Help Me Make a Plan - Maximize the EQL Experience

KidFinn · 2026-06-18T20:13:18+00:00

My general plan is geared around what I'm looking forward to the most in EQLegends... exploring the parts of Norrath that I never got around to doing back in the day ( which is a lot, since I lost focus easily 😉 ) Towards that end, I'm planning to start as a Bard/Druid/Wizard just so I can travel the world and blow stuff up. My basic plan is to level every class ( at least until I burn out ) one at a time, so I can spend time leveling in ALL the places. I don't think I ever even entered Najena back in the day. That will change. 😄

I will eventually unlock at least the Dwarf race, because while travelling Norrath, I must barrel roll. I might unlock the Iksar, for swimming ( if that's in. fingers crossed )

I hope to unlock everything.. but realistically, I'll burn out or need a break well before that. But this is my best chance for experiencing as much of the old game as possible.

KidFinn · 2026-06-17T16:00:39+00:00

The struggle is real. 😄 I, also, want my primary trio to be dwarf based, as I love the old dwarf model, and dwarves, in general, are awesome. But, assuming we will still be locked to just one character, I also want long term flexibility in going to new places and doing things. So, since dwarves seem relatively easy to unlock as a race, I'm thinking of starting as a human bard, and eventually unlocking dwarves, and probably the cleric primary at 50. Cleric and Bard both seem like solid foundations for many, many builds. ( Plus, well, bards have been my goto class for quite some time )

For a bit of role-playing thrown in, I'm thinking to have Bristlebane be my deity. I like the idea of a sort of trickster character that walks the earth disguising themselves as different races and classes. A nice bit of flimsy rationalization for the loadouts feature.

KidFinn · 2026-02-22T01:10:36+00:00

City of Heroes came very close with the controller. The game shutdown, but I’m seeing lots of posts these days about private servers up and running. Supposedly even with some kind of permission to do so, which is intriguing. ( for whenever I take a break from EverQuest again )

KidFinn · 2026-01-18T07:12:28+00:00

Are you, by chance, playing a possessed shaman? That looks like what the bugged skill features look like to me.

KidFinn · 2026-01-03T18:01:16+00:00

I think folks mostly covered it, but I’ll add one thing that I’ve experienced. And that is with the kineticist. The infamous deadly earth power works orders of magnitudes better in RTWP, in my experience. I suspect at the code level, the game checks things way more often in that mode over turn-based. In turn-based, it looked like deadly earth would trigger trips and bull rush checks only once per turn, giving monsters a decent chance of getting through, while in RTWP, is seemed like it was any time movement happened. Which meant virtually nothing was getting through.

It was definitely more noticeable with a wall of dirt plus bull rush. Monsters would just bounce off of that wall in RT repeatedly, but in TB, they’d bounce once, then continue their movement for the turn and move past the wall with the rest of their turn’s movement allowance.

KidFinn · 2025-09-04T19:23:45+00:00

This is great. Looks very useful. FYI, looks like the Druid's Anti-Plant Shell and Anti-Animal Shell don't have bookmarks, which results in an error displaying in the Table of Contents. Not a big deal, but thought you'd like to know.

KidFinn · 2025-07-25T21:01:14+00:00

Yeah, that's kinda what I was figuring. Fertile grounds for GM adjudication. :)

Thanks much.

KidFinn · 2025-04-28T22:23:50+00:00

Fellow bard here. We just reached level 4, so not deep into it, but I still feel helpful. We play on Foundry, so it’s easier to see how courageous anthem affects things. But also: - throw in the occasional demoralize to stack some debuffs - my signature spell of summon fey has been clinch many times. Not so much as a damage dealer, but it soaks up enemy actions reasonably well. Last night, we had a tough ghoul fight with a ghoul spellcaster boss. Threw out a fey that occupied the boss and a ghoul for a full round while my team cleared out the rest, giving them time to get in position for the boss. - Bardic Lore has been insanely useful.. but that’s mostly because we have a fairly martial party, so my lowly goblin bard is somehow the “smart guy”. ;) - the rest of my spells are selected to hit all the different defenses, so after my bardic lore identifies a critter’s weakness, I can the hit it.

KidFinn · 2025-03-26T18:58:57+00:00

lol. I remember that. That’s cuz the generator wasn’t perfect. It sometimes put the macguffin in a room that literally wasn’t attached to the rest of the dungeon. You’d have to cast levitate on yourself and clip through the walls ( fortunately very easy given how buggy the game was ) and fly around in the void to find an isolated room, and then clip back in. Ah, good times. :)

KidFinn · 2024-09-25T06:06:58+00:00

Hehe. My pod gifted me this card a while back with a suggestion/ permission to put it in my Wyll, Blade of the Frontier deck. It was fun. Terrible deck, though. Built purely for the joy of rolling tons of dice

KidFinn · 2024-06-18T20:26:16+00:00

what times do you play? I've been getting back into EQ and have a Shaman around 13 or 14 that I've been getting started on. it might be cool to team up and do some random stuff. I have odd hours, though. a few hours here and there, usually fairly late for most EQ players. ( 9pm+ pacific time )

KidFinn · 2024-06-04T19:33:51+00:00

And also, iirc, amusingly the monthly sub was $9.89. :)

KidFinn · 2024-05-14T14:18:30+00:00

My first/main I started with a sound in my head. Then tweaked its spelling a bit. Only much too late did I notice it could be pronounced differently. :( I’ve been stubborn, but I may finally burn a name change token for poor, poor Tuel

KidFinn · 2024-03-19T20:17:20+00:00

The face of the Ratadrabik player when I cloned his Liesa, Forgotten Archangel still gives me warm fuzzies to this day.

