The Thorax plate for scarabs that you need for the breastplate. Does it drop from the same dune scarabs as the other pieces you need? Or is it from some other scarab?

The poll has 6 EUs, that's enough to make a guild. Get to it!

>early access
>they want a sub
lol
why not just call it a launch if that's what it fucking is

>>3019094
i rerolled from human to deep elf this is cock and ball torture

>>3019104
>why not just call it a launch
then people would lose the "its early access!" excuse are you crazy? hold onto that card as long as possible if people will pay up

>>3019106
you can't say you weren't warned

>paladins second most popular class in the poll as of now
Wtf... I thought this class was supposed to be garbo since that's how it was in eq1...

>>3019115
all classes were revamped and none of them are outright bad anymore after wizard got last second buffs

>>3019120
rogue and monk says hi and also fuck you

>>3019099
I got one from a dunes scarab

>>3019126
monk is the best puller in the game and people will cry for them when they do 40+ dungeons
rogue is mid but not shit

is there a consensus about weapon type? does it even matter pierce/slash/blunt?

They really dropped the ball by not having starting areas for every race. That's quintessential EQ man

>>3019168
haven't ever seen any evidence mob types have weaknesses for weapon types, probably exists to make getting new weapons obnoxious

Whats the general strategy for leveling? I keep joining groups but full groups feels like overkill unless you get some messy pulls. Most of these groups end up pulling way too many blues and then eventually awkwardly shuffling around as they try to find better spots. I'm level 12 and it feels like I'm gaining exp a lot slower than other people I see with similar play time.

>>3019138
>monk is the best puller in the game
An enchanter makes monks not even a factor

>>3019192
Full groups should focus on killing yellows or even reds, else you're getting shit xp and it's a waste of time

>>3019094
You don't make new threads in /vm/ until page 9 or 10. This is a slow board and now we have 3 threads up on here that will take days to expire because the previous thread was also made too early.

>>3019204
t. didn't make it to high levels

>>3019192
If it's anything like open beta, you want around 3 maybe 4 competent players. Beyond that and your main limiter will be finding a sufficiently large camp

I think they implemented a group xp bonus that gives more xp the more players are in your group or something but I am not completely sure

>>3019215
didn't ask your opinion, nigger

>>3019223
You're gonna bring the gaze of tranny janny upon us because technically generals aren't allowed here

>>3019104
It is a paid beta but the servers won't be wiped.

>>3019168
More EQ DNA that doesn't have any thought behind it. It is that way because it was that way in EQ. Same as the dmg and delay values instead of a more modern display of the weapon's effectiveness.

>>3019218
>Yeah uhh high level mobs are just like... Resistant to mez n sheit
Wasn't like that in eq
If they were you would have said that
Owned

>>3019229
this board is literally a dumping ground for generals that didn't make it in /vg/

>>3019233
>It is a paid beta but the servers won't be wiped
So it's a scuffed launch

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>>3019111
well to be fair... have you seen the state of the deep elf starting zone?
it really should have a warning saying
>WARNING: ZONE IS COMPLETELY UNFINISHED. TRADESKILLS ARE MISSING. ALSO THIS IS THE DIFFICULT STARTING AREA OF THE GAME, EVERYONE HATES YOU INCLUDING YOUR OWN CITY. THERE ARE NO NAMED MOBS AND ALMOST ZERO INTERESTING GEAR. PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

>Position in queue: 446
FUCK YOU

>>3019174
>>3019233
Damn that's another thing I wish they copied from DAoC. Weapon types being good/bad against different mobs, encouraging experimentation and changing weapons.

>>3019247
oh no i agree. we dont even have all the races in game and starting areas are a mess yet devs getting paid. keep that shit going long as you can if youre a developer. might even end up paying them myself before the day is through. slave to druid and shaman in games.

>>3019254
I think they are. I notice that my damage vs skeletons with piercing weapons hits for lower, but I may just be imagining it.

>>3019261
you are because I noticed zero difference

>>3019261
Can't be. It wasn't that way in EQ.

>>3019254
FFXI had that but also had skill ratings that depended on the job so usually a job was good at one weapon and mediocre at a bunch of others. Or you had MNK who could only use fist weapons and there was like one fist weapon in the game with a different damage type and it was a low level one.

