EverQuest Ascendant! Just started in Feb

Sylas

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Ok once I got a better weapon than a rusty sword and was able to actually kill shit, the exp is actually pretty fast, faster than THJ even, at least initially. you are capped at 10% of your level of exp per kill though. I set my exp to 50% AA at like level 15 which was way too soon but since you can unlock like any AAs you want most without prereqs I figured getting touch of the cursed etc would help me kill faster
 
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Sylas

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got to 30 hit lguk set my AA exp to 100%

But this isn't THJ. While I can solo, and eventually will have AAs from all the classes and will be some sort of god like being, I'm not 3 classes like THJ. I'm just a SK, which means i'm not able to AOE down tons of mobs, I gotta kill them one at a time. The classes that can do that, aren't any good at melee or tank or sustain or anything that a SK is good at.

No matter, I thought, i'll just AA up slay undead (Paladin AA) and that will allow me to churn through AA just as quick even though i'm single target. Except you can't grind any AA but your own class. What I have to do instead is farm up 3-5 greater paladin books to unlock 3-5 ranks of slay undead...which are many thousands of plat per book.

Eventually realized i'm entirely beholden to RNG to get the tome drops which is why some specific books (like ascendant SK and Greater Enchanter) are easily 3-10X more expensive than shit like rogue books. Greater Paladin which I need just to unlock farming SK AAs faster are like 7k per and I need 3-5 of them. I'm randomly getting 1-2 shards per play session that sell for about 1k each.

So this server is ok I guess...I start out weaker than THJ and I end up stronger than THJ, but i'd rather have a smoother more linear power curve where i'm stronger at the starter but not OP as fuck at the end, I still want the game to feel challenging later.

Gonna fucks with Perky Crew for now to compare
 
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Ok gear on Perky Crew is fucking wild as fuck. Ascendant and Perky Crew both use "Modern" EQ as a baseline so even if they are expansion capped at Kunark or PoP or whatever everything after that is still in. It's not so bad on Ascendant other than seeing augs and shit in Kunark but Perky is.....I mean look at this shit:



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It's weird being capped at level 50 but doing Plane of Time content I wondered how you would do that even with 4 classes AAs since you are still hard capped at 3k AA, but yeah, gearflation, that's how
 
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I still have a lot to learn, only level 30, but wanted to share a few things I've observed.

One is that any mob that drops weapons or armor has a chance for those weapons/armor to be upgraded. I think most of the legendary drops are level 20 or 25 to start, but the epic ones can be lower and have good mod 2 and damage and stuff. The legendaries have a ton of stats and seem to be randomly generated? Or otherwise there is just a hugely seeded set of items. There seems to be no standardization at all. I think legendary always have heroics, mod2, a abilities/procs/focus, but the amounts and types of focus are all over the board. Ratios also seem to vary wildly. Just on one handed at low level, most seem to be in the .3-.5 ratio range, but I also found a 2.0 ratio bronze sword once.

Potentially fun as legendary are pretty rare and seem like a total lottery ticket. I found a sword that procs thunderclap (aoe+stun) and it's just pounding. Proc rates here are also super juiced compared to live. And the proc levels are adjusted. Thunderclap is a level 30 spell and it's working at 25 on my sword.

Spells also seems adjusted. The 18 bard aoe song hits for 106 or so at base with a horn. And now at 30 is hitting for 150 or so. Probably a lot to discover there.

My paladin has a combat ability for 1h that is totally custom. It gives a 1hr buff that is just wild. It procs a heal, gives massive increase in melee damage, in block, and makes your spell damage a lot higher (I think 3x higher)? Yet to see how well elements of that scale, but worth noting that some classes may have cool custom abilities. Similarly my rogue has a custom heal buff and a poison proc buff.

Armor is also same. So it's a good idea to hunt in areas that can drop whatever you're after. I have like a full set of bronze legendary from unrest.

They changed discs to be available at lower level. Most seem to start coming online around level 15-20.

Regen seems super juiced as well. The regen ticks (perhaps related to bard song - couldn't tell) heal for 20-30% of my life or so as a newb.

Assuming twinking is totally crazy. But the normal playthrough towards 50 feels pretty good. As I mentioned, I think reds are harder than in live, and blues are easier. It feels like their atk/defense penalty/bonus relative to level is more extreme. Ive been 3 boxing ssf and could kill many blues (4-5) in crushbone two yellows might kill me. Also, deep reds have a bonus against you and are significantly harder.

The economy is not nearly as newbie friendly as THJ for whatever reason. Finding traders with newb gear is hard and I don't see stuff that is under a few hundred plat very often. And you have to pay a big premium or run to the bazaar (PoK based).

Overall I've been enjoying it. I think starting off untwinked and solo would be somewhat challenging. On THJ I thought you could accidently level too quickly and be in an AA deficit and find it harder to progress. Will be interested to see if that's an issue here.
 
