Have a childs tear taking up bag space?

[TrendyDru]

Hey there! TrendyDru here with another fantastic business opportunity!

Do you:
1. Have a Child's Tear from a Golem in PoFear sitting in your bank taking up precious space?
2. Like helping people less fortunate than yourself?
3. Have more plat than you need?
4. Often see Child's Tears go to waste on guild runs in Fear?


If you answered yes to at least 2 of the above items then YOU sir/ma'am are in luck! I am currently in need of a Child's Tear and posting here would be a good way to get the word out.

Who I am:
New-ish to P99. Currently 51 Shaman and avid P99 Twitch.tv streamer. I like to party and have good times here on P99. Since I started playing P99 I've tried immersing myself into the P99 community as much as possible (less the forums) and have gotten several people started on our lovely game who have viewed it though my stream.

You're probably thinking "Bro? why would I just GIVE you some poor Child's Tear? you sick, sick man." Well let me just say, that child deserved it. a level 1 does not belong in Plane of Fear. and I am trying to be a corner stone in the community here so I'm hoping the people I've helped would stack enough charisma and kharma in order to help me with something that I'm in need of.

F.A.Q
Why don't you buy it yourself?
- I don't have the 60k people are asking to MQ.

Why don't you join a raiding guild to get it?
- I currently run the guild <Beards of Norrath> and its comprised of the people I've gotten into P99 thought my stream, and using that to assist them in getting their little legs moving with starter gear and anything else they might need to survive in the harsh lands of Norrath. Plus I don't want to "loot n scoot"

Bro, do you even rep?
- actually, yeah. My True Spirit rep is quite a ways into Warmly and could easily be maxed within an hour.

So that's my schpeal. If you or someone you know has a Child's Tear or your guild wouldn't mind letting me tag along your Fear raid for something like this it would be amazing and GREATLY appreciated!

Contact me in-game on Trendyhammer or my twitch. Twitch.tv/TrendyDru

Thanks guys!~

[Swish]

Reminded me of:

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120508160429/monkeyisland/images/1/16/Stan_vessels.gif

Good luck in your quest :)

[August]

If this works you'll have to let me know. I tried to get into fear to loot the tear and it was always perma-claimed by someone looking to sell the MQ. I had my shaman at fear portal for 2 months before I gave up.

People that have the tear usually have it on purpose - to sell it. Kinda sucks but can't complain too much. Epic at 50 for 55k isn't all that bad, considering how rough other classes have it. Just wish I could have done it myself.

[Daldaen]

Shaman epics often fund weeks of hate stones / sky stones / corpse summons / peridots. I understand why they are sold so often. It helps pay off guild funds for awhile.

[loramin]

Why don't you join a raiding guild to get it?
- I currently run the guild <Beards of Norrath> and its comprised of the people I've gotten into P99 thought my stream, and using that to assist them in getting their little legs moving with starter gear and anything else they might need to survive in the harsh lands of Norrath. Plus I don't want to "loot n scoot"

Allow me to translate for the OP ...

I don't want to:

A) leave an alt in my family guild and join a Fear-capable guild
B) work to get my family guild capable of raiding Fear
C) save up 60k plat
D) play without top tier gear

In other words, I don't want to play Everquest, I just want to do whatever I feel like but have one of the best items in the entire game handed to me.


Now don't get me wrong: people on this server can be super nice, and I've been given a couple of really nice gifts (one from a complete stranger). But not the epic; those things are no drop for a reason!

As a Shaman myself who has been here (and been 45+) longer than you, joined multiple guilds (only to see them disband), gone on multiple Fear raids (before the disbanding), and never gotten a tear, I'd love to get handed one. But you won't see me begging (or complaining about my poor guild luck): I'm just looking to join yet another guild. And no, not to "loot and scoot", but to help them achieve their goals and get help with mine in return ... because that's what Everquest is all about.

Epics are supposed to be hard. They're supposed to make you work together with other (high level) players to acquire them. If the developers had wanted you to just be able to get an epic on your own, they would have put the Iksar child in West Commonlands. They didn't, because epics are supposed to be, you know ... epic.

So my advice is: embrace that. Or play your way, but just don't expect to get the best toys without "earning" them by playing nice with others.

[webrunner5]

Sort of a sad thread to be sure. :o

[Herpa Derp]

At least he was eloquent and creative about it.

