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The previous thread, which includes many pages nostalgia and stories about the "good" old days can be found here. EverQuest (EQ) is the legendary MMORPG that was one of the first big successes of its genre. Launched in early 1999, EQ set the standards that still to an extent live on today, with a class-based, level-based, monster killing and item-hunting game featuring massive timesinks. NEWS:  I have launched http://www.zlizeq.com which is basically this big OP in website form, with ten times more detail. It's a work in progress, so some content is not there yet, but it'll slowly be filled with more articles covering all the stuff below. EQ is the game that many goons have heard of, notably through SA front page articles, and thanks to the fact that old EQ players just won't shut up and keep posting stories of nostalgia and how glorious/horrible the early years were. It is the game where people (goons) literally shat their pants to keep a monster camp instead of going to the bathroom, and where real-life phone chains were set up to alert guild members of a boss mob that spawned in the middle of the night. It is the game where people (me) spent 100 real days of played time over the course of one year to hit the max level, and where 10 minutes of sitting down, waiting for mana to regenerate betweeen kills was acceptable solo gameplay. It was the game where actual girls roleplayed sex slaves that let other players poo poo on their face for in-game money. It was a game where travelling from one end of the world to the other could take hours on foot, and where pretty much doing anything worthwhile was a massive undertaking. It was a game where dying at high levels wiped out several hours worth of xp grinding, and where not finding your corpse again meant losing everything you had on you. It was a game of the most quirky and weird exploits and bugs, and unintended consequences of the laissez-faire development style the game enjoyed. EQ was a game that dumped players into a large world, in their race's home city, with merely a note in their backpack, suggesting they go see their guild master. From then on, there was no hand-holding. There were no in-game maps, no quest journal, and merely venturing out in the newbie area and attacking one of the weakest monsters might end up getting you killed due to an unlucky streak, or because another monster joined the fight. There was no set-in-stone levelling path, and no automated quest system. You had to work for everything: Getting your spells, travelling, looting and selling, training your skills, and working on tradeskills where you lost your ingredients if you weren't skilled enough or tried the wrong combination. It was also a game with a strong, small town like community, many friendly and helpful people, and a level of in-game patience, helpfulness and socializing which will never again be matched in a mainstream game in the future, due to changes in mentality and attitude.  Ancient screenshot of early EQ EQ has gone through a ton of expansions since its inception, and has changed substantially. Many of the above horror stories are no longer relevant in the current gameplay, and great improvements have been made especially to make travel faster, dying impose less of a penalty, and to make progression, grouping and raiding more readily available. Still, many fundamental aspects of the game remain the same, and returning players will feel at home.  Screenshot of modern EQ, House of Thule expansion (customized UI). Those wasps would wipe out a raid of 100 players from the early era. Here are the EQ expansions:
A quick rundown of the latest few expansions:
 Why play EverQuest?EQ is an old game with a huge amount of content to explore. The graphics are outdated, but the atmosphere and feel of the game is very different from newer MMORPGs, most of which EQ has inspired. A few main features of EQ:
 Free to Play, subscription model and how to download EQEQ is, as of March 2012, "free to play" using a hybrid model. There is a 3-tier subscription model, with the entry-level being free, the middle tier ("Silver") costing $5 to activate yet remains without monthly cost, and the top tier ("Gold") costing $15 per month as it always has. A gold sub is exactly like a regular sub has always been, with a few extra benefits. Go to everquest.com and click the PLAY FREE! button to download the EQ installer and get started After running the installer, you should be presented with the EQ LaunchPad application, which will, after creating an account and logging in, automatically download all the necessary content. This can take several hours due to the large amount of data. By starting a free account, you automatically get access to all expansions up to and including the House of Thule expansion, only lacking the latest expansion (Veil of Alaris). Expansion-wise, this is more than enough to get the full EQ experience. However, the free and silver models are fairly restrictive, and should not be viewed as a viable way of playing the game at higher levels. You will be restricted in the classes you can pick, your inventory size, allowed money amount and alternate advancement. That being said, you should still be able to explore and get a feel for all the fundamentals of the game, and should give you many weeks of free enjoyment at the very least. It will also be great for players who just want to get their nostalgia fix. Read all about the F2P model here Notable restrictions are (free/silver):
The system also works in the way that if you let your gold sub run out, it is converted to a free account, allowing you to keep playing your characters, regardless of race/class, with slightly diminished spell power and reduced inventory. You will keep access to all your AA abilities, but will be unable to earn further AA than the cap allows. You will never lose any items by downgrading.  New and returning players: Picking a server, class and raceThe official goon server is "Luclin - Stromm", aka. "Luclin", and all goons are welcome to join the <Ominous Latin Words> goon guild (was called <Guild For Guild Port Guild> before March 17th 2012 - Edit: Was called <Ascending Fearbonus> until April 9th 2012!). It is a guild with no forced requirements of any grouping or raiding, just a place to chill, chat, group if you like, and be able to utilize the benefits of the guild hall. As of posting this, there is a high level of activity every day, and we're all having a lot of fun. December 2012 update: We had a lot of fun during Spring and Summer 2012 on Luclin, but the goon population on Luclin is now very small. The guild still exists and people are welcome to join. A small goonrush has taken place on the Test server (see below in the "Other servers and ways to play EverQuest" section), where we enjoy playing for free, multiboxing, swimming in plat and just relaxing. There's no guild, but we chat in the /goontest channel. March 2013 update: The goon rush on Test is still alive and kicking, with lots of people on daily. Most box, but real groups take place often, and we help eachother out. The guild is called <The Roost Gave Me Harpies>, and all goons can join. The /goontest chat channel is also still going All goons, regardless of server and guild, are invited to join the serverwide goon chat channel, in which all goons primarily chat, even those in the guild. To join it, type: /join serverwide.gchat:fygm To set the game to automatically join the channel upon login, type: /autojoin serverwide.gchat:fygm (to autojoin multiple chat channels, type several channel names, comma-separated) While we're generous towards newbies, please do not just expect to be handed bundles of platinum and gear or to be powerlevelled immediately. Good things come to those who play regularly and are friendly! We are many people who are willing to help out with epic quests and such, and the guild bank has a bunch of newbie gear. Other servers and ways to play EverQuest EQ has branched out over the years. Here are other ways to play EQ that are different from the regular servers.
 The character creation screen  Choosing a classAll classes fundamentally play and feel like they did in ancient times. If you start a new character you will hardly see any difference, for better and for worse. The good news is that all classes have had a slight homogenization, meaning that other classes than warriors can tank, other classes than monks can pull, and other classes than clerics can heal well. Hybrids are also far from the crap they once were. It is nowhere near the homogenization that has taken place in WoW though, and classes still feel very unique. If you're a brand new player, here are some fundamentals of the EQ class system. The four archetypes in EQ are:
Pure melee have neither spells nor mana, but use a resource called Endurance to execute some of their special abilities. Think of it as melee mana. You will be able to do the majority of your damage and use most abilities endlessly without using endurance at all, and at high levels, you get abilities to regenerate your endurance. They can basically keep churning forever. Instead of spells, they get various insta-cast special attacks and self-buffs to increase their damage. Hybrids are a mix of melee and spell casting. They don't use endurance, but mana for certain abilities that either enhance their melee attacks, or make them a little closer to a spell caster, such as casting damage or healing spells while fighting, adding procs to their weapons, or casting buffs and debuffs. Bards are extra special in this category, as they have songs instead of spells, all of which apply effects with a short duration, but they can be cast over and over and mixed with eachother to do many things at once. Priests are fundamentally healers, but with varying side-roles and all have the ability to buff other players and to debuff mobs. They do not melee. Pure casters do not melee either and have the weakest defenses against melee, but have the most powerful detrimental spells and the best pets that fight along them. If you're familiar with the classes in EQ, many things have changed over the years that might help you decide for and against a class.
So, any class you desire should basically be good to go, although if you're looking to further narrow it down, goons usually mention the following classes when the topic comes up. I going to partly quote goons and post second-hand reports, as I haven't played all classes.
