Why is this camp still on the per-level hunting guide lmao.

[cd288]

I don't think there's any validity too it at the end of the day. Although I too at times have wondered if there's validity to the conspiracy theory that the game is coded to ensure things definitely happen a certain percentage of the time, so if you've been having it too easy you'll get a run of bad RNG.

But then I remind myself the amount of data mining that has been done on EverQuest at this point and surely someone would've turned up lines of code as evidence for that?

At the end of the day I think it's just that we play this game so much. And if you do anything enough over a period of time it's just statistically likely that you'll run into streaky periods of RNG...and we remember those more because they stand out, unlike the thousands of hours of normal RNG that we've gone through.

[Jimjam]

I spent months farming an embalmers skinning knife and had a second drop pretty much straight after. Both aspects of that were crazy RNG, but I do believe it was just the flip of the coin.

[jolanar]

I farmed Cyndreela for 2 levels on my rogue. I want to say it was 51/52. The only hard part was getting the first kill when she was buffed with a pet up. After that it was ezmode.

[Jimjam]

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

I farmed Cyndreela for 2 levels on my rogue. I want to say it was 51/52. The only hard part was getting the first kill when she was buffed with a pet up. After that it was ezmode.

Have a few pumice for breaking the camp. Engage with first click, second click is usually easy to get off as she likes to take a mo to cast a spell on the way in. Often that strips enough buffs to make fight easier.

[Wakanda]

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

I farmed Cyndreela for 2 levels on my rogue. I want to say it was 51/52. The only hard part was getting the first kill when she was buffed with a pet up. After that it was ezmode.

That's not the hard part in my experience, and I've tried it on several different classes. I could genuinely believe a twinked melee with a fungus tunic, ton of HP, etc. would prob do well against her. A Rogue could backstab her while she is casting, maybe even occasionally get some fears off.

What gets me is, I will have a streak where I farm her like clockwork for 2 hours, and then a random Cyndreela spawns that resists almost everything I throw at her, even if I tash her first, by the time I kill her (and I usually do), I have two DoTs on me that I cannot survive and have no way of removing. I imagine Necromancer and Shamans could do a better job on her between being able to lifetap skeletons and remove these ailments, but Wizards, Enchanters, Magicians etc. are going to run into a lot of problems.

What I discovered is that even if I kill her for two hours straight, that single death sets me back to having less experience than I had before. And honestly the randomly ultra resistant Cyndreelas prob happen more often than every 2 hours. I remember when I finally hung my hat up it was because I realized I now had lost so much experience on her that I actually had more experience a week ago when I was doing ramps in City of Mist and decided it isn't worth it.

[cd288]

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

That's not the hard part in my experience, and I've tried it on several different classes. I could genuinely believe a twinked melee with a fungus tunic, ton of HP, etc. would prob do well against her. A Rogue could backstab her while she is casting, maybe even occasionally get some fears off.

What gets me is, I will have a streak where I farm her like clockwork for 2 hours, and then a random Cyndreela spawns that resists almost everything I throw at her, even if I tash her first, by the time I kill her (and I usually do), I have two DoTs on me that I cannot survive and have no way of removing. I imagine Necromancer and Shamans could do a better job on her between being able to lifetap skeletons and remove these ailments, but Wizards, Enchanters, Magicians etc. are going to run into a lot of problems.

What I discovered is that even if I kill her for two hours straight, that single death sets me back to having less experience than I had before. And honestly the randomly ultra resistant Cyndreelas prob happen more often than every 2 hours. I remember when I finally hung my hat up it was because I realized I now had lost so much experience on her that I actually had more experience a week ago when I was doing ramps in City of Mist and decided it isn't worth it.

Ench should have an easy time. You can either stun or cast a quick low level mez on her to disrupt casting.

Mage has their pet, although have to be careful not to pull aggro.

[Wakanda]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ench should have an easy time. You can either stun or cast a quick low level mez on her to disrupt casting.

Mage has their pet, although have to be careful not to pull aggro.

i would have 2-3 hour streaks where i would kill her on cooldown, but then random ones where she resists literally everything, even though i usually still kill her, by this point i have DoT's on me that are fatal (Im not twinked)

I havent played on P99 since around the time I made this thread, but I do plan on trying to use a charmed pet next time that way.... I dont have to worry as much about aggro

i was using animation just because my animations can solo specters, so it was nice to have the luxury of going afk and not worrying about my pet or low level dry bones runnning up and beating me and having to waste mana to deal with them

but for science whenever i get back on p99 i will experiment with charm and this camp more (specters is camped a lot of times, but may try a bouncer)

[Wakanda]

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

i would have 2-3 hour streaks where i would kill her on cooldown, but then random ones where she resists literally everything, even though i usually still kill her, by this point i have DoT's on me that are fatal (Im not twinked)

i forgot to emphasize here, like, at 50+ the exp is so slow that that one death kind of sets you back to the exp you were when you started, and in a few instances when i got back to the camp, the super spawn cyndreela was up still and killed me again, like actually had to log on my necro to kill her

[cd288]

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

i would have 2-3 hour streaks where i would kill her on cooldown, but then random ones where she resists literally everything, even though i usually still kill her, by this point i have DoT's on me that are fatal (Im not twinked)

I havent played on P99 since around the time I made this thread, but I do plan on trying to use a charmed pet next time that way.... I dont have to worry as much about aggro

i was using animation just because my animations can solo specters, so it was nice to have the luxury of going afk and not worrying about my pet or low level dry bones runnning up and beating me and having to waste mana to deal with them

but for science whenever i get back on p99 i will experiment with charm and this camp more (specters is camped a lot of times, but may try a bouncer)

I would also wonder if you even need a pet as the Ench. Mez, tash, root (do you need root or will she always just stand back and nuke)...then nuke her, use a GCD cooldown to quickly cast your low level mez on her, nuke again, repeat. Depending on your mana pool I would think you could just totally nuke her down with using mez to interrupt her casts.

[Eisai]

Why not charm a spec or cover so it eats all the dots?