Roaming Epic's ( give em us back omg )

Dragmoon · 09-30-2006, 09:52 PM

I would love to see more roaming Epic's again in the future of EQ2.... like Grimfeather and Doomsquall in Thundering Steppes... was always cool when you saw em roaming through the areas... :smileywink: also I think it would give the run on contested a bit fresh air :smileyvery-happy: then static's like Mutagenic or Hurri or Matron...

What do you peeps think about that.. and of course our dear Dev's

Discuss

Dragmoon

Dakkon_10 · 10-01-2006, 01:07 AM

More roaming epics would rock. Static ones are too predictable.Besides, it never ceases ammuse me when a wandering epic stumbles apon a poor, unsuspecting pick-up group. SMILEY

Supernova17 · 10-01-2006, 02:18 AM

It sounds cool Then again I remember that time on my then level 30 Conjuror I came out of Ruins of Varsoons and insta died. Turns out Doomy was camping the entrance. :smileysurprised:

pagit21 · 10-01-2006, 02:28 AM

Supernova17 wrote:
It sounds cool

Then again I remember that time on my then level 30 Conjuror I came out of Ruins of Varsoons and insta died. Turns out Doomy was camping the entrance. :smileysurprised:

Remember before they fixed his pathing, shortly after release, Doomsquall used to camp the road by the gate to Antonica. That rocked, zoning in to all that carnage as Doomsquall had his way with everyone.

HomeChicken · 10-01-2006, 04:25 AM

hehe i remember a long time ago when kra'thuk got bugged out on AB for an hour or so and was basicly wandering the area... from the zone in to PF to the docks, he just ran around killing everyone in the zone, that was definitely good for a laugh lol

until the GMs came down and reset the zone SMILEY

DR_SP0 · 10-01-2006, 10:21 AM

I think everyone has been killed by Mangler at one point or another :smileyvery-happy:

Lanalia · 10-01-2006, 07:52 PM

Ohhh... Mangler was my arch nemesis. SMILEY

I agree, more roaming epics would rock. Keeps you on your toes!

Dragmoon · 10-02-2006, 11:31 AM

Rly... it can't be that hard to give some epic mobs nice path's then can walk along, killing some ppl who harvest or just /afk at a wrong place/wrong time situation :smileywink:

Isnt it fun... you walk along in the Greater Faydwer, singing a song and suddenly behind you there are some heavy metallic sounds from a gigantic mechanic Ak'Akonsaur or the Big Fungus O'Death or or or or or or or.....

So plz Dev's bit more entertainment in the Epic contested story :smileyhappy:

Dragmoon

Psychotic One · 10-02-2006, 03:00 PM

Forget that...For lesser Faydark if they want to instill terror into the playerbase it has to be the unicorn. Anyone from live knows the one. Where if you see it running your already dead. I swear my rogue would look down at the body piercing he spontaniously recieved as gnomes and LDON groups run in terror. ahhh memories

Kellin · 10-02-2006, 03:34 PM

Brownies. Nasty little snots. They terrorized me in LFay forever. Would bring chocolate back to the game, too!

Dakkon_10 · 10-02-2006, 05:44 PM

a tainted brownie hits YOU for 243 points of damage!a tainted brownie hits YOU for 732 points of damage!You have been slain by a tainted brownie!LOADING PLEASE WAIT...Good times.

mutschml · 10-02-2006, 06:23 PM

@descartin

you were one of those poor people being killed by out bad pull those days? That was some really fun stuff those days. he was invis on top of the entrance of varsoon, and everyone got killed.

We then thought it wasn't too nice to leave him there so we decided to pull it away from the entrance to the guards on the bridge. Althought the guards decided to help us, Doomsquall pwned them. Well doomsquall camped the bridge then. Anyway a bit better than camping the entrance of varsoon. Sorry for any inconvinience those days SMILEY

Anyway more roaming epics would be great. Just like roaming nameds. Would be fun to see The Carnovinigan roam on that island or all the other nameds.

