EQ TLP(s) 2026 Part 1: PvP or go cuddle your mother

Flobee said:

What level do folks start farm PoH trash for gear? Was thinking for our 4 we'd need to be at least 55, but maybe can do 53ish if we grab some DPS? I've never actually done a single group trash farm though so honestly don't know. Also need to double check and make sure my Bard can mez that stuff

Also Druid prob ain't gunna charm, but we're working on more dots/nukes

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50 is fine for trash clears. Me and a buddy weren't raiding on Mischief when it first launched and did PoH DZ trash clears once a week for a while. I think we had 6 though. War/enc/2clr/mag/shm.

No shm or enc slow could be annoying. Never played a bard so not sure how good their slow is. The higher lvl you get the less it will matter though.

If you have a druid for dps and the dude doesnt charm in velks, you probably shouldnt slow either as it hurts the ds output...

Flobee said:

What level do folks start farm PoH trash for gear? Was thinking for our 4 we'd need to be at least 55, but maybe can do 53ish if we grab some DPS? I've never actually done a single group trash farm though so honestly don't know. Also need to double check and make sure my Bard can mez that stuff

Also Druid prob ain't gunna charm, but we're working on more dots/nukes

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A 46 Druid can solo in hate and fear easily. Just snare and do the ole cubby shuffle for pathing.

Daidraco said:

MNM Thread up on the other monitor. Zzzz

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Wake up douchebag. MMO is dead

Mini said:

A 46 Druid can solo in hate and fear easily. Just snare and do the ole cubby shuffle for pathing.

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Why would you want to in 2026 though

Flobee said:

What level do folks start farm PoH trash for gear? Was thinking for our 4 we'd need to be at least 55, but maybe can do 53ish if we grab some DPS? I've never actually done a single group trash farm though so honestly don't know. Also need to double check and make sure my Bard can mez that stuff

Also Druid prob ain't gunna charm, but we're working on more dots/nukes

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If your Druid friend stresses out by charming (I don’t blame him) you can just have bard constantly sing Mez song on the pet so it is ezpz on charm breaks

Kithani said:

If your Druid friend stresses out by charming (I don’t blame him) you can just have bard constantly sing Mez song on the pet so it is ezpz on charm breaks

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Y'all never made it to live and never got enough TLP? Sad

Whos playing this server? Back from vacation and hit 51.

Animosity said:

Whos playing this server? Back from vacation and hit 51.

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I'm still leveling my 3 box group. Following the resource zones has had me in a bunch of new zones which has been cool. Late night raiding guild past curfew has been raiding im not there yet but will be soon. They seem to have 2-3 splits with boxes for raids.

The resource hunter bonuses do one of things i wanted TLPs to do for a long time now - change up where people level. Changing all the ZEMs each TLP to add variety seemed like a no-brainer to me but this is just fine. I've pulled in some big exp hauls in places I never had any reason to grind in before. People do chase the bonuses and people are still leveling.

Arbitrary said:

The resource hunter bonuses do one of things i wanted TLPs to do for a long time now - change up where people level. Changing all the ZEMs each TLP to add variety seemed like a no-brainer to me but this is just fine. I've pulled in some big exp hauls in places I never had any reason to grind in before. People do chase the bonuses and people are still leveling.

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Yeah im really not sure how the respurce hunter and zem works, ive had 2 levels where I was getting 16% a kill and then once I hit 33 it went back to the 8%. Farming mass blues seems to be the sweetspot for me, getting 4-7% for killing a blue mob, i get more loot. Killing reds is hard/risky on a charm break and doesnt seem to result in much more exp.

The interaction between the amount of exp you need for any particular level, the group bonus, resource hunter bonus, perk bonus and exp pot and how all of that affects the per kill exp cap is one gigantic black box. Sometimes that box spits out numbers that don't make much sense. I would have thought the exp cap was just a fixed and immutable percentage determined by your level but that does not seem to be the case. At least some inputs change how it's maximum size is calculated.

If you're soloing it's worthwhile to kill a range of monsters. Level minus one blues might cap you so why fuck around with yellows or reds at all. If you're grouping with all the bonuses you can sometimes go all the way down to light blues if you've got high volume and fast kill speed. Once you're working your way through the 50s killing higher level stuff is nice but there's less places to do that. Even if you can't the worst camp in hotzone Seb still fills the bar with the added bonus of you can stuff your group with any assortment of classes. For being the server where the kids voted for icecream at every meal Frostreaver produces a superior grouping experience to the other TLPs. I'm just so completely over the CLR/ENC/MAG shell. When exp is shitty everyone gets priced in to the charm pet meta. Those people finish leveling, which still takes a long ass time and everyone else has to get by with much less doing way worse. Here you can have oldschool (i.e. terrible) comps in mediocre camps and still level at a speedy pace.