FoH EQ2 bout

[Shutup]

I have the 5 year reward, but had no idea what the orb thing did until today when they mentioned it in chat. Kind of wish they would have put the effect on the inspection box.

[Soygen]

Originally Posted by Brikker

Reset as in put you at 100% once a week? If so, that would be fucking OP as hell for alts. I've grouped a few times with an SK that has five or six level 80s, and the 10% combat exp-per-80 bonus is REALLY fucking noticeable :P On top of that, he had the 10% bonus from the RAF mount. In the mid-high 60s, he was getting about 3-4 levels for my 1 or 2.

Too bad I've only got 770 days (2 years, 1 month, 9 days)

But yea, you get +90 days for DoF, KoS, EoF, and RoK expansions.

Yeah it fills it 100% once every 7 days. Heh.

[Ichu]

Is it automatic now? I was using it a year and a half ago and it was click to get the experience. But since ive returned ive had +100% adventure experience constantly.

[Soygen]

No, not automatic. Click with 7 day cooldown I believe.

[Vilgan]

Ever since I hit the 60's, I keep hearing groups asking for "any non plate healer". Sometimes they word it different, but its essentially the same thing.

Why is that? Does it go away at 80? Been debating rolling a templar, and would suck to get left out. I realize they are good at raids, but tbh I don't know that I'll ever be much of a hardcore raider... playing eq2 extremely casually. Thanks for any insight on this. I play a conj now so I'm a bit unfamiliar with the tank/healing dynamics of certain classes.

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They already have a plate healer and they want another healer so they can stack heals more effectively.

[bloodgibber]

I broke down and trying to play once more. Rolled up a coercer, having fun so far, I need to find a guild that does more that tell everyone grats when they level or gain a achievement point. Though he is 15-16 right now, so I only have access to the 1-9, 10-19, chats. Do the higher ones get used, right now it seems people are only using 1-9 chat?

Also how high should I upgrade spells? Right now at least try to go for "journeyman" or the handcrafted spells. I do get a stupid amount of resists, anything I can do to fix it?

[Rica86]

To vilg, ya... like the other guy said, healers don't stack in this game. Their heals atleast that is, so having two plate healers in a group would do nothing as there heals would override eachother, as to why people ask for certain types.

Originally Posted by bloodgibber

I broke down and trying to play once more. Rolled up a coercer, having fun so far, I need to find a guild that does more that tell everyone grats when they level or gain a achievement point. Though he is 15-16 right now, so I only have access to the 1-9, 10-19, chats. Do the higher ones get used, right now it seems people are only using 1-9 chat?

Also how high should I upgrade spells? Right now at least try to go for "journeyman" or the handcrafted spells. I do get a stupid amount of resists, anything I can do to fix it?

No clue on guilds, I've been enjoying my time with the other walkers of the mist. But ya, people do use the other chat channels. 1-9 is used for most everything though since it's one of the only global channels from character creation I believe. Though if you are referring to trying to find groups, you won't find a whole lot till later on. It's ridiculously easy to solo at this point, so most people don't bother with the lower dungeons. If you really want to do them, you'll most likely need to start /who all'ing your level range and random tells to fill groups. And you'll want to get all your spells to adept, you'll be fine with that leveling.

[Clowns]

Btw, this was posted on the Official forums. I tried it and I went from 40fps to 75fps, which is crazy...

FPS Pro tip: Disable Smooth Fonts

I've seen as much as a 100% gain in fps rates.

You can then adjust the base font size to accomidate for the initial font shock.

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heh yea, it boggles my mind, but fonts some how lag the game tremendously. I dunno if it still does, but /clearchat used to make my FPS spike UP.

[Vilgan]

Wow. That font changed helped a lot. Too bad that the smooth fonts fuck it up like that too, since I like how they look better

Apparently the +90 days to vet status only apply if you been a subscriber most of the time. I've only been subbed about like 8-9 months total of EQ2's lifetime and so my date to get the 5 year rewards will be the actual 5 year reunion for my account (Nov 4). I petitioned it, and the GM basically told me they were irrelevant since I'd been off again on again so much with my subs. Oh well, 3 months until I get the vitality reset 1x per week is better than 4 years I guess :P.

[Ichu]

EQ2 seems to have a few odd things that will destroy your FPS. I didn't know about the font but will give it a shot when I get home.

I played in Windowed mode at 17FPS on extreme performance all the way up to level 55. Then I found out that my 8800GT and the engine don't like windowed mode. As soon as I popped it into full screen I got 40FPS on balanced.

Fuck.

[Vilgan]

yeah, windowed mode plays kind of shitty for me. However, I like being able to bounce back and forth between EQ2 and firefox so... oh well, windowed mode it is. I'm still not sure how to fix the memory leak or whatever EQ2 has that slowly trashes my system. My entire comp slows down as I play more and more EQ2 so that I usually end up having to reboot it after a day or two of solid playing. This is the only game I've played recently that does this... as I could run 4x Eve for weeks and never see any issues.

Be nice to figure out some sort of "fix my system" app I could run after a day of EQ2 instead of rebooting. It likely exists, I just haven't spent much time on google looking into it.

[Cyni]

Anyone have an unused account they dont want any more? Friend wants to play a Dirge/Chanter and is looking for an already purchased account to take over.

[Celebrindal]

I have an already purchased RAF account, but nothing on it...