Post by coloradoderek on May 7, 2021 12:00:29 GMT -5
Hello, Derwar (SK) and Dersham (Shaman) here.
FIRST OFF: This server is awesome and you guys have done an amazing job. I've not had as much fun in EQ in a long long time as I've had in a month on this server. Thank you so very much for all you do.
My problem is likely "user error" which means I'm probably just not good at duo'ing yet but here is my problem. I have made it to the 2nd to final boss of GoD and MAYBE I can beat him, if I get lucky but so far, the rampage damage is 86'ing my shaman and then my SK can't keep up and perishes shortly after. If I take the time to heal the shaman, then the SK eats dirt. I think I might be able to change some things out and get this fight beat, but the previous fight before this was hard and I was just wondering if this is where the game starts to get more like EQ or if I'm just missing something. I'll go through what I have and what I've done.
Also, it should be noted, that I'm not asking for help with anything as of yet so maybe this is the point in the game where you can't solo/duo anymore? just thought I'd mention that I've been trying to do it all either solo with the SK or duo with my shaman also.
Gear: I spent 4 days getting Mining/Synthesizing up and have a full suit of Damascus. My Non-Vis pieces are all Infused or Abyssal Infused (thanks to Whispering!). Whispering also gave me 8 Avatar Essences but unfortunately when I made the first BP, it was noticeably worse than the Damascus gear and the next upgrade after Infused (Abyssal Infused) I can't do until I get to Hates Fury. So this means that my Damascus gear is likely good enough to carry me all the way to Hates Fury (that's what that implies to me anyway). I'm using a Mace/Shield over a 2hander because I seem to die a LOT slower this way. sure, its a lot less DPS but without that shield (probably shield block that helps the most?) I get smashed on real fights. My mace is a Damascus mace and my shield is a "shield of the abyss". I have the Rank IV of the imperium item. I'm stuck on the Rank 5 one because I can't go to the zones to get the Items yet since I'm stuck on that GoD boss. I think I need tacvi to get some of the stuff. anyway, that's my gear and its not like Its terrible so that leads me to think its "user error" why I'm struggling to progress. Also I wanted to mention that the only Aug I have on my weapon atm is either the AoE poison rain from the Fae Avatar or the HoT one from the merchant. if there is some other aug or weapon I should be using, I'd like to know about it!
Extras: There is a post on here with a bunch of "essential clickies" and I have all of them except maybe one. when I fight, I stack on tons of DoT's and debuffs, etc.
Imperium Shawl: I'm as far as I can get with the zones I have access to.
Mining/Synthesis: 300/300
Epic: I have 1.5 and am working on 2.0 but the dragon Lord you need to kill to get the yellow berries just smashes me to pieces. Also, the Avatar of Darkpaw smashes me to pieces. I'm not sure what the deal is with these mobs, but I'm CLEARLY not anywhere close to being strong enough to fight them. Is this user error also or is this by design? I have like 60k hp and 10.3k AC on my sk and I get damn near 1 rounded by both of these guys so I'm stuck there on my EPIC journey. I understand the darkpaw avatar gets even stronger as he decreases HP but when he's 99% hp, he hits me for 5.7k and fast. I can't imagine when he's lower. maybe this wasn't designed to be done solo/duo?
AA's: I haven't dabbed much into the buying of stuff with AA's. maybe that is where I should focus my farming efforts? will anything in there that is reasonably achievable at my point in progression worth getting? I only have 1200 or so available AA's atm but I can easily farm those for a few weeks if i need to buy something from there. I went through it all and nothing looked "super over powering" but maybe I just don't get it yet.
Tower of Sorcery: I only learned about this recently and went there with my SK but the best rewards were just spells or disciplines. unsure if those are super OP or anything and I should be getting them, but it seemed like based on the rewards, I was already more powerful than the Tower could help me. If I'm wrong about that please let me know.
QUESTION: do SK's have disciplines and if so, how do I use them?? I don't know why I can't figure it out but it does tell me "You already know this discipline" every time I get rezzed back to 80 (which is many times a day LOL)
QUESTION: how do I do events or get "legendary:" gear or "fabled:" gear. I assume I can't do any of these events until I'm past GoD or something like that? I see merchants but the currency they require I have no idea how to get. when I inspect people, who I think I'm comparable to, they have worse armor than me, but they usually have better weapons and I have no idea how to get those weapons, or even join events, or skirmishes, or anything like that. I'd like to learn about it so I can participate if possible. i might just be too weak though.
This post is basically just me trying to figure out what I need to be doing or if this is the point where the game starts to get "harder". I know the PoP progression is probably hard too but once I got Damascus gear, I blew the planes to pieces. QUARM put up a fight at the end, but only because I was a ranger. Once I changed back to my SK and got him Damascus gear and Infused Non-Vis gear, he smashed everything to pieces with literally no chance of dying. It was an amazing amount of fun compared to the ranger. I still might get that ranger up but only when I make some friends and am grouping. solo I'd rather just do SK I think.
Any help, advice or guidance will be greatly appreciated.
Short question for this post: What should I be doing to help progression at the point I'm at since gear doesn't seem to be an option.
See you in game!
