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Windance replied to the thread What settings cause this lag?.

Resources\memory.ini # TextureLoadsPerFrame--The number of deferred textures the renderer will load from disk each frame. #...

Windance replied to the thread Test Update 8/13/2024 - Patch Notes and Discussions.

A better answer to pet shrink question ... Start out with pets pre-shrunk when summoned.

Windance replied to the thread [Feedback] and Request.

From what I'm reading it isn't about beating him to the kill, its about not killing him at all so they can farm weapons for longer.

Windance replied to the thread BUG Spear of Fate - Teek, Spirit Sentinel - Black Dire Pelt.

I've run into the faction issue before. The previous answer was to just start over so you can rework the faction hits from the first part...

Windance liked Corwyhn Lionheart's post in the thread TaskAdd token proposal.

I like the idea of task adds being given out freely. You don't need to monetize everything in the game. The game is about having fun...

Windance replied to the thread One keyboard/mouse with multiple computers.

I use input director and it works fairly well but ... When you have an EQ client selected (focused) on the main PC, then move your mouse...

Windance liked fransisco's post in the thread Too Many Features Behind Marketplace Unlock.

Each of them was a feature of an expansion - which you got if you purchased it. If you want them, feel free to buy them. Support the game...

Windance replied to the thread Why is necro twice the dps of other classes?.

At some point they redid all the dots in an effort to make stacking easier, better, when there was a limited number of slots. They over...

Windance replied to the thread [Feedback] and Request.

I'm not on any TLP and this discussion should be in the TLP section since it is a TLP issue. With that said. I don't think its...

Windance replied to the thread How do you play.

I am in the always be burning camp. If you are doing raids then you should just be in the habit of always be burning. If you are used...

Windance liked Randomized's post in the thread [Feedback] and Request.

It's a legitimate question. Were you told specifically to go Veterans Lounge? Or were you just told to take it to the forums, which has...

Windance replied to the thread [Feedback] and Request.

Why is this not in the TLP section of the forums?

Windance liked Nennius's post in the thread Joke for the day.

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Windance liked Randomized's post in the thread AA catch up time.

So these go hand in hand in a reply. When I say "social", I mean I'm active in guild and chat and general. People are already getting...

Windance liked Fenthen's post in the thread EQLogParser questions.

Kizant with EQLP and his numerous Caster DPS guides are one of the few folks really keeping this game afloat. I've been using EQLP for...

Windance replied to the thread AA catch up time.

I would say yes it is likely possible *BUT* it will require some ground work on your side. Don't waste your time waiting around LFG....

Windance liked Vumad's post in the thread Simple Overseer QOL request.

Overseer quest names are aligned center and do not indicate the type of quest. Once you click on the quest, every quest has an icon that...

Windance replied to the thread Over heating issues.

There have been many changes to the EQ client over the last couple months. ( year+ ) Last year the EQ devs added a new UI engine to...

Windance liked Cairbrae's post in the thread Test Update 07/09/2024 - Patch Notes and Discussions.

Spell data processing is more efficient and takes less time for all spells. In theory, more spells can be processed "per frame time",...

Windance replied to the thread Augment distiller vendor added to PoK.

Augs should be FREE to move around. Do away with the distillers AND the NPCs.

Windance liked Nennius's post in the thread History!.

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Windance replied to the thread Moors of Nokk Raid Achievement Don't Get the Axe.

https://forums.eqfreelance.net/index.php?topic=44622.0 The write up has their recommended settings to see the auras. The axes spawn in...

Windance replied to the thread Kill Stealing is now 100% acceptable. Thoughts?.

IMHO - KS'ing is not OK. On live its generally not too much of an issue, but, there are a few bad apples who run their teams AFK and...

Windance replied to the thread More obstacle course content.

This assumes there is another half ...

Windance liked Thren's post in the thread More obstacle course content.

Does your better half get tired of you wishing they were like another?

Windance replied to the thread More obstacle course content.

Just because its "memorable" doesn't mean its ENJOYABLE. I remember breaking my arm, having my wisdom teeth pulled, loosing my mom...

Windance replied to the thread More obstacle course content.

I disagree with many of the OP's points. They've done various obstacle course type content and they are hated for a reason. TDS -...

Windance liked Svann2's post in the thread The Aritisan and the Druid - Sticky Tick Tocker emote.

