The new armor
Pinolian
rangers? I have some rubi now.. if the new armor is green I'm gonna die
because i will look like I'm dressed for a X-mas party :)
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version of Bronze and the Rogue stuff which is gonna be black (think
the rogue stuff is replacing teh rubi drop, or is that ranger stuff ?
bah, I don't remember).
G.
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:51:47 GMT, Pinolian <pino...@my-deja.com>
wrote:
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Abe
Cleric: light bronze plate
Rogue: black chain
Bard: blue plate
That's all I know so far.
Jason Irby
damn hard to obtain?
Abe wrote in message <19991011111818...@ng-da1.aol.com>...
Johan Stigaard
Geez why couldn't clerics get normal plate looking stuff? For those clerics
of us who likes some aestethical consistency, we will have to get a -full-
set of this stuff. With plain plate we could just add up with store bought
or silver plated or whatever and look really spiffy. ;-(
// Woland, still a shadowknight though
Gordon Chapman
specifically designed for them, however doing it all at once is
unreasonable, not that this will stop anyone bitching and moaning for
weeks on end that their class doesn't have any cool armour like those
clerics who Verant are always improving (sarcasm - Cleric quests are
few and far between, as far as I'm aware, there's no quest
specifically for clerics, until now).
G.
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:25:45 -0400, "Jason Irby" <Ir...@erols.com>
wrote:
>Are the SKs getting any SK-only armor besides the Umbral in POF which is too
>damn hard to obtain?
>
>Abe wrote in message <19991011111818...@ng-da1.aol.com>...
>>Ranger: green chain
>>Cleric: light bronze plate
>>Rogue: black chain
>>Bard: blue plate
>>
>>That's all I know so far.
>
>
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your armour, be glad there's cleric specific armour in there at all, I
certainly am.
G.
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:25:49 +0200, "Johan Stigaard"
<mda9...@student.hk-r.spam-hater.se> wrote:
>
>Geez why couldn't clerics get normal plate looking stuff? For those clerics
>of us who likes some aestethical consistency, we will have to get a -full-
>set of this stuff. With plain plate we could just add up with store bought
>or silver plated or whatever and look really spiffy. ;-(
>
>// Woland, still a shadowknight though
>
William Alan Neeb
(thats PoF stuff) but I really don't want to go back to wearing chain
again.. That was the main thing about rubi that I liked so much; I was
finally able to wear plate! BAH!
But on a side note, I am all for eliminating the rubi spawns. On our
server (Bertoxxulous) Cazic Thule is the worst kill-stealing zone around..
The greed just doesn't stop. I just wish we didnt have to wear chain still
=(
On 11 Oct 1999, Abe wrote:
> Ranger: green chain
Nutritech Corp.
people with fear plane plate a bit more... Which in my opinion is a good
thing.
William Alan Neeb <neeb...@cse.msu.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.01.991011...@arctic.cse.msu.edu...
Zoel Krieger
(yippie, damn skippy. Quest wasn't put in till I was level 23)
Then agian, We clerics don't exactly have balance issues either.
(the blade of grass that stands tallest, is the first to be cut)
Hurk, Tunare, cleric 30
Gordon Chapman wrote:
> I would guess it's Verant's intention to supply each class with armour
> specifically designed for them, however doing it all at once is
> unreasonable, not that this will stop anyone bitching and moaning for
> weeks on end that their class doesn't have any cool armour like those
> clerics who Verant are always improving (sarcasm - Cleric quests are
> few and far between, as far as I'm aware, there's no quest
> specifically for clerics, until now).
>
> G.
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:25:45 -0400, "Jason Irby" <Ir...@erols.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Are the SKs getting any SK-only armor besides the Umbral in POF which is too
> >damn hard to obtain?
> >
> >Abe wrote in message <19991011111818...@ng-da1.aol.com>...
> >>Ranger: green chain
> >>Cleric: light bronze plate
> >>Rogue: black chain
> >>Bard: blue plate
> >>
> >>That's all I know so far.
