I am just starting a new character and not sure if EQL would be a better pick for a casual player of a few hours per week. So far the combat is not too difficulty but not sure how hard later levels will be. I do prefer the UI in EQ1 so prefer not to start EQL unless if there is a need. Thank-you

Looking for folks from the guild prophecy.

Any one remember these?

I have the cleric, rogue and one other epic keychain. Can’t remember where I got them, but my late wife and I played since beta and she even was a guide.

Debating on getting back in. Kinda don’t want to waste the 10 accounts but haven’t had the drive to dive back in after her passing.

Long shot here. I'm Xarshail Bloodyfists, an Iksar Monk. I was part of Paradigm Nocturn which then merged with Altered State. I'll be playing on the Freeport server unless there's a large group already playing on another server. Discord name is Wudai. If anyone wants to catch up, hit me up.

I've been playing TLPS since the start, just started on this one last week, and it feels dead? If anything, I see boxes doing their own thing and not much else, even when going to high XP zones with the usual needed classes.

The server feels very disconnected and soulless tbh.

Am I wrong? Do I need to find a guild? Even on that end, I rarely see guilds recruiting.

Frustrated on Frost Reaver

Hey everyone, hope this is ok to post here.

I recently had the chance to sit down with Shawn Lord, better known as aLovingRobot.

Shawn worked on EverQuest from the customer-service side all the way through becoming a designer and lead designer during expansions like Scars of Velious, Shadows of Luclin, Planes of Power, Lost Dungeons of Norrath, and Omens of War.

We talked about how he discovered EverQuest, how he joined the team, his time on the team and what it was like on the inside, what it was like helping build the game during those years, and the people and experiences that shaped his career.

He is now working on Monsters & Memories, but this conversation is really about preserving his story and hearing directly from someone who was an important part of EverQuest history. If you're interested in the lore and what was going on at the time, I think you'll enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4B_m1gDW08&t=1s

Probably has been asked a million times. But I was just wondering what the general state is of EQ2 and if it's worth playing in 2026. I see Legends is getting a fair amount of hype so maybe that would be better? I never played EQ1 but I loved EQ2 when I was a kid and was thinking about trying it out again since people have been talking about it more lately. What is the best way to play EQ2 nowadays? Or should I check out Legends instead?

Official Forum Post

Test Server Update – Lethar Feature Testing

Several features planned for Lethar (our upcoming TLP server) have been temporarily enabled on the Test Server to gather additional feedback and allow for more extensive testing.

These features are expected to remain enabled until Lethar launches.

Enabled Features

• Personal Loot has been enabled.
• Legacy Characters has been enabled.
• Item Class/Race/Deity restrictions have been removed.
• Item level requirements have been changed from Required to Recommended.

More Information

You can read the full Lethar Ruleset FAQ here.

If you encounter any issues, have questions that aren't already answered in the FAQ, or have feedback, please share it in the official thread. Thanks to everyone helping test and submit bug reports!

Known Issues

• Leaving a Personal Loot item displays a chat message with "declined" misspelled.

  • Status: Fixed Internally

• Personal Loot items timing out on a corpse do not correctly indicate that the item was Personal Loot.

  • Status: Fixed Internally

• Group size checks are incorrectly counting players who are outside the current zone.

  • Status: Fixed Internally

• Personal Loot is not consistently being distributed while in a raid.

  • Status: Fixed Internally

• Item Class/Race/Deity restrictions are not being removed in newly created instances.

  • Status: Confirmed

Hey all, 60 paladin with 512 unbuffed ac looking for a casual raiding guild on Frostweaver. Anyone interested in chatting? Looking forward to raiding with y’all soon, and take care.

I've been wanting to try this game for a few weeks now, but every time I look up discussions about which version to play, I end up even more confused.

Some people recommend TLP servers (which I don't even know what that means). I tried P99 first because I was curious about the old-school graphics and overall feel, but I had no idea how to attack or even where to go. I've also seen people say I shouldn't install the Steam version and should use the launcher from the official website instead?

