Everquest - Phinigel server

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Oh I completely agree the place is a cesspool. I've just never encountered someone who's more blatantly disliked there. There's plenty of spawn disputes every other minute or so due to the density of the spawns and the people there. How do you make plat in Qeynos Sewers?
 

Blitz

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25% fucking increase?! My holy fucking God. Kunark push is gonna be fun, and the patch fucked loot for a bit? How do these guys have jobs. Jesus Christ.
 

Vaclav

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Oh I completely agree the place is a cesspool. I've just never encountered someone who's more blatantly disliked there. There's plenty of spawn disputes every other minute or so due to the density of the spawns and the people there. How do you make plat in Qeynos Sewers?
Necro guild guards. The drop real 2HS and 2HB worth 21-24pp a piece with 6 or so on a 6 min respawn cycle. Can also add specs in if you're bored for between 0-20pp in vendor loot per with a chance at Polished Steel Dirk - which did auction well previously - but not tried to sell one in an age.

There's other similar camps - but like the camp I do now (I used to do QCats on previous servers, but it was really monopolized early on by AoS - so got out of the habit) requires a group so it's not good for a direct comparison.

Also one that works for many classes is just buzzsawing trash in a low level fine steel zone - like SolA - when I do PBAE groups in SolA, I'll usually walk out with 2-3k of fine steel and other high value trash when my looters fill up after a couple pulls.
 

Vaclav

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25% fucking increase?! My holy fucking God. Kunark push is gonna be fun, and the patch fucked loot for a bit? How do these guys have jobs. Jesus Christ.
I half wonder if the increase is varied by level - my L50 I had grouped with my L39 seemed to be getting XP much quicker than before - felt substantial. Whereas he was getting like 1% for every 20% the L39 would get before, he got like 7% to her 30% earlier.

Not sure how to explain that. Was weird seeing his XP move on light blues that quickly. (was like 8% total in like 90 min of light blues in a 4 man group - with a AFK bard and zero DPS adding cleric)
 

Jysin

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... and the patch fucked loot for a bit? How do these guys have jobs. Jesus Christ.
So they went and respawned zones for the loot fix.

However the bosses (Trak / VP / dragons / etc) were not respawned. Typical customer service work there.
 

Creslin

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I half wonder if the increase is varied by level - my L50 I had grouped with my L39 seemed to be getting XP much quicker than before - felt substantial. Whereas he was getting like 1% for every 20% the L39 would get before, he got like 7% to her 30% earlier.

Not sure how to explain that. Was weird seeing his XP move on light blues that quickly. (was like 8% total in like 90 min of light blues in a 4 man group - with a AFK bard and zero DPS adding cleric)
One of the big problems with the server was how fast XP dropped off on blue and light blue, maybe they fixed that so the kunark push will be easier when most people are stuck fighting stuff lower than them. Might actually make the dungeons outside of juggs/kennels and HS worth it over BW
 

Blitz

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Hmmm, curious to see what people turn up. I personally haven't gotten a chance to play yet. Would be cool if they came out and gave a ballpark #.
 

Vaclav

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One of the big problems with the server was how fast XP dropped off on blue and light blue, maybe they fixed that so the kunark push will be easier when most people are stuck fighting stuff lower than them. Might actually make the dungeons outside of juggs/kennels and HS worth it over BW
Yea, the mobs I was killing would've been white through low yellow to the L39 (maybe the rare blue? I know they max at 42, 38-42 would be a typical spread, always do them at L50 though and lazy to con with the AFK bard) but exclusively low light blue to the mains. Still not amazing XP or anything but tolerable.
 

Korrupt

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People on the TLPs don't nearly AE anywhere near what P99 did / does. They setup in the big room before prince and basically pull the trash around royals and AE 20-30 at a time and then pick over from a safe spot on the second floor and repeat.

This grind isn't going to be that horrible for 60, getting a static group with people helps it immensely.
 

Arbitrary

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On the flip side the grind to 60 becomes bothersome is if you get stuck having to exp with average players in average locations. Rather than tweak global exp rates I wish Daybreak would just boost some of the shittier areas a little bit so it didn't feel like a waste of time to be in non-optimal locations.
 

lost

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50-60 is still going to suck lol, it sucked on ragefire and most casuals took forever to hit 60, so i imagine more tears inc as this xp boost wont be good enough. without bot armies i think most people will avoid chardok for leveling. with my group I might still try it, since the charm pet hitting for 225 was awesome not to mention the mobs werent resistant at all, could nuke a red mob at 50 and land full dmg.

seb mobs just felt resisty, full of hp and not worth the xp. but i imagine most people will go there for xp. will be interesting to see!
 

Rhuma_sl

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Leveling on this server is just brutal. Level 4 took about 3 hours, what the fuck man? I wanted to play support and i dont think i can do this.

Is there something im missing? Did everyone just abuse the fuck out of quest xp and now everyone starting now is doomed to grinding for days just to hit level 10?

I got a buddy of mine to cough up $15 to come duo with me but its really turning us both off. We spent hours last night grinding and we havent even gotten our 2nd set of spells yet.
 

lost

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No its pretty slow without gear money etc. It'd be easier to buy a few krono for 7 each and sell it to buy some gear. Krono are about 2500 each, I mean you can get a decent set of gear for 2500. Obviously redwine and eyes were easy xp but they werent cheap. The market palce potions are nice too and you can always go to commonlands tunnel to find free buffs from lvl 50s
 

Chanur

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No the exp kind of blows. Double exp weekends are when I did most of my leveling.
 

Arbitrary

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The reason that people were factory farming low level quest items is because the early early levels really were dog shit.

It smooths out some.