bah...so my EQ has died TWICE now in the last few minutes...once as i was zoning into crushbone, the second was just loading the character screen....so i'll be a little late waiting for it to stop saying i have an active character..bleh
The FoH thing was... just ok. A group stuck around after the main "raid" finished and I played for an hour or so. I'm not sure a raid format is the best way to run these things. I liked our little group on the Rathe better tbh.
well we didn't start the raid thing until right before you got there, we only started that to do the main guy in that room....before you came we were there for about 2 and a half hours just killing stuff in 3 separate groups
The low level game is much easier now. The rest state system reduced downtime quite a bit. You can buy relatively cheap potions for haste, manaregen, hp buff (better to get a cleric to buff you, though), heal or heal-over-time in PoK. Newbie gear is much better both in the tutorial and in the old newbie zones if you do the quests.
The low level game is much easier now. The rest state system reduced downtime quite a bit. You can buy relatively cheap potions for haste, manaregen, hp buff (better to get a cleric to buff you, though), heal or heal-over-time in PoK. Newbie gear is much better both in the tutorial and in the old newbie zones if you do the quests.
This is why I'm with the FoH guys, we aren't using anything that wasn't in the original EQ or it's first two expansions. Except for berserkers and beastlords.
Sure, we're weak as hell but it's more fun this way, and it reminds me of when I first started playing. We were actually getting excited over bronze weapons!
The FoH thing was... just ok. A group stuck around after the main "raid" finished and I played for an hour or so. I'm not sure a raid format is the best way to run these things. I liked our little group on the Rathe better tbh.
I liked the first FoH meeting better personally, but that's probably because I actually made it on time. I didn't get to the Crushbone group until we started to raid Emp, which honestly felt pretty epic for something that used to seem pretty trivial. I'm probably not going to make Befallen so what I figure I'll do is if I can get a few hours here and there I'll run the newbie quests so I have a solo set of gear that'll help me catch up.
Next meeting is Befallen, 7pm est, Wednesday Oct 3rd. Max level is 10.
Remember, if you run the tutorial to catch up really quick, don't equip that gear for this group as it's defeating the purpose.
And man, I was excited when that bronze 2 hander dropped in CB the other night. But then I realized it was 9/47 and the Rusty one I had earlier that I converted to tarnished was 9/48.
No, they are just limiting themselves to original eq content.
The Combine server did start out as a "progression" server with the expansions being unlocked when certain criteria are met (killing Naggy, Vox, clearing PoH and PoF opened Kunark for example).
wich of course they blew through like no ones business and it then became a normal server all over again.
it seems like after all the content has been unlocked , they should you know reset the server and start all over again.
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OP updated with FoH info. Shouldn't be any problem with whoever joining up. Shoot one of us a tell when you get there or ask Irontune for an invite. Just stick to their ruleset in their first post.
Sucks that I'm going to miss Befallen. I'd of rather been in there than Crushbone.
so i have this newly lvl 13 DE SK on the rathe that i havent played in years....so i thought i'd do the newbie quests with him and get him pimped out
wow....fucking horrible doing these quests for him....everything is such a rare drop that it's just painful, and i noticed everybody else complaining about the same thing..i did a lot of the newbie quests on the warrior you guys played with last week and they were pretty simple, got the weapon and a few of the armor pieces pretty unpainfully....but DE SK....horrrrrible
DE Cleric is awful, Human Bertox SK is awful, Eridute SK is awful....
Some of the quests are dumb, some make sense. The Barbarian Warrior was "collect this spider venom sac, this wolf skin, and this gnoll scalp - bam! helmet!" Um...ok.
Bertox Human SK is - you need crude iron ore, wolf skin, and decayed ulna for a bracer. Awesome, makes sense. Except that the damn decayed drops are off uncommon spawns and they're rare drops. Apparently you can get them from skeletal soldiers in WK as well, but those are level 15 mobs. Brilliant.
The half dozen or so of these I've tried, the only one I completed was the Barbarian Warrior.
The only newbie armor quests I've done were for a gnome SK, and they weren't too bad. Overall they were not very well designed quests, however. IIRC some drops were non-existent for a long time. Others are ridiculously rare, etc.
D'oh, my Monk is almost 12... guess I'll have to reroll something and run the tutorial zone again.
You could just leave all your equipment at a bank and see how huge of a train you can make in a high level zone until you've lost enough exp to go down a couple levels. :P
crap, i forgot this is tonight for FoH!! bah...i'm at least 9, maybe i can get to 10 in time
btw, my character name is Tarem in the FoH group
Updated the OP.
