I can just see it . . .

I just finished a great couple hours
with a nice group and my pet that con's red,
I'd hate to log now and loose em.

Ahh, I know, I'll go to the bazaar and
sell that old crap and still have my
kick-*** pet!
Sweet.

I see alt/trader characters being used less often
and people tripping over trader pets, hahaha.
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Edit note:
Ah darn, I just read that when you zone with
a pet, you get a new random model as if you
re-cast em, he/she looses all buffs but retains
any weapons.


Edited, Wed Jul 14 01:35:41 2004

Personally I'm looking forward to EQ2. No one seems to be bothered in the least about the rampant buff selling in the POK. Sure it's great for powerleveling, but I feel, and I'm sure others agree with me, EQ has no roleplaying grist. The quests and faction are ok aspects, but nothing a player does makes a difference in the game world. The quests don't "immerse" the player in the storyline. A mob is there to be killed, that's it. I think it would be neat to have a diplomacy skill or some kind of non battle skill that can add a layer of complexity to the game, or perhaps even change the mobs mind about fighting a particular battle. Other non roleplaying issues are abundant. POK buff selling is rampant, mobs are mindless. E.G. why is Dvinn so static in crushbone, he just appears and no one knows why. Is he planning something? Making a deal or spying on the orcs? No, sadly he's just another dead ended storyline mob for newbs to kill and higher lvls to farm. You can repeat this scenario ad neauseum for other zones. For instance, wouldn't the mobs get tired of pc's endless incursions and slaughter parties and wage some kind of unified attack. That would be an neat GM event. Back to the buff selling, how often in Tolkein, Dragonlance, or any other well thought out fantasy realm do spell casters act like streetcorner salesman with endless supplies of magical boons to bestow on the odd adventurer. That's fine in small doses, the best fantasy movies have it, but production line buffing is just about as crass as it gets. Anyway, I'll be glad when eq2 comes out. Sound, graphics, good quests, dynamic content(hopefully) and better storytelling will rekindle my joy for the game. PLS FLAME AWAY... -_-

Fantastic updates... my Necro and my Cleric thank you, SOE!

Wonder what they're changing in VP though... should be interesting.

Wizard Familiars already zone with their masters but Familiars lose all buffs on zoneing.

"Buffs will show a countdown timer when moused over."

Im wondering if this works with Inspect Group Buffs leadership ability.... and detrimental spells also. or only beneficial spells

I have played plenty of roleplaying games. Heres my resume of being a complete goober up to date:

Pen and Paper D&D
Dungeons and Dragons on Intellivision <Ha!>
Various text MUDS
Ultima Online (and expansions)
Asheron's Call
More text MUDS including Gemstone III
Diablo II online
Asherons Call II
Lots on PS2 games <Final fantasy..blah blah>
Everquest

Now, I'm not saying a Platinum server or Legends server should not exist. Some people spend their entire life devoted to one-upping everyone else or wanting an "exclusive" area to play games. What I will say however is that on many of these games certain items, zones, experience bonuses, armor dye <AHEM..Ultima Online..Cough> were only made available to the hardcore players or people willing to spend 20-30 dollars more a month on a game. Personally, I think all updates should be available for all players and if they want, up the general price like 2 or 3 dollars. Let the 65th level people have Legends but don't deny others the opportunity to see new zones and whatnot. Yes, you have to "pay" if you want extra things but be reasonable. I already spend way too much money trying to keep my computer updated, on expansions that seem to come out bi-monthly, 12.95 monthly and online service of 21.95 a month <Not to mention I pay for 2 accounts and computers because my husband and I play together>. All in all, I spend ALOT of money just for this game and would like the extra perks as well. If I paid 40.00 a month I probably wouldn't buy the expansions as often or upgrade my computer's graphics card, memory etc to keep up and would eventually give up playing this game and move to another that was priced and planned fairly.

Welcome to EverQuest. Pay $13 a month, and you get the bare minimum. Pay $40 a month (more than the game costs in the first place), and you get customer service and zones not available anywhere else!!!

SOE needs to wise up and elminate Legends. That was the worst mistake they ever made...

Legends Mistake #1) Alienating the casual players from the power players. By doing this, you've removed the main source of learning from the casual players and newbies, and also (usually) made the level 65s on each non-Legends server think they're uber and are now (usually) stuck up and won't help a new player out because it's beneath them. I have a level 50 Cleric and I'm working to keep a good name as I get higher in levels.

Legends Mistake #2) Lack of customer service on all non-Legends servers. When Legends was released, most GMs were moved there to provide true 24/7 GM assistance, while the rest of the servers were reduced to one GM per two servers. Average petition response time on Legends is a couple hours. Other servers? A week is a fast response.

Legends Mistake #3) Lack of GM Events. GM events are what drew me back into this game after leaving in 1999. My friends (who played on Legends) told me about these, and I though they'd be cool. Well...I pay $13 a month and I've seen two GM events and a single guide telling a story in four months on Tunare.

Legends Mistake #4) Legends exclusive zones. We paid the same for EQ and it's expansion as those on the Legends server. We should get the same content without having to pay $40 a month (which is more than the game costs in the first place).

I'm sure there are a few items I missed about Legends. But aside from my rant and the addition of (yet) another Legends-only zone, I like the way this coming update sounds.

Edited, Fri Jul 2 18:53:04 2004

The mana numberical value is going to be a huge help to me. Now if we could only get some counter to show the exact % rate at which mana and are increasing with buffs included I'd be impressed.

Zoning pets... nice.. about time.

Shrinking pets... not a minute too late to get this one finally fixed.

New Zone for legends... I hope they are going to move some of the older ones that are legends only to live servers soon.

New Veeshan's Peaks! Glad to see it's not just legends getting this one.

Saving augs! Too bad I didn't know this was coming sooner, I've destroyed more than a couple augs to sell old gear. I'm glad I'll be able to keep my hard earned augs.


Only thing missing from this patch was giving pally's back the ability to silence...

WHERE IS THE PALLY SILENCE!?!?!?!?!?!