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Russ Brown Interview

Socratic — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:50:56 GMT

@Fusoya

Shogg — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:37:00 GMT

This copy/paste material is from a table formatted website so it's gonna be totally screwed up, but the info is still there.

Stuff for class & item on-the-spot class switching macros...

/equipaction(/eaction) [slot] [action name] [subcommand] Equips an action to a specified slot.
If an action name is omitted, the action currently equipped to that slot will be removed. Basic class actions cannot be removed. Slots are designated by the numbers 1-30.

>>Subcommds:
main Set to main hand.
off Set to off hand. If a subcommand is omitted, the action will be equipped to the appropriate hand.
Actions usable in either hand will be equipped to the main hand.
>>Example:
/equipaction 10 Provoke
(Equips Provoke to action slot 10.)

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/equip [slot] [item name] Equips an item to a specified slot.
If an item name is omitted, the item currently equipped to that slot will be unequipped.

>>Gear Slots: main, off, thrown, bag, pouch, head, neck, l.ear, r.ear, body, shirt, hands, l.index, r.index, l.ring, r.ring, l.wrist r.wrist, waist, legs, garment, feet

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/wait [wait time] A macro command for adjusting the pause between commands.
A wait time amount of 1 equals one second.
The maximum wait time allowed is 60.
If the wait time amount is over 60, it will be counted as 0.

Rift Gameplay Video

Socratic — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:52:12 GMT

Enjoy.

I'm having some issues with the embedded player right now, so the link to the video source is below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hGEQ...layer_embedded

--->Tentative<--- Rifts Release date from gamestop

Steel — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:45:22 GMT

was at the mall today and i figured for shits and giggles would check there book for release dates. sure enough rifts was there and the tentative release date is feb 2011, the collectors edition is about 75 bucks, not sure about the normal i would assume 60ish.

Final Fantasy XIV

Shogg — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:59:09 GMT

I'm a little curious... How many of you will be playing Final Fantasy 14 when it comes out? I know of a handful of people who are committed to playing it, perhaps we should all pick the same server.

I've heard all about what to expect, I know all about the negative points of FF11, and I really don't care to hear more of it - I just want to gauge BoW interest and see how many people will be killing time in FF14 until the beta for Telara comes around~ (read: I know the game supposedly sucks in a few major ways, but I'm bored and will be playing it anyways).

For those that may NOT have heard a peep about the game, FF11 was Square Enix's first foray into MMO-land, but the game was grindy and heavily built for console MMO players (the PC controls were "teh suck", and yes it really was that big of a deal...) - and apparently FF14's controls won't be much better.

Final Fantasy Beta... and some other stuff

kaolain — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:16:25 GMT

Anyone else in Beta? I got in pretty early but up till recently haven't had the time to play.

On another note does anyone know who's been abusing my Vanguard Acct? I haven't paid for it in like 6 months but it seems to be still being subscribed.

Also been playing quite a bit if SC2 if anyone is as scrubby as I am(In the Gold League with like 40 apm :p )and would like to play go ahead and add me

Kao.136

Bored as hell and trying to find something semi social to do.

Posting Permission

Socratic — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:01:51 GMT

You cannot post on these forums unless a moderator validates your account. We have dozens of ad spammers register every week, and to filter them from the prospective gamer is nearly impossible. Therefore, if you want to post on these forums you must send me a private message with your newly registered account.

Oddball names

Shogg — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:37:04 GMT

What are some of the oddest, most outrageous names you've ever seen?

One of my professors this semester is called Mr. Butt.

His last name is Butt. =x

No Addons at Launch

Socratic — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:22:23 GMT

Massively posted a rather detailed article several days ago that included this little tidbit...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna Royce

I asked Scott Hartsman specifically about Rift's future insofar as addons and was told that the team is currently planning for basics like resizing, rescaling, transparency, and possibly even skinning, but that we shouldn't expect full-scale modding at launch. Scott suggested that the framework for such addons might be a post-launch project.

You can find page one of the article here and page two here.

EQ2 "Extended"

Shogg — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:00:33 GMT

God knows why I still haven't canceled EQ2...

Anyways, if anybody here (Ranak, I am looking at you...) plans to play EQ2 extended's "free" server gimmick gimme a shout and I'll come play it with you.

If you haven't heard of this yet (don't worry, you're not missing much), it's basically a F2P version of Everquest II. Go google it if you want more info.

Posting Permission

Socratic — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:18:57 GMT

Kopuz saying hello

Kopuz — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:17:35 GMT

I just went back to VG again.....I'm still forever chasing my fix of EQ. VG just seems to be the best option I have.

