Eq2 Gold Guides

Key to Fallen Gate Quest (Everquest II Gold)

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:30:06 +0000

The quest begins with

Kanos X’aphon in North Freeport. He is right next to the Theives way (Alt-W) to find it.

Talk to him to begin the quest.

He will tell you to talk to Tundis N’oxyle in the Commonlands about joining the Thexians.

When you talk to Tundis N’oxyle he will ask you to kill 5 sand giants (right there beside you) to prove your worth to the Thexians.

When you kill them, go back to Tundis N’oxyle.

He will then tell you that they are having a meeting to officially join you to their ranks.

So, head next back to Kanos X’aphon to receive your key.

Oh, Tundis N’oxyle is located VERY west in commons from West freeport at the entrance to the Fallen Gate zone. His exact location is:

X:1,487

Z:-38

Y:-391.

The easiest way to reach him is to head due west. You will eventually see the Griffon Tower. Follow the wall just a tad and you will see the Torchured Souls Tower. Keep following the wall and you will enter a maze of passages with sand giants in them. Just say on the rightmost pathway. You will reach the Entrance to FG.

To continue, when you talk to Kanos X’aphon again, he will tell you that to get the key you must kill the current Thexian leader for his key.

If you talk to Kanos X’aphon again, he will teleport you to the meeting house. It is a really BAD place. You will be surrounded by 4 mobs instantly.

Final Notes

The house is full of 3+ mob encounters.

You get ganked when you zone. Atlest one is a healer, so target him first if you can. They are all named the same, so it is hard to tell the healer apart from the rest.

The named you want is at the top of the house. 3 flights of stairs, and 4 sets of mobs. You can rest between fights, so dont worry about blasting away.

At the top of the stairs, it is a little bugged in that sometimes a mob will get stuck in a wall. Be sure to use assist on the person getting killed and you cant fight back until you do.

Kill the named. She will drop a ring. I cant remeber her name exactly , but it was Iana something. She drops a nice ring too.

On your way out of the house, talk to the NPC again and he will give you a cap for your reward and some coin.

Thats it. You now have access to the Fallen Gate Epic zone.

Harvest with No Danger (EQ2 Necromancer)

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:30:13 +0000

This is a VERY easy way to harvest, gather, and mine and not put yourself in danger of aggressive mobs. Will also cut down harvesting and mining time

It’s as simple as this, hit your K button for your skills and go to abilities then drag your gathering, mining, foresting etc to a hot key location. After doing this you’ll be able to use these abilities as far as the eye can see (results may vary based on your computer settings ). But only by using the hotkey assigned button will this work.

Hope this helps and keeps my fellow MPS players out of harms way.

How to: fast gold at low levels (Everquest 2 outfitter)

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:45:08 +0000

So you make a new toon and have no gold? here is how i go from 0 to a good 50 gold without any exploit or cheat, just a few tricks.

the trick is to watch the market

first you need to make some money to start with, what i do is go out and kill everything, sewers are a good place to do this.

make about 50 silver then go to the broker, search for armor type under 50 silver with the level range 40-60 (if you find anything, buy it and sell it) this usually sells for 5-25 gold. (ive gotten lucky and bought vendor loot armors that have sold for over 20 gold)

use other filters in search, like Legendary or Fabled (my brother infront of my eyes bought 2 fabled items worth over 3 platinum each for 3 silver each) people sometimes tired, stoned, drunk etc… will click silver icon instead of platinum because it looks the same.

i have bought 3 crafted ebon items for 1.5 silver a piece when they should have been 1.5p.

just watch the market, and proffit off of other peoples mistakes, each time i go to the broker i do this, even tho i am level 47 now… its still a good way to make money of of other peoples mistakes.

Little Revenge, (Kill Other Players Easily) (Eq2 vault)

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:00:12 +0000

Ever been ninja ganked on a named you’ve been camping for hours?

While they are fighting, go get aggro from a nearby mob, without engaging it and have it start chasing you. Then use the old ‘super jump’ (that doesn’t work anymore) technique to force yourself to lag by clicking and holding your click on the title bar in windowed mode. Hold the click on the title bar far as long as you think it will take the mob to run past you, and onto the group that just ninja’d your named (usually about 10 secs). When you let go of the click the mob will be right in the middle of their group, and since it isn’t engaged, their tank will pick it up with a taunt or AOE.

It’s a little on the vindictive side, and probably against the rules, but so is half the other stuff in here, lol. I used to use it to escape mobs when I was getting close to dying, before it became so easy to just run from them.

