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Maed posted:I'm back on blue on my lvl 16 ranger named Maed. Anyone wanna group or sell me a silver swiftblade or woodsman's staff? This is the best possible news! I've been feeling the itch again myself. Might have to fire up the old necromancer again.
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nomadologique posted:drat bros, as much as I like Fotwen and am sad to see him go, don't let him single handedly talk you out of Red. Okay okay. I'll give it another shot. I was talking with another goon on blue the other day about the servers differing player base. So far i have noticed a distinct trade off between the two servers outside of population/camp availability/pvp bullshit: The players willing to deal with "red" are also the players that have a firmer grasp on this games mechanics, making them better players (but still poo poo people), which pays off when you get into that off the wall, big rear end pull in sol-a situation where you need everyone to be cool and on top of their game. That's pretty alluring, compared to blue where i feel many players are clueless, or generally not nearly as good at this game as their red counterparts. What does this mean when deciding on where to play? I guess you have to make a personal assessment and figure out what you are willing to deal with on the day to day. I'd still like to see more goons outside of Fresh.. the guilds serving its purpose now as an lfg channel, but i'd like to get back into the whole raid-social-club thing after i reach that level. Which reminds me: During these bullying sessions, pretty much every aggressor said Fresh is a terrible guild, and i should quit immediately so i dont get associated with them, barring my entry to other, "better" guilds. Is this true? I'd rather not have to carry around the taint of this absent/hollow guild forever. I'd rather try to get into a different guild, at a lower level, for-fitting the lfg channel to avoid this, if it's true. edit: fotwen was gonna score me some sort of 2hb/1hb, i dont see that happening now. anyone got something laying around? :x edit2: yeah uh i died in misty AGAIN so yeah i dont care about playing an iksar anymore. Daaz fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Yeah, I'm probably going to be back. I just needed some time to destress from the server, and join a better guild like Friends. I'll try to help you with the retrieval once I reinstall everything.
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Communist Q posted:Yeah, I'm probably going to be back. I just needed some time to destress from the server, and join a better guild like Friends. That didn't take long.  I knew youd' be back! woohoo! ..so hey, put in a good word with Friends for me, yeah?
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Seems a number a new/lower level people are coming back to blue prior to Velious. I'm around for a little bit on my mule, Comebuy, in EC. If you need a bit of starting plat for bags/spells feel free to send a /t and I'll help you out.
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Anarch posted:So I've been playing a ranger on Blue for a week, but since I put all my points into STA I'm considering remaking him with STR or DEX instead. As I'm only nearly 7, should I do this? Sta is the way to go you made the right choice
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Died trying to get to misty to bind from HHP. Dude i just cant stay alive when not on kunark. Spent all day *today* not leveling, and just doing cr's. starting to think this is all i'll ever do on red. poo poo is just down right demoralizing. Communist, i wanna apply to friends, too. what's the procedure? Daaz fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Daaz posted:Died trying to get to misty to bind from HHP. Dude i just cant stay alive when not on kunark. I just joined the curse and they seem pretty cool. Azrael mostly all lvl 60 people so its kind of rough. Join curse they spam ooc occasionally.
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What guild are people in on blue now? I seem to be the only one in Unknown Guild.
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Maed posted:What guild are people in on blue now? I seem to be the only one in Unknown Guild. That's a good question. I have my first character I made(Druid) in Unknown Guild, but after I quit playing that character I tried a few of the newbie friendly guilds, Riddle, Go Team Good Guys, Order of the Hammer(currently in this one). They all seem the same, basically guild chat is a LFG/beg for buffs or free stuff channel. I'd be interested in joining a better guild, or working on getting Unknown Guild active again if possible.
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All my dudes are just members of Unknown Guild, no officers.
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Daaz posted:Which reminds me: During these bullying sessions, pretty much every aggressor said Fresh is a terrible guild, and i should quit immediately so i dont get associated with them, barring my entry to other, "better" guilds. Is this true? I'd rather not have to carry around the taint of this absent/hollow guild forever. I'd rather try to get into a different guild, at a lower level, for-fitting the lfg channel to avoid this, if it's true. All the sub 50 twink griefers on this server are from Holocaust (Empire), that's why.
