Hint/Tip/Fact Compilation

[Bill Tetley]

Originally Posted by Somekid123 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Somewhere in Neriak I don't recall where, there is a fire pot you can click that drops you in Lesser Faydark at the DE camp near Mistmoore, you use to be able to click back to Neriak. I know that in 2009 dev's removed the ability to click back - Possibly the ability to click down too? I believe its an ancient classic setting though!

Hmm... is this in p99?

[indiscriminate_hater]

shift-clicking automatically chooses the whole stack. alt-left clicking an item pops up the item info (so you don't have to wait w/ the right click method). casting from a sitting position automatically makes you stand up. shift-up / shift-down lets you toggle through your previous chat box commands and tells. F1 targets yourself, F2 first group member, etc.

check out hot keys in the options menu for much more useful stuff (like opening all inventory bags, targeting last person to send you a tell, etc.)

/rewind can get you un-stuck from places like behind that stupid ladder in upper guk leading from the squire to the summoner

"/" is a shortcut for "/who". lots of other shortcuts for classes and names and zones. for example: typing "/ all c 49 60 oa" will give you a list of all un-anonymous clerics 49-60 in the oasis.

also, this one's a bit specific, but bard charm wipes the aggro/hate list on mobs -- excepting, of course, the hate generated from that charm itself. i'm not sure if this works with other class charms, but you can do some pretty cool stuff with this as a bard.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

also, this one's a bit specific, but bard charm wipes the aggro/hate list on mobs -- excepting, of course, the hate generated from that charm itself. i'm not sure if this works with other class charms, but you can do some pretty cool stuff with this as a bard.

Yeah, all charms are like this.

[Lagaidh]

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

speaking of macros, make a 'sense heading' macro and bind it to 'move forward' key. Everytime you move you get a sense heading skillup attempt

I did the same for my Turn Right or Turn Left keys (A,D) because I use them like a steering wheel to correct my course with manual running. ALL of my P99 toons maxxed out Sense Heading before anything else hehe.

Oldie but a goodie.

[Lagaidh]

Originally Posted by Somekid123 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Never tested it here, don't particularly care for it being on a pvp server and rogues chasing you, but when an NPC was chasing you and you'd spin in circles[As in look left/right which makes you spin in place.. simple as that], you would regain your concentration from what I saw 100% of time. Myself and a human druid I cant think of at the time tested this on SZ, believe he even got a Dev to come in and confirm it all though it was unintentional.

I always thought this was because you were sending an update of your location to the server with the turning in place action. I'd run far ahead and then stop moving forward and turning to one side at the same time, then I'd cast a spell. This always ensured the server had been informed that my toon had stopped prior to being informed I started casting a spell.

Unless I'm not understanding what you meant.

That's how I worked this out in my head. Could be waaaay off.

[fadetree]

Nah, thats my understanding too. I still do it to this day to prevent an interrupt.

[Lagaidh]

Oh here's one folks. All casters with a knock back should know this.

You can control the direction of the knock back effect present on many DD spells. I'm a paladin and many later stuns have a knock back effect, meaning that you actually move the mob on which you cast a few feet.

The mob is knocked in the direction the caster is facing when the spell lands. As a tank I used this a lot to keep my mob nearest to me. I would be facing the mob, cast a stun with a knock back, turn around to face the other direction, the knock back spell lands and makes the mob go in the direction I am facing (towards my toon), and then I turn back around for more fighting with a closer mob.

When you have half a raid force that can time this, some of the trickier placement raids after the scope of this server, become easier.

It's still useful here for micro placements.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

When hot keying spells, create macros with two instances of /cast "x". This should help recast after a fizzle. Example:
/cast 3
/cast 3

[zanderklocke]

You can bank through walls. In places like Overthere, you can just run up to the wall and click on the banker from the outside. That way you don't have to deal with KOS mobs on the inside. I suppose this probably works for people in places like NFP too?

Although this was nerfed with the rogue sneak/hide patch and most people didn't know about it, bards could sneak exactly the same way rogues used to be able to. You had to play invis song, click off buff, then get a successful sneak and hide prior to invis buff coming back from song. If it worked, you could walk around invisible to everything except mobs that saw through hide like fire giants. To be even crazier...if you played your lull song while successfully hidden, you could invis pull mobs easily as a bard...you just had to wait until a critical resist.

[myriverse]

Originally Posted by Somekid123 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Somewhere in Neriak I don't recall where, there is a fire pot you can click that drops you in Lesser Faydark at the DE camp near Mistmoore, you use to be able to click back to Neriak. I know that in 2009 dev's removed the ability to click back - Possibly the ability to click down too? I believe its an ancient classic setting though!

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

Hmm... is this in p99?

They should exist, but they are not workable. There's a post on Alla's from 2001 that claims a GM told him it's not yet implemented. So, it's Post-Velious.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=308

Apparently, they were a remnant left from Beta.

https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/i...highway.60134/