Timestamps (Everquest 2 scout)

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:45:06 +0000

IF you knew me in-game, you would know that, statisticly speaking, if you see me logged on, theres a greater chance that I’m AFK than not. Far too often, I come back to see a tell, or some chat I missed. It helps to know just when that was said (replying to somthing said in a chat channel an hour ago is not the best way to make yourself look cool). OR….

Your camping a named mob on a timer. You forgot to check the time the last time you killed it.

Solution: /chat_show_time 1
turns on timestamps ala eq1.

Trick: Max safe fall (Everquest 2 racial)

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:30:15 +0000

I don’t know if anyone has written anything on this yet.
Well, I didn’t find much on this matter, and as I got Safe Fall from 150 to 250 in about 2 hours, i wanted to share my newly aquired knowledge

1.) Do NOT wear any equipment. Not only will it cost to repair in case you die, but your health regen is better the lower your max health is.
2.) Buy crafted food. you need good regen for less downtime.

The place to do this is the mage tower in south qeynos. There is no other place where you can raise safe fall that fast. Not even close.
You need around 140 on Safe Fall for the mage tower. You can raise the skill to 140 on the cliff in cl or the hill in antonica to thundering steppes. Its not that hard.
Oh yeah, its not that bad if you die. The respawnloc is quite near, and you are at max health again.

If you are evil: There are no guards inside the tower. i guess there must be a possibility getting there since there are other quests in there.

Now, enter the blue portal, turn to our right, jump down to the small ledge then jump down to the ground. You should land directly next or on the blue porter if you are skilled enough in navigating through the air (bomber pilot) Immediatly, reenter the blue portal.
Don’t jump down to the ground directly, it will kill you at the moment.
At the beginning, this will hurt you. watch your health and decide if you would survive another jump. If you won’t, wait a bit. Don’t panic, it will get much easier.
Once you hit the sweet spot where you regenerate your health faster than you take damage, you can jump without interrupts, about 15 times per minute. This is around 160 Safe Fall. It will go up very fast from now on. I got about 2 skillups per minute. Once you are around 205 on Safe Fall, you can try the bigger jump, from blue porter directly down to earth. Once again, you will take big damage, but you won’t have to wait now. While you regenerate your health, go for the smaller jumps which won’t do any damage, and still give skillups sometimes. If you are at full health again, try the big jump another time.
Around 220-230 the smaller jumps wont give any skillups, so use the direct jump only. From now on, its quite easy, just jump down to blue porter, enter, jump. I still got about 1 skillup per minute. this jump is effective until you hit 250.
Congratulations, you can jump down the Zek lookout tower now!

Farming T5 masters chests, Zone: Temple of Cazic-Thule (Eq2 stratics)

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:00:03 +0000

Zone: Temple of Cazic-Thule
TEAM: 1 player around lvl 47 + 1 lvl around lvl 58

The lvl47 just have to stay at the zone out of cazic thule, and the lvl 58 just have to slay all the nameds.
chances of obtain master chest 33%
But not only nameds are droping masters!!!
Terrorfiend, frightfiend and dreadfiend are droping Too at high rate( 5% to 10%)

since the last Live update, nameds are poping more frequently so it’s very fast to get masters
nameds I’ve tried:
-Hukulan the Despoiler
-High Priest Cit Dakon (never camped)
-Lord Yaelerf
-The Acidic Mass
-The Steel Golem
-Tzugaax the Torturer (my favorite)
…

Almost ALWAYS get PRISTINE (Everquest 2 racial)

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:45:11 +0000

HEy all,
Ive noticed this from raising tradeskills by clicking your counters repededly..

Ive been crafting alot of even difficulty items, and ive noticed that if you are crafting , just clicking 2 of your spells that dont require power simultaniously will give you more durability MOST of the TIME!! If you do this steadly and timed right, you wont mess up when you have to counter.. just do it at a steady pace, it will pile up the durability when even if your bar is full it will still go beyond that and if you fail it wont go down at all..

Just use those 2 counters constantly and you will pile on the durabilty and you wont drop below pristine!! Tell me how this works for ya all..

