Is there one of these for EQ? Most OP ability for each class

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Saw a WoW version and I don’t follow EQ history as well so I wonder

I remember that ranger’s headshot insta-kill (or just insane huge dmg) bow ability was busted for a while. Berserkers got a similar ability called decapitate or something they could use to aoe farm certain mobs

In old school PvP I remember wizards could dump all their mana into some super nuke that would one shot people. Necro’s had a health version too if I reall. Mana burn and life burn? Then they would log off or hide until the cooldown came back and top pvp boards on Sullen Zek

In PVE I remember the necro epic 2.5 boost to dot crit chance was so busted good it was bis long after it’s actual stats became super trivial

Anyway, that’s all the OP shit I remember off the top of my head

WoW version I saw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0v3AMQQhj8

[Jimjam]

Shakerpaging

Earthshaker - has an AoE damage proc on melee attacks.

Rampage - does a melee melee attack on every mob in melee range.

Fortitude - makes you immune to melee damage for about a quarter of a minute.

Combine these 'spells' together:

Gather 100s of mobs, activate fortitude as they come in to melee range to survive the experience. Activate rampage. Swinging against so many mobs at once triggering many casts of your AoE damage spell, wiping out the entire train in an instant, paging your combat console output many times over with your Earthshaker -- hence shaker paging.

Sadly rampage got nerfed that weapons were no longer able to proc from attacks caused by rampage.


Warriors were lucky enough to have another means of mass slaughtering XP mobs.

The discipline 'Furious' turns an enemy's hits against you into a hit against them using your own weapon. It does this again for about a quarter minute.

If you have a weapon with a large enough damage value, with enough damage multipliers, this period of time is enough to 'riposte' an enemy to death. And you can do it to dozens, or even hundreds of mobs at a time.

The drawback is there aren't many parts of the levelling experience where you can have a weapon which can do enough riposte damage to kill XP mobs during Furious. There is one I know of - level 70 in the Hole. There is an axe from later expansions with about 100 damage which can be used at this level. Drop down, gather up as much of the Castle as you can and run them in to a circle so they are all on top of each other. Make sure you have your veteran abilities and so on running to maximise your stats, resists, crits etc. Turn to face them, hit riposte disc and get ready for your 30AA. I don't know whether this combo got removed, but as it is a pretty niche case at what is now an irrelevant level I'd wager it still works.