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Idea for improved loot system

4:03 am, October 20, 2014 I've always felt it a travesty that a group of 3 with 3 merc will get double the named loot compared with a group of 6 real players. The solution: A token system. For every player in a group grea [..] View

Accuracy Debuff Changes Coming

4:03 am, October 9, 2014 Just a heads up all.. As we've detailed before, we working on some changes with the way NPC damage comes in order to reduce the huge spikes (1 shot kills), and make things more manageable. Along wi [..] View

Ranking Guilds Across WHOLE expansion

4:03 am, September 29, 2014 This ranking system isnt a what have you done for me lately system. You could easily make that some guilds are trending up based on recent events, and others down. This is more like College Footb [..] View

Free RaF Rewards are Back!

4:03 am, September 23, 2014 This RaF promotion is only for new (free or paid) accounts that have never logged into a game, or accounts that have not logged into a game for 180 days. Here's how it works: Log into this forum s [..] View

Skill ups 40+

4:03 am, September 20, 2014 this needs to be looked at, i was against this change for the longest time due to the fact that i usually would level with no mercs or power leveling, but after leveling with a merc from 1 - 50 i am f [..] View

PoW and invested time needed?

4:03 am, September 16, 2014 I have been thinking about PoW on and off over the past few weeks. And after seeing the recently posted video on the Grandmaster fight, I got interested again with looking for info. The fight looks pr [..] View

Any decent leveling zones for a L62?

4:03 pm, September 14, 2014 I have been googling like a mad man for days trying to find a good zone to level. Some suggested The Hole. Went there, light blue con, 3 to 4 kills yield 1% experience. Other suggested Bastion of Th [..] View

Revive Pottery and in-game Augments

4:03 pm, September 12, 2014 At some point SOE had the brilliant idea to allow people to create "old school" ornaments of classic items via pottery. However, the selection was rather limited. I don't want more q [..] View

New Tanaan Crafting Mastery

4:03 pm, September 5, 2014 AA Description: raining with the sages and merchants of New Tanaan gives adventurers the chance to hone their crafting skills. For each rank of this ability that you purchase, you are able to raise an [..] View

Turning off animations

4:03 am, August 27, 2014 is there a way to turn off animations for some skills - ie. battle leap (so my toon doesn't jump in the air and fall next to the mob) or juggernaut surge (to remove the golem transformation effect)? View

So when....

4:03 pm, August 26, 2014 ..will these be getting made into Station Store items (highlighted with awesome photoshop red box skills)? Since it doesn't appear they will be added to tournament packs as presumably intended. B [..] View

Question about raid boss lockouts (Ink'tuta)

4:03 am, August 23, 2014 I recently returned to the game a few weeks ago so I've forgotten what the rules are regarding boss kills within an instanced raid expedition. Last night I ****** Kelekdrix in Ink'tuta. When I go [..] View

Yunjo Resistance Faction

4:03 am, August 22, 2014 I'm working on the BiC quest and am trying to get through the Riwwi section which requires Yunjo Reistance Faction. So I did the abysmal Sea Freebie quests to do tradeskills and made about 120 Taelosi [..] View

Can Someone Make A Visual How To Use Houses For Storage Guide?

4:03 am, August 21, 2014 It's really maddening that SOE will not come up with a sane way for us to store tradeskill items. The hoops we have to jump through are nutty and the amount of time wasted moving stuff back and forth [..] View

2014 SoE Live - Q&A Panel Questions/Answers

4:03 am, August 19, 2014 This thread lists all questions asked by players in both EQ panels and is loosly organized by topics. Apologies as there are some questions and/or answers I didnt hear. If anyone knows or can expand [..] View

Skill Up Blues (spell schools)

4:03 am, August 17, 2014 I just recently came back to the game. I now have a 43 shaman and my wife has a 38 mage she is playing around with. We have noticed that as we get higher level, the difficulty of gaining skill ups f [..] View

Automatic Loot Distribution System Questions

4:03 pm, August 16, 2014 So, I understand that the system learns/adapts from past experiences, but what happens if, say I roll in on a new necklace and lose, and the months or even years go by and I got a better necklace, but [..] View

