So will there be a new zone anytime soon since Halloween sucks now?

Wow really ? an event we all look forward to and appreciate to get double loot, zp,s doubles, triples, and some nice items.

Yeah really

Double down! Hey guy I really appreciate all the hard work you put into this FOR FREE but what you did sucked and I want you to do something else for me for free so I can bitch about that too mmm-kay thanks!

As it stands without being able to zone pull this I have no desire to finish the last couple of diamonds I need for my necklace quest.
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I don't understand. The necklace pieces drop at one camp.  You don't need zone pull for that camp.  Just pull the assassin camp walk away and come back 15 minutes and pull again and finish the necklace. It is a nice necklace and I hope this one item becomes an item that becomes upgradeable in the future as the player it was lovingly named after is no longer alive.

Are we not getting it?

Big Navi will have ray tracing. I am waiting until Nov 18 to get a 6850XT....hoping AMD learned from Nvidea's paper launch and have the cards to meet demand.  If they do, they will strip the crown off Nvidea's head. AMD had their press release for Big Navi yesterday (10-28-1010) and that's where I got my information from...am super excited as they claim it is a better GPU than the 30 series.

Well good to know I am not just loosing my mind at least...and I seem to be on the right path as to why it may be happening.

I have noticed that custom zones (that have no one in them) when you zone in, my client crashes.  As soon as I load my toon back in, zones in fine. I am assuming this is because the zone is being populated with NPC's etc and my client trying to enter the zone as it is loading up is causing the crash.  If this is the case is their anything that can be done to rectify it? 

[You can't simply just jump into the next tier when you unlock it. SoA, RoA, UW, UC all need to be ranked up as much as you can get them as soon as you can get them. Basically the goal is to out-gear a tier before you're even at the tier.]

I haven't played in some time now, but I was able to solo-Paladin through T8. There are a few others who have been able to do the same. Forewarning, though: you will have to do immense grinding. You can't simply just jump into the next tier when you unlock it. SoA, RoA, UW, UC all need to be ranked up as much as you can get them as soon as you can get them. Basically the goal is to out-gear a tier before you're even at the tier.

If you're like me, it's not that MQ2 is hard, but rather when I refer to "solo", I mean a single box. EQ's community is pretty oblivious to the idea that solo could possibly mean 1 character and not multiple boxes. If you haven't gotten familiar with the server, though, I would suggest pushing through at least T6 with boxes/MQ2 (it really isn't too bad if you haven't used it before) to really learn the content before trying to do the crazy stuff like soloing. When I did my curiosity-Paladin-solo playthrough, I had a box of characters at T8 first.

There's been a few ways people also attempt this solo-attempt (these are the ones I've seen. There might be others).

1. Get 0 assistance from any players/your other toons (this is the way me and one of my brothers did it--trying to see who could get further).

2. No direct assistance, but allow trading (can purchase/get things like Rainbow shards, either from other players or your other characters).

3. Allow all assistance. Basically just a solo player trying to play with others for content. Because of the nature of this server, it's usually more someone else just runs you through something because they have 4+ boxes.

To the first underlined section I picked out of your comment...makes it seem that what needs to happen is to make UW locked out until T7 (the tier that was out when UW was introduced)...and make MGB of higher tier buffs locked out for the same since it is so easy for you.

As far as the second comment I underlined...sheesh guy maybe you should have taken your leave and stayed gone instead of come back and try to paint us like that.  Everyone unserstands what SOLO means...this server was just not DESIGNED with that in mind. 

It isnt just about making GSoA or essences or anything to be easier to buy it is an attempt to make plat something of value again.....how many times do you hear, once a player gets to a certain level, "plat does me no good anymore".....must be a way to fix that!

The RoA and EoBA is just a thought...a whole new item(which i did mention in the original post) was my main train of thought...maybe I should have led with that. RoA use to cap at 100 so maybe make every rank to 100 be AA based and every level after that be a mix of AA and plat....Either way i think siphoning most of the plat off the server is the best idea...possibly just wiping ALL plat off every toon and then implementing this idea is probably the best idea to fix it. Like you said are VERY few true newbs this would affect as not much new blood is on server anyway....and would help the server economy as a whole.

So if sucking plat off the server is a hunt to take GSoA from newbies (since GSoA are fairly expensive IF you can find someone selling them(which has been a long time since I have been able to do that)).....how exactly does that work IF plat is spent on other items?  The whole reason for RoA AND EoBA using Alternate Advancement points was so players could spend AA on things that were nice using a form of currency that isn't being utilized (past purchasing available AA abilities etc)....how is using plat to do the exact...same...thing any different?  How is it a way to undermine any newbs?  Maybe I am not seeing something you are so please point it out to me.

What I read  : How about we add yet another way to bleed the gsoa from new and upcoming players.
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You read what you want into it....I never once said anything about bleeding anything from anybody...all I am suggesting is a way to fix the economy of the server.  If you want to get your panties in a bunch feel free.  I am just looking for a way to help the server as a whole....I personally thnk wiping all the plat from the server then implementing this is the best course of action....but I didnt go that far.  I also think GSoA should not drop in any zone prior to T7....but I also didnt go that far....

Just a thought but how about either making the EoBA or RoA or a new item that will require plat to upgrade instead of AA? This will suck plat off the server and possibly make plat something of value again.  Just a thought but seems like an easy enough fix to help with the server economy.

Not cherry picking.  I am concentrating on ONLY the pests and sticking to the first big room, where Mastor of Bators spawns, and the room to the side...is the only area where that mob type is more plentiful (if that even applies) and I am at like 1700 of 4,000 (is actually 4,236 kills or some wierd number like that). It just makes me want to claw my eyes out and has a lot to do with why I havent been logging in that much....I know it is first world problems but I have been plowing away at this off and on since this zone came out and it's just aggravating to me....other's may not have the same opinion as me and that is ok too.

Is it possible to look at changing the kill count on this quest? 4k kills is a little tedious the clicky is nice but when you have all buff classes and the clicky if only T10 and bellow buffs it is just nice to have not to load in all your toons....500xp buff isn't that big a deal as most folks by this level I would assume would be at least 700xp + on the mask.  The 4k kill count just seems excessive and would lead folks to think about botting the content...unless you were to add a crap ton of the mob types instead of having them just scattered lightly around the zone. A kill count of 2k seems sufficient for the risk/reward of the item.

On the bright side I am hearing that the AMD cards may be better performing cards than the Nvidea (as in their $500 card is equivalent or better than the Nvidea $700 card)...if that is true then we may see some big things changing in the near future on the enthusiast level!