8 Rules You Need To Know In EverQuest

[@chrisklitzke195]

I remember it was considered Rude to inspect someone's gear without asking.

[@IonBlaze1]

That is obscure. Yeah that was true

[@Wombatbaby]

I still hold to that

[@Callaghdooney]

On a PvP server that was like checking out a person to see what gear you were going to steal when you killed them

[@Yetizod1]

That's idiotic.

[@JCVC1986454]

i remember that!

[@JHM117]

Remember back in the day when you had to open your spell book to med and it had the Bejewelled game you could play while waiting.

[@gdolson9419]

As an Enchanter I'd like to add ... If you're not a tank that can taunt DO NOT break mez ... you're just killing your Enchanter or requiring your healer to stop healing others.

[@justinsellers9402]

If it's a problem, you could mind wipe the mob after mezzing.

[@Boubaznavour]

@@justinsellers9402 right but blur line of spells is long to memorise, long to recast and does not land everytime (stats are pretty low actually). That is something to know in any case.

[@brianmurphy6480]

@pierrelapiou1097 There was a single-target blur that didn't require line-of-sight, and it always worked; I think that it was one you had to research, so lots of power-leveled players just skipped it and went on to the dropped spells instead. There was also a PBAoE spell that I never had a problem with, but since it's been 14 years since I last logged in, I couldn't tell you more about it if my life depended on it. 😳

[@Random49558]

The honorable mention that pullers should use SEQ is pretty upsetting. Not that you included in the video, but that people are so brash and brazen about absolutely fucking cheating that they recommend it to others. I've played EQ legitimately for 20+ years and despise these people. If you want to know what mobs are in the zone, play a tracker. Maybe people wouldn't think so lowly of Rangers and Druids if cheaters didn't steal a class-core ability. It is incredibly frustrating that Darkpaw & the community has turned a blind eye to something that gives a massive advantage to people that choose to cheat.

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh so it's called Show EQ? Yeah I've never used it cause of track. Actually been screwed over a couple times by people using it when key farming for VP or Vex Thal. I put it in there not as support but more cause it was an interesting curveball.

[@krozareq]

@@IonBlaze1 I've only recently come back. Played 1999 - 2002. Yeah ShowEQ was a thing. Even ran it myself for a bit to see what it was about but it ruins the game so I stopped. Back in the day had to have a separate PC with a oldschool hub (a simple ethernet splitter box). Tools today such as Wireshark for packet sniffing would make it super easy but no plans to touch it.

[@lennym1273]

3rd party software will get you banned...

[@blackwaltz3135]

@@IonBlaze1 I im OG EQ from 2000, Never knew that existed.

[@madprophetus]

YUP. SEQ and cheating in general are never something to advocate for.

[@NeithDollhouse]

Remember folks, with Mez, you break it you tank it!

[@Quezbraak]

These rules are so nostalgic hearing them and remembering the times I had to use them

[@iindiar]

years ago, people used to kill steal in the noob levels but kill stealing at higher levels is disgusting and an act of war

[@IonBlaze1]

Absolutely.

[@masoncat1]

This reminded me of farming the Fungi Tunic... uh, about 20 years ago.

[@CapOne7013]

I played a monk on Cazic Thule. When I was learning the game at early levels I used to pull at Sarnak fort in the Lake of Ill Omen. My feign death skill was always max for my level. Safe Fall on the other hand...

[@BerraLJ]

As for cleric and 20% mana, the tank does not need more than 10-15% health either, keeping him in enrage is great for dps :)

[@Learnerofthings]

I made a Bard on Agnarr, because it seems as old school as I can currently get. Never played this back in the day. I started in DAoC, but I really feel like EQ is the best virtual world out there that really feels like a world. Thank you for you videos.

[@Travar1410]

Loved how eq2 did it afterwords.. first to engage, gets the kill if they are still alive when it dies

[@gamershow5944]

I love EverQuest and EverQuest 2. God bless everyone. Here's to EverQuest 3 : )

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh yeah EverQuest 3 would be awesome. Pantheon will probably be the actually spiritual successor though.

