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FrostyPox posted:Welp I guess I'll try my hand at dual boxing. Frostypox, Erudite Shadow Knight and Iceplague (creative, right), Troll Shaman, on Cazic Thule, which I just realized is.... appropriate. I mourn for the loss of your social life  e: wait I did that wrong. /mourn frostypox; /mourn iceplague Setset fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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UPDATE: So far, dual boxing is less annoying and actually a bit more interesting than I thought it would be. It'll probably be more fun when I have more spells and stuff. Both my duders are level 4 but I accidentally bit off a bit more than I can chew and my SK died so the Shammy's a bit ahead. I shouldn't've done this, this is gonna cut into my free time pretty badly. 
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Mar 29, 2016 17:48
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I know they killed the Mac server but since then have the made the game Mac friendly at all or would boot camp be my only option?
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FrostyPox posted:UPDATE: So far, dual boxing is less annoying and actually a bit more interesting than I thought it would be. It'll probably be more fun when I have more spells and stuff. Both my duders are level 4 but I accidentally bit off a bit more than I can chew and my SK died so the Shammy's a bit ahead.  Where are you leveling? I can give you an easy leveling path, but it's also cool and relatively fast to stick to classic zones up until the 50's.
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I've just been punching mobs around Crescent Reach, but I'm contemplating continuing my Test Server Classic Levelling experiment by taking my dudes to Nektulos Forest, which, AFAIK, is the only place where both Cazic-Thule Erudites and Trolls are not KOS.
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FrostyPox posted:I've just been punching mobs around Crescent Reach, but I'm contemplating continuing my Test Server Classic Levelling experiment by taking my dudes to Nektulos Forest, which, AFAIK, is the only place where both Cazic-Thule Erudites and Trolls are not KOS. Also, many outdoors patrolling guards are not that high level, so already in the 30's or so you should be able to not worry too much. Furthermore, it's overall easier to avoid getting killed due to better graphics (brighter and longer sight range), mercs to take the first blows, and the extended target window will alert you the instant something aggros on you. You might want to stick to Crescent Reach until level 20 to get a bit of an easy start, then you can venture out. There's also good old Ocean of Tears, which has few faction-based mobs, but some great leveling spots.
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Pilsner posted:They made the KoS thing a tad more lenient over the years. For example, I'm pretty sure you can never get killed within you own city, unlike back in the day where a Gnome Necro could walk up to the goddie caster guild in Ak'anon and get creamed. Thanks for the advice! I went to Nektulos Forest, but upon arrival at the POK stone, I stumbled across some weird group of High Elf Enchanter NPCs or something, and while my SK wasn't KOS to them, my Troll was.  .Might try again (and avoid those NPCs!). Or just wander around Crescent Reach, that seems like a fun, viable option too,
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Did you know that the whole The Serpent's Spine expansion (the one with Crescent Reach; starting town of the Drakkin race) was made to support characters leveling from 1-70? Just a tip. After Crescent Reach (CR), just go next door to Blightfire Moors and you can get to level 35 or so, then Goru'kar Mesa, etc. Here's a raw copy/paste of my own notes for a classic (including Kunark) leveling path, which might help you. I've mostly leveled good characters, but it's fairly easy to get around regardless these days. Heck, you can buy invis pots for 10p each. code:
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Holy crap I'm having PTSD reading that list, that's pretty much my life from 99-00
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howling stones, how I miss thee. Did that zone A LOT with my druid and a necro buddy, sometimes adding a wizard friend, it was fun, chill xp and could generally clear the bigger parts of the zone ourselves.
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Hoohah posted:I went through all four steps about 5 times in 2015 when EoE collapsed on Fippy, and right now I'm still in #2 while I accomplish stuff and gear up on the latest iteration. Are you still playing on xegony? Check your steam messages or be online sunday.
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MF_James posted:howling stones, how I miss thee. Did that zone A LOT with my druid and a necro buddy, sometimes adding a wizard friend, it was fun, chill xp and could generally clear the bigger parts of the zone ourselves.
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Even on the progression servers guards are pretty lenient. There was only one mob that went out of its way to murder my necro there and it was pretty easy to avoid it. Guards in the city you had to practically run on top of them for them to aggro you.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I know they killed the Mac server but since then have the made the game Mac friendly at all or would boot camp be my only option? Boot camp is your safest option. Daybreak dislikes vm's and warns its player base against using them to play EQ. I've been boot-camping for years without issue.
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VMs are very much one of those hard and fast rules that will get you banned. It apparently makes it easier to cheat which is comical considering the rampant cheating going on already if you pay attention.
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This is more of an Isboxer / Hardware issue than directly EQ, but it involves EQ. I don’t know what the problem is exactly, but I am playing on a laptop that uses the Nvidia Optimus thing, it uses an Intel HD 4600 and an Nvidia GTX 770M. When I set EQ to use the Nvidia and run EQ from the launcher, it works fine, loads fast, looks better, etc. but won’t run from Isboxer/Innerspace, I have to set it to use the HD 4600 in order for it to run from Innerspace. Anyone else have this problem and a fix for it? It’s Windows 10.
