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So like, are tank mercs useless after a certain level? I'm practically chain healing my merc after slowing light blue mobs at 81. Makes the game difficult when my monk can't tank at all

Funny. On Al'Kabor I beat the trial of execution, 6 boxing, by pulling mobs to a corner and spamming PBAoEs, having casters tank the mobs who were wearing several pieces of 2g vendor cloth and adviser robes. Some of the other trials were pretty brutal (flame) but if you couldn't get into...

I've been going to hot zones, but not using DS potions. Can you DS your mercs with them? My monk seems to be doing shit for DPS; way less than half that of a tank merc. Oddly enough melee damage mercs seem to do less than tank mercs too, at least at my level.

56. Seems kind of slower than guides have mentioned though; not sure how people get level 60 in 10 hours without powerleveling. Perhaps I am neglecting something.

No. I really loathe bugging people for favors; particularly people I don't know. I do have 3 heirloom 50% 30 minute potions on a character I am copying over twice a day though which I am stockpiling.

Is there a level I should stop and farm AAs at? I figure there has to be some sweet spots on the way up, what with the new way AA exp is granted nowadays.

They removed the ring event years ago, and I think they changed his damage when they did it. I still have a log from when I tanked him back in 2001, and it has 87 hits from him in it, which is many times over the number of hits required to determine the min and max hits with certainty. I can...

That's nice. It still doesn't prove the sleeper was regularly woken up. Kegz would have to know who did it to know it was happening. Even if people were crashing ST, it seems to me it would make more sense to crash it after killing everything but ventani anyway.

They had already decided to make them not rechargable before I spoke to him, before the server even went up. Rogean thought the changes were already made but somehow they didn't go in or something.

I would guess monk gear would have more avoidance than shielding too, so that sounds good. I do sort of like to box though, and killing mobs fast to factor out regen is an issue. Monk + Shaman still good?

Ok, so who are these people and how did they crash both zones? You realize there were people duping items, so the number of SoDs isn't proof of anything.

Spell mitigation and melee avoidance are fine, I just need to avoid effects that alter a mob's DB or DI (i.e. shielding). I would wear inferior gear and simply play more characters if it made the content undoable. edit: also I know the min/max hits on most raid bosses anyway, it's the max hp...

Hi guys. I require the wisdom of somebody familiar with the modern EverQuest. Ever since the shutdown notice of Al'kabor, I've given myself the mission of making the emulator databases more accurate. I've collected a lot of data on trash mobs before the shutdown, but I was of course time...

Sounds like the GMs are doing a bang up job. Keep up the great work guys.

You're assuming Kegz is telling the truth. If that were true, then why would Hobart have to intervene after IB woke it up? 'because they didn't know the exploit' doesn't really work as an explanation because you would somehow have to know this mythical exploit existed beforehand, and you only...

You forgot some stuff. 4) Bolt spells had NO LoS check at all, allowing magicians to nuke through walls at ranges so distant that you couldn't even see the 'soandso begins to cast' message. 5) Whirl stuns were lasting upwards of FOUR TICKS. Enchanter casts a 55 mana, 2.5 second cast spell...

Funny, I never got a single 'anti-PC' comment from anybody and I literally wrote the how-to installation guide. Perhaps the hatred didn't stem from what client you guys used but rather your so-called 'best of intentions' attitude. Wait, you guys were only trained three times? Malignant called...

Am I correct in assuming that you guys are using Project EQ's database? I've been working to make the classic to PoP eras more accurate since the Al'Kabor shutdown notice because PEQ's info is very wrong, and to that end I've been parsing logs and suiciding on raid mobs the last few weeks...

Keep in mind though, the database has a lot of inaccurate data. Tunare for example is actually level 70; the level 66 version disappears when attacked and spawns the 'real' version outside the tree. She hits for a range of 165-925.

1) A challenging game from day one level one mob one. No ez-mode for 20 levels bullshit. 2) No wizards and melee doing the same DPS with unlimited low-damage spells 3) no super fast OOC regen. No 'modes' that disable abilities in or out of 'combat mode' 4) ZERO instances 5) weather 6)...

