All Posts by bezado

If your looking to do the most DPS without having to raid or have a group or X2 encounter for DPS gear then you should play a swashbucklar or a assasin.

A wizards DPS in EQ2 is greatly exaggerated by your gear. The more gear you can get that has extra dmg or crit spell chance and shorter casting timers the more DPS you will do. Also take into consideration that this game is very unbalanced for players who do not upgrade spells. If your playing a wizard you will always need the best spells, like adept 3's or better like master. Apprentice or adept 1's will not get you anywhere when fighting even con to 1-2 level higher then you. As a wizard you will get resisted a ton and dmg is significantly lower with poor spells. So you need tons of money to get your masters.

If you play a rogue type class your DPS is always high even with apprentice spells if you can't upgrade. The DPS melee spells or combat arts don't resist ever and you still do that damage. But upgrading you can do more damage.

I played a berserker level 70 EOF tier 7 raid gear and I was doing more DPS then most wizards who specialized DPS, but only on multiple targets usually. Warlocks however are king on DPS with multi targets and single targets if your a raid wizard are top and followed by assassins and swash.

The thing to remember about EQ2 when you make a class is that you need to understand that gear means everything in this game to do really well. I also had a 70 wizard with no raid gear but a good set pieces and group gear with a couple fabled. I could do tons of damage but that was after spending 100+ plat to upgrade every spell to master.

Good luck in EQ2.

Originally posted by midgey555

The amount of penalties that the ravens had was just insane, and that timeout lost them the game.  I just seriously want to see someone beat the pats I cant express the hate I have for that team, at least after this game and the eagles game you have some hope for when they play steelers next week.

So being a successful team means you hate them. Because they prove every week they play for 60min until the game ends and are the better team means they shouldn't be allowed to go unbeatable? I don't know what the mindset is of everyone who hates the Pats just because they win. For crying out loud they are the better team. The same would be said for any other team going 12-0 right now. Whats funny is this sort of thing pops up over every sport. When a team wins more then they loose they are outcasts.

Originally posted by Pappy13

I've been saying this since the game released.  Why do you think WoW had the problems it did with logging in the first couple of months?  It was because they greatly underestimated the number of players they would have initially.  But that's a good thing.  You would never go out and purchase 200 servers to start with and then be stuck with them if you only need 50.  So you buy 50 and then when you realize that it's not enough, you go get more.  That's what happened and that's why the queues were so bad the first couple of months.  But once they bought enough servers, that problem went away for the most part.  But the haters will try to point to that as being a poor launch.  LOL  I guarantee you that every single MMO that's ever been produced HOPES AND PRAYS that they have that problem.

Yes, I remember that! That was my initial reaction to because they had enough servers and the leasing of those servers was from a high end source. I thought the game would of been more popular then people imagined when I seen the final stages of beta. The game would be the biggest game ever in terms of popularity and players is what I was telling people. Boy I was right.

Many in the gaming market, especially console development have always suggested Blizzard would bring WOW to the console. That being said I think Blizzard could be working out a WOW for xbox360 or PS3, either machines would play the game in full detail with no lag. The question remains though if anything coming out of Blizzard is going to be influenced now by Activision teams.

Hah ok cool, well the biggest scams of today are with games. Simply because they are so easy to get away with. People know it is illegal to buy gold or accounts and so by venturing into that realm they feel that they need to take a risk and are more susceptible to being scammed.

Originally posted by Arndur

For all we know the ice that is melting i left over from the last ice age and we are going though a phase. Plus if we would go to nuclear power 4 or 5 plants would power this country cheaply. Most of Europe alread runs on nuclear power with France being the first to go all nuclear. Our technology is much safer and the chance of having a meltdown is much slimmer. I dont really get whats so important about polar bears.

Well the only problem with nuclear is that it has unwanted waste products every 10yrs or so that must be disposed of. The problem there is disposing of the radioactive cores can leak into our aquifers if not disposed of properly and the possibility of harming surrounding ecosystems.

What would be better then that and 100% renewable energy is WIND and SOLAR. Both are free and have 0 emissions. With 1 advanced Solar array power plant like they are building in Aussie by 2013 will power 500k homes with that 1 station. The technology is there we just need to get the government off the oil and it's relationship it provides for them. Oil is almost like a mutualistic property to our government because it gives leveraging and economical lead way to them in so many ways. To simply take that away from them means they would have to use other means.

