Give me a history lesson - LoS/Old school/Uber people

[Narrock]

It's amazing that many of us were playing EQ 13 years ago now!

[Gaazy]

I made a charactor and am lvling him up. Gaazyisgood. find me on der~

[Zanchief]

Look me up, Gaazy. I'm playing either my Rogue (Zanchief) or my Bard (Zolvia).

[Gaazy]

cool, i managed to get a friends old account figured out and i stole his old fungi and a few thousand plat so im kinda twinked a little. Felt good to thrash blackburrow last night rofl

[Zanchief]

There's a new blackburrow. It's like the old one but with newer graphics and like 4 times the size. It's also a lvl 70+ zone.

[Gaazy]

I guess a fungi tunic helps, but people werent lyin when they said lvling is quick up to 65 or whatever. Im already lvl 30 now. Ive been in blightfire moors running around last night.

Trying to figure out all these new armor types out.

What I REALLY need is new weapons. Like bad. I found an old wu trance stick and a ada club in the bazaar and thats all i could dig up.

[Tossica]

There are quest lines for weapons that are appropriate for your level.

[Gaazy]

really? Ill have to find em. Are you playing to Toss?

[Tossica]

Not in months but it's something I'd like to do again if I ever get time.

[Drem]

Gaazy, go for the xxxxxxxx defiant weapons that fit ur level. They may drop random from a mob but should be in bazaar. Also if i ever get on i think i got some old weaps on my monk. But yea the defiant gear is the way to go. And merchants in PoK sell decent gear for your other slots. The dudes kinda by plane of tranquility book. Also you can spend legacy points at that npc and get cool stuff too. Also hit shift + c and claim rewards, u might have a lot of stuff. Including a free set of defiant gear for your lvl

Somewhere in the 50s the fungi becomes useless and getting a cleric merc and a real breastplate with good stats is the way to go

[Gaazy]

yeah the fungi will outgrow here in a few days at the rate im going an will be out the door.

So explain mercs to me. Where do I get em? and is there any kind of penalty to using them or whatever? Know what I mean?

Seems to me that defiant gear made this game really easy?

[Drem]

yeah, it did. it made it make casual players feel good. there's still a ton of better gear, obviously, and you need it to take on the really hardcore shit. like drem's level 85 for instance, but can't use any of his augments because they're all pay-to-play pieces of equipment. so his stats are like 3/4 what they should be and i can't even handle a mob in the new feerrott hotzone for lvl 85 from house of thule expansion. it's easier to get to high levels, but it's still hard to be "good", you gotta put in a lot of time. all the stuff we used to know is now basically ez-mode tho, yes

mercs you buy in PoK from certain NPCs. if you press alt+F and look for <race> Mercenary Liaison and you can hire mercs from those dudes. most have a second race that isn't listed in the find window. like i think Ogre liaisons sell lizardmen mercenaries but the lizardmen can only be DPS mercs. some races can't be healer mercs, some can't be warrior mercs. i think Gnome liaisons sell kobold mercs. stuff like that. Wood Elf liaisons might sell brownie mercs but i think they can only be casters.

anyways, there's only four classes for mercs. and a few tiers, but if you're playing free-to-play you can only take the shitty apprentice mercs. dunno what tier it lets you go up to, but V is the best. it'll cost you about 15p every 15 minutes while your merc is out. when you aren't using it you suspend it and it doesn't run its timer down

at lvl 30 you can probably only take a certain tier and it would cost even less, like 5p per 15 minutes. the mercs level up with you and their weapons will change as they level up, even though you never get to know what they are. but you can't outfit them with outside gear, or do anything to them at all really besides turn them from passive to balanced modes. i make hotkeys for those for easy switching. if it's on passive you can go and pull and get aggro and FD and all that and your merc will never get aggro. only if he's on balanced mode and fights with you

if you're used to not having a cleric you should take the rogue dps merc because it makes you solo about twice as fast, and on balanced he won't ever take aggro. the cleric doesn't do any damage whatsoever, so it sorta leeches xp in my opinion. tho it'll also help you be able to take on shit you couldn't without it, so it depends on what you wanna do. if you're in a group with others, the cleric merc will battle rez you too, so that's pretty nice

that's the gist of mercs i guess

oh and when they die you just wait a few minutes to bring it back

[Gaazy]

hm cool. Ill check it out tonight when I get on. I ended up doin pay to play, so the free the play stuff is not an issue here. And ive got about 200k laying around in plat, so money isnt really an issue

[ClakarEQ]

You guys keep making me want to activate my 6 man MQ2 "army" /evilgrin. Something I've tried to resist for many months now :p

[Tossica]

If you pair up with someone and each take a merc, you can absolutely tear shit up.

[Drem]

hm cool. Ill check it out tonight when I get on. I ended up doin pay to play, so the free the play stuff is not an issue here. And ive got about 200k laying around in plat, so money isnt really an issue

oh nice. to make it less of a hassle you can buy bayle marks thru the marketplace and it just eats those up instead of your money

i'm about to go pay to play too. my monk's all right, but what the fuck, i want 10 inventory slots and shared bank and the ability to get more AAs and literally every single type 8 raid aug that's like 30ac that's highlighted in purple now that won't work. drem is operating at 50%, totally blows. all i can do is get regular XP

[Gaazy]

yeah dont blame ya there. If its that bad and i really wanted to play Id be suckin it up and payin

[Zanchief]

What are yous guys names?

[10sun]

Move to FV. More fun there.

[Drem]

what's the difference exactly?

zan i'm playing as Drem 85 shd, Hoocpu 60 mnk, or Mugen 45 brd

[ClakarEQ]

what's the difference exactly?

zan i'm playing as Drem 85 shd, Hoocpu 60 mnk, or Mugen 45 brd

FV tends to have more players for one. No drop and many raid level items are tradeable. I would say that server holds the largest number of bots as well though.

[Gaazy]

Zan im just playing Gaazyisgood. got to 40 last night

[Zanchief]

Right now the characters I have available that I'd be willing to play.

Chanadler - Lvl 59 Druid
Zolvia - Lvl 71 Bard
Zanchief - Lvl 83 Rogue

Really it isn't that worth grouping until your about lvl 60 or so. It's just so fast with a tank Merc to just kill quickly. Remember if your account is old enough you may have access to veteran AAs. One of them will give you double exp for 30 minutes a day. Lvling from 40 to 60, that 30 minutes could net me 3 lvls easily without any assistance of higher lvl buffs.

[Gaazy]

unfortunately i started a new account and gave up on the damn recovery bs

[Drem]

Im just playing dudes around gaazy's level til he's 75+ and can group w/ drem. Drem is only 30k / 4kac currently because i cant use half of my prestige gear and 100% of my augs are also prestige and useless. I cant even kill the mobs in new feerrott hot zone for 85s he should be 40k+ and 5k ac at least. And a friggin t5 apprentice merc is useless compared to t5 journeyman. Feel so broken. So reluctant to pay. Wanna see if yall actually stick around for more than a month

Also oh yeah about fv, forgot. buying all the no drop from bazaar seems lame. Prolly wont be paying money to move servers