Item Revamp, part 5?

Congratulations SOE on failing at your jobs once again!

Today some new test notes were posted wich included the following:

- The mobs within Inner Sanctum have been raised in difficulty to reflect the quality of the items they drop.
- Many of the Emerald Halls rare drop items have been increased in quality to reflect the time investment and difficulty of obtaining them.

Great, another expansion with ANOTHER revamp several months into it's release. First let me touch on the Inner Sanctum change.

I really just have one question: Why the fuck did it take so long you dumbasses? Every real raider knew that those mobs were far too easy to be dropping 50% of the set gear. Why wasnt this change implemented the same day you added set gear to their loot tables? That would make sense. Now its too little too late. Everyone who can grab 23 random people now has set gear from these mobs. This change is the equivalent of adding a 12 hour lockout to labs if you only kill trash, its too little too late. The loot has already dropped. We were already having most of the set crap rot because we got it, as I am sure other guilds were too. I am all for more challenging encounters, but not once we've already gotten any worthwhile loot from them for the last month or so. Then it just becomes pointless. Good game on screwing this up.

Now for Emerald Halls. On the one hand, this loot seriously needed to be upgraded. On the otherhand, I am so fucking tired of EVERY SINGLE RELEASE having to have loot upgraded because the designers were too incompetant in the first place. Item girl needs to be fired. Her assistants need to be fired. Anyone who helped design this loot at all needs to never be allowed to work on loot again. Its terrible. Half the classes set gear has stats that make no sense and effects that are garbage. Hell, as a conjuror there is not one single piece of my set I would wear full time. I would swap in the robe periodically and that is it. Grats me on being above the pinacle of left side gear before the expansion was released, and that is just one of the many examples of how terrible your item creation is.

Anyways, more on the loot upgrade in EH. Calaglin was kind enough to log into test and compile links from various guilds to see what was changed. As near as we can tell, 99% of the loot that was changed dropped off the Gardener and Wuoshi. None of the lesser, random named loot drops seem to have been changed at all, and no changes to set gear. I am so glad this stuff was no trade so most of it was transmuted, not that it matters since a crappy 1hander for a druid was changed into a bad ass dps slasher and no dps class would have taken that sword if they had even the slightest amount of intelligence anyways.

Anyways check it out here.

More fun with Second Dawn!

Ok I got tired of waiting for a real reply like the ones I asked for on the last update so here's one for people to flame away!

If anything, the last update proves that the average intelligence of the Second Dawn/Second Dawn fans out there isnt high enough to read simple paragraphs. It was proven by their repeated replies wich did not fill the required form that was clearly stated at the top of that post. In the end, I guess the update proved what I wanted it to, that what I posted are facts and the SD folks just cant say anything against them that are also facts. They lose.

So since it was unfortunate I had to remove some fairly entertaining flames because I clearly stated what kidn of replies for that one post, Ill try and summ up what was lost (feel free to repost them on this update, notice this is back to normal and anything that was fine to post before is fine again)

I suck
I'm a bitch
Beer is good
I have a small penis
I live with my mom
Dissolution sucks
Dissolution just says the Avatar is broken cuz they are hurt

I think that about covers it all. Now let me ask a question? If the avatar of Valor wasnt broken, how come Exil, leader of Second Dawn admitted that SD just got lucky with no adds spawning for a long time near the start of their fight? How come SOE released a change to that encounter on test today to introduce a mob that never spawned before but was supposed to be spawning?

Evidentally it was broken, as anyone with a brain could tell. Of course, that didnt stop Second Dawn because if you remember, they swamped the SOE boards saying how great of an encounter it was, great script, and Petgroup inparticular was especially adamant that the encounter was not broken. God that guy must feel like a complete dumbass.

I am pretty sure Second Dawn is butthurt because exactly what I said was going to happen, happened. A bigtime beta guild (Second Dawn) world firsted the content they had been beta testing for a month before any regular guild (Dissolution) had a chance to pull it. Its like I said before, I would be ashamed if Dissolution was a special needs guild that beta tests and did NOT world first everything in EoF. There was no level cap to slow down, we had top end gear already, we would have come out and world firsted it all if were in beta or hung our heads in cold, bitter shame. Second Dawn obviously doesnt feel that way and is content taking an extra month over the rest of the world. I guess that is the difference between the two guilds, ours wants to be the best, where Second Dawn acknowledges that they need an extra month.

The fact that Second Dawn can never escape from is they were in EoF at the begining of October. That is a fact, I have the screenshot to prove it and it has been posted before. EoF did not release until mid November. Second Dawn has 6 weeks to try and learn the content. The sad thing is, they arent even bright enough to tell when a mob is obviously broken like the Avatar of Valor is/was.

