Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)
- Thread starter Zaide
- Start date
Crone
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
- 9,709
- 3,211
What's you have things set the advanced loot window makes things so much easier imo. It's a great quality of life.
- 1
Ambiturner
Ssraeszha Raider
- 16,040
- 19,500
B_Mizzle
Golden Baronet of the Realm
- 7,072
- 13,686
Sabbat You've inspired me to tweak my UI for the upcoming Aradune launch.
You can see my UI in action in my vids, here's a recent one:
In this the EQUI_PlayerWindow.xml for my war/ber are all modded to basically just be hp+sta (and icons for combat status + parcel stuff + group roles), and using my redbackground behind the green health bar. In that vid the shaman's player window is unmodified Sparxx. I always wanted to do something similar for my casters but never got around to it.
I did something similar for my casters and boosted the size of the pet gauge in it to high hell based on how people are talking about giving charmed pets gear (which will poof if you fuck up and let your pet die to a mob).
I also changed the ETW HP bars to green and set ETW slots 5+ to have red backgrounds.
View attachment 270721
I find that when boxing or really, just playing this crazy game, it's easy to lose focus of critical things like HP levels of your boxes/pets, so having all the important HP gauges be green with bright red backgrounds makes any damage they take really jump out at you. I also find most of the extraneous stuff in player/group windows to be kind of useless, so I get rid of it and just make bars massive. I like feeling that emotional alarm the second a mob hits my box and his shit starts going red.
You practicing your skills for aradune? Cleric enchanter?
Lumi
Vyemm Raider
- 4,082
- 2,808
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
- 45,431
- 73,493
I'd like to think I'm getting it all set up so I can hit the ground running and build a better setup than I would if I had to choose between grinding and tweaking GINA bullshit, but the truth is I want to play some TLP and this is the closest thing.
I've spent the last half hour looking at deepfake voice generators that I want to use to make GINA trigger wav files. I can't decide if I want to build a bunch from Lyrebird: Ultra-realistic voice cloning and text to speech | Descript or just see if I can pay a voice actress and actor like $10 to belch out a bunch of GINA triggers that tell me that charm broke, among other things. I can't decide what accent I'd want for dark elves.
Last edited:
- 1
Sabbat
Trakanon Raider
- 1,832
- 760
Let me know if you want a rough as fuck sounding aussie saying "oi, cunt, mez is fucked"
- 2
- 2
Crone
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
- 9,709
- 3,211
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
- 45,431
- 73,493
One of the best decisions I made when trying out a 4x mage + enc + dru box team was setting up sweet explosion sounds for big hits and alliance fulminations (for those not on live, you cast a debuff on a mob and if a few other people of the same class cast their standard spell a couple times it completes the spell and blows up the mob).
If I could set up GINA to differentiate between intentional and unintentional charm/mez breaks it'd be worth an 'oi cunt, charm is fucked' trigger
If I could set up GINA to differentiate between intentional and unintentional charm/mez breaks it'd be worth an 'oi cunt, charm is fucked' trigger
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
- 45,431
- 73,493
So here's a vid I just took of me putting the finishing touches on my Aradune prep. It's not perfect but it's as good as I need it to be.
Any recommendations are welcome, I'm pretty much going into this just from spending a couple days setting this up and reading these TLP guides:
- This is my first TLP, the first time I did any real low-level stuff without being buffed/geared to high hell in twenty years and the first time really playing a charming enchanter.
- A lot of this stuff is probably obvious to TLP pros, so just bear with me.
- I'm pretty excited about it but I'm not very good at it yet, a lot of the keybinds I hit in the vid are wrong because I haven't built that muscle memory yet.
- I bought an Dell Latitude E7270 for my second box http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=604487&CatId=4935
- I'm running with Multiplicity. I'm not sure if it's that much better than VNC / remote desktop / moonlight / steam etc but it works pretty well, very low latency or compression artifacts. I can't say whether it's worth the $50 without trying alternatives.
- I tried to put as much of what's going on as possible in the center of the screen.
- I find it's a lot easier to keep track of what's going on with the massive green healthbars with bright red backgrounds that are loud visual alerts for when my characters and their pets are taking damage. I'm especially interested in my pet's health after hearing that a TLP charming enchanter will give valuable gear to their pet and lose it if they die to an NPC.