And 9 is fine, they just don't want you over 10 even though 6-10 of us are 11 now. I can't make tonight though, so it doesn't matter if I'm 11 or not. I'm sitting there in trader mode now trying to sell bone chips. There was a guy with a Mace of the Shadowed Soul, SK only 19/29 and I think +10 int selling for 50pp. That would make catching up while I'm on overtime a breeze, but I'm 21pp short!
If I can't raise the funds by time I can get a few hours to play again to catch up I may just go with the Grimey Lance. 2 hand pierce, 15/41 for 25pp.
Ideally I'd be able to make these groups though. I think there was rough discussion yesterday about meeting up on a saturday next. If that's the case (as long as it isn't this saturday) I might be able to make part of it depending on when they start.
Awesome, I can do Saturdays. I didn't get off work till kinda late yesterday and I couldn't make it to Befallen at all. Not like it matters, I'm still only level 8 so I have some catching up to do.
i ummm..lost my corpse behind the second locked door in befallen last night...
we were trying to get back to corpses and i saw mine and tried to click it so i could /corpse it out but everyone was standing on it with this huge mass of mobs coming at us...they all ran for the zone and i couldn't get to it in time before the door closed...so i was running to the zone with everyone and on zoneout EQ died on me, it wouldn't let me in because i had an active character, then the next time i was finally able to login EQ died again right away....
Saturdays will be awesome when I get off overtime after November.
What's it take to summon to the guild hall in PoK? I have no idea how that works, if you need a coffin or not. If you need help with it let me know. I'll have some time tonight after 11pm est to help if you're up that late.
I managed to sell all 200 of my bone chips last night too after I dropped the price to 5g each. Of course by that point the 50pp MoSS is gone and one for 150 shows up. I'm hoping that wasn't the same one. Either way though I should be able to get something to help me keep up solo for the next month and a half pretty easily.
How deep did you guys go in Befallen? Anyone pick up a BBC?
For the Guild Lobby summoner you just buy the appropriate level "soulstone" and give it to one of the summoner NPCs, but they are a bit pricey. You may need the Dragons of Norrath expansion, though. Can't remember if they opened the Guild Lobby to all.
You can also use the "Shadowrest" zone to retrieve rotted corpses. That zone is available to anyone AFAIK.
edit: You can drag corpses now instead of spamming a /corpse button. /corpsedrag to start and /corpsedrop to stop. Could probably just target yourself and /corpsedrag if it's hidden in a pile. Also, /hidecorpse all might help. I click my hidecorpse key compulsively.
Pretty sure the lobby is open to all. I think that's what I zoned into accidentally the other day while looking for the bazaar.
And speaking of the bazaar, what the hell is up with the redesign? Is it just me, or did they make it painfully difficult to track down specific traders?
I tried that the other day. Once I took the teleporter though the magical line wouldn't appear. Unless that was just perfect timing as far as the trader coming down.
Potentially. I've got plans from about midnight pst on, and I'm working until 8 or so. I've got some stuff to do in between, but some of it might not happen. I'll let you know. Maybe I can at least meet up for an hour and get back to doing everything else I need to get done.
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also, it sucks that the enchanter pet relies on you getting attacked, you can't send it to attack which = boo
btw.......final fantasy mp3 url for anybody who wants it, let me know....
hopefully it works right THIS time
Lovin those mp3s btw.
This is why I'm with the FoH guys, we aren't using anything that wasn't in the original EQ or it's first two expansions. Except for berserkers and beastlords.
Sure, we're weak as hell but it's more fun this way, and it reminds me of when I first started playing. We were actually getting excited over bronze weapons!
Er, where should I be moving after the Tut zone? Been so long since I played...
You talk clean and bomb hospitals, so I speak with the foulest mouth possible
I liked the first FoH meeting better personally, but that's probably because I actually made it on time. I didn't get to the Crushbone group until we started to raid Emp, which honestly felt pretty epic for something that used to seem pretty trivial. I'm probably not going to make Befallen so what I figure I'll do is if I can get a few hours here and there I'll run the newbie quests so I have a solo set of gear that'll help me catch up.
Next meeting is Befallen, 7pm est, Wednesday Oct 3rd. Max level is 10.
Remember, if you run the tutorial to catch up really quick, don't equip that gear for this group as it's defeating the purpose.
