I haven't played emu in a long time, this server in particular for a long time. Just happened to have the desire to check this out again. Sorry for your loss Xiggie. Hope your friends have been helping you through. Played eq for so long, i have made some very good friends and still talk to them. Good thing skype is free, 5 years of 10+ hour chats every day just about woulda been expensive.

I've played EQ for a long time (late 98 and then into launch). I LOVE the game, though its lost a lot of its appeal for me on the live servers. Why? Because SOE seems to want to pander to people who want things faster or easier (hereafter referred to as "WoWhiners"). They actually added mercenaries to the game to compensate for the population dropping. They believe the pop declined because their game was harder and more complex than that Blizzard monstrosity....but EVERY EQ player I've spoken to who did anything of substance in EQ said they left because SOE "bastardized" or WoWified the game....they made it easier, faster....just....well, less. Less challenge, less involvement, less FUN.

Wow, this argument is so outdated. and yes, i still play eqlive.

Grinding AA's is like molasses... Again, seriously? Have you never played live? Ever?

I played live and this is true for pre tss exspansion (maybe sof, i forgot when the first xp increase came) and certainly not true now. See sony has realized the gap between new players and the veterans. They see the true progression in gear and flags. They have made it EASIER to get experience for levels and aa. It scales from the aa's you have. 0-250 gives best experience for aa and it decreases after every 250 or so untill you get to 2500 aa. once you are at 2500 aa you are at normal experience. but it is still extremely easy to get aa. i can load up friends accounts, knock out a 20-30minute mission and get a reward of 3aa per mission. it does have 6 hour lockouts. Sony offers hot zones with increased xp. If all the accounts were up, i could easily have a level 70 character with 500 aa easy in a day on live. the characters would have more aa's but at 70 there are not many important ones and no point in wasting.

The xp rate is ok to be nerfed. however i think it should be for the initial grind to 70 and aa's. But for roa, i dont think it should feel this nerf of xp. A quest line that gets people flagged for bonus xp zones to do roa's in wouldn't be a bad idea. Or having quests that drop double xp items. Maybe even have those items drop.

The new crafted armor really only helps the casters in roa if they are soloing. it gives them a big mana pool and can chain casts spells. Melee would need nicer weapons. Only sk's have the solo advantage for roa's since their epic procs lifetap at level 1. Hunter, can you introduce crafted weapons too? or why not make a item with a clicky version of the old necro pet. The one that used to heal both pet and owner if im not mistaken. It doesn't have to be insanely good. I dont know, i would just like to see roa's be made fun instead of trivializing it with the bard/shaman/druid combo.

you probably wont be seeing the 5.0 for a long time. pretty sure hunter said you have to kill all 100 bosses to get the book. he also said it will take people a long time to figure out how to spawn mobs and some may not even be spawned. i wouldn't be surprised if one is broken until hunter feels the server is ready to have 5.0's

One of the 100 bosses is the Epic 4.5 boss, yet to be discovered. Killing all 100 bosses will get you an Epic 5.0 Book. There are no epic pages required, the books are already completed. The Epic Vendors are already working as well for the Epic Books.

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Reminder: There are 100 boss and 100 triggers. Some might be easy to figure out, and others might never get figured out.

Well, since roa is gonna be a pain. Hunter, why not make 2 new zones that are group or guild instanced only. have the zones with the old bonus xp and charge the 100k to get in. or why not charge more.

i still dont get how this is called "assassin quest" when you kill the same 10 mobs over and over again

i dont care i'll say it.. guild i am sure being talked about is forbidden prophecy

So the progression server insane guild is back nice RoI blew through mass shit and kicked lotsa ass on live.

One more thing live has new progression actual time locked coming in march! Even though 99.9% who play emu can care less haha cya guys in game.

sry to say this but all the "hardcore" raid guilds just use mq and exploits.

be cool if this quest started off in time, ldon, qvic, tacvi, t1, t2, t3, t4. once it gets to t4 status it could equal roa 100. For further ranks, could use zones not used and make the mobs much harder like you are wanting. I think the average player could use a new range upgrade instead of using qvic range.

so plans for a harder ldon with great items, this mean there will finally be a range item?

so over 1mill plat for an item that usually sells for 100k-300k? not everyone has insane amounts of money

just give it the live proc, which is what people are asking for ....

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=6268

It is an important tool for sk's

on live it is a waste when you buy the aa

heard it was fixed but ya still cant charm here

That 3.5 have a 1k hp aug in it?

EPIC ### HP/Regen .. Mana/Regen
Epic 2.0 ??/250 .... ??/??
Epic 2.5 ??/500 .... ??/??
Epic 3.0 1000/1000 . 1000/300
Epic 3.5 3-6k/1250 . 3000/500
Epic 4.0 12-25k/1500 5000/1000