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Daaz posted:The players willing to deal with "red" are also the players that have a firmer grasp on this games mechanics, making them better players (but still poo poo people), which pays off when you get into that off the wall, big rear end pull in sol-a situation where you need everyone to be cool and on top of their game. Also, as much as red players love to give blue players poo poo about it, they rarely have to compete in the PVE arena without straight up resorting to PVP. They don't know zones, pathing, spawn times, aggro mechanics, etc. like blue players tend to because they don't need to know that poo poo - they can just go gank the dude sitting at the camp rather than out-knowledge him. I found this to be the case when leveling up on red but I didn't it figure it also applied to the high level scene until I did some raids on red and grouped/raided with a bunch of long time red players including some BOTB winners on Velious beta. Red monks were struggling with doing simple FD splits and sneak pulls, red enchanters didn't understand how to intelligently deal with charm breaks, poo poo, some of the bards didn't understand haste mechanics or how to pull and kite planar trash without dying. Aggro was often mishandled and people had PVP clickies but not useful PVE poo poo like midnight mallets. I'm sure the average red player knows a lot more than the average blue player about PVP mechanics, but who gives a poo poo unless you're playing on red. Dirt posted:I'd be interested in joining a better guild, or working on getting Unknown Guild active again if possible.
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Ill be back for velious 100%, might install EQ again sooner rather then later and give it a check out with what I have left over. I cashed out around 9 months ago with almost every account/item I owned, which considering the time was great. Mrylokar BP's were 250k now they are down to 45k with velious pending, Sold my donal bp's off for 200k a pop etc. I kept a 60 enchanter, 60 shaman, and 58 druid, 54 epic clr, etc all geared decent enough(no drops, but still pvp essentials clickys, resist gear, planar gear etc) mostly to keep me on my feet to get started when I came back(knew even if I quit entirely I would get the itch again). Far down from a level 60 near bis geared char almost all with epics and all the other time investment I had but it worked out in the end so no regrets honestly. I just hope velious is going to go ok for red, The population is scarce for a server that size and when you add velious zones to the mix some of them if not all are like 2-3x the size of west karana. I know that red will probably sky rocket from average 300 pop to 600+ when velious is out, because there are hundreds of people just sitting, waiting for over a year or more now for velious release. I was in the top guild "nihilum" but left before it was GM disbanded, Empire AKA holocaust is now on top, most of its core is made up of nihilum members and a few former 'resistance' players. They basically replaced Nihilum and lowered the recruitment standards a small bit is all. For new players coming to red, Yeah its tough starting out at first especially with no plat/gear even more so if you made a melee like rogue, warrior, sk/pal because they are so gear dependent(weapon especially) whereas having the ability to sow and port yourself wherever, camp items but be completely useless on raids and not so great for pvp(druids really) are good to start with so you don't feel restricted and you can make plat porting people around, 34 you can go anywhere except circle of misty + evac ej/skyfire. The economy of red is booming compared to where it once was a year ago. People are actually camping items that long ago you physically had to go and do yourself if you wanted it unlike blue server where virtually everything is over camped and everything is for sale/available. As mentioned in other posts, Yeah red has a fair share of asshats and toxic trolls/players. Don't believe everything you read on the forums, In game and forumquest are two totally different things on red. Can't really comment on the guilds status of that of slosh, and friends and such. Was in azrael for a long time when I first started before quickly realizing too much poo poo disappeared or went to inner core members and you can pretty much guarantee yourself be it azrael, fresh, empire most 60's won't stop to think twice about you if they have the gear and status they need/wanted. There are some good people out there that do a lot of help, Yes there are a ton of twink griefers in zones like unrest, mistmoore, city of mist. With red's group exp bonus + these zones ZEM bonus you just need to out level the pk twinks quickly. I would think when velious hits, these places will still be booming for exp for new players, and most of the griefers will be occupied on their mains raiding/contesting/gearing up in velious. As aparmenideanmonad said yeah there are a fair amount of bad players who don't know the game mechanics, and are just plain lazy most of the time and want to leech or ride the train with minimal effort. These people stand out pretty obvious if your guilded with them after a few weeks. Part of the reason some of this is because usually on raids, take VP for instance. for something like 2 years in Nihilum EVERY DRAGON in VP was pulled to the zone in, NO ONE except a couple monks a bard and call of hero mages knew the zone because they didn't get to go past the zone in and learn. This is still partially in play for the top guild Empire, They fight some dragons at the entrance, then move to the secondary spot where the bridge and lava ramp down is so you can hide from pathing stuff. Anyway to some up my almost tldr post which I probably repeated a few things. If you want to play red, and you can deal with the possible griefing or simply are capable of saying ok its a game and logoff for an hour or two come back and hope they are gone a average player can do 1-50 in probably 2 weeks, a hardcore player could do 1-50 in a week from scratch. If you have gear/help, 1-70 is days. Mostly depends on what the driving force is behind your group. If you are a cleric, or enchanter its not a hard ride because everyone needs a cleric, and everyone needs clarity/haste/mez and charm pets outdps most players especially if you pickup the BS pets in unrest/mm. Cya in Thurgadin Pwnz0r fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Apr 27, 2015 |
