clean up not only the game...but clean up the software.

While I agree with the points already brought out by Sippin, gbaji, snail and KC...

If they did fix or change even half of this stuff...we wouldn't play "the game" anymore, would we?

...because it wouldn't be "the game" anymore.

Early in my EQ days, when Kunark was still the current expansion, a buddy and I came up with a term for all the random, useless stuff that came from there, both drops and from foraging... Kunarbage! And it's only gotten worse since then.

Tat

Question for both of you. Are you sure you're talking about the actual VS and not VSR? VSR spawns about every 6 hours. He's the guy you hand the summoned globe to, which causes him to poof and respawn as Spirit of VS. You then hand that mob the resurrection scroll and he poofs and respawns as VS. But that version of VS only drops the ranger and druid epic pieces. There's a ton of misinformation about this, but you cannot get the wizard drop except by killing the version of VS that is on a 3 day timer (more or less).

If you did the druid epic, you were interacting with VSR. I've seen him up literally dozens of times whilst attempting to catch a single VS spawn. I've also popped in and seen a VS corpse lying there but in every case it was the spawned version (spawned by the sequence of hand ins, not by spawning naturally). You can tell because he'll always have the globes used for the druid/ranger epics and never have the other stuff for the other epics. I suppose it's possible that on other servers he's just sitting there often waiting for someone to kill him, but at least on Cazic, VS is perma camped. I've never seen him up.





Yeah. But it's not about making it simple, but recognizing that as the game has changed, the relative difficulty of certain quests have changed dramatically as a result. The epic mobs are a great example. The plus side is that pretty much anyone can solo those mobs now. But the negative is that back when you needed a raid force to take them out, people only killed them if someone in the raid actually needed the epic bit for themselves. A whole raid force of people weren't likely to gather together just to farm epic drops to sell for MQ. But since the mobs can now be soloed, all it takes is a few players on an entire server to decide to commit themselves to timing the spawns of these mobs and farming them and they'll never be up for those who actually need them.

And that's annoying as hell. So not only can you literally spend months (if you're a normal person who can only play at certain times and thus only occasionally can even be on when the spawn even can be up) just trying to get the chance to kill the spawn once. And then there's only a small chance he'll have your drop. That's pretty darn craptacular.

Edited, Jun 26th 2014 6:47pm by gbaji

Er... Um... Congrats!

The center view button (numpad 5 default) doesn't work while in 3rd person view. When I want to center while levitating to prevent running downward or while swimming, I have to scroll back to 1st person view first. Fix this please.

I know but I tend to move in all directions often and making center view useable in third person would make life a lot easier.

I have allays done it the exact same way. I get confused when I accidentally change my view button from the default and stick with this method.

I think the damage shield issue is "working as intended." If a mob dies wholly to a damage shield, no player gets xp and the mob corpse poofs with no loot available. Same happens if a mob does more than 50% damage in a fight, like if you assist a sarnak fighting an iksar in Lake of Ill Omen. THAT doesn't particularly strike me as something needs fixing since it makes sense that a player needs to do the majority of the work, or in the case of a damage shield at least some work, to earn a reward.

The DS issue is important when a druid is PLing a very low level player especially when fighting much higher mobs. It often happens the player gets less XP than he should since some of the mobs will die due to the DS before the low level is even able to do 1pt of damage on the mob.

Is it possible that some of the mobs just don't have any loot? They poof pretty quick in that case IIRC. I can't imagine that you're killing lt blue mobs with just DS and not getting any damage on them. I'm assuming you're wrangling them properly, but just in case, make sure that you're facing all of them while fighting. That way you should get a decent amount of riposte damage (plus you have better defense against mobs in front of you than behind). I know that with my paladin, when fighting groups of undead, I'm **** about facing because ripostes are where most of the damage to the group will come from. It's not uncommon that by the time I've killed the first lt blue mob, there are two or three others that are down to 25-35% health just from SU pops on ripostes.

I've never had an issue with mobs poofing though, even when plowing largish groups at a time.

Lootless mobs disappear pretty fast, but not instaneously or almost like the ones killed by NPCs or only from DS. Rot time is about 30 sec on lootless mobs, but can vary. Using PBAEs, I've seen several poof like that, but that's the only time. Other times, they do it in order they were killed although faster if no loot on them.

Chat filters, yep it's way past time to revamp chat windows and filters. I spent weeks trying to find out how to filter out "<player> has taken <dmg> from <spell>". It turns out its under spell/mine even though it's not mine. Why? Idk. Or how about that list of item speech (?) when you cast a spell, 3+ sets of armor have to tell you they helped you as you're trying to see some actual numbers as they fly by.

Get me a filter with abbreviated txt dealing my hits, spell dmg, pet efforts, crits etc maybe even group dmg w/o overlapping other categories. Also something about the <say> filter, maybe separate PC and NPC "say"? Or can we do that? I can't remember or test it right now since SOE didn't check their emails when Network Solutions warned them of a pending domain name loss. ROFL

Am I doing an OCD on this or does anyone else have this prob?