What have you learned about the game recently?

[Chou]

There was a thread, maybe even a sticky, on another game I played where people posted stuff they had just learned about the game.

It was pretty cool because it grew into an archive of useful information, trivial information and also a thread where there could be potential hidden features or bugs.


Anyway, I didn't see one like that here but I may have missed it.


Otherwise - I am pretty sure that the "A hermit" in Southern Karana has his self buffs delayed based on something to do with the weapon he spawns with.

If he spawns without a weapon, it's immediate, the slower the weapon, the longer he takes to start casting his buffs.

Yay for trivial information :)

[B4EQWASCOOL]

You're not safe at the bank on red.

[Swish]

A lesson I never seem to learn. Always bind near where you're hunting.

Died in Upper Guk on my bard yesterday after logging in at Oasis. Forgot that I was still bound in OT... that CR is going to suck.

[Maelstrom]

I learned that a Wizard with Evacuate: West Karanas can cast it in Wk zone to port to the Qeynos zoneline.

Only been playing a Wizard since 2000. Forever a n00b.

Thanks Wormed.

[Pokesan]

Had a giggle when I found a tree in Kithicor with no attachment to the ground at all. Floaty Tree

[jarshale]

I learned I can shoot arrows through a few of the walls in the warsliks wood giant fort.

[Hinthek]

I literally just learned about /note last night. Dont make fun of me. :)

To the Druid fella who told my enchanter about it, thanks again!

[JackFlash]

I learned that a Wizard with Evacuate: West Karanas can cast it in Wk zone to port to the Qeynos zoneline.

Only been playing a Wizard since 2000. Forever a n00b.

Thanks Wormed.

This is a bug. Not classic.

[Lojik]

This is a bug. Not classic.

Got proof?

[Troxx]

I literally just learned about /note last night. Dont make fun of me. :)

To the Druid fella who told my enchanter about it, thanks again!

I'm almost ashamed to admit i don't know what this function does ...

Anyone care to enlighten me?

[Lojik]

I'm almost ashamed to admit i don't know what this function does ...

Anyone care to enlighten me?

/no

[Evia]

I'm almost ashamed to admit i don't know what this function does ...

Anyone care to enlighten me?

[Bboboo]

I recently learned that multiboxing is rampant on this server.

[Sorn]

I'm almost ashamed to admit i don't know what this function does ...

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Type in /note, a window will pop up for you to type notes into in game.

(I just tried this out because I didn't know about it either!)

[Rickson]

I learned that fighting in Innothule Swamp can get really dangerous if you end up having to chase mobs through the water.

[Pipip]

My first character was a dwarf. 15 years later, today, I saw the king in kaladim for the first time.

I've traveled the ocean of tears underwater looking for hidden treasures, but I never bothered to turn right after Gurtha's Wares...

[Eredhel]

I tried /gems the other day out of curiosity and it's there. Anyone remember when live added that?

[elessin alkabor]

I learned while listening to sirkens stream that the zone abbreviation "qeytoqrg" actually stands for qeynos to qeynos ranger guild, had always wondered for years what that garble actually meant, still learn something new about eq to this day blows my mind

[Lisset]

I learned while listening to sirkens stream that the zone abbreviation "qeytoqrg" actually stands for qeynos to qeynos ranger guild, had always wondered for years what that garble actually meant, still learn something new about eq to this day blows my mind

Yeah, some of the abreviations are horrid like Howling Stones is charasis, Gorge of King Xorbb is beholder, etc.

[Lojik]

qey2hh1 is qeynos to highhold 1?

[Coridan]

Yeah, some of the abreviations are horrid like Howling Stones is charasis, Gorge of King Xorbb is beholder, etc.

Another name for the Gorge is "Beholder's Maze". Also, Western Karana is Qey2HH1 Qeynos to Highpass Hold 1

[Voland]

I just learned that tabbing out to check map while running through Kelethin is a really bad idea:)

[Donruss]

Learned a trick today while mass aoe killing shadowed men in lavastorm. Pull them all off the hill and then run back up straight into the pillar. If/when they land smite or whatever it is the knock back effect doesn't push you anywhere and makes it much easier to channel through. especially the first batch can be tough, lots of pets landing bash etc.

I knew about doing things like this, but this was the first practical application I found.

[Sorn]

I have discovered how to make fruit and berry juice as well as Karana brown tea. Also, discovered that these sorts of items are actually a thing. Unfortunately the merchants of Norrath are not as big fans of fruit juice as I am and will only buy them for 5c. :(

[theguyy]

Most recent thing I learned is that /clear will clear your chat window.

[Daldaen]

Little known fact:

When scribing spells, when you "pick up" a spell gem from your spell book, and have it on your cursor, instead an dragging and dropping it into one of your eight spell bar slots, you can hit Alt #, and if will scribe into the # slot (assuming it is open).

