I very much agree with the idea of making these items drop in other zones, maybe the key to this is not to make them drop off a specific named, but rare random drop in a zone, made lore so people dont accumulate masses of them.  This gives the option of camping a named mob (say lguk), or fighting random mobs in say fungus grove for the same item to drop?

Nine

Like this idea a lot, its a bit of work at setup, modding the mobs in an old zone to match up with required difficulty levels and mapping in loot tables, but once the initial setup is done then its not too hard to implement.  Did something similar to this on my retired server, having boss mobs scripted to drop an effect at set times through the fight (mass DD/Dot, mass dispel, AE silence, AE increase hate, proc FD on main tank etc...) just keeping players on their toes, encourages grouping over boxing etc when things need dispelled, or off tanks are actually required during a fight.

Nine

Now, I know there is a thread for offensive names that go against Hunter's naming policy, and thats all fine and well, but when I saw this guild name it just made me /boggle !!

I've nothing against anyone in the guild, but cant for the life of me understand how this guild was created: Aryan Brotherhood

For those who might not know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Brotherhood

Like I say, nothing against the people in the guild, I personally dont know or have any dealings with any of them, but that name rings so many alarm bells its defies belief.

Nine

I would strongly suggest you switch to an SK or Pally if solo'ing, SK in particular if you need to afk a lot as you can FD for safety and you get a nice pet to help with re-buffs if you do CG/FG quests.  Solability with either of these will help a lot as they have much higher survivability with self-heal taps/procs and their DPS is reasonable.

Nine

Would think it wouldnt take much to open up some other zones for 47-70 pl/aa purposes (no loot quick respawn), such as:

poeartha (probably easiest with mobs already existing at those levels)
ponightmare
hateplane (new)
wallofslaughter
maidenseye

lots n lots of zones out there that just dont get used.

Nine

From memory when I played with my own server setup a few years back, these spells are simple fixes, a few of them appear to have range = 0 which prevents them from being cast on anyone, simply modifying them to be range = 100 fixes the problem.

Darkest

I also struggled to handle Qvic, but finally managed to break through here's how...

Box:
1 War 2x3.0's (no-augs)
1 Cle (Epic not-required, but loaded with mana regen augs if non 3.0)
1 Bst  2x3.0 (plus 1x2.0 for clicky in inv)
1 Dru 2.5 (or 3.0 - but works at 2.5) - used just for the clicky regen (was helping out even with just a 2k regen on war)

Create for your Cleric an in-game macro with /cast1, /pause xx, /cast1, pause xx etc - this lets your cleric 'spam-heal' warrior for a short time, while you focus on controlling the bst (or dps), then return to cleric to re-click your macro.

War has approx 20-21k hps!  send in war, 3.0's grab aggro quite quickly and they spam cyclone too which grabs adds.   Use the bst pet (or other DPS) to tear down mobs wailing on your warrior (they drop fast with pet).

The main thing I'm doing different to OP is that I dont spam heal Wave of Vivication, instead I use the single heal (Ancient:something) which casts quicker - if done right, the only person needing heals at this stage  should be your warrior, rampage damage if any is minor on the bst and manageable, so no need for Group Heals.

Hope any of the above helps, it helped get my toon-army started on the road through Qvic (also works well with Tacvi so far)

Darkest

Hi, recently started a new guild - Legacy

Basic principle behind the guild is for people who are looking for a social family guild, people who enjoy solo or 2-3 boxing would fit in nicely, if you're looking for hard fast rapid progression or heavy end-game raiding then this guild is not for you.  If you want to experience the social side of things and group up with others then you are very welcome.  We will always help people with progression, just dont expect it to be our main focus!

I'm usually on during the daytime and evening GMT, but people from any timezone may join.  If you're interested in joining send me a pm here or contact me in game on Nine, Ninez, Darkest or any member of Legacy should be able to point you in the right direction.

Have fun, and remember behind every toon there's a RL person.  Doesnt hurt to show a little respect to our fellow gamers.

See you in game,

Darkest

There are plenty of other 'camp' sites that could be used... Kael would have a few, Karnor's (VS in particular), Maidens Eye, Griegs End... masses of options, but would probably take a while to re-write quest scripts, so modifying loot tables for the new mobs (to match existing CG/FG quest drops) would probably be the easier approach.

Darkest

Hi, not sure if this has already been brought up, but to cut down on some of the camp queues... would it not be an idea to setup an alternative access path to CG/FG for those that already have access, maybe make it a high end mob that drops CG/FG key, but only make it accessible to those that have already access to CG/FG, maybe even make it so that a key can be purchased for 250AA's or something to help free up some of the backlog and/or some of the excess AA issue?

Darkest

Usually quite a few on even at GMT times, maybe worth thinking about creating my own guild for those that are on during the 'early' hours (UK/Euro times)

** no longer looking for guild, found a happy place**

Darkest