[@bishyaler]

@@IonBlaze1 Only 4 more years to alpha... maybe

[@andrewlewis1667]

I remember learning all these unwritten rules, then breaking every single one, to the point I was permabanned with a 23-page long thread on our server's forums under the "shitlist", which was a record length thread. Some of my favourite memories 😂

[@Rage-_-Quit]

-Everything that isn't a wipe counts as a pull -The decaying skeleton in front of you only exists to distract you from the Hill Giant coming up behind you

[@Pittmail88]

That last one is particularly true on live servers. Tanks these days have so many ways of holding Agro, no excuses.

[@Dimpledballz]

If you're monk and your group gets trained it's obligatory you train the guilty party every single time you see him/her in game going forward.

[@gnorley]

Sometimes it’s hard to find a rep especially if you’re healing

[@PerryLovewhistle]

"Trains..." *cuts to blackburrow*

[@fokker4uify]

yes!! Call out trains in Karnor's Castle and GUKs. Make sure you got HOT Key setup for TRAIN!! CHOOHOOO!!

[@RedSiBaron]

Man I haven't played since 2004-2005, but man I remember all these rules. glad they are still the norm. might come back and play project 1999 since that's the era I put the vast majority of my time in and loved.

[@proudpatriot3491]

Playing on and off since 2000 I take a lot of what I know about the game for granted, great stuff for new players

[@KushDiesel]

Totally remember all of these. Just got back into the game last night after years of not playing, pretty excited actually! I missed my Rogue!

[@gregs252]

This may just be my experience, but expect rules 1 and 2 to be ignored on Mischief. Been on since day 1 and it's been a common thing.

[@scottborn1360]

Don't forget if you pull agro from the tank. The tank will not taunt it back until you die.

[@bishyaler]

I remember having to use shout and ooc in raid zones for communication prior to the formation of your own chat channels. Shit got messy sometimes if there were more than one raid happening.

[@TheDevian]

It is still messy.

[@Crown-Coke]

I'm new to TLPs - coming from P99 - from live 99-01 I'd love to see a basics video for TLPs Things you should know coming from P99/new all together I didn't know about Origin until I was level 14 on first toon - still confused on Advanced Loot I didn't know about Augments, Telelocators, Parcels, and I'm sure I'll learn more as I go but these things would be nice to know...

[@IonBlaze1]

Thank you for that video idea. I think you got most of it. I made a video awhile back about pickzone & instanced raids but those other features are more shown in the EQ adventures videos :)

[@matthewgriffith1341]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqi0m5qDa6qosNU has advanced loot guide. Also you should run the tutorial zone (Gloomingdeep Mines) on a standard live server even if you will play on TLP instead longterm

[@TheSentry66]

Solid content as always! 👍

[@IonBlaze1]

Thank you :)

[@adronbedient7612]

Yeah, rules 1 and 2 definitely don't apply on TLP's, especially on the new Mischief/Thornblade. I've had so many named stolen by people just rolling in and killing them.

[@TheDevian]

That is why it took me 36 hours of straight camping to get my first pair of J-boots, some High Elf Wizard came down there, and was KS'ing our whole group.

[@darczee1]

Hilarious! Loved it, thanks once again.

[@IonBlaze1]

Thank you :)

[@tocu98]

For Rule @2 wanted to point how it works on live Dots full damage as soon as they land are calculated in your damage total for getting credit for the mob. So lets say Shaman puts there epic on there with the mob at 5 % and if that dot does more damage than was done if it would last full length that shaman will get credit.

[@IonBlaze1]

Didn't know of that trick, learn something new every day. Thank you.

[@Dmc1184]

most important rule i ever learned in official is that if you are a puller, you need to be using SEQ, if you arent...you are a detriment to your group..because the puller in the other groups near you...are using it..

