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What you have missed

Installing EverQuest

For many expansions now SoE only had Digital Download for new expansions. So there are no more discs to buy at the store. This is bad news for those of you with slow connection because you will have to download EverQuest. Go to this SoE website and follow these directions from SOE's CS people. 1. Create a new folder for your EverQuest game to be installed into: A. Double-click on My Computer B. Double-click on Local Disk (C) (You may need to click on "Show the contents of this disk") C. Double-click on Program Files (You may need to click on "Show the contents of this folder") D. Click on FILE-->New-->Folder (at the top of the window) and name the folder EverQuest 3. Move the patcher into the EverQuest folder by double-clicking on EverQuest.zip. 4. Right-click on EverQuest.exe and choose "Cut" 5. Switch to the EverQuest directory you just made, and right-click inside it. Choose "Paste" 6. Right-click on EverQuest.exe that is now inside the EverQuest folder you just made, and choose "Send to Desktop (create shortcut)" 7. Delete the file EverQuest.zip from your Desktop, then double-click on Shortcut to EverQuest.exe 8. This will patch all of the files for you

Where are my characters?

SoE tends to keep characters around for many many years in hopes you'll return

When SOE did the server merge, they wiped out lower level characters (level 10 and lower) if those characters had not been logged in the last 6 months prior to the merge.

If you had a character name that was the same as somebody on the server being merged, they would give the name to the person who created the character first. The other person would have the letter “x” added to his name. So if you had 2 people named Eragorn, one would become Eragornx.

Current Server: Previous Servers: Luclin Stromm / Veeshan Drinal Tarew Marr / Maelin Starpyre / Vazaelle Xegony Zebuxoruk / Druzzil Ro / Xev / The Combine / The Sleeper Bristlebane Solusek Ro / The Tribunal / Ayonae Ro Cazic Thule Cazic Thule / Brell Serilis / Fennin Ro / Torvonnilous Bertoxxulous Tholuxe Paells / Saryrn / Mithaniel Marr Tunare E'ci / The Seventh Hammer / Lanys T'Vyl The Rathe Karana / Prexus / Terris-Thule Povar Morden Rasp / Quellious / Rodcet Nife Erollisi Marr Morell-Thule / The Nameless / Innoruuk Antonius Bayle Kane Bayle

Expansions and Expansions Guides

Currently there are 18 expansions. And no, you do not have to pay an arm and a leg for each expansion you don't have. Go to SOE's website and click the Veil of Alaris bundle. You'll get every expansion including the very most recent expansion for only $40.

Here are the guides you will need to find your way around each expansion:

Severwide Mage Channel

Got a question in EQ that needs an answer fast? Join the serverwide mage channel. /join serverwide.magicians:fluffy

Tutorial

EQ has added a new Tutorial, if you're been out for several years I recommend making a level 1 character and do the tutorial, it will help you get familiarized with the game and its commands.

Important help websites

EQ's official site -- Where devs post about the game. Allakhazam -- Items / quests / spells / mobs Lucy -- Items / Spells EQ Resource HoT and VoA website Rasper's Multi Expansion Guide GamParse -- A good log parsing program. (to see what your dps is, and other useful tools.) EQ UserInterface -- EQ's number 1 interface site EQ Traders -- EQ's number 1 tradeskill site Mapfiend -- Good site for maps EQ Wiki -- Quests / Spells / Items Guild Progression -- High End Guild Progression Chart GuildPortal -- Guild Creation / Search website RaidLoot -- Useful tool for planning loot in raids [1]Magelo -- A widely used site to show off your gear EQrankings -- A site that ranks your magelo against other's magelo WTF Comics -- A very well done story about a group in EQ GU Comics -- A funny comic website about MMOs

New races/classes

In Shadow's of Luclin SOE created a new class and race. The race is the Vah Shir. They are cat like people with cute fuzzy tails. The class that was created was the Beastlord. A beastlord is like the melee version of a mage. They have a pet, though the pet is a lot weaker, but the Beastlord can melee and cast spells.

