EZ Server

I in no way claim credit, or anything undue my status by just copying and pasting these guides over, but I thought to make us feel more at home over here, I'd copy the guides complete with pictures. I was just bored and figured it'd make the new place look better.

Epics, Epics, and more Epics - By Spankrox

Epic 1.5
Collect 10 pages from bosses in PoTimeA (map below), and combine in the book recieved from either Terrorantula located in the middle of South Ro, or Quillmane located west of the Aviak Villiage in South Karana.

*All bosses are tank and spank and should be doable with a group of Level 70s*

(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4089/27837648.jpg)
Hand in Complete 1.5 Book to Epic Vendor located in the Nexus to recieve your Epic 1.5.


Epic 2.0
Collect 10 pages from bosses in LDoN levels 2-6 and combine in book recived from Master of Weaponry located in chambersb.

*Bosses in LDoN are doable with a 1.5 epic and time/LDoN geared group.*
*Master of Weaponry is doable with a 1.5 epic and time/LDoN geared group with the main tank and healer focusing on MoW, and the rest of the group killing the adds that spawn.*

Hand in Complete 2.0 Book and your Epic 1.5 to Epic Vendor located in the Nexus to recieve your Epic 2.0.


Epic 2.5
Find a complete book located in locked chests in the Hidden Banquet. (See Epic Vendor to port to)
I find the easiest way to complete this, is to fill up 2 bags full of keys, then make it to the first safe room away from beholders and use all the keys on 1 chest till it has the book.

Hand in Complete 2.5 Book and Epic 2.0 to Epic Vendor located in the Nexus to recieve your Epic 2.5.
Note : You must be Fighter or Caster guilded to enter the Hidden Banquet zone. You can find the quests here: http://ezserver.online/index.php?topic=13.0

Epic 3.0
Collect 15 tokens from bosses in Qvic (map below), and hand into the Qvic vendor located in the Nexus to gain access to chambersa to fight Twinkle Toes who drops the completed book.

*All bosses in Qvic are tank and spank that spawn 1 add every 10 or so % of HP. Doable with a 2.5 Epic with LDoN/Qvic geared group.*
*Twinkle Toes hits very fast, so you will need a decent tank to kill her.*

(http://ezserver.org/download/file.php?id=2)

Hand in Complete 3.0 Book and Epic 2.5 to Epic Vendor located in the Nexus to recieve your Epic 3.0.

The link to the Fighters Guild / Casters Guild is missing the directory. The correct URL is: http://ezserver.online/forums/index.php?topic=13.0

I've referenced this guide about 50 times now.  Good work, thanks!

Thanks for the 'down to brass tacks' guide to epics!

Hi all,
I almost have my 2.0 on my monk and am just curious how hard is the 2.5 to acquire vs the 2.0?

Thanks

after fg/cg, very easy.

F*** YEAH!

It just requires you to be stealthy.

seriously, a nice and easy solo mission to aquire 2.5's
=)

rejoice.


and dont ask about the difficulty of 3.0's

just enjoy the 2.5 mission.  lol

Dont forget as a SK, Monk, or Lock, you can FD and the beholders will path right over you.

this aint wow son, we don't gots LOCKS here

Great guide. It's very helpful.

One thing I noticed though is that the OP mentions the map to potimea, but then there is no map; only one for qvic.

I also haven't found any of these maps (except for ldon's) available for download into our maps folder. Does someone have a link for these maps and/or have the jpg/gif that they could repost here on this thread please? I remember seeing it before, but it seems to be missing now.

**Edit** (a handy place to put this)

Flawless Blue Diamond - Chest
Flawless Diamond - Legs
Flawless Black Sapphire - Arms
Flawless Jacinth - Head
Flawless Ruby - Feet
Flawless Sapphire - Hands
Flawless Emerald - Wrist

*Edit*



Check your scroll wheel... both maps are in the original post.

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4089/27837648.jpg

and

http://ezserver.org/download/file.php?id=2

And in case you're just having some odd server connect problem, I mirrored them on my webserver:

http://www.swamphandy.com/EZ/PoTimea.jpg

and

http://www.swamphandy.com/EZ/qvicmap.png


(http://www.swamphandy.com/EZ/PoTimea.jpg)

(http://www.swamphandy.com/EZ/qvicmap.png)

Thanks for the repost.

I don't know why I wasn't seeing them, but they're there now (even in the first post).

bump

b-b-b-bump

should be sticky'd

Bump-a-lot

bump

Determined to have the latest.... Bump.

Bumping for a sticky just sounds.....dirty!

Perhaps... but it helps me chase ieawenpo's post count... and so I bump.

Tag....you're it?

Ok that's just spooky. Didn't even see you coming.

In creep butler voice. "You underestimate the sneakiness sir."

just curious.....do you have to do every epic to do the next or can you just jump straight to 3.0 if you have everything?

I know this is not the case with normal eq but the reason for me asking is because ez server does not necessarily follow all live eq rules.

Thanks in advance

Cant skip because the 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 weapons are part of the turn-in.

bawmp

Regarding the Gem list requirements for Qvic armours.
The bracers require Flawless Flame Emeralds as opposed to a Flawless Emerald.

I spent a few days going crazy in Qvic looking for Flawless Emerald until a kind soul informed me that the Flawless Flame emeralds are the quest gem.

It was just gone midnight when I was informed of this and I did find it a classic " DOH ! " moment .  :-[

The guides are a good thing to have, especially the maps, but things do change on the server from time to time and if something doesn't make sense you should ask questions.

In the case of the qvic gems, you can always hail the qvic quest NPC and he will tell you what gems are needed for each piece of armor.

Totally agree lerxst

Like I said it was a classic " DOH ! " moment.