Bard rune song Dirge of the Onokiwan works and is group wide. Nice to see a song Ive never used finally get some use.

Windance replied to the thread The Aritisan and the Druid - Sticky Tick Tocker emote.

Your summery aligns with my understanding of the event. Personal Emote ( Flavor text ) - 4x people hit with debuf -> 30s to "cure" or...

Windance replied to the thread The Aritisan and the Druid - Sticky Tick Tocker emote.

I don't mind that it is punishing. 30s is a LONG time to get the cure and/or move. What I'm curious about is if folks are missing the...

Windance replied to the thread The Aritisan and the Druid - Sticky Tick Tocker emote.

It is not directional.

Windance replied to the thread The Aritisan and the Druid - Sticky Tick Tocker emote.

Here is what I have for this part of the event: Emote: Ogna, Artisan of War begins casting Sticky Tick Tocker. Action: Enchanter MGB's...

Windance posted a new thread.

The Aritisan and the Druid - Sticky Tick Tocker emote

Suggestion for developers: PLEASE make all raid mechanics visible to all players. Message: "A small ticking device clings to your soft...

Forum: The Veterans' Lounge

Windance liked Yinla's post in the thread TLP's are not welcoming to new players.

I've been amazed how many players are in our guild who haven't played for 15+ years. Find a good guild and you will be well looked...

Windance liked Zansobar's post in the thread TLP's are not welcoming to new players.

Did you start at Teek launch or did you start much later? Many players this late in are leveling alts and don't want inefficient groups to...

Windance replied to the thread truebox, think of the power consumption caused by true box.

A single crypto farmer will use more power than all the extra "truebox" computers. The environmental impact of "truebox" is minimal.

Windance replied to the thread 109 +.

[quote="Filter, post: 4318524, member: 6914". You can wait until July 4th weekend, HOPEFULLY they will do the typical 76% exp bonus, and do...

Windance liked Filter's post in the thread 109 +.

I'm not sure if anyone has said this and apologize if this is redundant or not but do the Hero missions the first time. You get some big...

Windance replied to the thread 109 +.

I also seem to recall there were some tricks about which weapons to use like giving the pet conflagrant weapons instead of summoned...

Windance replied to the thread 109 +.

I've never gotten very far playing a mage so I don't know how important gear/aa is for them. Does anyone have any good 105/110 "how...

Windance replied to the thread 109 +.

Don't neglect your AA. The difference between auto granted and full AA can make the difference between getting your butt kicked or not....

Windance liked Szilent's post in the thread Raid reward script.

[Sun Jun 02 15:08:24 2024] You have been granted the following reward: Bidils the Quickhand: Success. [Sun Jun 02 15:10:27 2024] You...

Windance posted a new thread.

Food and Drink

What is your favorite in game food and drink? Do you just go to the vendor and stock up on milk and cookies? ... or do you have favorite...

Forum: The Veterans' Lounge

Windance liked YellowBelly's post in the thread Not a fashionable opinion but....

That is more like TLP behavior, we on the regular servers need to set ourselves to a higher standard.

Windance replied to the thread Not a fashionable opinion but....

I think most of us here would agree that folks should not being running over others, KS'ing, etc.

Windance replied to the thread Top raid dps classes.

This actually is part of the point. Warriors in generally can tank as well dual wielding 1h weapons as going S&B. We have a few...

Windance replied to the thread Top raid dps classes.

Are those tanks 20-40's because they have no ADPS?. My monk can go from 5-10th to ~20th when in a low/no ADPS group?

Windance replied to the thread Top raid dps classes.

The same is true of the other DPS classes. No ADPS = No top 10. Warriors are extremely overpowered - best mitigation - best melee...

Windance replied to the thread Top raid dps classes.

We had a raid where a warrior in a DPS group was top spot tied with a rogue. If you want to use the "can tank" argument please explain that...

Windance posted a new thread.

Memorial Day Weekend

Any rumors on when the holiday bonus kicks in? Would be nice if they would put them on the /calendar ...

Forum: The Veterans' Lounge

Windance posted a new thread.

The Spirit Fades - Envelopment

We're going back and doing the spirit fades and I can't seem to figure out the cure for when the tanks get enveloped by the gum drops. I...

Forum: The Veterans' Lounge

Windance replied to the thread Will Rangers ever be fixed?.

