Comments on: EQ: Seeds of Destruction: Meet Caiffin, the Merc.

By: October in Review « The Ancient Gaming Noob

October in Review « The Ancient Gaming Noob — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:56:29 +0000

[...] started raining yesterday. Can nostalgia be far behind? Hmmm… mercenaries. [...]

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:32:55 +0000

47 is too high for Dalnir or Nurga. You might be able to go to Droga, which is in Frontier Mountains near the Overthere zone. It’s not too tough to pull singles there.

Wakening Lands is between Skyshrine and Kael in Velious. I thought it was decent xp, and it is a hot zone, and easy pulls, but I got comments when I went that the xp really wasn’t as good as it might be elsewhere. I’d suggest Goru’Kar Mesa (in Serpent’s Spine), but I did go once and wasn’t impressed. Stuff there seems to have a zillion hit points. In EQ, it’s way better to chain pull blues than to take five minutes killing one yellow.

In Old Sebilis, you’ll always be fighting from 2-3 monsters at once, unless you’re fast enough to break a camp. Once broken, you can pull singles forever. It’s great money, but again, I don’t feel it’s overly fantastic xp.

I’d have to look back at my previous posts to see where we went in our high 40s. I THINK we went to Akheva Ruins.

The problem is that there’s about a million places you COULD go :)

Lower Guk in the old world; Droga or Dreadlands in Kunark, Wakening Lands, Skyshrine or Cobalt Scar in Velious; Maiden’s Scar or Tenebrous Tangle or Grimling Forest or such on Luclin… etc.

By: rob

rob — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:16:07 +0000

I bit the bullet and bought Seeds of Destruction the other night. I was totally wrong about how much money I had. I had forgotten that Dulak had been VERY good to me. Those zraxthril (sp) forged weapons drop like rain and sell for 5p a pop. Having not played in a few months I reacquainted myself with all my skills and abilities, cashed in my loot card, and made a beeline for PoK. At level 47, I was able to hire a healer merc, of the female Dark Elf flavor, for only 380 something plat, plus 9p per 15 minutes. Given that, while leveling in Dulak at least, I was getting on average 3 plat per kill on money drop alone, 9p for 15 minutes of buffing/healing to keep me alive, is a steal.

Being 47, the hot zone guy in PoK says that at level 50 I should head to either Old Sebilis or The Wakening Land. I have never been to either of those zones and have no idea how to get there. Should I even consider going there, or now that I know my actual level, do you think I should still head to Dalnir or Nurga for some leveling goodness?

Thanks!

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:55:46 +0000

“It’s about that time of year anyway.”

I see somebody else is on that “EverQuest in the fall” cycle. When the skies go gray and the rain begins to fall, I suddenly want to go back to Norrath. Every year, without fail.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:17:08 +0000

@loredena — at the pace we move, I doubt you’ll be that far behind :) Just being able to do BoT well will be enough for now.

@Agente — that’s AWESOME. Cost you nothing? Amazing.

By: When in Doubt, Look Around for Some Inspiration | Random Battle

When in Doubt, Look Around for Some Inspiration | Random Battle — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:11:38 +0000

[...] something else to play with. EverQuest’s introduction of mercenaries (which, by all accounts, are awesome) has me seriously considering resurrecting my subscription there. Even if there’s nothing [...]

By: Cameron Sorden

Cameron Sorden — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:44:10 +0000

Sigh. I may need to resub. It’s about that time of year anyway.

By: loredena

loredena — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:56:46 +0000

I have to admit — right now I don’t have the time, energy, or money to justify renewing EQ. But, if we decide to do so come January, Sisca and Callendra will need to catch up — and a merc tank will be just the ticket to do so!

By: Agente

Agente — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:46:05 +0000

I Decided to experiment today and made a level 1 magician.. went straight to POK and hires a DE Cleric Merc. 0 Plat 0 Gold. Leveled him as far as lvl 5 and checked cost at each level. As of now he is still FREE with zero maintenance cost. Just so you know.

By: Stargrace

Stargrace — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:58:23 +0000

I have to agree. I think they’re powerful enough to make leveling actually work out for those who can not always find a group, but not so over powered that you’re taking down complicated encounters at end game. I still heard LOTS of people LFG this morning.

About the cost for people who were worried also..
At level 44 the merc only cost me 300p to buy, and 8p every 15 minutes. In Dulak (where I was leveling) that sort of money comes VERY easily. PoS wasn’t exactly the best place since no coin drops there, but I don’t think they’ll really be out of anyones price range. This was with the highest level of apprentice tank as well, could always go lower for a cheaper cost.