> >
> >
>
Abe
>(thats PoF stuff) but I really don't want to go back to wearing chain
>again.. That was the main thing about rubi that I liked so much; I was
>finally able to wear plate! BAH!
You don't have to go BACK to anything, if you have rubicite, you can keep
rubicite. So look like a big tomato if you want to. And word from the test
server is the ranger chain will be the same AC as ruby WITH stat bonuses. I'd
switch in a second.
Nutritech Corp.
Abe <abebl...@aol.comgotohell> wrote in message
news:19991011161511...@ng-fc1.aol.com...
garbanzo
wrote:
>Anyone know the colors of the new class specific armors?? Specifically
>rangers? I have some rubi now.. if the new armor is green I'm gonna die
>because i will look like I'm dressed for a X-mas party :)
It's green.
Michael Short
because of the stat difference from plate remember we haven't seen any stats
yet on the new stuff. Might turn out to be even better than plate.
William Alan Neeb wrote:
> That kinda sucks for rangers..I don't expect to have green plate yet
> (thats PoF stuff) but I really don't want to go back to wearing chain
> again.. That was the main thing about rubi that I liked so much; I was
> finally able to wear plate! BAH!
>
> But on a side note, I am all for eliminating the rubi spawns. On our
> server (Bertoxxulous) Cazic Thule is the worst kill-stealing zone around..
> The greed just doesn't stop. I just wish we didnt have to wear chain still
> =(
>
> On 11 Oct 1999, Abe wrote:
>
Morgan
>
> Ranger: green chain
> Cleric: light bronze plate
> Rogue: black chain
> Bard: blue plate
>
> That's all I know so far.
Ooh ... green armor. Looks like Cembyr is going to have to come
back to life now. ;)
And gold armor for Clerics? Maybe I should start one. :)
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Morgan
Dennis Francis Heffernan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:03:45 -0700, Morgan <mor...@misleading.com> wrote:
>
> |Ooh ... green armor. Looks like Cembyr is going to have to come
> |back to life now. ;)
>
> It's L30 and over stuff...the tunic quest require just a small trinket:
> THE SKULL OF MELDRATH!!!
>
> It's also a hideous shade of Bright Shoot Me Green.
>
> Dennis F. Heffernan EQ: Venture Fletcher(E'ci) dfra...@email.com
> Montclair State U #include <disclaim.h> ICQ:9154048 CompSci/Philosophy
> "There's no easy way to be free."
> -- Pete Townshend, "Slip Kid"
It's not that gorgeous dark forest green that I've seen in screen shots?
How disappointing. :( I guess Cembyr stays in mothballs.
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Dennis Francis Heffernan
Dennis Francis Heffernan
|It's not that gorgeous dark forest green that I've seen in screen shots?
|How disappointing. :( I guess Cembyr stays in mothballs.
Here's a screenshot:
http://www.netcolony.com/members/doj/ivy.html
It only shows the arms (the poor guy is in total Christmas mode), but I'm
not optimistic about the rest.
I wanted black, myself.
JubJub McRae
>not optimistic about the rest.
>
> I wanted black, myself.
So did half the known world... but then again we already had one game
where 50% of the population wore trooblack, I hope they just do it for
the rogue and SK armor here.
drocket
(JubJub McRae) wrote:
>So did half the known world... but then again we already had one game
>where 50% of the population wore trooblack, I hope they just do it for
>the rogue and SK armor here.
Nah, rogue armor should be safety orange, and wearing it should
disable the hide skill.
Dennis Francis Heffernan
McRae) wrote:
|So did half the known world... but then again we already had one game
|where 50% of the population wore trooblack, I hope they just do it for
|the rogue and SK armor here.
I would rather a game wherein people were free to choose to be fashion
victims than a game that color-codes the PCs.
Billy Shields
: On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 05:39:32 GMT, mrju...@REMOVETHISPART.hotmail.com
: (JubJub McRae) wrote:
:>So did half the known world... but then again we already had one game
:>where 50% of the population wore trooblack, I hope they just do it for
:>the rogue and SK armor here.
