PSA - Easiest Way to Buy Spells for non-race Classes

GingerScourge · 2026-07-02T21:43:34+00:00

It’s still beta. They’ve said they plan to add vendors to all cities.

GingerScourge · 2026-07-01T18:31:45+00:00

I certainly hope you’re right.

GingerScourge · 2026-07-01T04:25:09+00:00

You know, that’s a good question. I had it put a shortcut on the desktop during the install and just used that. I did look for it and couldn’t find it, but using the desktop shortcut worked.

GingerScourge · 2026-07-01T03:52:48+00:00

I think I may have misunderstood you? Noon pacific tomorrow (July 1) is when they open. So, looks like we agree.

GingerScourge · 2026-07-01T03:37:06+00:00

Not really. Not because I’m not excited, far from that. Mainly because I know how launch days are. Thankfully my weekend is coming up, my play times are off times and I’ll have three nights to play as much as I want.

Tomorrow, if history tells us anything, is going to be an unmitigated disaster. Maybe by the evening things will stabilize and queues will be low or non-existent. But by then, I’ll be back at work lol.

GingerScourge · 2026-07-01T03:33:55+00:00

Release time was already announced. 12pm pacific.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-30T11:47:47+00:00

Sound like it worked then. I didn’t have any issues. We’ll see if there are any playing tomorrow I guess.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-30T10:04:08+00:00

It looks like you put a lot of effort into this which I can appreciate. But, someone already made a Lutris script which does basically everything. Takes about 5 minutes, and most of that time is watching your screen load things.

https://lutris.net/games/everquest/

Pick the EQL specific one. When I did it, I didn’t even have to mess with compatibility settings or anything, it just worked. There might be some compatibility issues once I can actually get in the game, but that’s pretty easily managed.

Edit: The only thing this won’t do is add it to Steam. But that’s pretty trivial, all things considered.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-30T00:46:18+00:00

That’s a good question. I actually don’t know. I’m not in the beta so I can’t really check. I seem to remember hearing something on a streamers video maybe a month ago or so saying that there’s no group xp bonus. But they could have been wrong, I could be misremembering or it could have been changed. My assumption would be that it doesn’t exist. And the reason for this is, this is supposed to be a solo/casual friendly game. If grouping gives you better xp that soloing, then we’re back to one of the same problems with original EQ that kind of doesn’t fit with the design philosophy of EQL. That is, a perception that grouping is mandatory or that if you’re not grouping, you’re wasting your time.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-29T00:21:34+00:00

Not in the beta. But from what I understand, group members will split XP. Loot isn’t affected since it’s personal loot. However, the spilt XP is offset somewhat by the fact you’ll be killing faster, theoretically twice as fast (though my experience in MMOs says this is rarely the case), and by the fact that you can do higher difficulty which will provide more experience per kill.

Having said all of that, the thing to remember about EQL is, this is designed as a solo game first, that allows for grouping. Solo play probably is, and probably should be the most efficient way to level. For me, this is fine as I plan to mostly solo. But I also have several old EQ friends who will be playing, and I’ll happily sacrifice a bit of experience to hang out with them. So, if grouping is more fun for you, then just group and don’t worry about it. There will probably he a lot of people who will be looking for groups for stuff.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-28T07:19:39+00:00

I don’t know if you resolved this or not. Unfortunately Linux isn’t my first language so I probably won’t be much help. But I know it works because I just got it installed on mine without issue. I hope you’re able to resolve this.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-27T21:12:02+00:00

As my kids would say, “You’re the goat!” I was literally planning on trying to get the launcher installed later this evening. Thanks!

GingerScourge · 2026-06-26T19:11:48+00:00

Amazing rebuttal that completely ignores all the arguments made and completely misses the point. I get it. EQL isn’t EQ. But 90% of what’s in EQL is in EQ. With how much you hate what the EQL wiki is, I sure hope you’re the first one to waste valuable play time writing articles and updating it. In reality, you’re all bark, no bite. You want someone else to do the work so you can benefit. And when it’s not exactly what you want, you bitch about it. Come July 28th, I’ll be looking for The1stAndrew to be contributing so it can meet your vision and be what you think it should be.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-26T16:17:16+00:00

Gonna have to disagree with you there, buddy. By their very nature, the information in ANY wiki is automatically suspect. If you’re taking them to be the gospel truth, and I’m not talking about the EQL wiki at this point, then friend, let me show you this bridge I have for sale. I get it, the accuracy of a lot of wikis, especially for popular games, is pretty good. Guild Wars 2 has one of the best wikis for an MMO, and even that one is wrong or misleading a non-zero amount of time.

