EQ Superstitions/HabitsFollow

I can confirm that the mana regen trick did used to work. They eventually fixed it, but back in the days when mana regen was pretty minimal and the numbers themselves pretty low (and frankly, you had a hell of a lot of downtime in which there was nothing to do *but* watch the numbers), this absolutely worked. I used to time uses of my Deepwater helm (10 second cat of daring) to heal me, whilst still getting sitting regen every other tick. You could easily tell whether you got like 3 mana or 12 (or whatever the med rate was at the time), so it's not like you could make a mistake with this. It did work. It's also why mounts were such a huge deal for casters. While on the mount you were always considered to be sitting. So as long as you didn't have autoattack on, and weren't actually casting a spell at the time, you'd get sitting regen when the tick came.

They played around with various fixes for this, but eventually just switched to the OOC regen system and made the whole thing moot.

Ah... Howling Stones. Fun zone!

Or suspicious pools of water/lava/blood/etc (Lower Guk)

Could be total superstition, but I kinda agree with that. I know that different terrain types exist in a sort of tile form on EQ maps. Meaning that there is a value that can be checked to see "am I on sand, jungle, hill, water, etc?". I'm not aware that the game uses this data for anything other than graphics (well, except for water of course), but it sure does seem like certain things can only be foraged if you're standing on the correct terrain type. I was doing the oceangreen task sequences with a character a while back. One of them required foraging a pinecone (I think?). I remember running around hitting forage for some time and failing. I read some thread where someone said that the only place he was able to forage them was while in the village itself (right in front of the guy asking for it in fact). So I stood right in front of the guy, standing on the "road" in the village, hit forage, and what do you know? A pine cone appeared. Coincidence? Maybe. But maybe not.

It also seemed like I could only forage maggots in the temple of bertox if I was standing on a dirt area in the zone. If I was on a stone section, I never foraged one. This could totally have just been my perception, but I basically hit forage every time the button came up the whole time I was in the temple for like three different tasks, traveling all over the place. And I had a hell of a time getting maggots until I just stayed in the entry room and foraged there instead of in the areas farther in. Got the remaining ones I needed in like 20-30 minutes doing that.

It can also be both. Meaning that in some zones, anything on the forage table is available anywhere in the zone, but in other zones, the table is different depending on where you are. So testing this in one zone doesn't necessarily tell us anything. You're right though, that this would require someone with a lot more time than I'm willing to spend.

*shudder* Yeah, basically! :D


I believe that as well with my druid! Whenever I find a good spot for a certain forage I make sure to park in that spot every time.

Where you zone in is on a dirt road though. I don't think it's "in the village", so much as "on dirt" rather than "on grass". Which, if you've ever been around pine trees and played with pine cones as a kid, is usually where they are found. I suspect that in some newer zones/expansions, they did add in some code that allows for different forage tables based on the tile type you are on.

Lol. Or it's just the RNG.

Oops. I meant Oceangreen HILLS.