: Nah, rogue armor should be safety orange, and wearing it should
: disable the hide skill.
The rogue bp should have a big bullseye on the front and back to
indicate how often they get whacked when they end up tanking. Then
again, the monsters seem to be doing a fine job of whacking them
without this aid.
Billy Shields
: On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 05:39:32 GMT, mrju...@REMOVETHISPART.hotmail.com (JubJub
: McRae) wrote:
: |So did half the known world... but then again we already had one game
: |where 50% of the population wore trooblack, I hope they just do it for
: |the rogue and SK armor here.
: I would rather a game wherein people were free to choose to be fashion
: victims than a game that color-codes the PCs.
PCs are already colour coded. That used to crack me up actually.
Casters are highly colour coded. At low level its:
Brown: necromancer
Red: wizard
Blue: enchanter
Green: magician
(if I recall correctly)
And then around 15-20 it changes:
Black (FBR): level 15-30
Sky blue (oracle robes): 25-40
Dark green (green silken drape): 30-45
Purple (SMR): 40-50
Beige (Cryosik): 45-50
:-)
Festulant
> It's L30 and over stuff...the tunic quest require just a small trinket:
>THE SKULL OF MELDRATH!!!
Me and a party of guildmates kicked Meldrath's scrawny butt a few
nights ago. I'm 22nd level. He was white to me. Only one person in
my party was higher level, a 23rd level bard. We had no healers. 2
bards, 2 warriors, and a wizard. And the little gnome went down.
Crazy Joe
(meldrath's head?) I want to get an early start :)
Pinolian <pino...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:7tstht$tq3$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Anyone know the colors of the new class specific armors?? Specifically
> rangers? I have some rubi now.. if the new armor is green I'm gonna die
> because i will look like I'm dressed for a X-mas party :)
>
Dennis Francis Heffernan
First off, that's five people.
Second off, I'm guessing you didn't get his Minotaur Guards with him.
JubJub McRae
wrote:
>drocket <dro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>: On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 05:39:32 GMT, mrju...@REMOVETHISPART.hotmail.com
>: (JubJub McRae) wrote:
>
>:>So did half the known world... but then again we already had one game
>:>where 50% of the population wore trooblack, I hope they just do it for
>:>the rogue and SK armor here.
>
>: Nah, rogue armor should be safety orange, and wearing it should
>: disable the hide skill.
>
>The rogue bp should have a big bullseye on the front and back to
>indicate how often they get whacked when they end up tanking. Then
>again, the monsters seem to be doing a fine job of whacking them
>without this aid.
I thought that would be on the backside of the greaves myself.
Festulant
>On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:42:46 GMT, nos...@feqaer.con (Festulant) wrote:
>
>|dfra...@email.com (Dennis Francis Heffernan) sez:
>|
>|> It's L30 and over stuff...the tunic quest require just a small trinket:
>|>THE SKULL OF MELDRATH!!!
>|
>|Me and a party of guildmates kicked Meldrath's scrawny butt a few
>|nights ago. I'm 22nd level. He was white to me. Only one person in
>|my party was higher level, a 23rd level bard. We had no healers. 2
>|bards, 2 warriors, and a wizard. And the little gnome went down.
>
> First off, that's five people.
>
> Second off, I'm guessing you didn't get his Minotaur Guards with him.
Yep, that's 5 people. What of it? Don't you got friends?
And no, we didn't get the guards. Or rather, they came later and I
trained them to Ak'Anon where the gnome guards dispatched them.
Michael Short
> Casters are highly colour coded. At low level its:
>
> Brown: necromancer
> Red: wizard
> Blue: enchanter
> Green: magician
>
> (if I recall correctly)
Well, it mixes up a little bit more than that. The wizard, enchanter, and magician
robes are actually color-coded by city source. I have a magician wearing a blue
Sr. Apprentice robe.
And I have seen casters wearing white -- something not on your list.
But yes, we all look about the same....
