Why did you prefer _______ video of mine?

[Tecmos Deception]

Hope a new thread from my other one isn't too lame, but I've been wondering: why did my videos like the one in hole entrance or the one XPing on grobb guards get 5k+ views, but stuff like the group in HS west or nurga got only 1k or fewer?

Just kinda curious as I consider making some new videos. If I get motivated, I have ideas for at least 8-10 more. But my favorite videos I did aren't the ones that got the most views, so just wondering what makes you dudes tick.

[Tecmos Deception]

I've also toyed with the idea of deleveling back to 12 (when chanters first get charm) to record videos for 12-30 that I didn't do originally... kerra especially, but also najena and sola... cant remember where else I was before I started videos in CT.). But Im also kinda feeling like playing around at 60, so either that will need to be a new enchanter or it'll have to wait until I'm fed up with the high-end dungeons :)

[Canelek]

People want to see solo challenge videos. Especially those with loot. As for Grobb, it is super popular at times and folks love to make money while leveling.

[commongood]

For goodness sake don’t de-level to 12 lol. The effort it would take to create a new chanter and do 1-12 surely is preferable to losing your level 60. Imagine if you regret. I know your de-leveled Noman would be a level 12 with great gear but still...

As for what videos get many (re?)views it’s probably hard to hone in on one explanation. But I would guess the fact that you have one video from each of the hole and Grobb and many from HS might play a part in it. Also, HS is more the beaten path so maybe fewer people feel the need to learn about that zone? I’ve personally watched most - if not all - your HS vids as I personally think they were more relevant to me as I knew I wanted to exp there.

But yeah like Canelek said, people love videos that promise exp AND plat farming :)

You messing around at 60, exploring and showing what a 60 chanter is capable of is definitely what I would love to see more of. SG in particular (as I’ve pestered you for in other threads :p), Sebilis, VL, KC even or a cliff golem lol :)

[applesauce25r624]

those view counts make no sense. Bots?

[Doctor Jeff]

I love the HS videos.

I think maybe the easier stuff was more accessible to players that you inspired to play enchanters and they probably got rewatched a lot more while people tried to learn from you.

[Tecmos Deception]

Aight then. I want to do some more videos soon, but since I'm bound in pom until I can at least buy/loot a blue throne and crown, I really only can do pom again (think I'll explore more and kill stuff besides aiw and puppets). Guess I could run my tunnel bard to SG and do a video of me trying to get him a shawl... Lol. What level 45 tunnel bard would be complete without water elemental illusion, after all?

Though really I don't want to do SG without rebinding inside of it I guess :-/

[Barm McLir]

My guess would be the levels. I suspect character abandonment on P99 is your classic bathtub curve.

If you don't mind a request, I'd like to see Sirens' Grotto.

[Tecmos Deception]

Yeah, I'll do SG. I thought I had an SG video already but it was actually just like 10 min of me exploring it before I went somewhere else. But it's gonna have to wait until I leave pom and can rebind elsewhere. Getting back to the neriad shawl spot every time I die (and die I will) will be a huge pain.

Are there free, decent video-editting programs? Would be nice if I could do a video where I fast forward through CRs and med breaks and crap so I dont run out of things to talk about and cut the movie off after only an hour.

[Triiz]

Was binding in SG not nerfed with the removal of being able to bind in Velious dungeons? Maybe it wasn't, I haven't messed around in SG since before that nerf, I just assumed it was removed.

[Doctor Jeff]

Aight then. I want to do some more videos soon, but since I'm bound in pom until I can at least buy/loot a blue throne and crown, I really only can do pom again (think I'll explore more and kill stuff besides aiw and puppets). Guess I could run my tunnel bard to SG and do a video of me trying to get him a shawl... Lol. What level 45 tunnel bard would be complete without water elemental illusion, after all?

Though really I don't want to do SG without rebinding inside of it I guess :-/

Would love more PoM videos! They are super fun.

[Tecmos Deception]

Was binding in SG not nerfed with the removal of being able to bind in Velious dungeons? Maybe it wasn't, I haven't messed around in SG since before that nerf, I just assumed it was removed.

Uh, I don't know. I know I could bind in there when I was there 8-ish months ago or whenever.


Would love more PoM videos! They are super fun.

