[EQ2] The Ultimate Newb Thread

[Surlok TP]

Originally Posted by Bristlebane

I've seen people say you're close to maxed AA's just by normal questing to level 80. Level locking is pointless to me.

I've got 36 at level 43, and that was with about 50 collection quests total. I also skipped from level 18 to 25, I believe it was.

I am at 57 now on my Berserker, re-started the game about 3 weeks ago,at lvl 34 I think with 16 AA and the 49 I have now were from questing,leveling etc.I have got most of them from the 45-55 and a lot of that was from discovery. I can't see why I won't easily get another 50 pre 70 just form doing the same thing. So I would say you are on par to have 100 before 70 easily since you are already far ahead of what I had.

In any case you can't spend 50 before 70 in one tree,and the berserk tree sucks fucking dick,so as long as you can get the 50 in the Warrior tree,and then save twenty for when you ding 70,which is what I plan to do,I am sure you'll be fine, do the 44882 in Sta and Int buckler spec and own shit. I did 448 str,then 448 Int then once I had enough points to do 441 into sta I swapped from 2h to 1h buckler and have loved it. Now I am capped out basically till 70 when the next 20 points open up and I can finish off the int/sta trees, but I have soloed every step of the way and it's been great. I can even solo +one level named heroics (one up arrow) so long as they have adds with them to proc rampage off of.

If you haven't already ,start looking for Vision of Madness off the broker,it's a lvl 54 spell that's either a drop from a boss or player crafted adept 3, it's 3pp on my server right now which sucks ass unless you have cash to burn,which I don't.It's a heal on death and it's been a huge boon for me to solo things I would usually need a group for since it gives me a free death basically every 30 min.


Also don't make the mistake I did soloing and head into sinking sands pre 50,I cleared most of that zone before 50 and when I hit 50 I hit a wall of no shit to do, I should have stuck it out in feerot,and steamfront or whatever pre 50,then done sinking sands, because I wasn't able to do much in Lfay or pillars in till around 54.If I had saved sinking till 50 that would have gotten me to 54 easily and saved me alot of grief trying to solo +4 level mobs. Lfay fucking owns for fast leveling though as the 3 different areas all give basically the same quests and I was turning in 6-8 quests at a time just by stacking .Everyone in my guild seemed to agree that 50-55 sucks dick for content,while the levels below and above there is more than enough.And make sure you use your taunts, I didn't and realized I had an aggression skill of 10 or soemthing, not sure when that shit changedbecause when I played before I grouped exclusively so it should have been maxed out at 36 but I guess that skill didn't exist two years ago and I wasn't aware of it.

[Aamina]

That lore sounds cool. I like it.

[dandrools]

Originally Posted by Jysin-DW

^^ I've been playing since Beta in 2004. I call bullshit on this one. ^^

Every time someone pipes in with "durr, guys Luclin blowed up!" it's funny to throw in that rumor and watch everyone run in and talk about how long they've been playing and that the rumor is false.

You bit the hook first, congrats!

[Surlok TP]

Originally Posted by dandrools

Every time someone pipes in with "durr, guys Luclin blowed up!" it's funny to throw in that rumor and watch everyone run in and talk about how long they've been playing and that the rumor is false.

You bit the hook first, congrats!

And you just displayed a terribly weak attempt at backpedaling out of your statement.

[Bristlebane]

Edit: Weird double post. Odd, it double posted when I edited this post the first time.

[Bristlebane]

I went with maxing crits, then maxing buckler from the getgo. Right now I'm in the process of maxing riposte.

I don't have to worry much about what's absolutely best, as I box a level 70 fury that I mentor myself with most of the time. At level 42, he nukes for 2,000 something on a crit with master spells, and he's spec'd for DPS.

I'm starting to actually feel like the berserker is doing worthwhile damage. He's doing maybe 30 percent of total damage now, whereas 10 levels ago, the fury was doing everything.

Whenever I want to kill a named mob that's 3 up or something, I just drop him from the group, tag the mob with my berserker, then kill it with the fury.

I'm currently doing blue quests in Steamfont. Also, my taunts are maxed.

Thanks for the info on that spell, I'll look it up.

[Jysin-DW]

Originally Posted by dandrools

Every time someone pipes in with "durr, guys Luclin blowed up!" it's funny to throw in that rumor and watch everyone run in and talk about how long they've been playing and that the rumor is false.

You bit the hook first, congrats!

Oh gee... I guess you got me there. Wait no, youre still fucking retarded.

[dandrools]

Originally Posted by Jysin-DW

Oh gee... I guess you got me there. Wait no, youre still fucking retarded.

My feelin's, they be hurtin'!

Have any other 4th grade cut-downs?