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rally posted:I’m on Aradune still. My necro is named geebsy , hit me up. Excellent, my necro is named Fartso.
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MooselanderII posted:Excellent, my necro is named Fartso. Reported
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I've been playing on Aradune and enjoying it. Hit 50 on a SK (Fliss) and working on Greenmist to keep myself busy. After playing on Selo then FV for awhile everything feels so slow. At least the population feels solid.
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I've been having a lot of fun running a private server. It was incredibly easy to set one up. I'm experimenting with boxing. I have a few groups going, and I hope to run a raid at some point. I love being able to tweak all of the server settings. I made loot drop off some named critters reliably, no item/xp loss on death, max skills & free spells on level, sped up respawn times, and removed defiant drops. I stopped leveling at 51, and will work my way through classic content before I move on to expansion content. We'll see how far I get before I burn out/give up.
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Nov 24, 2020 05:19
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After falling back into old habits and having a pc that can run it again I reinstalled EQ and started up again on Aradune. I got to the point where I need to research spells and I end up going to freeport and what the hell happened to the place. Its huge.
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Yiggy posted:After falling back into old habits and having a pc that can run it again I reinstalled EQ and started up again on Aradune. I got to the point where I need to research spells and I end up going to freeport and what the hell happened to the place. Its huge. Freeport, common lands and lavastorm got redesigned. They're bad. North freeport doesn't exist anymore. Most things you want are in west freeport, some are in east. Server is cool and good.
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I stumbled back on to live and just wanted to share: if you need to pl an 85 and you have a 115 in even remotely modern group gear, lxanvom in tbm is as good as frontier mountains and never camped but unless you do progression your hp and mana is capped at 80% and one of the mobs puts up a debuff that blocks mount blessing for some reason Edit: also lots of fairly expensive collectibles drop like crazy there blatman fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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Nov 25, 2020 11:18
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I'm not even sure if you can lose the 80% cap with 1 group progression. A friend and I were doing that place earlier this year and we did what we thought would give us full hp and nada. I think at the time, we came to the conclusion that it was bugged and might need raid progression to actually work, but it's been a few months and I can't remember exactly why we thought that.
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I have it blocked but i did every group thing in tbm, it probably requires the whole drat expansion and id say dont bother edit: lol dec 8 release date for the expansion just announced this is gonna be a disaster blatman fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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Nov 25, 2020 13:05
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pyromance posted:I'm not even sure if you can lose the 80% cap with 1 group progression. A friend and I were doing that place earlier this year and we did what we thought would give us full hp and nada. I think at the time, we came to the conclusion that it was bugged and might need raid progression to actually work, but it's been a few months and I can't remember exactly why we thought that. you have to do the Crypt of Sul progression quests as well as the Crypt of Decay ones.
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I've started playing again after a long, long break - the last expansion I played was a bit of PoP. I tried live at first, but the sheer number of changes was a bit much, so I'm trying Agnarr now and would love some company (or, since I'm like level 2, advice on a different server is also an option).
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Agnarr is very low population and will have a non existent pick up group leveling scene. This is true of all mature TLP servers, but Agnarr is particularly old and niche. You can still have a good time there with the right mindset I think you'll have a better experience on Aradune or Rizlona because they're the newest servers and odds of finding leveling groups are highest. You'll still have to do work to make and find groups because the servers are six months old and top heavy. P99 is an option that's popular but I prefer these TLPs for the much quicker pace, instanced raids and tons of other quality of life features.
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Definitely recommend starting on whatever the most recent TLP is if you want any chance of getting a group while leveling.
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Aradune is probably better than Rizlona at this point. Being in Velious, there will still be leveling going on, especially as people ramp up for The Deep PL crews. Rizlona has a high boxing population, whereas Aradune is limited to 2 logins per IP, so no more than 2 boxing, which was meant to encourage social interaction. They’ll be in PoP in a few months and you can have the whole nostalgia kick that comes with it. I’d stay away from Agnarr entirely. If you want the guided post-PoP experience, Mangler is still quite healthy with a decent leveling population still. We’re mid-70s era, where GoD is trivialized, Omens raids are for gearing alts now, and Depths is 7 weeks out. I brought up a Druid alt about 3 weeks ago and it’s basically peaked on pre-dkp gear, so I need to wait until my guild moves off raids to start farming those for incremental upgrades.