Returning as a total casual

4:03 am, August 16, 2014 I quit the game probably in 2004? The last Expansion I had was LDON and I had, at the time a plane of time geared Mage with maxed trade skills for that era. I was wondering if I come back as a casual, [..] View

Raising Caster Skills

4:03 am, August 1, 2014 Hi there, so I have a bard and a magician at this point, and while it is very easy to AFK and up a bard's skills (percussion, etc.), I am at a loss as to how to do this with a magician. Do I a [..] View

I'm back, for now. Things the game needs badly:

4:03 pm, July 31, 2014 So I'm back, for the time being. We'll see if it sticks. Almost immediately, several issues have reared their ugly heads, and I hope they're addressed at some point. 1) Things that should have been [..] View

Auto-grant AAs without All-Access

4:03 am, July 30, 2014 My apologies if this has been answered already, I couldn't find an exact answer using my google skills. I have an alt account that I want to make all access thus giving me the AA auto-grant ability ho [..] View

Tempers, tradeskills, and item management

4:03 pm, July 27, 2014 Greetings all, I enjoy the tradeskills, but after 15 years there seems to be a glut of tradeskill items that drop out there. Is there a reason to store the temper related drops at this point in the [..] View

Long time player looking for guidance

4:03 am, July 23, 2014 Hey all, I've been in and out of EQ since 99 and coming back again for some fun after a long pause. So my current setup is 96 ranger 3500aa, 95 sk 6800aa and a 91 Shaman 1kaa. I'll usually box this c [..] View

Extremely Unsavvy Lady

4:03 pm, July 16, 2014 Hi! (disclaimer - long winded - to get to the point scroll down to the bolded underlined bit ) Ok first a little back-story. I started playing in 99 while pregnant and my then-hub was working over [..] View

Feedback - Leveling & Warrior (15 year casual)

4:03 am, July 9, 2014 Good afternoon! I'm not exactly your traditional EverQuest player; I've been casual for the entirety of my 15 years. The last time I had a max level character was Planes of Power on a Beastlord name [..] View

Give me back my Goranga Spear!

4:03 pm, June 28, 2014 Short version: With the 2h Piercing update, Shamans and Bards are no longer able to use the Goranga Spear. http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=8279 Long version: I'm aware of how [..] View

I'm so torn!!

4:03 am, June 28, 2014 Ok, so am coming back to the game and deciding on a class to play (yes this is one of those threads)...and just want a little input to see if I have missed something. So I have boiled it down to a few [..] View

Thanks for Flurry filter, but...

4:03 pm, June 25, 2014 While the Dev team has someone who is semi-familiar with where these kinds of things are hidden in that sneaky old code from the Flurry filter, could you please take a look at adding a filter for: F [..] View

Dps between the tank classes

4:03 am, June 17, 2014 Hello, I am a returning player who has settled down into playing a tank class: paladin. My focus will be playing either solo account or multiple account in the group game. In the setting mentioned, [..] View

Defense of Lendiniara Raid Loot Table

4:03 am, June 7, 2014 Particularly referring to the Defender's Brilliant Grey Targ, the one time we actually got this item to drop in 12+ kills it replaced a back item, instead of the usual replacement of a weapon slot fro [..] View

Tower of Rot Raid

4:03 am, May 26, 2014 Can you please fix the lag? It gets kinda hectic at the end and the lag kills you because of this. View

monk hotkeys at 60

4:03 am, May 23, 2014 I am returning this week after being a way a number of years. what skills should be on my 60 monks hotkeys and disciplines? I am duel wielding and geared with current above average gear for my level [..] View

Change we can live with

4:03 pm, May 21, 2014 I'm not complaining about anything they've done. What I would like to see, simply enough, is a revamp of either some fo the drops for potion making, or how you get said ingredients the [..] View

Patch Notes for 5/21/14

4:03 pm, May 21, 2014 Patch Notes for 5/21/14 *** Call of the Forsaken: The Tower of Rot *** Call of the Forsaken: The Tower of Rot has been released! A mysterious tower looms over the Dead Hills, and a long-forgotten pre [..] View

Return to EQ1 after many years...

