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Lost in the Bazaar?

Granted, you can call up your map or have a short-term memory > a goldfish....but if you're intersted...

Every hub inside the selling/buying sections of the bazaar has one quadrant that is not broken up by a passageway. The passageway to the left of that quadrant will always lead back to the bank.







Edited, Sep 3rd 2009 10:30am by Ebelch

Re the Bazaar quadrant thingy, that's a neat piece of info. Or you can use FIND to find Banker Denton which is what I do!

Edited, Sep 4th 2009 9:28am by Sippin

I've heard this a zillion times. Either it's a myth, or it's something that only occurs with *some* pacify/harmony spells, but not all. I can say with absolute first hand experience that I've used the paladin "pacify" spell probably 10s of thousands of times over the course of my EQ career, and I have *never* seen it fail, nor ever experienced the so-called "critical failure" where you'll actually get agro using the spell. Not once. If I don't get a "this target unaffected" message, it always works. Back in the day (before pretty much every mob in any zone I'm hunting in became too high level to be affected), I used to paci-pull for groups for hours at a time, day after day, week after week, though pretty much every expansion content.
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For a long time, Harmony was considered a buff, therefore it was unresistable. However, I believe Sony changed this in their infinite wisdom :(

To add a Did you Know (hopefully, this isn't a repeat...too many posts to read).

In the old days, you could begin casting Complete Heal, sit and med, and as long as you stood before the spell went off, the heal would still land. They fixed this by interupting all spells immediately upon sitting. I actually think this worked for all spells, but the duration on all other spells was so short that it could only be observed (and taken advantage of) with CH.

Also, and I am not sure if this still works, but you could began a cast, run around like a chicken with your head cut off, and as long as you ended up in the exact same spot when the spell went off, it would still land. I tested this many times but tucking into a corner in a spot that was easily repeatable, and casted CH. Worked every time.

There is an item that drops off of Grieg Veneficus called Jenniy's Two-tone Cuirass that pays tribute to a song by Tommy Tutone called 867-5309/Jenny. The reason it is a tribute is that the items stats, when read in order read out the phone number.

STR: +8 DEX: +6 STA: +7 CHA: +5 WIS: +30 INT: +9

DID YOU KNOW...?

There is a monk usable 1hs, Ruined Heretic Longsword, drops in the Hole.


Boats oh goody! If you go to the docks in Butcherblock, go out on the right one and say, "I love you" to the female dwarf there..

Kaladimcitizens, yes I killed a few, and at first the axe's they dropped sold for a pretty copper. That was the initial reason they needed to die.


If you patch into the test server, then come back to live ( I haven't verified this ), or use certain custom UI's ( I have verified this with the Nemesis UI from EQInterface), your merchant/vendor window will have a new tab, where you can buy back items you have destroyed.

Harmony was once thought to be a mana regen spell :-)

What a great thread.

I'll add my little 2c.

Did you know...?

Back in the original Oasis of Marr, at the undead on that small island in the castle, surrounding it was a large lake and there was a couple boats at either ends. You could sit in the boats and let them take you to to inside isle with the undead. If you clicked on the small box inside the boat it was a storage facility, so when you clicked the box it opened up like a bag in your inventory. I was bored one night so i put some random loot into the boat box, it was still there the next day i checked... really awesome.

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Well, I'm dork enough to find it gratifying that this thread is still going. The dork is strong with this one. I mean .. actually I'll leave it at that.

Not that I think I can tell anyone what to do or anything, but please stop . As the thread originator I wish to officially call Pacify / Harmony resists & agro a settled subject. It can happen, it's very rare, it sucks, and if it hasn't happened to you then just be glad.

Moving on, I'd like to ask those that have time to go back through this thread and Rate Up (the little green up arrow at the top of each post) every post you liked or thought was helpful. Particularly please rate up Groogle, who was an Admin at the time of his postings and couldn't be rated then.

Now for the good stuff, Did you know .. ?

About what armor pets can wear and how they decide upgrades.

This is an edited ripoff of a post by someone named Tulisin Dragonflame of Erollisi from eqsummoners which appears to no longer be an active site. As far as I can tell all the information still applies though.

