Feldon
Public Quests have been keeping Windslasher rather busy and he had posted some detailed answers about just how Public Quests difficulty are set. The Ring War seems fairly straightforward, but the Storm Gorge PQ (which will possibly see some changes in the next few days) has sufficient complexity to worth a more in-depth analysis. From Windslasher on the EQ2 Forums: Loot is not totally and completely random. It is only partially random. I posted a complete breakdown of the baseline loot at this link: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=30&topic_id=495127#5512456 Whether you get a humming, pulsating etc. cache is not random, but whether you...
Day: March 16, 2011
In response to players asking why Storm Gorge PQ lag fixes can’t be implemented ASAP, Windslasher had these responses on the EQ2 Forums: There are multiple lag sources, some of which are obvious and unavoidable (Large numbers of players in combat at the same time = lag), some of which are interesting and somewhat fixable (30 players vs. 30 encounters is worse than 60 players vs. 1 encounter) and some which are too subtle & complicated to describe in one sentence without using jargon (There are scripts & abilities that load up the server at O(n^2)). I’m going through...