I'd love to see the write up

Windance liked Nerple's post in the thread Will Rangers ever be fixed?.

I just recently finished writing up a class guide for rangers returning to game. I'll share it once I have it reviewed by a few...

Windance replied to the thread 32 expansion emphasis on.

The same may be true of posting on the forums. The dev posts are RARE and valuable. Posts like this are repeated daily, and ......

Windance replied to the thread 32 expansion emphasis on.

Cliff Note: EQ raids should be harder, gear should be rare, other games do XYZ better, make EQ !

Windance liked Thren's post in the thread 32 expansion emphasis on.

I wonder why you even play this game. All you do is post about how much you dislike its current form, and critisize everything about...

Windance replied to the thread Tradeskill request.

Going with the theme here there are two main QoL features I'd love to see for trade skills / trade skill window. 1 Give me the drop...

Windance replied to the thread Raid Loot.

I am against BiS rarity, if the raids require the gear to beat in the "expected way" or has DPS checks that require the BiS gear. The...

Windance liked NatazzEvoli's post in the thread Raid Loot.

Change the loot system back to a modified version of Claws of Veeshan and everyone will rejoice. It was more simple, and your customer base...

Windance replied to the thread Tradeskill request.

I'd love to see the TS recipes changed so we aren't doing the fish scale things anymore. Take 20 fish to make 2 sheets for your item, only...

Windance replied to the thread Raid Loot.

There is a difference between causality and correlation. The argument that "back in the day" gear was rare and "back in the day" the game...

Windance replied to the thread De-illusion - Dance raid.

If I remember right you have ~ 20s between add spawns. If you ever see just one ( pre enrage timer ) it means he ate one before it went...

Windance replied to the thread De-illusion - Dance raid.

We haven't done it since the DX11/lag issue so I don't know for sure but ... I'm almost positive he would often eat adds BEFORE they went...

Windance replied to the thread Royal Silver Crown.

If it was tradable, I'd give you mine. Oh wait, I already destroyed it. ....

Windance liked Marton's post in the thread Krono Change Proposal.

Bans and suspensions somehow seem to be missing that illustrious guy on my server who is selling raid gear.

Windance liked rahzel44's post in the thread Test Update 05/07/2024 - Patch Notes and Discussions.

Paladins definitely needed a DPS nerf. I almost started playing mine again. Thanks for curing me of that desire.

Windance liked Yinla's post in the thread Test Update 05/07/2024 - Patch Notes and Discussions.

They either need to increase the limit or reduce the ammount of self buffs some classes have. Sks have a stupid amount of self buffs and...

Windance liked Bernel's post in the thread Krono Change Proposal.

I think this change would have too big of an impact to the usefulness of Krono. For instance, I have several accounts. I don't have them...

Windance liked Cicelee's post in the thread Reorganizing Zek and Incentives for Whole Guild Xfers.

A year or two ago, after the 178,534th thread created by one of two people wanting Zek to be something more than what it is... EQ Devs...

Windance replied to the thread Krono Change Proposal.

I don't think krono's are the problem. The real issue are the folks who use the game as a way to make money off the game by whatever...

Windance liked Nennius's post in the thread Overseer mass retirement of common agents.

Alternate idea. A new achievement entitled "Carpal Tunnel Fun" earned by spending hours trimming the number of excess agents. It could...

Windance liked Haeldar's post in the thread Cannot Reproduce Resizable BAR (smart access memory) causes massive fps decrease.

Just wanted to say that UseLitBatches=FALSE fixed the issue for me with an AMD GPU without Re-BAR enabled. This seems to be a setting that...

Windance posted a new thread.

25th anniversary augs

Has anyone seen any posts or theory craft about which of the type 3 augs different classes should take? For example: Cleric - Tourmaline...

Forum: The Veterans' Lounge

Windance posted a new thread.

Level 50 heroic character - why?

Assume this is a thing for TLP folks to go directly to DB instead of the PL farmers? Is a level 125/max aa heroic for live next?

Forum: The Veterans' Lounge

Windance replied to the thread Overseer mass retirement of common agents.

That's why I said they could cap the total number of AA / day to some reasonable number. If you think having generic AA's is a bad...

Windance replied to the thread Raid Loot.

Tell me you are not a raider with out telling me you don't raid. It takes much longer to get raid gear. Now that folks have the...