4:03 pm, May 15, 2014 Hello people of EQ1, I haven't traversed these lands since the day EQ was getting its first expansion pack. With the price tag of newer computers getting ever so steep, and the inflation of everything [..] View

What tradeskills are needed for rogue 1.5 and elsewhere in game?

4:03 am, May 8, 2014 What tradeskills are needed for rogue 1.5 and are useful elsewhere in game? I want to go ahead and max these tradeskills on my rouge as I'm curently padding her skill window anyway. Also any benifit [..] View

Things That "Annoy" You In Game ??

4:03 am, May 7, 2014 I was thinking last night about various play styles (and traits) that tend to annoy me to no end, or at the least "make me nervous". I'm sharing... perhaps it's only me... or perhaps i [..] View

I have a truly awesome class idea for rogues.

4:03 am, May 5, 2014 Theif job quests assigned at every 10 levels, that require development of rouge skills and allow you to fence your stolen goods at questgiver, located at a theives guild, for plat, basicly you rob npc [..] View

downlaoding EQ1 again

4:03 pm, May 2, 2014 wow, never thought i'd say this but im downloading EQ1 after many years of not playing. going to start fresh, not even sure where/how to find my old chars anyways. i had my time in world of warcraft [..] View

New EQEMU pvp server up and running!

4:03 am, April 29, 2014 Called Rolfron zek http://www.eqpvp.com/ Basically its team based on races so dwarf elves gnomes are all neut races, 4 lvl range, guards in towns are KOS to enemy teams so its tricky to get around. If [..] View

Questions from an ancient returning player..

4:03 pm, April 21, 2014 I was a day 1 player, and played for a while.. did some of the early original raid content. My memory is a bit fuzzy as to when I actually stopped playing... but I think I quit around the time of the [..] View

Heroic 95+ ????

4:03 pm, April 15, 2014 I spent a nice chunk on points to to make a level 95 Druid "Heroic" mainly wanting to have quite a few trash skills maxed out and some other things such as having a few quests opened. [..] View

I got crazy now for combine failed...(stonewood compound bow)

4:03 am, April 5, 2014 It took me about 2 days to get stonewood bow staff drop (At E-Marr server,it is hard to find camp spot 24hr and ultra rare drop). I have 336 fletching (300+12%) skill and full tradeskill AA (11k AA) [..] View

Why did another group reset my rest timer in Feerrott?

4:03 pm, April 3, 2014 I missed a few years of EQ and thus am puzzled on what happened tonight in Feerrott the Dream. My 85 Heroic shammy had finished killing the lizardmen dreamwalkers as part of J5 Merc quest and had de [..] View

Heroic Necromancer spells and abilities, by category

4:03 am, April 3, 2014 I looked at all the necromancer spells level 85 and below, then tried to sort them into the various spell lines. IE: Leech is a direct upgrade/replacement for Dark Pact, Engulfing Darkness is the upgr [..] View

The Judicator - cross agro warping (bug)

4:03 am, April 3, 2014 This is a major major major problem with the design of the plane of war imo because 1. it prevents the group that spawned the judicator from killing it sometimes if another is spawned around the same [..] View

Confused about starting hotkey abilities for new Heroic Character

3:03 am, March 27, 2014 Hey all -- just a little confused about something. I am a returning player from right around the post-Kunark days, and I'm still figuring all of the details about AA's, etc. I' [..] View

Heroic Druid spells and abilities, by category

3:03 am, March 27, 2014 I looked at all the druid spells level 85 and below, then tried to sort them into the various spell lines. IE: Light Healing is a direct upgrade/replacement for Minor Healing, Skin Like Rock is the up [..] View

How to Powerlevel?

3:03 am, March 27, 2014 Why powerlevel? Because I find enjoyment out of it. It's just simply fun to see how quickly you can PL someone, using different tactics, areas, mobs, etc. But I'm having a bit of trouble so far, [..] View

Balancing PVP. What would YOU do?