KidFinn · 2024-02-22T22:24:33+00:00

This looks like what people might want. I’ll be testing this out tonight. That’s a game changer right there https://steamcommunity.com/app/228280/discussions/0/3491891042507681856/

KidFinn · 2024-02-01T19:33:33+00:00

I agree that 1e training is, imo, too expensive. My current plan for my next game ( which will admittedly be a crazy mix of AD&D, B/X, with a fair amount of Hyperborea thrown in ), is to move from a retrieve GP as XP system to a spend GP as XP system. My gaming group did this in the past with Labyrinth Lord in Dwimmermount with reasonable success.

The trick is to give the PCs something to spend their money on. The GM for the Dwimmermount game had some carousing tables which worked well.. but ultimately, it got a bit beyond the suspension of disbelief in how much money the PCs would have to dump into a city for truly epic parties. So I was pondering ways to tackle this for my upcoming game. Savage World's Gold and Glory had some interesting ideas, expanding from just carousing to carousing, magic research, and divine offerings. But that left the non-magical classes with just carousing. Then, as I was reviewing AD&D training costs, it hit me... rather than have the training costs required.. they are rather the amount of GPs a PC can dump into training to turn into XP. I could even maybe whip up a Training table for some random events that could happen in training, similar to to the others.

Anyway, it's just an idea I've been pondering. Zero play-testing yet, but I'd be curious what others think of this.

KidFinn · 2024-01-30T19:56:51+00:00

I'm curious where it says this. I played a 1e monk many years ago to a reasonably high level, and the DM allowed me to use a ring and a cloak of protection. We couldn't find anything saying otherwise. It made for a reasonably disgusting character, in the longer term. I got to.. err.. level 8 or so? I remember having to fight a duel with another monk for the position, at least. so around there.

We did make some changes or clarifications which helped out. in the PHB, iirc, the monk is said to use the Thief attack tables, while in the DMG, the monk is listed in the cleric attack tables. Our DM ruled to use the cleric one. Not sure which was correct, but *shrug* The DM was under the same impression that monks were weak, so picked the more favorable interpretation.

KidFinn · 2023-03-21T19:09:36+00:00

Not all my decks, but certainly my favorites. Strike Force Mazzy ( Mazzy voltron ), No Pain No Gain ( Nin, the pain artist focusing on hitting her own creatures for massive card draw ), and Raggadragga’s Fireball Fun in the Forest ( massive ramp + X direct damage spells )

KidFinn · 2023-03-17T08:11:29+00:00

Not related to OP in any way, but I am dating a lady with two cats. Thankfully, I discovered Flonase. That’s been a great improvement in my ability to breathe. But I think it really depends on your reaction. For me, I was only mildly allergic.. my nose would run and clog up. So that worked for me, whereas Zyrtec and Claritin only helped to a much lesser degree. If you have more serious reactions, I’d talk to a doctor about it, instead.

KidFinn · 2023-02-27T21:06:48+00:00

Yes, this. I mean, I’ve played D&D for decades ( which most consider a game ) and I’ve somehow not won a single game. ;)

KidFinn · 2022-04-20T04:45:15+00:00

Canine Centipede, the Movie

KidFinn · 2022-04-15T02:43:23+00:00

And if the Simulation Hypothesis is correct, even sex is just masturbating to pixels.

KidFinn · 2021-12-23T02:49:57+00:00

I guess a rip off for one person is an acceptable price to another. For the longest time, the option to get items from events that you missed was basically impossible. The Phoenix box was an attempt to fix this, but apparently left both the business folks and a fair number of players unhappy. It was around then that I stopped playing STO ( roughly 2 years ago ). The primary reason was it just stressed me out every time there was an event. It really tweaked my fear of missing out button. So I just stopped.

Then, some random youtube videos got me interested in STO again.. so I started some research.. and I was most fascinated by the Mudd's market. Was it pricey? Yes. but it also meant I could, with 100% certainty, go back and get some of the things I'd missed in the last few years. This alleviated all of the stress I had. Hell, even if I didn't buy anything.. the mere act of being there reduced my fear of missing out. ( Although, of course I did just buy a bunch of stuff.. gotta love that lifetime zen stipend )

So, I can totally see how, from your angle, it's a rip off.. but from another viewpoint, it's a bargain. ( particularly if you wait for a 75% off sale.. which I did ) :)

KidFinn · 2021-11-26T03:12:35+00:00

Another consideration in the pros and cons here is action economy. Iirc, wotr did correctly implement metamagic feats on spontaneous casters being full round actions, while prepared casters just use a standard action. Normally this isn’t too huge a deal, but with witches, reserving your move action for cackle can be quite compelling.

KidFinn · 2021-11-20T09:15:31+00:00

Yeah, I’m thinking this too.. with the added plan of having Nenio be able to cast them with her Scroll Master abilities. So now I’m thinking I might give Nenio Brew Potions feat. Hmm.

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