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Soul of the Grandmaster itemization broken?

4:03 am, October 17, 2014 Soul of the Grandmaster's itemization is ALL/ALL, Secondary only, Shield only. Berserkers flat-out can't use this. Is this intentional? Perhaps remove the Shield only option, or make it "s [..] View

I'm considering trying EQ for the first time, I have many questions.

4:03 pm, October 9, 2014 Hello. I'm probably super late to the party, but I'd like to try Everquest. I saw it on Steam in the MMOs section and started downloading it since it's free to play. If folks could help me out with so [..] View

I've upgraded my SK to heroic char and... im saturated

4:03 pm, September 30, 2014 There are tons of abilities and spells. Before starting quests and fights im taking my time to read every new AA and spell that I have in order to know my char. But the thing that makes me confused [..] View

After a decade away, I'm returning to Norrath

4:03 am, September 21, 2014 Just popping in to *wave* hello. There seems to be a steady flow of us old-timers returning to EQ. It's easy to understand why. I've played a bunch of the more "modern" mmorpgs... t [..] View

AAs not available via Autogrant

4:03 am, September 18, 2014 Hi folks, I'm currently still playing under a Silver account so i understand I'm capped at 1000 AA (with 100 banked limit) and that the AA Autogrant excludes some AAs (mostly tradeskill-related). Do [..] View

Question about seeing group members on the map

4:03 pm, September 12, 2014 So last night while doing some tutorial quests in Gloomingdeep I joined a group with a few other people. At one point we became separated and I was told that I could see party members on the map marke [..] View

Guise of the Ancient Gods

4:03 am, August 26, 2014 I have a few questions directed at the designers of this item that seem very relevant. -Why does this item have a cooldown? It seems like it knocks 99.99% of the value off of this item to have a coo [..] View

Plane of War: Deserving of Battle

4:03 pm, August 25, 2014 So I am quite confused about this task in Plane of War. I am up to the part where you beat down kobolds to under 20%, tag them, and then drag them to krepp. This is copied from Allah write-up of the [..] View

Suspended Pets

4:03 am, August 25, 2014 Why is it that when I have a Suspended pet and I die the pet poofs as well. When I die and I have a Suspended Merc they don't die. I see no real reason why a suspended pet should poof. I do understand [..] View

New Player Seeking Guild (Cazic Thule)

4:03 pm, August 23, 2014 Hello everyone! I played EQ for about a month when it first released. I remember vividly how exciting it was when I ****** my first goblin on my wood elf ranger, and how I was too young to understan [..] View

Why not merge servers?

4:03 am, August 20, 2014 I understand there are players who essentially want to be alone, and there should be servers for those folks, and there are those who want a more moderately populated server, and I think there are sev [..] View

Test Server raiding and the next Expansion

4:03 am, August 19, 2014 This may be a bit of an early post, but with all the expansion talk going on I may as well bring it up. Legions of Blackburrow on test server is finally doing pretty well in current raids. When the ne [..] View

Itemization

4:03 pm, August 17, 2014 The all/all gear has some issues. http://eq.magelo.com/npc/440067 1) First off stat differences are so small they often don't matter for many classes. Many heroics operate in increments of 25 or 10. I [..] 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

Short Staffed?

4:03 am, August 16, 2014 I understand being short staffed for people like developers and community liasons, but just got off the phone with their help line and apparently because of SoE live, the 'character transfer' departme [..] View

Second SOE Live Reward Tentatively Announced.

4:03 am, August 14, 2014 RoshenHey guys, Quite a lot of us are in Vegas working hard to get SOE Live ready for everyone tomorrow, and it's delayed the time I would have liked to spend talking about this issue with the team [..] View

fan fair clicky not what i expected

4:03 am, August 13, 2014 Hey just wanted to throw this out there.. I just read on the link on the front page of the EQ website about the clicky old world gods that fan fair attendees are going to get and also the persons who [..] View

Not the greatest pvp experience.

4:03 am, August 12, 2014 I have taken the time to read what I could for a short time to understand that most of what I have seen is people crying over rogues. I don't want to say that I have joined this band wagon, but I [..] View

Stealth Nerf or Mistake?

