EQ F2P- Returning Players & Current Content

Alasliasolonik_sl said:

That was a straight up copy of someone elses but mine is pretty much the same. Will write it all out nice and easy after I make some dinner and some drinks. I have a pocket druid I use for more debuffs/dps so the spell lineup is a tad different. Different spell line up if i'm just moloing or if I have the druid with me.

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That would be awesome, thanks!

I too am a little interested in those lists, so thanks for that.

I also have another question. I currently have a 93 shaman and 88 necro that I am boxing together. The Teek dailies are just awesome for the time investment, but once those are done like on a weekend, does anyone have any feedback on a good place to xp at this level? The HoT dog/snake tasks are starting to lose their value even though it goes really quick, so was wondering if there are any other places like that (maybe in VoA) that have quick and easy tasks similar or even something I am not aware of? Once I can get the necro to 90-91, I think that will help a lot due to dot crit aa's going up at 91 and a new rogue pet at 90.

With one char. following the other I could maybe kite somewhere (dual dot characters). Someone mentioned Beast's Doman but holy hell the mob density is almost suicidal. Valley is a lot better but the HP on those mobs is nuts.

Apostolos_sl said:

With one char. following the other I could maybe kite somewhere (dual dot characters). Someone mentioned Beast's Doman but holy hell the mob density is almost suicidal. Valley is a lot better but the HP on those mobs is nuts.

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Root rot the stumps in BD. Great xp

Mob HP goes up pretty significantly from HoT to VoA, but it's nothing that a wizard merc can't handle. Necros, when it was current content, preferred the City of Bronze for their kiting fun. Mob density isn't an issue, but it's a T4 zone so mobs will die a little slower, but exp should be better per mob.

I tried BD and using petrifying earth (it says 3min. but its a dirty lie heh) I couldn't keep anything rooted long enough to kill. The higher level Shackle only lasts 1 min. (but not high enough yet). I just not high enough yet? (the the 93 shamy and 88 necro) or am I doing something wrong?

I use the exact same box setup (necro and shammy) for root rotting, and it's mindlessly easy and lazy...two big plusses when I don't want to have to pay too much attention. The shaman actually has 2 separate AA roots-Virulent Paralysis, which you can get down to a 30 second recast time, and Paralytic Spores. What I do is find a nice open spot with single pulls (or double if you want more pulls) and use the shaman to pull because of the instant cast cheetah AA, and malo. Basically, I just hit cheetah, run to the mob, cast AA malo, and then while he's running toward you, hit your fastest casting dot for your level. Then run back to camp, creating some distance because of cheetah speed, and park the mob with VP. Hit the macro on the shaman to start the 5-dot casting rotation. Switch to necro and hit the 5-dot macro on him. You can toss in an extra dot or two before hitting the necro macro if your dps isn't high enough to kill with just the 11 dots, but depending on what you're killing, that shouldn't be a problem. Then just switch back to the shaman and start again. You can have a solid 4+ mobs in camp cooking at all times, if you can find a spot with enough mobs to support that.

Is there a way to turn on the oldschool inspect messages? I can't seem to find one.

I think that message was patched out sometime after 2005, but I can't find a record of it,=.

Zaide_sl said:

Is there a way to turn on the oldschool inspect messages? I can't seem to find one.

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If you do /toggleinspect on|off you can turn on inspecting by rightclicking again. You can also rightclick any PC and then choose the Inspect option.

He meant the "So-and-so is inspecting you" message. I miss the old days when everyone got super butthurt when you inspected them. /rosecolored

Is there some issue with cleric mercs getting stuck on stupid or something? My googlefu can't find anything current. I'll be tanking, killing mobs fine, and then at some point (and sometimes several times a night) the cleric merc just stops healing. I'll have to run around for 15 seconds (or whatever) until it decides to start healing me again (or just toss one heal and stop again, that happens too). My first thought was it's a LOS issue, but nah, because when it stops healing I'll run right over and stand on the damn cleric and still, nada. This is highly frustrating. I play a Ranger, so (esp on snare immune mobs) the healing really can't keep getting interrupted like that or I drop fast.

I keep the cleric on the Efficient setting, marking myself as both the puller and tank when appropriate.

Any ideas on how to fix this, if it is fixable?

Switching the puller setting on and off can make mercs stupid sometimes.

Yeah I'm job hunting and doing some college courses at the minute so for the most part I cba to sit in front of EQ for several hours a day atm. When the initial rush of activity dies down I'll be back again, want to crack on with all that progression/tasking I have to do!

Alasliasolonik_sl said:

That was a straight up copy of someone elses but mine is pretty much the same. Will write it all out nice and easy after I make some dinner and some drinks.

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Alasliasolonik, I'm still checking this thread regularly in the hopes you've had a chance to write out your strat. hint hint