[@cwill1337]

I was playing a monk on the Agnarr server. My group and I were camping the docks down in the Hole when we wiped so I FD. I offered a cleric that was camping at a spot around the corner 100p to res the cleric in my group. This guy takes my plat and res my cleric and sees this as an opportunity to move his group into our camp at the docks. I asked him what he was doing and told him he couldn't have the camp but he just argued with me and said he was taking it. At that point I decide that would have to force him out of the spot. I started pulling every mob I could find on his group. I think they had like 6 golems on them when he finally said "please stop". I didn't stop until they were all dead.

[@bswitza]

I like your style.

[@justinsellers9402]

If a caster pulls aggro, he wants to tank.

[@leebode4643]

The best rogues break all these rules, and no one ever notices.

[@phil5584]

Always rebind the attack button. Guards don't like that key when you try and talk to them. Btw...does anyone remember fishing in the river in front of the castle in Crushbone while waiting for the respawn?

[@udaaz]

Please please please carry these traditions to Pantheon

[@IonBlaze1]

Hopefully. It's going to be a wild west I imagine.

[@krodkrod8132]

When the game first came out and there were hundreds of people in the common lands tunnel selling, i used to charm a griffon then park it in the tunnel and log off. Most of the people there were level one vender alts.

[@brucephelps6245]

Lmao....i remember many high lvls doing that the first two years...used to freak out the lower lvls.....😇😂 which i was one then...lol

[@Alstragon]

I think the hard enforcement of Rule 1 and 2 on P99 is what ruined my P99 experience. Having a hard camp ruleset where you can get in trouble for taking mobs is brutal. They incentivize people who do not work or have anything else but to camp a mob generally green to them for hours upon hours while people who log in and try and find camps will be left out in the cold. Its a bad system, I much prefer TLPs where if you can control a camp, no one will bother you. But if you lose control of the camp or do not pick up thee mobs, people will move in. Also on live its a DPS race, there is no KSing, whoever does the dmg gets the kill, does it suck sometimes? Yes, but I find it more fair and equitable in the long run.

[@IonBlaze1]

Hey thank you for the good argument there. You make a good point how the hard camp ruleset isn't perfect.

[@Alstragon]

@@IonBlaze1 there is no real perfect way I suppose and that's just the way it ends up going. I like the vids btw, always had a love for the EQ Bard. Playing one on Aradune still atm.

[@WykkedWolfe]

Didn't see this one, my own personal rule: If you're a toilet paper wearing caster and you pull aggro, you will die! being the healer, my main focus is the tank!! Not going to commit suicide for an overzealous caster. (Former Druid of Luclin in EQ1 ~ WhyteWolfe) I'm in EQ2 now , but much love to my heritage!!!

[@danielmcneally8001]

Played a druid for years and triage is a thing. Sometimes I would chose who was getting heals and sometimes people were going down for the good of the group.

[@monikasturm2575]

Pfft on mischief they steal my camps a lot.

[@IonBlaze1]

Yeah the rules are more of a suggestion there I guess.

[@MrAcorn911]

Speaking of players finding their own replacement: !!Do not be the asshole that just /quit and not say a word about leaving and never come back!!

[@EQOAnostalgia]

Ahhh yes, the etiquette of EQ. I run a small channel based around EQOA, we had the same rules. Frequently disregarded lol, which is why playing a Druid saved my butt while leveling back in 03 more times that i care to remember.

[@xkallubar]

Rool numba wun: BE OGRE SHADEWNITE! Rool numba boo: GITS DARKFURJE ARMERZ! Rool numba fwee: SUMMIN DA SKELLYTON WEN YOO IZ SOLO! Rool numba fow: make sures dat yoo da bes every time! Rool numba feyb: speak da ogre langwidge at all timez! Rool numba sikz: Do da lizzie meatses kwest until yoo iz da maksimum lebel! doez da eq rulez. obey it. or me bash. yoo not want know wut happen wen yoo makes me mad! 'Rimurok bashes YOU for 999999999 points of damage!'