JubJub McRae
Heffernan) wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 05:39:32 GMT, mrju...@REMOVETHISPART.hotmail.com (JubJub
>McRae) wrote:
>
>|So did half the known world... but then again we already had one game
>|where 50% of the population wore trooblack, I hope they just do it for
>|the rogue and SK armor here.
>
> I would rather a game wherein people were free to choose to be fashion
>victims than a game that color-codes the PCs.
I'd be glad for a halfway mark. Make a very large selection of
appearance choices, but no dye tubs or the like. If PCs want fancy
colored gear, give them a good deal of choices for purchase (I really
like regional options as well.. different styles available in
different portions of the world), but don't open the floodgates for
painting the world a tacky collage of ugly primary colors like UO did
with dye tubs.
Matt
> > rangers? I have some rubi now.. if the new armor is green I'm gonna die
> > because i will look like I'm dressed for a X-mas party :)
Lol!
I don't think it's green cos I saw some Ranger Only green plate (I think
from PoF) and if they're smart they wouldn't make 2 different armor types
the same color
I think dark brown or navy blue would look cool
and are they implementing Druid-only armor with the patch too?
Morgan
Yes, it is mostly by city:
Felwithe: Green
Freeport: Violet
Qeynos: Blue
Ak'Anon: Yellow
Neriak: Grey
Erudin has class-specific robes. I know Wizards are red, and I would
believe the others listed above. All I remember is that I liked my
green robe from Felwithe better than whatever they had for sale. ;)
White robes are probably gossamer robes. Tan are silk, off-white
are damask.
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Silverlock
wrote:
>dfra...@email.com (Dennis Francis Heffernan) sez:
>
>>On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:42:46 GMT, nos...@feqaer.con (Festulant) wrote:
>>
>>|dfra...@email.com (Dennis Francis Heffernan) sez:
>>|
>>|> It's L30 and over stuff...the tunic quest require just a small trinket:
>>|>THE SKULL OF MELDRATH!!!
>>|
>>|Me and a party of guildmates kicked Meldrath's scrawny butt a few
>>|nights ago. I'm 22nd level. He was white to me. Only one person in
>>|my party was higher level, a 23rd level bard. We had no healers. 2
>>|bards, 2 warriors, and a wizard. And the little gnome went down.
>>
>> First off, that's five people.
>>
>> Second off, I'm guessing you didn't get his Minotaur Guards with him.
>
>Yep, that's 5 people. What of it? Don't you got friends?
>
>And no, we didn't get the guards. Or rather, they came later and I
>trained them to Ak'Anon where the gnome guards dispatched them.
I kind of miss when Meldrath was tough. He shouldn;t have been
degraded like that.
Brian Cully
Gordon Chapman <gor...@climax.co.uk> wrote:
>Oh God, there are SO many things worth arguing about than the color of
>your armour, be glad there's cleric specific armour in there at all, I
>certainly am.
I'm with Johan! Fashion is key, and woefully underappreciated at that!
Archi Tuttle
Monk at Large
Innoruuk
Alasdair Allan
>
> |Ooh ... green armor. Looks like Cembyr is going to have to come
> |back to life now. ;)
>
> THE SKULL OF MELDRATH!!!
Big fuckign wows.
The Shaman Breastplate needs Grizzleknot Bark. As it didn't drop in 10
hours for people fighting regular Ents in South Karana, the only source can
be Grizzleknot himself. A rare (one week apparently) roaming spawn.
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>Big fuckign wows.
>
>The Shaman Breastplate needs Grizzleknot Bark. As it didn't drop in 10
>hours for people fighting regular Ents in South Karana, the only source can
>be Grizzleknot himself. A rare (one week apparently) roaming spawn.
If someone could be so kind to ask Brad how he thinks this made camping
better for everyone ... I dont see it?
Sergey Dashevskiy
static.demon.co.uk says...
