EQ/EQ2 - Living Legacy. Accounts reactivated from today until July 25th! - Page 21

FulorianC · 06-09-2008, 10:51 AM

Yes, it's called Cycle NPC or something like that in your key layout. I think the default is G or Tab or something like that. Look it up, I think it's under targeting. EQ has NPC cycling before WoW. =)

Also... why break out in a cold sweat? EQ is just one of those games that isn't really mouse intensive. It uses more text commands and hotkeys compared to WoW's button based interface. I really don't use the mouse a whole ton, mainly for interface management. Those times you do need the mouse, you probably aren't going to be moving.

OneofOne · 06-09-2008, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amzin

If it gives you pieces you don't have, shouldn't you just not buy any? Or does it only give you like a random 4-5 slots or something?

You only get 3 pieces of armor from /claim as well as one class appropriate weapon (which is crap). Gwen is correct and pointed out the rest of the set.

Pharazon · 06-09-2008, 02:49 PM

They should have done some serious server merging before doing this. I think a lot of old players are probably just logging in and seeing a dead world. Its sad. But I'm sure there's the 1% of players that actually still play who are extremely vocal about their server being too crowded as is.

lumberjack · 06-09-2008, 06:37 PM

i fired up my 56 monk the other day, with the BoT hotzone and a couple of exp pots i gained 2 levels and 2 aa in about 2.5 hours

Ham n Cheese · 06-09-2008, 06:43 PM

love how I still have to run wineq unless I want to turn one of my DCs off.

Scorp · 06-09-2008, 10:26 PM

Just gonna quote my other post..

Quote:

Looking to sell my account for EQ...

65 Shadowknight on FV
75 Bard on CT (originally from Brell).

Original owner and all that nonsense. Bard has decent gear, not amazing but its good. A bunch of clickies (10ish illusion items), Songblade, VOTS etc, can show ya in game. SK decent gear, aswell as money and a lot of stuff you could sell if you wanted. Both good reputations.

Grizzlebeard · 06-10-2008, 02:17 AM

I'm fairly sure the last time someone tried to sell an account on these forums he was brutally raped by half a dozen people.

kedwyn · 06-10-2008, 02:56 AM

100 people in the noobie chat on Combine. Not much talking though.

Overall I'm having fun soloing a mage right now. Almost over powered really although i did die once and ended up on 10 CR runs until I realized the iskar in the noobie place summons your shit. Pretty pimp.

I remember all the reasons i left EQ though, the pops do suck and its not going to get better leveling up so solo is pretty much your option. The UI is not bad but the inventory management is archaic and could use some help. I'm sure other Ui's can help with this maybe but I'm not fucking with them since I'm on vista and there are supposed to be issues there.

Overall game runs well on Vista though.

Other than that the noobie area is pretty damn nice for a game thats what 8 years old now? I'm enjoying. Nice coin too on the odd items in the barrels and the quests are more than adequate to level on.

Scorp · 06-10-2008, 05:13 AM

Quote:

I'm fairly sure the last time someone tried to sell an account on these forums he was brutally raped by half a dozen people.

*shrugs* Figured I'd post here cause I know half the people in the WoD guild and one of them might want it. Would rather someone that isn't a total scrub get it then some random joe. And its the internet, I could care less about my e-rep.

Parker · 06-10-2008, 05:20 AM

Regarding running another client in the background.

They recently pushed a patch to test that allows you to set how much CPU EQ will use while running in the background. Right now it defaults to Minimum. This has really helped with botting.

Kreugen · 06-10-2008, 08:19 AM

Heh I looked around Nadox, there were some bards and mages soloing, and the only groups were boxers that either flat out ignored people or weren't even at the keyboard.

Maybe next year they'll hand out level boosts.

So what the hell is the next expansion going to be, now that they've killed the single most powerful entity in EQ lore? More extra dimensional invaders?

Needless · 06-10-2008, 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kreugen

Heh I looked around Nadox, there were some bards and mages soloing, and the only groups were boxers that either flat out ignored people or weren't even at the keyboard.

Maybe next year they'll hand out level boosts.

So what the hell is the next expansion going to be, now that they've killed the single most powerful entity in EQ lore? More extra dimensional invaders?

I thought that was veeshan? i havent kept up with this shit in ages though lol

MrGraham · 06-10-2008, 09:51 AM

Can someone sum up the lore from where I leave off? Also correct my retarded mistakes.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Original EQ - Nagafen and Vox are trapped in their lairs for wanting to do it even though they're opposite color dragons. Freeport is corrupt, Qeynos is for hippies. Orcs + Dark Elves have an alliance against the Wood/High Elves. Portals are opened to Fear/Hate/Sky planes, gods are killed, PoSky is on acid. Mayong is chilling in his castle and will only spawn if you sit in a pentagon shape with your group and shout incantations. There's an ancient race of people called the Combine that no one knows much about other than they left a bunch of shitty weapons on vendors.