So... which version should I actually install if I just want to finally experience the game and play on a server with an active community? I'm completely lost.

I was talking with my guild and we was guessing that 80% of the server is going to be melee DPS

Monks and enchanters wearing plate

All melee swinging knight weapons in main hand

SK and Paladins stacking cloth gear with spell damage

What other classes with the gimmicks of the server do you think would be good or potentially busted?

When I played the original EQ one of the things I enjoyed most was just exploring zones, encountering NPCs and discovering the lore.
I played an Erudite Wizard and as such I never went Neriak or other places where I would be KOS. Legends gives me an opportunity to greatly enhance that exploration, and I am seeking advice on a class / race combo for that.
I am thinking Monk (for FD) / Rogue (for Hide) / Wiz for ports, invis, see invis, invis to undead. For Race maybe DE? Anyone have some advice here? Thanks!

Hope this doesn't go against any rules. I don't disagree with the outcome of the case, I never got a chance to try THJ and not without irony already re-activated an old EQ acct and pre-ordered EQ legends.

Just curious if they have said anything, or if they are barred from even discussing it under the terms of the case. I know they can't risk touching anything related with quite a hefty financial penalty, but not sure if they have any sort of "gag" on even discussing it. Would be an interesting AMA.

Disclosure: Used AI to reformat this because Reddit and the EQ forums do not play well together.

Patch Highlights

Highlights

• Multiple Hero's Journey quests have been updated to be more group-friendly. See the Quests & Events section below.

Items

• Merciful Shield found on cleric breastplates in Shattering of Ro now triggers the correct version of Recurrent Merciful Shield.

Quests & Events

Hero's Journey Group Loot Updates

• Food for Thought – Lize's chests now drop One of Lize's Trinkets for the entire group.
• Bile From Below – The Unearthed Bonesnapper Beast now drops Saliva Covered Hardened Metal Alloy for the group.
• Lost Memento – Rats and snakes now have a chance to drop Anarynn's Lost Gold Locket for every group member.
• The Ancient Tablet – Inhabitants of Vergalid Mines now have a chance to drop Ancient Tablet for all group members.
• Lost Souls I – Skullrend now drops Klazag's Amulet for the group.
• Lost Souls II – Followers of Vergalid now have a chance to drop Void Etched Symbol for each group member.
• Duskmold – Twittering Mounds and Doomshriek Mushrooms now have a chance to drop Twittering Fungus Cap and Doomshriek Mushrooms for the group.
• Serric Lives – Kickpick goblins now have a chance to drop Piece of Serric's Tabbard for the group.
• Earthy Extermination I – Bonesnappers now drop Bonesnapper Meat for the group.
• Earthy Extermination II – Bonesnappers now drop Bonesnapper Egg for the group.
• Earthy Extermination III – Vergalak now drops Fillet of Vergalak for the group.
• Feather for Your Cap – Griffons and Ridge Watchers now drop Pristine Ridge Griffon Feathers for the group.
• Spooky! – Giant zombies now drop Glowing Glass Shard for the group.
• Dead Wood, Treants – Treants now drop Treant Wood Heart for the group.
• Dead Wood, The Shambling Mounds – Shambling Mounds now drop Shambling Mound Branches for the group.
• Summon the Spirits – Gnarl Thorns now drop Bog Bark for the group.
• Hardy Seeds – Hedge Devils now drop Hardy Seeds for the group.
• Pieces of the Past – Skeletons near the ruined tower now drop Ogre Relics for the group.
• The Golden Pick I – Mucktail Rock Breakers now drop Part of a Broken Pick Haft and Tarnished Golden Pickhead for the group.
• The Golden Pick II – Rotwood Saplings and Darkwater Lockjaws now drop Rotwood Treant Branch and Darkwater Crocodile Skin for the group.
• Bixie Plans – Stone Hive Bixies now drop Bixie Plans for the group.
• Ore for Smelting – Mucktails now drop Hunk of Blightfire Ore for the group.
• The Ghostpack Fens – Ghost Wolves and Denlord Darkmoon now drop Ethereal Ghostwolf Pelts and Denlord Darkmoon's Tooth for the group.
• The Slashclaw Cliffs – Slashclaws now drop Pristine Slashclaw Pelt for the group.
• The Darkwater Pools – Crocodiles and turtles now drop Darkwater Crocodile Skin and Moors Turtle Shells for the group.
• Kindling for the Fires – Hedge Devils now drop Hedge Devil Branches for the group.
• Cave bears in The Hollow now have a chance to drop Pristine Bear Hide for the group.
• The Ashengate Orders – Dyn'Leth's Courier now drops Ashengate Orders for everyone in the group.
• Thrills and Quills – Haunted Hall vermin now have a chance to drop Crescent Vermin Hides and Crescent Bat Hides for everyone in the group.
• Cap of Color – Mushroom Grove sporelings now have a chance to drop Sporeling Cap for everyone.
• Slightly Less Than One-Half of a Baker's Dozen – Mushroom Grove sporelings now have a chance to drop Tasty Truffles for everyone.
• A Dark Heart – Apothecary Shelga now drops Shelga's Pouch of Ingredients for everyone.