Nukem, wizard of Fizzleblood on Kithicor

Message Edited by mutschml on 10-02-2006 04:23 PM

Triste-Lune · 10-02-2006, 07:24 PM

would be awsome to have some roaming epic and some lvl 75x4 roaming in lvl 30~40 zone to, give us reason to go back to zek everfrost enchanted land or lavastorm. One of my best memory was to cross kithicor forest at the wrong time, entered at dusk, had a fun run from neriak again to finally reach queynos SMILEY

.This is the kind of interraction we are missing.

Dragmoon · 10-02-2006, 08:26 PM

To bad we don't have a vote system here... :smileywink:

And yeah... more High(est) LvL Epics in lower zones (Antonica, TS, Zek; whatever) would be more than great..

Give the Epics legs again so they can walk into their D00M....

or our d00m??? we'll we will see :smileyvery-happy:

Drag

Krontak · 10-02-2006, 09:45 PM

As many others have suggested, spawning t7 epics in the lower tier zones would be a great way to have people re-explore old content imho. It would also spread the player base out a bit if multiple named spawned throughout the overland zones, in turn, causing less lag not only for the regular adventurers but also for the raiders going to detroy this menace to the zone. I thought an expansion pack dedicated solely to t7 x4 content would be awesome. I'd say 20-30 contested would be awesome. And with such a substatial playerbase now at the higher levels, there's a good chance, not just 2-3 guilds would be hoarding all the contested. They can't be 2-3 places at once can they?

Whitemane · 10-03-2006, 01:53 AM

HomeChicken wrote:

hehe i remember a long time ago when kra'thuk got bugged out on AB for an hour or so and was basicly wandering the area... from the zone in to PF to the docks, he just ran around killing everyone in the zone, that was definitely good for a laugh lol

until the GMs came down and reset the zone

Heheh It was less funny if you were in the raid that started it =D. If memory serves me correct that was my old guild who started that fiasco we pulled and all hell broke loose. Nuked the MT and then started running for the zone in. The screams were kinda humourous "OMG he's eating my face etc." Good times Good times.

Gemma(s) 70 Templar Exalted

Lanalia · 10-03-2006, 04:15 AM

Psychotic One wrote:

Forget that...For lesser Faydark if they want to instill terror into the playerbase it has to be the unicorn. Anyone from live knows the one. Where if you see it running your already dead. I swear my rogue would look down at the body piercing he spontaniously recieved as gnomes and LDON groups run in terror. ahhh memories

Oh there had BETTER be Equestrielle the Corrupted as an epic x4. If there isn't, I honestly will cry. I hated her so much... LOL.

Edit: I can't forget to mention the #1 reason this would be a good thing - it'd help "control" the bot groups. SMILEY

Message Edited by Lanalia on 10-02-2006 08:16 PM

Dakkon_10 · 10-03-2006, 06:41 AM

Lanalia wrote:I can't forget to mention the #1 reason this would be a good thing - it'd help "control" the bot groups.

Good Idea. The epics should definatley roam the bot heavy areas SMILEY

ShiftySands · 10-03-2006, 06:56 AM

They were the best part of raiding Everquest 1.

Or even just questing, I liked having to run around karana's looking for something, it gave more depth to the game.

Riversideblues · 10-03-2006, 07:07 AM

hahaa if my xp group had to get whiped back in the day from mangler and doomsqual, new players should have to wach their backs too!!!!

ShiftySands · 10-03-2006, 08:05 AM

Riversideblues wrote:
hahaa if my xp group had to get whiped back in the day from mangler and doomsqual, new players should have to wach their backs too!!!!

