The Official Velious Memories Thread

[Safon]

With the devs hard at work on Velious, let's get some Velious stories, wish lists and excitement flowing. Can only help the population grow even more than it has in recent weeks. Share some memories or things you are looking forward to in the new continent. The beta may not be out for awhile, but this helps satiate the cravings!

[Alarti0001]

I look forward to the first kromrif death squad victim.

[Safon]

Lol could you elaborate on that please, Velious is new to me

[Ele]

I can't wait to re-enact this for real and film it in 1080p.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AcAxGE-8ag

[ArumTP]

I can't wait for some fool to die to woushi

[Alarti0001]

Lol could you elaborate on that please, Velious is new to me

No dont want to ruin it for you the surprise is 90% of the fun

[Aryllyian]

Snow Cougars right off the dock...first day...hard to see...sending many folks back to their bind spots back home...

[Danyelle]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=6736

I know, as a mage, I'm not the class to use it. Don't give a fuck. Just knowing people will be wearing this sexy graphic shield is enough <3



However, as a mage, Monster Summoning. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Monster Summoning.

[JenJen]

the pretty shiny glittery rivers

[brianvp]

Oh, the worst experience I can remember was when I was first exploring Thurg on my low 40's dwarf warrior, and while crossing the bridge, of course I hit that duchebag of a developer's idea of ice and slipped to the side, and then to the other side, and of course fell off the side. So there is a zone in to IK so nicely put there as to help poor fallen of the bridge noobs like me right? trying to get out I zoned in, and of course before I realized where I was, a golem and like 10 phoboplasm things skull F*cked me.

So after about 10 people wisely told me to get bent when asking for help in IK for CR, I get a rezzer to come to the ledge where the bridge was, but come to find out, that is the worst place to zone into, as he died also trying to rez me. Being not so smart I followed him into the zone in, and Apparently a golem was at the zone in still ( bugged maybe ) and killed me again and him on the spot. We eventually had to get a necro with coffins to summon us to the other entrance of the zone. All in all this whole process probably took 4-5 hours in the end, and was one of the worst CRs I can remember. I lost alot of exp also due to the timers expiring, and for a while was worried about my gear even. The really really sad part of this whole ordeal, was Instead of just asking a druid or something to port me out, I had to just poke my nose into IK lol.

That wasn't the last time I slid off of that bridge either! But I never was quite so foolish to zone into that side of IK again. Kromriff death squads got me at least a few times too, that run through Eastern wastes was awful. I had some fun times in Kael pulling on my monk, probably the funnest zone of all time for me, and I loved the faction and the armor quests too for monk, since Kunark didn't really have much to look forward to armor wise. ( Not that monks needed cobalt in kunark =D)

Funny thing though, I was telling my GF about this story, and her son was standing there listening. She said something that sort of struck me, and really goes back to why I think Everquest was so much better than most of the MMOs that are in existence. Everquest in many ways emulates being a kid, you touch the stove and burn yourself, you know not to touch the stove again. It burned, it hurt, but it healed and you suddenly are empowered by this new knowledge, and you can dust yourself off and go back into the world wiser. I think everquest scuffs the knee, burns the hand, just like being a kid does, but somehow unlike other MMOs I have played ( played over 20 other major MMOs over 12 years ) Everquest in the older "vision" days really had that sort of attitude similar to parents talking to their kids. You hated your parents for discipline, or thought they were idiots and didn't know crap about you, but really they were building you to be a good person and have morals, education etc. We can thank our parents now, just like Everquest in some ways with it's designers' attitudes of " this is working as intended, and doesn't need to be changed for a reason " sounded arrogant and not giving into the players wants....but what happens to games/children when you just give in to their wants? They become spoiled rotten.

[Kassel]

This one day, me and my buddy stairs killed Lodi, I got a sweet turtle belt and a the 4th map peace. Later that day my guild went to hate and got our first Inny 1.5 kill I got some sweet halfing only 20 MR shoes that show my harry feet. Inny also dropped an Shattered Emerald of Corruption, I passed it to my pal as it completed her epic and i still needed to go to sky. Karma being on my side we pulled a few mini bosses and guess what, a 2nd Shattered Emerald of Corruption for yours truly ! What a great day it had been for this Halfling ranger. I decided i would camp out in Icecald to work on that dread pain in the ass Stormfeather, but guess what, when i got to his spawn point he was up !! A little more running around and BOOM, eye patch of plunder completed in half a day with a raid in the middle !

By far one of my fav days in Velious, Its funny because i remember it like yesterday....oh wait it did happened yesterday July 5th 2012.

Why dream when you can live?

[happyhappy]

Caught in a snow storm in the middle of EW with no compass, no printed map, no way to alt tab without LDing while playing in fullscreen, nobody in zone at 4am to help with a /loc, prolly took me an hour to find rygorr fort.