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koreban posted:Aradune is probably better than Rizlona at this point. Being in Velious, there will still be leveling going on, especially as people ramp up for The Deep PL crews. Rizlona has a high boxing population, whereas Aradune is limited to 2 logins per IP, so no more than 2 boxing, which was meant to encourage social interaction. On Aradune PoP is over 5 months out, we just hit Velious. 2 more months of that and 3 of Luclin. This does give plenty of time to level to 60 though. Newbies zones are quite busy, especially Field of Bone or anything around Unrest.
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Understood, and thanks for the info. I’ll roll over to Aradune. Next question - do I need to box to be successful/viable? I’ve got two systems I can use, but I’ve never been very good at trying to run two characters at the same time. Is there a good combo where the second character is basically a heal/buff tagalong? I’ve heard both good and bad things about MNK/SHM, and everyone raves about ENC/CLR, but I’m not sure how active each character in the pairing needs to be to be effective.
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Reindeer Flotilla posted:Understood, and thanks for the info. I’ll roll over to Aradune. You don't need to box. Concentrating on a single character is totally viable as long as you are willing to group. This is what I usually do. Any non-pure DPS class of course will find an easier time getting a group. (and monks are in demand either way) Tanks, CC and healers are always bread and butter classes in demand. Enchanter / Cleric is godmode through POP, after that charm is less usable. You need FAST reflexes our the chanter will squish frequently though. During the POP era though it's literally the best thing you can do. Monk or Shadow Knight / Shaman is amazing as well. Druid is not a bad 2nd box choice either, since it drastically cuts down on travel time. I have a good friend that did druid/mage a lot and it worked, at least through the pop/god era. I'm currently figuring out which to level as a side account for my SK main, it's either a shaman or bard. (Bards are good boxes as well)
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Caveat, don’t box if you don’t actively *want* to box. That said... The best answer is going to partially depend on what you want to run as a main. For instance: mage doubles really well with Druid, but if you went necro, I’d recommend bard instead. Both are pet classes, but the complimentary things that druids and bards bring makes a difference. That’s not to say mage/bard is bad or necro/Druid is bad, but you’d have better synergies with the original matchups. If you want mindless fun that you can hotkey automate, sk/pal/monk with shaman is pretty good. If you want casters, the aforementioned mage/Druid or necro/bard are great. Warrior/cleric is super solid with a couple of item pickups (truncheon of doom for slow proc, anklesmasher for snare) Ranger can pair well with shaman or cleric. (In PoP, ranger is basically autofire bow and go, so you can focus on cleric healing, which no guild will turn down.) Caster/priest you almost can’t go wrong (except for wiz/shm, or ench/shm, that would be wrong for 2 box combo, but so desirable for guilds.) Hard mode: Paladin/bard, enchanter/Druid, rogue/anything
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Second caveat for any server other than Aradune: two boxing leads to three boxing. Three boxing leads to four boxing. Four boxing leads to six boxing. Six boxing... leads to the dark side.
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blatman posted:edit: lol dec 8 release date for the expansion just announced this is gonna be a disaster How bad is it in beta? I want the gory details.
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Isn't that pretty standard for them though? I'm pretty sure that for a while now they haven't announced things until like a month before release.
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I’m thinking that monk/shaman looks appealing - from a race perspective, it looks like the XP penalties are gone, but I’d still rather play human/barbarian (mainly because I know the lowbie zones in Greater Faydark/Crushbone better than any others, and it’s easier to get there). To that end, if I run a barbarian down from Halas to level with a monk, are there places that I can get shaman skills and spells from? Or should I run a monk to Halas to start leveling (and same question re: monk guild master)?