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daybreak deleted my sk for some reason. rip everquest, i have fond nostalgic memories of you, from 2001-now, but after this, i cant. we had fun, some laughs, losing my corpse, taking months to get to level 65 back in the day, planes of power...ahhh nostalgia i guess ill log back in my other account when they finally shut you down like they did SWG , but ill miss my yearly login around the anniversary to explore the old stupid zones
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BJA posted:This is more of an Isboxer / Hardware issue than directly EQ, but it involves EQ. I don’t know what the problem is exactly, but I am playing on a laptop that uses the Nvidia Optimus thing, it uses an Intel HD 4600 and an Nvidia GTX 770M. When I set EQ to use the Nvidia and run EQ from the launcher, it works fine, loads fast, looks better, etc. but won’t run from Isboxer/Innerspace, I have to set it to use the HD 4600 in order for it to run from Innerspace. Anyone else have this problem and a fix for it? It’s Windows 10. There might be a setting in the nvidia control panel or something similar where you can force the Innerspace window to use the graphics card. Pon de Bundy posted:daybreak deleted my sk for some reason. rip everquest, i have fond nostalgic memories of you, from 2001-now, but after this, i cant. we had fun, some laughs, losing my corpse, taking months to get to level 65 back in the day, planes of power...ahhh
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Starting a 3box on Test. SK/Shaman/????(currently bard for the utility but i fear I'll be lacking in DPS. Open to recommendations here.) Working on getting the SK his epic 1.0 with my 85 druid and WOWZO I'm already stuck trying to get the darkforge armor. Someone testcopy me some love or just shoot me in the head before I start seriously playing this game again.
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Wizard 1 button DPS for days, ports, and caster so no melee to move around besides tank, double invis too. And you don't need the faction/darkforge quests to get SK epic anymore darkhand fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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The 1.5 pre-quest for SKs is like 3 fights and a lot easier than doing the actual SK epic, if you just want to skip it. e: If you need any help with fights I've got a 85 SK/Shaman/Bard (lol), I'm not actively playing but I wouldn't mind logging on. suuma fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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Yeah, I was wanting the SK 1.0 simply because you can use it at 25 and I thought it would be fun to have pre-50s. I'll try a Wizard out, but will the lack of CC hurt me in the later stages? I don't plan on doing more than 3 characters.
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You have a puller in a SK so not really. Some later places might suck without harder CC if you decide to do some expeditions on level but your general life is going to really suck doing a low dps party like sk/shaman/bard. With the comp suggested and good macros you can have them do their own thing with no problems and mainly focus on your SK.
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Dompy Bear posted:Yeah, I was wanting the SK 1.0 simply because you can use it at 25 and I thought it would be fun to have pre-50s. Some of the epic NPCs will eat items if you're below 46. And the SK 1.0 is a huge pain in the rear end.
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darkhand posted:There might be a setting in the nvidia control panel or something similar where you can force the Innerspace window to use the graphics card. i had played that character roughly the same time of the anniversary last year. hacked? i doubt this, as my password was the same, and well thats not very likely. my other account is fine that is associated with the same email. i only want to play for nostalgia sake, as i can see that EQ that i have played on and off since 2001 is slowly starting to die since daybreak took over. i can still login to my other account and play the 8 characters there, but its still annoying and makes me not want to even bother
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Pon de Bundy posted:i had played that character roughly the same time of the anniversary last year. Does your character select only display 8 characters? And would your SK be listed below those alphabetically? Having more characters on an account than your membership has access to can cause problems with displaying the full list, and only some will be accessible. SOE doesn't auto-purge characters. Except for clearing low level characters during the server mergers years ago. So your SK is either hidden below your other characters, or was deleted/transferred by someone with access to your account. Or you could be logging on to the wrong server.
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Dompy Bear posted:Starting a 3box on Test. SK/Shaman/????(currently bard for the utility but i fear I'll be lacking in DPS. Open to recommendations here.) I run a 4-box with no CC, but my Monk can pull almost anything, and my Shaman can do that super-root AA that knocks back and roots the majority of mobs for several minutes. Doing just fine like that. jetz0r posted:Does your character select only display 8 characters? And would your SK be listed below those alphabetically? Having more characters on an account than your membership has access to can cause problems with displaying the full list, and only some will be accessible. Do you remember your character's name? Then go into your EQ directory and search for a files by that name - there will be files named UI_charname_servername.ini, for example UI_Myshadowknight_fenninro.ini or similar, which holds the UI settings. If you had logging turned on, there will also be similarly named .txt files in the \Logs subdirectory. That will give you the servername for sure. Try deleting low level chars on the server and see; log out and back in between deletions to make sure.
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jetz0r posted:Does your character select only display 8 characters? And would your SK be listed below those alphabetically? Having more characters on an account than your membership has access to can cause problems with displaying the full list, and only some will be accessible. I petitioned and well...he's still there and on a different account of mine ...oops ..don't drink and game Folks ...