I remember that SMILEY

HomeChicken · 10-03-2006, 12:17 PM

gemma, not sure what guild you were in but the time we saw it happen i believe HA was actually tryin to take pulls on the kra'thuk, and we were actually formed up to do our first ever raid as a pickup raid force ABCRaid, we swung past kra'thuk thinking hey, one raid is as good as another, someone in the raid force agroed it i think, and then all hell broke loose lol, an hour later and a thousand laughs later they took the server down, nothing like hearing people screaming in shout over near where the broodmother spawns asking w t f just ate them hahaha

the kra'thuk was moving so fast too there was nothing you could do except sit back and enjoy the show, and die a lot haha

was a great start for our raiding force, that and our MT leading half our raid off a cliff in permafrost...

jeeze we rocked back then SMILEY

Lasai · 10-03-2006, 06:43 PM

I remember getting the level 35+ writs for Turtles in EL, finding the beach and happily ganking turtles until Cragshell the Turtle Avenger came boiling up out of the water and one-hit me.After that was absolute paranoia doing those writs, tracking for him between kills since you could not see him coming. I swear he stalked me.

Krooner · 10-03-2006, 09:25 PM

Roaming epics would be great. Like other have said. I remember in RV when you had to watch out for Mangler.

I would love to see contested and other nameds roam a bit more. I mean we all remember having to travel all over Ferrott trying to find the bouncers.

It not only adds to game immersion it adds to the excitement. The relms are a dangerous place so keep it that way.

littleman17 · 10-04-2006, 10:21 AM

More roaming epics would be cool, but only if they change the way they current work.

As it stands, they are up for about 5-10 minutes before they depop... unless you have some uber guild that is just sitting around waiting to raid anything that spawns, there is no way to get a raid together fast enough to take them down.

They should pop and stay popped untill they are killed (nothing like an ever present threat that may suddenly pop out of no where to keep you on your toes.) with a few safe spots where they do not path to.

Guy De Alsace · 10-06-2006, 03:31 PM

How about a roaming mob that starts out solo and as the day goes on grows more powerful until he is epic just before sunset. The following day he resets again. Something like Holly Windstalker that starts out her lonely walk as a lvl 20 one down, at noon becomes a 30^, 3 pm a 40^^^, 6pm a 50 Epic x2 and then as the darkness of night approaches becomes a lvl 70 epic x4 SMILEY

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DR_SP0 · 10-07-2006, 03:48 AM

fun from a roleplay perspective i guess but imagine the griefing that would occur, and how many times would it actually make it to epic? Would it despawn by dawn? Nah as fun as it might be in theory i dont see any way that could work in practice unless its somehow "unkillable" until it gets to its final form, but even then guilds would just wait until night and run in so theres not much point.I do however like the idea from EQ1 (i never played it) of having a place thats easy by day but hard by night, say a forest of skeletons by day but vampires by night, led by a big epic mob for raiders.Id also like more "Event" typ mobs, but thats something for another thread :smileyvery-happy:

Pathos311 · 10-10-2006, 11:00 AM

Omg A good idea from a stinkey German Barbian WOOT!!!!!!!

Rhona · 10-11-2006, 01:33 AM

DR_SP0CK wrote:I do however like the idea from EQ1 (i never played it) of having a place thats easy by day but hard by night, say a forest of skeletons by day but vampires by night, led by a big epic mob for raiders.

Queynos newbies always have Archer's Woods. Safe in general by day with deer mobs and rangers, unsafe by night with lots of gobbies.Rho

10-01-2006, 01:07 AM	#2
Dakkon_10 General Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 282	More roaming epics would rock. Static ones are too predictable.Besides, it never ceases ammuse me when a wandering epic stumbles apon a poor, unsuspecting pick-up group. __________________

10-01-2006, 02:28 AM	#4
pagit21 Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 18	Supernova17 wrote: It sounds cool Then again I remember that time on my then level 30 Conjuror I came out of Ruins of Varsoons and insta died. Turns out Doomy was camping the entrance. :smileysurprised: Remember before they fixed his pathing, shortly after release, Doomsquall used to camp the road by the gate to Antonica. That rocked, zoning in to all that carnage as Doomsquall had his way with everyone.

