I personally found it easiest to just farm LDON credits and buy kings chest cards.  Too each his own of course.

It also helps if you are boxing and have your own mini army, obviously.

Same - I'll take a ninja fix.

Ok cool - good to know there is known arbitrage in hp/versions.


I've now had it just poof and crash a few times on me.  I'm using a totally different client so it may be due to that + Vista...but this all is just so weird.

guess i'll dust off the xbox or go to the bar haha

using another client, i log in and now my mage is missing about 2.5k hp when buffed up.......he can get past 80% hp and all...but....this definitely isn't cool.  He has all PoTime gear, 262 AA, and when buffed he is now missing 2.5k hp and 1.5k mana ?!?

Is this expected with Titanium ?

I'll also add this - i saw somebody in /ooc advertise Shaman 3.0 epic MGB in Nexus.  I came to Nexus just to see if that would stick - and it did.

Previously when using SoD, my mage had ~12.2k hp and ~11.3k mana, but everytime the shaman 3.0 epic hit me, it never really did anything.  i never got the '10k hp' , but it appears that now I do.

This is extremely confusing because if I had my druthers I would continue to just use my SoD client...I liked natively having better UI options, better item details, more hp/mana - but perhaps this was the intended way of the game ?  If so, I really wish something would have clearly detailed all of this.  I'm not so sure this char/game is going to be as much fun now...and it seems very odd that the client dictates so many options.  I haven't even tried to log on my Shaman or Cleric whom are similarly geared and have similar hp/mana....

Maybe this is all just part of a bug with the latest updates, but man it still just seems really, really weird.

I don't ever run the Steam app - and I don't let things auto update (I forget if that was an option in the Steam app ? I recall taking precautions) - for a sanity check that's also why I reverted to an old backup copy of that EQ directory as well.  My backup directory is not in the Steam dirs (yeah thats probably obvious but just trying to be detailed here)

On my main machine I do still run out of that steam folder out of laziness - but my 2nd machine does not.

If this is a symptom of a Steam update installing - then I can definitely investigate further on my setup, but since I tested on another directory as well...it seems unlikely.  Especially since I had this happening on two separate machines that had not ran Steam or anything since I played yesterday.  My second computer doesn't even have Steam installed.

Just registered to add some color -

theheadmata and myself are friends that play together, and both of us originally bought (crazy eh ?) the SoD client from Steam in early June i believe, perhaps late May.  No problems at all until today.

I normally play 3 of my chars at a time, and today I logged 2 in, on separate physical machines, and was unable to regen past 80% on one and 75% on the other.  i zoned, died, rebooted, no change.  Was playing on these machines/chars yesterday.

SoD client, no custom UIs, nothing other than just customizing options in-game.

I've tried the following:
downloading the latest spell file from the left, place in directory overwriting the default, close/restart EQ
download the SoF spell client from 7/06/2010 that is available on this site (linked in a newbie guide of sorts)

revert to my backup copy of the original download from Steam, tested that spell file, SoF from 7/06/2010, latest spell file from last night....still no luck

Seems very odd that this is happening to both of us.  I've re-read all the updates from Hunter on server changes etc and none of it appears to be applicable to our scenario.