Question - I'm bored again!

[nicesandwiches]

Hey there beautiful! Long time no see!

Ark Survival is awesome but I've kinda burned out on it. How's the EQ these days?

I tried WoW with the recent free level up and completely got lost on what to do and how to do it! Lol.

Is it similar with EQ now? It had probably been about 18 months since playing last. It was still SOE.

Is it worth setting up a small team to play again? I read there's been a ban wave recently?

And what's with phinigel - why so popular?

Anyway, nice to see some of the old faves

Ian

 

[Maskoi]

OMG Hiyas.
Play EQ we have missed you.

 

[dannuic]

Hah, I literally just came back two days ago, too. Decided to roll up a newb on a server I don't have anything established on, but screw progression servers. Live is better for sure!

 

[Hopeless]

Pokemon GO!

 

[nicesandwiches]

Lol... Fokèoff Go. Battery hog bollocks. So where do I go server wise that I can speak to like minded individuals?!

Hey Mask... Still going strong, yeah?


Ian

 

[Maskoi]

We just released Kiss 9.0 yesterday on our unsuspecting members.

 

[dreamflux]

Best thing to happen recently was the combination of a ton of AAs yesterday. The AA window is SO CLEAN now.

 

[nicesandwiches]

I used to play on AB - where should I go now!?

Also, how do i set up a new account without all the security detail bollocks?

 

[Incognito]

There is a great thread regarding creating clean accounts.

 

[nicesandwiches]

That's Great - cheers.

Couple more questions - reading some other threads, i'm thinking of making a tank and subbing/ krono for a bit - i hear this is the best way forward for ftp groups later on.

Do you guys start a KA group from the get go or level all toons separately to a specific point (say 30)?
Have played an SK and don't fancy playing another one - so Pally or War? Bear in mind that it's not going to be very well geared for a time unless i update to 85...

 

[Incognito]

Well its subjective. Post heroic keys, I have been alternating between 2 newbie grps, 6 man, running KA. It isn't a PLing session for sure, but if you twink your lowbie tank with old world gear (Cobalt, Mithril, Donals, Rubicite etc...) they are pretty indestructible. They are a fricken hoot to play and they lvl pretty fast. Do I have the fortitude to get them to 85 so I can use my main grps to finish PLing them? We shall see. The more I think about it, the more I wonder if just ponying up for heroics is the answer. It kinda depends on how many we are talking about. If 1 or 2, go heroic. However, if you are doing full 6 man grps, then you can lvl 6 in the same time as you would otherwise do 1 (non PL), hell even faster, with all of them simply doing melee mobs die quickly (and again, the tank is near indestructible).

da Man swears a better approach is to go with 3 tank mercs since at the lower lvls because they are awesome (up to 50?). But that would only be lvling 3 toons. So the number of toons matters. He says the mercs (post 50) are raid geared and damn tough. I haven't tried it yet.

For pure PLing it is obviously better/easier to take higher lvl toons and just a few lowbies (1 or 2) but unless you have some mid-lvl toons to PL them, you'd have to go Oil of Ro (AE dmg - non-resistible) or some such. Perhaps one day I will keep some toons at certain lvls to facilitate PLing lower lvl toons.

 

[dannuic]

They nerfed mercs a few months ago... They are still ridiculous pre-50, but they fall off sharply until you start to gear them up (CotF+ currency). Once you gear them though, they can be beasts. But since you need to be 75 to step foot in an HA, you've got a gap between 50-75 where you'll be hurting if you are trying to do anything difficult. That being said, leveling 50-75 (probably -85) isn't that bad just by killing blues in hotzones, which can be done solo or molo no problem.

My latest foray into EQ is actually going to just be solo or maybe duo, trying to see which HA's from the latest three expansions I can do with just 1-2 actual characters.

 

[Meistro]

In my opinion it's easy to level them. I did a druid, no gear up to 70 molo style. But couldn't use the tank Merc. As tough as they are, an ungeared badly spelled druid couldn't keep him healed.
However, when I used a cleric Merc on yellows or less up to level 50, and db after that even with no gear wit was a constant pull/kill albeit slow...but doable.

 

[nicesandwiches]

Where are the Paladin guides for 2016? Lol


Ian