When boxing 3-4 characters, this was a godsend for rememing spells post wipe. Not that helpful here but it definitely does save time.

This why Alt Casting is superior to hotkeys and clicking, if you get used to doing it quickly when scribing, you'll do it quickly in combat too.

[Brut]

Learned that cultural requires diamonds now.

[Jimjam]

Random favours done will be remembered and help you months (years?) down the line!

[Deadmantis]

Recently learned some crazy stuff from the wiki about Opal Darkbriar in West Freeport.

http://wiki.project1999.com/Opal_Darkbriar

I always remembered seeing her and hailing her there, but had no idea why I sometimes got faction hits +/- with her while doing other stuff in the game. Still don't know the whole story what's going on with her, but intrigued nonetheless.

[Jimjam]

Maneater Plant Salves can be used as bandages (cost 5 plat a stack instead of 1 though)!

[dealicious]

This is a bug. Not classic.

Intra zone evacuation in WK always ported you near the qeynos hill zone line, not a bug...

[username17]

Little known fact:

When scribing spells, when you "pick up" a spell gem from your spell book, and have it on your cursor, instead an dragging and dropping it into one of your eight spell bar slots, you can hit Alt #, and if will scribe into the # slot (assuming it is open).

When boxing 3-4 characters, this was a godsend for rememing spells post wipe. Not that helpful here but it definitely does save time.

This why Alt Casting is superior to hotkeys and clicking, if you get used to doing it quickly when scribing, you'll do it quickly in combat too.


Be VERY Careful here. The Titanium client supports extra Gem slots through the Mnemonic Retention AA. It is possible to memorize a spell to the 9th Spell Gem slot by pressing Alt + 9 with a spell from your Spellbook on your cursor.
You can mem a spell to this 9th slot but you cannot cast from it (it immediately interrupts you). Which means if you mem a spell to that slot that you actually need to cast you will have to die to un-mem it.

If someone knows a command to un-mem spells PLEASE let me know. I've only done this once before and death was the only solution I found.

[falkun]

I was recently convinced that lute helps with bard lull. An old dog learned a trick he should have known years ago.

[Wabic]

Putting an illusion on changes your corpses in zone to that race.

[mystang89]

I just recently learned... a bunch of new stuff by reading this thread!

[Daldaen]

Other little known fact, that will destroy there magic of the game if Eratani reads it.

The "U" button is the default to replace a left mouse click in most instances (predominantly to open a locked door with a key on your cursor).

However the "U" button can also be used when trading. If you have a trade window open with a player, and you are turned facing them, and you put an item on your cursor, then push "U", it automatically places that item into an open slot in the trade window.

Should you be trading a large amount of items, like 10-20 spells at a time, open a trade, pick up item 1, hit U, pick up item 2, hit U, etc.

Saves a lot of time dragging and dropping them into item windows. Since you need to move your mouse far less.

So please - Stop the autofire trade accusations!

[datom]

P99 is my first time playing a ranger(or druid) and didn't know harmony didn't require line of sight until lvl 29 :(

[sambal]

I learned once you start raiding, all you do is sit around waiting for raid targets for dozens of hours.

[PDX0621]

Random favours done will be remembered and help you months (years?) down the line!

Karma and good will is a cyclical thing for sure. I've had several rez's, trade discounts, favors, etc from people telling me "you CR ported my character or picked them up somewhere crazy or buffed them, etc".

[zanderklocke]

I was recently convinced that lute helps with bard lull. An old dog learned a trick he should have known years ago.

How did you test this?

[Sinadin]

How did you test this?


would like to know it as well - maybe my new sky flute is not as useless as I thought :)

[curtischoy]

A post made here not too long ago. It's full of goodies.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178483&highlight=lifehacks

[zanderklocke]

would like to know it as well - maybe my new sky flute is not as useless as I thought :)

No, he said lute, not flute. The lull song is strings based.

Your flute is still just as useless aside from invis/levitate if you don't have the bard epic.

[Triangle]

There was a thread, maybe even a sticky, on another game I played where people posted stuff they had just learned about the game.

It was pretty cool because it grew into an archive of useful information, trivial information and also a thread where there could be potential hidden features or bugs.


Anyway, I didn't see one like that here but I may have missed it.


Otherwise - I am pretty sure that the "A hermit" in Southern Karana has his self buffs delayed based on something to do with the weapon he spawns with.

If he spawns without a weapon, it's immediate, the slower the weapon, the longer he takes to start casting his buffs.

Yay for trivial information :)

If this is true then it's something I just learned too. Unlikely that, if it is true, it applies to just hermit

[Daldaen]

No, he said lute, not flute. The lull song is strings based.

Your flute is still just as useless aside from invis/levitate if you don't have the bard epic.