> Dennis Francis Heffernan <dfra...@email.com> wrote
> > On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:03:45 -0700, Morgan <mor...@misleading.com> wrote:
> >
> > |Ooh ... green armor. Looks like Cembyr is going to have to come
> > |back to life now. ;)
> >
> > It's L30 and over stuff...the tunic quest require just a small trinket:
> > THE SKULL OF MELDRATH!!!
>
>
> The Shaman Breastplate needs Grizzleknot Bark. As it didn't drop in 10
> hours for people fighting regular Ents in South Karana, the only source can
> be Grizzleknot himself. A rare (one week apparently) roaming spawn.
>
>
correctly, rubi breastplate was not a particularly common item either.
And the new shaman plate might be better stats than rubi. I think the
intent was to make Cazic less camped, not make rubicite easily available
to masses. They could have made it a bit easier than that though :( I
mean, Crafted is not that hard to get, it doesn't require rare drop from
a rare mob (at least that's what I was told, I never had the need to
check)
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Hippie Ramone
: to masses. They could have made it a bit easier than that though :( I
: a rare mob (at least that's what I was told, I never had the need to
: check)
Actually the Crafted BP is something of a PITA to get. Item required
is a relative rare in Mistmoore.
K
Natausch
have only heard of Grizz spawn one time. Combine this with the fact it
may or may not spawn on him every time. Add to that the fact that he is
always wanted by other people for his common spawn item. Combine this
with the fact that from what I have gathered he spawns in place of
regular treants. And we get maybe one or two Shaman per month who will
actually get the Breastplate. Wait a minute aren't Karana residents the
ones who give the quests to Shaman ? Doesn't killing Treants reduce
that faction ? Ohh I forgot you can always spend a couple dozen more
hours to get that faction back up.
Second concern: Banded gloves don't exist. Unless someone somewhere can
tinker a mold then you won't see shaman with the gloves, since they
don't quite exist in the game.
Third concern: I'm a Barbarian, so no big deal there but, Trolls and
Ogres start out Kill on Sight with those Barbarians who give the quest.
Ironic how people who chose to be evil and then followed the normal
path for their choice are now punished.
Don't be suprised when something comes out for Shaman and its not
exactly 100% functional. If you haven't noticed Alchemy is
nonfunctional. Barbarians do not show a shield due to a missing 10 meg
file (I am wondering if this could become an optional download perhaps
?), and just to show Barbarian Shaman don't have it so easy, there
happens to be a guard who is aggressive to Shaman in Halas, at least
after running the quests available there.
But on the other hand, every shaman take a deep breath. Things will get
better eventually. Do you complain when Cannabalize in melee range of a
Monster turns it agressive to you so you can heal the tank and you died
? I assume not. The reason many people play Shaman is because we can
wear many hats in a group. People will consider a group complete with
us, but the tanks up front will always wish they had the extra
strength, dex, agl, sta that we can provide. People will always beg you
for SoWs. And last but not least remember that we are there to shrink
our big brothers so they can hit Lord Nag and that they can't take away
from us.
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I disagree.
I went to Mistmoor and fought there for the first time recentl (prevously
never been past the entrance nor killed anything as I don't like to spend
time anywhere near Shoutdark).
Anyway, a group with a high level Wizard, Magician, Paladin and Enchanter
whom I knew had just had a bit of trouble in the castle and died, etc.. So
I agreed to group with them for a while.
We each had a Talon within 2 hours.
The thing about it though, is that the 4 people in the high forties couldn't
hold the area without some danger (I never experienced this but given two
had died just before I got there and they weren't shitty players from my
experience), then I don't see how people at the level Crafted is worthwhile
could get the Werewolf.
Another poorly thought out placement, IMHO.
Sergey Dashevskiy
nata...@hotmail.com says...
> First Concern: Aye I've spent the better part of 120 hours in S Kar and
> have only heard of Grizz spawn one time. Combine this with the fact it
> may or may not spawn on him every time. Add to that the fact that he is
> always wanted by other people for his common spawn item. Combine this
> with the fact that from what I have gathered he spawns in place of
> regular treants. And we get maybe one or two Shaman per month who will
> actually get the Breastplate. Wait a minute aren't Karana residents the
> ones who give the quests to Shaman ? Doesn't killing Treants reduce
> that faction ? Ohh I forgot you can always spend a couple dozen more
> hours to get that faction back up.