In Legacy of Ykesha SOE created the race of Frogloks. They are as you guessed frog people. They do cute backflips when you cast and melee. Very scary.

In Gates of Discord SOE created a new Class called the Berserker. They are a chain pure melee. They rival rogues in their dps and (lack) of utility.

In The Serpents Spine SOE created a new race called the Drakkin. Humans that have a touch of Dragonblood in their veins. They look like human, but they have a dragon AE cone breath racial ability that scales with levels.

The Lingo is confusing me!

You can learn more about the Lingo of EQ (and the interweb in general) from this website. But as always feel free to post any questions you might have.

Getting Started, your first steps

Maps were introduced in Lost Dungeons of Norrath expansion. You can bring them up by pressing the backspace key on your keyboard. Go to Map Fiend to download up to date set of maps for all expansions. Be sure to check back with Map Fiend to download maps for the next expansion when it comes out. When you have downloaded the maps place them in your Map folder which is in your EverQuest folder. You will need to log out and log back in to see the maps.

install your Maps and UI

Making Friends

In order to keep the game fun and for you to learn and get help with missions and mobs, you'll need to make some friends. If you do not already have a guild, head to the guild lobby located off the Plane of Knowledge. Head to one of the four corners of the guild lobby zone and click on the billboards. From there search for a guild with an active time similar to yours. Make friends within the guild, it is there that you'll be asking a lot of your specif questions. With a guild you are now able to zone into the Guild Hall, which allows you to use the hall transporter saving your legs from long confusing runs. While hunting you should be on the look out for friends

Getting some spending plat

In order to keep your house and merc bills from piling up as well as buying your gear and spell, you will need some cash. There are a few places you can go to farm plat and gems, or you can farm in your normal xp zones and be sure to save all the tradeskill drops and sell them in the bazaar.

  • One place to get plat is to farm Sanctus Seru. Each mob drops on average 20 plat. They are weak, level 50-60 and can drop fine steal weapons that sell for 5 plat a pop.
  • One place to get plat is to farm the Gnolls in norther part of The Stepples. Each mob drops between 1 and 50 plat. They are weak, level 65-75 and can drop tradeskill items that sell for another 30-40 each.
  • Another place to farm is Sleepers Tomb for gems. The gems sell for 140 each and are fairly common. A powerful player could expect to set 7-9k pp per clear.
  • For those of you who are higher level can camp tier 1 named in various expansions and sell their tradeable loot in the bazaar.

Getting your Mercenary

In order to keep your house and merc bills from piling up as well as buying your gear and spell, you will need some cash. There are a few places you can go to farm plat and gems, or you can farm in your normal xp zones and be sure to save all the tradeskill drops and sell them in the bazaar. One place to get plat is to farm [2]Sanctus Seru]. Each mob drops on average 20 plat. They are weak, level 50-60 and can drop fine steal weapons that sell for 5 plat a pop. Image:http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2937/smallblackbullet.jpg One place to get plat is to farm the Gnolls in norther part of The Stepples. Each mob drops between 1 and 50 plat. They are weak, level 65-75 and can drop tradeskill items that sell for another 30-40 each. http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2937/smallblackbullet.jpg Another place to farm is Sleepers Tomb for gems. The gems sell for 140 each and are fairly common. A powerful player could expect to set 7-9k pp per clear. http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2937/smallblackbullet.jpg For those of you who are higher level can camp tier 1 named in various expansions and sell their tradeable loot in the bazaar.

Gearing up and acquiring spells

Defiant gear is very important to help you catch up to speed. Normally the gear has above what the raid gear stats of the time were, allowing you to get a good leg up. I suggest you look into buying defiant gear from the bazaar. Here is a list for you to search for the right defiant gear:

  • Crude = level 10.
  • Simple = Level 20.
  • Rough = level 30.
  • Ornate = level 40.
  • Flawed = level 50.
  • Intricate = level 60.
  • Elaborate = level 70.
  • Elegant = level 80.

