Nevermind, I had to make it 2handed again.

Doh!

It was the vista/w7 issue.  There is a 2nd ini file that is in the virtual store which is what needed the change.

Thanks again for the help.

So I suppose my follow up question would be. . . At what point do Boss Fights stop turning into an Auto Attack fest and start requireing more of my attention?

Well all of EQ is to some extent an autoattack kind of game.  Although when doing qvic the first few times prior to getting anger augs I remember having to stay on top of adds and things to that effect.

If you're working your way though PoD I'm sure your first few solo Kronos kills will make you stay on top of your toons.  Certainly once you are fighting 3.5 boss/T4/MCP you will have to be on your toes. 

Thanks for taking the time to do that dude.  I will let you know how it goes when I get home from work.

Vista... so that might be the cause.

The other alternative is that the line that Del pointed out is not the only one that needs to be set to zero.  It could be a combo of factors.  I will continue to play with it and report back.

Actually I'm going to have to derail this once again. 

Xiggie do you use wineq or anything like that?  I made the changes to my ini file in the eq directory but something with wineq is not allowing the changes to be applied when I load up my toons.  My warrior 4.0 graphics are still on.  I tried changing the ini to read only but that didn't seem to help.

I'm thinking it's wineq that's the problem.  Also when I go into wineq's settings I can either make it boot from the root directory of eq or if I take that out all together it loads a default boot with sound, all luclin models on.. things like that.

Looking for any thoughts on the issue.

Thank you for posting Xiggie, I will mess with mine later tonight and see if I can get the glow disabled.  Anything to get the most dps out of the epics without going through too much video lag.

I think your idea of any other performance saving tips would make for a great thread.

One issue though...

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I think Hunter should change your 4.0 graphic to a rubber chicken.  Something to commemorate Uxt's undying loyalty to the pally class before it was cool to play a pally.   

I think this means the armor will be the same but the zone will obviously be different.  Envision qvic 2.0.  There will be trash to clear, bosses spread out.  Things to that effect.

I'd be curious to see some DPS parses for a 3.0 pally & sk with equal charms (guessing even the sk would go for oracle charms).

Spell damage shouldn't really factor in because in the time it takes to cast a spell for either class you are reducing your chance to hitting another proc.

I think that the pally 3.0 had its dmg raised not all that long ago if I remember correctly.  I don't think that happened for the sk.

In either case I'd go with Balthor's suggestion.  This is because once you decide to box you already have the pally you would otherwise want to make.  

I'm no theologist but from what I know about god, if he had a sweet server he would use it for something related to SC2.   

Shadow is pretty well tuned for something like a 3.5 book.  DPS is a must have for that fight.

So there is a 5% drop rate for any avatar to drop a page 1-10, or is it the case that certain avatars have a 5% drop rate for a certain page?  Such as Avatar of Heavens can drop page 1 & 2 ect...

I'm sure I'll get flamed for saying this but it would be fun to see people have to take on the storm avatars and see them throwing toons all over the place.

I know it was a shocker when I first took one on.  

why would you even waste the stones with that group setup?

Have to get a feel for the fight somehow.  Just like when Yellowbird offered up an MCP spawn a couple weeks ago.  Once you know what you are working with you can start to deal with how to approach it the second time.

no more soloing thru everything

We have some pretty smart people who play on this server.  My money would still be on a group of 1 or 2 to be able to figure it out.