Anyone still playing? Im a bit lonely right now. Still working on motivating my RLF's to come back.

Who We Are

Socratic — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:21:21 GMT

Blades of Wrath is a guild name that reaches back to the early days of EQ, but as times change, so do guilds. We have a couple old EQ BoW people floating around from time to time, but rarely, as the majority of this guild's core was forged in Vanguard roughly three years ago. The vast majority of our players are old EQ raiders, including myself, but our experience spans many servers, eras, and games. Right now we are simply bored waiting for Rift: Planes of Telara, but if that goes the way of easymode like so many other games, we'll be waiting for something else soon enough.

At our heart we are simply a guild of old EQ raiders who don't have much patience for the unorganized fluffy bullshit that exists in most guilds.

We have largely avoided the problems we all saw in EQ, with bloated rosters full of children and weak players, largely because raid caps on games like Vanguard do not force us to have 80+ people on our roster. We are highly selective when it comes to new players, regarding both character and skill, and our high standards don't have an expiration date. I've personally kicked members in the middle of a raid who have raided with us for nearly a year, in much the same manner as I have removed new recruits. We would rather fail than be a guild of selfish arrogant children, or mediocre players, and the scrutiny isn't merely top-down.

A number of outsiders have commented about our guild and used the term "militaristic", but that doesn't even come close. Imagine a guild in which players who screw up are called out publicly and without ceremony, regardless of their guild rank or the importance of their class. Imagine a guild where a member can tell off the leader in vent in the middle of a raid because he's doing something wrong, and the leader is expected to admit his mistake and learn from it. Imagine a guild where you actually like/respect 95% of the members (at least I do) because they are mature and pull their own weight. Imagine a guild with a core of elite players who aren't teen-tween egocentric children hungry for their next piece of loot. Imagine a guild of mature adults, with thick skin, who are honest to the point of insulting, that play these games simply to be the best. If you can picture all that, BoW is more.

Fuck the children. Fuck the selfish lootwhores. Fuck the cliques. Fuck the players who think they are the best when they aren't. Fuck the players who need to say they are the best, because they usually aren't. Fuck dancing around egos and avoiding problems because they make you uncomfortable. Fuck anything that doesn't make this guild better, stronger, more stable, or more competitive. Fuck these shallow games with their time-sink no-skill content that gets laid at the feet of the mediocre masses.

Rift needs to not suck.

Long live Blades of Wrath.

EDIT: Replaced all my F'words with "screw". :) Then re-edited and changed it all back.

Curse Interview

Socratic — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:29:53 GMT

Scott Hartsman recently gave an interview to Curse, and believe it or not, it wasn't all fluff.

Quote:

Curse:: How many points will you have available for your souls at max level? Previous info alludes to 1 per level, but the last root ability is at 51 points. Is there any point acquisition aside from leveling?

Scott Hartsman: It is tied to one point per level, and what we fully expect to happen when we release is the same thing that's happening now in testing. We made the idea of having different roles, or what you might think of as a spec, available for purchase. So don't think of it as "man I've only got one point, and if I want ability X I have to invest in all of it and now I'm locked in". If you have four roles you can swap back and forth between, then great, you might have a paladin soul you use for a dungeon, and then one push button away you have a role that has spoints spread across other souls. The character I'm playing on alpha right now has two specs I use, if I'm just plugging through content I'm just 100% Beastmaster. I can also switch to my soul set that's 75% paladin, and 25% beastmaster because there are some good synergies there. Then when I want something new I switch to my other set which is part Champion and part Beastmaster. The point is you're able to take on multiple roles and switch between them at will. You can buy additional role slots at your trainer and you're able to put the roles right on your hot bar and swap anytime you're not in combat. It gives players a level of infinite discovery, and lets them find new and interesting combos to do without getting tired of their characters.

Quote:

Curse: Has anything regarding faction-specific souls been finalized? Will some souls be permanently locked off to a faction?

Scott Hartsman: At the moment the only locks we have in testing, are the choices you make when you first create your character. As you level up, are offered quests, and find other opportunities to get souls, you'll find that both sides have access to the same souls. There are some fictional gymnastics that we have to do to make that make sense, but at the end of the day we felt the need to do that - we didn't want to create a situation where we would have to balance the sides, and that isn't a winning road for players or us.

He also touches on armor type restrictions, the death penalty, and class synergy. You can find the full article here.

Dwarves!

Socratic — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:56:43 GMT

The sexy has arrived...

Full article here