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By Tipa Duh. I can’t imagine I could have possibly sounder thicker over guild chat. The moment I got into game, the same guild that I’ve been raiding VP with asked me along again to clear further in. I declined, I had more important business, but it was nice to see I had a raid slot. Mythical is so close!

By Tipa After, we fought our way up to Druushk. He’s the gatekeeper and blocks further progress into the dungeon, and is also the final raid mob for many classes mythical epics — including mine. Next pull, D. died. VERY happy. She dropped lots of loot, and people were excitedly getting their epic update...

By Tipa Stargrace took the Nostalgia idea and brought it forward 500 years to the devastated Norrath of EverQuest II. I eventually transferred half my characters from Befallen to Najena to join the guild there. I’m getting the urge to raid and group again, so I may be moving some of them back to Befal...

By Tipa Depths of Darkhollow, EverQuest’s tenth expansion was set in the vast underground series of caverns of Underdark Darkhollow, a vast series of caverns beneath Norrath inhabited by the remains of the Illithid Illisin empire and the upstart, warring factions of the Wurine (werewolves)....

By Tipa But more excitedly, EverQuest will be adding its first new server since the progression servers. Full details below. EQ players Player information will be updated to reflect new names/guilds/servers. New servers will allow two of the same artifacts.

By Tipa DOMO tip: Mobs drop their loot right in the world, but it only lasts for half a minute or so before decaying. If you’re killing monsters very quickly, you might not have a chance to grab the loot before it poofs. The usual solution is to ask the zone for an autoloot group. Everyone groups up, sets t...

By Tipa Let me back up. I’d unlocked the Musician job awhile ago, but had only played it just long enough to get the pet heal, then switched back to Thief, but now with pet heals and buffs. When I swapped back to Musician Saturday, my pet had leveled to 17 from adventuring with my Thief job, and so I went ki...

By Tipa I was kinda thinking that EverQuest winter holiday events would be something you could pretty much do solo, no matter what you’re level. I was kinda thinking WRONG. The first two, kill ten goblin scouts and a boss, and then kill ten lower level Dark Mistletoe giants and a boss (above), were ea...

By Tipa Wow, no Prophecy of Ro zones. Is it appropriate at this point to ask SOE to remove this expansion and all the changes they made to Freeport and surrounding areas because of it that nobody wanted? We in Nostalgia are at the 65-70 range, so that would bring us to our first Depths of Darkhollow zon...

By Tipa Brightknife, level 24 Arasai assassin, normally wears the Shadowed armor from the Void Invasion quests. She wears the no-appearance Imperceptible armor on her shoulders to make her forearm armor stand out. The Tunarian armor just screams “DRUID”. Only the waist decoration and the overl...

By Tipa Station Cash is a new virtual currency from SOE that has been created to allow for the purchase of premium in-game items within EverQuest II. Brenda: Loot cards have become an important part of both the EQ and EQ2 communities. Suddenly selling them for bucks would crash player economies AS W...

By Tipa This story is causing a bit of a stir here at work. Yes. At my real life work. Clockwork Gamer: Station Currency Dunno what this means. I have misgivings about having RMT and a subscription price in the same game (just as I do with Wizard 101, but at least EQ2 has appearance slots).

By Tipa Not much of the game reminds me of EverQuest, except for the dungeons. They aren’t as elaborate as EverQuest’s, but they FEEL the same. Dangerous parts deep inside with mega bosses that you can’t even imagine killing yet, but uber people are always heading deeper in for groups. People soloin...

By Tipa Since then, we have been joined by an uber knight, Tarfu, Mantis morphed to his Tribunal enchanter, and, oh yes, mercenaries made themselves available for hire all over Norrath. Still, it would be fun to say that we went to them all? And Air does have the most named loot to make up for being so a...

By Tipa I noticed that the new shoulder armor for the Tier 1 Sackcloth and Tranquil Sackcloth sets looked really fantastic, so I chose that for its looks. I’d love to have bare feet, but I’m not sure if you can buy the appearance-free armor from the Void Invasion merchants any more. I’ll have to check u...

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By Tipa The Serpent’s Spine expansion raised the level cap to 75 and also introduced a tiered system of spells, similar to EverQuest II — one of the few things EverQuest took back from its sequel. You can buy Mark I version of all spells and abilities. Mark II are found in appropriately leveled groups...

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By Tipa Or maybe the retailer support for EverQuest II’s latest expansion would be a little sillier. I went to Best Buy and two Gamestops last night hunting up the retail box. In between the hundreds of WotLK boxes, and many Hellgate: London boxes, the rows of Lord of the Rings Online boxes, the huge W...