10-01-2006, 04:25 AM	#5
HomeChicken Loremaster Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 259	hehe i remember a long time ago when kra'thuk got bugged out on AB for an hour or so and was basicly wandering the area... from the zone in to PF to the docks, he just ran around killing everyone in the zone, that was definitely good for a laugh lol until the GMs came down and reset the zone __________________

10-01-2006, 10:21 AM	#6
DR_SP0 Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 46	I think everyone has been killed by Mangler at one point or another :smileyvery-happy: __________________ Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. - Frank Herbert

10-01-2006, 07:52 PM	#7
Lanalia Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 175	Ohhh... Mangler was my arch nemesis. I agree, more roaming epics would rock. Keeps you on your toes! __________________

09-30-2006, 09:52 PM	#1
Dragmoon Loremaster Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Germany/Giessen Posts: 32	I would love to see more roaming Epic's again in the future of EQ2.... like Grimfeather and Doomsquall in Thundering Steppes... was always cool when you saw em roaming through the areas... :smileywink: also I think it would give the run on contested a bit fresh air :smileyvery-happy: then static's like Mutagenic or Hurri or Matron... What do you peeps think about that.. and of course our dear Dev's Discuss Dragmoon __________________

10-01-2006, 02:18 AM	#3
Supernova17 Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,317	It sounds cool Then again I remember that time on my then level 30 Conjuror I came out of Ruins of Varsoons and insta died. Turns out Doomy was camping the entrance. :smileysurprised:

10-02-2006, 11:31 AM	#8
Dragmoon Loremaster Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Germany/Giessen Posts: 32	Rly... it can't be that hard to give some epic mobs nice path's then can walk along, killing some ppl who harvest or just /afk at a wrong place/wrong time situation :smileywink: Isnt it fun... you walk along in the Greater Faydwer, singing a song and suddenly behind you there are some heavy metallic sounds from a gigantic mechanic Ak'Akonsaur or the Big Fungus O'Death or or or or or or or..... So plz Dev's bit more entertainment in the Epic contested story :smileyhappy: Dragmoon __________________

10-02-2006, 03:00 PM	#9
Psychotic One Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 85	Forget that...For lesser Faydark if they want to instill terror into the playerbase it has to be the unicorn. Anyone from live knows the one. Where if you see it running your already dead. I swear my rogue would look down at the body piercing he spontaniously recieved as gnomes and LDON groups run in terror. ahhh memories __________________ I am the hurricane... There is a calm in my eye as I blow you all away

10-02-2006, 03:34 PM	#10
Kellin Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 903	Brownies. Nasty little snots. They terrorized me in LFay forever. Would bring chocolate back to the game, too! __________________

10-02-2006, 05:44 PM	#11
Dakkon_10 General Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 282	a tainted brownie hits YOU for 243 points of damage!a tainted brownie hits YOU for 732 points of damage!You have been slain by a tainted brownie!LOADING PLEASE WAIT...Good times. __________________

10-02-2006, 06:23 PM	#12
mutschml Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 25	@descartin you were one of those poor people being killed by out bad pull those days? That was some really fun stuff those days. he was invis on top of the entrance of varsoon, and everyone got killed. We then thought it wasn't too nice to leave him there so we decided to pull it away from the entrance to the guards on the bridge. Althought the guards decided to help us, Doomsquall pwned them. Well doomsquall camped the bridge then. Anyway a bit better than camping the entrance of varsoon. Sorry for any inconvinience those days Anyway more roaming epics would be great. Just like roaming nameds. Would be fun to see The Carnovinigan roam on that island or all the other nameds. Nukem, wizard of Fizzleblood on Kithicor Message Edited by mutschml on 10-02-2006 04:23 PM __________________ Nukem - 70-Wizard / 70 Tailor Bicia - 70-Coercer Achila 70-Alchimist Fizzleblood on Kithicor

10-02-2006, 07:24 PM	#13
Triste-Lune Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 482	would be awsome to have some roaming epic and some lvl 75x4 roaming in lvl 30~40 zone to, give us reason to go back to zek everfrost enchanted land or lavastorm. One of my best memory was to cross kithicor forest at the wrong time, entered at dusk, had a fun run from neriak again to finally reach queynos .This is the kind of interraction we are missing. __________________ outside of a dog reading is man's best friend. Inside it s too dark to read...