The fondest memories.

[Safon]

This one day, me and my buddy stairs killed Lodi, I got a sweet turtle belt and a the 4th map peace. Later that day my guild went to hate and got our first Inny 1.5 kill I got some sweet halfing only 20 MR shoes that show my harry feet. Inny also dropped an Shattered Emerald of Corruption, I passed it to my pal as it completed her epic and i still needed to go to sky. Karma being on my side we pulled a few mini bosses and guess what, a 2nd Shattered Emerald of Corruption for yours truly ! What a great day it had been for this Halfling ranger. I decided i would camp out in Icecald to work on that dread pain in the ass Stormfeather, but guess what, when i got to his spawn point he was up !! A little more running around and BOOM, eye patch of plunder completed in half a day with a raid in the middle !

By far one of my fav days in Velious, Its funny because i remember it like yesterday....oh wait it did happened yesterday July 5th 2012.

Why dream when you can live?

Your server died with the advent of cats on the moon

[Safon]

Nvm found out the answer

[Safon]

Phase spider carapace, silver chitin handwraps, lodizal, ToV, necropolis, WW 6 manning dragons, shamans and necros soloing WW dragons, armor quests for 3 different factions, expansion is the shit.

Velks sucked blue hair dont care what anyone has to say to that.

Can you elaborate on how shamans and necro's solo WW dragons pls? And what the drops are that make doing so worth it.

I imagine they summon, so it seems like it would be quite difficult

[happyhappy]

Any port ins to Velious?

Yes but they required keys or something.

[brianvp]

Great Divide key yeah. Iceclad was also a port in, but didn't require a key from what I remember but it might have. Then you could take the boat from Nro to Iceclad, and run through EW to get to GD.

[happyhappy]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=38562
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=3939

[Safon]

Can you elaborate on how shamans and necro's solo WW dragons pls? And what the drops are that make doing so worth it.

I imagine they summon, so it seems like it would be quite difficult

Well I guess since shamans have slow + torpor, but how would a Necro do it?

[brianvp]

The keys were basically just intended to make everyone walk through part of the expansion to venture the dangers, see the sights etc. They weren't really hard to get, but they took the key req out pretty fast after the launch.

[happyhappy]

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December 4, 2001 6:00 am
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*** Welcome to Luclin ***

"As you know, youngster, we of the League of Antonican Bards have made
it our primary goal to travel to places before others. It is our duty
to see what hasn't yet been seen and to make song of it when we return.
We carry news, song and spirit to all of Norrath. We have also taken it
upon ourselves to carry personal news in the form of letters wherever
possible. And that's what I've called you here to talk about.

...

- Velious portal teeth (Great Divide, Wakening Lands and Cobalt Scar)
are no longer required to teleport to those locations. These items are
also no longer soul bound.

[Hagglebaron]

Well I guess since shamans have slow + torpor, but how would a Necro do it?

Curious about this too, if anyone knows!

[brianvp]

I loved that idea for league of antonican bards, that was fun to do sometimes when you were bored. I used to just make a lvl 5 bard and see how far I could get without dying somewhere, I would just plan a night around it.

[Relapse1]

This one day, me and my buddy stairs killed Lodi, I got a sweet turtle belt and a the 4th map peace. Later that day my guild went to hate and got our first Inny 1.5 kill I got some sweet halfing only 20 MR shoes that show my harry feet. Inny also dropped an Shattered Emerald of Corruption, I passed it to my pal as it completed her epic and i still needed to go to sky. Karma being on my side we pulled a few mini bosses and guess what, a 2nd Shattered Emerald of Corruption for yours truly ! What a great day it had been for this Halfling ranger. I decided i would camp out in Icecald to work on that dread pain in the ass Stormfeather, but guess what, when i got to his spawn point he was up !! A little more running around and BOOM, eye patch of plunder completed in half a day with a raid in the middle !

By far one of my fav days in Velious, Its funny because i remember it like yesterday....oh wait it did happened yesterday July 5th 2012.

Why dream when you can live?
<3

[Hagglebaron]

Your server died with the advent of cats on the moon

[Safon]

Well I guess since shamans have slow + torpor, but how would a Necro do it?

No one besides the guy who posted about it knows how this is done by a necro?

[Azu]

My fondest memories of all of everquest were back in my velious days, farming the Geo's in CC. I loved that zone

[Safon]

It's not actually possible for necros to solo wurms/dragons in WW like shamans can is it

[Alarti0001]

Some SK's can tho

[Razdeline]

Fearkite

[Safon]

Fearkite

Hmm, so shadowknights and necromancers can fear kite them eh, sounds exciting! Would the clicky fear staff work reliably for the job?

[Snagglepuss]

Working on trade skilling to get those shawls! Snow Griffin eggs! Glowing Wurm Bile! Crystalline Silk!