By Tipa SOE has a pretty good track record of doing just this for instances past Desert of Flames (Poet’s Palace in DoF was just never going to be quick), so I am looking forward to bite-sized chunks of adventure goodness and hopefully some serious Nostalgia for places last seen hundreds of years a...

By Tipa Anyway, Nostalgia’s tour of a small percentage of EverQuest’s 1500 zones continued this week with a trip to the throbbing nerve center of the Omens of War expansion, the Wall of Slaughter, which connects Noble’s Causeway, an excellent spot for mid 50s folks, with the Muramite Proving Gr...

By Tipa Happy 4th Birthday, EQ2! The Overlord Lucan D’Lere showed up at the EverQuest II Birthday Bash last night. Awestruck? You can say that. This is the man who saved us from the Rallosian Hordes and the Green Mist. This is the man who singlehandedly defeated the Avatar of War on Lucan’s Mount in the...

By Tipa Second part, you control the speed, but not the depth. Your depth will be adjusted by lifts that will bring you up and down, ending in another boss fight. Not sure how you’ll defeat that boss. — I’m not that hard to please. If you make an MMO both fun and challenging, I’ll give it a shot. W101 is both.

By Tipa I found out why Moo Shu is so dead for me. I was in a low population realm — AKA server. Unlike SOME games, you can change servers any time you like just by selecting your new server from a list. Wow, changing servers without having $25-50 deducted from my checking account. How is that even possible...

By Tipa There’s also no target ring — your attack hits whatever you are pointed at. And there’s no swapping of weapons. If you use a ranged attack, you use your ranged weapon. If you melee, you use your melee weapons. Deck building — that’s what makes you different from every other player. Your particula...

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By Tipa So at character creation, you could choose your character’s morals — never attack weak monsters, say, or never refuse a quest to kill the undead, or to never wear better than green armor. If you stuck to these, you could get some benefit in game. If you were under a lot of moral restrictions, yo...

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By Tipa Characters also have a somewhat more limited way of customizing their own appearance, through appearance armor. All the visible armor slots have corresponding appearance slots. Armor bits placed in the appearance slots overwrite the appearance of the actual armor.

By Tipa Since I started tracking, the ten most popular destinations have been: EQ2’s Next Expansion — The Shadow of Odyssey.The Lord of the Rings Online category.The EverQuest 2 category.The Weighted Companion Cube is your only friend, an article about a 3D model I did for Portal’s WCC.The Next EQ2...

By Tipa It’s hard to explain just how much the mercenaries of the Seeds of Destruction have changed EverQuest. It’s like a whole new game, now. Because FRAPS conked out on me, and I didn’t notice until after. there’s no screen shots of our night in the Bastion of Thunder. No screen shots of our first, ten...

By Tipa 1) Be an EverQuest player of any level, experience, anything. This is the tough step. 3) Go to WordPress.com or Blogger.com and make a blog. It’s free. Hardest part is coming up with a name. I just went through EverQuest zones until I found one that wasn’t taken. I wanted Freeport or Qeynos :)

By Tipa The mercenary hirelings in EverQuest’s new expansion, Seeds of Destruction, are made of 200-proof AWESOME. Both Healer and Tank hirelings are available; Healers can eventually even rez you if you die, which is a nice touch. I hired an Apprentice Tier V Tank and went searching for stuff to k...

By Tipa Every expansion has a little bit for people not at max level. Depths of Darkhollow had shrouds. The Serpent’s Spine had a totally revamped newbie experience. Prophecy of Ro tortured and killed Freeport, Ro and the Commonlands, and left their bruised and bloody corpses for vultures to pick o...

By Tipa I have to admit, though, they totally nailed it with EverQuest’s Lost Dungeons of Norrath. Back when that was popular, you could travel to any Wayfarer camp and get a group pretty quickly. Eventually, though, the Guk adventures dwindled, but the others kept their popularity until the Drag...

By Tipa That’s how Tsuki, my 65 mage over on Stromm, got hers :) She even went on a few pickup Fire raids. We got a lot of cash loot for a fairly decent split, as well as a Defiant sword and a Defiant plate breastplate, so Defiant stuff is still clearly dropping even after the Living Legacy event has long b...

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By Tipa If *I* were a Muslim, I’d be offended that Sony would fear the Qu’ran so much that it would recall, at great expense, all the copies of a game to take a harmless mention of a holy book out. With EverQuest’s expansion, LittleBigPlanet and Rock Band 2 for the PS3 all launching on the same day, deci...

