Summit Report, Apr 06 - the SOE Shuffle

[Samanna]

Heyas! I just got home from the Summit, so here's the breaking news:

1. Prathun is the new spell guy!
2. Vahlar is now as Assistant Lead Designer!
3. Oshran is now in charge of AAs!
4. The devs actually seemed surprised that the target/cycle NPC functionality picked up our Spirit Idol (the whole crowd chimed in that it did and it needed fixing); the Dev panel said they'd take a look at it.
5. Aura refresh: they also said that they were looking into problems with recasting an aura when one was already in place, and they would like a recast to merely refresh the duration of the current one, rather than bouncing due to one already being there.
6. Some NPC innates/AEs in newers zones seemed to be casting excessively often, and that would be looked at.
7. Ability to gimp (85/15) in to ToB was being looked at.
8. I asked why VP didn't ever ever interrupt casting mobs; Rashere said that NPCs didn't get location checks like PCs.
9. They actually found a problem with taunt, that it sort of scales down in effectiveness as the player and mob exceed level 60.
10. They intend to display pet damage more succinctly. (guess I need a wolfie smiley)
11. Rashere said he would consider changing the reuse on 24-hour veteran awards to 22 or 23 hours, so that they could be used during daily sessions.



Let me say that again...



I informed him that, unlike other spell-based group HoTs, ours was not MGB-able; I made a little noise about the recast on GoR; and I again mentioned the Idol F8 thing.

Gloriana was there, of course. I don't think I mentioned that yet.

I got to meet XeroOmega (aka Theodr), Greaux, and several previously unknown people who wanted to thank me for this site... or who just liked my hat. I'm sure pictures of it will show up soon enough.

After a fine supper with Kytherea , Jon from mmorpg.com and Autumnkiss from stratics.com, I loitered in the lobby with Prathun, Merloc, Qaman, Verdandi, Persephone (hi, Tikiko!) and... Reesie, was it? Sorry, I wasn't taking notes. We eventually found our way up to the bar, where Tharkis found us. It seems I had forwarded each phone to the other one, and nobody could call me. The crowd was making its way to either Tharkis' or Persephone's room for some Apples to Apples and drinks, but I decided to head home, as it was midnight and I didn't want to explain what I was doing drinking and playing games in some girl's room after midnight... or some skirt-wearing guy's room, either.

As usual, though, Loral has a more organized update at http://eq.crgaming.com/viewarticle.asp?article=10462

[jondolar]

[Samanna]

[ThraallFV]

and if you remove the disarm part do you need it to be targetable? easy way to solve f8 issue, which i found out first hand yesterday BLOWS

[Maccuul]

[Aruman]

[jdthomas]

[Cereall]

[Greaux]

First I wasnt going to mention Samanna's hat . However since he did theres some speculation that its some sort of Dark Elf pimp hat. That being said Samanna is some sort of Celebrity.


See most of us got badges that looked like this


Samanna's on the other hand just has this on his.



When asked he said something like my target audience will know who I am.

By the way this is my 3rd Fan Faire and something finally occured to me. After meeting most of the community leaders ect. We have by far the cutiest community leader in all of Everquest( no samanna im not talking about you.) Funny thing is when she grabs her notepad of questions you see the developers run for cover j/k

Both Samanna and Gloriana are down here working for us and I for one appreciate it

Greaux
AB server

[Samanna]

[Henora]

[Samanna]

ps, For the record, Verdandi wore her Polar Bear Hat the whole time.

pps, They announced plans for a new "not a classic server" server, which will have current zones, but any content from expansions would have to be unlocked before they became available. It would start out as if you only had the original expansion licensed, then they would license other expansions as content was conquered. No transfers. They didn't say, but I imagine the current UIs would work.

ppps,

[Galelor]

[Maccuul]

[Maccuul]

As for BoA the fix is pretty simple move the point of the cone to behind the caster, lengthen the cone appropriately to compensate and make the end of the cone wider to account for height issues.
So instead of a < cone you have more a [ at the beginning. and instead of the cone being o on the end make it O
Just a poorly concieved geometric shape on it now and if the shape was fixed it would be fine.

HP was a good idea and isnt bad farming low level mobs.
But problem I generally have with it is events and situations were it would be useful you cant land it and with its insane 2 min recast you cant try again in a reasonable time.
Even if you do land it the mobs have to be bunched too tightly because of the small range.
Drop the recast to 6 seconds and increase the range a bit and it would likely do what they intended.
May not be ideal at that point but at least it would function like they wanted us to use it.

[Galelor]

[Sebekiz]

[dohrian]

[Imapercent]

[Ungkor]

[Walknot]

[Samanna]

[Scowls]

[Jaraman]

[Samanna]

[Samanna]

[Jaraman]

Cereall, I'd give up the tit-for-tat comebacks, unless of course if you're enjoying enjoying it

You've obviously stumbled upon an issue that pushes a button for many. While we don't have the truly immature, 14-yr old mentality of the WOW shaman boards with their endless trolls screaming ("Nerf shaman!") and the nice comebacks (STFU n00b!), there are still the very intelligent who can debate very well here to win a point. Some seem so intent to win the battle (argument), that they forget about the war (reputation).

For example, Giac. He has some really good posts where his knowledge, math, and logic are damn tight. Unfortunately, there seems to be about, oh, 1 in 4 posts where he seems to need to bash another, or use vulgarity or biting sarcasm to otherwise generate ill-will. The attack on Scowls is a prime example. While many of us often have a different opinion than Scowls, leave it to one to resort to finger-pointing, name-calling, and mean invalidations.

Giac is not the only one, of couse, it's just that his are much more acerbic. And he was doing so well for a bit...

Don't let him get under your skin.

[Samanna]

Jaraman, I can't relocate single posts; do you want to put this to where I split off that discussion, and then I'll delete it from here?

[Jaraman]

LOL, Samanna, you beat me to the punch. You have great timing, knowing when to nip a flamefest in the bud and transplant it in another forum, in order to keep the civility here. You're awesome.

[Jaraman]

Up to you. Here, there, both, neither. Let's just change the subject.

Any hints/word on getting an extra spell gem by next expansion?

[Giac]

[LachdanonColdpaw]

[Brohg]

Everyone knows those frogs will agro anyhow, right? It doesn't take HP to make mobs want to kill you in Sebilis. Furthermore, if they didn't agro on their own, HP wouldn't be picking up the slack - not well, anyhow. It only attempts its AE every 6sec, and that AE is really short range. Got that? Even in the one situation in game that seems custom built to make HP shine like a star, it's barely better than nothing at all. Quoting that "theres[sic] no way [you] would have ever farmed enough lillies to make 300 alchemy" is merely pointing out your own laziness, and putting the burden of underachievement on Sony's shoulders, both for yourself and the original poster.

[Samanna]

[jdthomas]

[Jaraman]

[Fudapuda]

[Veril]

Gimping in was best decision ever.

[Aruman]

[Unmei]