Whats important about the ice caps and Polar Bears you ask. Keystone species. A species if taken out breaks down the rest of the species and then things change that might have a adverse affect on the ecosystems. The ice caps are melting because of the Industrial Revolution up till now. It is not a cycle and is a proven fact that if they disappear the temps on earth will go up and the sea level will rise and bring millions of square miles of land underwater. The ice caps reflect most of the suns heat energy back into the atmosphere, essentially keeping the planet cooler. Also new studies find that the waters that cool and circulate from them around the globe have something to do with keeping the Earth cool. Like a natural radiator if you will.

Without the ice caps and all that ice from the last ice age then the Earth would go into a heating trend, many people will die from the increase heat and more droughts which means less food.

No idea if this is relevant to your info or your quest for sources. But if your doing something for school or something here is a scammer I uncovered here on these forums recently by just investigating and putting the facts together. I seen many scams over the years from games to tangible object sales over the net. But the biggest today has to be the scammers and using games as their field of play. Fake gold sales etc.

Link  www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/156266/page/5

OMG Phos, your going MAD I tell you MAD!!!

What is up, did you find out that the world is a evil place all of a sudden hehe. The other thread and now this one. What inspired you or opened your eyes that the world is a bad place we live in? Just curious.

It is really unfair, I wish they would get rid of the BCS crap altogether. They could be making more money and get more fans into it if it was done in a different way.

Originally posted by Atroxy

 

Originally posted by bezado

 

Originally posted by outlaw101

Originally posted by phorsoth

Forgive me for saying this, it is just my opinion. But if you really do have a rig like this then you honestly have more money than brains.

I just bought a new rig: AMD 4600 X2, SLI 8500GTX 512mb each, 2gigs of DDR RAM, and a 210gig HD. All together this cost me around $850, and I would bet that my rig will be able to run almost every game out there for over 2 years (btw if your interested I can play Crysis on very high as well with no problems at all and I seem to get anywhere from 60-70 fps)

Sorry but your rig is great, and a waist of money, you could have saved yourself about 2K and been fine for any games coming out in the next 2-3 years. Now you have a system that will be fine for gaming for 5-6 years but has a higher chance of having tech problems in that larger amount of time due to its age. Just unwise in my opinion, sorry but I tend to speak my mind way to often :)

 

-Ethnine--Phorsoth-

It's really NP, money isn't a problem currently, But i agree, my brains and definitely smaller than my wallet.
I've been using PC's for around 15 years so i can deal with any technical problems that will inevitably arise with any computer.

 

First of all you know nothing about PC's if you been using them for 15yrs. Second you are 27 yrs old in your profile and you say you been using PC's for 15yrs which means you where 12 when you used a PC? Must of been a smart kid or rich parents???

Anyway it is funny how people leave their emails up to do some research. Your email in your profile is the same email listed on a link I found for a banned forum user selling scam ibots or something. The forum moderator found out your scam and how you are making your money is from online scams and probably selling fake gold sales to people.

Lets be honest for a second shall we. People can read that forum and go to page 2 where the admin caught you for scamming and banned you. Well at least this answers the question how you make your money scamming on the net.

 

The link to your banned forum account and your selling scam.  www.rscheata.net/tp/index.php/topic,12565.0.html   Forum user name there is sam123jo0123 with email the same as your profile here.

Can you say BURNED! Ohh BTW your PC specs make no sense at all, for 15yrs of computing you obviously don't know much. Cheers.

 

EDIT: OMG LOL just put 2 and 2 together and on another forum post here your actually the one who was involved in that hacker thing maybe? Is that why you asked about it in this thread? That begs the question now, since you was caught scamming and using stolen paypal accounts then that thread here when your asking about that hacker or something is you or a friend of yours? www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/1731472#1731472

 

I knew something was up with this Outlaw guy. Now I also know the reason why he won't tell me his job.

Ban the rat!

LOL yup, I would ban him from MMORPG if I was a MOD here.

Originally posted by Phos

 

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Originally posted by bezado
Low oxygen doesn't cause cancers. Cancers are caused by carcinogens and OXYGEN believe it or not is actually causing our cells to create bi-products of carcinogens.

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Wrong. Look up "oxygen therapy". It is a common alternative treatment for cancer. Cancer cells hate oxygen, normal cells need oxygen. There's tons of material on this. It's common knowledge in the medical community.

Here's a famous quote:
"Cancer has only one prime cause. It is the replacement of normal oxygen respiration of the body's cells by an anaerobic [i.e., oxygen-deficient] cell respiration." -Dr. Otto Warburg

I never said Oxygen created the cancers. I simply was referring to your ideas on oxygen, if we had to much of it then it would be poison. If you want to bring links into it all to various unsupported old informational quotes or sites then that's fine. But the fact is when we use oxygen our cells over time die and it is all because of the oxygen. Although oxygen is healthy for cell stability and growth but as a bi product from the power cells they change from it over time and deform causing a natural carcinogen in the body.

