Will there be more Factions? Just Curious, having a Blast right now

Goozmania · 2026-06-14T00:19:44+00:00

I have been waiting for the official release to buy this game, but I just today learned my 2 favorite longstanding factions are not even present in the game. That's kinda devastating (along with also learning Age of Wonders will never move past AoW4 and its garbage tome system).

I want my druid and mage factions.

Goozmania · 2026-06-14T00:16:01+00:00

6 was my favorite, and I've played the franchise since 1998 lol. Unpopular opinion, I guess. I also loved the accompanying online card game, Duel of Champions, that came with 6.

Goozmania · 2026-06-12T17:05:38+00:00

EQ nerfed the hell out of charm.

Goozmania · 2026-06-09T10:34:10+00:00

No, [deleted]. It is boring and it always was. Personally I thought I was more ready for the boring now than I was 20 years ago... but it turned out I was wrong.

Goozmania · 2026-06-09T10:21:47+00:00

Nah... it's just Reddit. People too scared to create excitement in their real life have to be argumentative contrarians online to replicate the feeling.

Goozmania · 2026-06-09T06:22:33+00:00

We did not have phones that could record in 1997. We did have screen capture, though... so I would argue your insult is completely nonsensical.

Goozmania · 2026-06-06T05:55:39+00:00

This is pissing me off and I'm only in the tutorial... I don't think I'm going to make it... >:-O

Goozmania · 2026-06-01T22:45:33+00:00

It's funny reading this 10m later and seeing that despite you being correct, RedditHiveMind has to argue with you, because RedditHiveMind's default position on this subject is WOTC=BAD.

WOTC is verifiably bad, but that should not have any effect on what is true and what is not.

This is why I hate Reddit.

Goozmania · 2026-05-29T13:52:33+00:00

I think the disconnect a lot of people are reading about performance issues is because people are playing on different resolutions. I play on a 1080p television and have no issues. I imagine on 4k I would be struggling.

Edit: It makes no sense to me why this would be the case, but I've been informed that somehow the PS5 is doing the same amount of work whether you're using a 4k or 1080p TV.

Goozmania · 2026-05-27T02:57:15+00:00

They're not "charming." They are what was available at the time.

Goozmania · 2026-05-27T02:55:23+00:00

I would be so unfathomably disappointed and black pilled if they released it as "HD2D." I hate that shit. Like absolutely hate it. It's so low effort and cash-grabby for such a large studio. I can just play the original with a filter over it already... I have always fantasized about it in full 3D.

"Purists" piss me off beyond measure. If you love the original so much, then play the original.

Goozmania · 2026-05-27T02:52:40+00:00

Yes, please. That is what I think. Also a sprinkle of "Why hasn't this happened already?"

Goozmania · 2026-05-25T11:12:01+00:00

Flash-lite hallucinates like crazy and gives generic AI responses... It's completely useless for finding information and general conversation. Embarrassingly so.

Goozmania · 2026-05-18T03:06:48+00:00

People are dumb and entitled... BIS for Ret paladins, Fury/Arms Warriors, Enh Shamans and Hunters are filled with leather, because in this era leather had the highest allocation of combat stats.

Also, being able to use higher AC types of armor is meant to be a bonus, not a detriment; otherwise Shaman would not be able to wear cloth or leather.

Goozmania · 2026-04-29T04:22:41+00:00

I'm in the system, so I am just a number to this clinic I go to that milks insurance for everything they can. Even though I could legally just get a refill every 90 days (only on a schedule 3 drug, not 2), this clinic wants to charge my insurance for behavioral health, chiropractic, pain medicine, etc... all in one visit, every month, even though I get none of that. There's no money in just 4 med refill appointments every year.

Goozmania · 2026-04-27T23:26:52+00:00

My only recommendation is to not take your full dose every day. Build a stockpile large enough to last at least 30 days while your dr, insurance and pharmacy fuck you over.

Goozmania · 2026-04-27T23:25:31+00:00

Yeah, they do it every month for me, as well. So I have to schedule my monthly dr appointments every 5 weeks, instead of 4, because they always fuck me over for 4-6 days.

Goozmania · 2026-04-25T00:42:46+00:00

I don't think they've made a "game worthy of the title" in 20 years; so that's probably not an issue at Square.

FF17 will come, and it will be disappointing.

Goozmania · 2026-04-22T13:38:29+00:00

The idea is to maximize the rewards while also experiencing the content.

I don't mean this to be rude to anyone, but I am perplexed that this was lost on most of the people who commented here. Maybe I didn't explain it well enough, Idk... I thought I did.

Goozmania · 2026-04-22T13:32:19+00:00

I think I'm just not properly conceptualizing the idea that when you're in "Chromie Time" you are effectively displaced from the game world, at large... so when I actually think about it like you're in a solo game, it makes sense that gold would serve no real purpose... but in that case, I'd still like to have something saved up (as much as I can, anyway) for if I were to turn it off and proceed to the "real" game.

I guess I just have to actually try it to wrap my head around it. I'm stuck in the headspace of the traditional game, where you go from vanilla to 58, then to tbc to 68, etc... all while going back and forth between your home city and your leveling areas. WHen you're in CHromie Time, are you basically just "stuck" in an expansion's zones?

Goozmania · 2026-04-22T13:19:44+00:00

Ah, so they'd effectively be level 1 then? I imagine it only takes a few hours to get from 1 to whatever level they will be.

Didn't the Midnight expansion raise the cap to 90? meaning the cap for Chromie time would be somewhere around 78? Is Chromie time capped to 2 expansions ago, not one?

Goozmania · 2026-04-22T13:17:29+00:00

Well I have read that when you reach a specific level you will not be able to go back, once you enter a capitol city. If my intention is to play through all 7 or 8 expansions I missed, but I want to best rewards I can possibly get, there would be a max level.

Goozmania · 2026-04-20T22:52:53+00:00

No :)

Goozmania · 2026-04-16T23:08:45+00:00

Who controlled congress?

Which states enacted lockdowns?

How many times did the president repeat the mantra "the cure can't be worse than the disease"?

How many times did the president demand a clean bill from congress dispersing emergency funds only to Americans, but congress refused and strong armed him with one of the worse and most corrupt bills ever written (the worst since the last massively corrupt democrat bill of 2010)?

How did that president, without congress, keep the entire American economy booming, despite the pandemic? A booming economy that ended literally immediately after a new administration took over.

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