4:03 am, August 10, 2014 I used to, on burns, click my TSS era chest from inventory and sic some pets on the mob. Then I would click my CotF chest and get the proc buff. Today I sent pets and couldn't click for the proc. I tr [..] View

Keeper's (im)balance

4:03 am, August 6, 2014 The achievements in the Burn Out group mission are being awarded under strange conditions. All that I need to finish the COTF challenger meta achievement is the 'Keeper's Balance' achievement and it's [..] View

Things I believe will make EQ better

4:03 pm, August 5, 2014 Things I believe will make EQ better 1.Put in a toggle so we can put all our exp to the mercs. A lot of people are max AAs and exp and this would help build up the mercs faster. 2. RoF provides 10 [..] View

SOE:Please restrict your use of Nerfing for Balance.Playerbase: Please stop asking for class nerfs

4:03 pm, August 2, 2014 I thought I'd start this thread as there are so many posts under current threads relating to specific nerfs, But this is a more general request; To SOE: Please restrict your use of nerfing for balan [..] View

Fortified Foraging Bug: 252/265

4:03 pm, July 31, 2014 So I was looking through my Shaman alt's class AA the other day and noticed "Fortified Foraging" with 3 ranks. I thought it was odd to be on a shaman but whatever. So then I pop over t [..] View

'Permanent' Player Crafted Ornamentations

4:03 am, July 29, 2014 In the description of pottery made ornaments it clearly says it will permanently change the item's appearance. I'm a adult and understand the word permanent. However, I was almost certain they did win [..] View

MMORPG Lessons Learned (r/EQNext x-post)

4:03 am, July 25, 2014 MMOs Ive player over the years and Lessons Learned EQ1- First and favorite game overall. Started in 2001 and played religiously until DoN release on Xev. I later returned for RoF and early CoTF on Vox [..] View

Duo group, What classes are in Demand

4:03 am, July 25, 2014 Hey all this will be another "hey I am returning and have a few questions" thread. Just so you know I went through a few months of posts to update myself on what others have said. [..] View

Ethernere Finale + Color Blind site feature

4:03 am, July 23, 2014 The finale for CotF should go live at Midnight PST 7/23 (1 am Mountain, 2 am Central, 3 am Eastern), it involves 2 missions and 1 raid. We've had the guides for them up since Argin-Hiz launched: A G [..] View

Are casters any fun?

4:03 am, July 22, 2014 Hi All - I am going to start a new character from the ground up in hope of experiencing some classic content again. I will be duo'ing with a friend who is playing a paladin and we will run with 1 hea [..] View

New to boxing

4:03 am, July 19, 2014 Just as the title says. I am also fairly new to EQ (at least as it is now). I created a second account to box with my main account, which my highest character is level 51. It has been going pretty wel [..] View

How Much to get into EverQuest

4:03 am, July 18, 2014 Ive never played or really looked into everquest that deeply, that being said im struggling to understand if its free to play at this point or still on a subscription model. I also saw there are like [..] View

Why are shrouds awful?

4:03 pm, July 9, 2014 Now, I've been back for a couple months (after ten years gone) and I've picked up a LOT. But I wanted to address this because it seems like such an anomaly. Shrouds are awful. Now, I understand th [..] View

What AAs to get before auto-grant?

4:03 pm, July 9, 2014 I have leveled a shaman alt to 100, but it only has about 100AAs (the basic ones from POP era), so the question is what AAs should I grab while AA xp is high, before I turn on auto-grant? I am not a [..] View

Ornaments!

4:03 am, July 3, 2014 Alright, so I have a couple of things I'd love to have addressed with ornaments in the current game. This applies to both weapons and armor. It'd be super cool if we could have the classic armor gr [..] View

Is it worth a returning player joining the pvp server?

4:03 am, June 29, 2014 Hi guys I used to play EQ back in the first xpac (Ruins of Kunark i believe). I played for a while but never got very far - I think the highest i got was about level 30 or so as a Druid. I've alwa [..] 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

Is it okay to drop All-Access for a few days?

4:03 pm, June 25, 2014 Just wondering whether I will lose on some/any rewards if I let my All-Access lapse for a bit? As a returning player I went All-Access on my main for a month with Krono, but not sure if it is impor [..] 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

Request: Kronos Redeemable for Station Cash

4:03 pm, June 16, 2014 You know I pay for my sub outright and I kinda think its lame that people can pay with in game currency to play the game. I think that it would be appealing If I could do the same for vanity items in [..] View

Anniv merchant

4:03 am, June 13, 2014 I understand why the anniversery stuff shall be gone, when it is over. But the task givers are still up, and so is the PoW mission. So should the special Merchant not still be up, so people who do g [..] View

Focus Effects Degrading 5 Levels Faster?

4:03 pm, June 4, 2014 I was reading a post the other day where someone mentioned that they had noticed a change in the focus effect levels. I was going to just post as a follow up in that thread, but I can't seem to locate [..] View

T2 Tower of Rot Coinage. Development Shift or Error?

