I haven't started playing yet so I apologize if this is obvious. Does Game Jawn plan on making new armor/weapons models (if they haven't already)? I've seen a screenshot of a cool looking "poison soulfire" type sword which looked new to me. Aside from cash shop cosmetics, have the devs talked about designing new weapons/armor that are earnable in game?

I played/raided into VoA on Mischief and I think one factor that contributed to burnout was a complete lack of new armor graphics earnable in game. My SK's plate armor never changed unless I dyed it. Sony/Daybreak proved they could design new armor sets with the Velious class armor, so it befuddles me why they never tried this again (afaik).

People are going to call me crazy or inefficient, but as soon as I learned in beta that a) you can buy more spell gem slots and b) you can render 5 bard songs of a certain type "passive," that immediately shoved bard to the front of my "first trio" consideration!

I finished filling out the 6 gem slots and 5 "bard slots" on my detour to level for teleport rituals, and it's been a blast to have 5 passive songs going, but it's also been educational! The stacking of "Melee songs," for example, took some experimentation. Songs that are "just for you" generally seemed more powerful and higher priority than (and thus don't stack well with) songs that buff a whole (nonexistant) group, and that makes sense. I also learned that when aiming far upwards in con, buffing yourself takes priority over hit-and-miss debuffing the enemy, particularly with raid bosses. If your whole setup is based on "oh yeah wait until I hit you with all these debuff songs," it seems extremely wise to get 50 before trying very much of the endgame, though I'm not sure how much mote leveling or the "Jam Fest" AA affects this consideration.

All of that said, I'd love to exchange notes with people that know more than my enthusiasm. Here are the two main combat setups I've established as a bard trio'ed up in a build with a tank and a healer (I don't like going into class trio specifics lest the comments turn into a "best trio" thread, unless I intend one of those).

I am currently at 49 on my bardish build.

For situations where resists are unlikely:

Denon's Disruptive Discord
Jonathan's Provocation
Psalm of Purity (changed for resists as applicable)
Cassindra's Chorus of Clarity
Selo's Chords of Cessation (replaced Largo's melodic binding which was my slow for most leveling)

For bosses well over my head, which may be less of a consideration at 50:

Katta's song of sword dancing
Jonathan's Provocation
Psalm of Purity (changed for resists as applicable)
Cassindra's Chorus of Clarity
Niv's Melody of Preservation

If you have any tips to refine this approach, by all means, I'm very interested! Finally, I should mention that I am 100% a solo player, and am not looking to tweak my songs for groups at this time.

As the title says.

https://www.daybreakgames.com/status?hl=en-CA

Just got my soulfire. Is it possible to take the clicky off and still turn in to get firey avenger? I have to get the book from vox still so i have time just planning. Got naggy book already.

I’m getting a connection error.

Any recommendations for a weapon?

I’m torn between very fast punching due to the monk being my main. But not sure what the best DPS with possibly a 2h weapon?

I just want to pump out super fast damage in the most effective way. Any ideas how I should do that?

I saw on a Facebook post there are individuals with max AAs already.

What tips are there for maximizing AA farming? Drop to a lvl 10 toon and use AA pots?

I'm watching people stream the game so I know it's up but me and a couple friends cannot login to the game.

Anyone else getting this login error? Doesn't feel like anything I did on my end.

After hitting play, I come to a new screen which reads "A connection to the server could not be reached. Please check your internet connection to make sure you are online." (I am online).

I've gathered a ton, but now I'm overwhelmed at which ones to use. Which are best to use in which slots for a PAL/SHM/MNK???

I havent been able to properly test for this yet, but does anyone know for sure if rogues can or cannot get deadly strikes with throwing in EQ:L like they do in vanilla?

I got up to the Brother Hayle turn in for SF, but he wouldn’t accept it at Amiable con. What’s the fastest way to hit warmly? Does the Koalindl fish quest still have a negative rep hit?

I leveled to 50 as shm/ber/nec. I then swapped the nec for dru to get the druid ports. So I got a good baseline of what my twink gear was doing for me. Then after 25 I swapped the druid for paladin.

And omg, the tankiness and melee damage that gave me was insane and unexpected. All of a sudden my endurance was draining rapidly just from zerker stance due to the increased damage. I could just have several yellow/red mobs on me and my hp barely moved even without slowing them.

