Haven't played eq in well over a year and was thinking of checking it out again..
Sleepyz
That was always what i hated in eq. When you have to med mana back for
10-15mins it's just ridiculous.
For those who care I played eq for a year and a half before i quit.
and recently i play dark age of camelot and was bored of it 2-3months
after.
Tukka Yoot
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> What I'd like to know is, have they improved on the medding at all.
> That was always what i hated in eq. When you have to med mana back for
> 10-15mins it's just ridiculous.
I don't think they've improved the mana regeneration rate while
meditating, but they have made a few additions and improvements that may
make meditating slightly more palatable (spelling?).
With the addition of Luclin, they added Meditation skill+% items. So if
you equp a med+2% item, and you have 200 meditation skill, you meditate as
if you have 204 meditation skill.
Also, with the addition of AAXP skills, there is the "Mental Clarity"
ability which can improve your mana regeneration by up to 3 points per tick
(and this stacks with the Clarity line and mana regen songs)... all of the
casting classes can learn this skill. Also, hybrids can further improve
their mana regeneration with their class-specific "Mind and Body
Rejuvenation" skill which improves health/mana regen by up to another
another 3 points per tick.
Enchanters have a "Gather Mana" AAXP skill that they can use to regain all
of their mana, but it can only be used once every 2 1/2 hours or so.
AAXP skills and new spells have been added to reduce chances of fizzles,
enable spell crits, and to improve the odds of a specialization skill
activation, all of which act together to make it so your spells are
occassionally more mana efficient.
Another improvement made to meditation is that now anybody with the
meditation skill can sit down to meditate, not just level 35+ characters,
but if it was taking you 10-15 minutes to regain all your mana, I'm sure
your character was above level 35.
So once you pick up a few of these skills, spells and/or items, you may
find your med times reduced a bit (or that you don't have to meditate quite
as much), but I would still expect to have to wait a pretty long time to go
from low mana to full mana.
Jobu2047
you still have to med for a while. BUT NO ONE has to look at the book
anymore when doing so. it's no longer a 35+ perk. all you have to do is sit
down
Jeff Hoppe
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Dan Harmon
> That was always what i hated in eq. When you have to med mana back for
> 10-15mins it's just ridiculous.
Then it's probably time to stop being antisocial and delete your
necro/druid. Or keep them and start playing the game as it was intended to
be played.
As for mana regen, nothing has been changed in that regard (the med bonus
someone else mentioned is so minor as to be ignorable). The only positive
item is that if you DO become social there's a decent chance you'll get a
mana regen buff cast on you, and/or a bard in your group to help.
Enchanters get their first mana regen spell at 16 and bards get their first
mana song at 20.
Tukka Yoot
> necro/druid. Or keep them and start playing the game as it was intended
to
> be played.
That probably is the best solution. By level 42 I couldn't stand playing
EQ anymore with my druid. My shadow knight is level 43 now, and despite my
mariginal soloing ability and the difficulty I sometimes have finding
groups, I'm enjoying EQ a lot more than I ever did with my druid. I was
never particularly antisocial, when I was playing a class than wasn't
particularly sought after in groups, and a character that HAD the option of
soloing with some effectiveness, too often I found myself alone and it was a
pretty miserable experience.
The more I think about, the more I hate my old druid. :P