I could've sworn there was a point in time when the bard Faction song was able to be modified by Wind. But alas, I don't recall when nor do I have evidence for this :(.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010413231922/http://www.eqsongs.com/Songs/Song11.htm

Quantified: On average it seems to raise you one or two faction rankings. The size of each faction rank seems to be different so the song may raise you anywhere from 0 to 2 ranks. Using a wind instrument seems to enhance the effect slightly. Using a magic flute will add more faction then a store bought flute

I may be onto something! Time to buy a CT Flute!!! Skip some pesky Velious factioning.

At level 60 it's I think a +600 Faction mod. Sky flute bumps that to 1320, CT Flute to 1440, Puretoned to +1680?

[Roguejm11]

I literally just learned about /note last night. Dont make fun of me. :)

To the Druid fella who told my enchanter about it, thanks again!

OMG what is /note ???

[falkun]

How did you test this?

Before pulling the 4 Emperor guards would usually lead to a critical resist, in the last two times I've done that camp, the only mob that has critically resisted has been the Emperor himself. There's no statistics done, I haven't fought enough mobs (nor taken detailed enough logs to verify when I lute vs. when I do not) to generate statistics. But my gut is convinced, so I'll continue using my lute on high level lull checks (besides, it doesn't harm anything to swap out).

[zanderklocke]

I could've sworn there was a point in time when the bard Faction song was able to be modified by Wind. But alas, I don't recall when nor do I have evidence for this :(.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010413231922/http://www.eqsongs.com/Songs/Song11.htm



I may be onto something! Time to buy a CT Flute!!! Skip some pesky Velious factioning.

At level 60 it's I think a +600 Faction mod. Sky flute bumps that to 1320, CT Flute to 1440, Puretoned to +1680?

You could be correct. I don't seem to remember the flute impacting faction song last time I tried on P99 though. However, I could have been at a bad starting point in which swapping in the flute did not affect the faction level.

[Tann]

/hotbutton _____

creates a macro, i had always used alt+m and clicked socials tab then > then right click on a blank button to create one.

[nyclin]

/hot owns for creating assist macros:

/hot assist 0 /assist <person>

0 sets the color of the macro with zero being black, I don't remember what they all map to but I think it goes up to like 10. I think there's a way to make it multiline as well but I'm not sure how.

[drktmplr12]

Should you be trading a large amount of items, like 10-20 spells at a time, open a trade, pick up item 1, hit U, pick up item 2, hit U, etc.

Saves a lot of time dragging and dropping them into item windows. Since you need to move your mouse far less.

So please - Stop the autofire trade accusations!

so this means i wasted all the effort with trade skills?

[Chou]

24 hours, 6 pages, so much information already!

I just learned that a mob resisting your spell still seems to cause as much "hate" as the full effect (damage in my case).

Not sure if it actually causes 100% the hate as not resisting though.

Does anyone know if it's a spell's max effect that is used when generating "hate" or is it the actual affect the spell has?

[Chou]

I have also learned that you cannot type an apostrophe in chat by using the actual apostrophe key, but more interestingly, when you cast a spell on a corpse it says something like "you try to cast a spell on a hermitscorpse but they are protected".

The poor a hermit doesn't even own his corpse!

I have seen a guild mate say "can't" in guild chat, but the mystery escapes me.

Mystery apostrophe, why do you taunt me?!

[curtischoy]

If you type the apostrophe first it puts whatever you are saying into /say

You should be able to use it regularly any other time.

[Pyrocat]

Most of these I've known for a while but I think they're relatively unknown tidbits that might be useful for newer players. Except for /pet feign, that one I learned recently.

Yeah, some of the abreviations are horrid like Howling Stones is charasis, Gorge of King Xorbb is beholder, etc.

Charasis is actually the original name for the city, it's not some weird abbreviation.

/who all corpse
will list out the corpses you have and what zones they are in. It may only work if you're in the zone of the corpse(s) though.

/who all count
will list the current number of logged in players

typing /pet feign twice quickly (or just make a macro) will make your pet perform it's death animation but is otherwise the same as /pet sit. Useful for when the tank in your group doesn't understand that he's trying to attack a charmed pet.

/rtarget will autotarget the last person to send you a tell. Incredibly useful when playing a buff class.

Ctrl+clicking a stacked item will only remove 1 item from the stack. This also works for ctrl+clicking the buy button on a merchant selling a stack of items.

Giving a charmed pet an offhand only item (like a torch) will make it dual wield. Useful for charm classes that don't want to carry around a ton of weapons just to make their pets dual wield. Giving a charmed pet -MR gear will increase charm duration. Giving a charmed pet a 2 handed weapon and an offhand only item will force the pet to use the 2 handed weapon and dual wield (useful if you want to give your pet a 2 handed weapon that procs but also want the DPS from dual wielding).

