How do I kill the dragons?

[magnetaress]

Originally Posted by Elijah850 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

TLP servers are fun if you have the time to do content in era. After Playing Coirnav in 2018 and Mangler in 2019, Live TLPs were a great way to refresh and relearn alot of the quirks of Everquest after not having played since 2001ish.

That said, the revamped classic zones on Live servers, to me, just didn't check all my nostalgia boxes at the time. I had a alot of fun raiding Classic - Velious on those 2 TLPs, but the speed of new expansion unlocks and my apathy for content post Velious both made Project 1999 more interesting to me personally after I finally came here in early 2020.

No matter where you go at this point, Live or P99, your biggest hurdle will be tuning out the most "dedicated" players personalities and enjoying your time for what it is in this old game we all love.

yep this is my #1 gripe i wish we could pick which erra zone we got

[Elijah850]

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

I am about half way through level 51 on my cleric. This is the highest level I've ever reached in the classic era of Everquest. My brother and myself started playing again around the launch of green and have slowly leveled both of our characters. He is more hardcore then me because he got his first ever crack itch and leveled 2 toons to 50(Wiz and Necro). I'm a pretty casual player and don't' intend on ever being a serious raider.

I would really like to slay Lady Vox and Lord Nagafen and experience it with my brother.


Whats the best way to be a part of these fights? Are their guilds recommended to join?

Like was mentioned above: After you ding level 53 you will be banished from Nagafen or Vox if you cast or melee at all. If you don't care about loot and can ignore some of the more "active" raiders.....personalities, your best bet at seeing these Dragon's corpses the soonest would be to assimilate into the biggest guilds(on Green anyway) <Kingdom> or <Good Guys>. If you like low man challenges and can also tune out more "active" raiders personalities then there are many options also, albeit you will be on the receiving end being overrun by the bigger guilds more often. <Castle>, <Safe Space>, <Fires of Heaven>, and to a lesser extent <The Drift> and <Nova> all experience end game dragons, including Vox and Nagafen from time to time given how the cards land at the given time they appear.

Acclimating to the status quo of raiding in general on Project 1999 is the biggest hurdle in my opinion and it's definately not for everyone. Hope this helps!

[Loadsamoney]

Man, you guys make it sound like raiding on Green or even Blue means you have to be a diaper-wearing degenerate who has no job, social life, or obligations to anything but their keyboard, as if you have to be willing to sacrifice everything and spend 100 hours at your computer every week and be on call every second of the day.

[PatChapp]

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

Man, you guys make it sound like raiding on Green or even Blue means you have to be a diaper-wearing degenerate who has no job, social life, or obligations to anything but their keyboard, as if you have to be willing to sacrifice everything and spend 100 hours at your computer every week and be on call every second of the day.

If you want to, yeah.
Or you can do that for an afternoon every couple weeks when you feel like it

There are players who try to hit everything everytime,there is also players who go on raids every third Saturday

[Jimjam]

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

If you want to, yeah.
Or you can do that for an afternoon every couple weeks when you feel like it

There are players who try to hit everything everytime,there is also players who go on raids every third Saturday

Agreed, there is something for everyone - from the guy that shows up 4 times a year to the one that won’t miss a single spawn.

Don’t think that just because you can no-life it for a 16 hrs a day that you have to. That would be wrong.

[Loadsamoney]

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

If you want to, yeah.
Or you can do that for an afternoon every couple weeks when you feel like it

There are players who try to hit everything everytime,there is also players who go on raids every third Saturday

My plan when I eventually get into raiding is to be the guy that consistently makes the weekly schedule. For instance, if the guild raids twice a week, once on a day I work and once on my off days, say Thursday and Sunday, my aim is to try and always make it to the Sunday raid, whatever it is, and be consistent and reliable.

Anything beyond that depends on my schedule and how much free time I have.

[Videri]

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

Man, you guys make it sound like raiding on Green or even Blue means you have to be a diaper-wearing degenerate who has no job, social life, or obligations to anything but their keyboard, as if you have to be willing to sacrifice everything and spend 100 hours at your computer every week and be on call every second of the day.

I didn't mean to make it sound like that. I was trying to manage OP's expectations. You can see dragons if you are online or ready to raid during an earthquake, or if you are able to respond quickly enough to a batphone of a natural spawn here and there. But killing Vox means being already parked, or bound outside of Permafrost, due to the distance.

[Topgunben]

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

Man, you guys make it sound like raiding on Green or even Blue means you have to be a diaper-wearing degenerate who has no job, social life, or obligations to anything but their keyboard, as if you have to be willing to sacrifice everything and spend 100 hours at your computer every week and be on call every second of the day.

Pretty much accurate.

Every dismissal of my earlier post only confirms your suspicions and my experience.

You will not be able to beat the neckbeards at their own game. They are more dedicated and will get all the dragon loot. This is their life. I repeat, this is their life. THIS IS THEIR LIFE. I think it’s mostly autistics that are in this crowd. They tend to have the personality for a game like this.

[Ooloo]

I mean a lot also depends on what class you play. If you're the MT (or one of them) for your guild prepare to play 24\7 or shell out your account info to every mage main who kinda knows how to tank.

[Ooloo]

You can also just go to vox and nag (or any other raid) whether you're in the guild killing them or not. There's (almost) no rule that says you must vacate the area when a raid happens. If you just want to *see* eq raid mobs it's pretty easy to do no matter who you are, and you can actually learn a lot about how the encounters go just as a spectator.