4:03 am, June 3, 2014 Look at the Data below and it seems that there has been a fundamental design shift on Coinage with T2 Tower of Rot. Any developers willing to explain the numbers to us? And if there has been a Devel [..] View

Look here...

4:03 pm, May 30, 2014 I am having fun in EQ since returning but all and doing the content from voa to cotf has been received. I just got word that mage pets might get the nerf now? after the beam spells etc.. because we [..] View

New unused AA caps

4:03 am, May 29, 2014 What are the new caps for unused AA? It used to be 30 but now I understand it is higher based on level. View

Faction question.

4:03 pm, May 27, 2014 I've been doing some of the quests in Dragonscale Hills, working towards the achievements for that area, and I've run into something I don't understand: There is an npc named "Kaerra of the [..] View

Weave of Recovery Change?

4:03 am, May 22, 2014 I'm very confused as to what the new weave of reclamation/weave of recovery update means when it says they will give mana "over time". From what I understand of the current buff, you [..] View

REAL newbie, not just 'returning'

4:03 am, May 21, 2014 So...back then when it was released i checked out EQ1 for a day or two, but didnt have the time to play. Inbetween then and now, i played about every major mmo there is. Now i got myself an all acces [..] View

8th Velious Shawl Dain spawn trigger

4:03 pm, May 20, 2014 it's my understanding from the patch notes of Nov6 2013 ( here ) that: - Loremaster Solstrin will now give back the Runed Coldain Prayer Shawl that can be used to spawn the Dain when you hand it to [..] View

86-100 spells for Heroic characters

4:03 am, May 20, 2014 A quick question to make sure that I correctly understand the current situation with spell availability for Heroic characters. 1-85 - present at creation 86-88 Rank II: Nebulous Dream Fragments. N [..] View

AA xp bonus and autogrant question

4:03 am, May 17, 2014 Returning player here, got a question about AA xp and autogrant functionality. I have a brand new, level 51 bard that I've leveled up over the past week and I'm starting to think about AA grinding vs [..] View

Anti Melee Mechanics on Raids

4:03 pm, May 10, 2014 I'm just curious why these are so prevelant on raids...or why they exist at all. Melee already have distinct disadvantages over casters. They have to be near the mobs they fight. They have to find [..] View

What is going on with the CotF release?

4:03 am, May 9, 2014 Can we get some answers please? 1. No new spells or AA in the next update of CotF, fair enough when can we expect them? It has been 7 months since CotF was released, the thread asking for suggestio [..] 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

Stone of the Landing charm aug bug (Missing HP)

4:03 pm, May 5, 2014 Myself and others noticed that our Stone of the Landing has magically lost 2 HP. It was 252 HP, now it dropped down to 250 recently. Anyone else notice this? Can we get a dev to check into it? [..] View

Time-Locked (Progressive) PVP Server

4:03 am, May 2, 2014 I get no one probably cares... But to this day, EQ in it's prime was my favorite pvp ever. Running a week in real life to get your DE mask then to Neriak (From Halas), pvping everywhere in between. 12 [..] View

Previous Expansion Question

4:03 am, May 1, 2014 Hi, I'm new to Everquest, I've tried searching the forums and other web sites, but still confused about the expansions. I created a station account recently when I bought a retail version of Everquest [..] View

Stonewood Bow Staff and Plane of War Progression

4:03 am, April 9, 2014 Locking PoW progression behind a trade skill item with a rare component that drops off of maybe 10-12 mobs in one zone (trees in PoE) is kinda annoying. I understand raid guilds are gonna farm them [..] View

Playing the changes.

4:03 pm, April 3, 2014 Ok some comments about aa/npc/character changes, and amusing sugesstion, first of all, I returned to eq very excited after about a year to make my wonderful wood elf beastlord, and am pleased with her [..] View

Okay. Really. Stonewood Bow Staff

4:03 am, April 3, 2014 Locking PoW progression behind a trade skill item with a rare component that drops off of maybe 10-12 mobs in one zone (trees in PoE) is kinda annoying. I understand raid guilds are gonna farm them [..] View

Lore and today's Loreless EQ

3:03 am, March 29, 2014 Obviously I expect this thread to become heated and possibly locked very soon after starting it, however since so many topics within the last few months have focused on "Lore" for reas [..] View

New World Drops gone from HA's forever?