Going out to hunt!

Now that you have some friends, gear and spells it is time to hunt! Your best bet for finding a zone with a decent amount of people to group with is to go to the hot zone for your level or a few levels below if you wish to solo. Throw on your LFG (looking for group) tag by typing [b]/lfg on[/b], or you can start a group yourself by checking who else is looking for gorup by typing [b]/lfg[/b]. If you are above level 80 then you'll want to level up in the newer zones such as [url=http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zstrat=704]Brell's Rest[/url] in the Underfoot expansion if you're in the low 80s or [url=http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zstrat=747]Feerrott, the Dream[/url] in the House of Thule expansion if you're in the mid 80s. From both of those zones you can explore other connected zones, meet new people and complete quests as you level.

Hot zones are old zones that SOE has given an added xp bonus to. They also have zone wide rare drops augments. If you're coming back and looking for a zone to get a group and find some friends, it is highly recommended you go to the hot zone for your level. Here is a list of hot zones at the time of this posting. Franklin Teek has arrived in the Plane of Knowledge and will be happy to point you to the current location of a Hot Zone appropriate for your level. Franklin also has a series of tasks that can be done in each of the current Hot Zones. Each task can only be completed one time each day and you can only complete one of Franklin's Tasks at a time. The following zones are now Hot Zones with increased experience and rewards:

  • Level 20: City of Guk (Upper Guk)
  • Level 25: Solusek's Eye (Solusek A)
  • Level 30: Crystal Caverns
  • Level 35: Kaesora
  • Level 40: Ruins of Old Guk (Lower Guk)
  • Level 45: Howling Stones (Charasis)
  • Level 50: Crypt of Nadox
  • Level 55: Ssraeshza Temple
  • Level 60: Torden, the Bastion of Thunder
  • Level 65: Drunder, Fortress of Zek (Plane of Tactics)
  • Level 70: Vergalid Mines
  • Level 75: Zhisza, the Shissar Sanctuary
  • Level 80: Toskirakk
  • Level 80: Kaesora Library

The above zones will generally be the best to level, however if you want to search for another place to level use this list here. Please check here for a current listing, as they do change.

New Additions to EverQuest

Bigger Bags and More Inventory Space

In the House of Thule expansion EQ now has access to bags that are up to 32 spaces big! The amount of inventory space has been expanded by two for a total of ten inventory spaces. Large bags are purchased in the market place and very large bags can drop from any House of Thule named, but they are very rare. Player made 12 slot bags can be purchased for less than 3k each on most servers.

VOA SPOT

Mail and stuff

Shrouds

Shrouds were designed for a high level character to shroud down and be able to group and gain xp with their lower level friends. There are different classes you can use when you shroud down. All the xp you gain in shroud form will be sent to your character when you exit shroud form. All xp you lost (from deaths) you will lose from your main character. Shrouds can gain xp, the more you use them the more types of shrouds become available to you. Shrouds can have some beneficial uses. For example, it allows a higher level friend to shroud down to a lower level character, so he can group with anyone at any level in this form.

Tribute

Tribute is a system where you turn in items to the Tribute Master in your home town. This gives you Favor points and you can use those favors points for effects that boost your characters power. You can also turn in items to the Guild Tribute Master located in your Guild Hall. The Favor Points will go into your Guild's Favor Point Pool, officers and leaders can turn tribute on and off and select what effects they want. Most people use Elemental Bows like the Primordial Driftwood Compound Bow which are for sale in the bazaar for between 1500-3000 plat, depending on the server and offer the most tribute points, 50k. Most items have a 1:5 ratio of plat to tribute points. You may also solo older world named and raid mobs to acquire items with high tribute value. ALT U to open the tribute window.


