spirit shroud

[clrplr]

as most of ya know, u get a gargoyle spirit shroud. since you only get one and dunno which character to put it on! i've come up with a solution i share an account with my 2 cousins and we try to split up the rewards (Satchel of Abu-Kar, Veteran Rewards, etc.) fairly but most of the time, one of my cousins thinks he should get everything cause he needs'em more so i let him have the spirit shroud even tho i needed it most and the clockwork mount. to get it on ur other chars just use the mq2 docrack plugin that lets you trade no-drop items and you can use it to lvl any char!! most ppl have prob figured this out by now of course...

 

[Meave]

it is the rewards for buying the new expension ?

What does they do ?

 

[six_11]

Im not so sure the mount is going to be hot anyway. other than maybe a differnt model. I doub't it will be fast.

 

[smokinghot]

Yea its just one of those gimmiks they always throw out there...I really want to know why it is that people that go and buy it in the stores get better in game awards then the ones that just download it lol both are the same price...

 

[ASSWEASEL]

Reason is Retailers were going to start boycotting selling all Sony Products because there was no incentive for anyone to buy the expansions in a store!

Therefore Sony wanting to be able to sell camcoders music tv's and a whack of other stuff decided to set up a 2 part progam.
1 a reward for the public buyer
2 a bigger share for the retailer.

 

[TeachersPet]

ASSWEASEL, if that were true then why do they sell game cards? There's no incentive to those and they even cost more. The answer is, not everyone has a credit card.

 

[Rayray1488]

The spirit shrouds arent actually items... theyre an interactive menu that allows you to take the form of a monster and level it up, gaining new innate abilities. Example.. youre a level 70, 13k hp SK... you don the level 70 Skeleton Wizard spirit shroud... you now have a whopping 3000hp and can nuke for about 2600 with all of the monster AA's.
Here is the spirit shroud window:

 

[smokinghot]

Is it me or can some one explain to me what Ray just said lol

 

[Cade]

Is it me or can some one explain to me what Ray just said lol

It's just you smoke, it's just you.

:p

Anyway, I know close to nothing about the spirit shrouds, but from his post this is what I interpret:

Spirit Shrouds are actually quests, not items, and when you finish one of the quests you can turn into whatever it is that you get to turn into for completeing it. When you turn into whatever it is, it effects all your stats. So what I understand is this: If you're a 13k hp Sk and you completed the quest to be able to turn into a wizard skelly, and while you're in that form your hp gets lowered to 3k and you get some nukes to cast.

P.S. No I will not correct my spelling mistakes

 

[Jumjum5]

Hmm looks pretty cool. Wonder how many times the servers will go down once this is out lol.

 

[smokinghot]

I dont even want to talk about that lol i hate down time from eq and mq2 due to the bastards we call gm's lol woo got that off my chest thx guys lol

P.S. Thx Cade I just needed verification on what i already knew lol And Dammit man fix those spelling errors :p

 

[Cade]

What smoke said

 

[Rayray1488]

LOL yeah sorry.. I guess I didnt explain it right.. my bad Smoke

Cade pretty much got it on the money.. the point to my post was the fact that the shrouds (as they stand in beta) dont have any conceivable use outside of the Monster only missions and fun (ie..dont see them as a powerleveling tool). No matter if youre an Anguish geared,testosterone filled wrecking machine.. you activate one of the monster forms (spirit shrouds) and youre a 3000 hp gimp lol.
And here is the AA window for the Skellie Wizard:

 

[clrplr]

i wanna know why u cant give like 2 or 3 chars the shroud, i mean c'mon now or atleast make it an item, not the screen rayray's showin us :p and i agree with ya, gms are bastards

 

[six_11]

Points are also shared between shrouds. When you go to a different shroud you get your points back to spend again.

 

[Druid]

Question:

If you have a 65 Sk and a 45 Wiz, can u sometimes activate the shroud as the 45 Wiz and some times as the 65 Sk?

And yes, it may have a purpose: if u cant find a group as a 45 Wiz in Gargolye form (or whatever), maybe u can find one as a 25 Wiz, go to PC and make some xp ?!

 

[Riddlerr]

only thing i see out of this expansion. is a whole bunch of fucking patches. thats going to make MQ a pain... my guild is to the point where we have nothing else to do but farm OMM/vishi etc.. gearing up alts.. so only thing that i am looking for. is new raid content. as far as all this monster shit.. its sounds to me like its something that you would find on other games.. just my 2pp.. give me raid content, that is not gonna be finished, in 1 month ( DoN) and the scrips infact are finished (unlike god that took 6 months to make txevu Zun beatable)

 

[Rayray1488]

There is raid content.. outside of the Spirit Shroud crap and the monster missions.. a few of the zones are aimed towards higher level guilds and characters. (Nothing like watching Anguish geared people getting charmed in Dreadspire lol)

Ruins of Illsalin
Imperial Bazaar
Temple of the Korlach
The Nargilor Pits
Dreadspire Keep
The Hive
Living Larder
Coven of the Skinwalkers
Queen Sendaii’s Lair
Stoneroot Falls
Chambers of Xill
Caverns of the Lost
Lair of the Korlach
Undershore
Snarlstone Dens
Shadowspine
Corathus Creep
Sporali Caverns
Corathus Lair
Shadowed Grove

Hard to tell whats going to go live and how theyre going to do it. I think our guild Beta raiding is already ending and we've only seen a handful of the zones. From what I can tell though.. without using Old Man T (the beta translocater) the zone Corathus Creep stems off of Nektulos Forest. You zone out of Corathus Creep at about +200 z over the river lol.
Oh.. and for the D&D fans out there.. theyre bringing Mind Flayers into the game LOL.

Yep... this post is just random crap and has no reason for being... it just is lol.

 

[clrplr]

yeah but that shroud would have to be on another server cause u only get 1 shroud per server, or atleast thats what a gm told me...

 

[Jumjum5]

GMs EVIL don't belive them

 

[Rayray1488]

Yeah I think the GM might have misled you. You cant really tell from the beta, because everything is done with NPC's that give you everything (the shroudmaster for example.. he removes and gives the shrouds, but theyre supposed to be quested in live) but I think youre entitled to more than one shroud. When you open up your inventory window, we have two new tabs on the top of it..one says Evolving Items (where it lists what items you have, and how you can manage the distribution of all of your items' experience there) and one that is for your monster "alts". So it seems like youll be able to have more than one shroud. I'll post a pic of the menu when i log in later.

 

[Rayray1488]

 

[clrplr]

ok, i just saw on eq.crgaming that u can get a spirit shroud for anyone

http://eq.crgaming.com