Talk to SWG and EQ1 Players In EQ2 (Eq2 shadowknight)

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:45:11 +0000

For friends on a different EQ2 Server:
/tell server.character message
Current EQ2 Servers:
Antonia Bayle Lucan Dlere
Befallen Mistmoore
Blackburrow Najena
Butcherblock Nektulos
Crushbone Oasis
Everfrost Oggok
Guk Permafrost
Highkeep Runnyeye
Innothule Steamfont
Kithicor Unrest
Lavastorm

For friends playing Star Wars Galaxies:
/tell swg.server.character message
Current SWG Servers:
Ahazi Lowca
Bloodfin Naritus
Bria Radiant
Chilastra Scylla
Chimaera Shadowfire
Corbantis Starsider
Eclipse Sunrunner
FarStar Tarquinas
Flurry Tempest
Gorath Valcyn
Intrepid Wanderhome
Kauri Kettemoor

To send a message to a character in EverQuest:
/tell eq.server.character message
Everquest Servers:
Antonius Bayle = antonius Karana = karana
Ayonae Ro = ayonae Lanys T`Vyl = lanys
Bertoxxulous = bertox Luclin = luclin
Brell Serilis = brell Maelin Starpyre = maelin
Bristlebane = bristle Mithaniel Marr = mithaniel
Cazic Thule = cazic Morden Rasp = morden
Drinal = drinal Morell Thule = morell
Druzzil Ro = druzzil Povar = povar
E`Ci = eci Prexus = prexus
Erollisi Marr = erollisi Quellious = quellious
Fennin Ro = fenninro Rallos Zek = rallos
Firiona Vie = firiona Rodcet Nife = rodcet
Innoruuk = innoruuk Kane Bayle = kane
Saryrn = saryrn The Seventh Hammer = seventh
Sebilis = sebilis The Rathe = rathe
Solusek Ro = solusek The Tribunal = tribunal
Storms = storms Tholuxe Paells = tholuxe
Stromm= stromm Torvonnilous = torvon
Sullon Zek = sullon Tunare = tunare
Tallon Zek = talon Vallon Zek = vallon
Tarew Marr = tarew Vazaelle = vazaelle
Terris Thule = terries Veeshan = veeshan
The Nameless = nameless Xegony = xegony
Xev = xev Zebuxoruk = zebuxoruk

kiting/soloing with a ranger 40+, Very useful (Everquest 2 Free trial)

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:15:11 +0000

THE BASICS

-kiting is somewhat easy to learn but hard to master. You can do different kind of kiting when playing solo or playing in a duo. There are differences between kiting one mob alone and a group for mobs. For example its twice as hard to kite a group of two than a solo heroic mob. To kill a group of three heroics is nearly impossible, so don`t think to try that! Remember that the main thing on kiting is don`t to get hit.

-kiting is an art. The more you practice the better you become. Be prepared to die a lot at the beginnig. You will soon get frustrated when it doesn`t work for you at the early beginning.

-you need some open space! Kiting is for outdoor areas. At first you may need a lot of open space to do so effectively. As you grow more accustomed you can do so in smaller and smaller areas. Don`t give up when it doesn`t work on the first try.

- learn to love your jump button. It will save you more then you can ever imagine. Proper use of your jump key and mouse will let you avoid any and all obstacles and keep the flow of the fight in your favor.

- always carry enough arrows with you, as a reference point i take about 25stacks

- be sure you have as many of the buffs up when fighting!

The first way to kite is solo kiting. It builds up on slowing the mobs movement and then running around, faced to the mob, and get your combat abilities and poison to work on the Mob.Always search an area without many aggro mobs when you don`t want to die.

The second way to kite is duo kiting when you have another ranger in your group. This is mainly meant for defeating high lvl heroic mobs, like 6 levels above you.

The following section describes what you have to make use of while kiting around.

THE PREPARATION:

For Kiting above lvl 40 always use:

good drink:

always buy good handcrafted drinks. Go to the broker and search for yellow drink only and buy it. More power means more Ca s which means more damage. You really want to try to avoid situations where you are out of power and kiting, then you re just relying on bow damage, procs and poisons which is cutting your dps in half at least. Having high level handcrafted drinks helps avoid this (go hug your local provisioner).

special Armor:

1. golden Efreeti Boots for additonal mana recovering
2. imbued fulginate/ebon breastplate for a 5% chance to get yourself a little heal over time when the mob attacks you
3. imbued fulginate/ebon legs for a 5% chance on a successful hit to hit the mobs with direct damage
3. bloodstone ring of agility for additional agility which results in greater avoidance so that the mob can`t hit you easy (lasts 30min)
4. bloodstone ring of strength for extra strength which results in a higher damage output (lasts 30min)
5. 2 imbued linnen hex doll for extra agility

slahing weapons:

