Multi-Housing Means Multiple AA Mirrors..For Now
So as we reported yesterday in our article Side Benefit of Multi-Housing — Multiple AA Mirrors? , the introduction of multiple houses has inadvertently allowed players to install and use multiple AA mirrors.
In fact, several readers made a point of rubbing our nose in the fact we didn’t figure out this trick sooner. Well, daring goes before wisdom and if I’d been apprised of this capability, I still probably wouldn’t have bothered because knowing SOE, they’ll eventually get around to closing said exploit, probably right after I spend a whole day getting 2 different AA setups perfectly configured.
So anyway, Cloudrat pushed the issue to get a dev response one way or the other and we got one from Rothgar:
This was an unintended side-effect of the multi-housing change. As far as I know we aren’t planning a fix at the moment, but we may re-evaluate the policies surrounding AA respecs in the future.
My interpretation of this is — they’re gonna let it ride — but we may see some changes in the future. But just as easily, a “patch” could be figured out that would prevent players from using multiple AA mirrors. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. Multi-classing would be a great addition for EQ2 but in the mean time, making AA swapping easier seems like a smart move to me. Only a few classes really benefit from it anyway.
So if you plan to take advantage of multiple AA mirrors, you’ll probably want to spend some time playing with Beetny’s AA Calculator for EQ2.
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Barroness
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They need to get rid of AA mirrors and come up with an AA prism that is in our bags and we can change specs any time… oh wait that sounds like Rift!!!
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Ebofu
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Multiple houses with multiple aa mirrors doesnt work on pvp or im doing it wrong but i place a second mirror in my second house and it doesnt let me save anything on it saying “You are already using a profile device of this type”
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Daffodil
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They know about it, they’ve said they aren’t fixing it anytime soon. That’s exactly the same attitude they had to “breaking out” from houses, which has now become a design feature. Mirrors should in any event never have been confined to only two profiles and this is a good workaround for it until they create something like the prism mentioned by Barroness above.
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Silzin
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From what i have heard, you will have to leave the house and come back in about 30m, after the server has closed the zone.
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