the server, loot and the way things are

[Grod]

Content is obviously going to be easier here then it was on live for a magnitude of reasons. For one, some spells are the updated versions of the originals that were improved over time and not quite classic even though they are the same spells even if it's minor like a longer buff duration, improved pets, "fixes" that weren't in on live such as mob push, not really seeing the same low hp agro that live had etc and lastly superior knowledge as the content is old for most people.

One thing that was "cool" about EQ though is that it let you think outside of the box. For example, you could kite a lot of mobs around and hold agro on all of them if you /dueled with someone to get yourself down to 5% life prior to engaging and removed hp regen. Now, you obviously could not get hit, but with bard speed or SoW and if you did it flawlessly you could potentially have one person control all of the adds in a raid encounter when most guilds required 5-20 to do the same thing. All you had to do was something small like shoot an arrow to get on the hate list and the mob would be locked on you. The low HP agro would keep it all on the kiter regardless of how many heals the Healers were casting. In this method one person could control what normally took 5-25 people to do and was especially useful in outdoor areas with non-casting adds.

Another "outside of the box" was pre-kunark I used to pull the higher islands in Air to the lower islands using ressing. Basically you put a corpse on the island you are on, then port to the higher island where the mobs are and get a res box up on your screen. You agro the mobs and jump off the island towards the previous island and accept the res before you finish falling to the bottom, you have someone on the island below pull them as they pass before they reset and it splits and pulls the mobs to the previous island. It made it far easier to break into the more difficult islands because you could single pull them and not have to worry about adds or tight positioning on a new island not to mention it was far easier to recover from a wipe. It's just the beauty of Everquest that you don't see anymore in new games.

[Kassel]

Rez box training on Sullon Zek is one of my fav memorys of EQ LIVE

[girth]

Originally Posted by Grod [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Another "outside of the box" was pre-kunark I used to pull the higher islands in Air to the lower islands using ressing. Basically you put a corpse on the island you are on, then port to the higher island where the mobs are and get a res box up on your screen. You agro the mobs and jump off the island towards the previous island and accept the res before you finish falling to the bottom, you have someone on the island below pull them as they pass before they reset and it splits and pulls the mobs to the previous island. It made it far easier to break into the more difficult islands because you could single pull them and not have to worry about adds or tight positioning on a new island not to mention it was far easier to recover from a wipe. It's just the beauty of Everquest that you don't see anymore in new games.

Rez pulling was nerfed on here for some weird reason. It was an intentional change though never put in patch notes IIRC.

[azeth]

Originally Posted by Trimm [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

just maybe have the dual-wield DPS looked at.

preferably the wing blade drop rate looked at [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I'm pretty positive his dual wielding dps wasn't a problem in classic as the wingblade should be the rarest of loots, indeed.

[Rhambuk]

Originally Posted by azeth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

preferably the wing blade drop rate looked at [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I'm pretty positive his dual wielding dps wasn't a problem in classic as the wingblade should be the rarest of loots, indeed.

I thought they tuned the rarity of the sword when epics were released to increase the difficulty for wars, for some...unnecessary reason.

It would be nice if they made it a bit rarer, no more rangerblades pls, and wtf is with lord dropping lesser boss loot weight of the gods? necro bracer? weak

[azeth]

Originally Posted by Rhambuk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

wtf is with lord dropping lesser boss loot weight of the gods? necro bracer? weak

^ THIS

[Molitoth]

Originally Posted by Trimm [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah Stefen, I think for once we're all actually in agreement here. I think its awesome that there is content that is pretty much untouchable right now. I'm eager to try it out once Kunark rolls around.

Regarding Spiroc Lord, he is hard, not everyone can kill him right now, but he is defiantly doable. I don't think he should be toned down per-say, just maybe have the dual-wield DPS looked at.

IMO he should not drop the wingblade everytime, and should drop x2 loots from the tier2 loot tables. It sucks spending all that time to kill him for wingblade rots and 1 item that sometimes can't even be used... (druid belt?)

[girth]

According to: http://axclassic.com/~tdayin/TRinfo/npc.php?id=71012

He doesn't even have the chance to dual wield them.

[guineapig]

Originally Posted by girth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

According to: http://axclassic.com/~tdayin/TRinfo/npc.php?id=71012

He shouldn't even have the chance to dual wield them.

Fixed.

However that link also includes a slot for spells which isn't in the classic version of this mob.

[nilbog]

axclassic for data? if you wanted a copy of a public eqemu database, there are 2 options... peq or axclassic.

That isn't a source of anything, just someone's eqemu allakhazam clone page.