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Pon de Bundy posted:I petitioned and well...he's still there and on a different account of mine ...oops ..don't drink and game Well, at least you don't have a benzo addiction/habit.
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After reading this thread and finding out the game is now free to play, I decided to try and recover my decade-old account. Turns out the account was hacked since I stopped playing, but after talking with CS I managed to recover it with all my old characters and gear intact. I stopped playing around the time epics 1.5/2.0 were released, didn't end up finishing them. I have a 68 paladin with a mix of PoP/OoW gear and 300ish AA's. What's the best place to go for leveling? I tried soloing PoFire/Air zone-in mobs and got destroyed, so I'm guessing Paladins are still utter poo poo. Any recommendations for easy leveling?
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Rlazgoth posted:After reading this thread and finding out the game is now free to play, I decided to try and recover my decade-old account. Turns out the account was hacked since I stopped playing, but after talking with CS I managed to recover it with all my old characters and gear intact. Probably stating the obvious here but maker sure you have a Mercenary if you plan on soloing.
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A 68 J1 tank merc can probably solo PoFire mobs, at least in Castle1. Particularly with paladin splash healing and the like going on. Otherwise, you can roll with a healer merc and spend 45 minutes killing each mob. I'd stay in Fire til 70 or later, myself. There're other places you could go, but Fire is just too good and mobs in later expansions just hit too hard. What server are you on? Best bet for gear at 68 is to probably just fill up on Elaborate(?) Defiant and whatever else you can snag out of the Bazaar until 80, then go full Abstruse if you can. If you're on Test, you can autogrant AAs and you'll get a shitton for free as you level up through 85 (90 now?). Otherwise you have to pay for a subscription to get them.
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suuma posted:If you're on Test, you can autogrant AAs and you'll get a shitton for free as you level up through 85 (90 now?). It autogrants to VoA (95) now that TBM is out, not sure if you have to buy TBM (or TDS) to get autogrant to go that high though.
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Yeah autogrant yourself some AAs through checkbox in the AA window. Then grab J1 merc like a tank and hit PoFire. Later you'll probably use a wizard merc or cleric. Defiant armor will boost your stats a lot, grab a knight weapon if you can too. Knights just kinda suck pre-71ish(?) like most characters. Once you get a few levels your AAs will grow through the roof and be a lot more powerful, then you have a million billion zones to run around through, swarming/slaying undead. When you find a comfy exp spot, don't forget the Lesson of the Devoted AA that gives double exp. There's also a guy in pok called Franklin Teek that gives "daily quests " that are pretty good exp. darkhand fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Apr 5, 2016 |
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darkhand posted:There might be a setting in the nvidia control panel or something similar where you can force the Innerspace window to use the graphics card. That's actually the problem, when I force it to use the nvidia card, EQ won't launch through innerspace, it just launches a black box. If I run EQ alone throught the nvidia it runs fine.
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I didn't want to pay the subscription for now so I just copied to the test server and got the AA grant from there, plus a journeyman merc. Nevertheless, after grinding for a while in PoFire it doesn't feel like the game has really changed much in this level range. Paladins were terrible back in 2003 and soloing as one is still an excruciating experience. I am under the required level for gear from later expansions so it might change after 70, but 68 is still as lovely was it ever was. Incidentally, are epics 1.5 and 2.0 still worth getting other than for bragging rights? I got my FD back when 1.5 was released but never finished the quest since it required instances which were nigh impossible to tank with a paladin unless you had high-end raid gear.
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Most 2.0s are still worth it, especially if you're close to the intended level (70). Most of the 1.5s can be done in a single group around 70-75, same for most of the 2.0s except Anguish (which is only slightly harder because you can't use mercs at all there). I'm not actively playing, but I wouldn't mind logging on some time if you want help with your epic(s). I've got a group around 85 that can do all of them with no issues, though I haven't tried to do Anguish since I was 80 (which didn't go very well). e: IIRC the paladin 2.0 is only difficult because it still (?) requires having 10 players in the raid at one point, and involves a LDON expedition you can't use mercenaries in. suuma fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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Rlazgoth posted:I didn't want to pay the subscription for now so I just copied to the test server and got the AA grant from there, plus a journeyman merc. Nevertheless, after grinding for a while in PoFire it doesn't feel like the game has really changed much in this level range. Paladins were terrible back in 2003 and soloing as one is still an excruciating experience. I am under the required level for gear from later expansions so it might change after 70, but 68 is still as lovely was it ever was. Look into adding a box immediately and it'll be a lot more fun. Pallies are really low DPS and need some help.
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I'm one of those people who plays for a couple days per year just revisiting Classic content for nostalgia's sake. Today I got a Fungus Covered Scale Tunic off my second Myconid Spore King kill. I never had a fungi before. Hah :P
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Chimp_On_Stilts posted:I'm one of those people who plays for a couple days per year just revisiting Classic content for nostalgia's sake. Not that he's up very often, that is.
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