Definitive P99 Everquest Cities Tier List

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

Neriak

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This is a one-stop shop for all evil races and even some morality bending good ones. Its got everything you need and even stuff you don't so watch your step in the Foreign Quarter. Its directly beside a Wiz spire and also beside Lavastorm, an excellent content rich zone that spans many levels with tons of quests and a Druid Ring as well. A main travel stop for all classes. Nektulos also has a cometent newbie experience and is actually great when super populated during server fresh starts. Dark Elf factions have all kinds of benefits and detractions. Great job Dark Elves.

Neriak is a great city, my favorite city in the game, but I feel like I'd be doing folks a disservice by not putting down some firm warnings about this place.

I've tested factions on the city as a whole extensively on a number of characters and quite honestly there are only two races that are genuinely safe here; dark elves and trolls. Some types of ogres are as well (tested on a CT Ogre SK and was totally fine) but I have also seen ogre corpses periodically strewn about in the Commons section, which leads me to believe Rallos Zek ogres aren't quite so fine there.

As far as the good races go, only those from the good races totally committed to evil through an evil class and/or evil deity would have a shot in being safe through much of the city, and sometimes not even then. A Cazic-Thule Erudite Cleric was KoS in some areas, while an Innoruuk Human was mostly fine with the exception of a necromancer or SK being KoS to the Spurned guild (though this is fixable in the case of the necro later with your skeleton illusion). Agnostic humans and gnomes are limited to just a couple of areas throughout the city without some clever faction work, and just about every other non-evil race can forget about ever coming here, minus those with Sneak shenanigans and likely some specific help (looking at that one halfling cleric I saw in the bank the other day [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]).

However I haven't tested every single example out there, so essentially when in doubt, con everything. There are a lot of various nooks and crannies through the city each with their own unique factions. It's an awesome city with great ambiance that really makes you feel like a villain, and it's precisely why I've done so much testing with factions. Because being able to hang out in Neriak is an actual selling point for rolling certain characters in my case.

Have fun and hail Innoruuk. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]