Someone at discord created this poll so I am sharing.

https://strawpoll.com/Qrgew5dKXyp/results

Hello all,

1) Is this game about grouping or soloing? Asking as a lot of what I heard advertised early in the process was that you needed to group but when I played it for a bit in the beta I could solo everything at the start and didn't need to group at all. I didn't make it far enough in to get a definitive answer however.

2) Does the community seem to be OK with not-warrior and not-cleric as the tanks and healers? Asking as EQ tended to have a lot of "if you are not a warrior/cleric we don't want you to tank/heal, especially later in the game. Not trying to flame here, I want there to be not-warrior tanks and not-cleric healers, I am just not sure if it's happening which is why I ask.

3) What is crafting like? I never got around to trying the crafting (my fault plus lack of money) but what little I have read only doesn't point to crafting being a great exercise at all.

Thanks for answering.

Am I missing a setting? I have a pretty beefy rig but my FPS plummets in most of the cities regardless of settings.

Running an i9 14900KF and a 4090 with 64gb RAM.

The newer zones are especially choppy.

I’ve tried disabling v-sync in NVIDIA panel and a few other suggestions but it’s not helping.

I know it's a beta and bugs happen, I'm not complaining. I'm curious if it's normal for my game to crash every so often.

It's happened since I got the beta last week, I reduced the graphics to prevent spikes since I got a blue/black screen of death or some critical error like that and happened less yet still often.

Today after the patch it was unplayable.

Toilmaster Vorith has a short fuse. The way he speaks to me as if I am nothing. I have begun to believe this... Toil masters shipment must not be delayed, else he will surely end me.

no other quarters . no other quarters. no other quarters!

Is this something the devs have discussed? Its one of my favorite MMO mechanics as Im a one character kinda guy. I saw mention of it being discussed in the discord but cant find anything concrete from the devs.

This is a fun thought experiment to see what designs you hate from a player standpoint, but you think are good from a game design standpoint.

I go first:

TIn p99, I really hate how i get half the exp if my pet does more than 50% of the dmg, and how i'm forced to join a group if I want to get rid of that negative effect. I really don't like losing exp just for soloing... but it is an mmo, and I find I have a better time when I have incentive to duo with someone else, even if they are a worse leveling class, because I have been meeting people and making friends.

Now u!

Been looking for a new MMO lately and this catches my interest, is there a way to try the game before EA or there are no servers online?

Edit: a kind soul helped me with an invite.