Most high end players know this but instaclickies ala Shrunken Goblin Skull Earring will reset your global spell cooldown, enabling you to cast spells quicker. The spell effect from the instaclick doesn't even need to take effect to reset the cooldown timer, so for example using jboots when you already have SoW will not overwrite SoW but it will reset your global spell cooldown, as long as you are outdoors. This is incredibly useful for shamans who want to quickly buff a player with a variety of buffs, or to quickly cannibalize down. By memorizing Canni 2 and Canni 3 they are able to cast Canni 2, click their instaclick, cast Canni 3, click their instaclick, and repeat.

[Chou]

I would really like to start compiling this stuff into the OP, but the edit button is gone.

Is there a way I could do that?

[kremlar]

Be VERY Careful here. The Titanium client supports extra Gem slots through the Mnemonic Retention AA. It is possible to memorize a spell to the 9th Spell Gem slot by pressing Alt + 9 with a spell from your Spellbook on your cursor.
You can mem a spell to this 9th slot but you cannot cast from it (it immediately interrupts you). Which means if you mem a spell to that slot that you actually need to cast you will have to die to un-mem it.

If someone knows a command to un-mem spells PLEASE let me know. I've only done this once before and death was the only solution I found.

It obeys your key bindings, unbind alt+9 and you won't have to worry about it.

[burkemi5]

I learned recently thst /whot will do a /who command on your target. Useful for joining be groups and you wanna know what classes and levels you're with.

[Shodo]

I learned that buying out an item from a vendor with a full stock will show other items that have been sold to them when you refresh the buy/sell window. I also learned that this is a great way to waste a buttload of money looking for runes. I also found some ~100p lowbie gear for 5p though, so I guess it was a wash.

[Crecentia]

Today I learned to never trust run speed after a patch without checking the forums first. I died a brutal, violent death in T.D. Got a good laugh out of raptors keeping up with me and getting stunned and wrecked.

[Jimjam]

1) can't heal DAd clerics
2) bard songs break FD
3) as MA some enchanters want you to tag any mob ASAP so they know what not to mez, while others want you to take a moment and choose an unmezzed to jump on.

[Swish]

3. As a tank I'm tagging the first thing that comes around the corner unless there's a named or high MR mob in the pack. Sorry enchanters who don't like that practice - its to keep the cleric's mana pool as stable as possible. Second spell is usually wave of enfeeblement if the enchanter hasn't got them mezzed by then. Usually enough to draw aggro at the very start of a fight.

If you want a pet, don't be the guy who is petting a target dropping to 90-80-75% health :p

[Lady Julae]

I learned that the begging skill is considered an attack. Learned it the hard way on a guard. :D

[mystang89]

I learned that rooting a feared mob will break the fear. I guess they figure they've got nothing to lose.

[Wabic]

3. As a tank I'm tagging the first thing that comes around the corner unless there's a named or high MR mob in the pack. Sorry enchanters who don't like that practice - its to keep the cleric's mana pool as stable as possible. Second spell is usually wave of enfeeblement if the enchanter hasn't got them mezzed by then. Usually enough to draw aggro at the very start of a fight.

If you want a pet, don't be the guy who is petting a target dropping to 90-80-75% health :p


You're doing it right. If the chanter was supposed to lead and choose, we'd call them the "Main CC" or something. You do your thing and we'll adjust.

[Champion_Standing]

That you can make over 1k before lvl 20 just by doing low lvl quests. Also realized that many of these quests give you a significant amount of experience for a lot longer than I thought they did.

[Whirled]

Q: What have you learned about the game recently?
A: that giant beetles now outrun a lv5 bard with Selos

[Roy]

Qeynos is SonyEQ spelt backwards. (First zone they finished first and walked around in as developers)

[Voland]

I learned that buying out an item from a vendor with a full stock will show other items that have been sold to them when you refresh the buy/sell window.

I thought merchants here don't overflow, since we have a modern merchant interface
(as opposed to the old 2-column one with no item counts/prices).

[Chou]

If you type the apostrophe first it puts whatever you are saying into /say

You should be able to use it regularly any other time.

I seriously cannot get this to work. What am I missing?

It just ignores the key altogether.

[Pan]

Scarelings make the VERY best pets in the Plane of Fear!

[Sorn]

I seriously cannot get this to work. What am I missing?

It just ignores the key altogether.

That is super weird. Just to clarify, as you're typing something like 'Hey guys, I'm here', the ' in I'm simply doesn't show up when you hit the key? Are you using the apostrophe on the right side of the keyboard or are you using the ` on the left side? When you haven't selected the chat bar, can you hit ' and have it enter into the text entry area? Have you tried switching the keyboard with another one and seeing if it behaves the same way? Is the apostrophe key bound to anything else besides /say?

[JayN]

I learned that playing on red, leads to mace attacks in RL.

Bringing up staff corruption leads to post deletion.

And

that you can exploit old DB entries to make big platinum buying/selling kunark crap loots to ZEE vendors!

