Swimming skill

[perditionparty]

I do not condone this or endorse it and am only posting because I found it amusing.

I recently installed EQ on a friends computer to play at their house for a bit. I forgot to delete lavastorm nek etc. I had logged out of Lava and when i logged back in it was the new zone set up. Perplexed as to what the hell was going on I ran around the zone trying to find Nek, Najena, SolA and B or the druid rings, to zone into or port out of. During the period of running around for 5 minutes before someone pointed out my error, my swimming had increased as if I were swimming instead of running the whole time.


The easiest way I trained swimming was to swim back and forth along Oasis shoreline during downtime (especially during high peak hours and mobs weren't always available).

[Era'viss]

Mine has been moving crazy slow as well (at about 110 from starting at 100 as an Iksar). I was wondering if it was because my low int/wis. Is the rate in which the skill increases based on those attributes?

[Sorn]

They nerfed swimming so it goes a lot slower than it used to (referring to back in 2010). Skill-ups every 10-20 minutes now...painful...

[Brontus]

Originally Posted by Sorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They nerfed swimming so it goes a lot slower than it used to (referring to back in 2010). Skill-ups every 10-20 minutes now...painful...

They nerfed swimming skill increases? I guess we can't have a server of over-powered "swimmers" running around and running it for others [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I too find swimming to be absurdly hard to increase compared to what it was on the original EQ servers.

One thing I don't understand is how there are two standards to how things are done on P1999:

1. Everything must be classic EQ
2. Rule 1 is null and void if we believe it needs to change

[Sweettouch]

Get an eb item and sit in a body of water,aint hard do chores etc while you wait

[Huggz]

It is bugged, the rate of increase is confirmed not classic.

Just leave your toon on auto swim overnight.

[Pyrocat]

Try Kedge entrance with an EB item and swim in circles. For some reason I always got skill ups very quickly there.

[Haystacks]

Play in windowed mode and hold down left or right so your characters spins in circles, then click outside eq window and your char will stay spinning and level up while afk. You don't even need an eb item.

[indiscriminate_hater]

vlassic

[iruinedyourday]

my sense heading is going up at the slowest rate on my most recent character, than it has ever... its like at (7) and been bound to my strafe left for like 20 levels... its weird.