3:03 am, March 27, 2014 Personally I'd try to slow the game down a bit and get rid of the insta-kills/one rounding that classes do. Sure if you get 3-6 people on you then you should probably die that fast but to a single per [..] View

Merc Gear Questions

3:03 am, March 22, 2014 How do you use merc gear? Is it gear looted from kills or do you have to purchase it somewhere? If you switch mercs, does the new merc get the gear? Any other info available anywhere? A link would b [..] View

Disappointed by Heroic Characters

3:03 am, March 20, 2014 After playing everquest at release through kunark and trailing off during velious, I have revisited everquest over the years. Expansions certainly contained gimmicks that really forced players to purc [..] View

WTH no GM tradeskills or shawl augs?

3:03 am, March 19, 2014 So we get heroic toons, and now we can get raid focus's from group content. so my next question, Why dont we get free shawl augs and GM tradeskills, Maybe u could do like, 15 dollars, for GM trad [..] View

raid gear + trash mobs. Capitalizing on HA system

3:03 am, March 19, 2014 I mentioned this before about capitalizing on the HA system and these new rare drops make it even more realistic to have more gear on the group vendor including old raid stuff. Hint - you want HAs to [..] View

The Misadventures of an Addled Duo

3:03 pm, March 18, 2014 I played Everquest for the first time just shortly after Planes of Power was released, I played for about 4 months and only ended up leveling a shaman to 34 and a rogue to around 39. I quit playing be [..] View

Need some advice please

3:03 pm, March 18, 2014 Hi All I need some advice on what to do with my toon. I have a level 69 mage who has her epic and a few tradeskills (nothing major just up to 250 and 200) she has a reasonably mount (droag think fro [..] View

Made 6 heroic accounts to use ISboxer. Where to start off?

3:03 am, March 17, 2014 So I got ISboxer running and made a SK, SHM, Mage, Clr, ench, and wiz. I havn't played in years and all the spells and abilities seem foreign and I need to hone my skills with ISbox. Where to [..] View

A couple of questions on dungeon crawl moloing.

3:03 am, March 17, 2014 Greetings! I am trying to decide which class to make exclusively for dungeon crawl moloing. I've already leveled a Mage to 96 and often crawl her through dungeons, but I'm curious if there is anothe [..] View

Inventory window improvement

3:03 pm, March 15, 2014 The new Upgrade Character button is right over the Destroy button, which can be annoying. As a druid, I often use the Forage button, which means I also often use the Destroy button when I get one of [..] View

Heroic Char upgrade possible bug?

3:03 am, March 13, 2014 Hi, I upgraded a level 85 druid to heroic. I got everything promised except the skills. I had PLed her from level 10 to 85, but her skills are still as if she is level 10. Just wanted to know if this [..] View

What Happened to EverQuest?

3:03 pm, March 8, 2014 Greetings, I write this in hopes to promote a thoughtful discussion. In Mid-2011, I returned to EverQuest during House of Thule after a very, very long hiatus. I initially started during Ruins of Ku [..] View

Don't miss out! Free Level 85 characters the RIGHT WAY!

3:03 am, March 8, 2014 Sure, you can take your low-level character and convert it to a level 85 Heroic Character, and take advantage of whatever claims and veteran rewards you have, and for some people, that's the way to go [..] View

Free Mount, 8 sets of Uber gear & More! *New Info for those who missed it*

3:03 am, March 7, 2014 This promotion is only for new (free or paid) accounts that have never logged into a game, or accounts that have not logged into a game for 180 days. Here's how it works: https://recruit.soe.com/r [..] View

Personality or skill?

3:03 pm, March 6, 2014 What have you done when you've found yourself with an applicant who has either top notch skills or a top notch attitude, but not both? Besides the obvious things like talk to class leaders and trying [..] View

DPS Stats, math/minmax/attack/str/dex

3:03 am, March 5, 2014 I'm making an excel sheet for Augs and I'm trying to decide on the weight I'm valuing each stat. to help me do that I looking for some real number relationships between these stats. First, STR (hero [..] View

Mid 60's Slump

3:03 am, March 3, 2014 Playing a Pally on FV. This is after a bard and a ranger and a shaman on various other servers. So I cannot seem to get past low 70's on anything other than a mage. The level pace goes from awes [..] View

