Weekend Update - Sept 16, 2013Follow

My first goal whenever in DSK, is to get a Formal Dinner Invitation, so I can bypass the hive and zone in from Stoneroot Falls statue (In westkorlach_2.txt file paste P -1584.6403, -959.2567, 62.7336, 0, 0, 127, 3, DSK). Way easier to zone in once you use the invitation on the statue once, then you get a /key flag for zoning in there whenever you want (just remember when you zone out of DSK, you still zone into the Hive).

And Oh, I guess my War always had a snare proc, and all my other toons can snare some how too, or I'm with a druid or Shd that can snare there (RSS). If I would of thought about it, I would of mentioned it, 'cause runners are bad there.
Congrats on the levels though.

As far as game goes, I keep debating on whether to get power leveled as Silver on a normal server, then work on AAs if I go gold, or just transfer over to Test and work on them, or use my already Test character to earn the levels and AAs myself. Just haven't decided. At least I've been hanging out in game a little bit more. Talking to people in general every once in a while. Still not doing anything significant. Occasionally, I'll test something out in game, but only if only takes 10-15minutes.

Yther Ore.

Edited, Sep 16th 2013 10:46am by Yther

Well, this was a good weekend. I leveled my 71 group to 75...using a 100 warrior. 71 PAL ROG WIZ MAG DRU in Loping Plains. Once I got that done, I went into my savings and geared them up in Solteris stuff. I also moved my 80 Bard from Cazic Thule over to FV so now I have two 80 Bards (though one is going up to 85 or 90 soonish). After that, I moved on to the part of EQ I despise like nothing else in gaming.

Tradeskills.

The now-75 rogue has yet to do her 2.0. Why? Because it's heavy on tradeskill requirements. I was going to wait until she had AA to waste on Mastery skills and Salvage but that's not likely to happen anytime soon (she has like 200 AA right now so she's about 4k or so AA from having AA to burn). So barring that, I figured I'd max out her poisonmaking skill. Despite having two rogues with 300 skill already, I wanted her to be able to make her own poisons. So I went to get the trophy quest (beginner, since her skill was only 54) and found a part that I truly dislike about the EQLive team. Features are regularly completely ignored once implemented....unless those features turn out to be advantageous to players (hi shrouds). The tradeskill trophy quests were added so long ago and never updated. In the years since, tons of crap has been added to the loot tables of mobs and those things crowd out the drops that used to be common/uncommon and are now ridiculously rare. All of the old armor quest pieces and the smithing/tailoring pieces (X silk, X animal pelt) and defiant and various other parts (uncut gems, etc) that drop and it becomes a lesson in tedium to get a spider venom sac from a freakin' spider! And we won't even go into 'a cistern asp' and the rarity of the asp poison sac. Luckily I met a senior rogue who gave me the way to instaspawn asps. But I'm not optimistic about the other stuff I have to get (including one that only drops off Snow Orc Shaman in Everfrost and another that mainly drops off vengeful skeletons in EF). I said bump that and started raising her skill and now she's at 271 and I'm willing to bet she'll still be able to fail these combines that are 200+ skill levels below her. So I'll have to farm up more than just one of each, which is annoying.

So most of my week will be wasted spent on tradeskills since in addition to maxing out the rogue, I still have to get my SK's tailoring up so she can attempt her next epic combine. It's funny. It took me an hour to get her orb (she got it herself, with the rest of my 90 group) but the rest of the quest will take weeks (mainly due to the tradeskills. I already have most of the drops).

But the goal for the weekend was to get the 70ish group to the point where they can group with the 90 group in Beza/Zeka/Mech Guardian so that was accomplished. I'm just not looking forward to the next week or so.

Got about half a level on my wizard. All I can say is that level 73 wizards apparently don't solo nearly as well as level 73 mages (grrr...). I'm kinda stuck in a quandary between killing stuff near my level, but taking half a bar of mana to do it (and risking turning into a fine red paste if something goes horribly wrong), or plowing through lt blue stuff. Neither seems to be "fast" by any measure. Kiting is a pain, so I've been doing more of a root and scoot technique (and the instant cast spells rock for that btw). Still, maybe it's just perception, but it honestly seems like my paladin soloed faster in the 70s than my wizard is.

And speaking of comparisons. Why is it that my paladin gets an AA replacement for his root (shackles of tunare), which works great, requires no mana, frees up a spell gem, etc, but my wizard doesn't? Wizards get a "strong root" AA, but that's like a once per 72 minute thing (and it's supposed to be "strong", but seems to break from nuking just like a regular root). It's value is that it opens up the line of AAs that reduces the likelihood of root breaking from damage (which does work kinda, but it's more like instead of breaking every nuke, it's every 2 or maybe 3). But boy would it be nice if I could free up a spell gem instead.

Don't get me wrong, there's something giggly fun about getting 20-25k crits on a character in the low 70 level range, but it seems like mob hp increases across expansions really eats into that a lot. To be fair, I'm sure I'm doing more % damage to mobs now than at lower levels, but for some reason it doesn't feel like I'm moving as fast. Still having fun with the wiz though!

Limited play time due to work.


I finally decided to try my hand at 2 boxing. I transfered my 63 Shaman to an old account that's been wiped clean for reasons I can't remember anymore. Had a pleasant experience with SOE for the transfer, took only 1 day, no ***** ups and the people I dealt with were pleasant and cheerful.

Some basic research gave me a few buttons to allow for easy casting where needed as I struggle to learn how to play with two computers at once. The shaman is played on a 10 inch netbook I bought as my daughters first laptop a couple years ago. With everything in game and every non vital process turned off It can passibly play EQ.

Took a couple hours to get the shaman to 66 in WoS with my 73 SK. I plan to get him a few more levels and a whole lot of AA's as I increase my boxing skills.

That sucks. I originally looked at those AA's like "Pffftt... why would I take that?" but I've bought the Perfect Invis, Gate and Call of the Hero AA's and it's like having an extra two spell gems to never have to memorize invisibility or Gate again. I use CotH less often but still nice not to have to re-memorize it. Pro-Tip: It's a LOT easier to get someone to come to Zhisza if you say you can CotH them across the hellish mazescape which is Katta.


No offense taken. According to Alla's it drops in the Demi-Plane but it didn't do so for us. Not looking forward to crossing the Hive again but I would like to get the flag and the old hotzone aug that drops there.


Heh... while in Zhisza and fighting Shissar last night, I flashed back to getting the Greenmist on my SK and thought "She would totally own these guys!"

Good info! I'm on the last two parts, but need to up my smithing skills. Last time I checked, you could lose the geozite tool on a failed combine. Not sure if that's been fixed over the years or not. Last combine I made was back in 2006

Done, finally. Jeez!

Edited, Sep 16th 2013 10:53pm by Remianen