Windance replied to the thread Overseer mass retirement of common agents.

Totally agree. - Mass convert - Mass delete duplicate agents I still like the idea of retiring agents for AA 1x for common 3x for...

Windance liked Velisaris_MS's post in the thread Overseer mass retirement of common agents.

This is basically where I'm at right now. I haven't done conversions in over a year and have no desire to sit there and only convert...

Windance liked Act of Valor's post in the thread Overseer mass retirement of common agents.

This needs to happen sooner rather than later. It's unreasonable to expect a player to spend so much time on such a mundane task that could...

Windance liked drak12's post in the thread Overseer mass retirement of common agents.

I have a neck injury that makes all the mouse clicking hurt. If I spend 15 minutes clicking I'm done for the day. I know my issue is...

Windance liked Elrusion's post in the thread Overseer mass retirement of common agents.

Hello, I am playing Overseer on my main character since it came out. After years I accumulated a huge amount of common agents (like 30+...

Windance replied to the thread Why the desire for full Valiant?.

Why wouldn't you want a full set of valiant gear? The EQ game loop *IS* about getting gear and powering up so naturally to *MAX* should...

Windance liked Ozon's post in the thread Why the desire for full Valiant?.

To answer the OP question, I raid to gear my toon to be the absolute most OP I can make it. So that includes all heroic AA, Artisan Prize,...

Windance liked Laronk's post in the thread Why the desire for full Valiant?.

The real question is why have 2 levels of raid loot knowing how people are. Why "waste" dkp or priority or what ever for a lesser piece of...

Windance liked Riou's post in the thread Why the desire for full Valiant?.

Only valiant you actually need is the high value slots like say weapons for melee tbh

Windance posted a new thread.

Raid Loot Schedule

Anyone know when we can expect the raid loot to bump to 2x and 30 coins? Is it early May or early June?

Forum: The Veterans' Lounge

Windance liked Rippy's post in the thread Raid Loot.

Since the March patch, there's been a noticeable increase in the scarcity of Valiant drops from raids. Here's a comparison of Valiant drops...

Windance replied to the thread Raid Chests 0 loots.

Wouldn't that be 7 drops / 8 raids = 0.875 ?

Windance liked Lianeb's post in the thread Raid Chests 0 loots.

I do not believe this at all Jan, 4 raid weeks 2 raids 80 Coins Feb/Mar, 4 raids weeks 5 raids 200 coins Mar, 1 raid week 8 raids 10...

Windance replied to the thread [feature request] /safelock.

Which is really fun because you can't type /camp, /exit, even hitting the close button doesn't work when "safe locked". In my panic to...

Windance replied to the thread [feature request] /safelock.

In that case I have no idea how I did it, but while in combat I was trying to type something in /rs and got "safe locked". It happens...

Windance posted a new thread.

[feature request] /safelock

Please make it so you have to type the entire command. ( or remove it entirely ) This feature request brought to you after getting killed...

Forum: The Veterans' Lounge

Windance replied to the thread Why change unlimited target AoE spells after 25 years? And which spells are still unlimited?.

The change shouldn't really mess with people botting. They will adapt and overcome because who really cares if you have to afk xp for...

Windance replied to the thread Raid Chests 0 loots.

We're at a 0.88% drop rate. We've had some bad nights where no TS item's have dropped.

Windance liked fransisco's post in the thread Why change unlimited target AoE spells after 25 years? And which spells are still unlimited?.

I'm still waiting for mobs to be unable to hit me while they are standing toe deep in water

Windance liked Velisaris_MS's post in the thread Why change unlimited target AoE spells after 25 years? And which spells are still unlimited?.

Nobody took away your ability to mass slaughter gray con mobs to farm materials. They just, rightfully, took away the ability to pull...

Windance liked fransisco's post in the thread Why change unlimited target AoE spells after 25 years? And which spells are still unlimited?.

You can still farm tradeskill materials and such. Just kill in slightly smaller groups. I've gone to 350 in every tradeskill, and very very...

Windance liked klanderso's post in the thread What exactly happens during a patch downtime?.

The downside of doing patches in the middle of the night (which would probably be anywhere from 9pm to 4am Pacific) is that it's 100%...

Windance replied to the thread 6 Box Melee Dream Team - 2024 Edition.

I think you are in for a hard reality check moving from caster group to a melee group. Your current group requires almost no position. -...