Additional Quest Changes

• Tallongast (Raid) – Fixed an issue where food adds alive when Tallongast dies prevented the Starvation achievement.
• Hagralazoo's Memories – Hagralazoo's faction requirement lowered to Dubious (-500).
• Adventures now allow you to swap personas up to one level higher than your character was when the adventure began.

Spells

Bard

• Covariance of Sticks and Stones now references the full Insult/Disdain song lines instead of individual song spell groups.

Enchanter

• Updated the Dichotomic Reinforcement progressive spell line.
• Rank 1 of new spells now equals Rank 6 of the previous line.
• Ranks 2–6 are now proper upgrades.

Magician

• Updated the Dichotomic Companion progressive spell line.
• Rank 1 of new spells now equals Rank 6 of the previous line.
• Ranks 2–6 are now upgrades.
• Skill damage modifier now progresses correctly throughout the spell line.

NPCs

• Fixed an issue where loot could become inaccessible from Tunare and Avatar of War when their events were completed across multiple instances.

Progression Servers

• Made a speculative fix for Terror of Luclin raid success messages displaying "ERROR" instead of the event name.
• Moved the following NPCs into different randomized loot buckets:
  • Vhaksiz the Shade
  • Salczek the Fleshgrinder
  • Maareq the Prophet
  • The Acolyte of Affliction
  • Grummus

Miscellaneous

• Made a speculative fix for raids on high-population servers occasionally entering a bugged state and disbanding.
• Race changing inside a pickzone will no longer sometimes assign the wrong starting city.

UI

• Fixed a crash involving UI radio buttons while loot is rolling in the Advanced Loot window.

Previously Updated

• Fixed a crash involving UI radio buttons, most commonly occurring with the Advanced Loot window.

Have been doing the PoK armor quests from Castlen Drewe, they aren't difficult but the rewards are somewhat underwhelming. Got whacked in BlackBurrow because had my healer merc up for buffs, acck. Will be sticking to warr merc henceforth.

My issues are: I found it necessary to switch to a Journeyman merc so they would stick around when things went south but they cost over 8 plat per hour and doing the quests I don't generate enough loot to cover that. Went from 80 to 50 plat and got a 6AC cloak last night. Also I am toting around the GloomingDeep weps (6-29) which seem to be less than optimal.

My questions are: Where might I be able to gather better loot? Was thinking Hill Giants but they are far out of my league. The other is Lake of Ill Omen and maybe get fine steel weps rather than rusty but I spent a whole lot of time there 25 years ago and someplace new would be welcome.