[@scottlemiere2024]

Harry Potter Map sounds like cheating to me.

[@ericleander6048]

Do NOT wake The Sleeper...

[@Yizee]

I used to make up to like 500 dollars extra a month by selling platinum to a website my biggest camped item for making money was the Shield of Striding in Cazic Thule zone. Fun times.

[@IonBlaze1]

That is awesome.

[@bishyaler]

When I quit I ended up selling all my plat for something like 3 or 4k dollars when the wow/eq2 schism happened.

[@Yizee]

@@bishyaler very nice. I wish I could make money on the side like that nowadays.

[@Trollknot]

Your videos are gonna make me reinstall EQ. Good times

[@mensrea1974]

Train to zone!

[@WesleyWyndam-Pryce]

What if they make a new class and it is a Ninja? Can they loot safely without getting blacklisted?

[@JoncoreTV]

Play on Zek where none of these rules matter! Gank the red boys while there killing an NPC then kill that NPC and get that exp and fat lewts... not good enuf to kill that grab a bunch a mobs and train that group and or raid.. then kill that named or raid boss and get all that fat loots.. tag the players and get the credit for the kills also always go anon and then make a twink for every bracket.. every three levels of the game. Okay then type /who all 6-115 log on to corresponding alt track with your alt bard then go kill that player and camp his corpse until he quits and goes back to a blue server or a 1999 server. Did I mention Pvp starts at lvl 6. Good job you can know play the game by yourself with an army of multiboxes now you get all of the loots!

[@davidparton9158]

1. Dont agree I pay for the game I should be able to play in any zone anywhere I want. 2.Agree 3.Agree 4.Agree 5.Agree 6.Agree 7.Agree but I dont take any plat when I port people. 8.Never heard of anyone complaining about a group replacement. 9.Never cast fear in a dungeon.

[@arc-sd8sk]

love your vids man, thank you for all the hard work!

[@IonBlaze1]

Thank you :)

[@mathiaslima2898]

Every item is actually a monk item, just saying :)

[@IonBlaze1]

Yes haha

[@CiphecDec]

If someone uses OOC for trade chat. I make a point to say, Man I wish someone was selling Too bad I can't see anyone selling it in Auction. Lol usually see them fix it. Other people will straight up call them out.

[@Nightweaver1]

Did I see that Project 1999 has a rule that includes "No vulgar language?" Insert Christian Minecraft server meme here.

[@matthewolson2386]

I cant tell ya how many times I read Train to ZL! in Castle Mistmoor or Crushbone and you dont quite make it out and btw, bio break doesnt mean your going to get a sandwich, lol

[@IonBlaze1]

Best time to announce a train is 1 second before zoning I guess?

[@casrogue]

Rule 1 : don’t be an A-hole , Rule 2: “ Hey A-hole , see rule 1” lol

[@IonBlaze1]

Basically all the rules lol

[@AA-BB]

“Camp check”

[@joescofield8459]

most of the time I can go ld just because of random network crashes

[@Pittmail88]

There are certain a-holes on povar that send the raid spam to gen chat. Needless to say, they are disliked.

[@madprophetus]

Why is all of your B roll using toon names like "dontplay thisgame" and "quiteverquest"?

[@Nightweaver1]

Dontplay Nickleback lol

[@DEviceJR]