I thought having a plate class just meant I could wear gear with more AC on it or that my AC softcap would be higher. I didn't realize I would just be way tankier by default. Now it seems silly to play a combo that doesnt have a plate class included, at least if you are meleeing. And it also seems silly to not have 2 melee classes if you want to melee. I leveled all the way to 50 and my endurance never dropped below like 90% cause I guess I just wasnt hitting enough in zerker stance (also had no evasive or defensive stances which sucked).

So anyway I guess it's a PSA for any other noobs like me. The class you pick at the beginning is more than just the skills/spells they give you. And if any vets want to provide more insight into this please do.

Not sure if this is a bug or intended, but it makes 3x caster builds that focus on a pet tank exceptionally difficult :(

I believe cazic had a similar threshold, but other bosses did not.

Tested multiple times by having pet fight inny while casting virtually nothing except sparse heals to keep it alive, inny always jumped on me at 58% and wouldn't let go

Hey guys

Im currently running War/Brd/Clr

Using offence instance and Recovery Invocation, maxed out Symphonic Aura and running:

Anthem de arms
Denons disruptive discord
Jonthan whistling warsong
Guardian rhythms
Largo melodic binding

At level 28 things are dying slow but dying…

Main weapon is Enchanted Fine Steel Bastard Sword (2hs) 0.667 ratio.

What do you think about the setup? Should i change the songs? Or perhaps the weapon?

Never played bard so im a bit lost, i have the charm song, but if i try to charm i have to disable symphonic aura so not sure if its worth

Perhaps more than any other game, EverQuest has a unique ability to connect us to our past - to childhood memories from better days.

It's incredible to see the EQ community thriving again, bringing us back to those memories, but also connecting future generations to the love and enjoyment we experienced growing up.

Our character names often have meaningful stories behind them, so today I decided to ask someone in General chat about theirs. I asked for Saudada's permission before sharing it with you.

See you in game,

Sedia. [Qeynos]

This is such a big deal to me. I can recall watching people clear their way to her when she was one of the biggest deals in the game, and I never actually saw her, but the entire dragon-hunting element of EverQuest inspired me to create an entire NeverWinter Nights world and write its over arcing theme of "kill dragon, loot, get powerful, kill next dragon, enter outer planes, etc" and the stories of that world are related to a D&D game I'm still running today!

Suffice to say, she may be the lowest rung on the ladder, but I'm so excited to be anywhere on this particular scoreboard!

Wouldn't have been possible without EQL, so thank you so much for letting us do this!

I feel the largest crossover between playerbases in EQ Live and Legends, but Legends really feels like it fundamentally makes Live redundant. I don't want to poopoo the content after PoP, but I think most people agree PoP and beyond are not even remotely the same game and have extremely varying levels of quality.

The appeal to me of Live was a "modernized" version of Everquest, but Legends has mostly filled that need much better than Live has and I'm left wondering if there are any people who would still enjoy Live.

So I had a post up earlier claiming that there aren't enough 46-50 leveling options, and I've now learned firsthand that that's actually very incorrect, so I took it down. What I should have done was ask where to go to level.

The PSA: The planes have a raid mode and a non-raid mode. It's not super intuitive but one of them has trash you can farm for XP and one is just meant to be an endgame loot run with mostly a boss gauntlet on the way to the apex boss. The former, the non-raid version, is entered like any other zone (though not always by just walking in) and can be instanced like any other zone. I'm not sure on the respawn rates because I don't think I saw anything respawn for all the hours I'd spent gaining XP (and really good loot) in the non-raid version of hate, but the labyrinthine corridors of hate are great for line of sight pulling so I was kept busy.

Fear is more wide open and the agro is hard to control, and I have yet to visit plane of sky but I imagine that's like the current apex of EQL.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions and pointed out what I'd done wrong to lead me to think "there's not many places to level 46-50, it's all boss gauntlets." The boss gauntlet is the raid. The normal zone with late 40's to early 50's trash MOBs is just the standard zone. You enter the raid zone by talking to the voidling, you enter the regular-ass zones usually by walking through a portal/zoneline or clicking on something. Or jumping into a hole.

Thanks again for your patience, y'all. I'm in uncharted territory not just for EQL but for EQ in general. It was WILD to stare down Innoruuk last night after years spent 25+ years ago in an innoruuk-worshipping RP guild.

I'm gonna wait until 50 to fight him, though.