Kunark - Lizards and dragons have been living on this island everyone forgot about for thousands of years. Sebilis was the capital until a big war where Trakanon died while fighting the Iksar emperor. The emperor died too, he gives you a quest to get into Veeshan's Peak which is the main hangout for Kunark dragons. Mayong sent drachnids to Kunark as his spies. Iksar don't like anyone.

Velious - Gnomes built a boat and found the ice continent. Ice dorfs hate ice giants, ice dragons hate ice giants, ice giants hate everyone. An entrance to the Planes of Growth and Mischief are found here, which are arguably the worst and best zones ever. This is where the main concentration of dragons on Norrath are. Long time ago two dragons of opposite colors mated and made Kerafyrm, the prismatic dragon. Originally he was a good guy and a champion, but then he tried to take over and they imprisoned him in the Sleeper's Tomb with 4 guardians. You kill the 4 guardians and he runs around on a rampage and flies off. Why does Jaled Dar want you to let him loose? I remember he's got a reason for it, forgot what it was.

Luclin - A long time ago the Combine had portals to the moon. AlKabor found out how to reopen these portals. On the moon, there's cat people who got there accidentally (forgot exact story). There's snake people, who used to live on Norrath and had Iksars as slaves but RILE chased them off with the Greenmist (apparently both a weapon and a magic disease). There's the primitive grimlings, who are awesome to AE but a waste of time to raid. There's Seru, who are a people full of goofy references and bane weapons to kill 1 raid mob and SURPRISE a corrupt human society, and the Katta opposition who are the "good guys" but also have some vampires or something among them. Then there's the shadow people who have their own language, they're chilling with worms in Akheva and rocks in Vex Thal. How did Seru/Katta people get there? Why do the Shissar hold parts of the key to get into Vex Thal?

Note - At this point, the EQ2 time line splits off, everything after this may or may not have happened in the EQ2 world.

Planes of Power - Magic portals to all the planes have been opened. For some reason a bunch of planes are not included in this hub (Hate Fear Sky Mischief Growth). Mortals go into each God's plane and kill them, but wait, you're really just killing their projections and their real power lies in the Plane of Time. They try to keep you out, but in the end you kill them all and free ZEBUXORUK the Nameless god (why was he imprisoned in Time again?) but then Druzzil Ro (who does not have a plane and apparently has way more power than the other gods because she can just stop you by herself) shows up and says "POOF this didn't happen".

Legacy of Ykesha - Some trolls found a magic rock and frogs take over Grobb. This is the point where Sony realizes they can add basic features and charge expansion price for it.

Lost Dungeons of Norrath - There were some dungeons. They were lost, and now they are found. People will give you gear to go kill stuff in them. Here we learn that Mayong created or at least employed werewolves, and he has a whole bunch of vampires under his castle. There used to be sand elves in Ro, Miragul made a bunch of crazy monsters in Everfrost, there's even MORE undead frogs under Guk, and there's a bunch of orcs in an area called Rujark.

Gates of Discord - Another new continent has been found, Taelosia or something like that. There's anime people there who tried to summon a God but ended up summoning the armies of MATA MURAM, who is the commander of an interdimensional Mogul like army. Some of his forces got through but then the portal was closed. His forces are led by Tunat Muram and they are trying to open a new portal to get reinforcements in Tacvi. In Uqua, the Taelosians who summoend the Muramites are trying to summon their God again (Trushar), because it went so well the first time.

Omens of War - Muramites in Taelosia have been defeated, so we decide to enter the Plane of Discord where Overlord Mata Muram is to kill him. We find out he has enslaved the Riftseekers, who open the portals to other dimensions for him. They are not happy about working for him, and help you get into his Citadel of Anguish. Why doesn't he just kill the priests of discord to get them to stop porting you into his crib?! Dragorns are the native creatures of this place, they're a trials based society and I have no idea why their civilization is in the plane of discord. Maybe it used to be a real place? Don't remember.

Dragons of Norrath - HEY we just remembered there are a whole bunch more dragons just off of Lavastorm. I didn't quite get the lore from this, who was Vishimitar and how did he fall? Not much to this expansion.

Depths of Darkhallow - Now that we've gone to the moon and other dimensions, it's time to go underground. There's a civilization of squid face people. Their capital is Illsalin. They were fucked up by Mayong but at the last minute decided to make themselves undead so they wouldn't get wiped out. There's still some live squidheads who are "good guys". Spider people and werewolves in abundance here, both are in cahoots with Mayong. Mayong has built a demiplane for himself here, the Demiplane of Blood. You storm his castle and mess him up, only to find out that because you've given him the respect of a god now he is a god, which is exactly what he wanted.