10-02-2006, 08:26 PM	#14
Dragmoon Loremaster Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Germany/Giessen Posts: 32	To bad we don't have a vote system here... :smileywink: And yeah... more High(est) LvL Epics in lower zones (Antonica, TS, Zek; whatever) would be more than great.. Give the Epics legs again so they can walk into their D00M.... or our d00m??? we'll we will see :smileyvery-happy: Drag __________________

10-02-2006, 09:45 PM	#15
Krontak Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 438	As many others have suggested, spawning t7 epics in the lower tier zones would be a great way to have people re-explore old content imho. It would also spread the player base out a bit if multiple named spawned throughout the overland zones, in turn, causing less lag not only for the regular adventurers but also for the raiders going to detroy this menace to the zone. I thought an expansion pack dedicated solely to t7 x4 content would be awesome. I'd say 20-30 contested would be awesome. And with such a substatial playerbase now at the higher levels, there's a good chance, not just 2-3 guilds would be hoarding all the contested. They can't be 2-3 places at once can they? __________________

10-03-2006, 01:53 AM	#16
Whitemane Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 195	HomeChicken wrote: hehe i remember a long time ago when kra'thuk got bugged out on AB for an hour or so and was basicly wandering the area... from the zone in to PF to the docks, he just ran around killing everyone in the zone, that was definitely good for a laugh lol until the GMs came down and reset the zone Heheh It was less funny if you were in the raid that started it =D. If memory serves me correct that was my old guild who started that fiasco we pulled and all hell broke loose. Nuked the MT and then started running for the zone in. The screams were kinda humourous "OMG he's eating my face etc." Good times Good times. Gemma(s) 70 Templar Exalted

10-03-2006, 04:15 AM	#17
Lanalia Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 175	Psychotic One wrote: Forget that...For lesser Faydark if they want to instill terror into the playerbase it has to be the unicorn. Anyone from live knows the one. Where if you see it running your already dead. I swear my rogue would look down at the body piercing he spontaniously recieved as gnomes and LDON groups run in terror. ahhh memories Oh there had BETTER be Equestrielle the Corrupted as an epic x4. If there isn't, I honestly will cry. I hated her so much... LOL. Edit: I can't forget to mention the #1 reason this would be a good thing - it'd help "control" the bot groups. Message Edited by Lanalia on 10-02-2006 08:16 PM __________________

10-03-2006, 06:41 AM	#18
Dakkon_10 General Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 282	Lanalia wrote:I can't forget to mention the #1 reason this would be a good thing - it'd help "control" the bot groups. Good Idea. The epics should definatley roam the bot heavy areas __________________

10-03-2006, 06:56 AM	#19
ShiftySands Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 257	They were the best part of raiding Everquest 1. Or even just questing, I liked having to run around karana's looking for something, it gave more depth to the game.

10-03-2006, 07:07 AM	#20
Riversideblues Loremaster Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 476	hahaa if my xp group had to get whiped back in the day from mangler and doomsqual, new players should have to wach their backs too!!!! __________________ I would not use my level 80 epic if it was given to me at level 70. Illusionist EPIC??, thanks for being 100% out of touch with the players.

