It may be because I don’t play twinks (it’s not fun for me), but I’ve consistently had terrible luck trying to exp with her as a shaman, necro, and enchanter. I actually found a YouTube video that was several years old and the dude was talking about how tough she is even as a level 52 necromancer and how the exp basically stops at 53 😹

After almost two years of not trying her, I finally decided to do it again on a new character, got 15% exp from her, and then had two random cyndreela spawns that resisted everything and beat me to death back to back and was now at less exp than where I had been the night prior after grouping with people for hours

And I was drunk lmao

So I raged out and made this thread

I feel like wiki should warn that this camp is kind of meme’ish (especially for the suggested level bracket) or maybe I should make a YouTube video recording why the camp sucks after a random god tier Cyndreela spawns into the game albeit idk if my heart can take it

Also another reason Cyndreela is no joke if you're a squishy, if you get the random Cyndreela that is super resistant, she will likely get Venom of the Snake and Scourge on you, and cancel magic doesn't work on these (at least it doesn't for me, I assume they are poison and disease), so you almost automatically die. Like I was dying 30-40 seconds after she died because the DoT got me as I sat there panicking.

Also IDK the science behind this, but my Rune don't absorb her DoT damage, I guess it only works for physical damage? Because I tried. I mean I'm sure some ultra twinks prob run through her with ease, and I had a few streaks where I was killing her like clock work, but then bam, a resist, and dang, I'm not DoT'd fatally, lol. Like I imagine some other players out there may have some beastly HP items, and resists, but for a normal dude, it can be pretty rough.

Sorry you’re bad and died my condolences

Runes do not absorb dot damage from any source

yeah, she isn't classic apparently

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=24580

post about her dying in 2 Ice comets before even getting a pet summoned in the Cyndreela i know and camped lol.

can make another post and complain about her, Nilbog already nerfed her once might again.

So many camps in classic EQ were just nuking a static spawn and waiting 18 minutes or whatever.

This guy died to a lot of druids in 1999.

https://wiki.project1999.com/Vhalen_Nostrolo

For what it's worth, I always take caster camps with a grain of salt. As you noted, if you get a really bad run of RNG during a kill, things can go south pretty quickly if you're also a caster (especially one with no way to quickly regen the health a DoT might be taking out of you).

I know Nilbog nerfed her resists down years ago, so I think your experience might just be the shitty streaky RNG that you sometimes get hit with in EQ. But yeah good rule of thumb to consider when looking at any caster camp if you're squishy is that the entry isn't necessarily written from a perspective of "if you're squishy and things go bad RNG-wise you'll still be fine".

Is there any validity to the idea EQ has particularly "streaky" RNG compared to any other form of RNG?

Genuine question. I tend to think it's just people getting mad over bad luck, but then I was doing the druid epic a couple months ago on green and I was on the foraging part and I foraged like fifty "roots" in a row.

I don't think there's any validity too it at the end of the day. Although I too at times have wondered if there's validity to the conspiracy theory that the game is coded to ensure things definitely happen a certain percentage of the time, so if you've been having it too easy you'll get a run of bad RNG.

But then I remind myself the amount of data mining that has been done on EverQuest at this point and surely someone would've turned up lines of code as evidence for that?

At the end of the day I think it's just that we play this game so much. And if you do anything enough over a period of time it's just statistically likely that you'll run into streaky periods of RNG...and we remember those more because they stand out, unlike the thousands of hours of normal RNG that we've gone through.