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Test patch notes:quote:*** Highlights *** Bolding my emphasis of what I found interesting.
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Creative Bicycle posted:If possible could i get an Abstruse bp for my wizard, Bisekshual, and an abstruse set for my rogue, Superghost? Thanks a bunch if you can, no rush at all. Please send a set to Beatsboxer, thanks in advance.
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Mar 14, 2013 09:38
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In short, yes. The raid on a level 75 capped raid zone went poorly because people weren't paying attention to gimmicks they couldn't just overpower. And they only get worse from there. Also as stated, monks stink and beastlords are probably the LEAST broken pet class but it all stems from EM being WAY too goddamn strong and pretty much having a cooldown for me to pop always to keep my dps going. Also with paragon + focused paragon it's pretty hard to run out of mana as long as I watch my cooldowns. Stanos fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Mar 14, 2013 |
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Mar 14, 2013 19:33
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VoA where the named have more gimmicks but still beat that rear end if you gently caress up.
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Mar 18, 2013 20:04
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If you wanted any dumbass clickies from luclin, those spawns are a lot easier now since you get basically a double chance at them with fabled/non-fabled versions. Do the 10 dose 100% xp potion if you haven't done that already and then level and get some of the augs along the way. There are a lot of them that are still very good choices to this day. edit: VVVV http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=6782 13th and 12th anni augs aren't INSANELY good or anything but they're relatively easy augs to get and if you're a tank will save you a couple of tedious camps. Stanos fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Mar 19, 2013 |
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Mar 19, 2013 22:53
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Druid is just a very versatile box for casters. You got decent dps (for a priest class), enough utility healing wise for any situation, fire/ice debuffs, DoTs, a nuke aura (doesn't stack with reiterate unfortunately), paralytic spores way later and can adapt to pretty much any situation on the fly. With the way mobs mitigate slow these days debuffs are nearly as good anyway. If my BST/Bard combo wasn't enough for 95% of RoF named I'd probably do Dru/Mag(Nec) for boss stomping. Necro pet tanks worse but is more ideal for RoF content since pulling is back as a role if you want to kill any named worth a poo poo. If I had my choice out of those, I'd go for the SK/Enc but I really don't like any of your choices to be honest. :x Tanking and main healing on one box sucks, two healers aren't good unless you're clearing a zone of named after a crash/reset and clerics do the worst dps out of the priests. Not having anyone who can pull is going to gently caress you too, and I REALLY dislike the tank as the puller in the first place. EDIT: Also you're the guy who's been afk in Paw? You are extremely lucky I didn't choose to train you for picking such a dumb spot to AFK. If I can find you afking in <1 minute, you've picked a bad spot. There's at least 3 good spots where it isn't so obvious in there and they aren't even along the main roamer highway.
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Mar 30, 2013 09:38
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This is maybe a long shot, but is there anyone who plays on test or can copy that can request Ashengate North raids? That flagging process looks like a big pile of poo poo and I just want the high elf illusion clicky. 
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Mar 31, 2013 08:15
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It's only a negative if it's all you do, really. I got zero problems with afk mercin (considering I did it before myself  ) as long as you're not causing a disturbance to me or you aren't in a camp I want. That's why I suggested something more secluded that people wouldn't be tempted to train you at. Obviously this isn't a problem later but it was especially bad in Paw for a while where there was at least 2 afk trios constantly on the highway to remove every time I dragged my box crew there.
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Apr 2, 2013 20:47
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bacon! posted:Did the giant skeleton / steamfont anniversary quests last night. This is definitely the eq designers trolling their players. To top it off, instead of an aug we got POLYMORPH: DISEASED RAT wand Try a 10 dose growth potion and come back to us. Also if you're after augs/gear do Xorbb~
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Apr 3, 2013 19:26
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There are two parts that suck really, the hails to save the thralls and waiting/pulling the shocktroopers. It's a goddamn nightmare to do that early on at level without some good trickery. The rest is basic kill quests which are time consuming but not too bad.
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Apr 3, 2013 22:48
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Partisan of Shard's Landing which happens to be a decently well written quest line gives 24% (!) XP. Later lines are not so generous and more annoying (looking at you, new EW) but you should definitely at least do the Shard's line.