By Tipa Spells *** Reader and guildmate Egat pointed out that not only EverQuest 2 patched yesterday — so did its daddy, EverQuest. Here’s the patch notes, along with some commentary. Seeds of Destruction Zone Sneak Preview: All active EverQuest subscribers with accounts in good standing will b...

By Tipa The EverQuest 2 GU48 world quest deals with, from the evil side, anyway, discovering who is responsible for the death of a Qeynosian Seeress who died mysteriously just before she was to make a pronouncement. All the signs point to work by Bertoxxulous’s disciples, but the high priest of th...

By Tipa Spells which do not expire have been made uninterruptable. There are some exceptions which include spells which summon pets or have limited uses. This is cool. I’m not sure how USEFUL it is outside of PvP servers or as a shortcut to the Shard of Hate, but it’s good.

By Tipa Next up was EverQuest 2. Unlike EverQuest, EQ2’s character creator is pretty customizable. Stout Henry would be a bruiser in EQ2 terms, and I soon had a decent looking character, except that the clothes were entirely wrong. Also, he’s a little TOO clean cut. Personal hygiene is not at the top o...

By Tipa I’m not saying EQ’s 10th anniversary book will be anything like that. The description of the book just reminded me of it. Here’s what it includes: The original storylines for EverQuest and EverQuest II.Interviews with key contributors to the EverQuest legacy, including John Smedley, Rus...

By Tipa I made level 53 the same night we removed the cap in the Crypt of Nadox, the level 55 hot zone. I made 54 in Akheva Ruins while we tried to do with one mid fifties group what raid guilds used to do with four level 60 groups — take on Va’Dyn, the giant rock monster who is one of Luclin’s first raid targe...

By Tipa I’ve had my level 75 cleric on Luclin for about… four months now. The level cap on EverQuest is 80. There have been three expansions since I last played her, The Serpent’s Spine, The Buried Sea and Secrets of Faydwer (I played TSS just long enough to get to level 75). A new expansion, Seeds of Dest...

By Tipa Honestly, the only rewards worth working for are the ones that will remain even after I hit the UNSUBSCRIBE button. Friendships, or real-world loot. I logged into my EQ2.Najena assassin, Brightknife, and headed over to Timorous Deep to work on some more gray quests that nonetheless would i...

By Tipa I’d THOUGHT I had gone through Allakhazam’s and gotten every spell for my paladin, same as I did for the ranger. But, no. I was missing some vital spells, and it was the lack of Invisibility to Undead that would kill me a second time. Lull just doesn’t do the job.

By Tipa Now, World of Warcraft was inspired by the Warcraft RTS games, EverQuest, and Dark Age of Camelot. EverQuest took its inspiration from Toril MUD, which was based on other MUDs back to Diku, which was itself based on D&D and earlier MUDs which were inspired by Infocom’s Dungeon/Zork, w...

By Tipa Stargrace’s peek into The Buried Sea expansion got me looking at the stuff they offer — even MORE armor sets! I have no clue whether we should work at some point on Dragons of Norrath armor, or hea straight to TBS armor, or see if Secrets of Faydwer has even ANOTHER set which makes the older stu...

By Tipa I responded at length on Michael Zenke’s write-up of the post over on Massively. I kinda accuse him of being complicit, but the post he made doesn’t (any longer?) support that. Mea culpa. Point I was making is, it’s okay to grow tired of a game. That does not make that game evil or bad, just… someth...

By Tipa The introduction of Defiant armor to lure people back in with top-of-the-line, raid quality armor, has changed all that. In a stroke of a pen, SOE signed away any reason at all to explore or try difficult dungeons. Defiant armor is SO GOOD that going to Nagafen’s Lair for the 40-ish armor drop...

By Tipa On Nostalgia nights, we tend to crawl through dungeons. This was not the typical way of playing EverQuest. Usually you fought your way to someplace you liked, and you STAYED there. The puller would pull, the tank would grab the aggro, and everyone would pile on. But that sort of play has fallen o...

By Tipa Nostalgia the Guild took most of my time this last weekend. It’s supposed to just be a very casual, once-a-week grouping experience through EverQuest’s old world, and it shouldn’t really require as much work as I’ve put into it. However, I don’t see how it could have taken any less, either. If...

By Tipa Working at Massively really is *work*. It doesn’t leave me as much time for gaming as I would like, but I know I will get faster with the articles as I do them. Right now it is taking me an hour or two for each post. I want to get that down to half an hour per.

By Tipa Due to the oddities of the USPTO website, you might miss some matches, so it’s best to just look for SOE without the game name and pore through the lists. Note that some unfamiliar titles like “EVERQUEST EVOLUTION” or “EVERQUEST ATTACK ON QEYNOS” may be for omnibus collections or undevelop...