Alternative EQ experiences

[Evia]

After playing this game for years and years.....I’m looking for suggestions on playing the game differently.

Kinda like how ALS has you leveling a character without using the ec market, I’m looking for similar alternatives to experiencing the game.

Some ideas I’ve come up with that sound fun...

-twink a new character up with a fungi and NOTHING else. Make them collect trash loot and save up for all the other pieces of gear. This would be fun because I could solo or group the character and still get the rewarding upgrade feeling as I leveled the character up.

-take my rogue through all the classic, Kunark, and velious dungeons on a solo assassination adventure. Taking screen shots and collecting loot. Seeing named mobs I’ve never seen and try my hand at dicey solo attempts.

Any other ideas? Or anybody else create a weird way to play EQ that was a little less traditional?

[magnetaress]

-tradeskill only guild GG :D
-tradeskill only - have to progress thru expansions (no jumping directly to cultural), so like
>forged weapons, >silvered>cultural>bloodclaw>veliums

rogue idea is great, u can totally do it!

[Nitholias01]

become <Dial a Drag> server hero

[Muggens]

I did alot solo dungeon'ing on my rogue but mostly before I hit 60, to farm stuff to sell and for the adventure. I remember I enjoyed getting the Ghoulbane fex.

With lvl 60, epic, fungi, root nets etc theres some fun possibilites I reccon

[Muggens]

When I ding 60 on my wiz Im gonna see how far I can get up the tower of frozen shadow solo, never been there yet. Its fun to take a class thats not particularly a soloist into the depths/tops of dungeons! Good luck

[tsuchang]

I often make my own quests.
as a new iksar, get a full set of curscale armor, even when you don't get exp for it.
sit at the FP dock and fish your way to the top.
get sense heading to 200 before lvl 6
just crap like that....often.
Get Paineel faction to the highest lvl from killing green mobs in the warrens.
Go into balck burough and collect a full bag of fangs in your late 20s.
on and on.
there are lots of nonsense things I do.

[Vexenu]

Level a character to 60 without ever equipping a single piece of gear.

[magnetaress]

When I ding 60 on my wiz Im gonna see how far I can get up the tower of frozen shadow solo, never been there yet. Its fun to take a class thats not particularly a soloist into the depths/tops of dungeons! Good luck

Please be safe and bank a key or few on a 1st floor corpse lol.

[loramin]

Personally I've long though that it would be a fun project to compile a set of "Achievements" in the wiki, and then make a set of checkbox lists for them so people could mark their progress on visiting every zone in the game, or whatever ... but I've never had the energy to start it.

Please be safe and bank a key or few on a 1st floor corpse lol.

Or just have your level 60 alt camped nearby to come re-kill all the key mobs for you every CR (a terribly inefficient solution, but it works ok in a pinch for the first couple floors.)

[magnetaress]

A play thru were u are only allowed to do your own research use ur own paper notebook you make while playing and no internet, web research (from memory is OK) but for me this would be pretty insane lol as i have zero memory

[Muggens]

Please be safe and bank a key or few on a 1st floor corpse lol.

You guys are making ToFS sound kinda freaky, that key business wont be fun. So if Im dead on floor 6 I will need to re-key all the way? Can you tag along others who are keyed?

[Izmael]

Only allowed to kill level 1 decaying skeletons and level up by doing the (heavily nerfed) bone chip quests.

[magnetaress]

You guys are making ToFS sound kinda freaky, that key business wont be fun. So if Im dead on floor 6 I will need to re-key all the way? Can you tag along others who are keyed?

I have had all day CRs at ToFS, that said floors 1-3 are not that hard and have good exit routes and if you can handle undead mobs your pretty much golden even if you wind up naked on of the floors

clr, necro, dru, shm, ench, are all pretty viable there

4 and 5 could be scary, i dont think i ever got to 5 or expd on 4

its an amazing zone, if i had a static group and i could sit for 6 hrs i'd go with them for sure

[loramin]

As a side note I'm leveling my cleric in ToFS now, and even CRing to level 2 is a giant PITA (with a 60 druid camped nearby to help kill the key mob). I am not looking forward to the higher levels.

But back on topic, honestly I think my favorite of these "Sisyphean" quests was where the one guy not only invented, but actually completed, the "quest" to max his Bixie faction :)

[Izmael]

Level a character to 60 without ever equipping a single piece of gear.

For many classes this is trivial if tedious: necro, enchanter, wizard, druid, cleric (can ding 60 on that level 40 skeleton in TT), bard.

I suppose a naked 59 monk can melee down a level 40 mob.

Your challenge would be interesting for the other classes.

