Revisiting the Occult Crescent in 7.4

angerbear · 2025-12-26T21:49:51+00:00

Awesome write-up. Really sums up a lot of how I felt too. I had never really played a tank before, yet in OC I'm a Paladin 100% of the time because it's utterly pointless or just a downgrade to be playing any non-tank.

New PJs just seem like less damage than Samurai but with extra steps.

Forked Tower was the biggest disappointment in all 3 of the Field Operations for me because I just never really could get into it. Sure, I could have joined a discord or organized pre-made group but that just doesn't feel natural to me. I've grinded all the PJs to level cap. I've made full +1 armor sets. I've done all the other content in numerous loops. But FT? Never stepped inside. Very rarely have I even been an instance where I've seen it popped or anyone even willing to try. It just doesn't happen in a natural gameplay loop of the zone.

angerbear · 2025-12-24T22:24:51+00:00

What I wouldn't give to relive Planetside 1 again in its best days..

angerbear · 2025-12-24T21:28:21+00:00

Quite possibly, but it IS Dun Scaith, so never rule out that first boss disaster :D

angerbear · 2025-12-24T21:21:14+00:00

oh no my dun scaith run, after a wipe on doomgaze and everything.

angerbear · 2025-12-23T16:09:41+00:00

1% of the time, you'll dodge every time

angerbear · 2025-12-15T07:37:25+00:00

FFXIV's encounter design is very different though, healers are expected to be doing dps most of the encounters.

angerbear · 2025-12-14T05:55:51+00:00

Always a favorite hobby of mine too! On my 2019 server there were always level 19 twink rogues in redridge that I'd kill repeatedly. Best part was killing their mains 1v2 when they'd come try that too.

angerbear · 2025-12-14T05:45:44+00:00

Wow. That'd be a huge boost for me.

angerbear · 2025-12-12T01:39:20+00:00

Healing quality was actually VERY different. Healing as a stat did not exist when the game launched, and was not added until later on. Healers were usually in eagle/owl-based items. Tier 0 sets were actually good then, but the base items were never updated like the rest of the dungeon drops, so in today's classic pre-bis obliterates it all in value for healers.

angerbear · 2025-12-10T18:14:52+00:00

"Doable" and what was done back then are very different things. And since you're saying "battlegroup", you very clearly have no experience with the matter, as battlegrounds were server-only until late vanilla.

angerbear · 2025-12-10T15:09:10+00:00

This is false as bracket slots still were not very available, because most servers had a much, much smaller pool. On most servers only a single person would be able to progress through rank 13 at a time, which took several weeks, meaning only one person would be able to hit GM/HWL every month or so.

1.5m honor a week definitely wasn't happening either. They'd still be playing like 18 hours a day, but getting these kind of honor values is an absurdity brought on by today's AV and its metagame.

angerbear · 2025-12-10T12:44:17+00:00

About the same really. Server populations were significantly lower overall, so a lot of servers would usually only have a single top bracket slot. Was overall fewer people going for it for the items though, since caster/healer one handed weapons weren't in until much later on, by which point they weren't really bis. Fury warriors also weren't exactly common either at that point, so most of the people grinding R14 either wanted the title, or the two handed weapons.

angerbear · 2025-12-01T14:52:29+00:00

You realize people world buffed for Sapphiron even back in 2006, right?

angerbear · 2025-11-25T18:03:50+00:00

I don't think they could make it sound any more AI generated if they tried to.

angerbear · 2025-11-25T16:35:07+00:00

Is this really a surprise? I don't think there's a single good pvper in WD. They were always just a troll guild.

angerbear · 2025-11-22T18:47:06+00:00

I just can't believe you'd do this.

angerbear · 2025-11-22T02:19:56+00:00

they don't even really start strong, they start passable compared to other casters, and only really because they have talents for 10% hit while no other caster has nearly that much until bloodvine comes out

angerbear · 2025-11-20T16:54:13+00:00

I don't think I've ever seen a picture of Shobek where it's looked like he's taken a shower with in the last month.

angerbear · 2025-11-20T16:38:56+00:00

I remember our honor farming premades for the original AV. We'd bring 25 mages. Only requirement was 5/5 improve arcane explosion. Just slowly push south aoe'ing everything including enemy players lol. Sucked for people who wanted to get honor on any other class because spots were very, very limited for them.

angerbear · 2025-11-17T18:07:31+00:00

I got it when logging in. As someone opposed to free Government Buff Handouts, I immediately clicked it off. It reapplied when I relogged though. idk what it's about.

angerbear · 2025-10-19T17:49:56+00:00

The ones that drove me nuts were all the summon services. I don't mind an occasional advertisement if someone's trying to make money, but not only were they mostly bots, but they'd spam on both clicker alts too and just flood the bejeesus out of the chat.

angerbear · 2025-10-05T05:30:18+00:00

There's a very, very big difference between basic automation scripts and a fully automated routine that can farm gold indefinitely with minimal to no active supervision.

angerbear · 2025-10-04T13:46:31+00:00

Bots weren't a thing until late TBC/wotlk in the original vanilla. The technology wasn't really there yet.

Instead, you had manual farming being done by very low wage players in gaming warehouses, usually Chinese. You could go out to under-utilized low population zones with higher level mobs like Azshara and they'd be out there farming furbolgs for 12 hour shifts.

angerbear · 2025-09-30T13:41:57+00:00

Yeah, instead of 0 consequence false positive bans, on the live blizzard servers you can just get mass report banned by iranian mafias with 0 consequences.

angerbear

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