EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

Arbitrary said:

We've had enough of these servers now that people have mostly checked off everything on their EQ bucket lists. Heck, there's probably a bunch people hooked on the Mischief ruleset that will be hard to hook on a vanilla TLP ever again.

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I think "vanilla" TLPs might be done for quite a while, if not for good. Mischief showed us all a better EQ..

I'd like to box on here but it looks like it's truebox until level 60 and I'm down to one computer. So that's pretty lame. Was thinking SK/Sham, with SK as main. Might start with the Sham for the early content and mainchange at 60 once I can box both.

Any thirds that go well with SK/Sham at lower levels (sub-70)? Magician was my backup idea so I wouldn't mind rolling one of those as DPS backup. Also looking at chanter and bard though.

With the capped levels and higher exp gain, this server is ideal for people who want to have multiple chars even if they don't have a ton of time. Too bad the truebox isn't being lightened until 60, doing that from the get-go would be much more convenient.

Bruuce said:

Prob necro for 3rd if you do sk/shm and plan to box. If you just have a little time to play and cant get a group, you can trio w/ necro charm (at least up to and including 65 content, idk about post 65). You wont be able to keep up heals on your charm pet with shm. With necro you can just break charm, snare, fd while your other 2 toons stay oor and the pet will ooc regen to full in a few seconds. Enchanter without clr youd prob have to camp every so often to do the same. Not sure if theres much for necro to charm post 65 tho

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Necro that knows what they're doing can also kite Yxxta primals at 65, maybe on this server we'll see it happen even earlier. Mage would be less DPS but it'd be a lot safer than running charm on a 3rd box. Allows more AFK and whatnot if I'm banging out some mobs at work.

Drawing a blank on what Necros can charm post 65 but I'm sure there's something good. Undead murkgliders in OOW?

Probably just gonna go SK here and get a secondary shaman running for when it allows boxing. Having a pocket healer to duo things when necessary is pretty invaluable. Might take a while to down enemies without a Mag or Nec along though.

yerm said:

The nice thing about sk shm is there arent many "bad" thirds. Lots of ideas work.

For your magician backup, its a wildly strong class at low levels, but I actually think a necro is generally better here. You don't need malo or your pet to tank, and when trioing your kill speed tends to be slower than a good full group such that nec dots do real work. Chanter and bard are both good. The bard is handy in that it can become super low maintenance without much loss. Enchanter the big drawback is you'll kinda need to charm to get much dps value and you lack strong pet heals.

A lot of people do monk boxes as a third, and my assumption is its a combination of easy afk melee box + can be all iksars. Personally I think a ranger is a better fit for a box; it's easier to gear as a non main and gives your geared sk more adps, plus it can be super low maintenance like a bard IF you wanted to, versus monk who kinda needs to be positioned and sorta kinda should really be clicking its epic. I know you didn't mention monk, but, just saying.

Tldr I recommend necro, bard, or ranger... but anything that isn't a 2nd plate tank works here.

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You're right, Ranger is a possibility too instead of Mag or Nec, especially if AAs are available sooner like Creslin said. I'll figure it out later, might just duo, depends how tryhard I want to be here. Too bad truebox is in at the start because we're gonna be farming a lot of LDONs at first and it'd be sweet to be able to get/do those at odd hours without a group if you pop on. By the time the truebox restrictions are lifted LDON won't be the farm anymore.

Gotta say, the more I thought about this server, the more excited I am for it. My better EQ memories were when we were challenged by content with a limited timeframe to get it done or some other handicap that made us work harder to accomplish the same thing. Most fun I ever had in game was beating Mearatas in-era on TLP with an undergeared force (due to the TLP rushing you along) and a short time limit before it was out of era.



And we nearly got all cheevos on that shot too, except the last cheevo was missed by one particular Mischief sleeper-awakening dolt who knows who he is. No maxed-out evolving Burning Lands armors for us! But whatever, it was such a rush to get that down in-era, knowing that a few days later we'd get five more levels and the victory wouldn't mean nearly as much as it would if we got it done inside of the two months of that TLP phase. Vaniki will probably have a lot of experiences similar to this.