>>3019261
everquest did the magic weapon versus non magic weapon for its shtick.
>>3019266
right.

>>3019266
this is really always the answer, until something is revamped assume it it always like how it was in EQ and you can't go wrong

>>3019266
I know it's "because EQ" but damn I hate always having my weapon out like a retard with a perma-boner. I guess it's an iconic look for EQ1 though....

>>3019280
Shawn confirmed they'll do weapon seathing "eventually"

Can anyone give me a general idea of where I should be going from NH at level 12 as a group (cleric dru spb)? Most people seem to be sitting in dunes, but I feel like we're clearing that shit way too easy, it's more sitting and waiting than actual fighting.
Is there anywhere that either has better drops (cause they drop basically nothing here, the humanoid enemies just occasionally have a junker weapon), or better exp? Totally willing to take the tradeoff and get 0 exp if I can get some decent gear.

>>3019247
>TRADESKILLS ARE MISSING
I think that is intended. Foreign quarter is shit on purpose. That's the impression I got. I don't know if it's all fixed once you get into the city proper or is that unfinished.

As far as monsters and camps and such the zone didn't feel unfinished to me. There's a couple side quests too.

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>>3019293
There's that dungeon wyrmsbane. But I have no clue, I only got to 14 in the beta and it was in wood elf land and it was pretty obvious where to go next there

when eu bros getting guild??

>>3019283
Oh shit really? I vaguely remember their earlier stance being that they weren't gonna do it though I think that was from one of the artists so maybe he was wrong or he meant that they weren't doing them back then because there was more important work to be done.

>>3019299
Nah Brah, not talking about Foreign Quarter. City proper, lots of tradeskill recipes are missing. For instance, no copper mold, so can't make a lot of shit. And the loom is apparently just not functional. Devs confirmed they will do fixes "in a week or so" kek. Such is life for Deep Elves. Is this all worth it for Ultravision which will probably be a spell someday?

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>20 min cd
is this one of those "we do this in eq" moments?

>>3019293
I don't know how the levels are in wyrmsbane now but it has loot from nameds and I think you might be overleveling it a bit that you could do the nameds without a full party. If there isn't competition of course.

>>3019312
ultravision is already a major noncombat trait for a bunch of races. And considering how sparse those are it's really the only worthwhile choice.
>t. retard deep gnome who picked forage instead

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>>3019317
What's it like in the Underdocks without Ultravision? Can you take a screenshot?

>>3019317
>t. retard deep gnome who picked forage instead
shit i too would have chosen Forage. its awesome in everquest.

How do I (a deep elf slave who gets fucked in the ass by everything) shed my shitty life and move on up to the Underdocks, where I assume I will be treated better for my status?

>>3019312
>City proper, lots of tradeskill recipes are missing.
Then it's fucked. Rip. Hope they fix it asap.

>Is this all worth it for Ultravision
I came across a few tunnels in the zone that were pitch black despite ultravision. Lucky I had my shroom hat for some light.

>>3019322
It's unusable in underdocks so until you get to NH it's pointless, and also has a decently long cooldown, and also also cooking is so easy because vendors have 100% of the ingredients you need for literally all low level stat boost foods, it's just worthless unless you're out grinding for like 30 hours straight and forgot to bring extra food I guess? But with how slow it is only you get the food so the rest of your group is fucked.

>>3019323
Jump on the boat. I'm not sure if you can get on it safely before you can enter the city without getting murdered.

>where I assume I will be treated better for my status?
lmao

>>3019309
I'd like one, but I hate being the leader or recruiting people. Just need someone that's not autisic to man up and make it, but that's unlikely on this board

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>>3019321

>>3019346
same, looks like the first letter is forced to be capital like /VM/ maybe?

Does anything really change at higher levels? Besides getting more skills obviously, it seems like things are really quite similar as you progress. Do later enemies have anything that requires movement to avoid? Maybe it isn't for me, but I am having some sort of fun, for sure.

>>3019375
No idea what the rules are. <No Fun Allowed> is a classic 4chan guild name

TREMMIES MAKE A GUILD NOW!!!

