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[EQ Classic] - FoH Group, Sat. Nov 17th @ 12 noon Est in PoK - level 30
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And I still can't post on their forums, but here's a couple of the Blackburrow trains from tonight I managed to capture in action.
Our group was the first to make it to Blackburrow, and this was about the point we realized it wasn't going to be as smooth sailing as it had been.
I died taking this one, but it was well worth. At this point it was just my group and some other random monk in the lower levels. Totally not our fuck up.
How do you make a CR more interesting? Clearly watching another massive train from as far away as possible.
Is it bad for roamers? The only time I've been through there was on my 60 sk to go to the mountains for cat skin farming. Honestly though, if we've got the newbie armor we'll be pretty overpowered, especially with the group we've got. It might not be too much to handle. I don't know about the other classes, but the warrior sword is a 10/29 ratio which was unheard of until 40+. At level 10 we'll be pulling groups of yellows with ease.
And personally I'd rather avoid PC. For me this isn't about leveling as fast as possible which is what that area is good for. It was genuinely fun to group in Blackburrow at level 4 tonight with those guys. Equipped with nothing more than rusty swords and eventually some 2 ac gnoll chain boots we held up pretty well and leveled at a decent rate. Our group will level much, much quicker with just the newbie gear, not even taking into consideration anything we may purchase.
The Warrens, Befallen, Unrest, Kurn's Tower, Upper Guk, Najena. We've got lots of options.
And no Orc Fang Earrings? What did you end up buying, anything? Is everything basically new and inflated past what we can afford, or what's the deal?
Warrens has an "interesting" design choice in that mobs roam all over, and you'll get lowbie mobs in the upper level ends of the zone. The last time I tried grouping there as a newbie it was a rather frustrating experience, but we didn't have an optimal group, either. Finding a good spot out of the train tracks is a must.
I'm pretty sure that was our train, and it was due to some odd pathing that drove one gnoll to turn around (before we started wailing on him) and draw like 10 others onto us. Fortunately they were after our bard (turns out he's the FoH guy who organized the whole thing) and didn't get anyone else in our group.
Also, I can't post on their forums either and I'd like to to be able to let them know how much fun I had. Oh well, I'm sure they'll eventually let me.
I remember selling forest loops for 300p .... I somehow doubt they'd still sell for that hehe
are you all starting a guild or just a small group?
Man, I tried farming the hell out of those over in the Frontier Mountains, but I only ended up with 2 (I wanted 2 for my druid and the rest for selling). However, I had a lot of fun camping those giants and made some good friends. Ahhh, good times.
Ouch, that sucks. I wonder how bad it would be to raise smithing up to banded level these days. What is that, 135?
What about low level farmed items? Do spiderling silks sell for something ridiculous like, 10pp each?
@Xaquin - Since we've got more than 1 group interested (I wasn't sure how many would want to do this with me) we might as well start up a guild. I would say everyone who is interested show up tomorrow night. We'll take whoever shows up an break off into groups as even as possible (if you're able to get newbie armor by then, groups of 3 even will be pretty damn safe). And then like the FoH guys are doing, we'll just set level caps after each session. If you miss one you can try to catch up whenever you can, however you can (So I won't care if you buy twink gear to catch up, but don't go twinking during group play as we'll move quickly enough as it is). And I'll update the OP with this now.
I haven't checked but spider/spiderling silks are probably a good low level moneymaker.
Setting up a guild would be a good idea if we get 10 people to join up. That would let us access a guild hall which has some nice benefits.
I admire what you're doing - it was lots of fun back in the day!
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Edit - err, wait, Wednesdays aren't ideal for me. I can possibly shuffle things around, but otherwise Tuesday / Thursdays are my free weeknights. (This Thursday being the exception as it's FoH night #2)
and did it seem like you guys were lacking any certain class?
I'm hoping we don't have to push it back to us starting next Tuesday, but if this maintenance runs too long then I guess we'll have to do that
Class wise I'm not sure what we they're lacking really. Maybe healers? We had about 3 groups or so running around and seemed to be doing well. I think I was the only shadowknight (at least at first) - oh, they were talking about a surprising lack of rogues so that might not be a bad choice either. Avoid the mage though as it's horribly overpowered in the early game and that pretty heavily skews group success when melees are running around with rusty weapons.
And the next FoH meeting is this Thursday at 7 pm est in Crushbone. I'll be late to that so I'll have to catch up a bit. I'm almost considering soloing to 9 or 10 maybe wednesday night so I'll be on par with everyone else by time I can log in. Assuming I have time anyway.
edit: i just checked the site and they said "I don't have accurate numbers for what we had, but good choices (based on last night) would be: monk, rogue, enchanter, beastlord, paladin, shadowknight, ranger, wizard and druid. I think all of those either had 0 or 1 classes represented there."
so hmmm....maybe i'll make a monk, always wanted to try that out
Wait - were there phat sk only loots? I can only think of the dark reaver.
Yeah, I'm at level 7 so I think I may solo some tonight to 8 or 9 and work on my skill progression so I won't fizzle as much when trying to heal.
Also, to give an example of what I have, I'm a cleric and I have 4 pieces of ruined gnoll leather, a parrying dagger I found on a skeleton (lol shield), and a rusty mace. Whoo me!
That basically leaves saturday nights and sundays (until we go on 7 day weeks) for me, but I understand that's football, family, significant other, party time for a lot of people including myself, so I don't know how well that'd work.
I'm interested in trying to work something out, but I have a hunch I'm sidelined for a couple months. Worst case you guys can get started and I can keep the OP updated. Just pm me with plans and your current levels if that's the case.
Ugh, I'll let you guys know more as I find out. I'm sorry about the timing of all of this.
we'll see
so, I don't know if this will be happening tonight then......who do we still have that's able to make it tonight, and what class do you plan on playing? maybe we can salvage something for tonight, otherwise, I'll be joining the FoH guys on the combine come thursday so maybe i'll see you there
Maybe we should just stick to the FoH thing. Personally I disagree with trying to recreate original EQ, but I can roll with it. If we have enough people to split off on our own maybe we can do that later if interest keeps up.
Might try an enchanter since that was one of the under-represented classes. Surprised bard wasn't on that list.
7pst / 10est Freeport stone in PoK. See you guys in a bit.
I think I'm going to pick a copy of EQ up by the end of the week, I'd love to join you guys sometime.
You talk clean and bomb hospitals, so I speak with the foulest mouth possible
Next up the FoH thingy on thursday ~
I'll see you guys at the FoH group Thursday, but I'll be late due to the time differences. Save some orcs for me!
we'll see
was fun times last night, lots of good memories we relived, wish we woulda got some pics..i completely forgot....especially a pic of the EC tunnel with the "bag of stuff" quote..haha.........they should really add a guy at T1 or something who just randomly OOC's the zone with that, remind us of the good ol days
I really don't even want any of the expansions past Luclin.
You talk clean and bomb hospitals, so I speak with the foulest mouth possible
Hind sight tells me I should have just bought the anniversary or whatever the $20 includes all expansions thus far pack is since really it'd of only been an extra 5 bucks.
I sort of lament the fact that I can't go to the bazaar, but after finding out Mino axes sell for 42 plat I don't really care.
which is up to PoP i think? i dont remember..something...it's something
At some point they enabled PoK, Nexus, and The Bazaar for all accounts regardless of what expansions you have. So you can, indeed, observe the horrible inflation first hand.
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I'll have to poke around a bit if I ever get time to log in again :P