Outside the box Idea

3:03 pm, February 28, 2014 So I've been thinking of an idea, and maybe it's silly but I think it would make both tradeskills relevant AND make old content relevant. What if it were possible for a master Artisan, using all trad [..] View

Alternate Loot Style: Thinkoutside the Gearbox

3:03 am, February 26, 2014 Mudflation and Gear Stagnation: These are two names of the big bad wolves that blow down the MMO houses. How does a mature game go about applying some duct tape to these issues? They shred the boo [..] View

Tradeskills Class and Race

3:03 pm, February 24, 2014 Here in the Veteran's Lounge, I'd like to just sit down with my fellow Norrathians at the hearth, relax, sip a Spiced Iced Tea and ask a very serious question that has made me wonder for some time. W [..] View

The tanking issue...

3:03 am, February 24, 2014 So here it is - Grouper's EQ as we know it. Level 1 to 71 = Defiant. Level 71 to 80 = Glowing (or still Defiant if none is available) Level 80 to 85 = Abstruse Level 85 to 92 = Reis or Rustic Level [..] View

Player studio suggestion

3:03 am, February 23, 2014 I have no skills in this area whatsoever, but I would like to see an alphabet set on the marketplace. With placeable letters we could make signs for rooms in guild halls or houses. I'd suggest a lette [..] View

Crowd Control

3:03 am, February 21, 2014 It feels as though EQ has gained many new CC spells / aa's and given them to classes that did not previously have them. If the abilities to control a larger quantity of mobs than the occasional 1-2, [..] View

Thinking about boxing.

3:03 pm, February 20, 2014 I just returned to the game a couple weeks back (last played right after release of VoA) and have been having trouble finding groups, despite all my best efforts. I can solo/molo with the few > [..] View

Guard hambert the Defence of Lendiniara

3:03 am, February 18, 2014 anyone able to advise on this mission, we have tried it several ways but the adds have been a pain and last boss kills me in 2 hits have attempted this several ways what is the trick? View

[Question] Mage pet gear and leveling

3:03 am, February 16, 2014 Two questions... There has been some debate among the level 100 mages on my server about whether the pets really come summoned with all armour and focus or not. Several say that they simply give the p [..] View

The Rat hits 100! - HA Question?

3:03 am, February 16, 2014 <takes a bow> "Speech!!" said the Gallery......... OK. It's been a long road since I rolled my very 1st character back in 1999. From the tree trap in Blackburrow, to [..] View

Research Quests

3:03 am, February 15, 2014 Hello!, I got the quest, Simple Quill for Crescent Reach. It tells me to "Help the Written Word expand their collection by making them some simple quills. In your spell research kit, cut a Pla [..] View

Xping my merc.

3:03 am, February 14, 2014 Level 100 toon. J5 merc. I must of missed the boat on something. Merc AA is very very slow imho. like 100 to 1 to player AA.. and im talking for 8k plus toons. So I have a few questions to clear u [..] View

Alternate to Franklin Teeks daily task.

3:03 pm, February 11, 2014 This is a basic out line of my suggestion as opposed to SoE letting players Buy a high level character. This is a way for high level players to group with lower levels and have the lower levels get [..] View

I keep trying to come back..

3:03 pm, February 5, 2014 But the soloing/moloing just kills my passion for the game and I just don't find boxing fun for more then an afternoon or so. My preferred play style is support, cleric, shaman, enchanter or bard are [..] View

class balance

3:03 am, February 5, 2014 (nb. for mods thread opened to talk about class balance and balancing solo class xp gain - not the swarm nerf / aa freebie) with an incoming need to nerf so many skills so server stability remains. [..] View

Oh Boy, Guys

3:03 am, February 3, 2014 So I have happily been playing my fresh new ranger, working on her skills, etc. Finally hit 18 and now things are flowing nicely, getting back into the swing of things. Well today, I FINALLY got int [..] View

Ngerth: We need a new way of storing tradeskill items

3:03 pm, January 31, 2014 Hoping to hear from Ngerth or an SOE person. We're at a point where we have thousands and thousands of tradeskill items. I like tradeskills but the way we currently have to try to store the compone [..] View

REPO, TA, etc.