Yeah, I've never seen Grizzleknot either, even though I've been in Karana
enough to have seen Quillmane twice. But I was under impression that rubi
plate was pretty rare too. I think I've seen people wear it maybe less
than a dozen times. I think the new quest plat would be more rare though.
About restoring faction. If you are a level 40+ shaman you can go to West
Karana and run between two bandit camps. One small nuke per bandit or one
area damage shot per camp (not sure, do shamen get decent AE spells?).
Another option is to go to Paw and clear the entire dungeon in an hour or
so... All of Karana will be thanking you for weeks.
>
> Second concern: Banded gloves don't exist. Unless someone somewhere can
> tinker a mold then you won't see shaman with the gloves, since they
> don't quite exist in the game.
I'm sure they will eventually fix that. I hope they will at least. But
look at it the other way. Rangers got only 4 new armor items. Sleeves,
bracers and tunic.
>
> Third concern: I'm a Barbarian, so no big deal there but, Trolls and
> Ogres start out Kill on Sight with those Barbarians who give the quest.
> Ironic how people who chose to be evil and then followed the normal
> path for their choice are now punished.
Now that is just plain stupid of Verant. Evil races get shafted enough as
is. I heard Trolls and Ogres actually have trouble going into Neriak in
some cases, and now this?
>
> Don't be suprised when something comes out for Shaman and its not
> exactly 100% functional. If you haven't noticed Alchemy is
> nonfunctional. Barbarians do not show a shield due to a missing 10 meg
> file (I am wondering if this could become an optional download perhaps
> ?), and just to show Barbarian Shaman don't have it so easy, there
> happens to be a guard who is aggressive to Shaman in Halas, at least
> after running the quests available there.
Alchemy? It would have been nice if it was functional, but not really a
big deal. Clerics and druids don't get that either (though they do bitch
sometimes about it) <shrug> Shamen are still great with or without it.
I've grouped with them, and they are awesome! I've played a shaman to
level 16 so far and it was second most fun character after my druid (just
a personal preference)
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level 28 Wood Elf druid on Povar
Shortest Barbarian On The Block
>> Ogres start out Kill on Sight with those Barbarians who give the quest.
>> Ironic how people who chose to be evil and then followed the normal
>> path for their choice are now punished.
>
>Now that is just plain stupid of Verant. Evil races get shafted enough as
>is. I heard Trolls and Ogres actually have trouble going into Neriak in
>some cases, and now this?
It was a company oversight, apparently. Sometime last week, a few days after
the patch, they fixed it so that those Barbarians are indifferent to Ogres and
Trolls. Well, Ogre and Troll Shaman at least, don't know about Warriors or
SK's. :>
Kay Anders
Tiredest Barbarian On The Block
"How many good omens involve things that come out of a chicken's butt?"
--Dogbert
"One is all that's needed." --Dilbert
Crazy Joe
> > tinker a mold then you won't see shaman with the gloves, since they
> > don't quite exist in the game.
>
> I'm sure they will eventually fix that. I hope they will at least. But
> look at it the other way. Rangers got only 4 new armor items. Sleeves,
> bracers and tunic.
There are also ranger gauntlets, leggings, boots and a helm :)
Dennis Francis Heffernan
|There are also ranger gauntlets, leggings, boots and a helm :)
No one has actually gotten the gauntlets or boots yet. The gauntlets mob
is too rare and does NOT drop the item you need (he drops a PART of it; there
is a rumor that the other part is on the live side of LGuk but only because
some non-Ranger claims to have found it there). The boots require Ronium,
putting Rangers into the same boat as (and direct competition with) Paladins,
needing the same items and master-level Blacksmithing. Oh, and you have to go
build your faction with the Paladin guy in Temple of Ro first so you can get
the Ronium quest. Only one person on EQRangers has indicated that they intend
to even try for the boots, since they can't possibly be worth what the quest
requires.
