Question - Minimum Everquest Subscriptions to be Effective

[dweeb1123]

Hi all,

This seems like a bad question and I've been shy to ask it, but I have a few characters between 80 - 85 and my entire goal is to run a 6 box group to see group content, maybe finish epic 1.5/2...maybe even 1...but I assume those drops are perma camped, and eventually just hit max level with the group. What would be the minimum # of gold accounts needed? Or would i even be fine just playing f2p with the AA cap in place?

Thanks for your time with the rambly/maybe hard to answer question.

 

[da Man]

I keep my tank paid, rest f2p. I gear the others and krono them to keep aas maxed

 

[Sic]

Hi all,

This seems like a bad question and I've been shy to ask it, but I have a few characters between 80 - 85 and my entire goal is to run a 6 box group to see group content, maybe finish epic 1.5/2...maybe even 1...but I assume those drops are perma camped, and eventually just hit max level with the group. What would be the minimum # of gold accounts needed? Or would i even be fine just playing f2p with the AA cap in place?

Thanks for your time with the rambly/maybe hard to answer question.

this is a great question, and one people ask frequently - also don't be afraid to ask anything no one is going to troll you.

on top of that hop by the Discord we all ask "bad questions" all day long, and it can lead us to some cool stuff


To answer your question - at the least I would keep your tank gold for augs and prestige gear, but after that depends on your goals.
and if you're just doing older stuff and older progression you can keep your entire group f2p if you're not worried about augs and such.

What i do with my f2p toons is farm enough for a krono, krono them, and then grind out AA on that toon, and then let them go f2p again. much easier to do that each expansion and only grind up a few thousand more

 

[B_I_G__D_A_D_D_Y]

I started a group of 6 FTP toons a few months ago. They're level 80 now. I'm doing Hero's Journey with them quite successfully. I just used whatever gear came from the quests and/or dropped along the way. The only real expense has been for spells because they level so damn fast I've got to keep going back to PoK to buy spells. I gave them each 100k from my main to get around that problem.

 

[dweeb1123]

Thanks for the replies all!

 

[eqtrader74]

Same info as above. I run 3 different group setups and I only sub/krono the tank toons all the time. You really want that extra AC mitigation from T2/3 gear and the prestige augs.

Casters get almost no advantage from prestige gear or augs. Melee toons get a minor boost from augs and a decent boost from prestige weapons, but they'll do fine in FTP gear. There are some nice prestige progression/quested items in the various xpacs, like the VP healer stick (40K clicky heal/2 min timer), but not make-or-break items.

Sometimes I'm flush on krono from getting lucky on rares, my vendor toon did well or I convert some Redcents to Krono. Then I'll sub one of my Zerkers that has a prestige/chase set of gear & weapon. Just for the fun little extra DPS.

 

[Redfrog]

Dweeb,
No question should be held back, and I have found this place to be able to ask and talk about all EQ stuff happily, as everyone here has the same like...to play EQ. So anything that helps make you enjoy to play..is a GREAT question. If it helps you, it will likely help many of us. I keep one Gold tank and I have been learning how to keep myself farming for plat while I work so I can buy a Krono every month or so and begun giving turns for my other 5 chars to be Gold for a month and use Auto Grant and get all the AA I can. Its helped tremendously. I've begun to play with having a second team, and will do similar.

This community is awesome to help. I gotta get on Discord as Sic mentioned above.