The Heroes Journey (Multiclass EQemu Progression Server)

Talenvor said:

So is elemental and time as we feared, where the server is shifting to a duo setup if you aren’t at the top 1% of the best builds to solo? I’m seeing a lot of talk about the difficulty of TZ, Xegony, Rathe Council, etc and I’ve yet to hear of Quarm solo being common. Such an odd shift since everything vanilla through Luclin was relatively easy soloable minus 3/4 and 4/4 Seru, but even that 0 or 1 Seru wasn’t that bad. There is no such player selected scaffolded difficulty for elemental bosses or Time.

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The grind to 65 is probably what has stalled a lot of the true solos in here from being able to report back of their encounters in Time, as it's like 2500 kills in DN just to get through level 64. I found the alternatives (Fire, Water, VT) just not worth the effort for my combination to be able to do it, so I've just been AFK killing the "hole" goos (2.5%/hr) and then running up/down when I have time. 30% more to go, so should be in Time sometime tonight finally.

I did not find the elemental planes to be that difficult overall as a first timer, but I have about the max ability to skip/split mobs as Dru/Mnk/Rog (so I only really killed exactly what needed to be killed to progress). I wiped to Xegony once, and then splitting the steps in Fire and the Rathe Council were basically the only things I had to sit up in my chair for. I did Xegony and Rathe again yesterday to get a second Ring of Farsight though, and I cut my Xegony time in half and did the entire council + Avatar in just under 20 minute. So if you have experience with the encounters beforehand, then I imagine you can crush them first try.

I will say the one positive from this painful XP grind is it affords you some time to level up some of the elemental boss items (@ 0.09% per kill in DN). They aren't "huge" upgrades, but a lot of them fill out some trade-off gaps on items from previous expansions, include upgraded focus effects, and expand the HP pool. So I'm already up 2.5k HP, another HDex rung (and pushing a second), 40 MR, and 150 HA/SD, and that's all without replacing any Rage augs even though I'm already 925+ Attack.

I have completed all the flagging and progression up to through Plane of Fire. Still have Air, Water, Earth, and Time to go.

It has been an incredibly fun experience. I love PoP so much. It feels like they seriously nerfed EXP rates in all the PoP zones. I did a full clear of Fire just to get level 63 before I engaged Fennin Ro (probably wasn't necessary, he was easy), but I might have to grind out 64 or 65 before Xegony & Rathe Council from what people are saying about the challenge. I am running my Monk/Berserker/Cleric for the flagging. I have nearly worn out my Cleric heal button and a lot of the encounters. But I am still running nearly all my BIS Luclin gear and haven't stopped to gear up in PoP gear yet, so it makes sense that the challenge curve has been a bit steep.

I don’t remember my guild ever really doing Xegony, Rathe, or obviously Quarm, so the learning curve might be a bit steep. Oh well, I need to grind to 65 by the end anyways so might as well enjoy the journey.

Also, I thought I knew every square inch of the Plane of Fire zone... and I found out there is a second under-lava tunnel that leads to a 3rd Phoenix raid boss... holy shit. Crazy how you can learn new things and areas in EQ 20+ years later.

They really need to up the PoP item EXP rates. The fact that item exp rates are still the best in DN is retarded.

I actually like that they slowed down leveling for 60-65.

I was able to solo Xegony and all of the Elemental stuff so far. You have to reach pretty deep in your toons kit and have your gear pretty dialed, but I am also in nearly all Luclin stuff at 65 and it's very possible. RZ in Time or Quarm I haven't tried yet. But again 2+ Seru was also just off the table for me and I didn't really care that much.

Well, I saved my bacon tonight with the server's flag mechanics. Thankfully all characters on one account share flags.

I was progressing along nicely, got into Temple of Marr, spawned my DZ and in haste, as soon as I zoned in, I hit my wrong hotbar key which was DZquit. Instantly put myself into a 14hr lockout. Remembering the flag mechanic, I logged my petcuck in (who hasnt stepped foot in PoP yet) and zoned straight into ToMarr, started a new DZ, killed Marr, logged back to my main and continued along the way.

Saved me a wasted day of progress. Off to SolRo I go !

Oh that was a very smart play.

Fight said:

Also, I thought I knew every square inch of the Plane of Fire zone... and I found out there is a second under-lava tunnel that leads to a 3rd Phoenix raid boss... holy shit. Crazy how you can learn new things and areas in EQ 20+ years later.

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That was a fun boss to pull out as a monk

Same Fight. I had no idea that boss existed.

Nevermind

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Whats the quickest way to 50 at 40? i assume you're level capped while still in classic? just hit up solb i assume?

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Lower Guk or Solb. I think there is tighter cluster of mobs in Guk to farm for exp. If peeps from here gave you gear like they did me, you could more than likely do Vox/Naggy at 40 after you grinding out some AA's like Fearless.

Rallos down (1st try). Quarm down (5th-ish try). Time down (aside from that animal of a mob after Quarm that I have zero chance of killing solo). No pet necessary.

Really challenging and enjoyable zone overall, and the rooms with the gods in them makes you feel like you are actually in "the" plane of power. Don't think it's something you can really do solo daily like Kerafyrm due to the time commitment though.

Rallos was a little too tough for my SK/ROG/RNG but didn't have much trouble up to him. Probably just need a few upgrades.

Leveling up my MAG/BST/CLR to see how they do.

Anyone know exactly how the "Combat Effects" stat works? I'm looking at Quarm earring and prismatic band of focus. With 2x each its 50 out of the 100 combat effects. What exactly does that mean and does it work on all of my SK/rng/rog procs or just certain ones?

Proc rate boost

Are we still stat capped at 750 SP/HP?


SolRo down. Just entered PoFire. Been a really fun ride so far!