1. polished granite tomahawk, alway let this be equipped since it grants you nearly an endless ward while fighting, everytime you hit with an arrow you get a 5% chance to get a ward plus extra mana, you will be rarely out of power
2. any imbued weapon for extra direct damage

bow:

look to buy an imbued cedar longbow or at least an imbued teak longbow

arrows:

iron hunting arrows, buyable where you live like nettleville hovel, it`s a T1 arrow which produces slashing damage and therefore works perfectly together with ‘Whispers of Heartlessness’

the rare Posion:

1. Ward of Darkness (rare) : 208dd + 110dd + 81/tick { level 46; Ginseng; Immaculate Vial; Supernal Suspension }
OR
2.Sting of the Soulreaver (rare) : 142dd + 139dd + 105/tick (25% proc rate; 200procs) { level 46; Ginseng; Immaculate Vial; Supernal Suspension }

the Magic / slashing debuff:

1. ‘Whispers of Heartlessness ‘ : -600 magic / -450 slashing mitigation { level 45; Peppertree; Superb Vial; Supernal Suspension }

for dangerous situations when running out of health or mana during the fight (always keep them equipped and set them up on your hot bar):

1. ‘Elixir of Vivacity’ : { level 45; Ginseng; Flashed Glass; Supernal Solution }
OR
2. ‘Fireblight’s Renewal’ (rare) : 158hp + 59/tick { level 48; Cinchweed; Acid Etched Glass; Supernal Solution }

AND

3. ‘Elixir of Clarity’ : 39power + 29/tick { level 43; Lacquer; Flashed Glass; Supernal Solution }
OR
4. ‘Gronk’s Renewal’ (rare) : 47power + 29/tick { level 47; Cinchweed; Acid Etched Glass; Supernal Solution }

additional buff potions (thats not a must be):

Agility buff
1. ‘Elixir of Adeptness’ : { level 43; Lacquer; Flashed Glass; Supernal Solution }
OR
2. ‘Touch of the Rainmaker’ (rare) : +24 AGI { level 49; Turnip; Acid Etched Glass; Supernal Solution }

Intelligence / wisdom buff
1. ‘Elixir of Contemplation’ : { level 44; Peppertree; Flashed Glass; Supernal Solution }
OR
2. ‘Kaglari’s Awakening’ (rare) : +23 INT/WIS { level 47; Ginseng; Acid Etched Glass; Supernal Solution }

Strength / stamina buff
1. ‘Elixir of Reflection’ : { level 43; Lacquer; Flashed Glass; Supernal Solution }
OR
2. ‘Sigismond’s Absolution’ (rare) : +23 STR/STA { level 48; Cinchweed; Acid Etched Glass; Supernal Solution }

Health pool buff
1. ‘Spirit of Determination’ : { level 45; Peppertree; Flashed Glass; Supernal Solution }
OR
2. ‘Solvent of Life’ (rare) : +276 max health { level 49; Ginseng; Acid Etched Glass; Supernal Solution }

Power pool buff
1. ‘Conladan’s Awakening’ (rare) : +179 max power { level 46; Ginseng; Acid Etched Glass; Supernal Solution }

Armor class buff
1. ‘Elixir of Spiritual Awareness’ : { level 42; Golgi; Flashed Glass; Supernal Solution }
OR
2. ‘Melernil’s Favor’ (rare) : +200 physical mitigation { level 49; Moonflower; Acid Etched Glass; Supernal Solution }

When you have all of this you can go on with setting your hotbars for fighting up. I Would suggest the following:

First set up a hotbar with your main bow skills which are mainly for the damage output. That are:

1. Culling the Herd(43.6 ) ,use Sniping Shot when you don`t have it yet
2. Sharp Shot(44.4), use Flaming Shot when you don`t have it yet
3 Leg Shot(44), use Entrap when you don`t have it yet
4. Triple Fire (42.6), use Triple Shot when you don`t have it yet
5. Hidden Fire
6. Maesyns Shot (its a level 40 trait)

Second set up the second damage skills:

1. Tear(44.6 ) use Rip when you don`t have it yet
2. Blazing Thrust(43), use Lightning Strike when you don`t have it yet
3. Deadly Reminder
4. Survival of the Fittest
5. Longshank
6. Raven Embers

Third set up the spells you need in combination with the second damage skill (i will explain that later):

1. Lucky Strike
2. Observe
3. Pick off

Last, set up the Buffs:

1. Dance of Leaves(46), use Adroit when you don`t have it yet
2. Take Aim
3. Veil of the Forest
4. Honed Reflexes
5. Feral Instinct
6. Primal Reflexes

THE FIGHT(alone):

First i want to introduce a good spot for the ranger to solo. I found for the ranger its the best to solo in Everfrost. There are Snowleopards, which are easy to solo (kite) with a Ranger. You can fairly easy solo lvl 45/46 Heroic++ Leopard with a lvl 42 Ranger. The kiting area you have to use is the flat area in front of the leopards, right and left from the exit of the Icy mountain. Use this area and you won`t get any adds when you pay attention.
If you get an add, keep fighting your mob and run to the other end of the flat kiting area, then the mob will loose aggro!