3:03 am, March 28, 2014 Are the new world drops gone from HA's forever? I understand there is something to that effect on the path notes for Test? 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

Group synergy, and valued loot

3:03 pm, March 24, 2014 So, my wife and I have been leveling up from 1 and so far we have made it to level 46. We've been having a ball but, something feels a bit "off". As much as we love the mercs and th [..] View

List of Rare Global CTOF Gear

3:03 pm, March 20, 2014 March 16th Patch introduced the rare drops in CToF this is a guide to understanding that gear Prefix: Centurio - Pure Melee Legatus - Hybrid Magister - Pure Caster There are only non visible items ( [..] View

Buff level limitations?

3:03 pm, March 20, 2014 Can someone please explain the buff level limitations? What are they exactly? I found this https://forums.station.sony.com/eq/index.php?threads/buff-level-limits.130691/ But it's from 2007, and [..] View

Question about heroic characters

3:03 am, March 20, 2014 If I understand correctly, only accounts made before November of last year get a free heroic, correct? If not, what's stopping me from making an army of heroic characters? submitted by nect [..] View

Difficulty at 85?

3:03 am, March 20, 2014 Hi everyone - I re-started everquest a couple months ago, and had successfully leveled up a shaman to around 60. Most of this was spent moloing with the occasional group. I took the opportunity to ro [..] View

What happened to swarm pulling?

3:03 am, March 20, 2014 Or specifically, what happened to "the mob chases you until it's dead, or you zone" kindof thing? I decided to try something today that I've been having a lot of fun doing on another [..] View

Heroic Character concerns and thoughts.

3:03 pm, March 18, 2014 First off, i love the implementation of the Heroic Characters. So many LFG in generalchat now. It's great! But i do have a few concerns, or perhaps details the devs did not catch. HoT rk,2 Spells [..] View

Veteran AAs vs. Marketplace SC

3:03 am, March 18, 2014 I was just thinking the other day in PoK, while looking at the 15th year anniversary banner, will this char EVER see the 15th year Veteran AA? Look, I love this game and while I am willing to bet this [..] View

Ranger help

3:03 am, March 16, 2014 So I've been off and on for a while, but I've never played a ranger and decided to make one with the free 85 (I have 3 accounts, so the others were dedicated to other stuff). I&#39 [..] View

New player here, late to the game.

3:03 am, March 12, 2014 I wanted to play EQ when it first out. However, my buddies and I were already playing Ultima Online and Asheron's Call and I never really got a chance to try it out. So, right now, I'm downloading t [..] View

Old quests worth doing?

3:03 pm, March 11, 2014 I was planning on doing the MPG trials and J5 Merc quests but from what I understand those will now be given to heroics via an easy quest. Glad i didn't waste my time doing them last weekend as i had [..] View

Simulated "Classic" EQ

3:03 am, March 10, 2014 My buddy thought "Log Horizon" seemed like Everquest and then he read an article about how Everquest did some things better than newer MMO's like WOW and now he wants to play. I have [..] View

I need a Dev to confirm something regarding a command in game

3:03 pm, March 9, 2014 There is a command in game that when you type /n it gives you connection statistics. Ping Times and Packet Loss. So what I am curious about, are the two stats under Packet Loss. The Sent and RCVD. I [..] View

Heroic Chars and FtP/Silver/Gold

3:03 pm, March 9, 2014 Returning pre-kunark and second time kunark player. Back for my third time with friends reliving nostalgia with a free to play account. My plan has been to upgrade to silver. Upon hearing of the He [..] View

Casual Player's top desires

3:03 am, March 8, 2014 First I have to say, as a casual player I love the AA auto grant. This really helped me in returning to overcome the massive hill. Great job guys! I realize why you did it too, to bring back more ca [..] View

Can the Marketplace mounts become slower?

3:03 am, March 8, 2014 I bought a mount off of the Marketplace maybe a month ago, and at first I was able to keep up with a friend who has one of those claimed hand mounts. A few days ago I claimed a mount from the card gam [..] View

Druid, Shaman, or Cleric for Setup

3:03 pm, March 5, 2014 I need some expertise from some end-gamers on this topic. I'm currently running a shadowknight, beastlord and looking for a tertiary class to heal, and I need them to be efficient enough heals for me [..] View

Shrouds and PLing

3:03 am, March 5, 2014 Can someone explain if PLing using Shrouds is an effective method, or if there really isn't any noticeable bonus to be gained? For instance, if I have a 100 character that wants to try PLing a [..] 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

Diablo 3 Style Auction House for EQ?