[applesauce25r624]

Reminded me of:

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120508160429/monkeyisland/images/1/16/Stan_vessels.gif

Good luck in your quest :)

monkey island gifs? swish does it all

[Man0warr]

MQing tear takes some faction work, that's what you are paying for.

[SCB]

I don't want to:

A) leave an alt in my family guild and join a Fear-capable guild
B) work to get my family guild capable of raiding Fear
C) save up 60k plat
D) play without top tier gear

In other words, I don't want to play Everquest, I just want to do whatever I feel like but have one of the best items in the entire game handed to me.


I wouldn't define the above as "not wanting to play EverQuest" at all. I'm not saying dude should just get handed a tear, but let's be real, you're making a ridiculous statement here.

Anyway, JBB is arguably a better investment for a shaman than their epic. Torpor certainly is. Their epic is Earthcaller, not Swiftwind.

[Millburn]

MQing tear takes some faction work, that's what you are paying for.

This is the crux of the biscuit.

Someone with a tear can't just roll up and turn it in for you at the drop of a hat. The person handing in the tear has to have the appropriate faction as well (Which gets reset when you do the final turn in). That's why people charge so much for it.

[Man0warr]

I wouldn't define the above as "not wanting to play EverQuest" at all. I'm not saying dude should just get handed a tear, but let's be real, you're making a ridiculous statement here.

Anyway, JBB is arguably a better investment for a shaman than their epic. Torpor certainly is. Their epic is Earthcaller, not Swiftwind.

You crazy, JBB is great from 45-50, but I'd rather be clicking epic or recasting root than JBB. JBB still has it's uses but I'd sell it for plat towards Torpor in a heart beat.

[TrendyDru]

I feel like the creation of this thread was taken as i'm begging for a tear. Which isn't the case. If that were the case my thread would have looked something like this:

"Hey i want a childs tear for my epic, idk if you can give me one please do"


I feel like I did a decent job explaining my story and why I don't necessarily want to join a raid guild specifically to get a tear then leave and retreat back to my guild. That's the definition of "loot and scoot" if you are unfamiliar with the term.

The game has been out and people raiding fear for quite a long time. I was taking a shot in the dark with making a post to see if someone had a tear they didn't plan on selling OR if there was a guild that doesn't have an immediate need for one while doing Fear for other items.

I really like the guys post about "if the devs wanted epics to be easy..." since you see 80% of rogues no matter the level with their epic and monks with theirs, and clerics.. you get the picture? Epics don't seem to be a big deal on P99 so I tried my luck on the forums.

[loramin]

I wouldn't define the above as "not wanting to play EverQuest" at all. I'm not saying dude should just get handed a tear, but let's be real, you're making a ridiculous statement here.

For me joining a guild and working with them to get your epic IS EverQuest. We're not just talking about some droppable loot from Sebilis: these are the best primary slot items in the game. Unlike the JBB or even Torpor you should have to have a guild to get them. The quest to attain an epic has motivated countless anti-social players (myself included) to discover the fun of joining a guild, and I think the same should be true on P99.

I'm mainly just annoyed at the whole epic-MQ-for-sale culture. Epics should be a real accomplishment when they're finally gotten, and MQ-ing sorta cheapens that.

*Edited for tl/dr*

[Kaym]

http://zam.zamimg.com/images/i/d/id2573.png

[Erati]

heres what made me sad about this post

I have a tear rotting in my bank but nothing in this post offers a way for myself to get the faction done quickly for you

you simply expect the person holding the tear to have the faction 'done' which is not always the case

so meh

[gnomishfirework]

I feel like the creation of this thread was taken as i'm begging for a tear. Which isn't the case.


That is exactly what you are doing.

[Erati]

heres another idea:

organize a Public/Pick up Plane of Fear Raid and see if you can garner enough support to down some Golems

state that the first Tear will go to you for organizing but the next ones are unclaimed so I am sure some other shamans would be interested as well as other druid,necromancer,wizard,paladin,shadowknight,monk and rangers

to bad cleric and enchanter armor is in hateplane, because you probably need to find some for this

[Millburn]

heres what made me sad about this post

I have a tear rotting in my bank but nothing in this post offers a way for myself to get the faction done quickly for you

you simply expect the person holding the tear to have the faction 'done' which is not always the case

so meh

I think this is the same boat most people with a random tear in their inventory are in. I wouldn't mind giving it away quite honestly, I've had the silly thing in my bank for well over a year now. I just can't be assed to stop being lazy and grind out the faction for someone. It's not a hard faction grind by any means when you're a shaman leveling up in that range but it's way more of an annoying headache when you're sitting around 60 and get nothing out of the grind other than faction.