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Apr 4, 2013 19:35
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Basically the Terrorfist 'trick' is to get Terrorfist to fear you into a wall, the fear plays along and he beats you to death WHILE YOU ARE FEARED. Something goofy happens, zone crashes, you get a repop of the zone. Rumor is there's a trick to Evantil but I'm not sure what it is. I can't think of anything that fears there and the only thing I can think of is something weird like Yunizarn punting you out of geometry or something. I only really do this when the zone is abandoned (or Xolokk is up because nobody kills that motherfucker) so if you piss people off with it it's not my fault.
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Apr 5, 2013 23:09
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Consider most of us are vomiting plat or spend it on useless poo poo, don't worry too much about it.
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Apr 11, 2013 19:02
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Holy fuckballs that's a decent nerf. Not surprising but still sad.
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Apr 12, 2013 02:54
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RoF is tough but challenging and perfectly tankable for the most part though?  Kodaji and my boxes have done pretty much every named in xorbb that isn't named Xolok and a chunk in other T2 zones so most of them can't be hard at all with real live people.
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Apr 12, 2013 17:41
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T3 is up already??? That's why I was playing league instead, waiting on that. If anything, I can come be underwhelmed by the augs and find something else to crash zones.
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Apr 13, 2013 16:01
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Bellow is definitely useful for pulling if you're a lazy poo poo like me and just snare, FM and whack one and the debuff is noticeable. Don't neglect your cooldowns however for quick time is very good for a melee group.
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Apr 22, 2013 20:19
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How a beastlord? They would have to be comatose, holy gently caress. I mean getting the MOST out of the bst I can understand since you have to weave your spells right to not be sitting on a cooldown for too long but drat.
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Apr 28, 2013 04:40
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The gear sucks but with mercs (and especially 2-3 boxing) you're basically a walking blender until your 70s.
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May 10, 2013 23:57
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They finally nerfed the bullshit EW mission! 
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May 11, 2013 23:22
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He was probably abusing the social aggro tables and low level NPCs. You charm the bard mail lady, attack someone near the PoD and then he sees someone fighting and joins in. Also a couple of those stories are BS since I'm like 99.9% sure that PC charm didn't work in PVP since early vanilla.
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May 13, 2013 00:01
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MrTheDevious posted:Are you ever gonna come play again or just post I've been studying for my MCSE and playing League, takes up a lot of time. :x
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May 13, 2013 19:48
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Mercs can go to any raid that isn't flagged as an expedition, so yes. Basically PoTime on up is no mercs allowed.
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May 16, 2013 17:04
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Kora warrens is still okay xp until about 90 with the hot zone bonus and it's a SoD zone so mobs hit for like...5k? My beastlord could tank them somewhat at least with HoT T1. You may also want to consider grinding some AAs on the worgs in Loping (grab the repeatable quest!) if that's a problem too. You may also want to loot anyone HSing in the dream feerott too, they tend to not loot so you can grab the HoT T1 pieces off the named.
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May 21, 2013 18:51
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Donny J posted:I used to play ages ago, stopped right around GoD I think, and have a 66 Paladin floating around on some server. I'm looking to reroll as a Mage, and was wondering which server would be best to start up on. I'm going to try to eventually set up boxing once I get a feel for the game again, but I've never been that good at it so I would hope to find a decent population of people to group with when necessary. Depends what you want to do really. If you want the realistic experience and have ambitions of raiding, go to Xegony where a few goons raid. If you just want to play box army and chode around with wacky markets and not worry as much about gear, go to Test. Test has a raiding guild but it's not really the same as Live.
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May 22, 2013 17:37
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There's a reason people avoid pubs. I always liked having people come along with my box crew because it's simply a fuckton more efficient but I couldn't imagine playing EQ these days without 2-3 boxes along for the ride. When I felt extremely lazy and found a pub group to join 9/10 it'd be someone's lazy box crew who take a minute break between pulls or the Verbal Diarrhea crew that never stopped typing and either let people die or did crap for damage. Plus there's something nice about doing your own pulls. You control the pace and if some lazy poo poo DPS needs to afk you let them go and keep trucking.
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May 23, 2013 22:31
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quote:http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=106328 (shard's landing ring) Just gonna let you know you get ONE option from this quest and taking the ring means you pass up a REALLY REALLY good aug choice.
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Jun 5, 2013 17:31
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Even on FV I still thing the aug would be a better choice since let's be real here, how badly do you need to be able to get to shard's RIGHT NOW that a ring would be faster than gating to lobby or anchoring to a guild hall? Now imagine later when next expansion is in Mithaniel Marr's brain or whatever they manage to go with next. I mean I'm all for utility items but I still think the aug's gonna be a better sell down the road than the ring.