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aparmenideanmonad posted:
I am pretty active, so I have no problem being around to invite other goons into the guild. Shoot me a tell in game(Innernette) and I can meet up with you. I am hoping the Velious release and new thread will get some new people to play, and maybe bring back some older folks too. Maybe we can get this guild up to a reasonable size 
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Dirt posted:I am pretty active, so I have no problem being around to invite other goons into the guild. Shoot me a tell in game(Innernette) and I can meet up with you. I'll be on tomorrow (monday). I might be on tonight after i get back from a bbq i'm going to. We can put the druid alt i'm going to roll into UG as an officer for the specific reason of inviting goons when i'm around. I'v never operated outside of that capacity as a guild officer before, so i dont know how much help i'd be in organizing a community, website, or whatever else goes along with a guild. I'd really rather not roll a druid, but... trying to play an iksar monk as my main is proving to be frustrating and dependent on hand outs. I'd rather be making my own money! Would we ally with one of the bigger guilds so we don't get ganged up on? I'm all for alliances being made to reduce the amount of jerks who have us as KOS for non-association :x edit: Okay, rolled my woodelf druid "Foggy" , i'll be on tonight, tmrw, whatever. Hit me up! Daaz fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Is there any system for transferring characters from Red to Blue? I'm starting over again with a friend on Blue and I could really use the cash I had on Red.
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borf posted:Is there any system for transferring characters from Red to Blue? I'm starting over again with a friend on Blue and I could really use the cash I had on Red. People will trade for plat. It's about 3:1 blue:red. Just check out the P99 forums.
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Blue folks, I have Unknown Guild officer status on my necromancer Xeirak. I am currently 39 and leveling off of spectres in Oasis. If you want to make your way there for a tag, feel free to post when you are around and I can log on. If I relocate, I will also post here and let folks know.
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Maed posted:People will trade for plat. It's about 3:1 blue:red. Just check out the P99 forums. After looking into that, they're dealing in 100k+. I'm looking to move 112pp. 
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borf posted:After looking into that, they're dealing in 100k+. I'm looking to move 112pp. Send me a tell in game, my characters name is Innernette. I can give you 100 plat to get started. What class are you playing? I might have some random items too.
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When P99 incorporates Velious, will EQ Platinum still be the way to install and get set up? I'm about to drop ~$100 on a used copy to get running and I don't really wanna waste that if the Velious expansion will require EQ Cobalt or some nonsense.
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Pathos posted:When P99 incorporates Velious, will EQ Platinum still be the way to install and get set up? I'm about to drop ~$100 on a used copy to get running and I don't really wanna waste that if the Velious expansion will require EQ Cobalt or some nonsense. you haven't thought long enough about how you might obtain this
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yeah, i'd sell you my used digital copy for only $90. i only accept dogecoin.
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Pathos posted:When P99 incorporates Velious, will EQ Platinum still be the way to install and get set up? I'm about to drop ~$100 on a used copy to get running and I don't really wanna waste that if the Velious expansion will require EQ Cobalt or some nonsense. please just pirate titanium you weener.
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Pathos posted:When P99 incorporates Velious, will EQ Platinum still be the way to install and get set up? I'm about to drop ~$100 on a used copy to get running and I don't really wanna waste that if the Velious expansion will require EQ Cobalt or some nonsense. Torrent it, it's freely available.
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Killed specters for about an hour yesterday. Made 150 plat and about a yellow bar and a half of exp.
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Apr 27, 2015 14:43
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I've got a 25 druid and an 18 necro on blue and about 900pp banked. With Velious coming out, I really want to make sure I get ahold of the Circlet of Shadow for my necro before it gets nerfed. What do you guys think is the quickest way of generating plat with those two characters so I can buy one before the price presumably goes through the roof? Or is having a Circlet of Shadow not as big of a deal as some people make it seem?