Like 99% of the time I've spent in the zone has been in aiw with like two partial clears of puppets... so I'll try to go kill the other random stuff I can find too to make it more interesting. I'm sure I'll die a couple horrible deaths in the garden, and I thought I rememberd those gorillas in the chess board or whatever having crazy resists or something, and I've never gone down into the lower level or killed in the forest either. So maybe it'll turn into a marathon video or maybe I'll have to do a few to cover everything.

[Doctor Jeff]

I've also toyed with the idea of deleveling back to 12 (when chanters first get charm)

I am deleveling my blue chanter right now because I read this post and it sounds like so much fun.

[Triiz]

Uh, I don't know. I know I could bind in there when I was there 8-ish months ago or whenever.


If it was after July 2017 maybe it wasn't removed with most of the other Velious dungeons.


Haynar: If bound in certain velious dungeons, the bind location will be updated to ecommons, when logging in to character select.

[Tecmos Deception]

Was that the same patch that fixed summon companion working on charmed pets? If yes then yeah, I was in SG before they changed binding. Ah well. I'll track down someone to help me with rezzes or whatever when I do a video in there.

[Triiz]

Was that the same patch that fixed summon companion working on charmed pets? If yes then yeah, I was in SG before they changed binding. Ah well. I'll track down someone to help me with rezzes or whatever when I do a video in there.

Yeah, same patch. https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=277618

I have a toon camped in CS I'll try to bind in SG when I get a chance in a few hours to make sure it was one that was nerfed.

Fwiw should still be able to corpse some stalking probes and use them on CR's to train merbs before you jump in the water.

[Emmin]

Can’t bind in SG anymore and summon companion no longer works on charmed pets. People were exploiting both of those features to kill Fellspine. Level up an enchanter to 12 and bind it outside for easy CRs. Or just PM me when you plan on doing SG, Tecmos, and I’ll give you the login info for mine.

[Tecmos Deception]

Can’t bind in SG anymore and summon companion no longer works on charmed pets. People were exploiting both of those features to kill Fellspine. Level up an enchanter to 12 and bind it outside for easy CRs. Or just PM me when you plan on doing SG, Tecmos, and I’ll give you the login info for mine.

Good idea. I need a new chanter to do 12-30 videos with eventually anyway.

[skarlorn]

Hey man. I think those videos probably got more views because they seem more accessible to a just-starting enc.

Killing guards has always been an object of fascination for the eq community

[mickmoranis]

Aight then. I want to do some more videos soon, but since I'm bound in pom until I can at least buy/loot a blue throne and crown, I really only can do pom again (think I'll explore more and kill stuff besides aiw and puppets). Guess I could run my tunnel bard to SG and do a video of me trying to get him a shawl... Lol. What level 45 tunnel bard would be complete without water elemental illusion, after all?

Though really I don't want to do SG without rebinding inside of it I guess :-/

SG is like a stones through from POM, infact POM Is an excellent bind for SG hunting!

[mickmoranis]

you want a hot video series tecmos? Do a solo artist challenge video where you check off every mob on the list over the course of many videos.

[Tecmos Deception]

you want a hot video series tecmos? Do a solo artist challenge video where you check off every mob on the list over the course of many videos.

I've played multiple 60 chanters. Why not do the SAC more than once? Lol :)

[Canelek]

Pair off Seb named in duels. :)

[markymark84]

Can you show and/or list the gear your are wearing at different points in the series??
I know ive paused the screen to try and see multiple times.

[Tecmos Deception]

Can you show and/or list the gear your are wearing at different points in the series??
I know ive paused the screen to try and see multiple times.

I'd have to go back through the videos on my end to pause when I open my inventory... which sounds like a huge pain.

Up until 50+ though I don't think I really had anything too fancy. Tranix crown, hiero cloak are probably the most expensive pieces besides the goblin gazughi ring. Other than that I just try to find the most efficient charisma items (so like, sure, I could have worn a +5 charisma robe but the tola robe is kinda awesome for the price, delivering 10 int, 50 mana, some strength, etc... so that's a slot I didn't get charisma on) like rod of insidious glamour, jewelcrafted charisma pieces, loam boots, etc. As I leveled and my charisma buff put me over 255, I basically just traded out JCed charisma rings for 6/65 rings... I don't really remember many other changes over time.