 

 

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Originally posted by bezado
The largest producer of Oxygen is not land plants trees, it is our oceans phytoplankton's that use most of the earths CO2 and converts it to Oxygen.

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Our oceans produce less than 1/3 of the planet's oxygen. Jungles and forests comprise the majority. In fact, they're commonly referred to as the 'planet's lungs'. This is, I admit, up for debate. See:
http://www.wisegeek.com/where-does-atmospheric-oxygen-come-from.htm

Again this is unsupported scientific analysis by some geek who hasn't got all the current facts. The current scientific community had just had a 2yr study with our oceans and with the help of major scientific organizations backing it have now changed the theory and concepts behind the biggest oxygen producing plants on Earth. The Earth is covered by more water then land and therefore the oceans surfaces has more phytoplankton that converts more CO2 into oxygen then the plants on land. I wont sit here and go back and forth on this because knowingly one of us has the correct info and the other misinformed.

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Originally posted by bezado
Our planet at one time was comprised of 23% Oxygen, during that time the earth had used up most of it's CO2 from the air then changes happened that dropped the Oxygen and increased more CO2 etc. It is a cycle and a change we know the earth goes through. Rather it be impacts on the earth from cosmic debris to volcanic activity.

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This only reinforces my overall theme. 23% would be too oxygen-rich for humans to live in.

Your theme being that Earth has oxygen and we all will die if it drops???? I don't get it.

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Originally posted by bezado
One thing is certain though, as we keep building up the CO2 in the air and have fewer plants producing oxygen we will see a decline in the Earth's atmospheric makeup. I for one have had many term papers on this subject.
And we are the most advanced creatures living on Earth today. We have the mental capacity to stop or try and stop any future cosmic catastrophes that may come toward Earth. The biggest threat to mankind now is ourselves and VOLCANOES. A super Volcano if it would go off today would cause our planets temp to drop significantly. If for more then 3yrs of blackness or reduced sunlight we could enter a new ice age or even worse, lower oxygen rates that would make living harder and plants without sunlight can't take CO2 out of the air and we would die that way. Less Oxygen being made also.
Our Ozone believe it or not has once again started to rebuild itself, right now over the Antarctic it is suppose to completely re-close in some parts that use to be almost deprived of Ozone by 2018. Another thing you must realize about ancient planet Earth is that it took so long to build the Oxygen levels because the Earth was a very hostile place still. Not many plants and even fewer phytoplankton to change the atmosphere.

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Good point. I didn't even mention volcanoes and their potential effects.

I welcome challenges. I'm bored.

Your welcome
- Phos

 

Originally posted by Phos

 

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Originally posted by windstrike1
We're in control of nature now. Or at least the people with that technology are...
 

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In control.... Global warming? (goodbye ice caps and polar bears, penguins, etc.) We can barely stop our own race from over-fishing species like sharks and whales to extinction. There are 6.5 billion humans and growing (rapidly). Cancer is soaring out of control and we don't even know why. (not to mention HIV and Hep C). We kill each other in droves over power, oil, land, whatever.

We're not "in control." We're the disease. Since we don't really have a chance at making it... really, the sooner a new species arises and we disappear, the better chance they'll have to make it.

- Phos

 

If MAN never found fossil fuels inventions to use it and never invented gun powder we would still have fewer living people on the planet today. Those inventions propelled our numbers through the roof, so in retrospect if a disease or terrible thing happened to man without those things today we might of had less of a chance for survival then today with those inventions (example transportation's, medicines, mass deaths by bombs.)

HIV and HEP-C are spread by man, that is not to say that we can't control those things. Everything MAN has done has lead to new diseases or finding them by accident like some virus like HIV. We do what we must to survive but at the same time we can adapt and make new things to sustain life.

Originally posted by Phos

Molecular oxygen. A perfext percentage of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere for the human lung to breathe is 21%.

It took billions of years for the atmosphere to contain 21% oxygen. That's the world the dinosaurs lived in, cro magnon lived in it, neanderthal lived in it, homo habilis lived in it, and we live in it.

My point? It takes billions of years to create an atmosphere with 21% molecular oxygen. Each species of early hominid only lasted from 15,000 years to about 200,000 years. Humans have only been around for 100,000 years.

Conclusion: We'll be hit by another asteroid or comet before we can prepare another planet for us to live on.

It's not just the molecular oxygen part of it. Don't forget about our need for an appropriate atmospheric pressure, soil, gravity, the existence of H20, protection from radiation (ozone), temperatures, and SOOOO MUCH MORE.