This guide is intended for the mage community, but the information should be accurate for most summoned pets. Please post feedback if I got something wrong, with proof, if possible.

Section #1: Rumors dispelled:

1. Pets cannot equip no drop items.
They simply can't, at one time NPCs were allowed to but that is no longer possible, if you try to give a no drop item to your pet, your pet will either hand it back to you, or simply obliterate it.

2. Pets ignore required and recommended levels on *gear*, but not on *procs*.
Even if an item has a required or recommended level of 75, a level 5 pet will gain 100 % of the stats that item grants. However, if a pet is lower level than the required level for the proc on a weapon, the proc will not go off.

3. Pets ignore the lore tag.
You can hand your pet two of the same lore weapon, he will equip them both NP.

4. Pets ignore both the class and the race tags.
Pet gear simply says none/none (or other things, depending on the piece) because they don't want PCs using powerful gear intended for pets only. The item can say it is only usable by barbarian wizards for all the pet cares and it will still equip it.

5. Most weapons are *not* better than pet weapons for pets.
Pet weapons are incredibly powerful for pets. They have high-powered damage (and in the case of TSS weapons) anger procs. In addition to the procs being very powerful, OoW + weapons have a 200 % procrate. This means that those procs go off twice as much as a normal weapon. In addition, the pet weapons have a hearty amount of HP, which can be very useful for pets. There are very few weapons that can compete with pet weapons. A few exceptions would be: utility procs (snare, slow, etc.), and very powerful or hard-to-resist DDs/DoTs.

6. Ratio is unimportant on weapons given to pets.
To start with, pets have a built in delay, they'll swing a 100 delay weapon and a 5 delay weapon at exactly the same speed. Damage on a weapon *can* have an effect on pet damage, however, damage on the weapon must be more than half of the pet's regular hit. Thus, if a pet hits for 50 normally, the weapon must have a damage of at least 26 (25x2 being exactly 50). So while giving a low level pet a high damage weapon will yield massive DPS increases (a level 12 pet can hit in the triple digits with a 60 damage weapon), high level pets are impossible to find damage upgrades for due to the fact that half their max hit is 50 +, and such high-damage droppable one-handers don't exist.

7. Pets don't benefit from being given foci.
They simply don't, giving the fire pet a nuke foci shows no increase in nuke power. I don't believe melee foci have been tested (Dodge II and such) but I doubt they have any effect.

Pet slots are very similar to PC character slots, with a few exceptions.

1. Pets only have a single ring, bracer, and earring slot.

2. Pets do not appear to have a charm slot, if they do it would have no effect as pets could not alter the stats on charms.

This leaves us with:

A primary weapon slot
A secondary weapon slot
A ranged item slot
A shoulder slot
A legs slot
A chest slot
A head slot
A foot slot
A hands slot
A arms slot
A back slot
A face slot
A *single* finger slot
A *single* wrist
A *single* ear slot
A neck slot

Weapons: Pets upgrade weapons for delay. If you gave your pet two rockin' uberproc weapons with tons of HP that had 20 delay, and then handed him a club with 0 stats and 19 delay, he'd destroy* one of the uberweapons in favor of the lower delay one. Delay also determines what he'll wield in mainhand. The pet's mainhand gets roughly twice the procs of the pet's offhand. So if you want lots of procs from your uber proc weapon, make sure it has lower delay than the other weapon you're giving to your pet.

Armor: Pets upgrade armor for AC, plain and simple. They'll take a 1 AC upgrade over +1,000 HP every time. That doesn't mean that 1 AC > 1,000 HP, simply that thats how pets upgrade. For high level mages, when shopping for pet armor, make sure it is at least one more AC than the armor the pet comes pre-summoned with, or it won't be equipped.

Not to defy mfbrownbear's prohibition, but:


I have a pally serving a long sentence in the Mesa and I can tell you that about 5% of the time Pacify fails. Not critically, mind you, but noticeably enough, particularly aganst the Dromeks.







Srsl haet those guyz.

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Did you know that I just decided I love you. Thanks!!!