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There are a couple features on these servers that greatly simplify things. First of all every character at level 5 can use an Origin ability that takes them back to their starting city guild hall. Second there is an in game parcel system to freely and instantly send items or plat between characters. The parcel vendors are at the bank in every town more or less. Halas and Qeynos in general is pretty sparse for leveling. Not many people around and all repeatable xp quests were reduced massively so gnoll fangs aren't really worthwhile. Freeport monk start and get the barb out there by asking for a port from Surefall is probably the way to go. Qeynos monk and barb shaman could easily do 1-15 or 20 at blackburrow and the warrens but it will be pretty quiet
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Solarin posted:There are a couple features on these servers that greatly simplify things. First of all every character at level 5 can use an Origin ability that takes them back to their starting city guild hall. Second there is an in game parcel system to freely and instantly send items or plat between zcharacters. The parcel vendors are at the bank in every town more or less. This. As well, there's a shared bank, so you can always roll a new character, buy spells, put them in the bank and then grab them on the main. Also the dot spell vendors in innothule are beta neutral so any can use them. Shaman monk is a great combo that does well in nearly every setting.
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jetz0r posted:How bad is it in beta? I want the gory details. honestly I posted that because it just sort of feels like if this were tov, it would have been like the beta ending about 2 weeks early just from the general vibe of the sorts of broken stuff even though none of it is super major yet what's worth noting is last time I looked, they corrected(?) for how easily you can move around tov by adding mobs that see through sos and lovely traps respectively to 2 of the end zones which honestly i'm fine with because tov you could basically run around completely uninhibited if you had double invis as long as you didn't run into the wrong rare. also last I looked, the group weapons were better than the ultra-rares from tov which are the same ones dropping in cov so if you've got any weapons sell them immediately (not that the ultra rares were that good for several classes because they seem to all lack sympathetic procs)
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Dudes on Aradune: what are you in game names? Mine is Fartso.
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My enchanter is named Librarian and is probably the character I spend the most time on. I can hook up anyone starting here with a decent weapon just let me know.
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My shaman is Jenifleur, and my monk is Loganix - thanks to a very nice druid, I got the shaman to Greater Faydark to level with the monk, but it's slow going. I'm looking forward to doing Crushbone again. 
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Parceled a couple of my old weapons to your shaman. Go ahead and vendor if you don't want em. The early levels can be surprisingly rough before you hit the range where groups are more common Anybody else needing a starter weapon on Aradune hit me up
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People can send Akaylas a tell if they need a port or maybe Oggwhomp for a weapon or a potion or whatever if they're brave enough.
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does anyone remember when they had updated human player models on the test server for awhile? they looked sorta like discount drakkin with really long animations, I used to have screenshots but they're long gone also does anyone remember that extremely lovely luclin model animation revamp that went live for like two days a million years ago or was that a fever dream edit: or how about that really janky unfinished plane of mischief revamp that went live by accident on a handful of servers for like 5 hours back in GoD era or so where you got a "Pot of Mischief" https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=50182 and had to farm quest items for some reason that noone discovered, it had those flying monkeys in the forest area but most people saw them as naked human dudes blatman fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Nov 29, 2020 |
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Solarin posted:Parceled a couple of my old weapons to your shaman. Go ahead and vendor if you don't want em. The early levels can be surprisingly rough before you hit the range where groups are more common Got them - thank you! They are miles beyond the cracked staff I was using.
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DisgracelandUSA posted:People can send Akaylas a tell if they need a port or maybe Oggwhomp for a weapon or a potion or whatever if they're brave enough. Wait, are you oggwhomp?
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DisgracelandUSA posted:or maybe Oggwhomp for a weapon or a potion or whatever if they're brave enough. I can now say that this is an understatement.
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rally posted:Wait, are you oggwhomp? Oggwhomp Smash posted:
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Hahaha that’s great
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Daybreak acquired by EG7: https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/01/everquest-studio-daybreak-games-acquired-by-eg7/
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Sand Monster posted:Daybreak acquired by EG7: The numbers behind the game were revealed too, which I don't believe has been done for a very long time. This is a copy paste: quote:EQ1 according to the presentation has 82k Monthly Active Users, with 66k of those being members. I was surprised at the subscription numbers, the game is doing pretty well in that respect. Node fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Node posted:The numbers behind the game were revealed too, which I don't believe has been done for a very long time. This is a copy paste: Go find me the numbers for The Realm Online Fake edit: Holy poo poo, it's still around, and you can play for free!
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