Here are some notes on the remaining classes, as i know it:
1) There are many bitter veteran players who won't stop posting on other forums about how their class sucks, hasn't gotten anything cool in the last several expansions and is crap compared to class X, Y and Z. In fact, I bet any class forum can contain these types of posts. Does not compute. 2) Many vocal people bitching about their class see the game from a raid point of view, and thus purely see class balance as a matter of having the highest damage output or "bringing something to the raid" via utility. End-game raiding in EQ is still not something you walk into with a pick up group; it's for guilds, and you'll need to apply to a guild and endure raiding hours and DKP and all that. This thread is based on the assumption that you will solo for the first many levels, and then do a mix of soloing, multiboxing and/or grouping at higher levels. 3) If you see damage parses (dps numbers), beware that people like to post bursts from a short battle, where they blow everything they have. Furthermore, they will be raid buffed to the teeth and be in a group full of synergizing classes. These number are pointless if you're trying to find the best class if you like damage.  Choosing a race and other character creation optionsRace Race and character creation matters very little today. In fact, no content since Kunark has had significant content where race really mattered. There are no race xp penalties any longer. A few races stand out:
Picking a neutral or good race (see "Alignment" column in this table) will allow you to more easily explore the old, classic cities, plus you will likely be visiting Freeport a fair amount for tradeskills and a few quests. A few old epic quests will also require some faction grinding if you're evil. Alternatively, if you like the evil cities, pick an evil race and go slaughter the elf guards. Iksars are hated almost everywhere in the classic world. Stat allocation Stat allocation doesn't matter. Even at medium levels, your regular stats (STR, DEX, etc.) will be massively capped, rendering your choices here pointless. However, for the sake of doing the best you can, put most points into STA and the remaining (if any) into your class' main stat. This will be INT for pure casters, WIS for priests and hybrids, and STR for melee classes. Yet still, it won't matter in the long run. Deity (religion) Deity (religion) doesn't matter much either; it can change your con (level of aggression) towards some of the classic cities and factions a bit up or down, and determines what kind of Cultural armor you can wear. However, all cultural armor is equal, so it's just flavor. The only deity that people still talk about is choosing Innoruuk if you're a troll shaman, as they can get a necklace with a snare via questing. However, it's not very useful at higher levels. Home city Here you can pick either Crescent Reach or the classic home town for your race, such as Ak'anon for gnomes. Crescent Reach is a city and zone from The Serpent's Spine (TSS) expansion, which added a new race (Drakkin) along with an entire slew of zones designed for more modern and focused levelling from level 1 to maximum. If you're a non-gate class, picking either home town can make a tiny difference, as it determines where you end up when you use your Origin (EQ's "Hearthstone") ability. The run from Crescent Reach's teleport spot to the nearest PoK port stone might be a little longer or a little shorter than the run from the teleport spot in your race's classic city to its PoK stone. At worst, you'll waste 30 seconds or so every time you teleport, so won't worry too much. If you're in doubt, I recommend picking your race's original city. Tutorial If the Tutorial button is pressed down (default), you will start off in a tutorial area which teaches you the ropes and gives you a focused, quest-driven experience from level 1-10. After enduring some awful RP and a simple quest that instantly dings you lvl 2, you are transported to a cave with bankers, merchants, spell merchants and quest NPCs that guide you through some of the basics of the game and send you on quests that give you good xp and a little gear and money. I recommend this to new players, as it's a relaxed area with easy xp. Pilsner fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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 Getting started and levelling The screen you'll see when entering EQ through the tutorial Entering the game and getting a mercenary When entering the game through the tutorial, go through the first quest to ding lvl 2, and get transported to the tutorial cave with all the NPCs. The first thing you should do is get a mercenary. If you are satisfied with a boring Human mercenary, you can hire it right there in the tutorial, from the Mercenary Liaison NPC (human in silver armor). If you want one of a different race, it's time for a slight detour. To leave the tutorial, Hail the barbarian NPC named Arias right where you enter and type 'ready to leave' in the chat, and you will be teleported to Plane of Knowledge (PoK). You are now in the main hub of the EQ world, where all players gather to bind, sell and buy, do their trade skills, teleport to other parts of the world, bank, or just AFK. Now open the Find window (Ctrl+F) and look for NPCs called 'XXX Mercenary Liaison', for example, 'Dark Elf Mercenary Liason'. Pick a race that you would like to have your merc show as (female dark elf w00t), then click on the NPC name, and a glowing path should lead you to the liaison. Right-click either the male or female version (determines the sex of the merc you buy), and a box pops up. First, pick the "Journeyman Tier 1" type merc, as they are the best. F2P players will only have access to Apprentice rank mercenaries - pick the highest tier you can. Second, pick the Tank role mercenary, as this will give you smooth sailing solo for the first 60-70 levels without requiring any healing on the merc at all. Tank mercs are immensely powerful and can solo 3-4 mobs at once for you. They can handle red con mobs without breaking a sweat. The stance (agressive/passive/etc) doesn't matter and can be changed later. Click Hire, and boom, you now have a killing machine at your disposal. A small thing to note is that they will not hold agro well at the beginning, and mobs will be hitting you. This gradually gets better, and at around level 30, the tank merc will be like a monster magnet. If you want to let the tank merc take the blows, simply step back out of melee range and the tank merc should be the one getting hit. You can only own one mercenary at a time (until much later in the game, or by paying real money for extra slots), but the tank merc will pretty much carry you to level 70. Note: If you've decided to skip the tutorial and start in Crescent Reach, there is a mercenary liaison NPC in Crescent Reach, in the big hut with all the class trainers in the starting area. All of the classic home cities also have liaisons. Note: A merc counts as a group member, and as such eats experience. When it's you alone with the merc, it will take approximately 40% of the xp (due to group bonuses). They are still worth it at low levels due to the overpoweredness of tank mercs, but at level 60+, start considering if the merc is actually speeding up your killing enough to be worth it. This will depend on your class. Keep in mind that mercs are safety nets that can prevent wipes and allow you to survive pulls of multiple mobs, so it's not just about xp per mob killed and kill time. At around level 65-70, the superpower of tank mercs start to wane as they can't survive as many mobs at once any longer without healing. Here, consider either going with a cleric merc (synergizes particularly well with a melee class), or look into the damage dealing mercs. If you can heal, a tank merc might still be a good idea. If you don't want to use a merc at all in your grinding, at least get a cleric merc and keep it stashed away for when you need a resurrection or need to fight a tough mob. Read more abouts mercs here: EQ Zam guide and Almar's EQ merc guide  Hiring a mercenary in PoK You're now set with the merc. If you want to go back to the tutorial, log out (type /camp or click the 'Camp (Exit)' button), then make sure the Tutorial button is pressed in at the character selection screen. Log in, and you'll be back in the tutorial. Now go through the tutorial as you please and start enjoying the game as a clueless newbie!  Levelling In spite of its name, EQ has never rewarded any significant amount of XP for questing until very recently, but quests have instead mainly been a source of certain powerful items. However, the TSS expansion as previously described actually does contain a full quest path from level 1-70 that you can follow if you wish. Most of them are basic kill, collect and explore quests and aren't really efficient. If you prefer to quest, go ahead and check them out. The path starts in Crescent Reach and mostly follows the zone path I'm going to recommend for mob killing.  Newbie (twinked and buffed) fighting in Crescent Reach. Who can name the twink items? EQ has a concept of Hot Zones, which are selected zones, rotated yearly or bi-yearly, which give additional xp for mobs you kill in them. The bonus is, I estimate, roughly around 30%, so they're often worth going to. View a list of current hot zones here At level 10, you will be done with the tutorial zone. You should now leave the tutorial (finish up the quests if you have any), and again say 'ready to leave' to Arias to get to PoK. Soulbinding Once you're back in PoK, go to the eastern side of the zone, find the (Soulbinder) NPC, and tell her 'bind my soul'. You are now bound here, and will respawn in the same spot when you die. If you're a spellcaster, you will get a spell called Bind Affinity later on, that will allow you to bind in any city you please. Suggested levelling path Here is a rough recommended path for levelling. Don't take it literally, explore other zones if you wish as there's plenty of easy xp to be had in many, many zones. Levelling at least up to 60 is so fast that you won't feel slowed down regardless of where you go. 1-10: Tutorial or the same as 10-25. Alternative: Steamfont Mountains near Ak'anon and the windmills, or any classic newbie area. 1-25 or 10-25: Crescent Reach (CR), the newbie area east of the city. Start in the southeast just outside of the city and work your way north up to the skeleton camp. Lots of fast-respawning mobs and a short path to a city. Alternative: Castle Mistmoore is good from level 20-30. 25-35/40: Blightfire Moors, just next to CR. Many camps with easy mobs. Alternative: The Overthere in Kunark is perfect from 30-40. 35-50: Goru'kar Mesa: Just north of Blightfire Moors, this zone also has some good camps and easy mobs all over the place. If you want a more classic experience, Karnor's Castle can take you from 40-50. 50-65: Grieg's End in Luclin is a mostly deserted dungeon with hundreds of mobs lined up for fast killing and a tight level range, good for 50-60. Alternative: The Hole is a dungeon with an innate experience bonus, good vendor trash drops and fairly easy mobs as it's an ancient zone. At level 50, start in the upper areas, and when you're level 60, you can start doing the lower tunnel/castle area for very decent xp up to lvl 70. Downside: Tunnel area may be camped and doesn't support more than a few players. 65-70: Continue The Hole lower area (great place for AA at lvl 70) or go to Sunderock Springs (hot zone), another outdoors TSS zone. 70-80: Paw in South Karana is a small dungeon with easy mobs all over the place that are very good grind material for non-kiting classes. Alternatively, The Steppes, another outdoors hot zone in TSS. Alternatively, Plane of Fire is an open zone with tons of mobs, ripe for swarming and headshotting for certain classes. 80-85: Direwind Cliffs, yet another outdoors hot zone, or Loping Plains next to Steamfont Mountains. Many more options here, and you are now eligible for grouping in House of Thule content. 85-90: Ashengate, a hot zone dungeon. Alternatively, HoT content. Somewhere in your 60's, you should be well versed in the game's basics and ready to take a little break from the XP race if you wish, and explore some of the other things you can do in EQ (see later section). As you level, you will get windows popping up with suggested places to level. Take these with a grain of salt, as they might be dangerous, crap xp, or way out there. If you want to level via an old school route, such as via classic Faydwer/Antonica/Kunark zones and dungeons, that will also be totally viable, just a tad slower. You will be able to handle the zones solo with your mercenary, and they will most likely be void of other players. The only downsides are greater level range of mobs and longer respawn times in some places. The upside is of course the nostalgia. I recently levelled two new characters up purely through older zones such as Steamfont, Mistmoore, Overthere, Karnor's and Sebilis, and I had no problems at all.  Three goons in their 40s levelling in an old school zone (Karnor's Castle in Kunark) For more inspiration, see Allakhazam's zone level chart here Getting more bags Already when you've saved up a few platinum, or have had some donated to you, you can easily buy some bigger bags. A gnome NPC in PoK named Nelin Signus, located in the northern trader building, sells Deluxe Toolbox, a 10-slot container, for a bit over 1 platinum each. You should quickly buy several of these so you aren't so restricted in your inventory space. Note that in EQ, it's a good idea to keep at least one base inventory slot free (just put a piece of food or whatever you want in it instead), as several quests throughout the game will give you a container to combine certain quest items in, and bags naturally can't be opened while they're inside another bag. But, in today's EQ you can store empty bags within other bags!  Buying bigger bags from the gnome merchant in PoK If you have enough platinum to spend (around 5k total), I would advise investing in the new 14-slot bags, that are all nearly weightless and have 100% WR. Search the bazaar for "Unexpanded Tailored Legendary", and buy any type that suits you. Now go buy Abu-Kar's Arcane Solution from any (Tailoring Supplies) merchant, combine the solution and the bag in a loom or sewing kit, and bam, you have a 14-slot bag. Obtaining spells Spells in EQ must be bought, quested for, or obtained as loot. Almost all essential spells from level 1-85 can be purchased from merchants in PoK. Go to the giant library building in the center of PoK and look for merchants that sell your class' spells. With the F2P patch, players can now purchase all fundamental spells from level 1-85 from merchants. This is a massive change, as before, there was a very large void of spells between level 60 and 85 where spells were very tough and time-consuming to hunt down. From level 71 and up, all spells have three ranks, the first being a solo/merchant-bought rank, the second group-obtained, and the third raid-obtained. As mentioned, you will only be able to buy rank 1 of the level 70-85 spells, but these will carry you just fine. A short rundown of the spell ranges, for historic purposes, if you want to save some platinum, or in case you want to look into higher ranks of level 71+ spells.
