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EverQuest Dings 7

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EverQuest_Box_Art EverQuest turned 7 years old last week.

EQ celebrated by offering a double experience weekend for all current players, which is available until noon pacific today. My secret EQ contacts told me they were knocking down about 3 AA points every 45 minutes. That was in a best-case scenario experience group with a botted cleric — mine, on loan to the secret contacts.

Best EQ Cleric memory: Level 1 dark elf cleric fresh out of Neriak the second day of live (because if you will recall, there wasn’t a whole lot of playing going on that first live day — crash, crash, BOOM!). I was lost in Nektulos Forest, again, and it began to rain. Even with dark elf vision, I couldn’t see a damn thing and ran right into the skeletons and mummies. I could see then. I saw I was getting the shit kicked out of me.

Thus began the first corpse run of many to follow.

Congrats EQ. You are legend.

Farm-a-licious Armor Quests

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Miscellaneous discussions on the new World of Warcraft Tier 0.5 armor sets to be introduced in Patch 1.10, aka non-raider armor sets:

The new colors for the armor sets. Did I say new graphics? No, I did not.

The additional material requirements to complete the armor quests. This is in addition to (re)collecting each Tier 0 piece of the set. So you have some idea on which mats to gouge on save for later, the author’s sample mat list for one of the quests: 10 Stonescale Oil, 1 Delicate Arcanite Converter, 4 Greater Eternal Essences, 8 Large Brilliant Shards, 4 Dark Runes, 3 Mooncloth, 3 Dark Iron Bars, 20 Enchanted Leather, 4 Cured Rugged Hide and 1 Flask of Supreme Power.

A player reminds the non-raiders that it’s a crap shoot on whether they’ll score an armor piece and wants Blizzard to consider adding a non-raider DKP-esque system. He has a few ideas that aren’t as kooky as that sounds.

Now, when I first read this post, I had all the knee-jerk reactions you might expect — the fuck? join a damn guild then! jeezus, does Blizzard have to do EVERYTHING for people? — but after thinking about this for a while, maybe some game in the future will have a built-in pseudo-DKP system. Not this game, obviously — some other game, some other time.

Instead of a kook, that guy could be a visionary.

Anyways. I can sum up my opinion of the Tier 0.5 armor quests in two words: Start raiding. Less time, less bother (and I did not think that was possible), better gear in a raiding guild. We’re talkin’ by a HUGE margin here.

There’s other alternatives, of course: Learn2BuyGold. Wait around for them to design Dire Maul version 2 with epic armor. Preorder the expansion because I bet level 70s could kick the shit out of Molten Core. And the ole standby, quit.

Cmon, how bad could a few consecutive hours in an enclosed space with 39 relative strangers be? It’s not as bad as 10 Stonescale Oil, 1 Delicate Arcanite Converter, 4 Greater Eternal Essences, 8 Large Brilliant Shards, 4 Dark Runes, 3 Mooncloth, 3 Dark Iron Bars, 20 Enchanted Leather, 4 Cured Rugged Hide and 1 Flask of Supreme Power. I guarantee it.

Archived links:
Furl archive of new colors for the armor sets
Furl archive of the additional material requirements to complete the armor quests
Furl archive of ideas for a non-raider DKP-esque system