Bandolier / Potion Belt

The Bandolier (hit "B") allows you to save weapon settings for an easy switch. This is more for melee but can also be used for all classes, if you have a focus effect you need to use for a couple nukes, or switch between shrink clicky and normal weapon. If you need to pick up arms to slay some mobs.

The Potion Belt is a very useful tool. A good amount of clickies are flagged as Potion Belt Enabled. To bring up the Potion Belt window hit Shift P. You pick up something, say your Heal Over Time pots you learned about in [goto=9.2]This section[/goto]. You drop it in and the icon shows up, also telling you how many charges you have left. If you want to activate a potion belt from a command a hot button type /potionbelt activate 1 (or 2 3 4 5, which ever one you need clicked) By default you are granted 2 Potion Belt slots. 2 more can be acquired via AAs. With most waist slots comes with it a 5th Potion Belt slot.

[color=red]3.6 Blocked Buffs[/color] Blocked buffs are just as they sound. You have the ability to block up to 19 buffs so that they do not land on you. And no, you can not block detrimental debuffs or DoTs.

Due to the way many buffs don't stack with each other, there are often ones you as a mage simply do not want because it blocks something you do want.

For example, I prefer to have the Paladin buff (Brell's Earthen Aegis) on me. There are a couple other class buffs which will block Brell's though, usually Ranger (Strength of the Gladewalker) and Beastlord (Spiritual Vivacity). While these buffs add some HP, they are mostly +ATK buffs that I don't want (pet can have them though, don't block the pet!).

So some ranger MGBs his spell, and then you don't get Brell's. Here is a new way to deal with that, block buff.

There are several ways to block a buff. One simple way is when you see the buff on you that you never want to see again, you simply right-click on that buff and it will bring up an option menu to add that buff to the block list.

You can also manually add the spells to be blocked in game with the following command (xxxxx is the number from Lucy's DB):

/blockspell add me xxxxx

So, you look up Lucy's address for Strength of the Gladewalker, You can see in the URL it says "id=15029". Or you can go to the "Raw Data" tab at the far right and go to where it says ID. As the example you would type /blockspell add me 15029

You can also block AE summon type spells! The melee really like it when they can block our AE mod rods. . .

You can access your buff block filter by the big EQ button menu > Character > Blocked Buffs. Also, your pet has a separate filter! And you can double check what you have blocked, and take them off of block if you want to change something.

Legends of Norrath

Commonly called LoN, this is a card game like Magic that you play on EQ or EQ2. You can play vs. people in other servers, and in EQ2. Every month you are given 5 free no trade booster backs and tradeable ones can be bought from the station store. When you right click a card it adds it to your deck and has a chance to give you an ingame reward (ingame rewards won from the 5 free months boosters are no trade). Those rewards range from xp potions (like LoTD in a bottle) to really cool looking ingame mounts, illusions, ornimates and familiars. To play LoN click the EQ button and the first thing you see at the top is Legends of Norrath. There is a helpful tutorial to guide you and teach you how to play.


In Game Voice Chat System

Features include: -- Talk person-to-person in game with any microphone and headset combo. -- Chat with your party, guild or any other group in game. -- Create automatic channels for guilds, raids and groups. -- Play and communicate without worry of a significant increase in game lag. -- Manage group/user participation with moderator controls. -- Individually mute and set volume per user Create automatic channels for guilds, raids and groups.

-- Set up easily without the need for separate software, accounts or registration.