I quit here, so I'd like a summary of PoR, TSS, TBS, and SoF if someone wouldn't mind.

Grizzlebeard · 06-10-2008, 10:02 AM

That spoiler is made of win.

Ham n Cheese · 06-10-2008, 10:10 AM

Agreed, awesomely written lol

06-09-2008, 10:51 AM	#301 (permalink)
FulorianC EQ1 Apologist Join Date: May 2003 Location: Denton, Texas Posts: 1,600	Yes, it's called Cycle NPC or something like that in your key layout. I think the default is G or Tab or something like that. Look it up, I think it's under targeting. EQ has NPC cycling before WoW. =) Also... why break out in a cold sweat? EQ is just one of those games that isn't really mouse intensive. It uses more text commands and hotkeys compared to WoW's button based interface. I really don't use the mouse a whole ton, mainly for interface management. Those times you do need the mouse, you probably aren't going to be moving. __________________

06-09-2008, 06:43 PM	#305 (permalink)
Ham n Cheese You can betray me Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Houston Posts: 8,927 +18 Internets	love how I still have to run wineq unless I want to turn one of my DCs off. Last edited by Ham n Cheese : 06-09-2008 at 07:20 PM.

06-10-2008, 02:56 AM	#308 (permalink)
kedwyn Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 809	100 people in the noobie chat on Combine. Not much talking though. Overall I'm having fun soloing a mage right now. Almost over powered really although i did die once and ended up on 10 CR runs until I realized the iskar in the noobie place summons your shit. Pretty pimp. I remember all the reasons i left EQ though, the pops do suck and its not going to get better leveling up so solo is pretty much your option. The UI is not bad but the inventory management is archaic and could use some help. I'm sure other Ui's can help with this maybe but I'm not fucking with them since I'm on vista and there are supposed to be issues there. Overall game runs well on Vista though. Other than that the noobie area is pretty damn nice for a game thats what 8 years old now? I'm enjoying. Nice coin too on the odd items in the barrels and the quests are more than adequate to level on. __________________ Welcome to SOE's Station pass, AKA MMO mediocrity or worst.

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06-09-2008, 02:49 PM	#303 (permalink)
Pharazon Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 395 -3 Internets	They should have done some serious server merging before doing this. I think a lot of old players are probably just logging in and seeing a dead world. Its sad. But I'm sure there's the 1% of players that actually still play who are extremely vocal about their server being too crowded as is.

06-09-2008, 06:37 PM	#304 (permalink)
lumberjack Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 118 +1 Internets	i fired up my 56 monk the other day, with the BoT hotzone and a couple of exp pots i gained 2 levels and 2 aa in about 2.5 hours

06-10-2008, 02:17 AM	#307 (permalink)
Grizzlebeard The Littlest Hobo of MMOs Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Blighty! Posts: 539	I'm fairly sure the last time someone tried to sell an account on these forums he was brutally raped by half a dozen people.

06-10-2008, 05:20 AM	#310 (permalink)
Parker Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 18	Regarding running another client in the background. They recently pushed a patch to test that allows you to set how much CPU EQ will use while running in the background. Right now it defaults to Minimum. This has really helped with botting.

06-10-2008, 08:19 AM	#311 (permalink)
Kreugen Fires of Heaven Ancient Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,777 +44 Internets	Heh I looked around Nadox, there were some bards and mages soloing, and the only groups were boxers that either flat out ignored people or weren't even at the keyboard. Maybe next year they'll hand out level boosts. So what the hell is the next expansion going to be, now that they've killed the single most powerful entity in EQ lore? More extra dimensional invaders?