Search for your class' spells on Allakhazam here Skills Almost everything you do in EQ is skill based, from swinging swords to casting spells of various types. On your character pane, click the Skills button to see an overview of all your abilities. Certain skills can be hotkeyed - click on the skill, then on the Make Hotkey button, and place the button on your hotbar. There are both passive skills that enhance your fighting or spellcasting capabilities, and activated skills such as Disarm, Begging, Forage, Bind Wound and Disarm Trap. Most (but not all) of these are fairly useless. Monks base a good amount of their damage on their kicks, and all melee should use kick and/or bash when in combat. Melee will generally find it easy to keep up with skills, although if you get to level 30 with a 1H Blunt weapon then suddenly switch to 2H Blunt or 1H Slashing, you will spend some time working on the new skill. Spellcasters have it slightly worse, and some of the schools (Abjuration and Conjuration for example) will take you lots of practice casting to skill up. New melee combat skills are taught to you automatically as you level. Around level 30 or so, you should have all your fundamental skills, such as Dodge, Riposte, Dual Wield, etc., depending on your class. Dying Dun-dun-dunnnnn. LOADING, PLEASE WAIT... EQ was historically a brutal game to die in, not only losing a significant chunk of experience, but your corpse with all your items and inventory was left where you died, and you respawned naked at your bind point. You now respawn with all your gear and inventory, leaving only the experience loss (about 8% of a level) as the penalty. There are a few easy ways to deal with this on your own now, without having to pester a cleric: 1) If you have a healer (cleric) mercenary, you can travel back to your corpse, and providing you're not in combat, it will cast the best resurrection spell it has on you, which will restore 96% of the lost experience, from level 56 and onwards. At lower levels it will restore less xp. 2) If you are unable or unwilling to get to your corpse, you can go to the Guild Lobby, where Corpse Summoner NPCs can summon your corpse to you in exchange for a token that costs a little platinum. With the corpse at your feet, you can have it resurrected either by your mercenary, another player's mercenary, or a real player with the ability to res. 3) Use the "Expedient Recovery" veteran AA, which summons your corpse and does a 100% res. See later section about veterean rewards.  Improving the user interfaces, maps and common customizationUser Interface The default UI you are presented with when logging into EQ for the first time is a bit of an abomination. EQ has a simple UI engine with no scripting, merely a large set of controls that can be re-skinned, re-arranged, moved and resized. Some things can be changed via XML files in the EQ \uifiles directory, some things can be changed in-game. Notably, you can move and resize any window, which is nice. You can browse custom UIs (or just separate UI elements if you wish) on eqinterface.com. Note that EQ UIs break over time as the default UI goes through changes, so take note of the date on a UI before you go wild over it. Some pieces here and there will still function after several years, and you can also hack the XML files yourself to patch them up. A few complete UI packages: ZlizUI - My own UI compilation, Rain of Fear compatible. Minimalist and functional. WatUI - minimalistic and clean (partly broken with RoF) Sparxx VertUI AYA Ang's Sha'kahr interface - artsy.  Example of the WatUI. Note that all windows can be freely moved around, and hotbar row/column configuration changed in-game As of writing this, a major patch has just been released that breaks many UIs. It may take some time for UI authors to catch up, although some UIs will undoubtedly be left in the dust and never work again.View a guide on installing an EQ UI here Some UIs are more than just skins and recolors, and often rearrange the contents of many windows, such as the character panel. Some are for the worse, some for the better. For example, with the WatUI, I don't like his bazaar window, merchant window, bank window and several more. If you're unhappy with a UI window's changed layout, simply go to your everquest directory, then to \uifiles\<ui_name> directory (for example c:\games\everquest\uifiles\watui) and delete the .xml file that corresponds to the UI window. As an example, delete the file called "EQUI_BazaarWnd.xml" and reload the UI to make the default bazaar window show up (which will still be re-skinned to match the rest). Maps The game ships with simple maps, and fans have taken the time to improve the maps a bit, adding NPC names and locations of named spawns and quest objectives. The main site for EQ maps is Mapfiend. Go to the download page, select "ALL Maps", and click the Download Map Pack button. Extract the contents of the zipfile to a new subdirectory in the \maps directory (for example: "c:\games\everquest\maps\mapfiend"). Once logged in, choose the subdirectory you made at the top of the map window. The map window can be resized, and while the map won't really scale as you'd expect, it will allow you to zoom in and view more of the map without it being tiny and gritty to look at. You can customize maps yourself with the in-game map tool (click the icon with the sextant), or hack the text-based map files. Enabling the classic character models With the Luclin expansion, the main character models were remodelled, largely to the dismay of the community. Many feel they look out of place and have terrible animations. Thankfully, the new (also called Luclin models) and old models co-exist, and you can re-enable the use of the old ones. There are two ways to disable the new models: 1) In the EQ launchpad, after logging in, there's a little gear icon in the lower left corner. Click it, choose Game Configuration, and a box pops up. Click Next, and in the next form you can disable all the new models.  Disabling the Luclin models 2) Go to your EQ directory and open the "eqclient.ini" file. Here, you should see a list of lines like this: UseLuclinHumanMale=TRUE UseLuclinHumanFemale=TRUE Replace all TRUE with FALSE, save it, and (re)start EQ. Note: You will not be able to use most mounts unless you have the Luclin models enabled for your race. The only race I've found that isn't subjected to this rule are humans, and models made in newer times such as frogloks and drakkin only have one model. Alternatively, you can use certain illusion items (like AoN) to still be allowed to mount, but you'll lose the illusion and mount every time you zone. Particularly if you're a spellcaster, I recommend sucking it up and dealing with the new models, as mounts are extremely useful for you. If you use modern mounts (non-Horses), you can keep using the old horse and elemental (magician pet) models. Common UI niggles and FAQ The default key for opening the options window is O. Here you'll find a myriad of options and buttons to dig through. Q: How do I copy the UI layout and settings betweeen characters? A: Go to options, click the "Copy Layout" button in the top left corner, and choose the UI layout for another character to copy. It'll takes around 10 seconds for the copy to complete. Q: How do I disable the Voice Chat bar? A: Go to options, click the Voice tab, and click the "Disable Voice Chat" checkbox. Q: How do I customize the hotbars? A: Right-click the rim of a hotbar and options will show to create and alter the hotbars. You can also resize the hotbars by dragging the corner like a Microsoft Windows window, in order to rearrange it to have a different row/column layout instead of 1x12. Q: Help, I can only load 8 spells into my spell bar!: A: This is part of the challenge of being a spell caster in EQ, choosing your spells before you enter battle. You can invest in AAs to increase this maximum to 12 later on. You can also save and load sets of spells by right-clicking on the button at the bottom of the spell bar. Q: I accidentally pressed some button and a UI window disappeared. A: Go to options, Keys tab, and select the UI category from the combobox. Dig through the list to find the binding for the UI element you have closed by accident. You can sort the rows in the list by clicking the column headers, either sorting by description or keybinding.  Alternate Advancement (AA)At level 51, you can begin funnelling between 0 and 100% your experience gains into a secondary xp pool, which is called AA for short. This adds a whole extra level (metaphorically speaking) to the game, as you can continue earning AA experience even at maximum level. As you earn points, you can spend them on abilities that can either be passive or activated abilities that can do all sorts of stuff, like enhance your spell casting or melee attacks, allow you to cast new spells for no mana, give you more spell slots, extra hitpoints or stats, and much, much more. Most AA abilities are ranked (buy rank 1, then rank 2, etc.), some are tiered (must buy ability X before you can buy Y), and all ranks are level- and expansion-restricted. Google "everquest <class> aa guide" and you should be able to find some good starting tips. Beware of outdated info, note the date. At level 51, the first AA you should grind points for and buy is called Innate Run Speed (on the General tab), 3 ranks for 1 point each. This allows you to run faster without speed buffs, which is gold. From there, it depends on your class which is best. When to take a break from levelling and grind AA is a debated topic. You will not suddenly find yourself useless because you have levelled too high and not picked up enough AA, but there is at least a couple hundred AA for each class that are "mandatory", in the sense that they, for very little cost, greatly enhance your class and add immensely useful abilities or power. A good spot to stop a bit and grind AAs is level 59 (or 60 if you wish), as some of the first core AAs from the system's introduction open up. For example, monks can reduce the cooldown time on their Feign Death ability at lvl 59, rangers get Archery enhancing AAs, etc. Keep your eye out for essential AAs on the way, and at level 70, stop and go through the list and see if anything useful opens up. A very good opportunity again opens up at level 80, where you can, as earlier described, equip some of the latest, super-powered gear, which will make you very powerful against current mobs and allow you to grind quickly. At level 80 I would recommend grinding out at least 400-500 AA points, depending on your class, some may even want to grind twice that. There's no online calculator that I know of to get an easy overview of your class' AAs. The best thing you can do is to save up 12 AA points, then click the "Can Purchase" button in the AA window to filter out any AAs that you are ineligible for. Until very late in the game, no AA costs more than 12 points, so this should show you all available at your current level. You can also filter by expansion to get a rough overview of AAs available from certain level ranges, but some AAs are sneaky and require a lower level than the expansion was made for. AA has been made very easy to grind these days. There is a sliding scale AA xp bonus implemented that gives you a 500% bonus when you start out, and scales down to 0% bonus at 2500 AA points. 