Considering Playing EQ

[Firenze]

You'll find that a lot of the names that come to the rescue in the forums are the same people you can nearly always count on to help out on THF. We have some really amazing people like Mystickitty and Teeth, just to name a couple, who are almost always willing to come and help out with just about anything provided they aren't raiding. I've even seen Teeth spend nearly 15 minutes soloing a world boss just to help me get revenge on him. The golden rule most definitely applies here...be good to the people on the server, and they'll be good to you.

You'll also want to sit down and talk with some of the more experienced players about some of the really fun questlines you can do, like improved charm, epics, and the aura's, as well as LDoN fun. The devs have done a great job with the server, its the only EMU around where I get that "old EQ feeling" back.

Yup, be nice and people will be nice in return and also I add in read the forums.
Two reasons I am a lot less helpful and more prone to smack people, they are rude and demand help of others or they refuse to read the forums.

You'll find that even if I post some on the forum to help new player, I won't ever help you ingame because I'm elite and elite player do not help, they just watch

[mystickitty]

Don't let him fool you. Firenze is a n00b .

[Galleon]

Well I did try and hook up WinEQ2 to manage 4 toons. I seemed to get it working where I could switch from toon to toon but I could not get the windowed mode to work where each toon is in a corner of the screen. I am wondering if this is where the "paid" subscription comes in for WinEQ2. I looked at the costs and its pretty darn expensive for a piece of software just to manage game instances. Has anyone else tried it out or is paying? I just want to know if the trial or paid subscriptions offer the window presets or not.

THanks to everyone for their help thus far!

[Alulien]

I don't do the paid subscription cuz I agree with you: not worth it. When I said windowed mode previously I was referring to having the ability to minimize the windows, not so much a tiled window display. The biggest piece of advice I could give to someone who's getting into boxing is to always load the same characters on the same instance, ie. tank-1 dps-2 dps-3 healer-4. This was huge for me cuz it created a schema with which I could easily control my group:

I only use hotkeys 1-6 on the main bar and they are used for action-commands only (assist, disciplines, healing macros, debuffs, melody, etc.). I do not load spells 1-6 onto the bar. Spells 1-6 are cast using ALT + #, and generally 7 & 8 are self buffs of some sort. I also use WASD for movement (Q and E are strafe left/right respectively, auto attack is ~). The reason I set myself up like this is so my left hand is always over that general area of the keyboard (thanks, FPS!) and I never have to hit a # other than 1-6 - SHIFT, ALT, and CTRL are all right there also so accessing those modifiers is easy too.

To give you an example of what my keystrokes might look like for a really easy mob:

CTRL+1 (1 2 3) CTRL+3 (1) CTRL+5 (1) CTRL+2 (1) CTRL+1 (2 3 ALT+2 3 ALT+5 2 3)

CTRL+1 is my SK, 3 is Bard, 5 is Ranger, 2 is Wizard. Hotkey slot 1 is assist (on the SK 2 is Taunt and 3 is Bash). I do use the 2nd hotkey bar for all my clickies and not so commonly needed abilities or social macros. Hotkey 9 on bar 1 is follow, 10 is sit so I guess I use more than 1-6 there, huh. Not sure if the above makes sense, but hopefully someone finds my madness is also a method.

[aabamzen]

If you are a WSAD kind of control person, Ctrl+(if you prefer, Alt+)Z,X,C,V are all easily reachable from that position. I personally run CTRL+ALT+Z,X,C,V,Q,E for my various chars. I standardized the set so across all servers Z is always my tank, C is always a healer, etc. Wait, there aren't any other servers!

[Galleon]

I am now searching out places to just practice for now. Get used to switching and getting fast enough to get everyone positioned and to the party during a fight. Right now the fights do not last long enough but eventually...

Having the Hate/Fear planes armors at the start does not lessen my desire to xp up and enter some of the zones I remember from classic for classic gear to fill these other slots up and get enough coin for weightless bags for everyone. Perhaps after the classic gear, run around Kunark and then Velious. Kind of following the progression a bit. Breathe in the ambiance of what I loved abotu EQ.

Is this possible? Are most zones untouched?

[Galleon]

Update: I have 4 toons presently in the level 24 range and hitting it hard in Crushbone.

Aginor-a Human Cleric of Karana
Rahvin-a Human Rogue of Karana
Balthamel-a Human Ranger of Karana
Graendal-a Human Monk of Quellious
Tarmon a Human Paladin Friend of Aginor.

Thanks to Shadow for those buffs, that made a HUGE difference. My Monk was going apesh*t because she could smell Emporer Crush from where we were in Lord Darishes room. It took everything Rahvin had to keep her at bay. But I go to fast, I will back up a bit.