[Chou]

That is super weird. Just to clarify, as you're typing something like 'Hey guys, I'm here', the ' in I'm simply doesn't show up when you hit the key? Are you using the apostrophe on the right side of the keyboard or are you using the ` on the left side? When you haven't selected the chat bar, can you hit ' and have it enter into the text entry area? Have you tried switching the keyboard with another one and seeing if it behaves the same way? Is the apostrophe key bound to anything else besides /say?

Thank you so much for trying to help me with this, it's been bothering me.

as you're typing something like 'Hey guys, I'm here', the ' in I'm simply doesn't show up when you hit the key? - Right, it doesn't show up or move the cursor or anything. No matter how many time I press it nothing happens.

Are you using the apostrophe on the right side of the keyboard or are you using the ` on the left side? - I'm using the key to the left of the Enter key and to the right of the semicolon|Shift Colon key on my keyboard. This keyboard has it as ' and Shift is ".

When you haven't selected the chat bar, can you hit ' and have it enter into the text entry area? - No, it did nothing when I tried that.

Have you tried switching the keyboard with another one and seeing if it behaves the same way? - Not yet, but I will now based on your questions.

Is the apostrophe key bound to anything else besides /say? - I don't remember changing a binding to use this key, but perhaps I messed that up somehow, this is probably it.

Thanks so much for your help!

[Recusco]

Using cancel magic to solo pull the specs from the tower in Oasis.

[Sorn]

Thank you so much for trying to help me with this, it's been bothering me.

as you're typing something like 'Hey guys, I'm here', the ' in I'm simply doesn't show up when you hit the key? - Right, it doesn't show up or move the cursor or anything. No matter how many time I press it nothing happens.

Are you using the apostrophe on the right side of the keyboard or are you using the ` on the left side? - I'm using the key to the left of the Enter key and to the right of the semicolon|Shift Colon key on my keyboard. This keyboard has it as ' and Shift is ".

When you haven't selected the chat bar, can you hit ' and have it enter into the text entry area? - No, it did nothing when I tried that.

Have you tried switching the keyboard with another one and seeing if it behaves the same way? - Not yet, but I will now based on your questions.

Is the apostrophe key bound to anything else besides /say? - I don't remember changing a binding to use this key, but perhaps I messed that up somehow, this is probably it.

Thanks so much for your help!

You're welcome. Yeah, check to see if it's just a hardware issue with the keyboard itself. For the binding bit, if you can find one entry that uses ', it'll show you if it's bound to a second command by changing the color of ' to red. If that's the case, you'll have to hunt down the second command.

Hopefully it's one of those two issues so you can once again type with proper punctuation while playing. If not...might be an OS or keyboard driver issue, or background programs running that are stealing your apostrophe for their own evil purposes. That would take some digging on your part.

[Riotgirl]

Type in /note, a window will pop up for you to type notes into in game.

(I just tried this out because I didn't know about it either!)


Thank you! I can wave goodbye to paper and pen for writing notes about the game.

[stavio]

Found out a obsidian drake? The low level drake that roams southern part of giant hill. can be animal charmed in Rathe , while none of the other drakes are animal charmable. I should probably report this :x

Also re-reminded myself that High-pass guards and citizens does not like wolf form, or they see right through it, cause my level 13 SK had one heck of a trip in highpass earlier.

[B4EQWASCOOL]

Thank you! I can wave goodbye to paper and pen for writing notes about the game.

Send those artifacts to the Smithsonian!

[Feanoir]

There is a fix for the appostrophe in the tech forums, i'll see if i can find the link when i get home. I just searched appostrophe in the forums( or however you spell it)

[milsorgen]

Recently learned some crazy stuff from the wiki about Opal Darkbriar in West Freeport.

http://wiki.project1999.com/Opal_Darkbriar

I always remembered seeing her and hailing her there, but had no idea why I sometimes got faction hits +/- with her while doing other stuff in the game. Still don't know the whole story what's going on with her, but intrigued nonetheless.

That is quite interesting. I love stuff like this.

[Saludeen]

A lesson I never seem to learn. Always bind near where you're hunting.

Died in Upper Guk on my bard yesterday after logging in at Oasis. Forgot that I was still bound in OT... that CR is going to suck.

If i'm bound in Antonica and I need to go to kunark for something but I don't want to change my bind, then I just hammer and put it in the outpost bank with some vendor drums so I can hammer back if I die. Thought it may be helpful.

[SamwiseRed]

I was recently convinced that lute helps with bard lull. An old dog learned a trick he should have known years ago.

crude stein helps lull more than instrument i believe

[Chou]

I recently learned that some of the P99 wiki appears to be updated from what "should have been" instead of what actually is.

I've been camping the hermit in SK for a few levels, and the wiki said you could hail him for a quest and/or "say" something to him to lure him out. Both of these appear to be incorrect.

Either it was changed, or it was never implemented, or I just did it wrong?

[Tann]

crude stein helps lull more than instrument i believe

no clue where i "remember" this from, probably kunark/velious era on live, but i believe the aggro range reduction is based on stringed skill?? stein would just help with overall avoiding resists.