How does it work in EverQuest? - To begin using voice chat, verify the feature is enabled by opening the Option window (Alt+O) and navigating to the Voice tab. This feature will be turned off by default. Devices: Once Voice Chat is enabled EverQuest will attempt to connect to the correct hardware. Push-to-talk key: Initially the voice chat system uses Ctrl+Tab as the push-to-talk key. This can be reconfigured to any available key from the Options window, Keys tab. Output volume: Master volume for all incoming Voice Chat traffic. This setting is independent of music and sound effect volume settings. Setting this to high results in distortion of incoming speech. Input volume: The relative sensitivity of your microphone. Turning it up means your microphone picks up quieter sounds. Setting this to high results in distortion of your outgoing speech. The sound indicator gives an estimate of the distortion. Red signifies high distortion, yellow medium distortion and green low distortion. Testing your setup with Echo channel: The echo channel allows you to get an idea of your settings by broadcasting what you say back to you after a short delay.

The Voice Bar Once Voice Chat is enabled and has successfully connected the Voice Bar will automatically be shown. The Voice Bar by default will remain active as long as voice chat is enabled. A hot key may be mapped to open and close the Voice Bar. The Voice Bar offers a push to talk button, a list of users of the current channel, what channels are available, a link to Options, and indication of who is currently talking. The Talk button is simply a push-to-talk button that is mouse activated instead of keypress activated. The Voice Users button presents a list of the users of the current channel. Clicking on the speaker by any user allows you to adjust the volume of that player relative to your master volume. A particularly loud player can be turned down relative to other voice chat traffic Moderators for a channel are given additional options of muting a player for the entire channel, banning a player from the channel and kicking a player from the channel. The channel button pulls down a menu of channels available to you. The currently selected one is shown in green if connected. Red if the connection has failed. Unselected but available channels are shown in white.

Voice chat has been integrated into some other interfaces in the game. Speaker icons show up for players that have voice chat active. The speaker icons behave as they do in the Voice Users window, giving access to Voice Chat options specific to that player. There is currently an issue with leaving a private channel making you unable to invite someone to a new private channel. We are working on resolving this issue, but until then, logging out and back in should clear your channel status. - Using the /voicechat Command - The /voicechat command offers the following options: -- on: activate voice chat (ex. /voicechat on) -- off: deactivate voice chat -- Moderator Controls: -Mute <player> - mutes a player for everyone in the current channel -Unmute <player>- unmutes a player for everyone in the current channel -Kick <player>- kicks a player form the current channel -Ban <player> - bans a player from the current channel and kicks them if they are present -Unban <player> - unbans a player from current channel


Alt Currency

There have been many forms of Currency introduced over the years.

LDoN Points: You complete different missions in different areas and gain "Points" which you can spend on gear, augs and spells.

DoN Currency: Radiant Crystals and Ebony Crystals. These are not found in the alt currency tab but on the main inventory page just above your coin. There are two different faction groups, good vs evil. Radiant crystals are from the good faction camp and Ebony Crystals are from the evil faction camp. You use these crystals to buy Spells, Gear and Augs.

Daubloons Currency: They are from the Priate Missions From The Burried Sea expansion. These allow you to buy Gear and Rank I The Burried Sea spells.

Orux Currency: TThey are from Katta missions in Katta Casuam zone. With these you can buy Gear, Power Sources and Rank II The Burried Sea spells.

Phosphenes Currency: They drop from trash mobs in Solteris and allow you to buy <Power Sources.

Phosphites Currency: They drop from one of the 7 raid mobs in Solteris and allow you to buy gear and rank III The Burried Sea spells.

Faycitum Currency: They are rewards from completing tasks in Secrets of Faydwer. The tasks are given out by Fenden Helter in Dragonscale Hills. These allow you to buy gear.

Chronobines Currency: They are rewards from completing both solo and group tasks in Seeds of Destruction. These allow you to buy gear, spells and augs in The Void from Zebuxoruk. You can buy more items, spells, and augs with higher Void Progression. To learn more about Void Progression check out this Guide.

Gold Tokens and Silver Tokens: These were introduced in Underfoot expansion part of the boomerang series of fun missions. It is like a First Person Shooter mini game where you run around a small area and try to throw boomerangs at other people you're fighting. The better you do in the mission the more tokens you gain and thus the better items you can buy. Silver tokens are tradeable, Gold ones are not.