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One thing that I definitely noticed is mobs get a huge dmg bonus if there are more than like 7 or so attacking you so don't try and pull the whole zone. Also tons of custom content but it seems weird, reds get a bonus to dmg/hp depending on how much higher level they are (you can see the buff and mouse over tells you how many levels they are above you) but like, one red will be 10 levels higher than you hits for like 300 then another random red has 6 levels above you but hits for 5k dmg and instantly deletes you. Only noticed this in the custom zones like beast lands and MMM.

starting off was weak AF because mobs are much stronger than regular EQ. also not sure if this is something that changed on RoF or if this is custom but every single mob in the newbie yard of field of bone is KOS, there's tons more and a bunch of random patrolling reds that delete you in 2 hits. Died more times by level 5 than I have ever in any version of EQ including OG eq back in the day (until like, raid wipes later)

then someone gave me a few pieces of jewelry like earrings and rings with those god level stats, no weapons (monk), wearing only random pieces of mesh armor i collected from leveling (you get a set bonus here) and I was punching for 100+ dmg. I've made a few hundred plat so far (its hard to make plat here until you get to MMM) and have bought a few weapons (hard to find anything on bazaar here less than 500-1k plat tbh) now i'm hitting for 400 and i'm proc'ing a rune shield that must protect for atleast 2k dmg and it procs often enough i rarely ever take dmg, so I got to level 46 in a day. It's my first go around I still gotta AA to 500 then rebirth x3.

FYI just bank your low level/no level req gear because you are gonna be wearing it again when you reset back to lvl 1.
 
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I had a hell of a blast doing Kurn's. BST got a couple lego pieces and went from slow rolling to big pimping. Pinched enough pennies to get a halfway decent lego h2h for 20, and now I am going to try to push and fill some gear holes. More than half my gear holes are empty so far. Tomorrow I am going to finish up the class armor quests and the first iks bst weapon quest and just have fun with it. I am already a monster, so whatever comes next is going to get crushed.

Got a fuckload of enhanced gear summoning spells for mage, so that will be my second toon once BST has a rebirth or two done. BRD will be first up. Fade is just bonkers level of awesome, so between that and bellow and selo that is an easy lock for one rebirth. Not 100% on the other two, but thinking MAG will have enough synergies to be good. The swarm pet AAs would go well with the BST set. Not sure when I can do my epic, but do want to get that underway.
 
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seems they are patching in new content up to level 54 so can't play today. Hoping we don't have to level to 54 each time to rebirth lol
 
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Do any of these autist servers go beyond PoP? That was the appeal of THJ, initially, before DBG came in and fucked things up. The whole classic --> PoP cycle is so fucking stale at this point.
 
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Kirun said:
Do any of these autist servers go beyond PoP? That was the appeal of THJ, initially, before DBG came in and fucked things up. The whole classic --> PoP cycle is so fucking stale at this point.
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Not really sure what Perky Crew is aiming for. Having fun with it, though.
 
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I believe part of the issue is that not much of the content has been built out by the EMU community past PoP. Most of the scripting spawns etc need to be created, you can’t just download it from daybreak.
 
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Yeah, without a doubt. It sounds like the EMU community has really only built up to DoN and even then, it would still take lot of dev work to get fully functional.

I just wish a lot of these projects would focus on building out said content, rather than the time they spend building out all these custom, herky jerk rulesets, special loot, special classes, special AAs, etc.
 
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Yeah, without a doubt. It sounds like the EMU community has really only built up to DoN and even then, it would still take lot of dev work to get fully functional.

I just wish a lot of these projects would focus on building out said content, rather than the time they spend building out all these custom, herky jerk rulesets, special loot, special classes, special AAs, etc.
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Well, at the end of the day these are all passion projects. Can't expect much on that front unless you do it yourself.
 
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looks like levels 51-54 are supposed to take longer but you can now do your rebirths from 51+ and only lose 1 level. I intend on doing all my rebirths from 51>50 repeating assuming i get the script drops in time. This eliminates the awkward drop back down to level 1 and now you can't equip any of your gear go back to the bank and grab your lvl 1 stuff, you can keep your lvl 48 godmode shit.

Oh fucking jesus at level 51 i'm getting 0.030 exp per kill lol, so yeah just gonna do 51>50 for rebirths a few times i'll prolly not even get half way to 52 by the time i farm up the AA
 
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Sylas said:
looks like levels 51-54 are supposed to take longer but you can now do your rebirths from 51+ and only lose 1 level. I intend on doing all my rebirths from 51>50 repeating assuming i get the script drops in time. This eliminates the awkward drop back down to level 1 and now you can't equip any of your gear go back to the bank and grab your lvl 1 stuff, you can keep your lvl 48 godmode shit.

Oh fucking jesus at level 51 i'm getting 0.030 exp per kill lol, so yeah just gonna do 51>50 for rebirths a few times i'll prolly not even get half way to 52 by the time i farm up the AA
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Putting the hell in their hell levels, geez.
 
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Seems like most of this thread is about Perky Crew? Any thoughts on which server is better? Tempted to give Perky a try. After looking at Ascendant a bit it seems more boxing focused?
 
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