[Splorf22]

JBB is arguably a better investment for a shaman than their epic

Not even close. Torpor is, though.

[Daldaen]

JBB blows for soloing exps.

An Epic shaman who is root rotting 10 mobs only using epic DoT and roots, will level far quicker than the shaman who is hitting JBB then having to root again every other click.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Not even close. Torpor is, though.

This.

There are some good arguments made for both but epic is king (until Overking Torpor comes into play)

[arsenalpow]

Also have year banked on a pure Melee. I honestly thought about factioning up to get rid of it but then I realized it was going to take forever without gate.

[Daldaen]

Get 2 clerics and 2 corpses in butcher and NFP? I think that's the fastest way to do it.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Get 2 clerics and 2 corpses in butcher and NFP? I think that's the fastest way to do it.


Probably over 100 Bondl turn ins if you don't do any of the other parts (boots, Eruds xing, woe envy etc...).

Think it's faster to do the two-clerics approach between NFP and Eruds crossing with a root ooooooogla

[Jaxon]

I *think* I remember the spirit in BB disappearing after you get the gem. Then you have to wait 400 secs for the dwarf to respawn. If you can port you can get to Bondl and return before he's spawned again. It should take about 70-100 Bondl turnins to max faction.

The spirit in NFP doesn't despawn after you get the gem, which is why the NFP/Eruds res chain is the fastest.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Yeah the Respawn in Bondl is 6 mins which is slower than it takes with a Druid + gate. I powerleveled a couple players at that bandit camp during my brief 1-2 minute waits.

[Swish]

In summary: EconomyQuest/TunnelQuest is more important than L1-60, and everyone's looking for shortcuts.

Want to get away from that? I know a place you can, where EQ is far more classic ;)

[Daldaen]

Yeah the Respawn in Bondl is 6 mins which is slower than it takes with a Druid + gate. I powerleveled a couple players at that bandit camp during my brief 1-2 minute waits.

The spirit should stay up after being hailed... AFK to bug report.

[Daldaen]

In summary: EconomyQuest/TunnelQuest is more important than L1-60, and everyone's looking for shortcuts.

Want to get away from that? I know a place you can, where EQ is far more classic ;)

Does this place have non-classic OOC, item recharging, clicky cast times, and horribly broken group EXP bonuses? Cause that doesn't sound too classic.

[Clark]

Reminded me of:

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120508160429/monkeyisland/images/1/16/Stan_vessels.gif

Good luck in your quest :)
Lol

[TrendyDru]

That is exactly what you are doing.

If you reread my post I actually put some effort into making the OP, rather than just saying "hey can i have a tear plz"

I am capable of funding a druid for ports for the rep grind, but like it was said earlier in this thread. Those without gate will be a little harder and longer.

I am open to suggestions on what I could do to sway some of you who do have tears that you don't want anymore.

[TrendyDru]

heres another idea:

organize a Public/Pick up Plane of Fear Raid and see if you can garner enough support to down some Golems



This was going to be my next option. Someone suggested this and I'm not sure why I didn't think of it. I guess I just thought guilds had the golems perma camped. and being a shaman there was no easy way to check.

[Erati]

This was going to be my next option. Someone suggested this and I'm not sure why I didn't think of it. I guess I just thought guilds had the golems perma camped. and being a shaman there was no easy way to check.

Taken has a tracker inside of Fearplane, if you ask any member for the officer online and are cordial, I am sure they can log on our guild tracker to see if stuff is up

I am sure BDA and other Class R guilds could help you in this respect

[Lictor]

In the spirit of free epicz, I would like free wiz epic plz!

[Tecmos Deception]

Nevermind!

[Man0warr]

Did you petition him for ninja looting?

[Ikonoclastia]

pretty messed up people farming these things... classic sure but there's two sorts of classic imo. 1. classic mechanics 2. classic experience.

The latter is imo much more important than the former. A great example is the AC, on classic nobody knew how to get him to spawn in Sro. Its a bit stupid to implement the actual code after it was divulged later so we have a actual classic mechanic and skip the whole Sro spawning experience we all had.

It would have been more classic to have implemented a new unknown spawn since that's what we all experienced in classic.