2500 points is a LOT, and perhaps with the exception of Shadow Knight, you should be able to utilize your class to its fullest potential at around 1000-1500 AA at high levels, some even earlier. Shamans for example have it really easy and can get by fine with 600 at maximum level in group content. For the same reason, be careful not to be too OCD about buying everything, because the more AAs you have, the slower the grind gets. There are many, many totally useless or borderline useless AAs that are a waste. All AAs in the General that increase your stats for example are fairly worthless. Search online before you buy anything.  PotionsPlayers can craft and buy an array of potions with effects of varying use, depending on your class. The main range of level-tiered potions can all be bought from the merchants Elwin Razorfur (low level potions) and Ralkor Stoneclaw (higher level potions) in the western trader building of PoK. Alchemist Adeben on the 2nd floor in the city of Crescent Reach sells ranks I-X (1-10) of all potions.
 Dealing with all the crap monsters dropMobs in EQ drop a lot of items, and your bags will quickly fill up. Loot from random monsters can be categorized as follows:
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As mentioned in the levelling section, questing can be mixed in with grinding to form a meaningful way of levelling, but only the TSS zone path as far as I know it. Only at level 80, quests from the latest content start rewarding good xp that contribute significantly.  Example of a quest (actually a mission, same principle) with multiple objectives that unfold as your progress  GroupingEQ has no built-in group finding tool, so it's still a matter of either being in a guild, knowing people, or shouting for groups in /ooc or the serverwide general chat channel. Only zones from the latest two expansions (HoT and VoA) are truly populated, and otherwise people mostly level solo or by multiboxing in the easy hot zones. It's not worth it to spend a lot of time finding groups at low levels other than for the social aspect or if you're playing with a friend or goons, but on the other hand, go ahead and group if you can find one, because thanks to group xp bonuses, grouping does not significantly slow down your xp gain if you also mow down mobs faster. When you get to level 85, you might be able to find a group in HoT, your best bet being turning on the lfg tag (type /lfg on), and going to one of the entry-level HoT zones such as the new Feerrott or House of Thule, Lower. However, be warned that a lot of content is still done in-guild or by multiboxers, and it can be hard to find groups. The latest bunch of expansions have a rather clear-cut set of tiers of group content, where it's expected that you go through them in order, roughly. Each tier has increasing difficulty and rewards better gear along the way. A cool thing about modern EQ zones is that all zones are fundamentally like you remember dungeons in the old days: Lots of trash, and named/rare spawns with placeholders. Even the entry zone of the HoT expansion has many named mob spawns all over the place (with placeholders of course, and the named is an uncommon spawn), which will drops nice loot. Outdoor zones are thus no longer just for soloing gimps purely grinding xp. On a side note, items in EQ have been balanced/normalized for several years now. Gone are the days of a boss dropping either a godly item or pure junk. Haste seems to be the only stat omitted from this rule, and appears a bit randomly here and there. Also, spell focus effects are very beneficial to spellcasters and also aren't normalized.  MissionsMissions are instanced versions of zones or dungeons made for groups of 3-6 players. You begin a mission by talking to an NPC (which often have a (Missions) tag under their name), and there may or not be some requirements for being to request a mission, such as having completed a few quests first. One person (at least) must be eligible to request the mission, and the rest may or may not need certain requirements, such as a minimum level. Requesting a mission works just like getting a quest, you go through some RP chat and finally type the right [keyword] to the NPC to get it. After requesting the mission, everyone will get a quest (a "Shared Task") in their quest journal, which is the contents of the mission. Each person must then separately say a keyword to the NPC to enter, after which they get teleported to the instance. The quest objectives of the mission will typically involve explores a bit, killing several mobs, collecting some items, and killing some boss mobs. At the end, you typically get xp, money, faction and access to a chest with loot. Missions in HoT and VoA result in guaranteed loot drops at the end and, along with a decent chunk of experience and platinum. Missions are often what people do for loot, faction and, to a lesser extent, xp in the high-end group game. The mobs in missions aren't necessarily that much more difficult than equal tier open zoned and named. Note again that you must have a minimum of 3 players in your group in order to be able to request a mission, so you can't request them solo or with your mercenary. You can request them if you dual box and thus have 2 players and 2 mercs up, or you can ask another person to join your group while you request the mission. After entering, the extra player can leave and you can go do the mission on your own.  RaidingThe raiding game is completely separate from the group game, with its own instances, progression path and tiers of gear. I don't know anything about modern EQ raiding, so maybe someone else can fill in. What I know is that tier 1 raid gear is approximately as good as the highest tier group gear. True raids (not including really old ones like Planes of Power, Velious or earlier) require a minimum of 6 players in a group to start the instance.  MountsSince Luclin, EQ has had mounts. Mounts provide the following ups and downs:
All accounts, as far as I know, should be eligible for at least one free mount via the /claim window after you've bought the latest expansion. Look for the "Verdant Hedgerow Leaf"; this is a fast mount that also gives you a very nice AC, HP and mana buff.  The BazaarThe bazaar is a special zone where players can setup a real character to act as a merchant (trader), allowing other people to buy items from you. The bazaar is accessed through a gate in the northwest corner of PoK. Head towards the hub teleporter, and you are ported to the trading hub. There are bankers in the center, and the zone branches out into smaller rooms (for anti-lag purposes, the original bazaar was one huge room), where you will find people selling their stuff. To bring up the bazaar search interface, type /bazaar or press the assigned hotkey. You can now search for items by name, level, price and through categories. Click the item you're after, and then the Find Trader button. A path lights up that leads you to the trader. Right-click on them like a merchant and you can buy their items. Be careful with certain stackable items, that you don't accidentally buy too many and waste your money. To set up your own trader, you must first of all own a gold subscription. If you have that, you must buy one or more Trader's Satchel (note that they weigh a lot) from Merchant Tekrama, who is in the first round room of the bazaar as you enter from PoK. They cost very little. Put the items you wish to sell in Trader's Satchels. Now go to one of the smaller rooms in the bazaar, and walk onto one of the wooden floors. Type /trader, and a window opens up where you can set the price you want for each of the items you have in your Trader's Satchels. Now press the Begin Trader button, and you are now a merchant that other players can buy from. Note that while in the bazaar, you cannot become encumbered (carrying too much weight), and you do not consume food nor drink.  Tradeskills-> Click here for the ultimate tradeskill levelling guide EQ has the following tradeskill setup:
After you've learned a recipe, which you can also add to a favorites list for easier access, you merely need to have its ingredients somewhere in your inventory in order to perform the combine. Click the Combine button, and you either fail or succeed, the resulting item(s) being placed on your cursor.  The organized tradeskill UI (slightly customized), here shown with tailoring There are still trivial rates on all recipes that indicate at which skill level you'll be able to reliably craft an item. Generally, there is always a 5% change of succeeding any combine, and at the other end of the spectrum always a 5% risk of failing - except when your skill is more than 100 points above the trivial for a recipe. A while ago, tradeskill trophies were introduced. There are items that evolve as you craft and increase your skill in a tradeskill significantly. Read about tradeskill trophies here. Tradeskills as you level will be largely useless and a money sink, with the exception of Fletching, which is a cheap and easy source of arrows. Some epics also require a medium amount of tradeskilling. The state of modern tradeskills is sadly a bit predictable and spreadsheet-like, but there are good news as well. Some quick facts:
 MultiboxingEQ is a good game to multibox in, and will allow you to explore much more, and even high-end group content on your own. Multiboxing means playing two or more characters at the same time. Classes in EQ are still unique enough that the synergies between two different classes can massively enhance your ability to kill stuff and even complete missions on your own. EQ's slower combat pace and multi-spellcasting macro system (cast spell A, wait 3 seconds, cast spell B, wait 3 seconds, etc.) makes it a perfect fit for multiboxing, as you can combine a melee with a supporting spellcaster, without losing too much efficiency. Additionally, since each character can have a mercenary, going from one to two accounts makes you go from 2 to 4 characters, two of them being mercs of course. This allows you to start missions on your own (requires a minimum of 3 players in a group), and lets you, for example, pick both a tank and a healer mercenary. A classic setup is a melee class + shaman, which several goons run. Shamans are a multitool while the melee grinds mobs. Many other combinations will work absolutely fine, although I don't recommend boxing more than one melee, as they require positioning in order to do damage. The recommended tool for greatly enhancing multiboxing is ISBoxer (free trial available). You can however, get started without it. ISBoxer can also run EQ in true full screen windowed mode, which is very nice. With EQ being free to play at the base, I would recommend dabbling in multiboxing very early on, as it's a ton of fun. Doing it right from the start if you're a brand new player might add a bit of extra confusion, but if you're already an experienced player, it is very optimal to level two characters equally. Alternatively, wait until you've gotten a feel for the game on your own, then explore multiboxing. For reference, I currently box a monk+shaman with tank+healer merc, and I am going through the second tier of HoT group content with no big problems. It does take some gear, training and the right ISBoxer+macro setup, but it shows that it's possible. I also recently started a ranger+magician team, which is great fun too. Almost anything goes!  Mercenary advancementIf you read the earlier guide on starting out, you should have bought a mercenary early on. Don't worry, you can still hire them at any level, they cost a bit of platinum to hire. Starting around level 14, they will also cost a small amount of money to keep active, billed every 15 minutes. At maximum level, it's around 40 plat per 15 minutes for the starting rank, so it's not much. You may remember how you hired a Journeyman Tier 1 (T1) mercenary. This can be improved up to tier 5 (T5) through questing. The quests you need to complete are all in Korascian Warrens in the SoD expansion, and they are as follows, with no previous requirements. I think they require around level 75 to start. 1) Find Your Allies. Tip: You can pick up the items while invisible. 2) Whom Frogs Destroy. Tip: You can feign death to avoid fighting the mobs if they attack you. 3) The Wrath of Korascian 4) Disrupt the Siege and Champions No More at the same time. The first one is a tough quest to solo due to heavy mob density up north where the catapults are. 5) Retinue of the Frog-God These five quests should be soloable around level 85-90 with a mercenary and at least HoT T1 gear, although some help will definitely make it go faster. After this, you are eligible for a mission: Murdunk's Last Stand. In the mission, and endless stream of mobs, about one per minute, spawns and walks through a set path. After killing 35 of them, you have completed the mission and you can gate out. You are now eligible to buy a T5 merc. Simply dismiss your current merc and visit the mercenary liasion of your choice. Note that a T5 merc at high levels cost around 100p per 15 minutes to keep active, so don't keep them out unless you need them. They are worth it, though, and are godly in group content when seen in relation to how little effort they require.  Guild Lobby and Guild HallGuild Lobby The guild lobby is a zone accessed via gate in the southwest corner of PoK. The guild lobby is a small zone, with the following features:
The Guild Hall is a small, instanced zone for guild members only, that has a guild bank, merchants, a teleporter, an augmentation sealer, and tradeskill containers. Welcome to the goon cave! Most useful is the gnome Zelfmin Werlikanin in the southeast corner. He is a merchant that sells various stones, and after buying one, you trade it back to him. To your left, the sparkling blue teleportation device will then teleport you to the zone corresponding to the stone you gave him.  Player housingPlayer housing was introduced with House of Thule. I haven't used it much, but it's basically a bunch of instanced zones where up to around 70 players can each buy a house and fill it with items, both real weapons and armor, and dedicated decorative items. Read about player housing here The housing area is accessed off the Guild Lobby (via PoK); in the northwest corner is a gate to the housing areas.  Marketplace, claims and veteran rewardsMarketplace The Marketplace is an in-game store (essentially a browser window), where you can buy all sorts of stuff for Station Cash, which can be bought with real money, and which is also given to you monthly if you have a gold sub, plus during various special events and bonuses. Stuff you can buy includes:
Type /claim and a window pops up (might take a little while to load the first time) with a list of items your account is eligible for. Resubscribing veterans should find all sorts of random stuff that you get when buying an expansion, such as a mount, armor packages, teleport clickies, cosmetic items, XP potions, food, and some very nice bags (Dreamweave Satchel if you bought HoT and Traveler's Rucksack if you bought VoA). Some can only be claimed once per account, but might be flagged Heirloom so you can transfer it around to other characters. Other might say 999 quantity in the claim window, meaning that you can claim it on 999 characters on your account, so essentially on every character you ever make. Veteran rewards Veteran rewards are special abilities given to players, one per year they have been subscribed to the game, not necessarily consecutively. Returning players may find that they are eligible for some of these. First, type /played, and the last line of text output will tell you how many years and days your account is entitled to. The year figure indicates how many rewards you are eligible for, and also for how many characters on your account you may claim the rewards for. Note: For me, I initially had an entitlement of 2 years and change when I first resubscribed back in 2009, then a few months later it suddenly jumped to 6 years. Click here for a full guide to Veteran Rewards If you feel certain that you are going to play the character you're on a fair amount of time and want to spend a set of veteranrewards on it, type /veteranreward, confirm, and you now get an appropriate number of new abilities in your AA window, on the Special tab. Rewards vary in usefulness. The most prominent one is the 1st year reward, Lesson of the Devoted, which gives double xp for 30 minutes. Others are borderline useless, and some only situationally useful. Don't worry too much if you're not eligible for any.  Epic weaponsEpic weapons were released with the Kunark expansion and were at the time, immensely powerful weapons, one for every class. These old "1.0" epic quests are 99% unchanged, and many still involve insane camps, rare drops, getting drops off bosses and lots of travel. But, at least most of the zones will be empty and the content 100% soloable starting already at level 60. The clicky effect on epic 1.0 is mostly useless these days. They will send you on some long journeys and make you explore lots of areas you may never have seen before, so I highly recommend doing them for the experience itself. Start investigating your class' epic at level 50 (search Allakhazam for "monk epic" for example) if it sounds interesting to you. Epics evolved into two new versions later on, called 1.5 and 2.0, the two which are fundamentally the same, the difference being that the 2.0 is more powerful than 1.5 and requires a raid drop. Back in the day, I believe the 1.5 was meant for groups/casual guilds, and the 2.0 meant for raiders. Of course, most of the content is trivial these days, only the final quest item of the 2.0 epic still requires a bunch of people. All 1.5 and 2.0 epics have a clicky effect (inventory clickable) that is to this very day still useful for all classes, as they provide percentage-based scaling buffs of some sort, that stack with almost everything. As an example, the monk epic increases the monks hitpoints by 25% and adds a melee proc that does damage. The shaman effect is a group buff that gives everyone a 500 hp/tick regen and increases the power of their critical strikes greatly. Starting the 1.5 epic requires that you have either completed the 1.0 epic, or have completed a rather simple "1.5 prequest", which shouldn't take long. If you choose to do the prequest to get ahead, you can always go back and do the 1.0 epic later. You should start working on your epic 1.5 around level 65-70. Search Allakhazam for epic weapon quests  Stuff to do besides levellingEQ today is a game where you will experience no more than 5% of what the game has to offer if you just power through it and purely level. EQ has a rich history and many expansions, plus a level of character building many times richer than other MMORPGs. Here are some suggestions of things to do!
