An Easter event started on The Heroes’ Journey EMU this weekend, which brought a 50% experience bonus, and little eggs that randomly drop as you kill things that grant experience. You can then level up those eggs to enchanted/legendary and open them for all sorts of goodies. A lot of appearance gear (known as glamours in this version of the game), titles, augments, and the one item I really wanted to get my hands on – a 48 slot 100% weight reduction bag – not lore.
I decided to create a new character for some fun times, and settled on a warrior/berserker/rogue combination. TONS of fun – thanks to the event, it wasn’t long before THAT NIGHT I was up to 2,100 AA which was almost 1,000 AA more than my ‘main’. Whewps.
I also managed to get two of the legendary bags, I sold one for 90k and that doubled my available income. I kept the second bag. I sold most of the augments I had collected, along with the glamours, and the pet wands. It was a lot of plat. I used that money to fully deck out the new character, and I had an absolute blast just grinding in Dragon Necropolis.
Eventually it was time to head back to my main and continue on progression. My husband is playing a Berserker/Rogue/Monk character, and I play a Cleric/Enchanter/Ranger – we had very little issues with any of the progression, since I can offer up the big heals as well as cures, and he did almost all of the DPS / tanking. Even though I’m only at 1500aa or so it is enough to do what I need. The other half has over 2,000aa and he’s able to tank pretty well even though he is not a traditional tank class.
At the end of the weekend we found ourselves farming in Plane of Water, and Plane of Fire (which is where most people grind out AA at level 65) – oh, did I mention we had also grinded to 65? That was done back in Dragon Necropolis. The mobs were light blue by then but with the experience bonus it was still pretty nice. The ‘grind’ of traditional EverQuest doesn’t really exist here on this EMU.
One of the perks of this server is that you can lower/raise your level using plat, so I decided to lower back down to 56 to continue grinding AA in DN, which is easier to solo than PoF. The Coral Hilted Tulwar from Plane of Water is an easy camp and goes for 10-12k right now, so I set up my trader for the night and pulled in more than enough plat to cover the cost of my leveling / deleveling habits.
In any case, I’m still having a lot of fun with this EMU. I’ve got one level 65 character, two level 56 characters, and one still locked at 30 (that’s my magician/necro/beastlord pet character). Overall I find it easier to play a pure melee build, but to get to the big kid stuff you’ll either need to buddy up with someone who can heal / cure, or take a fancy combination of classes who can handle that. It’s certainly nothing like the EverQuest that we grew up with, but it’s a lot of fun and the community has been lovely (most of the time, as always, there are exceptions). Happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself.
A Pixel Nomad 