[Chou]

You're welcome. Yeah, check to see if it's just a hardware issue with the keyboard itself. For the binding bit, if you can find one entry that uses ', it'll show you if it's bound to a second command by changing the color of ' to red. If that's the case, you'll have to hunt down the second command.

Hopefully it's one of those two issues so you can once again type with proper punctuation while playing. If not...might be an OS or keyboard driver issue, or background programs running that are stealing your apostrophe for their own evil purposes. That would take some digging on your part.

Ugh, I tried resetting bindings to default and that didn't even work.

This key works fine in all other applications, just not EQ.

[wiseguy3k]

I learned recently thst /whot will do a /who command on your target. Useful for joining be groups and you wanna know what classes and levels you're with.

omg this! Thank you!

[Swish]

is that classic? by the time i've posted this Daldaen probably has a bug report in.

[sacman08]

I learned that the begging skill is considered an attack. Learned it the hard way on a guard. :D

Actually its a critical fail of Begging that makes them attack. Sometimes it works successfully and you get money.

Also I learned that the Rat Man Guard in The Hole that carries the SK epic piece is a myth.

[Tahlvin]

/hidec all

Hide all existing corpses in a zone. Super useful.

[Sorn]

/hidecorpse looted

hides all the corpses you've looted, too. :)

[Crawdad]

How to set up auto-forage.

/doability # (#=Forage on action bar)
/pause 10
/autoinventory

I've always just bound Forage to a movement key, but never realized how easy the above made things.. and 3 of my 5 toons have forage.

[jarshale]

I learned that for warriors under lvl 37 aggro is very difficult.

[Baler]

I learned that there are keys for 'Open Inventory Bags' & 'Close Inventory Bags' In the options under Keys > Commands.

Saved myself 2 to 16 clicks with the mouse. :D

[gprater]

/hidecorpse looted

hides all the corpses you've looted, too. :)

/hidecorpse allbutgroup very useful

[Saerain]

Just today I learned that clerics get Summon Water, Summon Food, and Gate. At pretty standard levels, too. I don't know how I didn't know. The way I remembered it, druids were the only non-cloth class with Gate, while only they and magicians received Summon Food and Summon Water.

[Cecily]

Connectivity improvement means connectivity problem.

[HallyVee]

Leveling a Shaman and Paladin through level 10. Learned that zones have a more even flow than I thought. For some reason I always thought, when I saw a red con mob, that I'd have to come back to the zone someday to kill it. Now I'm realizing it's just a more sharp divide between level ranges.

So after three levels of farming the Dwarf Skeletons in Butcherblock Mountains, I'm starting to see the red con Goblin Warriors become deep blue con.

I always pictured EQ zones as having incredibly wide level ranges, but this is a step away from that.

[Daldaen]

Leveling a Shaman and Paladin through level 10. Learned that zones have a more even flow than I thought. For some reason I always thought, when I saw a red con mob, that I'd have to come back to the zone someday to kill it. Now I'm realizing it's just a more sharp divide between level ranges.

So after three levels of farming the Dwarf Skeletons in Butcherblock Mountains, I'm starting to see the red con Goblin Warriors become deep blue con.

I always pictured EQ zones as having incredibly wide level ranges, but this is a step away from that.

Yea this is truth, one thing many people don't realize because often times some of those jumps suck. Going from pure melee low dark blue to black/yellow casters for example.

I will say, one of my favorite things about classic EQ was the Hill Giant/Griffin complex. Where a zone designed to be level 5-15, has a few level 30-35 mobs roaming about that high levels randomly slay and may help some noobs while they're at it. I really wish it had been kept this way onward through Kunark.

Like some level 55 frost Giants in Dreadlands or some level 30 forest Giants in Field of Bones.

[Daldaen]

/hidecorpse looted

hides all the corpses you've looted, too. :)

This isn't classic and was an LoY addition I believe.

How to set up auto-forage.

/doability # (#=Forage on action bar)
/pause 10
/autoinventory

I've always just bound Forage to a movement key, but never realized how easy the above made things.. and 3 of my 5 toons have forage.

/Autoinventory wasn't added until after GoD I'm pretty sure. It definitely wasn't in during PoP.

Hopefully one day they can disable that command, though, with the keyboards and mouse available now a days there isn't much point sadly.

[Rathnir]

Most high end players know this but instaclickies ala Shrunken Goblin Skull Earring will reset your global spell cooldown, enabling you to cast spells quicker. The spell effect from the instaclick doesn't even need to take effect to reset the cooldown timer, so for example using jboots when you already have SoW will not overwrite SoW but it will reset your global spell cooldown, as long as you are outdoors. This is incredibly useful for shamans who want to quickly buff a player with a variety of buffs, or to quickly cannibalize down. By memorizing Canni 2 and Canni 3 they are able to cast Canni 2, click their instaclick, cast Canni 3, click their instaclick, and repeat.
Global Cooldown Trick
The first spell slot acts differently then other spell slots. If you memorize Canni 3 to your first spell slot, and give just a half moment pause, it is possible to cast Canni 3 twice inbetween server ticks, using the Global Cool Down insta click reset thing. No need for another spell slot, or canni 2.