And man, I was excited when that bronze 2 hander dropped in CB the other night. But then I realized it was 9/47 and the Rusty one I had earlier that I converted to tarnished was 9/48.
bad! bad thread!
my will falters.
You will succumb!
The Combine server did start out as a "progression" server with the expansions being unlocked when certain criteria are met (killing Naggy, Vox, clearing PoH and PoF opened Kunark for example).
it seems like after all the content has been unlocked , they should you know reset the server and start all over again.
Sucks that I'm going to miss Befallen. I'd of rather been in there than Crushbone.
wow....fucking horrible doing these quests for him....everything is such a rare drop that it's just painful, and i noticed everybody else complaining about the same thing..i did a lot of the newbie quests on the warrior you guys played with last week and they were pretty simple, got the weapon and a few of the armor pieces pretty unpainfully....but DE SK....horrrrrible
Some of the quests are dumb, some make sense. The Barbarian Warrior was "collect this spider venom sac, this wolf skin, and this gnoll scalp - bam! helmet!" Um...ok.
Bertox Human SK is - you need crude iron ore, wolf skin, and decayed ulna for a bracer. Awesome, makes sense. Except that the damn decayed drops are off uncommon spawns and they're rare drops. Apparently you can get them from skeletal soldiers in WK as well, but those are level 15 mobs. Brilliant.
The half dozen or so of these I've tried, the only one I completed was the Barbarian Warrior.
You talk clean and bomb hospitals, so I speak with the foulest mouth possible
You could just leave all your equipment at a bank and see how huge of a train you can make in a high level zone until you've lost enough exp to go down a couple levels. :P
btw, my character name is Tarem in the FoH group
Updated the OP.
And 9 is fine, they just don't want you over 10 even though 6-10 of us are 11 now. I can't make tonight though, so it doesn't matter if I'm 11 or not. I'm sitting there in trader mode now trying to sell bone chips. There was a guy with a Mace of the Shadowed Soul, SK only 19/29 and I think +10 int selling for 50pp. That would make catching up while I'm on overtime a breeze, but I'm 21pp short!
If I can't raise the funds by time I can get a few hours to play again to catch up I may just go with the Grimey Lance. 2 hand pierce, 15/41 for 25pp.
Ideally I'd be able to make these groups though. I think there was rough discussion yesterday about meeting up on a saturday next. If that's the case (as long as it isn't this saturday) I might be able to make part of it depending on when they start.
edit: Well, I got there just as the Befallen camp was breaking up, but I did join the Fugitives.
The next outing is Saturday at noon Eastern in the Warrens. Irontune said he may make that the permanent meeting time.
we were trying to get back to corpses and i saw mine and tried to click it so i could /corpse it out but everyone was standing on it with this huge mass of mobs coming at us...they all ran for the zone and i couldn't get to it in time before the door closed...so i was running to the zone with everyone and on zoneout EQ died on me, it wouldn't let me in because i had an active character, then the next time i was finally able to login EQ died again right away....
so yeah....corpse lost forever
What's it take to summon to the guild hall in PoK? I have no idea how that works, if you need a coffin or not. If you need help with it let me know. I'll have some time tonight after 11pm est to help if you're up that late.
I managed to sell all 200 of my bone chips last night too after I dropped the price to 5g each. Of course by that point the 50pp MoSS is gone and one for 150 shows up. I'm hoping that wasn't the same one. Either way though I should be able to get something to help me keep up solo for the next month and a half pretty easily.
How deep did you guys go in Befallen? Anyone pick up a BBC?
You can also use the "Shadowrest" zone to retrieve rotted corpses. That zone is available to anyone AFAIK.
edit: You can drag corpses now instead of spamming a /corpse button. /corpsedrag to start and /corpsedrop to stop. Could probably just target yourself and /corpsedrag if it's hidden in a pile. Also, /hidecorpse all might help. I click my hidecorpse key compulsively.
And speaking of the bazaar, what the hell is up with the redesign? Is it just me, or did they make it painfully difficult to track down specific traders?
New bazaar is kind of confusing at first, but it did solve the problem of 90% of traders crowded in the stalls nearest the bankers.
Also updated the OP
Picked up tailoring and jewelcrafting (54 skill in each), so I can make some low level stuff now.
Where are you thinking of going?
I need to train a buddy of mine, so roughly an hour for that,
and I need to clean the apartment, so hopefully a little less than an hour for that.
Travel / shower time might make things tight but if I can make it I'll see you in Kurns.
I'm currently in bazaar mode so I'll check every now and then for tells while I'm doing everything.