I have found this guide superb assistance and have had it tabbed open for the maps and list of gems , so big thanks to all posters.

never ever thought of hailing the NPC for confirmation.....sometimes the simplest of things elude us  ;)

Bumping this. Lots of questions asked the last 2 weeks in ooc.
This is the guide people should be pointed to.
Last forum it was posted here:
http://www.ezserver.org/epics-epics-and-more-epics-t22.html

I'm stuck away from the computer for the holidays and right before I left I killed the Potimea mobs for pages 2,3,4,5. Eight Eyes for page 5 was red where as the rest were yellow, he wasn't really harder, just longer (For Ssss I was able to duo him with a war/pal .... I'm not sure I would have been able to beat the regen with that pair on Eight Eyes).

My question is, are the spawns ordered in order of hardness? Is the DS going to be a lot more difficult to kill than the rest?


Thanks,

Thol

Don't know if page numbers necessarily correspond with easiness, but dragon slave is a ton harder than the rest of the bosses. Hits for nearly 2k, and often, also has quite a lot of hitpoints.

Thanks for that info, I figured it had to be harder than some of the others. How much harder is Quil or Terro for the book than DS?

I've been told by a friend that fought through PoTime the old fashioned way (no help from anyone at all from the beginning) and he told me Terrorantula/Quillimaine were easier for him to kill compared to DS.

He mains a war and bots a pally/druid/zerker/mage/monk.

I think the hardest part about DS is his regen. Other than that, I don't think he hits too terribly much harder than any of the rest of the named.

The bosses in the caves (Warlord, Eternal, etc) are harder than the bosses outside (Gemcutter, SSS, etc).  Dragon Slave is the hardest in the zone because you have to have more DPS to beat his regen.  I agree that for an appropriately geared group, DS is a bit harder than Quill / Terror

Thanks for the detail, I might have to get a couple other boxes leveled up before I can take DS. I'll get everyone geared up with Time gear in the mean time.

Tolumar, feel free to drop me a tell in game (Dokk) if you would like some help with DS.

Same here hit me in game for a ds rage fest

The screenshot of the Qvic mob locations are down... Could someone please re-up the screen please? Thanks.

First page, nearly at the bottom. It is shown again and works for me.

Thanks Xiggie.

Anyone else having bad luck with 2.5 page? Been in here for the last 2 days now.  Over 300 Barrels down, out of those I've only gotten about 20 keys, and nothin on the book.  I've done this 5 times before and all 5 of those put together have never taken me this amount of time put together.  Am I just unlucky as hell, or is anyone else experiencing this?

You are just unlucky. Sacrifice Xiggle and Gnaughty to the RNG gods and you'll have it first barrel, first chest.

I just did 2.5 for my warrior in 30 barrels got 6 keys and got 2 books.  That was on Tuesday.

On the second time my brother did it he got a key on the first barrel and a book on the first chest. Another time I did it and was there approximately 18 hours spread over 3 days.

My 2.5's went like this:

Bard - 2hours for 1st, 6.5 hours for 2nd
Monk - half hour for first, 12 hours for 2nd
Magician - 16 hours
Cleric - 8 hours for first, haven't done 2nd one yet
Necromancer - 2 hours
Enchanter - First barrel key, first chest epic book, then re-roll back for two days and 7 hours for epic key again.

last one I did, 1st barrel - key, 1st chest = book
tied the world record!
but, that was like my 9th one, others have taken anywhere from 20 minutes to 4 hours...

can't imagine it takes more than 4-5 hours unless you are very very unlucky.

problem is you fraidy cats who run to the 1st room with 4 barrels and camp there all day.

you realize in the time it takes for those to respawn you could have ganked 15-20 more AND even if you get zapped by an eye you can zone back in in 30 seconds..

Sounds like I just have to keep grinding it out! thaks for the responses.

12 toons 6 with 2 each and did the ranger 3 times, never more than an hour for any of them, some people just have bad luck i guess

447 Barrels, 38 keys in total.  But I finally got it!

bump for noobs


necrobump FTW

I have read just about every guide on the forums and this brief explanation finally got me to understand what I need to do on 2.5. Many thanks!

Not so much an issue of being a fraidy cat as maximizing return on the effort. By camping the first room you can safely hit 12 or 13 barrels (one up the ramp toward z in, 2 if you stretch it, 4 in the room, one in the corner, 2 in the little room around the corner and 2 in the split hall past that....up to 13). By the time you finish all those, go back to the safe room to start again and the barrels are almost ready to repop....and minimal risk of being zapped out.

As to your 30 seconds to zone back in....ummm...no. Sure you can zone back relatively fast....but getting through the first room and hall with the roamer up the ramp takes one hell of a lot longer than 30 seconds unless you're a SK, necro or monk.

I've done the 2.5....well, a lot. I've tried every method and the one that works fastest that I've seen is working to saferoom 1 in an instance then working the area in the method I listed above. Dont hoard keys, as you get them hand them in, whether to different chests or all the same chest makes zero difference.

Keep in mind there are no "tricks". Contrary to what people tell you handing in bagfuls at a time to one chest, or working the very last room or the first room will not improve your chances for keys or book; its completely random.

Good luck!

And figured it out....between helping family do theirs, doing my own and remaking lost epics I've done the 2.5 56 times. My warrior has had a total of 7 3.0's (lost a few to the ravenous birdbaths back when they were still around, and have multiples for various augs anyway).  Many melee with 2 each, done 2 rangers with 3 each, etc. The longest it took me was 147 keys once to get a book. I kept track because I wanted to see whether or not someone's claim that saving up bagfuls and handing them in all to one chest was faster....obviously it was not. My best was on beastlord...2 barrels, 2 keys, 2 books, first room. Its ranged all over in between, but thankfully none near so long as that 147 mess.