Why you suck at EverQuest

Help out all your friends that suck at EverQuest, and send them this video!! Probably should have mentioned that I'm speaking largely in the context of EQ TLP servers, and can respect some dynamics change on P99 / Quarm, but many of the fundamentals stay the same.

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[Goldilocks]

I would love a part 2. You bring up things we should all ponder and try. Thx for the vid

[WhyYouAskingMe]

Followed instructions. Got dizzy rotating the camera and passed out.

[ogreguy]

How am I going to sip my root beers and eat my sour gummies if I’m supposed to be working this hard in groups? 😂

[infinati]

Thanks for the memories! I played monk, was in the top raiding guilds back in the day and my role was the primary puller for the raids. I can see where you are coming from. Yes, monks have high dps and help the group kill faster, but a good monk knows when to dip out, pull more and keep the group busy without overwhelming them. Plus when the perfect storm of an incoming static pop met up with the ill timed patrol happens, it's a trivial thing when the monk can just FD and clear aggro. Sh*t happens.

By all means other classes can pull, but having a good pulling monk in the group makes for a stress free camp experience.

[michaelpants]

I'm a camp Monk! Go pull, Cleric.

[fossil]

As a chanter I learned this early on. I can cc just as effectively by pulling as i can cleaning up messes. And I can always have mobs stacked up in camp waiting on the dps heavy monk to kill the last mob.

[munter]

After 25 years of playing some people just play to chill, doesnt mean they suck, just means being 100%efficient is less of a concern. Good vid though

[Beatstinger]

I played FFXI for four years (385 days of play time. 9240 hours) You chain killed mobs for EXP in groups. The pullers were always Rangers, Thieves, Corsair...basically jobs with a ranged options. They ran off to shoot another mob when the current target was roughly half HP, to keep the flow of battle going.

[FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube]

Very well put! I've tried to make these arguments and people just freak out that their sense of reality has been challenged

[ttabood]

I think one of the reasons EQ has been so good for so long is that nobody was ever worried about stuff like this. Groups were whatever they were. Its the social aspect that made the game. Sometimes you had a bust ass killer group and sometimes its was slower and chatty. I rarely heard anyone say 'you should be doing it this way'.

[RhysticStudies]

great list. part two could have lots of other tips including aggro management, off-tanking, breaking mez, when to succor, group disbanding etiquette (like finding replacements), how to afk efficiently, keeping mobs in rotation in a camp, shrinking large races out of courtesy, tipping for ports and rezzes...i could go on!

[RichardBennett]

Thanks for this. I have solo quadded my way up to 60 without grouping once so I need this info for future groups.

[ErikShaferFaelor]

After your recent video about stats, I decided to replay this one while I did some chores around the house. Good stuff man.
Players are very inefficient, and a lot of the time, that's okay. But would it be nice if people knew some of these "tricks" and tips? For sure.
Would certainly be interested in a part 2 if you think there's more to go over.

[jschram]

I’ve had enchanter puller for statics I’ve been in and it’s just fine. I’ve even pulled on cleric before when I’ve felt the pug puller wasn’t comfortable doing it properly.

[sadizz]

pulling is one of my worst skills. i dont know dungeons well enough to know where and how i can get 1-2 mobs for a group without wiping us. i dread being in a place i've never been to before and the group says "ok ranger go pull"

[ceerizzle]

I prefer to just kill 1 mob at a time in my xp groups. It minimizes the risk of everything going sideways, and keeps everyone at high enough mana to deal with the rare occasion that everything goes sideways. It’s slower, but a way more chill time. Allows me to pay more attention to whatever I’ve got pulled up on YouTube as well…. I just don’t see the point of tryharding in this game. It’s like 25 years old… I view it more as a chat room with activities.

[demris]

Agree with this for the most part. Enc as a puller isn’t a good idea. You might be referring to specific expansions, but I don’t want to risk being out of camp when a charm break occurs, you’d train the zone

[AQJ_DK]

A good bard will be back in camp before his songs fade losing nothing but his meager melee damage.

[junkequation]

It's been a long, long time since I played official servers, but wow, stuff must have changed. I'm used to P99 where those pulling rules sound quite strange.

[easyeddie]

I've played EQ since launch and I've never seriously played TLP until Tormax. The server is dead but I love the community. I raid with OM and am having a blast! What I'm finding is, there are a lot of people that are very new by comparison on TLP, at least on this server - and that's ok! Be kind and pass your knowledge of them on to others. I find this is adding to the charm of playing TLP and I may in the future consider doing this again. I hope players that are newer to EQ find these videos, they are constructive and positive in a way players should be with one another.