06-10-2008, 09:51 AM	#313 (permalink)
MrGraham Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 988 +2 Internets	Can someone sum up the lore from where I leave off? Also correct my retarded mistakes. Spoiler Alert, click show to read: Original EQ - Nagafen and Vox are trapped in their lairs for wanting to do it even though they're opposite color dragons. Freeport is corrupt, Qeynos is for hippies. Orcs + Dark Elves have an alliance against the Wood/High Elves. Portals are opened to Fear/Hate/Sky planes, gods are killed, PoSky is on acid. Mayong is chilling in his castle and will only spawn if you sit in a pentagon shape with your group and shout incantations. There's an ancient race of people called the Combine that no one knows much about other than they left a bunch of shitty weapons on vendors. Kunark - Lizards and dragons have been living on this island everyone forgot about for thousands of years. Sebilis was the capital until a big war where Trakanon died while fighting the Iksar emperor. The emperor died too, he gives you a quest to get into Veeshan's Peak which is the main hangout for Kunark dragons. Mayong sent drachnids to Kunark as his spies. Iksar don't like anyone. Velious - Gnomes built a boat and found the ice continent. Ice dorfs hate ice giants, ice dragons hate ice giants, ice giants hate everyone. An entrance to the Planes of Growth and Mischief are found here, which are arguably the worst and best zones ever. This is where the main concentration of dragons on Norrath are. Long time ago two dragons of opposite colors mated and made Kerafyrm, the prismatic dragon. Originally he was a good guy and a champion, but then he tried to take over and they imprisoned him in the Sleeper's Tomb with 4 guardians. You kill the 4 guardians and he runs around on a rampage and flies off. Why does Jaled Dar want you to let him loose? I remember he's got a reason for it, forgot what it was. Luclin - A long time ago the Combine had portals to the moon. AlKabor found out how to reopen these portals. On the moon, there's cat people who got there accidentally (forgot exact story). There's snake people, who used to live on Norrath and had Iksars as slaves but RILE chased them off with the Greenmist (apparently both a weapon and a magic disease). There's the primitive grimlings, who are awesome to AE but a waste of time to raid. There's Seru, who are a people full of goofy references and bane weapons to kill 1 raid mob and SURPRISE a corrupt human society, and the Katta opposition who are the "good guys" but also have some vampires or something among them. Then there's the shadow people who have their own language, they're chilling with worms in Akheva and rocks in Vex Thal. How did Seru/Katta people get there? Why do the Shissar hold parts of the key to get into Vex Thal? Note - At this point, the EQ2 time line splits off, everything after this may or may not have happened in the EQ2 world. Planes of Power - Magic portals to all the planes have been opened. For some reason a bunch of planes are not included in this hub (Hate Fear Sky Mischief Growth). Mortals go into each God's plane and kill them, but wait, you're really just killing their projections and their real power lies in the Plane of Time. They try to keep you out, but in the end you kill them all and free ZEBUXORUK the Nameless god (why was he imprisoned in Time again?) but then Druzzil Ro (who does not have a plane and apparently has way more power than the other gods because she can just stop you by herself) shows up and says "POOF this didn't happen". Legacy of Ykesha - Some trolls found a magic rock and frogs take over Grobb. This is the point where Sony realizes they can add basic features and charge expansion price for it. Lost Dungeons of Norrath - There were some dungeons. They were lost, and now they are found. People will give you gear to go kill stuff in them. Here we learn that Mayong created or at least employed werewolves, and he has a whole bunch of vampires under his castle. There used to be sand elves in Ro, Miragul made a bunch of crazy monsters in Everfrost, there's even MORE undead frogs under Guk, and there's a bunch of orcs in an area called Rujark. Gates of Discord - Another new continent has been found, Taelosia or something like that. There's anime people there who tried to summon a God but ended up summoning the armies of MATA MURAM, who is the commander of an interdimensional Mogul like army. Some of his forces got through but then the portal was closed. His forces are led by Tunat Muram and they are trying to open a new portal to get reinforcements in Tacvi. In Uqua, the Taelosians who summoend the Muramites are trying to summon their God again (Trushar), because it went so well the first time. Omens of War - Muramites in Taelosia have been defeated, so we decide to enter the Plane of Discord where Overlord Mata Muram is to kill him. We find out he has enslaved the Riftseekers, who open the portals to other dimensions for him. They are not happy about working for him, and help you get into his Citadel of Anguish. Why doesn't he just kill the priests of discord to get them to stop porting you into his crib?! Dragorns are the native creatures of this place, they're a trials based society and I have no idea why their civilization is in the plane of discord. Maybe it used to be a real place? Don't remember. Dragons of Norrath - HEY we just remembered there are a whole bunch more dragons just off of Lavastorm. I didn't quite get the lore from this, who was Vishimitar and how did he fall? Not much to this expansion. Depths of Darkhallow - Now that we've gone to the moon and other dimensions, it's time to go underground. There's a civilization of squid face people. Their capital is Illsalin. They were fucked up by Mayong but at the last minute decided to make themselves undead so they wouldn't get wiped out. There's still some live squidheads who are "good guys". Spider people and werewolves in abundance here, both are in cahoots with Mayong. Mayong has built a demiplane for himself here, the Demiplane of Blood. You storm his castle and mess him up, only to find out that because you've given him the respect of a god now he is a god, which is exactly what he wanted. I quit here, so I'd like a summary of PoR, TSS, TBS, and SoF if someone wouldn't mind.

06-10-2008, 10:02 AM	#314 (permalink)
Grizzlebeard The Littlest Hobo of MMOs Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Blighty! Posts: 539	That spoiler is made of win.

06-10-2008, 10:10 AM	#315 (permalink)
Ham n Cheese You can betray me Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Houston Posts: 8,927 +18 Internets	Agreed, awesomely written lol