The original Velious only had six shawl quests right? Weren't the flowing thought and the Zephyr of Brell ones added later? I started a few weeks before Luclin...

[Danyelle]

Working on trade skilling to get those shawls! Snow Griffin eggs! Glowing Wurm Bile! Crystalline Silk!

The original Velious only had six shawl quests right? Weren't the flowing thought and the Zephyr of Brell ones added later? I started a few weeks before Luclin...

I'm pretty sure they were. There was a thread awhile back, think Ele posted the patch notes that confirmed it.

Don't quote me on that though.

[Liukang]

Snow Cougars right off the dock...first day...hard to see...sending many folks back to their bind spots back home...

yes yes this is true ... this is true

[nilbog]

Working on trade skilling to get those shawls! Snow Griffin eggs! Glowing Wurm Bile! Crystalline Silk!

The original Velious only had six shawl quests right? Weren't the flowing thought and the Zephyr of Brell ones added later? I started a few weeks before Luclin...

7 shawls were available pre-Luclin. So the one with Flowing Thought I will be available.

[Dullah]

Remember soloing dragons on my monk in ww by training quest giants that spawn over SG on their faces. Epic battles ensue and i would swing in, get a few hits and grab the loot.

My alts had exquisite velium weapons.

More lucky than exploit.

[SirAlvarex]

Remember soloing dragons on my monk in ww by training quest giants that spawn over SG on their faces. Epic battles ensue and i would swing in, get a few hits and grab the loot.

My alts had exquisite velium weapons.

More lucky than exploit.

I didn't do much high end Velious stuff, but once while sitting outside Thurgadin a guild was doing one of the ring quests (final one?), which involved spawning a giant. They trained him on the guards, who took the bad boy down to about 50% health and finished him off. I was on my 35 ranger at that time, and I actually won the loot roll for some awesome sword off him with a perfect 100. Of course the guild didn't give it to me, but it was a good laugh at the time :)

So yeah, not exploit. Smart strategy IMO.

[Barrier]

Just the first time my guild beat Sontalak and of all classes, there was only one person who survived. A ranger. Sontalak saying he must be careful not to squish people because they won't be crunchy or something was funny.

Then after weeks (months?) of telling my guild we could do NToV. We could handle it. We finally go and we did pretty well.

[ArumTP]

Yeah sontalak he was the testing halls boss, I remember him, killing him, and seeing nothing cause I had to stand behind a pole the whole time. I also remember failing on him like 2 or 3 times before getting it right. Soon as we got him down, other stuff became seemingly doable. Like 4 months later we downed statue after mastering vindi splitting/killing.

[Daldaen]

I look forward to the first kromrif death squad victim.

[Sat Jul 07 20:14:46 2012] You have been ambushed by Frost Giants!
[Sat Jul 07 20:14:51 2012] Kromrif Death Squad scowls at you, ready to attack -- You could probably win this fight.
[Sat Jul 07 20:15:06 2012] Kromrif Death Squad slashes YOU for 66 points of damage.
[Sat Jul 07 20:15:06 2012] Kromrif Death Squad slashes YOU for 43 points of damage.
[Sat Jul 07 20:15:06 2012] Kromrif Death Squad kicks YOU for 39 points of damage.
[Sat Jul 07 20:15:06 2012] Kromrif Death Squad hits YOU for 101 points of damage.
[Sat Jul 07 20:15:06 2012] Kromrif Death Squad kicks YOU for 39 points of damage.
[Sat Jul 07 20:15:07 2012] Your target resisted the Ensnare spell.

Didn't die but holy jesus are those the most annoying things ever. That part of the quest is just infuriating, even when you are a pet class.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=1240

[Sat Jul 07 21:10:15 2012] You stumble over a pile of snow exposing a Coldain!
[Sat Jul 07 21:10:29 2012] Tanik Greskil says 'Thank you, . I shall be eternally grateful to you. Should you ever require my assistance I pledge to you my aid. Please deliver this to Borannin, it is imperative that he deliver this to the Dain at once. Farewell for now outlander...'
[Sat Jul 07 21:10:29 2012] You gain experience!!

tl;dr for the person who asked a question, if you have terrible luck, there are traps above the valley heading into Kael (from Eastern Wastes) which spawn 2-4 Kromrif Death Squad NPCs which are very resistant and hit in the 130-140 realm. The traps are PHers for an NPC for the 4th shawl quest.

Go go shawls... Side note, F Tailoring.

Also was doing the Coldain rings today, such a boss quest line. However it was bugged (and still is on Al'Kabor) since its creation making the 6th ring a pita to obtain.

[Phallax]

I can't wait to re-enact this for real and film it in 1080p.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AcAxGE-8ag

Good ole Talisman, its crazy how much that video still gets viewed. I wasnt on that raid but was in the guild and remember replaying the vid over and over for days.