[jolanar]

-twink a new character up with a fungi and NOTHING else. Make them collect trash loot and save up for all the other pieces of gear. This would be fun because I could solo or group the character and still get the rewarding upgrade feeling as I leveled the character up.


I've thought of doing this a lot to be honest. Sort of combines the fun of twinking AND starting a new fresh character.

[matticas]

learn languages, work on little-known quests, faction up with with enemy races, collect clickies, explore obscure zones, farm plat/gear, help powerlevel noobs, dig into EQ lore, find friends to duel, work on solo challenges

[branamil]

Only xp in zones you've NEVER XP'd in before. Like, Stonebrunt mountains, najena, droga, dalnir, cazic thule.

[magnetaress]

Play EQ like you are a rogue shadowy government agent with the full resources of the *insert alliance, faction* unchecked and write up a dossier on each mob you camp.

[Secrets]

Play EQ as a warrior, solo, untwinked to 60 and see how long it takes.

Alternatively, reach max Ally with the Blackburrow Gnolls.

[magnetaress]

A custom progression checklist to progress to the next zone.

So for example to leave Qeynos North, you need to kill the Klicknick queen. Or each of the named gnolls that run at the guards. Than to leave Qeynos hills you have to kill the two necromancers and the rabid grizzly, than you unlock surefall, then western Karannas, you cant leave western Karana till you down one or several named there etc... It could be made pretty balanced so it would be possible to progress without uneccissarily grinding out levels in a zone, this would gamify it and make it funner. This would also be neat in that starting as a dark elf would create a different set of progression options, and could even be further gamified by letting players chose which nameds they would kill for progression.

Just food for thought, i think the gameir of us probably get what I am getting at. It would be pretty cool to play a monk and progress by killing that named armadillo in N ro, or a paladin and killing the dark elf at the derv Dorn, or instead of progressing through N ro head to EC and progress by killing the named orc boss at orc 1.

Dark elfs could progress by killing that bard, or any one of those named hafllings. and then their options would be to unlock lavastorm, etc...

just food for thots.

lol this woiuld make a pretty awesome custom classic server idea *crazyeyes*

This is not about you secrets I am not begging u to make content for us lol. I actrually wasnt even thinking about u when i thought about this.

[magnetaress]

Play EQ as a warrior, solo, untwinked to 60 and see how long it takes.

Alternatively, reach max Ally with the Blackburrow Gnolls.

k i hate u this would take only 44.44444444444444 hrs theoretically at maximum efficiency, though there is a 50% spawn chance on the wiki so perhaps that would be closer to 88.88888888 seconds

the math works out as 400x400 <<< there's a lot of this and also a lot of satanic 6x6 things going on in EQ math IMO

6:40 minutes = 400 seconds. -4000 to +4000 faction divided by 10, each faction hit in increments is 400. 400x400 = 160,000 seconds to max ally faction, assuming instant kills on a low lvl mob. 160000 ÷ 60 =‬ 2,666.666666666667 or 2666.666666666667 ÷ 60 =‬ 44.4 hrs.

Guess it would take 6 seconds or so to actually kill the mob every time assuming zero afks and perfect reaction time. So. 406x400 = 162,400 seconds for +4000 faction points. Assuming that is an every time spawn, we can double that for an average 'mean' spawn time, and we will have 324,800 assuming good luck and perfect 50% spawn at 400 spawns. And we will get 5,413.333333333333‬ minutes, or 90.22222222222222‬ hrs, or 3 days, and 18 hrs. Roughly to beat Gnoll Quest.

Now if only Lord Lord Elgnub had a quest to give us for investing that time :D

Custom content for p99 blue??! <3

u said this game was a total waste of time ???

[Izmael]

Solo any class to 60 but you have to always wear boxing gloves IRL when playing.

[magnetaress]

You can only make money through tradeskills and you have to level with stuff you buy, like lightstones, snake scales n teeth, loot rights for gnoll teeth, drolvarg canines, tessch scrolls.

[Topgunben]

After playing this game for years and years.....I’m looking for suggestions on playing the game differently.

Kinda like how ALS has you leveling a character without using the ec market, I’m looking for similar alternatives to experiencing the game.

Some ideas I’ve come up with that sound fun...

-twink a new character up with a fungi and NOTHING else. Make them collect trash loot and save up for all the other pieces of gear. This would be fun because I could solo or group the character and still get the rewarding upgrade feeling as I leveled the character up.

-take my rogue through all the classic, Kunark, and velious dungeons on a solo assassination adventure. Taking screen shots and collecting loot. Seeing named mobs I’ve never seen and try my hand at dicey solo attempts.

Any other ideas? Or anybody else create a weird way to play EQ that was a little less traditional?

I always wondered what it would be like to run this game in reverse. So like flipping east to west.