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It used to go for 2.5k a year ago but is already on the rise to 3.5k+ from what I've seen. If I can level fast enough to where I can farm it, I will try to help you farm it. I got mine for free from a goon who helped farm it for me (checked my history and I think it was Sirduh on his ogre SK.) Was a lot of exp and a lot of fun. It also dropped on the very last pull of the night before we were about to give up. 
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I never experienced Velious back in the day. Is there anything there for characters sub-60, or is it all high end stuff?
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There's content for 35-40+ or so, but there's more to it the higher you are and tons of raid content. Crystal Caverns and East Waste groups will probably be a thing.
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RedSiver posted:I've got a 25 druid and an 18 necro on blue and about 900pp banked. With Velious coming out, I really want to make sure I get ahold of the Circlet of Shadow for my necro before it gets nerfed. What do you guys think is the quickest way of generating plat with those two characters so I can buy one before the price presumably goes through the roof? Or is having a Circlet of Shadow not as big of a deal as some people make it seem? Is your necromancer an Erudite by chance? Paineel guards are good money for levels 20-30. But it's annoying if you aren't an erudite. It's do able as other races. But it's tricky getting in, and you can't sell /bank in the zone. Also Gargoyles in oot are good. They drop eyes that vendor for 10pp each, and they are light weight and stackable. If you get the camp and poopsock hard you can get enough plat together. Dirt fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Apr 27, 2015 |
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Get like 2k saved up and then go to EC and buy low/sell high until you're rolling in plat. Low-ish value items are the best thing to do this with, because you'll frequently get higher level players who just want the bank/inventory slot open so they're happy to sell something for 1.8k rather than the 2.5k they're asking. It also helps to play the "I'm new" card, at least until people recognize you. Use http://ahungry.com/eqauctions and the wiki to compare prices and go to town.
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Thanks for all of the advice guys, I really appreciate it! My necro is an iksar so it sounds like paineel might be out, but I've done the gargoyles in OoT before so I think I might head there to generate some to get some extra cash together. Do you guys know if the CoS nerf hits as soon as Velious launches or is it farther into the future after the launch? The other thing I was thinking is getting my druid to lvl 29 so I can start porting people, do you think that would generate a decent income? I know people pay for ports but I don't know if that's a lucrative route to go or not.
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It won't happen right away AFAIK. They will be rolling out stuff like the removal of class XP penalties and the CoS nerf according to something close to the live schedule where possible. The CoS nerf (June 27 2001) happened 7ish months after Velious released (Dec 5 2000) so you're probably safe for a bit.
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RedSiver posted:Thanks for all of the advice guys, I really appreciate it! My necro is an iksar so it sounds like paineel might be out, but I've done the gargoyles in OoT before so I think I might head there to generate some to get some extra cash together. Do you guys know if the CoS nerf hits as soon as Velious launches or is it farther into the future after the launch? The other thing I was thinking is getting my druid to lvl 29 so I can start porting people, do you think that would generate a decent income? I know people pay for ports but I don't know if that's a lucrative route to go or not. Selling ports is tedious, but consistent income. Join Dial A Port (if that's still a thing) and hang out in places like EC and Overthere. The only problem with selling ports is that you'll get stiffed sometimes. People seem to get pissy unless you're just asking for "donations" or "tips" which assholes view as optional. Upside: porting assholes to Toxx when they ask you for another port. EC flipping is a much better option for starting income IMO. No level requirement, and you can get started with as little as 200 plat; it just takes longer to get to the point where you're able to make a significant amount per trade. You can also do it on your druid, and port people during lulls.
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what should i be looking for weapon wise as a warrior? I used a gift of starting plat after i split it with my buddies to buy a full suit of bronze armor and a silver war axe, but not really sure what i should try save for. thinking of a yak and a green jade broadsword? I remember lammies being a thing but the price on those is ridiculous.
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faulteroy posted:EC flipping is a much better option for starting income IMO. No level requirement, and you can get started with as little as 200 plat; it just takes longer to get to the point where you're able to make a significant amount per trade. You can also do it on your druid, and port people during lulls. I've been on this server forever, and made the mistake of creating a warrior main as my first toon to 60. Now, I had a very decent raid tank, but no real way to farm outside of Seb/HS groups. If I were to start EC trading around the 2k range, what would you suggest are the popular items I could get a bankroll going with without spending 4 hours a day in EC?
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