Teek and Anniversary Tower - a Lose/Lose?

Sweet, I'll be stacked on my main.

they should probably just forget about trying to scale mobs down and make them all level 60 quests. It has only opened them up for cheesy abuse. Has anyone completed these quests legitimately at lvl 55+? Seems like everyone is using lvl 2 personas to spawn the key mob / complete the door quest. What a mess.

Just a few days ago we took most of our leveling group (the enchanter had a family obligation) and did all of the key quests at level 60. We even cleared out all the orc slavers other people had spawned (there have been plenty more spawned since then). We then did the first floor at 60, it was a challenge but we did it.

Then the second floor smacked our tank with 3750 points of fire damage and we got annoyed and did the rest on lowbie mage personas. I want to go back into that floor and try it again with resist gear on and see how we do. Based on what we saw, I think a couple of the other floors wouldn't be too bad at 60.

Will the anniversary tower be a permanent fixture or will it die after a year?

Playing on Teek is all about being handed gear that you wouldn't otherwise be able to actually achieve. Why do you think it is so popular?

from our understanding it will survive until the January patch, at which point if it returns again itll likely be during the traditional anniversary periods (Mar 16 - May 10).

The tower event is being rushed by groups of lvl 1s. In minutes you can get 5 pieces of luclin era loot. It's beyond silly. There was a reason that hotzone loot and defiant gear was taken out of the game so why reintroduce it now in the form of this tower gear. It's ruining the economy and making a lot of raid loot just completely pointless. 5 flowing thought in kunark.. come on daybreak, lol. really?

I kinda think what people don't get is that gear is basically worthless on teek now. I mean with anniversary stuff and all the extra drops nothing is worth farming and nothing is really even worth the time to sell it. TBH this feels stupid, and it will get worse if the big items retain their krono value while everything else becomes more and more worthless. People will just vender stuff because it's not really worth the time to sell it. Economy feels weird. I'm guessing raiding probably feels weird as well currently.

Honestly, I'm kind of having fun treating teek as my own personal private server where I can sort of do and have whatever I want, but it really feels like eq on easy mode. Not sure really why people are bothering to even keep raiding or farm anything when it's in this state.

Having anniversary items in a Kunark era TLP makes no sense. The best way to fix it, in my opinion, is to put a high recommanded level, so we only get a little part of the stats at level 60.
The game doesnt need to be even easier in an already double loots server.

This stuff is really out of place on TLPs. It damages the experience.

I actually deleted that portion of the post, because as i was typing it i realized that there was no value in it, but somehow it made it thru, so i edited that out almost instantly. Which is why its not actually in the post lol

Also, because I enjoy arguing, you used the word "immediately" which, i would imagine to most people would insinuate a DD spell, not a DoT, I dont think anyone would claim that a mob immediately hit them for (the total of a DoT spell that lasts for 2 mins). Lol

The signs point to yes. Your link is below the stats on the mask in GoD are less then the tower. The prime focus effects for everyone is on visible class armor. While there maybe a couple 1offs people will be wearing the tower gear into OoW. Til they are raiding Anguish/mpg raid trials because they share loot.

And randomized, tradable loot retains "the experience"?

Get a grip.

Having in era gear have a random chance of dropping off rares of similar level is not analogous in the slightest to almost free access to PoP level gear in Kunark.

Anyone pretending the tower gear isn't absolutely broken just doesn't want it taken away. I have tower gear because it's in game but would argue it should be nerfed or removed.

My apologies for not pointing it out the first time, ill try to speak up. Yes, you have correctly deduced that the groupable mask I linked has 30 less hp, 20 less mana, 1 less AC. And even in spite of this, it is still a better item than the tower mask because of its higher atk, its focus effect, and its HSta (for those who dont remember, 3 Hsta provides 3% melee shielding, 3% stun resist, and the extra hp associated with Hsta in the first place).

Not only is the mask i linked better, your original argument was that the 65 tower gear is "anguish equivalent". Which it is not. Anguish gear is 285+ h/m/e, which is 100hp more than the tower equivalent WITH the extra aug. Additionally, anguish loot has better heroics, better focus effects, and better AC than the groupable mask in Gates of Discord thats already better than the tower gear.

This isnt the SoF-era focus item standardization. Focus items can and do go pretty much everywhere, and people WILL sacrifice hp/mana for 20-30% extra damage (or 40%!), or bonus healing, or faster casting. Or attack modifiers, or flowing thought, haste, heroics. Combined with the fact that raid gear is tradeable and even P1/P2 PoTime has arguably better use cases, the days of the tower gear are numbered and those days are shorter than you think.

Y'all still crying about this?

So much hand wringing...lol. Nothing avail in this era, including now this stuff, will make 1 bit of difference if your group or raid sucks. No amount of gear available will change the outcome of fights if people don't know how to play their class, and when and how to use skills.

There is no situation in EQ where gear will save you, it's one of the best things about the game. I get an incredible chuckle out of people paying multiple krono for something that gives 10-20 to some stat, it's just meaningless.

Random, droppable gear not analogous? You live in a different world, friend.

Planar and raid armor that's freely traded, access to purchased bags, haste potions, XP potions, clarity potions, rez tokens, Vaniki rewards, etc, etc on a brand-new TLP server is just as 'game breaking' as a few pieces of PoP armor.

Chill out. Enjoy yourself. Ya'll need to either get some sleep or lay off the caffeine.