Mckenzie's Special Brew: Old Man Mckenzie (aka OOM missions) are three group monster missions available in the Plane of Knowledge. These missions recreate being level 50 and hunting in lower guk and other high level dungeons at the time. These points can be used to purchase items off the Old Man. The group missions also drop one item at the end as a reward.

Bayle Marks: These tokens are no trade and purchased from the Market Place. At a cost of around 20 tokens = 1 USD. You can use these tokens as an alternative to paying plat for a mercenary. Instead of 97 plat every 15 minutes you'd pay 1 Bayle Mark.

Tokens of Reclamation: These tokens are baught in the Market Place and are used to instantly retrieve an item that was destroyed, either by accident or on purpose. Simply buy these tokens, go to the nearest merchant and click on the Recover tab.

Brellium Tokens: These tokens are gathered from beating any solo or group mission in Underfood expansion. These tokens can be used to purchase many different items from this vendor. These tokens are tradeable and can be purchased in the bazaar for ~100 plat each.

Dream Motes: These motes are gathered from beating any solo or group mission in The House of Thule expansion. These tokens can be used to buy good tier 1 - tier 4 gear. The motes are tradeable which allows you can deck yourself out in t1 gear right off the bat if you can buy some Dream Motes. Check out the bazaar they sell for ~50 plat each. Which 1 piece of gear will only run you 1500 plat.

Loyalty Tokens: These tokens unlike others are not tradeable. You gain these tokens by having a current, reoccurring subscription to EverQuest. Alerynril the Loyal in the Plane of Knowledge sells these items. You gain more tokens the longer your account is active. You can gain up 120 tokens a week at max.

Extended Target Window

In Underfoot SoE introduced Extended Target Window. By right clicking the icon to the left you can set it up to display mobs or persons of interest to you. Be default all 5 slots are set up for 'auto hate' which is when you are put on a mobs hate list they are put in the extended target window. If you're a cleric you can put tanks in the extended target window by targeting them, right clicking on the icon and selecting Current Target. All the choices are pretty self explanatory. By default you get 5 extended targets. You can also purchase 2 more from AAs in House of Thule bring the total to 7.

3.11 Player Housing

Player housing was introduced in House of Thule. You can enter the neighborhoods by going to the north west corner of the guild lobby and selecting a neighborhood then zoning in. The first thing you will have to do is own the House of Thule expansion, next you need to pick a plot. Search around for a plot location you like. There are different types of plots at different costs. Some plots have a capacity of 60, 75 and 90 which are of course more expensive to buy and upkeep. Next you need to put in some plat or alt currency into the upkeep. If the upkeep runs out you will not be able to move, enter or remove anything from the plot until you pay the upkeep again. You will then need to buy a house and put it on your plot of land. You can buy a 1 room house for roughly 5,250 plat or a 3 room house for 10,500 plat. At the zone in is where all the items to place in your yard and house are located. You can move around quickly by using the teleport bad in each section. You can set different permissions to allow people to enter your house or have your friends add things and move things around. A guild can buy a neighborhood using the SoE Marketplace. This will allow only that guild to make houses there, but anyone can visit the zone. You can join this channel here to ask questions and view other people's houses. /join serverwide.homeshow:homeshow


SoE MarketPlace

At the Sony Marketplace you buy "Station Cash" the normal rate is $10 USD for 1000 Station Cash points. There are sometimes double or triple Station Cash bonuses where $10 USD would grant you 2000 or 3000 Station Cash points. There are often sales on items, so like everything in life, being patient can save you money. There are some nice items for sale such as:

  • Personal and group XP potions
  • Items for house / yard
  • Tradeskill potion
  • Gender change
  • Race / religion change
  • Server change
  • Name change
  • Permanently change your pet's name
  • Permanently change your Merc's name.
  • 16-20 slot bags
  • Fancy looking mounts
  • familiars

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