3:03 pm, March 4, 2014 Hello Everyone! I have a few questions and hope it may spark a thoughtful debate: How would everyone feel about a Diablo 3 style Auction House to replace the Bazaar? How difficult would it be to [..] View

Chanter Fabled & Non-Fabled Twink gear recommendations

3:03 am, March 4, 2014 I am starting a brand new Chanter and looking for Fabled Twink gear ideas. I am not looing to race this character up in level, and current plan on using just Charm spells and the Chanter pet to lev [..] View

Idea for SOE Executives

3:03 am, February 25, 2014 Perhaps the new community relations manager could pass this on beyond the development team to the Executives at SOE. I understand that SOE is a business, and its goal is to maximize profits. Profits [..] View

Bloodbone Merc

3:03 am, February 25, 2014 Having an issue understanding the bloodbone merc. My brother started awhile ago 2 free eq accounts. They then turned silver accounts then gold. I decided to upgrade his accounts with COTF, and 30 da [..] View

Druid / Ranger Eagles Spells Being Blocked

3:03 am, February 23, 2014 I did not put this in the Priest forum because it also includes rangers. I've noticed that lately my attempts to cast Flight of Eagles on people have found it blocked by Necro DMF and, now, I would [..] View

Assistance, and reload Autogrant

3:03 am, February 21, 2014 1. I auto granted on all my accounts for the Level 70 characters to the 86level characters. Now that they are auto granted the xp bonus that was applied will be harder to pick the aa's best suited f [..] 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

Capped Exp Sharing in Fellowship . . .

3:03 am, February 19, 2014 I turned on my exp sharing in the fellowship because I'm maxed exp and AAs. My exp sharing title indicates "Capped." I understand this means I will not receive shared exp, but do I s [..] View

Pro Classic vs Current

3:03 pm, February 18, 2014 I have not played in quite some time. Last time I actually played was in 2010 or 2011, and I spent my time divided between a normal server and Flippy. This time around, I have tried to get into the no [..] View

anti swarming policy?

3:03 am, February 14, 2014 many zones and instances in eq are meant to be swarmed. like "welcome to my nightmare" and many raids. if soe is going to cut down on swarming they need to look at that instead of taki [..] View

Upcoming EQ changes broken down by class

3:03 am, February 14, 2014 As most here know, there are many big changes coming to EverQuest, most of which involve the ability to mass slaughter NPC's. With yesterdays test patch, we thought it would be a good idea to spend so [..] View

Server Populations

3:03 am, February 13, 2014 Piestro or Whomever, I was actively playing the day when the server numbers went from showing a number to "Up". I understand there is several good reasons why you hide the numbers [..] View

EQ2 or EQ -- returning

3:03 am, February 11, 2014 So I've been looking to get back into the MMO scene. I played Everquest from 1999 to 2005, then picked it back up again in 2011 and played until November 2013. I started EQ2 when it came out a [..] View

[Question] Why does my $3k gaming computer have a heart attack when I go into a city?

3:03 am, February 7, 2014 So... I can play Batman AO at 4k resolution with 0 frame loss on this PC. However.. last night I walked into my first City in EQ.. and my computer had a major coronary.. I am using Project 1999 text [..] View

Merc AA Couterproductive

3:03 am, February 1, 2014 It's not the first time it happened - but the reason why is clear. Denied entry to a group (at 96) because the 3-boxer wanted to keep his 3 Mercs up so they would get Merc AA. I understand how from a [..] View

Why Multi-box?

3:03 am, January 30, 2014 So I am new to EQ (haven't played since I was in middle school in the day) and I am back but I don't understand why everyone multi boxes? I understand it from wow but I don't g [..] View

How rogues became the most OP PvP class in the game

3:03 am, January 30, 2014 Let me start by saying there is a plethora of pvp issues that could/need to be looked at. If after reading this you would like to discuss other issues, please make a different thread to do that. It [..] View

Cheese Tactics

3:03 pm, January 28, 2014 Thankfully, I can't think of any time I've run into a problem in group content, but I've recently started raided and have noticed a number of cheese tactics being used. So what do you do when your gr [..] View

Ornamentations

3:03 am, January 25, 2014 I'm disappointed that there aren't versions of some of the SC Store ornamentations that are not container-based. I understand that some of these are cheaper, but I would be willing to pay more for som [..] View

The Alaran stone tear

3:03 pm, January 19, 2014 Yes, I will admit I'm late to the party on the evolving Alaran Tear, it would have been so much better if I had one back pre-RoF that said it is evil. The rate it evolves and the limited content that [..] View

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