>>3019384
i'll do that

>>3019346
i'd do it but don't plan on playing on a euro server. guild leader of any /v/ tier guild isnt all that difficult as long as you stay cool. get a poll going for the potential name and somebody might step up.

Is there like a neutral-ish town where people from all starter zones get to eventually, so we can make a guild?

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>>3019384
guess /t Punt for invite not sure what other guild commands i have

>>3019399
going to log off soon

>>3019379
There's definitely some AoEs and nasty spells you want to interrupt but I'm not sure how much moving you'll be doing to react to things.

>>3019391
I was expecting NH to be it but turns out it's not.

does anyone know where I can find the eyes I need for the underdocks necro quest? I have the bag, but I've killed over 200 spiders in the cavern and 0 eyes, I'm sure it has to be a different spider.

>>3019384
shit name, won't join

>>3019384
great name, will join

>>3019403
we finally get around to getting a guild and brother here is logging out right after making it lol come on man

>>3019399
This is on the EU server?
Bummer, I play West

Should I play on the europoor server? How's the ping for an east coast americhud?

>>3019412
Nta but it's fucking late in EU

>>3019422
why would you ever?
Anyway ping for me in west texas is around 140-150. Pretty bad, not unbearable. The servers shitting themselves is more the issue, which you can see even on the US servers where sometimes they hang and it takes like 5 seconds to open a window anyway. Makes me wonder if it's me or the ping pretty often.

>>3019414
>>3019422
i was west havent had much issue with latency

>>3019407
Higher level spiders if you go out a bit from north gate. Also check some vendors. If I remember correctly the shady vendor on the south side of the citadel often had some.

>>3019431
I've tried the ones from vendors but no matter what kind I get they don't merge and no one else seems to know ingame either. reeeee.
I'll give the ones past north gate a shot, thank you

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Okay, if you want into the EU guild /tell Hayley, I'll be on for a bit longer.

>>3019422
As an EU player playing the beta, I had like 120ms to east coast and never felt like latency was making the experience worse. Game's super slow paced. It's more about time zones honestly

>>3019428
>why would you ever?
so i can play with a /vm/ guild. i'm too old school internet to censor myself around randos. tremmies aren't stepping up

>>3019438
anon it was a joke, I'm also on eu. It's pretty much got the perfect amount of people for me, I'll revisit next month after hype dies a bit though lmao.

ok so what classes are the best for soloing not just based on grinding speed but to do other activities, so counting ease of travel, harvesting fast, ease of farming lower level mobs en masse, not having hassle, etc?
It seems like necro would fall off here since kiting/fear kiting requires space

>>3019462
Druid, Necro or Bard.

>>3019412
fine ill stay up
send tells here if on EU server
>>3019399
>>3019436
im level 7 so i can group with any new characters if they want

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>>3019321
fucking queue times lmao.
Finally got in.

>>3019462
Druid or Bard probably the best thing based on what you have stated as a priority

>>3019138
Ranger is far better at every level range

>>3019495
Does Ranger get pacify? I don't rightly see why they would be any better than any jerk off with a bow
>Muh root, muh snare
Just bad versions of mez

>>3019495
No.

>>3019505
lull needs charm to be reliable here, something ranger won't have

>>3019505
sow and track help a lot. ib4 sow the monk.

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o-one more level until sowwie...

>>3019517
you are a clueless nigger, ranger is not a pulling class

>>3019517
sow doesn't even work in dungeons

I want high elf mammaries

>22k
Still slowly climbing

>>3019528
but it is in eq.... mnm ranger doesn't have harmony?

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Only 195 people...think of all the dune scarab carapaces I can collect in peace! Archud is coming to Evropa!

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>>3019606
Not bad not bad

Asking again, what's the safe way to get up from UD to the Ashira so I can start rep farming as a delf?

>>3019299
Foreign Quarters is supposed to be the tradesplace, though, where the races that the Dark Elf tolerate can gather, conduct business, trade slaves, open shops in the bazaar, and so their inferior ways don't infest the dwelling where the Ubermensch dwell.

That's how it was in EQ anyway.

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>>3019247
Man, just give me my Deep Dwarves already. I want to play evil magma Dwarves already.

can someone explain tradeskills to me i gather that they require investment so i take it just ignoring (most of?) them is fine, but are there some i shouldn't ignore?. Baring obvious things like you wanna be a fletcher if you shoot arrows.