So I made my characters opting to keep them all as followers of Karana and I might also make a Bard at some point and swap out the Monk as I've heard that they are quite useful in a boxing situation. The monk is not of Karana ofcourse but Agnostic was not an option this time around. My main on live was an unusually precocious Rogue Named Benev Olence that did quite alot. He got around, raided a ton and saved many a wipe in Hate when his guild was in it's infantcy. But that was another time...

Crushbone: I did not find it difficult to get re-acclimated to this zone. It's size, shape and structure were all completely the same, only the orcs were different and they are spaced just so to not be undoable but also force level 1 characters to be watchful of where they fight. The levels flew by...ding level 4 and Aginor had enough Strange Looking Stones to get his Epic 1.0 at level 4!. He was VERY excited let me tell you. So, dingx4 and back to the Forest to train, get spells and get back. Ding, level 8 and several Clubs, Staffs, Swords and Broadswords of the Undecided AND patterns/materials to use in making the next tier in armors. Two Goblins were there as well, Foolin and Grevel I think their names were and they offered quests for rings. I am so glad I read the site! I kept everything and sold the weapons I did not need.

(The backpack given at the beginning is very nice but I needed many more to get me started without having to spend alot of coin I didn't really have. I zoned into Halas and moved over into Everfrost. A female vender by the tents there sells Large Sewing kits. I like these because they cost about 2pp each, hold 10 items and hold Giant things so you can carry anything in them.)

I found the shroom that does the armor in the Forest, it's the same one that does the Epic 1.0. Buy an Emblem for about 5.6gp and turn it in with either an Ornate Metal Rings, Leather swatch, Silk swatch or Ornate Metal Plate, (2 for Legs and Chest) and presto, better armors for all. I have a bit yet to gather but I am well on my way. Back to crushbone and Graendel got away from us and made her way to the Orc Scoutsman hut. Whack, Boom, Biff and more orcs go down swinging. What is this, a Willsapper, A Doomhollow Runestone, Glowing Fists and a Nathsar Greatsword. The fighters rejoiced and ding level 16. Back to the Forest! More spells, visits with trainers and whack a dummy to get all their weapon skills up. I actually found this to be the most boring part of the game thus far and I will still have to figure out where to train Defensive skills. I must have lucked out because a nice froggy announced some MGB buffs at the Queen. I was there! And a nice Dwarf was dropping Tae Ew Bags a plenty. Grendael scarfed them up and kept running back and forth to her bank. When there were no more to be had she dolled them out to the others and away we went once again, Epics in hand. Whack, biff, muffy muffy biff and more Orcs downed, more weapons, Ornate mats and patterns and Now Elementals and Orc Champions. A Dwarf was there near the mines where the Elementals were mining for Ore. He gave us yet another quest to gather ore. Now this is where Shadow came in. He appeared to be killing Orc Stompers up on the hill by the orc tents and huts. He bestowed a buff that did alot of damage to the Orcs when they hit us. The group left the Elementals and attacked the large Orcs in a crazy frontal assault. Graendal eyed a nice cloak the Orc Thaumaturgist had on and before Aginor could turn around she killed him for it. So much for diplomacy! Her Mantra was heard, to the Castle! And the adventurers ran around and took out the guards as they made their way into the Castle. Lots of Stompers, Champions later and Lord Darish was before them. Graendal knew that the Emporer was close but before we could blink Lord Darishes Champions were upon us as well as reinforcements from behind. Graendal and Tarmon were lost but Lord Darish was slain. Level 24 and back to the Forest. Spells, Training and lots and lots of Whack a dummy.

[Feldorn]

glad you're having fun with this server, i am, when i get time to play.

there is a pretty good quest line in unrest, as well as dropping 8 slot, 100% wt reduction packs from random mobs. the nameds also will drop some items to fill out empty slots.

[Galleon]

OOOO, really? Shweet! I will have to check that zone out after I complete these 3 quests and keel the Emp. I've got alot of cloaks to gather as well from Mr. Orc Thaumaturgist. What I find myself doing though after a few levels is whack a dummy. I will have to get used to it as it is the general nature of boxing and THF does have the dummies to make it so easy.

Question: I did read about what you can and can not give your Bot but I wasn't sure about class specific quests like Epics. I just wanted to make sure because I have not tried this yet, if say Aginor collects the strange looking gems and buys a Paladin emblem, he can give the pally Epic 1.0 to his pally bot? The same for the armors?

[Nilbus]

Question: I did read about what you can and can not give your Bot but I wasn't sure about class specific quests like Epics. I just wanted to make sure because I have not tried this yet, if say Aginor collects the strange looking gems and buys a Paladin emblem, he can give the pally Epic 1.0 to his pally bot? The same for the armors?

You sure can, some quests can't be done for bots, like the TOV armors, but if the quest giver gives you choice (through emblems like those, or by cycling them through like the next set of armor (chaotic)) you can certainly hand off to a bot.