The Rez Trick
I'm not sure why, among all the cool tricks on the server, this isn't more well known. It's very easy:

1: Be in the same zone as corpse.
2: Tap /corpse and DO NOT MOVE. You must remain at the exact same /loc as your corpse.
3: Have Rez cast on the corpse.
4: Wait until the "Yes/No" box appears. Begin casting a spell. Accept the rez mid spell cast.
5: You always channel this spell, as long as you and the corpse are the same /loc when you accept the rez.

This allows Clerics to Heroism (or whatever) their group after a wipe, themselves included. Enchanters can group Clarity, Druids can Mask themselves, Shamans can Torpor, Wizards can Harvest etc.
For almost any class that can cast a pet, I suggest the pet be your spell of choice, in part because....

Pet Reclaim
Any class can use the 4 magician items (http://wiki.project1999.com/Vira) from Temple of Solusek Ro to reclaim a pet. Great for rolling the highest level pet, reclaiming mana after a rez, reclaiming a pet for emergency mana.

Pet Powerleveling
A pet that dies or is reclaimed has its damage assigned to no one, much the same as feign death or damage shields.

Cool list guys, keep it goin.

[Daldaen]

The Rez trick works in between zonings on self buffs if you time it right.

Enchanters can Clarity, Druids can SoW/Mask ( even if getting rezzed into an indoor zone), etc.

Just get a Rez box, cast the spell on yourself and with a sliver of cast time left accept the Rez box.

Was used quite often during classic to SoW indoors after a Rez $$$.

[Destron]

Connectivity improvement means connectivity problem.

[milsorgen]

That you have to zone to see language skill point increases. Actually a bunch of good info here: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/skills.html?skill=12&p=4

[Naxy]

That you can make over 1k before lvl 20 just by doing low lvl quests. Also realized that many of these quests give you a significant amount of experience for a lot longer than I thought they did.

Pray tell which quests are these? Any hint would be appreciated.

[Sorn]

/chatfontsize # (between 0-6) will make the text in your chat window larger.

Which is good because my old eyes can't take the default size anymore =\

[Naxy]

/chatfontsize # (between 0-6) will make the text in your chat window larger.

Which is good because my old eyes can't take the default size anymore =\

Oh, thanks!

[captnamazing]

It was stated before, but while leveling pottery for Velious, I learned that shift-clicking a stack of items will yield one of that item on your cursor.

I didn't realize this until pottery 80. My level 60 warrior has a fletching skill of 200. Rest in peaces

[milsorgen]

/chatfontsize # (between 0-6) will make the text in your chat window larger.

Which is good because my old eyes can't take the default size anymore =\

Oh that's quite handy, thanks.

[Zulzephur - Tarew Marr]

I learned what the term "poopsock" means. I've played MMOs since I was 12, when UO was released... and have never seen the word before until venturing these forums as of recent.

The definitions are pretty funny, and I had no idea it pertained to EQ players mainly, or first at least.

Done learning for the day.

[Sorn]

This is not a gameplay tip, but it occurred to me that not everyone knows it. You know when you're starting the game and have to sit through the SOE logo screen?

You don't have to wait for it to go away! You can just click and it'll switch to the login screen!

[DeathByCactus]

That if you are not a monk, war, or rogue... you are irrelevant. Unless you roll caster/priest.

[maskedmelon]

That if you are not a monk, war, or rogue... you are irrelevant. Unless you roll caster/priest.

It is kinda hard to make out, but I think I see what's between those lines ^^

Relevance is relative.... ^^v

[kate79]

Ugh, I tried resetting bindings to default and that didn't even work.

This key works fine in all other applications, just not EQ.

I had this issue in EQ Live a few years back, the solution was to disable an infrared remote I had installed. It's probably something similar here.

[portbitch69]

typing /pet feign twice quickly (or just make a macro) will make your pet perform it's death animation but is otherwise the same as /pet sit. Useful for when the tank in your group doesn't understand that he's trying to attack a charmed pet.

.
It interrupts pet spell cast too
Do dis 2 stahp stoopid pet from cast dispell.

[Charlievox]

It was stated before, but while leveling pottery for Velious, I learned that shift-clicking a stack of items will yield one of that item on your cursor.

I didn't realize this until pottery 80. My level 60 warrior has a fletching skill of 200. Rest in peaces

Shift+click picks up the whole stack

Ctrl+click picks up 1 item off the stack

[Charlievox]

I learned that, unlike Mage and Wizard Bolt spells, arrows WILL strike any mob that wanders between you and your target.