Always pull the mobs with Culling the Herd, because it slows the mob, bite a big chunk of health out of it and stiffles the mob for about 6 seconds. In this time it can`t get any spell off. The next attack you should use is leg shot to slow down the mob for additional time. Use leg shot only when you have mass of mana or when you recognize that the mob begins to run faster or when you need it for a combo (more to that later) , that will save you a lot of mana.
Always run backwards, faced to the mob so you can make damage with ranged attack too! This gives you more chance to get some procs.

While your bow combat combat abilities load up you should use you heroic opportunities and this all while running away from the mob! Always keep running when you don`t want to die. I always use all my bow combat abilties before i use my HO wheel.

There are different combos you should use while waiting for you bow combat abilities:

lucky strike / pick off / deadly reminder OR survival of the fittest OR blazing thrust OR tear:

This is the easiest combo over all. Just hit licky strike to start the herioc opportunity. When you are in range with the mob you can get off pick off to lower the Mobs defense. Finish the combo with one of the spells above.

leg Shot / stalk / hidden fire:

This is an easy combo too. Leg shot and stalk can be used while moving, though stalk will slow your run speed dramatically. You need to make sure you have enough distance to get all 3 off or it s wasted. Cast leg shot and queue up stalk. It will slow it down enough where the moment you stealth you can stop and fire off hidden shot for some big extra damage. It is possible to move a little while firing stationary CA s so if the mob is getting a bit close move back a tiny bit as you cast, you ll learn via trial and error how much is too much. Also keep in mind if the damn mob is getting too close its better to run than stay and get hit. Just try and you see how this works.

pick off / leg shot / cheapshot / culling the herd:

It`s a great way to get culling the herd doing big damage again when it refreshes. This is a bit harder to do, you won`t succeed every time you try. The best time to get this off is when the mob is closest to you. You start with pick off to lower defense, just before you begin your turn, then in midturn cast leg shot and instantly queue up cheapshot and turn off attack. Right at the moment when cheapshot casts run past/behind the mob and turn firing off culling the herd. This only working when your times is right. Practice is your friend. Make sure you have ‘Dance of Leaves’ up when you try this because the is the possibility you get hit.

lucky break / leg shot / cheapshot / longshank:

This is similar to the pick off / leg shot / cheapshot / culling the herd combo, but you use ‘Longshank’ in the end.

leg shot / cheapshot / longshank / raven embers:

The thing with this combo is that you are going to be hit, normally no way arround it. You should use this most against solo mobs of even con or yellow you want to finish off quickly. Its simple, once again just before you begin your turn snare the mob and stun it. Immediately move to the side or behind of the mob and hit ‘longshank’. This will break the stun but if you are fast enough on the buttons you will have shadowflame queued up and if the mob misses you, you ll hit for even more additional damage. Do not use this too early against creatures which can quickly stun and kill you. If you have your Polished Granit Tomahawk ward up go for it.

THE FIGHT(duo):

First you need to know how agro works. Aggro is a number basically. Everything you buff, hit, heal, Ca s gives positive agro. In a group the person who has the highest agro number is the one who the mob will be beating on.

Duo kiting takes advantage of this by switching aggro between two people. It takes some practice but is very very effective!

For Example you and your ranger friend heads for a big red heroic mob.. One of you sneaks behind him at maxium distance and the other in front of him about halfway to him. The ranger behind unloads with culling the herd and as many other stationary Ca s as possible. This will produce much aggro on him so the mob is walking towards him.! So now your partner puts in the same combo, plus another high damage CA like Triple Fire!. The extra CA will get him a aggro bonus on the mob and it will turn right back around towards him! Now he begins his kite and as he does you fire off your high damage CA s like triple fire / sharp shot etc. The moment your CA s are done your partner stalks etc to drop agro. 9 out of 10 times the mob will turn around then running to your partner. Now your partner runs behind him and runs off ranged melee ca s like longshank as you kite. Eventually you stalk and wait for him to get aggro back and then begin to use more of your now refreshed CA s like culling the herd / hidden fire!. You keep this up until either the mob is dead. This allows 1 of the 2 rangers always have the creatures back to it as the other kites.