 Links and resourcesA challenge of EQ today is to find relevant, up-to-date information online. In general, google is your friend. However, remember that a lot of online EQ content is outdated, so always look at the date of a forum post, comment, website or article before you draw any conclusions. General websites Allakhazam (ZAM) - The original EQ database which is still the most widely used. Many guides for quests, NPCs, items, camps and such, even for recent content. A premium account is required for a tiny subset of features, such as performing an advanced item search. Notable pages on Zam: - Spell list - Find all your class' spells here. - Directions - Find your way to most zones. - Emotes - Various emotes and slash commands. - Tribute - The tribute system explained. - Current Hot Zones Lucy - A more raw database primarily of spells, but also items. If you want the technical details of a spell, search here. EQItems / 13th floor - Item database with advanced, free searching. Almar's EQ guides - Recently written, up-to-date and excellent guides to returning and new players. Covers a lot of things to get started. His class descriptions might be a bit out of touch with reality. The Magician's Tower Returning Player FAQ - Lots of general info for a returnee, mainly written with magicians in mind. EQ Traders's Corner - All about tradeskills. Their search on the front page is gold for finding the use of any tradeskill component or recipe, and the complete tradeskill guide on the forums is the go-to resource for levelling up tradeskills. Rasper's Repository - Player made guide for each of the many recent expansions. Includes the intended progression path, list of quests and missions, gear overview and more. Extremely useful particularly for the latest two expansions, HoT and VoA. EQ Resource - kind of like Rasper's, not quite as extensive though. Has better maps showing the location of quest objectives. Magelo - Online player profiles ("armory"), also contains a database of items, mobs and recipes to an extent, but not as useful as Zam. Fanra's EverQuest Wiki - General EQ wiki, some content rather outdated, some recent stuff is okay. EQ Clickies (goes down once in a while) - comprehensive searching of items with click effects, as well as augs. raidloot.com - Searchable loot database, primarily focused on end-game raid loot. Samanna's Reference Desk - Originally a shaman website, but has a bunch of general guides and data for various stuff, such as levels of run speed, spell stacking, faction, and more. EQ Newbie FAQ - Various guides and articles. EQ Players - SOE's offical EQ news and contents website. It's pretty lovely, as expected. The only neat thing is that you can search the armory for pretty much any character that has been logged in for the past decade or so, and see their level, stats and gear. EQRaidWiki and EQ raiding strategies - Modern raid boss strategies. EQ Commands - list of /slash commands, emotes, pet commands and more. EQ AA Search - database of all ranks of all AAs, for the majority of classes. UI customization and tools Mapfiend - Better maps. EQ Interface - Custom user interfaces, both complete sets and smaller elements of the UI. GamParse - The best dps-parsing tool for EQ. Forums (mainly class forums) EQ class websites and forums aren't the bustling hive of activity they have been. There are a few that stand out, though, and as EQ generally changes at a glacial pace, many old forums are well worth searching through for information. Tip: Use google's "site" keyword to search in a specific domain only, for example: "shaman spells site:crucible.samanna.net". Use the date filter on google to get more recent content. Official EQ forums - Fairly decent activity. Official class forums, Archived official class forums Bard: The Concert Hall (new) and The Concert Hall (old archives) Beastlord: The Beastlord's Den Berserker: GoBerserker Druid: The Druid's Grove and The Druid's Grove Archives Cleric: EQ Clerics and EverQuest Clerics Enchanter: The Runes Magician: The Magician's Tower, also see The Mage Compendium Monk: Monkly Business Necromancer: Necrotalk Ranger: EQ Outrider Rogue: The Safehouse Shaman and Paladin: The Spirit Realm (Samanna's) Shadow Knight: Evilgamer Warrior: The Steel Warrior. Wizard: Graffe's - Inactive/archived wizard forums. Random guides, nostalgia and fun stuff to look at Sites that will make you weep with nostalgia. EQ Stats, Heroics, Mods & Skills FAQ Boss respawn timers - Many still correct. EQ Atlas - The legendary hand-made maps of all zones up to PoP. Many of us veteran players had a binder of these maps printed, before the in-game map system was introduced. More maps Guide to Veteran Rewards Drexxell's Plane of Sky Guide - The ultimate resource for one of the most complex zones in EverQuest, or any MMORPG for that matter. Other Drexxell guides and maps Zen Archer - Mainly famous for its "Quillmane Spoiler" section. Guide to the EQ map system Complete zone connection map of the world Zam patch history - Try reading some of the ancient early patch notes for laughs. EQLinks - Big link collection Unsung Heroes - Various ancient quest guides, mainly for monks. Food and drink durations explained Old unsolved quests - Discussion forum about unsolves and later solved quests in Eq. Ancient. Plane of Fear guide Irontaail's Plane of Mischief guide Runengetums guides - Various guides Secrets of Ssraeshza Temple - Guide to the Luclin raid zone Tinkerbear's EQ page - Ancient, outdated EQ info about spells and skills Woodash's EverQuest gallery - Huge screenshot gallery of nostalgia. NOTE: If you're using Firefox, images will most likely not show up, as the URLs to them have some forward slashes in them instead of backslashes. View it in Chrome or IE instead. The Bow and Arrow - Primarily a ranger resource, somewhat updated Pak'Cafan - Various updated news and guides Pilsner fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Dec 15, 2012 |
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By the way, I play Zliz (94 monk), Orakul (93 shaman), Ranzi (mid-60s ranger) and Magizi (mid-60s magician) in game. Alas, it's bed time where I live, but I'll be F5'ing all day long tomorrow! I'm also going to try and post some of the most relevant news in the thread as they come. Here's a little something to get started: quote:To help celebrate EverQuest's 13th birthday, there will be bonus experience, an increased spawn rate on rare mobs and a special 13 themed marketplace sale. These specials will run 3/16/2012 through 3/31/2012. Patch Notes for March 16, 2012, click to read more quote:*** Highlights ***
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Stanos posted:Yeah SOE hasn't quite grasped the whole 'F2P' quite yet. If it's like EQ2 they basically piss you off into either going for the $15 a month or you quit out of sheer annoyance. The fact they severely limit your character choices is a bit jarring. Why can't they follow the LOTR F2P model? They claim on their F2P page that you can pay to unlock more classes, but I don't know how it works. I don't really get it either, but I kind of see it like a permanent trial for EQ, which doesn't hurt. What I least understand is their class choices though. 3/4 (rogue, warrior, cleric) are all so simple and rather dull up to level 60 or so, with only wizards being a bit more fun. Not exactly a great way to lure people in.
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GodIsInTheTrees posted:Fair warning, do not upgrade from basic F2P to silver until you stash all your inventory in bank slots. I did on my bard and all the slots that previously had bags full of poo poo in them were eaten Did you check your parcel inbox, by the gnome in PoK? It seems stupid that upgrading should eat them (how could it, since being basic F2P only has 4 slots but silver has 6), but you never know. Do you mean you downgraded from gold to silver?
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24 hours of double station cash now: http://www.everquest.com/news/article?month=032012&id=524224 quote:In celebration of EverQuest's 13th anniversary and transition to Free to Play. Your. Way. We will be offering double Station Cash! Hurry, only valid March 16, 12pm PDT to March 17, 12pm PDT*
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Peechka posted:What about the plats? I know I had way more than the maximum allowed with F2P. Is this also grandfathered in? From memory I had thousands of plats. From the FAQ: "- Character Coin Limits: The amount of coin you have is unaltered when you lapse your Gold membership. However, you'll be unable to gain any more coin until you reduce your current coin total below the Silver or Free per character limit." Thousands of plat really ain't much these days, but still plenty to get started with the basics and get your spells, though.
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Okay, no more remaking channels and guild now please. With every remake, we inevitably lose people.  ponzicar posted:Also, I seem to be having framerate issues in PoK, even though my computer is way too good to be having trouble with a game this old. Are there some settings I am overlooking? I don't see how a computer that runs Battlefield 3 on high and/or ultra settings could have problems with a zone almost a decade old. EQ's engine is a bit wonky, lots of players means huge slowdown, so PoK can just be a bit choppy, even on a high-end computer. The main things to immediately disable under advanced video settings are Advanced Lighting and Shadows. Those two look nice, but smash your framerate to bits. xZAOx posted:OP, you said your main was a monk. At 65, with basically no AA, have a quick run down on recommended AAs? I'm afraid I can't remember it well at that level, but some I can think of (some might require higher levels than what you're at): Innate Run Speed 5, plus 3 ranks extra in your class AA Hastened Death: reduces FD timer Imitate Death: Insta-memblur FD Hastened Mend: reduces Mend timer Critical Mend: increases chance of getting a 50% mend Stunning Kick: Extra attack that stuns and does good damage at higher levels Master's Hastened Combination + Hastened Stunning kick: Reduces SK timer Kick Mastery, Stonefoot and other kick/flying kick enhancing AAs Extended Ingenuity: Increases your own buff timers Zan Fi's Whistle: Dps buff All sorts of dps AAs such as: Veteran's Wrath, Enhanced Aggression, Burst of Power, Technique of Master Wu, Rapid Strikes, Ambidexterity, Ferocity, Sinister Strikes, Strikethrough, and more At level 65, don't spend more than 500p per item. You'll find a lot of non-Defiant items between level 65 and 75 at obscene prices, but they're not worth it. Stay the course until level 80, then invest in decent lvl 80 gear.
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sgtmattkind posted:I haven't play this game in over 2 years. I still got my (prolly now out of date) dlvld twink on Zek along with a 65 Druid :3. I remember PvP back in its hayday. Man this brings back memories... There's still a point in de-levelling in PvP? I remember how they ages ago made it so that you can only keep +2 levels worth of extra skills as you de-level.