Second, is there a mob I might be able to take down that might drop a better weapon than what I am currently carrying. Thinking if I could improve my DPS I might be able forgo the Merc to save plat. Would prefer not to use the Baz to get geared ... What ya'll think?

I know the gavel of justice isn’t that great stat wise, but I’ve been off and on trying to get one of these for 26-27 years. Every new character I’ve made I sit and kill the 2 goblins by the two huts where the caster spawns and I’ve gotten plenty of shattered caster beads but never a regular caster bead to get the hammer.

It’s more of a point of contention for me now, I just want to know if it actually drops or not. I’ve gone through 100’s of casters and never got one. I just wanted it for role playing purposes.

I am on my cyclical reinstall and comeback to EverQuest a lot of us go through and I keep getting this error 1017 which tells me that my updater needs to be updated. This only happens when I try to log into a preferred server. I can log in fine to the normal servers. I am All-Access. It shows it when I log into the other servers. Was trying to roll up on the Frostreaver but am unable to. Anyone have this one before? edit I have tried to update, complete uninstall and reinstall.

When EverQuest Legends was announced, I looked back at the code I wrote for a website I was trying to launch back in 2018, when World of Warcraft Classic was announced. Also at the code I wrote when I saw the EQ TLP server Aradune get announced. But, I just never had the energy to invest and make it happen. If you're a software developer, you may be able to relate on how difficult it can be to develop things outside your 9-5 job.

Yet, anytime I heard about a new edition of a game, a new server, a new emulation, I was inspired. The announcement of EverQuest Legends is what did it for me. I wanted a way to be able to find the individuals I used to play with, be it in a guild or that I grouped with occasionally trying to get EXP and AAs or get some item drop. Don't you? Whether you left Norrath decades ago or never really left at all, wouldn't it be neat to, if not play with, at least reconnect with those individuals from years ago?

So, to make a long story short, MMO Reconnect (mmoreconnect.com) is an idea I've had brewing for almost a decade, and now it's finally live.

The idea is simple: you claim the characters you played by adding details such as character name, server, years played (eras), and guild(s) you were in. Old friends can search, and ideally, find you. Claims are self-asserted. An honor system. You and your friends can Hail or Recognize you, to help build credibility. Why? Because this is a user-driven website. We don't have the luxury of plugging into some API from Daybreak (or nearly any other game minus WoW) to validate what character you were playing in 1999, 2001, etc. If someone hails you and you don't know who they are, don't respond. No harm, no foul. If you want to reconnect, awesome.

So, why am I posting this here, in this sub? Because this covers all of EverQuest: Live servers, TLPs, Project 1999, and Project Quarm are all supported today (make a character claim here). Wherever and whenever you played, your characters are claimable. And with Legends launching on the 28th, there's also an EverQuest Legends plan page where you can flag which server you're rolling on and under what name, so your old crew can find you before day one instead of three months in. The reunions that matter most happen before the gates open.

The site is free and I'm one person building it, so rough edges exist. What would help me most is if you can take a couple minutes to claim your old main(s), then perhaps tell one person you used to play EverQuest with. :)

Again, I am very much open to feedback. Most the functionality has been reworked and many of the pages have been revamped two or even three times. To all those that have known about this project and have joined the Discord to provide feedback, thank you so much.

See you in Norrath!

Faelor, AKA Kinokenshin, Wood Elf Ranger, Firiona Vie (role-playing), 2001-2007 🌲🏹

PS: Beyond EverQuest, World of Warcraft (retail), WoW Classic, and WoW Classic Anniversary are online. I currently have most the bits-and-bobs ready to launch games like FFXI, FFXIV, GW1, GW2, EQ2, Vanguard, and Rift, but I am hoping to further polish and squash bugs before moving onto those. You can expect the Monsters & Memories planning page to be up after EQL gets out the door.

