Good day! I'm a returning player that had deleted all things related to EQ a few years back thinking that I'd never return. Anyhow, I did get that very specific itch again and returned. At this point, I only have one character and one persona with him that is remotely playable. I'm certainly a slow one, but it took me several hours just to get a (all default) UI Layout that I was comfortable with. Anyhow, in its history, EQ has never offered any handholding. Their help menu has never really worked for finding basic information. It didn't even show the /help commands, for instance, and, of course, those haven't been updated in over a decade either. At any rate, I'm trying to find a good "all-in-one" source for finding some very basic information that might be kept up to date. My guess will be ZAM, but I'm curious in this day of age if there may be other that surpass it?
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Question - EverQuest: Is there a "best" source for finding accurate information that is kept up to date?
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it sorta depends on your information needs:
About redguides and mq and the stuff from here: https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/redguides-nfo.95805/
stuff about how to do the missions: https://eqresource.com/
stuff about eq and all kinds of weird infos: https://everquest.fanra.info/wiki/Main_Page
and bonzz: https://www.bonzz.com/
About redguides and mq and the stuff from here: https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/redguides-nfo.95805/
stuff about how to do the missions: https://eqresource.com/
stuff about eq and all kinds of weird infos: https://everquest.fanra.info/wiki/Main_Page
and bonzz: https://www.bonzz.com/
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definately not chatgpt lol
The misinformation that I've received from chatgpt has been pretty terrible. I was meaning to find very basic things like *all* of the possible commands. How to make legitimate in game macros that would work for foraging, fishing, etc. Just the basics. ZAM had been pretty good, but I wasn't sure if in today's world there might be better available.
Excellent referrals! Thank you. I had forgotten about some of these.
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If you want to use an LLM as an advance search engine to give you ideas you have to be very specific about where you want it to look. For example, if you use DeepSeek's thinking mode, you can read its rationale as it works. You'll notice that it will confuse an eq "paladin" with EQ2 and WoW. It will then give you erroneous information.
To make using an LLM not a total waste of time you need to tell it: Use X, Y, Z websites and look for information on TOPIC and consider THESE constraints before giving me an answer.
Also, don't ask ChatGPT to ferret out commands, it will 100% hallucinate them. I tried doing the same for writing an Ogrebot script and it was an embarrassment.
EQtraders.com has good info on trade skills some of the sections are very outdated like how to skill up for that I would go to Bonzz but the recipe section is well maintained.
Alla is my go to but not sure for how much longer. According to someone who "used" to work there (I am not the "me" or the "I" referred to in this quote. Fanbyte is the ones who control Allah:
Fanbyte laid off quite a few people and so they ended my contract and cut my access so I can't do anything on the site anymore. This means no new items, spells, db updates, and code updates for now.
The site still has content admins working on the site updating content and can add new content as long as it's not for a new expansion. I might be able to give the lead developer there what he needs in order to add new expansions so at least the categories are available but I doubt they'll go out of their way to update spells, add items etc since they work on their big sites, Allakhazam is a very low priority for them, especially after all the layoffs.
Fanbyte laid off quite a few people and so they ended my contract and cut my access so I can't do anything on the site anymore. This means no new items, spells, db updates, and code updates for now.
The site still has content admins working on the site updating content and can add new content as long as it's not for a new expansion. I might be able to give the lead developer there what he needs in order to add new expansions so at least the categories are available but I doubt they'll go out of their way to update spells, add items etc since they work on their big sites, Allakhazam is a very low priority for them, especially after all the layoffs.
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I used to like Alla, and I still use it for a few things. But overall no longer find their site to be my one stop shop these days for information.
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Zam has a lot of history so it's good but you gotta have an ad blocker for that. EQResource is top on my list at the moment for quest walkthroughs. For older stuff EQProgression. Magelo is ok if you have a subscription - Shows a lot of item drop rarity percentages and exact NPC death locations from user parsed data. Bonzz is good if you want to see what an item looks like and where it came from - a lot of info.
Honestly, Google Search is my one stop shop. I search and see if any of the top sites have what I need.
Honestly, Google Search is my one stop shop. I search and see if any of the top sites have what I need.
One of the few things I preferred on Alla was the comments by users which the other sites seem not have at all. A few comments on EQ Resource but not the many you see at Allah. Bonzz and EQ Progression don't have player comments either. Although Bonzz is very receptive to corrections when you send them over and I agree with you on his great visuals of HF armor, mounts, weapons, pretty much everything.
I have seen more and more mistakes on AI referencing EQ. Most of the returns are just showing what anyone can find on the forums, in fact it even says "most of this information is players on the forums" And I noticed tonight when I actually looked at an AI story on my phone that it had a disclaimer at the bottom that said the story and info was "AI generated and might not be accurate".
If you're looking for TLP specific stuff https://www.eqprogression.com/ is a pretty good source of information, including TLP specific trade skill, epics and such.
It does kind of taper off after GoD - limited OoW information.
https://www.raspersrealm.com/ seems to pick up where eqprogression ends, however its not TLP centric, more in era centric - there are some things on raspers i think i've seen out of date, and while it has some tips of its own, its missing some other known tips for things.
https://eqresource.com/ is a pretty decent later game source of info
funny enough, one pretty decent source of info i have found is Reddit of all places. There are a bunch of people on there who don't know what they are talking about, but there is a lot of good info on there too. If you do a search on something and add reddit there - you can find some gems.
Good luck
It does kind of taper off after GoD - limited OoW information.
https://www.raspersrealm.com/ seems to pick up where eqprogression ends, however its not TLP centric, more in era centric - there are some things on raspers i think i've seen out of date, and while it has some tips of its own, its missing some other known tips for things.
https://eqresource.com/ is a pretty decent later game source of info
funny enough, one pretty decent source of info i have found is Reddit of all places. There are a bunch of people on there who don't know what they are talking about, but there is a lot of good info on there too. If you do a search on something and add reddit there - you can find some gems.
Good luck
There's a thread on RG that might have what you are looking for - pretty much all the EQ slash commands, along with somewhat of a description of them.:
https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/old-info-but-some-might-use-eq-commands-and-such.28019/
https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/old-info-but-some-might-use-eq-commands-and-such.28019/