EQMac Now Free to Play

I know there are plenty of boxers but I still never fail to find groups. Very rarely have I made contact with a boxer but that's because I know where they are and typically hunt where groups hunt. I did run into a guy who parked his alt outside of the group for some buffs in HHK but that's about it. I see boxers come through for MGB but I still rarely have issue with them in terms of them interfering with my gaming experience. Join a decent size guild and level with friends. I believe EQMac is still the best EQ1 experience out there. I hope that EQNext makes all of this irrelevant though...

That seems common. It makes sense too that boxers would go where they wouldn't be pestered by others or just so they can be to themselves and act at their own pace. Most of the people that I know that box seem to be very cordial in regards to not holding down popular exp spots.

I'm back playing here after a 5 month break.

Here's another video for the fans:

damn that is epic, nice work


what is up with your /who list tho

Dunno, I get that sometimes. I would guess it has something to do with the PC hack and/or when a lot of data is sent to the client.

Torrid, what's your char name? Just trying to keep a FoH friend list as i grind through the levels. My char name is Jysin.

38 now. Zzzz...

Bragon_sl said:

As far as the GM tag for the vintage folks, they are labelled 'guild 0' on the server DB, which is usually reserved for GM or guide stuff.

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interesting, thanks for the info

which leads me to another question - why are there Vintage people in a Luclin zone?
last I know they haven't killed Vulak yet to 'progress'

Yeah wasn't the "Vulak Ring" event designed pretty much to stop people continuing to farm Vulak once Luclin was released because his loot was so good? Quite a silly thing because end result was nobody killing him which is a big shame...

anyway, I checked Vintage website and they haven't said anything about 'progressing' past Velious... so *shrug*
I doubt they will ever kill AoW / Vulak with the numbers they have

I don't know. We did the Vulak ring and it was pretty easy on eqmac.

The hardest part is just sitting there for a few hours.

qwerty_sl said:

Insane as usual, kinda wish I did an AE group instead of my usual 6 box. But not sure I could deal with the stress and having a full wipe would ruin my day. I can't kill mass quantities but I can snipe a named very easily and safely so I suppose that's something. But still... damn. Are you super rich and have lots of AA's now?

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The number of AAs varies because I have 7 characters; I have one wiz and ench that are the priority of the two pairs, and I'd rather 5 man a group to maximize the Paladin's AA gains because hybrids need a lot more and I made him later. All but one have over 100, and the druid has over 150. I stayed 60 for a long time because the AA exp is better at that level, and not just because fungus grove is half light blue at 65. I've been doing some PoValor too; 5% AA a kill is pretty leet. Although I'm almost out of good Luclin AAs to get and you can only save 30.

I have 1.1 million platinum, and about 500k of that was from selling snare glands to Temerity and probably 200-300k was selling glands to Destiny. I haven't spent much of it because I'd rather earn my ornate myself. If I see some good deals on things I can't get like ele planes tradeskill junk or tormax loot I'll have to buy those.

And trying to get the largest pull I could on video was non-stop wipes for 3 days. It was almost an hour between attempts. I learned things to increase my success rate over time though, but there is ZERO room for error. I made a checklist after wiping from forgetting one thing too many times. That many mobs lags the client which is obviously bad when you need to chain stuns like that. Using mac clients might make it safer if the PC hack is causing the client lag behind the server. If I were to just farm it for real, I'd pull at most two caves at once.

One of my early attempts ended up with 123 kills but I screwed up the capture. I spent another full day trying to beat that. When I got the 126 kill video I was more than ready to stop. Not sure I'll do FG again.

Jysin_sl said:

Torrid, what's your char name? Just trying to keep a FoH friend list as i grind through the levels. My char name is Jysin.

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Torven and Torrin are the characters I pay the most attention to, depending on what I'm doing at the time.

I use 3 physical machines to box like that. It wouldn't work on one box because the EQ client is so old that it gets user input in some archaic way which does not allow for the sending of input to background windows. If you use boxing or macro software, you have to tell the OS to bring the window you want to send input to into focus first before sending commands, and then wait again after sending a command before bringing another window to focus. These delays are significant enough that they would cause delays prior to casting color stuns. Even my using 3 physical machines instead of giving enchanters dedicated boxes makes it slightly more dangerous.

You might get around that limitation by using VMs for every client, but that would be a huge PITA and difficult to setup at the very least. Also this client does not play well with other clients on the same processor core, as the game uses up the entire core no matter what is on screen or where you are, because back then the game was assumed to be the only thing running on the machine (it disabled alt-tab even) so they didn't concern themselves with resource usage. (that and Sony's coders weren't in Blizzard's league, sorry to say) As far as I can tell, EQ is extremely CPU limited, and all the frame lag is from that and not slow GPUs.

I saw that Zamiel made some sort of macintosh multi-client manger software that probably makes boxing on macs a better experience now.