#1 I will kinda respect a "camp" but if someone isn't actively pulling or clearing said "Camp" they obviously cant control their own spawns by either A) Lack of levels/gear or B) Underskilled/Lazy. At what point do you "leave" a mob up for said "camp" 5min? 10min? 15min? an entire spawn cycle? See where I am going with this? This is why "claiming camps" isn't viable at all. 5-10min at most for me then the mob is up for grabs imo. #2 I will put this in the same category as #1 for myself, you can't control the camp you can't control the named, simple as that. If I keep wandering over and see multiple mobs I am going to engage everything (if I need Exp) or the named (if I see him pop). You are also splitting hairs with your description as well, "It is ok on raids but bad manner in solo/group scenarios". So basically doing a DPS race and battling 50v50 and possibly having 50 people waste their time to end up empty handed is fine but a small skirmish over something 1000% more trivial and only having a couple people end up with nothing is a cardinal sin. You are putting too much focus into " I was there first, its mine", these arent N`Sync concert tickets, just because you woke up earlier in your moms basement doesn't give you carte blanche over the best mob in the zone this is why for years the best rule is to battle it out over the mob itself and if you lose bring friends. Sorry you came from Project 99 and have a different mindset on the game where you need to push your own view on how the game should be played on TLP's where you probably had a bad experience on Thornblade and/or Mischief. I was once in the same boat as you when I first started playing on TLP's when RageFire/Lockjaw came out years ago then I understood while the game is somewhat the same, the mindset and the playerbase is 100% different than what it once was 15 years earlier . It is an adapt or move on playstyle, some people can adapt, some can't. If you can adapt thats great, its always nice to go with the flow and still enjoy the content with like minded others, if you can't I am sorry to say that is the same linear thinking that gets players stuck in Low ELO brackets in whatever competitive game they have tried in their lives and they end up pigeon holing themselves into solo/single player content while they mumble about how stuff isn't fair or this is imbalanced.

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh yeah I agree with that. You got to actively control the camp.

[@plops993]

Funny stuff!

[@MattManduke]

Idc who's camp it is, if they can't out dps me. If they cry about it, I'll camp them wherever they go.

[@TheDevian]

I logged in for the first time in nearly 2 decades and I am seeing tells in general chat now? If someone is speaking directly to someone, it should be private, and not an open channel anyone can see. Even if it is an NPC.

[@Smacster88]

Rule number 3 train a whole zone on a group of noobs and feign death

[@rtwatkins79]

Not really a rule anymore, (least on live/tlp... May be still on P99) but what about no pets on raids & no AOEs in PoHate?

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh yeah definitely with old version plane of hate. You'd pull everything upstairs. That's a good one.

[@VayeAura]

I've never played Everquest before, I used to Runescape back in my Teens but now I've been playing Final Fantasy XIV for about 6 - 7 years now. I watched your Vid because I was just curious and all of the Rules make a LOT of sense in terms of being positive and not being a dick. There was one however that genuinely confused me, Tipping. I have NEVER heard of having to do that on any MMO/ Online game before. It's just so bizarre to me.

[@kb6530]

Well tipping was only for buffs .... if you ask for a bunch of high level buffs , you should tip them. But alot of people especially lower level people run by and buff you for free or without asking. But things are different in modern , they give you OP gear from the start, so you dont really need buffs untill maybe level 90 But back in the day gear didnt have crazy stat boost and getting buffs made a HUGE difference and a max level player could buff a lvl 1 character , which was super fun. Imo gloom deep mines and crescent reach was a horrible idea , makes it feel like a completely different game , and the loot given to you at the start is better than the ENTIRE loot table pre lvl 85 , as in the stuff you start with in crescent reach is WAY better than anything that can drop off world bosses and dragons , literally ruins 3/4 of the game.

[@brucephelps6245]

Wonderful videos ! I played EQ FROM 1999 till 2012 then had my two gaming computer's destroyed by a direct lightning strike !!😭 so i had to stop playing EQ from then on...i financial had no option to replace my gaming systems as my wife got cancer for a 3rd time ...so my EQ DAYS. Where over....now many years later i find out that EQ never completely died away....😃😇 i had two plus accounts and 20 toons...is their any hope of reviving any of then...as i have the two hard drives and i think all the info on the accounts...??? Any help would be appreciated...EQ WAS AND IS MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE GAME...BAP

[@baustin612]

lol didn't even realize you were on thornblade, then saw the C&C guild tag for the example of someone kill stealing..... blah.

