EQ Things that should be "undone"Follow

Yeah. The cool thing is that in many cases, the ring/spire is somewhere on one side of the zone (or off in the middle of nowhere), while the succor spot is almost always near a zoneout. Learning where they are makes for some quick travel in many cases, since you can often figure out how to port to a zone, then succor to the safe spot, then zone to an adjacent zone, making travel even to locations without a direct port often very quick.

One of the more annoying ones though (which has been around forever) is DL, in which the succor point is right next to the ring/spire (and the nexus portal). Which makes it less than useful for this purpose. The POK book for FV is actually closer/faster if you want to get to say KC. Ironically, even faster still is to port to Skyfire, succor to safe spot, run the short distance to the zone into Burning Woods, succor to safe spot (which is on the far side of the zone like 3 feet from DL zoneline), then zone to DL, then a short run to KC.

There's are some interesting "short cuts" you can take to get around quickly in most expansions, if you know where to look.

The druid succor point in Skyfire is next to the Overthere zone while the port in is right near Burning Woods. Is it different for wizards? The rest of what you say makes sense.


Edited, Aug 23rd 2016 7:24am by markkuss

Oh. Maybe it's just the port in location is close to the BW zoneline then. I forget.

lol don't be asking for the undone of the maps

I love the ability to use the map drop down tab and i have like 10 different maps packages i can switch between.

Where Do I Find EQ Maps - Map Compendium
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=1&mid=1447444796254447640

I've also seen this taken too far. In the old day, played Galactic Civilizations (space 4x game). They had the starmap "fogged", so you had to send your ships out blind, not knowing where the stars are. Let that sink in. You can't see where the stars are, seriously? LOL

I always assumed that you weren't blindly exploring to try to find actual stars, but to find star systems with planets suitable for colonization. Which you kinda wouldn't know for sure until you got there. Of course, the better explanation is that it's a game mechanic they stole from games like Civilization and just adapted for space exploration.

Yep, agree with you and Gbaji 100%. It's practically the only reason I started boxing, since I wasn't down with abandoning my druid main. They give us awesome tools for root/rot, or quadding, or charming, and then giving us one spot, maybe 2, in each expansion. When the big new quint nukes came out, I was so excited, though many levels behind there. By the time I actually got to the 90s, I never even loaded the spells after I scribed them.

Like you, my playtime is short, and irregular. Can't afford to spend time LFG. Wasn't satisfied with grinding in a few small areas per xpac. So it was box or quit.

I really don't get it. With the sheer size of the game world, and the lower population, and the existence of instances on top of that, there's no way to justify summoning trash. There would be as many solo camps as would be needed to support the whole EQ pop that desired it.

Tat

Another thing that has bugged me was making certain items prestige when they went to the F2P model. I understand the need for limitations/restrictions for a free account vs. a paid account, but why are these items prestige?

Deepsky Stone

Deep Sky Stone

Polished Caracite

I have all three on my main and, while I could do without or replace them, they were fairly easy to obtain. I believe I acquired them before the F2P model was introduced and didn't even notice the prestige tag at first.

Decaying prestige tags makes sense.

Group gear has Type 7 augment slots and nowadays all augments that are Type 8 (raid) are also Type 7. But this wasn't always the case. Best example were Anguish augments, which were Type 8 even way after Anguish events become one-group-able meaning that groupers couldn't even use the augments unless they were able to get their hands on raid armor.