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Jun 5, 2013 19:39
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ponzicar posted:The next expansion is also going to have more augs, with better stats. HoT augs are still desirable, and the shard's aug is REALLY good for tanks. It's not going to be useless for a few years. Hell, even the leap from VoA -> RoF augs wasn't really that large. I haven't really played in T3 RoF but T2 augs outsides of the bastard in breeding grounds were mostly poo poo.
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Jun 5, 2013 21:59
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Finish HoT flagging and if one of your boxes is a wizard/druid GET TELEPORT BIND (Best AA ever) and bind yourself in Sanctum Somnium or Morell's Castle. Kodaji did a lot of Morell's so he can comment on camps there but when I was on test 9/10 I'd port up to SS and have it to myself. Good for burning pots/LOTD past 93ish but at 90 it's superb XP. There's a safe camp near the fountain at the zone in where its hard to run out of mobs at 90. Even at 95 with some stretching I could keep a mob in camp without waiting too long.
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Jun 9, 2013 02:47
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POTIONS. So annoying to find on test. If you like scorp agony/spider's bite it's hard to find consistently on test. If you want to make any lowbies, you're gonna be SOL trying to get them armor so bring some of that over.
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Jun 12, 2013 16:59
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There's a group haste click from a named in warrens and one from one of the named in the dark coven part of SS. I want to say from the named dog but I'm not 100% sure on that.
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Jun 14, 2013 04:54
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I don't blame them because trying to play a zerker after PLing one just confused and angered me.
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Jun 15, 2013 16:09
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Nodelphi posted:How are Sony's account recovery customer service policies? Been thinking of messing around on test server a bit this summer and I've got an old account that I haven't touched in like 10 years and I don't remember the password and 10 year younger me must have set something incomprehensible for the recovery questions because they're not the real answers. Is it just easier to start from scratch? I had at least a few thousand plat I could put to good use and some twink stuff, but defiant gear seems so much better than anything I had. By the time you get your account recovered, you could be past that twink gear and already way past the content you quit at. Especially on test.
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Jun 16, 2013 22:03
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jetz0r posted:Give it a shot, everyone I know who's had an old account has been able to recover it. Yeah but he's on test so he automatically gets max veteran rewards. The LoN cards would be a bit of a loss but you can't sell any loot from free cards so unless he gets really lucky it won't matter. Although I do use my sparklers and dragorn mask once in a while to be annoying in the guild lobby.
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Jun 17, 2013 05:53
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Basically if it's a DS click, assume it doesn't stack with SK stuff. I've found that to be the case more often than not. Even the strange stuff like VT DS clicky drops don't stack if I'm remembering correctly.
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Jun 29, 2013 17:35
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If you're going to test, definitely box. No question about it. Even if you just have an AFK bardbox playing melody you still get an extra merc. Plus bard already compliments...every class so it's never a waste. Goes especially well with BST since it soothes your mana problems later and haste/overhaste is always welcome. I was doing T2 RoF and could either pet tank or merc tank about 80% of the named there. This was also before the pet nerf so now I'm not AS sure about that but most of named was luck of the draw in getting a bad round.
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Jul 10, 2013 18:41
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You could probably get away without ISboxer if you weren't counting on too much fancy poo poo on the shaman. Mine was only 79ish when I quit playing it but you could probably work what you needed to do on them to like...3-4 macros?
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Jul 13, 2013 23:01
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Are you on test? I mean boxing is free and you can have the laziest box with a bard running /melody. Gives you another merc to play with too. I can understand if you're annoyed by it or hate dividing your attention but a bard melody box is painfully simple and learning how to pull on a bard isn't exactly super hard when you have fading memories. poo poo I'm pretty sure you could have a live bard buffbot if you weren't expecting much pulling wise or just needed FM once in a while. But then again, you're playing a necro so FM isn't as useful.
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Jul 18, 2013 01:59
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Depends how lazy you feel. Bard compliments necro extremely well but a mage pet to offtank is always a large boon. Then again, with some AA there's very little if anything a bard has problems pulling. If you're looking to just XP, get a bard. If you want to camp named, get the mage. More effort, more reward in my opinion. Also pets can't do that. Special coding to prevent afk boxing I'm assuming. Unless the pet owner gets whacked, the pet does nothing.
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Jul 20, 2013 20:20
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