I REALLY didn't mean to shoot that werewolf!!

[Buellen]

Maneater Plant Salves can be used as bandages (cost 5 plat a stack instead of 1 though)!


Did a small sample run with these and i "thought" they added more hit point per use than regular bandages.

It just not worth it from what i remember of my sample run you can just get MORE reg bandage for the cost of those salves.

[Buellen]

This is old one:

Merchant mining.

In the process of clearing out a visible slot you will sometime get another player come to sell stuff at merchant you are mining. You take the risk of that player buying stuff from slot you just clear if you close the merchant interface. Wait till the other player or players leave then close merchant window and reopen to see the new cleared slot item. The other player will not see as far i can tell the new cleared slot items so long as you keep your merchant interface open.

If you clear a merchant visible slot while someone else selling /buying form merchant and you close your interface with the merchant. You will not see the new item/items pop into the cleared slot till that other player/players leaves merchant interface and you reopen merhcant.

[Cabkin]

I learned that, unlike Mage and Wizard Bolt spells, arrows WILL strike any mob that wanders between you and your target.

I've seen bolt spells do the same thing!

[Charlievox]

I recently learned that Toolboxes sold in Ak'Anon and Steamfont only cost a little over 1gp while Backpacks cost over 5gp. You can buy 5 toolboxes for a little more than the cost of one backpack.
Toolboxes weigh the same as Backpacks and have the same number of slots, but will hold GIANT objects while Backpacks only hold LARGE stuff.

[Ranndom]

I recently learned that Toolboxes sold in Ak'Anon and Steamfont only cost a little over 1gp while Backpacks cost over 5gp. You can buy 5 toolboxes for a little more than the cost of one backpack.
Toolboxes weigh the same as Backpacks and have the same number of slots, but will hold GIANT objects while Backpacks only hold LARGE stuff.

Banking with iksars can be a pita at low levels >_>

[curtischoy]

Medicine Bags (http://wiki.project1999.com/Medicine_Bag) hold the same as a backpack, but it costs a little over 1 plat. The benefit is that it only weighs 0.4 wt instead of 3.0. This is really useful for any characters with low str like int casters. If you carry 8 bags it's 3.2 wt instead of a hefty 24.0 and it is worth the initial investment of roughly 5g more per bag to be able to hold so much more VT.

[Swish]

Medicine Bags (http://wiki.project1999.com/Medicine_Bag) hold the same as a backpack, but it costs a little over 1 plat. The benefit is that it only weighs 0.4 wt instead of 3.0. This is really useful for any characters with low str like int casters. If you carry 8 bags it's 3.2 wt instead of a hefty 24.0 and it is worth the initial investment of roughly 5g more per bag to be able to hold so much more VT.

That moment when you realize you bought one in the tunnel for 50pp... someone's getting rich.

[Charlievox]

Medicine Bags (http://wiki.project1999.com/Medicine_Bag) hold the same as a backpack, but it costs a little over 1 plat. The benefit is that it only weighs 0.4 wt instead of 3.0. This is really useful for any characters with low str like int casters. If you carry 8 bags it's 3.2 wt instead of a hefty 24.0 and it is worth the initial investment of roughly 5g more per bag to be able to hold so much more VT.

I forsee a few trips to the local herbalist for many of my toons.

[Ele]

If only tradeskill containers actually ate the items when you misclicked "combine"

Then there would be real risk v. benefit to them over normal bags.

:(

[Pringles]

You can bank through the wall in OT outpost even when KOS (I knew about this in Freeport etc, but not OT until someone showed me this last weekend!!!) Excellent for hammering, and putting hammer in bank (so you dont get boned when you die in HS and dont have a hammer to get back to your corpse)

[Naxy]

If only tradeskill containers actually ate the items when you misclicked "combine"

Then there would be real risk v. benefit to them over normal bags.

:(

Didn't they use to do that on live, the large sewing kits?

[Ele]

Didn't they use to do that on live, the large sewing kits?

Until April 2001, any container with a combine, including the stationary ones in cities. Made trade skill recipe experimentation very, very costly.

http://www.tski.co.jp/baldio/patch/20010404.html

'Combine' container changes:

We've made a change to 'combine' containers. In order to prevent people from accidentally destroying items, all containers with a 'combine' button will not combine any items that do not form a complete recipe. This will be a huge boon to craftspeople all across Norrath. But this removes the only drawback to using trade containers as backpacks. Their reduced weight and often greater carrying capacity made them more desirable as bags, with the compensating risk that you might just lose something if you made a mistake.

We will be increasing the weight of portable 'combine' containers somewhat. Where some of these containers weighed under 1 pound, they will now weigh as much as 4 pounds for the largest sewing kit.

Along with this we are making a change to tailor made backpacks. In case you didn't know, most tailor made packs have a built in weight reduction of 5%. We are raising that to 10%. We will also be displaying the weight reduction of all containers with the information shown on a right click.