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Can any of you ranger players tell me when Headshot becomes a worthwhile way of levelling? Is it poop until lvl 79 and plane of fire?xZAOx posted:What are some good WR bags? I have 3 good ones from my old toon (Treasure Hunter's Satchel, 2 Leatherfoot Haversacks). Didn't know if there was an easy and quick way of getting another couple, besides buying a Tink bag for like 5k. From ye olde OP: If you have enough platinum to spend (around 5k total), I would advise investing in the new 14-slot bags, that are all nearly weightless and have 100% WR. Search the bazaar for "Unexpanded Tailored Legendary", and buy any type that suits you. Now go buy Abu-Kar's Arcane Solution from any (Tailoring Supplies) merchant, combine the solution and the bag in a loom or sewing kit, and bam, you have a 14-slot bag. The Unexpanded bag should be around 3k, and the solution costs 2.5k from the merchant. There's also Vrald's Silken Sack from a fairly easy solo quest in Loping Plains, you should be able to complete it in your early 80s.
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Carl Seitan posted:Quick question; From the FAQ: quote:- Races and Classes: Any character you created before February 29th 2012 will be playable regardless of race or class. New characters that you create will be limited to the four available races and four available classes unless you purchase access to another race or class or upgrade to gold.
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Tolain posted:The worst part of EQ for me is getting relevant information. So much stuff I look up is circa 2004 and I have no idea whats changed. We seem to have some pretty pro monks here, so I had some monk questions. I'm level 70 with ~450aa. 1) I think enhanced aggression is alright, ATK is nothing to sneeze at. At a certain point it becomes too expensive though. Planar Power is, as said, crap, because the old school base stats are just poop and add very little. 2) What Not Grover said. Kick AA's are very much worth it. Kick is a significant part of monk dps at high levels. 3) Here's what you need to make strikethrough-ing. source 6/15 Strikethrough 3/4 Tactical Mastery 35% from worn gear mods (the "Strikethrough" mod) 4) Crippling Strike is not worth it. It has a long cooldown, does little damage, and you will be just fine without. Even at high levels, snaring isn't that much of a deal. Instead, invest all you can in Stunning Kick (the higher the rank, the more damage) and AAs that reduce its cooldown, along with Kick-enhancing AAs. At high levels you can dish out major hits with it, and it stuns for 3 seconds. 5) Here's a post detailing the returns from the first many ranks of CS/CA: http://www.thesteelwarrior.org/forum/showpost.php?p=287248&postcount=2 You get less for your buck, but it's still an extremely good defensive AA. It depends on how much trouble you have tanking though, if you mainly DPS (with a tank merc or box setup), it's not that important (but still good).
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Mar 20, 2012 12:57
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torgo posted:I have a few questions. Shaman epic has almost no fights, so I'd wager you can solo it with a tank merc. It's really easy, I did the whole thing about a month ago. Alas, the fear golems are still camped very much, "just because", and for the AoN's. Mercs can't eat DT's. Your best bet would be poking your head into PoF often (preferably on a ranger alt with tracking) and seeing if either the golems or a broodling is up, that's how I did it. When the golems were finally up one day when I logged in, a guy was already killing them, but he let the Iksar Broodling live. In case the Broodling isn't killed, they will stay up for a long time. If you ever seen them up, ask any goon for some quick help to kill the golem. The doors in CoM are still locked, but you can glitch through any locked door by shrinking yourself twice, camping right in front of the door and logging back in. Voila, you can walk right through it. If you have the shaman already, you can play him on F2P.
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The337th posted:Yeah, no matter how nice the AA spot is, if you become miserably bored it isn't worth it. You might be weaker in the short term at higher levels, but the AA bonus will take care of you at any level really. Plus you have the bonus of the easily gotten gear from HoT and the like, always awesome. Agreed. For reference, my AA per hour peaked at lvl 80 and actually stayed pretty much constant from there on - about 15 AA per hour (or per lesson). In The Hole, my maximum was around 9-10 per hour, even at lvl 70. Just get the basic necessities and move on, you'll have more fun.
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Have Some Flowers! posted:On my 65 monk, I pop Lesson then pull between 6 and 8 mobs and Riposte Disc / AOE them down. You'll be happy to hear that at lvl 80, you'll be a GOD in Infected Paw, after getting as much HoT lvl 80 gear as you can. I would literally pull half the zone and whirlwind/destructive force them down, netting up to 13AA in a single pull (with lesson and double xp). I would use mend, and the Delay Death disc to keep my health up. It kicked rear end and was a ton of fun. Granted, you can't have double xp all the time, but you can do the lesson camping trick and get around 5 pulls total. Grind as many AA here as you can stand.Arpeggio posted:I'm playing a level 29 Monk, which I started back when EQ still had corpse-runs, so that I could use Feign Death and avoid all of the old-school EQ death-penalty headaches. But now that corpse-runs have been removed, my Monk seems kind of lame and a bit boring to play. However, I am very stubborn, and I refuse to abandon him. So, what can I do to make my Monk more fun to play? Is there even any benefit to playing a Monk anymore? Level up. It'll take quite a while, but as written in my OP, it begins to pick up in your 60s, where you start getting more and more abilities. They are a ton of fun at higher levels, imo.
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Erz posted:Yet another monk question: I added up the ranks of hastened mend and got 30 seconds with it maxed. Is that correct? That seems insanely good. If thats the case what level do you need to max it? And does it still restore the same % when you have 60k+ hp? 30 secs at lvl 90 is correct, and yeah, it owns. A new mend is just always around the corner. It still scales (including any temporary HP buffs such as the epic clicky), and crits around 95% of the time, so you're looking at a 30k heal with 60k HP. It rocks.
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Mar 24, 2012 21:54
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xZAOx posted:Was in Veksar fine a few days ago, now when zoning into Veksar, I got kicked to the log-in screen. Now whenever I try to log back in, I get to the character select screen, hit enter world, then it kicks me back to the log-in screen. Trying to log back in immediately gives a "character in the world" error. I have those sky errors too in my log, but no problems. Try opening the Launcher, click the gear icon, then click Validate Game Assets. Worst case, reinstall and fully re-patch.
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Mar 25, 2012 00:34
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Peechka posted:How bout transfers from one account to another? do they even do those? Yeah, you can still transfer account to account. From what I read, you need to buy a Char Transfer Token, then /petition and say that you wish to transfer. A GM will then handle the process manually. No idea why it's so complex. About AAs, it's not like mobs will suddenly crush you if you skimp on AAs, leaving you useless. Worst case, if you ding lvl X, go to a new zone and find out it's too tough but are then too high level for the previous zone, you can kill yourself, lose the level, and go back to grinding AA there. How are you doing right now? If you're doing okay and feel ready to move on, try testing the waters in a higher level zone and see how it goes. If it's too tough, grind some more defensive and offensive AAs, and check up if you have your latest necessary spells (don't buy every spell - they're expensive). At your level though, you should be able to easily handle Paw or Plane of Fire with little to no AA, albeit a little slowly, and those are great zones all the way to level 80. Then you can headshot for massive AA in PoF or easily grind mass mobs in Paw, providing you get some upgraded gear. There might technically be around 6-7k AA to choose from, but many of them are way unnecesary. I'm not sure about rangers, but you know... max Headshot and archery AAs and go to town, problem solved! I bet 500 AA at lvl 80 should be fine to be able to perform decently in melee, but if you just want to Headshot, 150 should be enough. My ranger at lvl 79 could HS in Plane of Fire without a prob with 100 AA.
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Mar 27, 2012 13:31
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Meanwhile, some of us are spending time playing and having fun.
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Mar 27, 2012 22:58
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mfkr jones posted:Is this still a 'thing'? It certainly is a 'thing' judging by the goon activity! Send a tell to a guild member if you want an invite. Casters other than enchanters will provide lots of fun, and if you're looking to group or raid, they will be welcome, as far as I know it. Necros aren't just mana twitchers and magicians aren't just mod rod bots, at all. No need for anything specific since we don't raid, play what you like. There's no big community at low levels, but starting around lvl 60 where the xp slows down a tad, grouping happens. Remember that 1-60 is lightning fast now and there are 95 levels, so it's natural that it is that way.
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Mar 28, 2012 23:02
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xZAOx posted:-LDON instances - can me and merc zone into them? Is there any level restriction? With the different "ways" to do the instances, do they generally have a "dungeon crawl" way?
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Mar 28, 2012 23:09
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Creative Bicycle posted:General question about powerlevelling: Your first assumption with lvl 60 being the cut-off is not quite right; there's a formula: lvl / 2 + 1 + lvl (the division is rounded down) "lvl" = twink's level. That gives you the highest level a power leveller can be for the twink to still get xp when grouped. So, a lvl 95 can plvl from 63 and up, and a lvl 80 can plvl from 53 and up, for example. The XP the twink gains will be exactly as if he had killed the mob with any group, the twink getting half xp if grouped in two, for example. The xp share the high level gets will either go into thin air if it's grey, or he'll get a small amount if it's green, for example, just as if soloing. If you're killing mobs that are red to the twink, he will gain boatloads of xp. In other words, try to find mobs that you can plow through as fast as possible on the high level, but are, optimally, red to the twink. Anything higher than +3 levels vs. the twink will most likely be a waste, as there's a limit to how much xp you can gain per kill. PS: A way to ghetto plvl if you have a class that's not really built for fast slaughter is to use a tank or dps merc (if you're high level enough). My lvl 94 shaman is dog slow at churning mobs, but his tank mob kills an elemental in Paw in 5-10 seconds, so he can just run around and pull stuff to plvl. Not very fast, but better than nothing.
