Hints & Tips
The Mines of Gloomingdeep – the Everquest Players Guide
by paul on Mar.19, 2012, under Hints & Tips, Leveling
Updated for the new version with the release of Free To Play. (continue reading…)
Everquest Free to Play
by paul on Feb.26, 2012, under Hints & Tips, Leveling
Everquest will launch as F2P on March 16, 2012. There will be some changes made to the game in support of this change, as well as special rules that apply to free accounts. See the SOE FAQ for details. (continue reading…)
SOE Status: iPhone app for monitoring game servers
by paul on Sep.14, 2011, under Hints & Tips
SOE Status is in the App Store now (http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/soestatus/id463597867?mt=8). Link is to the UK store, US store link is: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soestatus/id463597867?mt=8
This takes the data from the new SOE status page at http://www.soe.com/status/ and displays it on your phone; you can select data for a single game and refresh that display if you wish.
It runs on iPad as well as iPhone – it probably won’t run on iPhones using OSes older than 4.1. Now that it’s shown up in the store, there’s a couple of minor tweaks I will make and resubmit. Any suggestions or bug reports are welcome.
SOE Community Leaders
by paul on Apr.16, 2011, under Hints & Tips
If you want to get in touch with any of the SOE Community Leaders, here’s a list including forum name, class and highlighting members of two top guilds that are over-represented in the programme. (continue reading…)
Hot Zones
by paul on Mar.18, 2011, under Hints & Tips, Leveling
What are “Hot Zones”?
These are zones that SOE want to encourage traffic to; in their announcement, they claimed that a Paludal Caverns level of experience could be maintained all the way up to 60. (continue reading…)
Fabled Pet Weapons
by paul on Mar.17, 2011, under Equipment, Hints & Tips
These drop in the Elemental planes, during the Fabled period (typically March 16 – April 16), and are considered among the best, if not the best, weapons for their class for 75-79. (continue reading…)
What to Do and When
by paul on Mar.09, 2011, under Hints & Tips, Leveling
This is a guide for current and returning players, who may be mystified as to what opportunities to advance their characters shouldn’t be missed. As many of these opportunities are from old expansions, and SOE’s crazy mudflation makes many things much easier over time, I will try to give suggestions as to when best to do these things. (continue reading…)
Guide to Escape to Norrath
by paul on Jan.10, 2010, under Equipment, Hints & Tips, Leveling, Quests
Escape to Norrath – the Everquest Players Guide
People who don’t have a current subscription to Everquest can get a 14 day trial, called Escape to Norrath. It hasn’t always been 14 days, sometimes it may have been a month, and at others it may have been unlimited. Each Station account without an Everquest subscription can take this trial once. (continue reading…)
SoF faction
by paul on Aug.11, 2008, under Hints & Tips
Mainly for mages; updated to include the Fenden Helter quests. These quests give 25 faction points, and you may also gain points from killing in the combat quests. Each faction has an errand, and a combat quest – only the combat quests for LoL and RB are relatively easy; some classes may be able to solo others (like CoV), and some may require groups. The ‘acts’ from Fenden are only to gain currency to buy the items he sells, so if you just want faction, it’s errands, plus combat if you can manage them. (continue reading…)
Rogue startup information
by paul on Aug.02, 2008, under Hints & Tips
I have been leveling up a rogue, some solo, some duo, very little grouping. At the moment he is 63 with a few AAs (see below).
The main web site is The Safehouse, but information is slow to update here. (continue reading…)