10-03-2006, 08:05 AM	#21
ShiftySands Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 257	Riversideblues wrote: hahaa if my xp group had to get whiped back in the day from mangler and doomsqual, new players should have to wach their backs too!!!! I remember that

10-03-2006, 12:17 PM	#22
HomeChicken Loremaster Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 259	gemma, not sure what guild you were in but the time we saw it happen i believe HA was actually tryin to take pulls on the kra'thuk, and we were actually formed up to do our first ever raid as a pickup raid force ABCRaid, we swung past kra'thuk thinking hey, one raid is as good as another, someone in the raid force agroed it i think, and then all hell broke loose lol, an hour later and a thousand laughs later they took the server down, nothing like hearing people screaming in shout over near where the broodmother spawns asking w t f just ate them hahaha the kra'thuk was moving so fast too there was nothing you could do except sit back and enjoy the show, and die a lot haha was a great start for our raiding force, that and our MT leading half our raid off a cliff in permafrost... jeeze we rocked back then __________________

10-03-2006, 06:43 PM	#23
Lasai Loremaster Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: my own basement Posts: 1,295	I remember getting the level 35+ writs for Turtles in EL, finding the beach and happily ganking turtles until Cragshell the Turtle Avenger came boiling up out of the water and one-hit me.After that was absolute paranoia doing those writs, tracking for him between kills since you could not see him coming. I swear he stalked me. __________________ Never try to teach a pig to whistle. It only frustrates you and annoys the pig.

10-03-2006, 09:25 PM	#24
Krooner Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 912	Roaming epics would be great. Like other have said. I remember in RV when you had to watch out for Mangler. I would love to see contested and other nameds roam a bit more. I mean we all remember having to travel all over Ferrott trying to find the bouncers. It not only adds to game immersion it adds to the excitement. The relms are a dangerous place so keep it that way.

10-04-2006, 10:21 AM	#25
littleman17 Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 675	More roaming epics would be cool, but only if they change the way they current work. As it stands, they are up for about 5-10 minutes before they depop... unless you have some uber guild that is just sitting around waiting to raid anything that spawns, there is no way to get a raid together fast enough to take them down. They should pop and stay popped untill they are killed (nothing like an ever present threat that may suddenly pop out of no where to keep you on your toes.) with a few safe spots where they do not path to. __________________ Faynar: Level 71 Ranger Daynar: Level 57 Bruiser Tulnar: Level 61 Necromancer Kulnar: Level 50 Templar Bronar: Level 43 Paladin Vronar: Level 40 Defiler Everfrost FTW!

10-06-2006, 03:31 PM	#26
Guy De Alsace Loremaster Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: England Posts: 1,902	How about a roaming mob that starts out solo and as the day goes on grows more powerful until he is epic just before sunset. The following day he resets again. Something like Holly Windstalker that starts out her lonely walk as a lvl 20 one down, at noon becomes a 30^, 3 pm a 40^^^, 6pm a 50 Epic x2 and then as the darkness of night approaches becomes a lvl 70 epic x4 .

10-07-2006, 03:48 AM	#27
DR_SP0 Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 46	fun from a roleplay perspective i guess but imagine the griefing that would occur, and how many times would it actually make it to epic? Would it despawn by dawn? Nah as fun as it might be in theory i dont see any way that could work in practice unless its somehow "unkillable" until it gets to its final form, but even then guilds would just wait until night and run in so theres not much point.I do however like the idea from EQ1 (i never played it) of having a place thats easy by day but hard by night, say a forest of skeletons by day but vampires by night, led by a big epic mob for raiders.Id also like more "Event" typ mobs, but thats something for another thread :smileyvery-happy: __________________ Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. - Frank Herbert

10-10-2006, 11:00 AM	#28
Pathos311 Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 33	Omg A good idea from a stinkey German Barbian WOOT!!!!!!!

10-11-2006, 01:33 AM	#29
Rhona Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 89	DR_SP0CK wrote:I do however like the idea from EQ1 (i never played it) of having a place thats easy by day but hard by night, say a forest of skeletons by day but vampires by night, led by a big epic mob for raiders. Queynos newbies always have Archer's Woods. Safe in general by day with deer mobs and rangers, unsafe by night with lots of gobbies.Rho __________________