The leggings require gathering multiple rare drop items from multiple rare
spawn mobs, the worst of which is a 90-minute spawn in the Ocean of Tears with
a placeholder that spawns instead 75% of the time. And it can't be soloed (at
least by a Ranger; I'm sure a caster of the proper level can make it
spontaneously combust), so you'll have to convince several of your friends to
park themselves literally in the middle of nowhere for four to six hours
minimum. And no, the leggings aren't worth it.
Neither the leggings nor boots quests are given up front; the leggings
quest opens up the boots quest and it's believed that the gauntlets quest
opens up the leggings, but of course, no one has the gauntlets yet. The
leggings quest was found by people playing word games with the NPC.
In short, yes, they got SOME of the Ranger quests right, or at least close
to it. Three of them are completely insane. It seems from what I've heard
that many of the pieces require defeating mobs considerably tougher than the
mob that dropped the equivalent Rubicite piece, which is a questionable design
given that the armor was intended to replace Rubicite. This is a bigger
factor for Rangers than for other most of the other classes because Rangers
have nowhere to go between Banded and high-level gear (LGuk, Nagafens,
dragon/PoF) except here, which means that while other classes are chasing down
their targets in Bronze, we're doing it in Banded.
Sam Schlansky
<380e8749.333185182@news>:
>On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 04:14:48 -0700, "Crazy Joe" <j...@joe.com>
>wrote:
>
>|There are also ranger gauntlets, leggings, boots and a helm :)
>
> No one has actually gotten the gauntlets or boots yet.
I am VERY close to getting the boots. I only need one item, Melatite
from Solusek A. I'll probably have 'em tonight.
And give em to Lewick, since I have DWB's already, but...
>The gauntlets mob
>is too rare and does NOT drop the item you need (he drops a PART
>of it; there is a rumor that the other part is on the live side of
>LGuk but only because some non-Ranger claims to have found it
>there). The boots require Ronium, putting Rangers into the same
>boat as (and direct competition with) Paladins, needing the same
>items and master-level Blacksmithing.
Honestly I doubt we need blacksmithing. If we do, well, I guess I
won't get the boots then.
>Oh, and you have to go
>build your faction with the Paladin guy in Temple of Ro first so
>you can get the Ronium quest. Only one person on EQRangers has
>indicated that they intend to even try for the boots, since they
>can't possibly be worth what the quest requires.
Well, I left EQRangers, so it wasn't me... but I'm doing the boots
quest just so I can be the first person to say that they did it. I
betcha I beat whoever said they're doing it on the mailing list.
Raising faction with temple of ro enough for lord searfire to give me
the cauldron cost me around 500 plat BTW... given in 3 plat
increments to Ortallius' master in south ro. No level 30 ranger can
afford to give away 500 plat.
Raising faction with the clerics in Kaladim cost me around 380 bone
chips... I was buying them for 10 plat per stack of 20, and killing
decaying skeletons all day long. No level 30 ranger can afford to buy
them, and I doubt many of us have the patience to kill all of those
skels ourselves.
And just think, Paladins need to do that SIX TIMES! God, I feel bad
for 'em.
(snip)
Sam
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Dennis Francis Heffernan
wrote:
|I am VERY close to getting the boots. I only need one item, Melatite
|from Solusek A. I'll probably have 'em tonight.
Good luck.
|Raising faction with temple of ro enough for lord searfire to give me
|the cauldron cost me around 500 plat BTW... given in 3 plat
|increments to Ortallius' master in south ro. No level 30 ranger can
|afford to give away 500 plat.
|
|Raising faction with the clerics in Kaladim cost me around 380 bone
|chips... I was buying them for 10 plat per stack of 20, and killing
|decaying skeletons all day long. No level 30 ranger can afford to buy
|them, and I doubt many of us have the patience to kill all of those
|skels ourselves.
