Something is jacked up, two of my toons have no gear or inventory right now and relogging has not fixed it.  Hulkpunch said he has same problem too...

There's got to be a better way than making lower-level suffer because the high end players have the firepower and money to create instances over and over.  Again the actions of a few high level players seem to dictate how the server progresses.  I'll speak on behalf of lower level players because I suspect many will feel the same way I do. 

First of all, low-to-mid level players can't make much money in this game any more and what money you do make you need to invest in augs if you are going to progress and we all know augs cost a ton of plat.  More importantly to understand why cash is so difficult is that mid-level and lower players need to keep their drops because they NEED them.  Eventually you will get to a point where you can start to sell them but that's an loooong way off for most players.

I have full group of t5 toons, a few with UC and frankly 350K for an Anguish instance when I don't have the firepower to clear it is difficult to swallow.  I certainly don't have the time or firepower to clear it over and over. 

Here's an idea:   If players are so established they have the firepower and plat to create t5+ (expensive) instances over and over again, instead of making the lower levels suffer, why not charge a huge price (5 mil etc) for an instance but make the respawn timers like 1 hour so the higher level players don't need to delete and create new instances?  All you are doing now is charging them lots of plat and they simply delete and create new instances which is essentially the same as having short respawn timers and costing a lot.

There has to be a way to measure the level of a player/group and limit the instances accordingly?

First, the good:  The performance increase for me in terms of running a group around was huge.  Everything seems so snappy now, I'm not waiting for toons to catch up too much any more.  The speed at which I can now complete the zone has dropped by at least 15-20 minutes because looting is so fast now.  

The bad:  Hoh is basically the only source of plat beyond farming SLS for most players including myself, and the reduction I have seen today is brutal.  3 clears for a total of around 60K.  No plat bags.  Prior to today that would have been around 500K so that's almost a 90% reduction.   I did get a few gems here and there and I suspect those were supposed to be plat bags but they weren't.  

Avatars used to drop 5 gems ranging from 275pp to 20pp with the average total probably close to 500pp per.  

My suggestions for a better solution:
Leave it the way it is right now for the performance boost, but increase the plat per Avatar to around 750-1K per.

Heck, there are only maybe 150 Avatars in the whole zone.  If each Avatar dropped 1K in plat a complete clear would only net around 150K.

It is the limit of characters in the window.  Gets cut off after 5 characters I guess.  I just tried the UF client and it's the same.  MQ2 shows the correct number though.

Thanks for the help everyone.

Yes, I have the latest spell file.

Ya, I'm sure.  I have got 2 warriors and both have HP probs.  I am using the Titanium client if that means anything.

I logged in a few toons after not having played for a long time and noticed the warriors seem to have a problem with their HP totals.  My warriors only has 14K HP now and I seem to recall him having around 120K at some point.  How to fix please?

TIA

Haven't played in a couple of years.  Is there a quick way to read up on the changes in the server that have happened since the 4.0 epic was the highest one available?

I was running through Qvic tunnel yesterday and a Mage with his 3.0 pet was also heading my way.  We took turns taking out the mobs on the way.  I couldn't believe how much more powerful his 3.0 pet was to mine.  He was destroying the groups of 3 while I struggled with groups of 2.

I asked him about it and he said he had some discipline that allowed his pet to do double damage but Necros have a buff for their pets too (can't remember name but I had it on) so the damage shouldn't have been anywhere near as disparate as it was.  Seems like Necro pets are gimped too much in comparison.  I guess it wouldn't be so bad if  the cast time of the lvl 70 heal wasn't so crazy slow but man to be gimped and not be able to heal is a little unfair.

What is "the Epic 4.0 click" Solbash?  I looked through the forums and searched but couldn't find anything using that term.   Any other info you can provide would be appreciated. 

I'm hoping a veteran EZ Necro is going to pipe-up here and tell us how to go about getting the 4.0 pet?...pretty please

Yes. Back in the day when I played EQ, it was very common for drops like this to appear as a single item but everyone in the group could loot a copy. 

Last week I offered to help out Vaugh with Terrorclaw as I also needed it for my epic 1.5 run on my Ranger Pliars.  So I joined his group and we killed T/C.  I then went ahead and looted T/C of the book assuming everyone in the group got a copy (this was my first T/C kill) and promptly logged out without giving it much thought.  BTW, it took me quite a while to loot T/C because I had to figure out where to click him.   

The next day I logged in and did an /ooc to get a group to work on the 1.5 pages and got yelled at by a few irate players that I had ninja looted the T/C book from Vaugh who was supposed to get it.  Of course I sent Vaugh an apology, but I want to post the apology and explanation here where other people can see it.  I don't want my Ranger Pliars to not be able to progress because he got a bad reputation. 

Please rest assured that Pliars is not a ninja looter and that was a completely innocent looting of T/C.  I don't know why I didn't think to ask the group whether there was only a single copy of the book, but I didn't.   I guess becuase it actually took me so long to loot him, I figured I must have been last to loot him.

Anyway, my humble apologies to everyone involved.
-Pliars