[@redpaladin98888]

if you want a camp or a mob you're supposed to kill the other players and take it. bluebies sure do have silly ways of resolving these simple disputes lol

[@aspieotaku3580]

Miss Talon Zek server 😂 killed a druid in tree form in warslik woods he couldnt find his body and his gear rotted.

[@tywulf6432]

Pulling for a group shouldn't involve any "eyes" or other external programs to be successful.. it's not like dungeons randomly change spawn locations (although maybe they should to make things interesting) . Pull LGuk or any Seb camp for 15 mins and you should have it memorized, pull VT once and you'll figure out where the spawn traps are (btw rogues are great for popping those pre-pull) Maybe things are different after Omens, or maybe today's players suffer too much ADHD to figure it out and need a cheat code to win.

[@Sami-vr7ye]

Ive pulled everything from classic up until Ring of Scales(24thish expansion) and i can tell you that you dont need anything to assist in pulling other than learning how your class works and the layout of the zone... The guild i was in didnt look well upon it and it most deffo wasnt sponsored by leadership.. (TLP) Nobody was blind to it being used by some people but it wasnt out in the open..

[@lennym1273]

3rd party software will get you banned...

[@Edgrot]

Ok rule 1 and 2 are only p99 the tlps and live as stated by devs is a dps race. Camps do not exist........ real eq long dead bud

[@Timpon_Dorz]

Quiteverquest or divorce...lol

[@joshjacobson9846]

Haven’t played EQ since 2001 and then again 2006 (didn’t like it anymore in 06, too much free teleporting made world too small, no local flavour)

[@nibiru1123]

u still on thornblade? if so what level ya at? i might hop on this weekend on my shammy

[@IonBlaze1]

Mostly just playing Mangler at the moment. Level 47-48 if i remember right though on thornblade.

[@nibiru1123]

@@IonBlaze1 oh nice! do u plan on continuing at all on thornblade?

[@EsrohNchainS]

If you don’t stop all these videos I’ll be forced to play again. My wife will be furious

[@IonBlaze1]

Quiteverquest Or`divorce. The worst ultimatum ever.

[@ricolove8255]

I rolled with Fiends in original wow . We stole bosses camps and loot . U can play evil for real in 99

[@Jesus-bs5fl]

It's too bad you don't know any "Zek" unwritten rules :)

[@bobosstopshelf4217]

Yeah daybreak does not recognize any rule you listed lol

[@ohbejuankenobi663]

I was in a badass guild back in the day and we had this magi who was really good, like super talented, but he was a asshole. For deathtouch mobs we always raid voted a non healer and this magi was always picked. It was all in good fun so no hurt feelings. After awhile he just volunteered lol.

[@wutdafeezi]

These don’t mean nothing on pvp or red servers 😂

[@IonBlaze1]

Oh yeah, you can handle problems yourself

[@youareacoward8459]

60 pp, tipping? Are you out of your f-ing mind?

[@rdizzy1]

I hope that when Pantheon is released they really crack down on these ridiculous "Add ons" or programs that people use to make the game easier, wtf is the point of playing a difficult game then essentially cheating? I can grasp this when you are a little kid, but adults should understand the concept of a sense of accomplishment, and if people need add-ons like this person suggests for Monks to pull, they aren't accomplishing anything on their own.

[@enigma7338]

p99green is full or Rogean's crew (Seal Team) that do want ever they want whenever they want, P99 green is a joke, do not make toons there, their is mass boycott movement underway.

[@blargblarg-jargon9607]

tipping a healer to do their job is probably the dumbest thing i've ever heard, i'll stick with wow and just watch ur vids not actually start playing.

[@monicadevilbiss4953]

dumb rules set for an even dumber game.

[@jurgenhabers9345]

Glad you dislike the game. EQ is a social game where you actually had to behave or you wont get into guilds/groups.

[@chrischase3815]

Rule number 666 ..... Fuck everquest.