I for one, am quite happy that of all the raid content cleared that Dissolution did it either first or second in EoF so far. We knew going in that beating beta guilds was going to be very hard because they had been playing with the content for weeks and talking to developers about what abilites mobs have and we were all just getting to see it for the first time on our own. I enjoy challenging encounters, so do the other members of Dissolution. I guess Second Dawn would prefer to be a special needs beta guild. That is a fact they cannot overcome until the next expansion. They know its true that they needed that extra edge, if it wasnt, they wouldnt care what Dissolution has to say about it, but because it is true they are hurt that someone actually called them on it.

Its not a coincidence that the guilds that beta test always do better. For proof look at KoS. Everyone new NPU beta tested it, NPU got a lot of world firsts in KoS. NPU didnt do very much beta testing in EoF and how many world firsts do they have? Second Dawn didnt do much if any beta testing in KoS, didnt do shit. Suddenly they get to beta test EoF and they are getting world firsts. Its not a coincidence, its that they have seen these mobs before, they have fought them before, and the ones that were changed were changed based on their feedback and what their raid could/could not handle.

So in the end, yes Second Dawn got number 1 on Wuoshi, Mayong, and Avatar of Valor(BROKEN version). And yes, Second Dawn saw all that stuff in beta. Grats I guess if your proud of that and feel its something to boast about as you obviously do. I for one would never want to lower my guild to beta testing and working with devs so if we have to lose a couple world firsts to a special needs guild so be it. Grats Dissolution on killing the same encounters while maintaining the integrity and the balls to do it without an extra month and without a helping hand.

Potatoes Potahtoes. Some people are willing to take a harder rode to say they did it on their own, some people are content to take the easy rode and rely on help from developers. To each their own I guess.

Ok all I keep hearing is crap from Second Dawn, so Im going to make this update. The only replies that wont be deleted must be about Second Dawn of 1 sentance in length and posted in the form that they are below. They must be 100% factualy correct as well.

FACT - Second Dawn World firsted Mayong Mistmoore, Wuoshi, and the Avatar of Valor.

FACT - Second Dawn has been a "top end" raiding guild since the early days of t5 raiding.

FACT - Second Dawn did not beta test the original game, DoF, Bloodlines, Splitpaw, or KoS

FACT - Second Dawn did beta test TFD and EoF as a guild.

FACT - Second Dawn did not world first anything important in the releases they did not beta.

FACT - Second Dawn did test Emerald Halls and the Avatars on beta, as well as post screenshots showing some of them with Mayong.

FACT - Second Dawn only world firsted anything important after beta testing the last two releases.

FACT - Members of Second Dawn do regularily communicate with Developers and other SOE employeee's about various encounters.

FACT - Despite being a guild longer, Second Dawn has a smaller number of important world firsts than the guild Dissolution.

Are you done being retarded? Are you?!

Ok, so since the SOE boards are the only boards worth a damn, ive been reading them a bit more lately. Granted I cant post there, but oh well. Anyways, recently SOE made a change to the loot in Inner Sanctum wich amounts to a big "Fuck You" to the high end raiding scene and basically telling us to go fuck ourselves if we want progression and play World of Warcraft.

The first thread on the issue was locked, although I cant really tell why, but a second one soon popped up. You can read them for yourselves but I just wanted to point out one particular post on the third page

http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=zones&message.id=28683#M28683

shamefu11 wrote:

"ok those of u that are all happy cos your noob asses can get set gear, are streight up retarted. Listen to reality, this is how gear goes from EoF. it goes from instanced set gear, to contested gear, there IS NO GOD [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] MIDDLE GROUND. currently a mob that our guild prolly could 2 grp, drops the same as a lvl 75X4 with 3X4 adds also lvl 75. Inner Sanctum was meant to be HARDER THEN EH... EH WAS MEANT TO BE CLEARED FIRST... this has been prevented due to two reasons... 1 SoE has totally effed up and made Inner Sanctum about the quality of labs.... yes a pickupraid can clear it, and yes a pickupraid CAN kill tarinax, cos in SoE's wisdom they made the drontal do about 50% of a lvl 69 legendary geared mystics HP.


anyways back on topic, 2nd reason, is because EH woulda been cleared weeks ago, but HEY there is 15 seconds of u stand there and get beat down by a mob, because SoE designed the zone / charm/ something wrong to cause enormous insane amounts of lag...

are you guys done being retarted? are you? if you still think that the entire GAME should be as well equouued as dusso . sd . NPU untill contesteed die, please refrain from ever posting again, and go stand in the corner.

Thanks!"


Ok granted, there are a lot of spelling mistakes and whatnot, but this post is hilarious. It sounds like something I would have posted and wish I could. I dont know who shameful11 is, but I am glad there are still people out there calling out the retards and just telling them exactly what they are.

I could read that post over and over for hours, and I just might.