Same as this selling and farming epic stuff. You didn't see level 1's running around with epics on live as much as you do here, you didn't have people selling MQ as much as you do here, so while the mechanics are exact the actual experience is not.

The server afterall doesn't advertise "experience the actual exact classic mechanics" its advertises "the classic everquest experience".

[Man0warr]

It would have been more classic to have implemented a new unknown spawn since that's what we all experienced in classic.

The way to spawn him on this server is new and unknown, it's not the classic way.

Same as this selling and farming epic stuff. You didn't see level 1's running around with epics on live as much as you do here, you didn't have people selling MQ as much as you do here, so while the mechanics are exact the actual experience is not.

People don't really farm Iksar Tears for MQing for money, it's too much of a hassle.

Stop posting your stupid opinions, if you don't like the server so much, go away.

[Tecmos Deception]

Nevermind!

[Ikonoclastia]

The way to spawn him on this server is new and unknown, it's not the classic way.



People don't really farm Iksar Tears for MQing for money, it's too much of a hassle.

Stop posting your stupid opinions, if you don't like the server so much, go away.
Lol. I'll post whatever I like. GFY.

[Argh]

He got the tear with our permission, was just a lapse in communication.

[TrendyDru]

Did you petition him for ninja looting?

lol...what?

[TrendyDru]

I do want to give a HUGE thanks to the lovely people at A-Team Coure and Arghh for letting me piggy back with them and play around in Fear for a while and for *WITH PERMISSION* loot the tear :)

Also the lovely people at BDA, TMO, and Asgard for assisting me with my final fight in CoM

Much love for all of you!!

[Uuruk]

I do want to give a HUGE thanks to the lovely people at A-Team Coure and Arghh for letting me piggy back with them and play around in Fear for a while and for *WITH PERMISSION* loot the tear :)

Also the lovely people at BDA, TMO, and Asgard for assisting me with my final fight in CoM

Much love for all of you!!

Sounds really epic.

[Man0warr]

lol...what?

The first guy made it sound like you looted it without permission :o

[Swish]

Grats on your epic. I like happy endings, don't you pals? :p

[Tankdan]

<A-Team> is why begging is alive and well in 2014.

Im gonna make a level 1 female woodelf and ask for stuff in EC tonight, but I too will word it in a way that isn't so beggy, like "i have 5 silver on me, anyone have any druid gear they can part with?" I'll be 180 wisdom in no time.

[Swish]

<A-Team> is why begging is alive and well in 2014.

Im gonna make a level 1 female woodelf and ask for stuff in EC tonight, but I too will word it in a way that isn't so beggy, like "i have 5 silver on me, anyone have any druid gear they can part with?" I'll be 180 wisdom in no time.

If you roll on red and make a few plat (or get some transferred etc).. I'll make you some JC'd items at the cost of the mats.

Same goes for anyone else reading. Swish is parked in NFP bank (but can run to Neriak for evils).

I'd do it for free but you can tell who's serious/staying by doing it at mat prices :p

Saw someone charging 175pp for a 14pp cost item today, new players shouldn't be paying that.

PM me if you need anything pals.

[TrendyDru]

<A-Team> is why begging is alive and well in 2014.

Im gonna make a level 1 female woodelf and ask for stuff in EC tonight, but I too will word it in a way that isn't so beggy, like "i have 5 silver on me, anyone have any druid gear they can part with?" I'll be 180 wisdom in no time.

I see this happening multiple times a day. And I make sure to save gear that I find (that most will just vendor) and give it away in EC. I like helping people starting out because that's the kind of community EQ is. Even bronze/ringmail gear I keep to give away. My bank has a few full sets of it. Some gear is better than nothing.

There's nothing wrong with it. Although I see your view of giving an epic away a little different than a set of Banded or Bronze. But if you knew everything about the situation you'd know that I was in the process of forming my own PoFear trash run at the time that I found out Asgard was in line for Draco a few hours later from when I was forming. I contacted an Asgard officer and spoke to him about coming along for a CHANCE at a Tear if no other shamans were in need of it. They agreed but made sure I understood that I was a back seat to guild members.

As Asgard was waiting for Draco to spawn I was sitting at the Fear portal and A-Team started showing up. I asked Coure about them clearing golems and if anyone was in need of the tear. She said no and I was welcome to join them. A tear dropped and I was told by her to loot it.

Because someones generous doesn't mean I didn't put in any work outside of the Tear to get my epic.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Tankdan is probably the most functionally retarded poster on the forums.