I dunno why but Lodizal and PoG have some of my better Velious memories. And of course Vindi, shaman BP ftw!

[Ryba]

Share some memories or things you are looking forward to in the new continent.

Custom Cowl of Mortality on Iksar monk

Horn of Hsagra and Eyepatch of Shadows on my level 1 barb rogue

Crystal effin' caverns

Coldain Ring quest

Zlandi heart

Coin purses and ToFS bandage summoning dagger

Uncontested Kunark solo camps (HS, etc)

Snow


Not: Siren's Grotto corpse retrieval

Not: failing to upgrade my weapon (TStaff) for an entire expansion (Caen's Bo Staff) because I was a terrible player in a terrible guild

Not: Having to care about factions for the first time

Not: New models

[Hollywood]

Anything in Velk's lab... Rygorr Fort...cougar hill in Great Wastes... Siren's Grotto. .. PKng in Thurgadain...finding grass in Wakening Lands..and of course Kerafym.

[Snagglepuss]

Tower of Frozen Shadows is one of my favorite zones ever. It epitomizes the classic MUD "dungeon crawl". From collecting keys to avoiding traps, it makes for an interesting group experience. I loved crashing the monster wedding and making it to the top floor where Tserrina lives. Her robe had a pretty cool blue graphic that not a lot of players wore.

[bridgetroll]

Tower of Frozen Shadows is one of my favorite zones ever. It epitomizes the classic MUD "dungeon crawl". From collecting keys to avoiding traps, it makes for an interesting group experience. I loved crashing the monster wedding and making it to the top floor where Tserrina lives. Her robe had a pretty cool blue graphic that not a lot of players wore.

i was just about to post about ToFS. seriously one of my fav places in eq. i never did a raid to clear all the levels, but i think i did get a few levels up with a guild one time. had a blast.

can't wait for velious, so many good times to be had.

[Versus]

I was a nice blue newb when Velious dropped so I had the pleasure of grinding hard in Velious for exp. I'm kind of saddened that I'll probably just be grinding for cash now and probably grow weary of it, but Velks will bring back some serious memories.

I wonder how many times I've slipped on that fucking slippery ice balcony shit OTW to dogs in Velks and wound up in the pits begging for an evac.

[douglas1999]

Coldain Mahfuckin Prayer Shawl. And rushing for Lodi.

[coki]

Eyepatch of Plunder
Tantors tusks
Massive Dragonclaw shard's

fun times

[Brut]

I just remembers waltzing to GDivide, shouting "what can a 24shm kill here" and people replying "yourself". =(

[Honest]

When Velious first came out I was running around the Great Divide on my warrior, I was traveling along the edges of the zone because everything was new and I wasn't sure what was out there. I come over a little ridge and then began to fall straight into the trench entrance for Kael. I knew I was in trouble when I didnt hit ground after 3 seconds. LOADING PLEASE WAIT.....

[Ticklemered]

Organizing a 13 cleric ch rotation for AoW without voice chat and not screwing it up for 20 min while picking up mod rods, now that was intense.

[falkun]

13 clerics? Did you sub clerics in and out as they had/lost mana or were you literally doing a >1CH/sec chain?

[Ticklemered]

13 clerics? Did you sub clerics in and out as they had/lost mana or were you literally doing a >1CH/sec chain?

this was pre mod rod nerf, so the floor was covered in them, we had necros healing/twitching clerics, druids healing clerics, I can't remember the time interval. It would always fall apart when he was at 5% and every melee took a turn tanking for a couple seconds while we just healed whoever we could target.

[Atmas]

13 clerics? Did you sub clerics in and out as they had/lost mana or were you literally doing a >1CH/sec chain?

13 Clerics doesn't mean you can't adjust the interval between.

[falkun]

13 Clerics doesn't mean you can't adjust the interval between.

There are 10 seconds per Complete Heal. The only reasons to run more than 10 clerics in a chain are to
A) have higher frequency than 1CH/sec
B) swap (or delay) clerics for mana conservation.

I touched on both reasons with my question.

[Kimm Barely]

http://i.imgur.com/Bbkei.jpg

[Atmas]

Sorry, the original question had just looked like frequency or swap but no delay to me. Doesn't really matter.

I recall staying up half a night to run around Skyshrine. The zone was massive and I didn't really know where I was going but I had good faction from killing giants and loved the sesne of exploring.

I remember as others have mentioned the awesome classical dungeon crawl feel that you got with ToFS. I also remember hating those damn whirling dervishes that seemed to always key in on me when I was trying to med outside.

Death squads, trains in velks, custom helms, Ring war. /drool

[Zenlina]

I guess on launch Boat from Nro be something like this

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And one from another place

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