Hail adventurers!
I last played EQ back in the early 2000s. Mainly back for nostalgia reasons and to see and do things I didn't do before.
I mained an enchanter back then and highlights off the top of my head were:
- completing the shawl questline
- breaking into the plane of fear, wiping, panicking about retrieving my corpse
- mezzing 3+ unexpected adds and keeping them controlled while the team beat down the immense hp of the Kunark(?) mobs and ending the fight completely oom but victorious
- charm soloing mobs that can 1-shot me (Velious I think)
I also remember 30min+ corpse runs and logging in - LFG - *crickets* - log off an hour later.
I played a few chars through Gloomingdeep just to get a feel for it again. The old zones though, really hitting me in the feels. Getting lost in Neriak, walking around North Ro. Got me all misty eyed.
So...
Played WoW for a long time. Ended up 5-boxing in WoW, the classic 5 shaman line-up but I also did a Pally,Priest,Warlock,Wizard,Hunter team to dungeon with. WoW peaked for me in Lich King, didn't play much after that and I heard they pretty much killed off boxing.
My boxing setup was a single box with AHK for broadcasting keystrokes to all instances. Each character had custom macros on the hotbars and WoW gave us really cool tools at the time to make things easy like Wait commands that made it possible to set up tank/dps/heal rotations on a single keypress.
My plan now is to really experience more of EQ and rediscover memories (I keep bugging my 10yo to share rediscoveries). I am not in a rush and want to explore a lot of the classic world. I created a F2P account and some characters on Bristlebane I think. Next step is to add 2 more accounts, get MQ and KissAssist running smoothly and then probably ramping up to 6 accounts (may stick with 3 depending on how well 3 functions with the mercs).
So questions:
1. From what I can tell Bristlebane should be fine, right? It is only TLP and Truebox servers that have boxing specific limitations.
2. KissAssist seems like it automates characters, so heals/dps/cc trigger automatically on the "slaves", correct? Similar to mercs but obviously with a lot more flexibility.
3. Good 3/6 class compositions? I'll probably ignore all advice and just make something like 1x gnome with 5x ogre for shits and giggles.
Looking forward to crawling through Upper Guk!
I last played EQ back in the early 2000s. Mainly back for nostalgia reasons and to see and do things I didn't do before.
I mained an enchanter back then and highlights off the top of my head were:
- completing the shawl questline
- breaking into the plane of fear, wiping, panicking about retrieving my corpse
- mezzing 3+ unexpected adds and keeping them controlled while the team beat down the immense hp of the Kunark(?) mobs and ending the fight completely oom but victorious
- charm soloing mobs that can 1-shot me (Velious I think)
I also remember 30min+ corpse runs and logging in - LFG - *crickets* - log off an hour later.
I played a few chars through Gloomingdeep just to get a feel for it again. The old zones though, really hitting me in the feels. Getting lost in Neriak, walking around North Ro. Got me all misty eyed.
So...
Played WoW for a long time. Ended up 5-boxing in WoW, the classic 5 shaman line-up but I also did a Pally,Priest,Warlock,Wizard,Hunter team to dungeon with. WoW peaked for me in Lich King, didn't play much after that and I heard they pretty much killed off boxing.
My boxing setup was a single box with AHK for broadcasting keystrokes to all instances. Each character had custom macros on the hotbars and WoW gave us really cool tools at the time to make things easy like Wait commands that made it possible to set up tank/dps/heal rotations on a single keypress.
My plan now is to really experience more of EQ and rediscover memories (I keep bugging my 10yo to share rediscoveries). I am not in a rush and want to explore a lot of the classic world. I created a F2P account and some characters on Bristlebane I think. Next step is to add 2 more accounts, get MQ and KissAssist running smoothly and then probably ramping up to 6 accounts (may stick with 3 depending on how well 3 functions with the mercs).
So questions:
1. From what I can tell Bristlebane should be fine, right? It is only TLP and Truebox servers that have boxing specific limitations.
2. KissAssist seems like it automates characters, so heals/dps/cc trigger automatically on the "slaves", correct? Similar to mercs but obviously with a lot more flexibility.
3. Good 3/6 class compositions? I'll probably ignore all advice and just make something like 1x gnome with 5x ogre for shits and giggles.
Looking forward to crawling through Upper Guk!