Is anyone gonna play tormax?

Everyone talking about teek. Wondering where I should go

If you want to be on a populated server, go Teek if that doesnt matter, look at the rules and see if either are a dealbreaker.
Tormax will be fairly empty and very chill, Teek not so much.

Tormax sadly will be very low population at the start for a new TLP. Which will only make it trail off even faster. It's pretty much just a Vanilla TLP we've done to death. Teek will be awesome minus the terrible name.

Very few will be on Tormax at launch, if the ruleset stays as is, and even fewer will be on Tormax in a couple months after. I would think it could be the first TLP server to be shut down or just merged with a Live server many years before it would get to Live.

In theory, Tormax is predicted to be low population. But we all know that at launch, Teek will be so crowded , people will log on tormax out of frustration. That's what happened on Aradune for a couple weeks. Since Daybreak or Darkpaw acknowledged that tlp 's are not their priority, i doubt they won't do anything to prevent the initial logging problem. Let's hope they do tho.

I'll probably play both.

Tormax for sure, might check out teek but random is not my idea of fun.

Tormax will be fine, theres a reason this game is still around after 25 years and it isn't because of new gimmicks

Random loot was way more fun than I though it would be, also free trade makes it much easier to have alts and personas. I agree though Tormax will be fine.

What is personas

Personas are like alts that share an inventory/bank with your main.

Asian RPG franchise where you collect spirits to fight for you... oh wait, wrong forum...

"Class switching" is fundamentally what persona's are - you can switch your Warrior into a Cleric when you want to (with zone restrictions to "safe zones/hometowns" for the switch) including a shared inventory - so you don't have to spend an hour trading gear around - albeit at the cost of inventory space being more of a premium as a result.

To piggy back off of this. . .

Personas share

• Tradeskills (class specific tradeskills are still class specific)
• Keys/Flags
• Achievements
• Bank and inventory
• Name
• Guild/Fellowship Affiliation

Personas don't share

• Buffs
• AAs
• Levels
• Faction
• Hotkeys/loadouts
• Origin or Bind point

Each persona saves the gear set you were wearing when you last swapped out of it and puts it all back on when you swap back

Personas will be on TLP?

Yes

yes but secondary

so if i'm 50 necro and make a wizzy persona, i'm level 1, but can level up and eventually self port and become my necro at will?

To clarify the "Yes" above - assuming you purchased the most recent live xpac, Laurion's Song they will be.

It is not a feature available separate from xpac purchase currently (nor would I expect it to until 2025 at the earliest)

Not exactly - due to the fact that you can only switch in towns and other "quick camp" areas - most likely your ports won't be too handy, although they may save SOME portion of runs.

i.e. if you're going to Guk from Kunark - you could port to CT, invis, run into Grobb, switch personas, invis and then run past the guards on your way to Guk.

If say you were going to MM on the other hand, since GFay is safe for persona switching, you could port straight to GFay and switch immediately I believe. (maybe you have to get closer to the city than just zoning in though? Not cared to test switching there)

Yes and no. You can only swap personas in starting cities of no-buff-decay zones. So. Your necro could go to the nearest city, swap, port as a wizard, go to the nearest city and swap back to necro. Or you just carefully plan your personas origin points to get you everywhere you need to be.

I heard even King Tormax is wondering if he should even spawn on the TLP coming up in his name, as there won't be anyone to fight him