Alternate Everquest

So the staff team was talking last week about slow spells across the board, and one idea came up that we'd like community input on.

Currently, most slow spells are magic-based, with a couple specialized exceptions being disease-based.

From a design perspective, this leads to us having to make mobs with higher magic resists -- or nearby friends who buff them -- to make slows landable and still somewhat challenging.  This has an unintended consequence of making all other magic-based spells harder to resist as well, including other debuffs and damages (DoTs and nukes)

So, the thought we had was to make each class that is capable of casting a slow spell, focused on a particular resist type.  For example:
Enchanter - magic based
Shaman - disease based
Beastlord - poison based
Cleric/Pal/Necro - either poison or magic based (undetermined at this time)

ALL slow spells for these classes would be based on that resist type.  The thought behind this is that it helps each of the classes stand out a bit more in  this field, and gives the design team some more interesting options by making certain mobs more resistant to a particular type of magic class.  This would have the effect of making certain kinds of slower classes more beneficial in certain circumstances, as their slows would land easier than other types.

This is not to say that other slower classes are useless -- just they would have a somewhat increased chance of slow being resisted (against certain mobs only) compared to the other slower-types.

So, what do you all think?  Would you like to see each class who can cast slows specialize in a particular kind of slowing?

It's awesome you found the quest and are working on it.  I can assure you that what you described is working as intended. The Quest journal gives a hint on where to find the appropriate items.

When you find the correct items, your journal will update appropriately.  When that happens, if you encounter issues, please let me know.  But I did test those quests pretty thoroughly, and I'm pretty confident they will work as intended.

Thanks, i'll address this one.  Though the amount of xp gained is small enough that it would take a TON of time for someone to use this exploit for any significant gain.

One thing to keep in mind is that ground spawns, when we imported them from the EMU community back when we started up, sometimes has the z-axis wrong.  This can cause items to float above ground (you may have seen some floating tradeskill containers like forges or ovens do this).  Given that there are thousands of stationary objects and groundspawns throughout the world, and floating a little above ground is odd (and sometimes kinda funny) but isn't game-breaking, it isn't too high a priority to fix the z-axis for all of them.

All that is to say: when you're searching for a groundspawn, look not only on the ground but a few feet above ground as well (maybe as high as head-level on a normal sized character).

Kedge will get some love soon*.  I agree that zones which have inherent unattractiveness deserve some perks to compensate for the pain of being there.  However, keep in mind that xp is not the only draw for a zone.






* soon:  at some point in the future yet to be determined and without an explicit time frame involved for said event.

Not all newbie swords are created equal.

After installing, did you download https://discordapp.com/channels/357388837707710467/474886803221118977/475454027342151680 and place it in the proper folder?

This file should enable all weapon models in all zones.

Updated pending patch.