EDIT: I forgot to add, I also leveled up an Enchanter (on the shaman's account) to 80 for Hastening of the Fay so I always have that too.
FIRST OFF: This server is awesome and you guys have done an amazing job. I've not had as much fun in EQ in a long long time as I've had in a month on this server. Thank you so very much for all you do.
My problem is likely "user error" which means I'm probably just not good at duo'ing yet but here is my problem. I have made it to the 2nd to final boss of GoD and MAYBE I can beat him, if I get lucky but so far, the rampage damage is 86'ing my shaman and then my SK can't keep up and perishes shortly after. If I take the time to heal the shaman, then the SK eats dirt. I think I might be able to change some things out and get this fight beat, but the previous fight before this was hard and I was just wondering if this is where the game starts to get more like EQ or if I'm just missing something. I'll go through what I have and what I've done.
Also, it should be noted, that I'm not asking for help with anything as of yet so maybe this is the point in the game where you can't solo/duo anymore? just thought I'd mention that I've been trying to do it all either solo with the SK or duo with my shaman also.
Gear: I spent 4 days getting Mining/Synthesizing up and have a full suit of Damascus. My Non-Vis pieces are all Infused or Abyssal Infused (thanks to Whispering!). Whispering also gave me 8 Avatar Essences but unfortunately when I made the first BP, it was noticeably worse than the Damascus gear and the next upgrade after Infused (Abyssal Infused) I can't do until I get to Hates Fury. So this means that my Damascus gear is likely good enough to carry me all the way to Hates Fury (that's what that implies to me anyway). I'm using a Mace/Shield over a 2hander because I seem to die a LOT slower this way. sure, its a lot less DPS but without that shield (probably shield block that helps the most?) I get smashed on real fights. My mace is a Damascus mace and my shield is a "shield of the abyss". I have the Rank IV of the imperium item. I'm stuck on the Rank 5 one because I can't go to the zones to get the Items yet since I'm stuck on that GoD boss. I think I need tacvi to get some of the stuff. anyway, that's my gear and its not like Its terrible so that leads me to think its "user error" why I'm struggling to progress. Also I wanted to mention that the only Aug I have on my weapon atm is either the AoE poison rain from the Fae Avatar or the HoT one from the merchant. if there is some other aug or weapon I should be using, I'd like to know about it!
Extras: There is a post on here with a bunch of "essential clickies" and I have all of them except maybe one. when I fight, I stack on tons of DoT's and debuffs, etc.
Imperium Shawl: I'm as far as I can get with the zones I have access to.
Mining/Synthesis: 300/300
Epic: I have 1.5 and am working on 2.0 but the dragon Lord you need to kill to get the yellow berries just smashes me to pieces. Also, the Avatar of Darkpaw smashes me to pieces. I'm not sure what the deal is with these mobs, but I'm CLEARLY not anywhere close to being strong enough to fight them. Is this user error also or is this by design? I have like 60k hp and 10.3k AC on my sk and I get damn near 1 rounded by both of these guys so I'm stuck there on my EPIC journey. I understand the darkpaw avatar gets even stronger as he decreases HP but when he's 99% hp, he hits me for 5.7k and fast. I can't imagine when he's lower. maybe this wasn't designed to be done solo/duo?
AA's: I haven't dabbed much into the buying of stuff with AA's. maybe that is where I should focus my farming efforts? will anything in there that is reasonably achievable at my point in progression worth getting? I only have 1200 or so available AA's atm but I can easily farm those for a few weeks if i need to buy something from there. I went through it all and nothing looked "super over powering" but maybe I just don't get it yet.
Tower of Sorcery: I only learned about this recently and went there with my SK but the best rewards were just spells or disciplines. unsure if those are super OP or anything and I should be getting them, but it seemed like based on the rewards, I was already more powerful than the Tower could help me. If I'm wrong about that please let me know.
QUESTION: do SK's have disciplines and if so, how do I use them?? I don't know why I can't figure it out but it does tell me "You already know this discipline" every time I get rezzed back to 80 (which is many times a day LOL)
QUESTION: how do I do events or get "legendary:" gear or "fabled:" gear. I assume I can't do any of these events until I'm past GoD or something like that? I see merchants but the currency they require I have no idea how to get. when I inspect people, who I think I'm comparable to, they have worse armor than me, but they usually have better weapons and I have no idea how to get those weapons, or even join events, or skirmishes, or anything like that. I'd like to learn about it so I can participate if possible. i might just be too weak though.
This post is basically just me trying to figure out what I need to be doing or if this is the point where the game starts to get "harder". I know the PoP progression is probably hard too but once I got Damascus gear, I blew the planes to pieces. QUARM put up a fight at the end, but only because I was a ranger. Once I changed back to my SK and got him Damascus gear and Infused Non-Vis gear, he smashed everything to pieces with literally no chance of dying. It was an amazing amount of fun compared to the ranger. I still might get that ranger up but only when I make some friends and am grouping. solo I'd rather just do SK I think.
Any help, advice or guidance will be greatly appreciated.
Short question for this post: What should I be doing to help progression at the point I'm at since gear doesn't seem to be an option.
See you in game!
EDIT: I forgot to add, I also leveled up an Enchanter (on the shaman's account) to 80 for Hastening of the Fay so I always have that too.