3:03 am, January 28, 2014 Just got a few toons to 70, and will soon be 75. I see tons of people advertising REPO TA for 75+ or 85+. I've never done either, and my google skills have yet to find me a page that explains the pro [..] View

Make some of these drops less annoying..

3:03 am, January 26, 2014 Been in SS temple basement for 3 days, 23 kills of the named plus about a billion place holders, and no drop. I'm all for things being difficult to get, but this is a freaking summoned throwing weapo [..] View

What is the best spell line up for an enchanter?

3:03 am, January 25, 2014 I could use help on how to play an enchanter in a group setting. I am finding Enchanters have so many spells and buffs, what would a typical good spell rotation be for an enchanter in a group setting? [..] View

Mass Killing Achievements

3:03 pm, January 17, 2014 What are good places to work on the 5000+ **** achievements? I did Gunthak and Dulak for most of my playable race kills, mobs that auto aggro on a Level 100, that I can pull 100+ at once and not eve [..] View

Fellowhip XP sharing

3:03 am, January 15, 2014 I've been trying to get an answer to how my friends should have their fellowship XP set. Our issue is that we have one of us who is quite a few levels below us he is close enough to gain XP. now he [..] View

How to skillup offensive and defensive skills after using mercs

3:03 pm, January 13, 2014 I've hit 50ish and realized all my skills are garbage...is there a fast way to get them up to par for my level? View

Biggest Crits!

3:03 am, January 8, 2014 So I'm hearing that skills like assassinate and decapitate can put up some unreal crit numbers, and my question to you is: what's your highest crit??? or the highest crit you've seen. Post your crit [..] View

Can we get some crowd pleasers with the COTF#2 xpac?

3:03 am, January 8, 2014 Just wondering if we can get some crowd pleasers with the 2nd half of the COTF xpac. I did not buy the first expansion as I have no level 100 characters. Below are some things that would definitely [..] View

Free Mount, 8 sets of Uber gear & More!!!!! *New Info for those who missed it*

3:03 am, January 7, 2014 This promotion is only for new (free or paid) accounts that have never logged into a game, or accounts that have not logged into a game for 180 days. Here's how it works: https://recruit.soe.com/rec [..] View

Solo vs 3-Boxing for fast leveling

3:03 am, January 6, 2014 Can you level a 3 box team as fast as you level a solo toon. I am assuming both choices will have a tank merc. Seems solo kills so slow, that the three box team would makes up for needing triple the [..] View

The ***** of Everquest (a short rant by yours truly)

3:03 am, January 5, 2014 I love this game. I have been upset by many changes made to the game over the years, but I have always come back. This game is unique in comparison to any games that have ever been and ever will be. [..] View

The ***** of Everquest (a concern of yours truly)

3:03 am, January 5, 2014 I love this game. I have been upset by many changes made to the game over the years, but I have always come around. This game is unique in comparison to any games that have ever been and ever will b [..] View

Deleveling from 100

3:03 am, December 31, 2013 The wife wants to play and I plan of just deleveling an old toon down to play with her. I don't have to regear since I kept most of it leveling up, don't have to reflag, etc. Will prolly be like 4 or [..] View

macro text to chat channel?

3:03 am, December 30, 2013 Id like to include some text in my macro to go to a channel that I created, but I dont want to use the channel number because those tend to change alot and I dont want to end up spamming general with [..] View

Next Phase of CotF

3:03 pm, December 15, 2013 Thought I would hear some news about the next phase by now. As we head into the holidays I am not expecting much will change. I was under the impression it would be put live in January. I know Ja [..] View

Game Update Notes - December 11, 2013

3:03 am, December 15, 2013 I think SOE forgot to post these again in the Game Update Notes (Live) forum and I don't see anyone else has. So: December 11, 2013 _____________________ *** Highlights *** - Frostfell celebrati [..] View

Mobs dying to DoTs on wipe

3:03 pm, December 14, 2013 Tonight in "***** Peace", one of the xulous mobs we had to **** died to the DoTs I'd loaded onto it, after the entire group died, and we did not get credit for the ****. Now, I know t [..] View

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