- If anyone wants my modified Sparxx UI, here it is:
Code:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16MYEo3SWrqoyARJSWL5D_Vc2dAl8e_WT/view?usp=sharing - I put up GINA bars for common debuffs I'm interested in including root, mez, charm, slow, snare. I'm not sure what is useful or will become useful yet.
- I also have GINA bars for clarity/haste.
- The cleric box is controlled using a Logitech G13 keypad connected to my laptop. I find this to be inferior to using inner space boxer on live but with one character and the low APM of early EQ it's not that big of a deal. The major actions include:
- Common stuff like sit/follow/heal/DD/buffs
- Stun/Root binds
- A social macro that will set up my ETW to set slots 7/8 to my enchanter and their pet, which I use to target my pet especially
Any recommendations are welcome, I'm pretty much going into this just from spending a couple days setting this up and reading these TLP guides:
Code:
https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/tips-for-charm.241252/page-3#post-3548792
https://www.reddit.com/r/Agnarr/comments/6bkfj5/enchanter_charm_pet_list_for_classic_only
http://wiki.project1999.com/Loraen%27s_Enchanter_Guide
Last edited:
For those of you with G13s I highly recommend a thumbstick replacement, makes it so much more functional. If you have old xbox or ps3 controllers laying around not being used you can drop one of those in with some minor modification.
I used a PS3 thumbstick and can move chars with my thumb, mapped wasd to the 4 directions on the stick, changed a and s to strafe left and right in game and it works brilliantly.
The guide I follwed doesn't seem to be around anymore but this link might help.
Logitech G13 Thumbstick Mod
Logitech G13 Thumbstick Mod: I have owned the Logitech G13 gamepad for five years now. The one thing that always bothered me to bits was the atomically small thumbstick it has. Originally, it was designed to replace buttons. You could throw a grenade when you push it to the rig…
- 1
Crone
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
- 9,709
- 3,211
Pleb noobs, upgrade to the Razer Orb Weaver!For those of you with G13s I highly recommend a thumbstick replacement, makes it so much more functional. If you have old xbox or ps3 controllers laying around not being used you can drop one of those in with some minor modification.
I used a PS3 thumbstick and can move chars with my thumb, mapped wasd to the 4 directions on the stick, changed a and s to strafe left and right in game and it works brilliantly.
The guide I follwed doesn't seem to be around anymore but this link might help.
Logitech G13 Thumbstick Mod
Logitech G13 Thumbstick Mod: I have owned the Logitech G13 gamepad for five years now. The one thing that always bothered me to bits was the atomically small thumbstick it has. Originally, it was designed to replace buttons. You could throw a grenade when you push it to the rig…www.instructables.com
- 1
Flobee
Vyemm Raider
- 2,608
- 2,997
I wish the Razer monopoly on these things wasn't so strong. I've been using these pads since like 2006 and Razer products only last like 2 years. My Belkin lasted 8-10 at least.
My G13 is probably about 10 years old, still going strong, although there have been periods where it just sat in a drawer, these newfangled ones look nice and all but I don't see any need to upgrade.
- 1
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
- 45,431
- 73,493
Interesting. I always thought the thumbstick on g13 really held it back from being able to pair with a mouse and give the perfect output for some games like dark souls.For those of you with G13s I highly recommend a thumbstick replacement, makes it so much more functional. If you have old xbox or ps3 controllers laying around not being used you can drop one of those in with some minor modification.
I used a PS3 thumbstick and can move chars with my thumb, mapped wasd to the 4 directions on the stick, changed a and s to strafe left and right in game and it works brilliantly.
The guide I follwed doesn't seem to be around anymore but this link might help.
Logitech G13 Thumbstick Mod
Logitech G13 Thumbstick Mod: I have owned the Logitech G13 gamepad for five years now. The one thing that always bothered me to bits was the atomically small thumbstick it has. Originally, it was designed to replace buttons. You could throw a grenade when you push it to the rig…
Zaide
TLP Idealist
- 3,741
- 4,398
On launch day a few hours before servers are scheduled to go live I'm probably going to drop a dump of small techniques and exploits you can use to help you during the grind on these servers. I'll also include a list of the new ZEMs and some mob HP parses for you guys. Dropping it the day of to avoid any last minute "fixes".
- 7
- 4
B_Mizzle
Golden Baronet of the Realm
- 7,072
- 13,686
Much appreciated. My thoughts generally was to stay out of dungeons to avoid train deaths as long as possible. Feerot swamp Sro until 20 then not sure.