In other games my experience with things like bag/box making is you can just buy them from someone and save yourself a lot of hassle. I guess lumberjack for making campfires is good? I dont want to get mired down in tradeskills, those are something i might slowly raise all of some day (never gonna happen)

Also wizard doesnt seem to get a class bonus to dex does this mean wizards dont want dex? what starting stats for wizard?

>>3019606
>>3019609
yeah its nice

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Is it worth it to take the Knife Thrower and/or Poison Maker traits for rogue?

>>3019650
I haven't played Rogue since the last open beta back in March or April, but from what I remember, I thought poison making wasn't implemented yet, and instead you were given a merchant to buy poisons.

Holy shit please tell me there's somewhere I can go to farm sellables in NH, trying to compete for the like 5 skele spawns in the underdocks is driving me up a fucking wall. Everything costs money and no one fucking buys any resources cause they can't even tell you're fucking talking to them cause stupid faggots don't know how to split chat.

>>3019681
I had to kill rats for sellables, shit sucks right now.

>>3019692
I have like 80 copper bars but can't do anything with them cause each fucking mold costs OVER a silver, and even if I DO make the item, it only sells back for 90. I'm sitting in fuckign underdocks but niggers from NH are showing up and just insta tagging everything, there's no way to fucking compete, this blows.

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Had Claude build me an overlay that counts down my bow's delay after each shot for I can kite optimally.

>Summoned food and water in my shared bank slot disappears when I swap characters
Motherfucker

>>3019724
allow me to introduce you to NORENT motherfucker
(just like EQ)

>>3019727
I can drop that shit in a corner and pick it up on my main it's just way the fuck more annoying that way
Fuck you devs

>>3019735
Be happy we even have a shared bank desu. That shit ain't classic.

Okay I'm curious if it's just me or not, it seems that when I travel to a new zone it's hosting all that shit in memory still, I've hit over 20gigs ram usage multiple times, only way to fix is a full restart which puts me back in the queue, anyone else experienced this? Posted it as a bug and just got "uhh we'll look into it for next week".

this website is lying to me when it says monks can solo isnt it

>>3019744
Anything CAN solo, the issue is all the expectations and info are pertaining to the betas and alphas where people were twinked the fuck out.
You won't be able to solo as a monk on your first char, unless you're overleveled for the area by 2-3. The ONLY viable solo for first char without twinking are druid (SoW is too important), or necromancer if you don't mind the risk of losing good gear by giving it to your pets, since they scale with it as well.

>>3019315
yes but actual eq skill cooldowns were up to hours

Speaking of losing gear - I died to some trained bandit in the second dunes zone and then after running all the way back it was still running around clapping people somehow so I went afk and forgot that I was playing the game. Some six hours later I tabbed back in and couldn't find my corpse. Then I closed the game and went to bed. Corpses expire, right? Is that shit just gone for good?

okay given that there are some recipes that aren't listed in the recipe book, but can be made if you use the right items, I'm assuming this means there's probably some sick ass gear we can make by using random drops, right?

>>3019744
It's just stretching the definition of "solo" to mean "yeah i guess you can kill a monster every 5 minutes"

holy shit the KSing
it's just like EQ
I remember why I moved on to wow lmfao
project 99 had so many small things I took for granted, god DAMN this is just an awful experience all the way around.

>>3019790
they do expire but not in only 6-14 hours or however long you slept. I think you should be able to find it as iirc lowbie corpses persist for around 3 days

>>3019854
Welcome to the wildlands of old EQ, and the devs encourage this shit.
Its all downhill.

>>3019854
in EQ, you at least had a plethora of starting areas so it wasn't as bad. Modern games like to filter everybody into the same areas way too early.

>>3019857
Oh neat. The inquis quest chest seems pretty irreplaceable. I will log in an have a look (it's going to be night and I won't be able to see shit so I'll afk for half an hour).

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>Yeah lemme just let you occasionally do about 50 times your regular damage senpai
T-thanks, god

>>3019898
Where are skeletal defenders? Do they dropped burnt chips or just regular?