I've played since I was around 9, when the game was in beta, on the same server I'm on today: Innoruuk, now Erollisi Marr. My folks were in LEGENDS, which merged Silent Resurgence. They became GMs and tested all manner of things. Over that time, I've seen a lot of things in EQ, on every point of the spectrum of frustration.

Recently I decided to start over on one of my toons (this was a horrific idea) and do some things I never got around to over all these years (am now learning that was for good reason). One of them is a quest which requires that I go to Qeynos Hills and find a mob, a "Giant King Snake," and loot the "Giant King Snake Skin" from it. So I went there and started in.

SIX DAYS AGO. In that time - wandering the zone every single day for hours and hours - I've seen TWO of them, and neither dropped the item - just generic snake items. I've tried everything, from clearing out all the snake placeholders to clearing ALL animal placeholders. I'm lucky to even see a Large King Snake. I've gone to every single spawn node for the mob, using whatever I can to boost my movement speed so I won't miss it. Making matters worse is that I'm a low-level Shadowknight, which means Holly Windstalker and some other Half-Elf girl are constantly wandering around, and occasionally kill me because their pathing changes and I don't always see them before they Sailor Moon Kick me through a mountain. I've offered in General to buy it (it's tradeable and stackable, from screenshots I've seen) if anyone has one, for 500p (that's an absurd price, even by today's standards, but I'm so frustrated I'm actually willing). I've asked for help, asked Support if it's bugged (ofc. Support never actually answers; p. sure it no longer exists), watched very recent streams of people who hunted this specific mob (with ease), searched in the Bazaar (no luck), went to the Official EQ Discord server (and couldn't talk there because of the "Done reading?" bug)...everything. I've never seen RNG this bad in any videogame, not even EQ over all those years.

At this rate, my question is this: was the item removed from the game at some point? Was the spawn rate of the Giant King Snake reduced from 15% to .015% on accident? If that's the case, ofc. it'll never get fixed. With how much time I've wasted with this, I'm regretting renewing my sub when I did. The fact that I've only seen two of the mob in an entire week of being in the zone, and neither one dropping it (when three different sources have said it has a 100% drop rate, hrmmm), means it has to be broken. Is anyone out there on Erollisi Marr who has seen this item, ever had one, has one, or knows what is going on? I've never had this much trouble with anything in a game. I'm reminded now why everyone joked back then that despite it being called EverQuest, no one ever did any of the actual quests except a handful like Epics.

EDIT: Confirmed, the mob's spawn and loot table are busted. Got some help with a Tracker, found two more, and they dropped stuff from the Large King Snake table. This means there's no way to finish old questchains with Guildmasters of Classes that have quests which require this item (and there's quite a few), and that particular aspect of classic EQ is lost to history. Well, that's...disappointing. Oh well.

EDIT 2: Because of this snake and its item, I eventually abstracted. My insane too-many-eyes-glitchy-horse-thing-corpse now wanders around Qeynos Hills and the Karanas, trampling rats and mutely shouting orders at passing players and NPCs alike to immediately explode and that "Nick Cage was just decent in Spider Noir" or that "It's all Walter Bishop's fault," so beware if you're in those zones. It somehow has access to Triple Attack, Bash, and Kick, and occasionally internally cry-laughs while reciting various Wiki articles related to snakes. Oh, and don't attempt these quests. You'll either get instantly lucky and feel fulfilled and nostalgic or wind up hiding from Druid and Half-Elf mean-girls who do tae-kwon-do on people for no reason, realize you're an NPC that became sentient and has access to just EQ and some internet, and go insane. See you in Norrath! Somewhere, sometime!

Want to level a bard persona, thinking about using a pair of monks for dps...never played the monk class what's a decent set of starter weaps for monks to get my bard to 40 fastest, and dont break the bank

So recently just got a necro to max level on fangbreaker and been having a lot of fun playing it and raiding with it. Which brought me to this thought, what classes had you put off playing and finally tried it and really enjoyed it? Another class like this for me was shaman.