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widds2v posted:Going to be trying double boxing, although I'm not sure why they make it so hard to transfer characters to another account in your own name. Had a 64 Shaman on Tunare that I'll be running with my ranger (who runs a journeyman tank merc) whenever he gets moved over. I've boxed melee+shaman with tank+cleric merc from lvl 88 to 95, and I don't think I could've done it nor enjoyed it as much without a cleric merc. It heals really well, reacts super quickly, and has a huge mana pool. Everything is just automated. The tank merc's dps also isn't completely awful. Around lvl 93 I parsed him at doing 2500dps, which is rather impressive considering my monk at the time did maybe 5k.
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Apr 2, 2012 15:46
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Peechka posted:Also, as a Ranger I want to complete my Epic 1.0 just to say I did it. Can this be soloed with a Healer merc and myself, again, Lv75 with 350 well spent AA (Def and off). And if any of you have done this Ranger one, any tips? Right now Im about to do the Karana part with the Reavers. I did the ranger 1.0 with a team of a lvl 61/62 magician and ranger + mercs, and it was just a ton of travel and foraging. You will be able to solo the PoH minibosses that drop the SEoC, solo Venril Sathir, and there are no DT'ing mobs on the way to PoS island 4, where the Sphere drops. Should be no problemo, but start skilling up Forage now if you haven't.
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Apr 3, 2012 17:26
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xZAOx posted:You should! I keep getting people telling me to push to 75, then grind there (and make use of some great 75 banked gear), but then after that I see people that are already 75 being told to push on to 80, lol. There's ALWAYS better gear out there. So I'm just gonna take things at my own pace, and try to crawl as many dungeons as possible while they're at a level that's challenging. While I applaud your decision to take it at your own pace, level 80 is special because you can begin equipping the Tier 1 gear from the House of Thule (HoT T1 gear), which is a ridiculous upgrade in power from previous stuff. Your melee dps and hitpoints will double or triple, making it much more tolerable to grind some AA, get some tougher quests done, etc.
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jetz0r posted:Ask me about druids and I will never loving stop typing. Just wondering, can they still quad kite for decent xp? Or when was the last expansion they could?
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Apr 5, 2012 13:34
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Double SC sale bitches! Time to stock up and buy expansions for your boxes. I can't find an article with it, but here's a screenshot from https://www.everquest.com Edit: It also appears they have those giant (24, 28 and 32 slots) bags back on sale for 10 days. 
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Apr 6, 2012 14:37
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Dizz posted:i was under the impression that arrows were expensive since the fletching materials to make them were pricey. Not really, the most expensive arrows cost perhaps 5-10p per craft, but they start up extremely cheap, just like all other trade skills. The basic arrows cost mere coppers to craft: CLASS 1 Wood Point Arrow Skilling up fletching to a certain point is super easy and cheap. Remember to make your trophy when you're between 50 and 100 skill.
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Apr 9, 2012 13:40
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GM is going to disband the guild in about 24 hours from posting this. Here's a chatlog: quote:[Mon Apr 09 23:14:58 2012] Technite says, 'Do you all have guild bank access?' I don't give a poo poo what the guild is called, but just name it something non-stupid and non-reportable so we can just play. Pilsner fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Apr 9, 2012 |
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Apr 9, 2012 22:24
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Mr.Success posted:Wait, what? Can someone remind me why I am leveling a cleric again, when a shaman seems to be ridiculous at healing and has sweet utility? Clerics are still more powerful healers and have their unique buffs, but for group content, shamans seem to be good enough, and on top of that, have all their utility. I haven't played a cleric, but I assume they can do what a shaman can in terms of healing earlier and with less AA. I also don't think a shaman can solo heal the latest VoA content all alone, but who knows. You undoubtedly need them for raids, I would assume. If you're levelling a cleric to be able to heal group content, I'd reconsider. Shaman is a fun toolbox and you can have a cleric merc heal very well.
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Apr 10, 2012 00:14
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Changed the guild name in the OP yet again - it is now <Ominous Latin Words>, same rules as before.jetz0r posted:Do a bit of research, find out if your class has a message board. I linked all class boards plus many more sites in the last part of my OP. For those lacking google skills, remember that you can search through a forum or site (with varying effectiveness depending on the forum) by doing stuff like this: "veteran's wrath site:monkly-business.net" or for example a search on the official forums: "combat stability site:forums.station.sony.com/eq/" On some forums, this is much easier and better than using the built-in search (the one on the official forums for example is horrible), but some forums will give better results if their search feature isn't crap. You pretty much have to do this for every AA you consider. Part annoying, part some of the charm of EQ, since all info being distilled and spoiled kinda makes it meaningless anyway. And as also posted, saving up 9 or 12 AA and hitting the "Can Purchase" button is a great filter in most situations.
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Apr 11, 2012 10:18
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Patch up. http://everquest.allakhazam.com/story.html?story=29492 Highlights: quote:- Destrea Kinmare in the Plane of Knowledge needs your help to stop the cruel experimentation that is underway within The Hatchery. Completing this mission provides a health and mana boost to the Dragonscale Skystrider Mount, which can be purchased in the Marketplace. Bahanahab posted:For anyone wanting to know what mats you need for poisons: Nice link. I used the Scorpion's poisons for a while, but they become expensive at the baz at higher levels. I think I'll start saving Nigriventer and Gormar as I find them now. Also, if you need brewing or baking in smaller amounts, I (Zliz/Orakul) have 300 baking and 248 brewing and can help out.
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Ckwiesr posted:The best part of the patch is the fact that merchants will buy all the tradeskill poo poo now. gently caress you frugahematellalite. Wow, finally! How much do they pay for it? I would still recommend saving particularly Silk, Animal Pelt, Ore and Nigriventer/Goram poison components once you get to HoT or above content. You'll be thankful if you ever start doing tradeskills yourself, or you can sell them for some decent money - look for buyers via the /barter command in the baz.
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Apr 12, 2012 14:33
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xZAOx posted:FWIW, last time I played WoW heavily (late Lich King and first tier of Cataclysm), while patch days were long, I don't recall them way over-extending past projected downtime hours typically, and definitely not issues of "patch out! oh god, bugs everywhere! emergency downtime! oh nevermind, patch tomorrow! patching done! oh god bugs everywhere still!". Yeah, this is how it is EQ, and it certainly isn't like that in WoW with absurd bugs, constant re-patching and everything. I respect that it can be difficult to work on something as ancient and hacked-up as EQ, but it shows that their testing environment and testing resources are simply crap. IMO, it does damage to the game most than just a bunch of angry nerds posting on forums. The logistics of playing EQ are horrible enough already (the login procedure... ugh), everything about SOE is clunky, ugly and slow, and the customer support sucks. It makes the game feel unwelcoming. Something as fundamental as loading up the game, the login procedure, account management and at the least, the communication between the devs and the players when something is wrong, should be stellar. Sometimes we just see "Server: LOCKED" with nowhere to look for why, except to sometimes be lucky and find a random post buried on the godawful official forums about how they're "working on it". Fuckin' SOE.
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So, in happier news, the monk epic is now clickable from inventory! Monks rejoice after 12 years. It seems to stack with most stuff, such as shaman buffs.
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Nurge posted:The ac/atk portion works fine. The haste won't stack with any spellhaste that isn't overhaste. I don't think there's anything that will straight up overwrite the buff itself though. Also I tried doing some testing for the celestial fists worn vs. defiant gloves but /log is only accurate to a second so there's no way to tell if the swings are slower or not. Sadly, it overwrites the atk buff from the fabled goblin skull earring, which just also became inv clickable. Oh well, I have it hotkeyed and bound to the same key as I use for Kick now, definitely doesn't hurt.
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By the way, don't forget that the pre-13th anniversary quests will be going away around the 16th. I'm slogging through them bored to get the most gear, LAA and augs out of them; will be indirectly glad when they go away so I can go back to some HoT prog. :PMrTheDevious posted:In other news, now I have to redo the loving epic. Anybody have either of those pipes? Please god someone have the loving pipes I've got the Chardok pipe on Zliz, picked it up randomly as I walked through Chardok and the iksar was up.
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KaneTW posted:So I'm playing this game on the goon server and whenever I start EQ, all colors get much brighter like somebody reduced the saturation setting on my monitor. Does anybody know a way to fix that? Have you checked the gamma setting slider on the Options/Display window? I have mine set to 21% to make it roughly look like normal.
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hayden. posted:I just read a few pages back and yeah I'd definitely go with Shaman instead. Regarding AA, I know that a shaman requires little. My lvl 94 shaman has around 1300 AA, and at least 250 of those are in DoT crits, which are just fluff. He also has a bunch of random stuff that isn't all necessary. The basic utility is extremely cheap to cover - I'd say around 400 AA should cover everything at lvl 90. The healing AAs will end up costing maybe 400 more to max out. That's all relatively low compared to a melee class. Boxing hasn't become easier nor harder in total. The macro system is the same; I guess it has become a tiny bit better since the enhanced hotbars came along, but "harder" since classes have more abilities now to use. I would highly recommend using the ISBoxer multiboxing tool, it turns boxing from a bit of a chore to a joy. You can make do without with just two boxes, but anything more will be hell on earth without ISBoxer. The main thing about it is that you can send keypresses to other windows in the background, while keeping focus on your main character. You virtually never have to tab between windows if you set up a lot of good macros and hotkeys.
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