My basic idea is I try to max charisma, for leveling up especially since I don't have to deal with summoners and sometimes have more room to work with, as long as it isn't a huge tradeoff to do so in any given slot. Once I get 50+ I keep charisma maxed (which is easier cause the buff is 40-50 points) and add in hp and ac gear like 6/65 rings, idol of the thorned, orb of the infinite void, etc., reasoning that I basically never lose a fight because I went from 100m to oom, but I regularly lose fights because I die on bad pull or charm break because I take too much damage. Int/mp/magic resist are all on my list of nice things to have, they're just generally things I pick up along the way, not that I focus on.

[mickmoranis]

I've played multiple 60 chanters. Why not do the SAC more than once? Lol :)

I think you shoiuld, if you were looking to make more videos. It gives you direction, and your experience will make it that much more enjoyable becuse youll either have cool strats already, youll know ones that dont work, and youll experement with new ones

I mean if you're making enchanter videos, unless you're making crafting how to's then you're gonna be killing a mob on the solo artist challange anywayl, so why not make a series about it! It'd be fire. :o

[Tecmos Deception]

We'll see if I've got the motivation. P99 nearly broke me yesterday. Actually logged off without my corpse cause I was so fed up with getting the shittiest charm breaks all day long. I've probably only called it a day while my body was still rotting in the bottom of a dungeon like 3 times in my history on P99 :-/

[mickmoranis]

We'll see if I've got the motivation. P99 nearly broke me yesterday. Actually logged off without my corpse cause I was so fed up with getting the shittiest charm breaks all day long. I've probably only called it a day while my body was still rotting in the bottom of a dungeon like 3 times in my history on P99 :-/

welcome to the 99%

keep at it tho plz I have no intention of getting addicted again so I just need to enjoy the game by watching you.

[kaluann]

Big fan of your videos, and would love to see more stuff in the lower level range (especially dungeon stuff).

My ench is only 24 and while I learned a ton watching your vids, its definitely a lot different charm soloing when spells like calm, stun, and root take a decent chunk of mana. Would love to see how you break camps like the goblin camps in Najena with multiple mage mobs with pets.

Really enjoying the class, learning a ton (and dying a ton) in upper guk and cant wait to hit some of the spots in your vids once I gain a few levels!

[Tecmos Deception]

Big fan of your videos, and would love to see more stuff in the lower level range (especially dungeon stuff).

My ench is only 24 and while I learned a ton watching your vids, its definitely a lot different charm soloing when spells like calm, stun, and root take a decent chunk of mana. Would love to see how you break camps like the goblin camps in Najena with multiple mage mobs with pets.

Really enjoying the class, learning a ton (and dying a ton) in upper guk and cant wait to hit some of the spots in your vids once I gain a few levels!

Yeah my idea of deleveling Noman faded quickly. I'll get around to making a new chanter and putting him in ALS and doing some 12-30 videos.

Iirc I did kerra isle (pretty crazy zone to charm in cause of rangers snaring you and shamans healing and whatever), najena (spiders, goblins, skeletons? it really wasn't too tricky compared to kerra), Sola (lololol farmers, PLers, random high levels killing my mobs cause they saw invis and aggrod ... FUCK that zone and the people in it) before I started Noman's videos with CT.

It's a shame charming is so tough before the mid-20s or so, cause I'm pretty fond of most low-level dungeons, but they're pretty risky to do leveling in when charm is fickle and mana regen is crap, even if you do twink for nice cha and mana pool and goblin ring and whatnot. Iirc I wanted to visit more zones than I did when I leveled Noman, but I had a hard time finding spots where solo charming could work well... too many spots have a wide level range in the same camp so you're either low enough you cant do it or too high to get xp from half the mobs. But I wouldn't mind testing the waters again in befallen, blackburrow, etc. Everyone knows kurns but it's a fun place still.

[enjchanter]

I think I actually enjoyed the lower level videos most as well. Reason being they we're just areas I never xp'd in really and was interesting to see.

I also have a weird thing where I like to see what kind of UI set up other people run with. Esp other enchanters and their spell line ups

[markymark84]

Definately the lower level vids would be cool.. and potentially a path to follow from 1-60.. would be cool to Roll a fresh enchanter and follow your steps to 60 watching the vids

[Grimleaf]

I would prefer to see some pro tip of the day videos in short 5 minute clips, where you show us little known or overlooked tricks. I think these videos would be easy to make and super helpful to people trying to attain some enchanter knowledge.