Haha Nihilum is still blatantly exploiting raid mobs? And in front of rivals no less? That guild has to be the most pathetic and dirty guild I've ever seen. Is wheelchair druid going to play three servers when teams comes out? Another server to RMT on so most likely. Did Rogean ever get...

Huffwins was also training Gaeldar/Esildor and his brother Minsc and their friend Manbear in ssra and seru. They brought it to the forums with screenshots months ago and Tem did nothing about it. Every Tem I've met has been nothing but kind to me, but they really should have done something.

That's a fair point. Al'Kabor definitely had some black sheep even before the PC client. It's just I know full well how IB acts from my interactions with them on p99 from a couple of years ago. In all honesty it's not the hacking and exploiting that pisses people off as much as the bad...

A Temerity member, Huffwins, trained TSE's Rallos attempts, preventing them from entering the elemental planes. Mostly because TSE did not want to join rotations like every other guild and took every mob they could while also constantly ridiculing the other guilds for not progressing as fast as...

Project EQ's server goes up to GoD currently. EQ Emulator can go up several expacs higher. The emulator and the database are separate projects. I also used this past week to get around to making some videos I neglected due to joining a raiding guild that was in hardcore progression mode...

The mission I have given myself since the shutdown notice is to assist Project EQ as much as I can for the next month. Project EQ is the main database for the emus. If anybody else wants to contribute, an easy thing to do is simply log the min and max hits of various mobs-- especially in...

Does anybody have a Veeshan's Peak keyed character they wouldn't mind letting me use?

That's just it: long solo downtime was the primary driver to get people to form groups. You won't be reading books or watching youtube in competent groups. All classes become much, much more efficient in groups. This is why EQ is a "required grouping" game-- not because soloing is 100%...

If I were Sony, I would take Al'Kabor's server code+database+old zones and make it run with the modern PC client-- which I assume already has a 'progression mode' to strip out certain things for the progression servers-- then use that as a new progression server that will never go beyond PoP for...

Some of them certainly do know about it. I talk to Elidroth about it occasionally.

Oh no! HUNDREDS of hours! I'm not sure MMORPGs are for you. If you don't enjoy the leveling journey then why play the game? I realize WoW turned leveling into a one week linear quest grind that preceded the loot badge collecting, but classic EQ was more about the leveling than anything else...

Oh if only they were as skilled at pit waring and botting CH rotations as you guys were. I suppose they should have had their cleric player pay for 5 accounts during the time the server had a subscription while botting the heals? Must suck to have that guy get banned. Sounds like something...

Yes, and once it leaves the control of Sony, you will find MANY eager programmers more than willing to fix those things. I'm not Hobart or Secrets, but I can certainly fix some of those things myself. The problem with the Test server is that server is modern EQ. I'm sure if I told people at...

Need a disgruntled, possibly about-to-leave SOE employee to copy EQMac's server code plus NPC, item, and quest database and release it into the wild somehow (torrent, usenet, megaupload, wikileaks, whatever) EQ must be saved from those at Sony who would destroy it

Why the hell do people keep making EQ emus and then remove what made EQ what it was? Out-of-combat regen alone is a huge deal breaker, let alone removing the entire raiding end game. What's the point? Might as well play WoW and have a superior UI while you 'raid' 10 mans. I play EQ because...

Let me know when Rogean does something about the terrible state of the raiding scene on that server

Smed is just killing EQ intentionally or otherwise. Everything Sony has done post-POP has been to the detriment of EQ. He WoWified EQ1 PC, turning the game into something that is nothing like the game we remember He made EQ2, from day one of the design doc, NOTHING like EverQuest He killed...

I think the GMs were treating Al'Kabor like the PC servers. And their policies are probably set up to not ban paying customers unless they do REALLY bad shit and get caught red-handed. Even then they still don't permaban. GMs WATCHING somebody warp around with hacks and train people gets them...

And I hope bad things happen to that stupid fucking moron New Age Soldier guy. Way to release a warp hack publicly on a free server with no policing hosted by a company barely staying afloat. Fucking idiot.

So in other words, Smed let the hackers win. Instead of doing something sensible, like implementing a small sub fee to pay for the single GM that could police the server, he just decided to shut it off. Thanks for letting people like Relapse win, Smed. Let me explain what has been...