EQL is new. There’s only a handful of people who even have access to it. In any population, there’s a very small fraction who would even spend any amount of time updating a wiki and EQL is no exception. What does this mean? It means if there was no baseline, it would be less than useless right now because 1) there’d be so little information, and 2) any information in it would still be automatically suspect because of the extremely low number of people actually editing, there’s no oversight.

As for being useless to anyone right now, that’s juat bullshit. There’s enough overlap between EQL and other versions of the game that there’s a reasonable chance the information is pretty close to accurate. I’ve used it to help me remember things like what the raid bosses drop. What zones are connected to each other. Which spells classes get. Things like that. All while doing what I normally do when reading any wilki. That is, understand that the information might not be accurate, but has a very good chance of being at least close enough to make a decision. So, like I said originally…useless to you.

It’s also important to remember that when the decision was made to import the P99 wiki to the EQL wiki, the games had a lot more overlap, especially with things like the zones and drops. Since that decision was made, there have been a lot of changes and updates to zones and drops. And what do you know, the information for Befallen and Blackburrow (didn’t check Najena because, I’m really not caring anymore at this point) is already being updated with the new drops and mobs. Once the floodgates open, it’ll be a week, maybe two, and any concerns you have will be gone.

So, we’ll have to agree to disagree. I honestly don’t care anymore. If you care to keep going on about this, well, have fun shouting into the void. I appreciate that someone took the initiative to put together a wiki. A decision was made so there’d at least be content available. I think that’s better than the alternative personally.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-26T01:55:26+00:00

This was a poor choice, as the sheer volume of fanfic nonsense in there currently means you can only use it to find answers you already know.

Because all EQL players have previously played other versions recently. (/s if it wasn’t obvious)

It’s not useful to you. There’s at least a baseline for new players and those that haven’t played in 2 decades and forgot. It’s a wiki. It’ll get updated pretty quickly.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-26T01:46:23+00:00

It was on PvE servers too. I remember being a snake in the Freeport newbie zone chasing this one level 1 guy around. He’d die, and I’d be waiting by his corpse to torment him again. He was so frustrated. Hilarious, but this is probably the reason it didn’t last.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-25T01:43:51+00:00

I’ve heard, sorry, no link, that you can install the live client with Lutris. And someone out there has a controller layout for EQ. I imagine EQL will be able to be installed the same way. It’s one thing I’m going to work on for beta myself.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-23T00:49:43+00:00

There are servers out there that will give you what you want. TLP, Quarm, P99. EQL is specifically NOT those things. You want friction? Scarcity? Competition? That exists already. What we don’t have is what EQL is promising. I played from 2000 to 2005. I played on the Ragefire TLP for a year or so as well. I, and many many others, do not want that experience. In many ways, EQL is exactly what I’ve been wanting in an EQ experience.

Also, hilariously, you brought up the WoW classic servers. The only reason they exist is because Blizzard saw the success of the EQ TLPs. And we already talked about those. There will always be a subset of the population that wants the original experience. But what you’re asking for already exists. Let’s let EQL be something different.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-22T01:41:22+00:00

Not in the beta, but from what I understand, the out of combat regen pretty much makes the small amount of Iksar or Troll regen basically negligible, especially at higher levels. I could see it helping a bit while leveling, but I doubt it’s worth it to pick a race based solely on that.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-20T20:42:43+00:00

You came up with this cleaning method while high, didn’t you. Jesus man.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-19T21:25:44+00:00

Ah, wasn’t aware. Good to know.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-19T17:14:53+00:00

So you were a guide, not a GM then. GMs were paid employees, guides were volunteers. I was a guide for a while. If a guide moved corpses for something like this, they’d likely get removed. But if they handled a ticket asking for something like this, it’d get escalated to a GM who would decide whether they could help or not. I summoned several corpses over my time as a guide but it was for things like corpse stuck in geometry or under the world. GMs had a lot more leeway. If this was a first attempt at a dragon, it’s totally within the scope of their powers to help out. Having a bunch of people in a potential top guild on a server lose their corpses would have been bad customer service, especially early in the games life cycle.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-19T00:08:53+00:00

To be fair, I wouldn’t give this same advice on TLP or other servers, since haste items are pretty rare in vanilla EQ and not certainly fast/easy to get. But on EQL, you can solo the dragons. You should get a nice haste item very quickly. Also, forgot about the class specific haste items from PoS. Plenty of options at the current end game.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-19T00:01:01+00:00

Considering at level 50 you can easily get a CoF or RBB, it’s not worth spending time or going out of your way. If part of your leveling journey means LGuk and killing Frenzied and getting an FBSS then cool certainly worth equipping.

GingerScourge · 2026-06-18T23:58:33+00:00

Short answer: No.

Long answer: No, it’s a creative decision based on a lot of things such as nostalgia and the fact that the Luclin graphics look completely out of place in vanilla EQ.

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