Actually, it would take some real effort but I could afford it, and I'm
only L22.
I would think that waxing Shadowed Men would be a better way to gain the
faction with Searfire at that level, though.
Matt Frisch
Heffernan) scribed into the ether:
>On 19 Oct 1999 21:42:57 -0500, s...@deletethis.operation3d.com (Sam Schlansky)
>wrote:
>
>|I am VERY close to getting the boots. I only need one item, Melatite
>|from Solusek A. I'll probably have 'em tonight.
>
> Good luck.
>
>|Raising faction with temple of ro enough for lord searfire to give me
>|the cauldron cost me around 500 plat BTW... given in 3 plat
>|increments to Ortallius' master in south ro. No level 30 ranger can
>|afford to give away 500 plat.
>|
>|Raising faction with the clerics in Kaladim cost me around 380 bone
>|chips... I was buying them for 10 plat per stack of 20, and killing
>|decaying skeletons all day long. No level 30 ranger can afford to buy
>|them, and I doubt many of us have the patience to kill all of those
>|skels ourselves.
>
> Actually, it would take some real effort but I could afford it, and I'm
>only L22.
Yes, but dennis you've been playing for what now...6 months? Anyone can
have a big pile of coin after that time, even if they have been raising
tradeskills, no matter how inept they are at leveling.
Sam Schlansky
>On 19 Oct 1999 21:42:57 -0500, s...@deletethis.operation3d.com (Sam
>Schlansky) wrote:
>
>|I am VERY close to getting the boots. I only need one item,
>|Melatite from Solusek A. I'll probably have 'em tonight.
>
> Good luck.
Servers were down all night. Tomorrow it is!
>|Raising faction with temple of ro enough for lord searfire to
>|give me the cauldron cost me around 500 plat BTW... given in 3
>|plat increments to Ortallius' master in south ro. No level 30
>|ranger can afford to give away 500 plat.
>|
>|Raising faction with the clerics in Kaladim cost me around 380
>|bone chips... I was buying them for 10 plat per stack of 20, and
>|killing decaying skeletons all day long. No level 30 ranger can
>|afford to buy them, and I doubt many of us have the patience to
>|kill all of those skels ourselves.
>
>Actually, it would take some real effort but I could afford
>it, and I'm only L22.
Well, I chose the quickest way to gain faction with both the temple of sol ro
and the kaladim priests.
You can also hand in dervish cutthroat rings, three at a time, to Ortallius, or
you can hand in "an item" and 20GP to the wizard to gain faction. Either one is
a lot slower.
As far as the bone chips... well... any ranger over level 5 can do it,
eventually, by killing decaying skeletons. But that'd take LITERALLY forever.
>I would think that waxing Shadowed Men would be a better way
>to gain the faction with Searfire at that level, though.
Sure. It might take a couple of days killing (dangerous) greens, but that'd
work too.
Honestly, I'd bet any amount of money that dwarven work boots are better
than ivy boots... but I want to be the first ranger to finish the quests, and
AFAIK I'm still first.
Dennis Francis Heffernan
wrote:
|Honestly, I'd bet any amount of money that dwarven work boots are better
|than ivy boots... but I want to be the first ranger to finish the quests, and
|AFAIK I'm still first.
Stats were posted to the Glade last night; unless you did it you got beat.
Oh yeah: AC 10, STA+5. #include <sherman.h>
Sam Schlansky
>On 20 Oct 1999 04:55:11 -0500, s...@deletethis.operation3d.com (Sam
>Schlansky) wrote:
>
>|Honestly, I'd bet any amount of money that dwarven work boots are
>|better than ivy boots... but I want to be the first ranger to
>|finish the quests, and AFAIK I'm still first.
>
> Stats were posted to the Glade last night; unless you did it
> you got beat.
>
> Oh yeah: AC 10, STA+5. #include <sherman.h>
Ouch. Wow, what pieces of shit.
Nope, I didn't do it... servers were down all night. I guess I'll just
destroy all of those no-drop items now.