Low oxygen content is related to increases in cancer, increased pulse rate and heart problems, emotional problems, fatigue, and more. Earth's atmosphere is slowly losing it's oxygen level for various reasons. In some places the oxygen content has gotten down to 19% at times. (remember, it took BILLIONS of years to get to 21%.)

All this is combined with our propensity for violence, war, and power. We (the latest version of humans... us) are not the ones who will make it. It will be some future version of us that makes it. One with it's act together. Or. most likely, nothing from earth will make it at all. This planet will not create a successful species to carry on and thrive beyond this planet with any degree of independance.

- Phos

 

The largest producer of Oxygen is not land plants trees, it is our oceans phytoplankton's that use most of the earths CO2 and converts it to Oxygen. Our planet at one time was comprised of 23% Oxygen, during that time the earth had used up most of it's CO2 from the air then changes happened that dropped the Oxygen and increased more CO2 etc. It is a cycle and a change we know the earth goes through. Rather it be impacts on the earth from cosmic debris to volcanic activity.

One thing is certain though, as we keep building up the CO2 in the air and have fewer plants producing oxygen we will see a decline in the Earth's atmospheric makeup. I for one have had many term papers on this subject.

And we are the most advanced creatures living on Earth today. We have the mental capacity to stop or try and stop any future cosmic catastrophes that may come toward Earth. The biggest threat to mankind now is ourselves and VOLCANOES. A super Volcano if it would go off today would cause our planets temp to drop significantly. If for more then 3yrs of blackness or reduced sunlight we could enter a new ice age or even worse, lower oxygen rates that would make living harder and plants without sunlight can't take CO2 out of the air and we would die that way. Less Oxygen being made also.

Our Ozone believe it or not has once again started to rebuild itself, right now over the Antarctic it is suppose to completely re-close in some parts that use to be almost deprived of Ozone by 2018. Another thing you must realize about ancient planet Earth is that it took so long to build the Oxygen levels because the Earth was a very hostile place still. Not many plants and even fewer phytoplankton to change the atmosphere.

Originally posted by CleffyII

2.0 has a faster transfer speed then normal pci-e.  If you want really high frame rate at really high resolution then its kinda a necessity.

2.0 is just a gimmick like all things start out to be. In fact if your using a high end rig now and upgraded to a 2.0 motherboard with a 2.0 video card comparable to the 1.0 you will not see any benchmark improvements in FPS.

Originally posted by Hokie

From what Ive read, there is no great advantage to being a pirate. As a matter of fact it will most likley be just the opposite.

As an example, if the pirates capture a nationals port they can only hold it for three days and then it reverts back to the original owner. They can build structures in those three days, but when it reverts back they (the pirates) have to pay an extreem tax. Which means the economy for pirates if going to always be undersupplied.

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If you want to do damage and have the best ships, be a Navy Officer.

If you want to craft and make lots of money, be a Freetrader.

If you want to be good at close range combat and grappling other ships, be a Privateer.

If you want a challenge, be okay at everything and good at nothing, be a Pirate. (oh yeah and broke all the time, be a Pirate)

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I have this feeling playing a pirate isnt going to be the easy class, its going to be for the hardcore, I like to be the underdog player. (which is a very small portion of mmo players)

 

And forcing people to play nationals just to unlock the pirate character...well, I have nothing nice to say about that, so I just wont say anything.

That's not what we are talking about. We are talking about how many will be pirates. To many of them running around and makes the game feel like a pirate only game. Forget it if you can't see what I mean then you should of played SWG when there was to many jedis running around. As with this game a pirate should be harder to get to and be distinct.

If your a fan of the plastic model type then EQ2 is your game. Considering every form of armor is the same style and similar looks there really isn't anything to give this game a good graphics rating except for the landscapes maybe max settings. Don't run around with a torch cause you might melt the faces off.

What they should of done was had it so everyone had to pick a nationality and then play through it to become a pirate if they wanted. Either by questing or reversing faction to become targeted as a Pirate through killing and looting.

That way everyone who's playing will see that there is a reference of background that the person decided to go and be a Pirate. I think many will play a pirate more then the nationality choices.

This guy is such a girl. He whines and cries about the stupidest crap. Anyone who ever seen him on CNN knows what I am talking about. I hate this guy with a passion.

Tonight he was upset that Victoria Secrets had mannequins dressed up in lingerie in a display.

Mike the sissy girly man. Your offended by mannequines dressed up in underwear and bras. Get real man, all you ever do is cry about stuff that makes no big deal.

He said he was offended by them LOL a grown man offended by underwear, what a POS crying SISSY mommas boy. Ok I had to vent that, CNN don't allow you to send emails with hate messages to its anchores lol.