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My Legendary Adventures in Norrath

Voxl the Ogre works his way through EverQuest Legends from the tutorial up, and the guides come out of the run.

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Castle Nektropos

Castle Nektropos

First trip into Castle Nektropos, which opens with a three part errand for Lord Everling before you are let through the gate. A lost ring, a sapphire and a setting from two cities, and a visit to the high priestess in the open world Plane of Hate. Then the castle itself on difficulty zero as Shadow Knight, Monk and Shaman: seven murdered sisters, a locked library, a key built from four scattered parts, and a quest that ends with a sword hilt and a promise to the sisters' mother.

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Wow This Bee...

Wow This Bee...

Taking the Shaman into Plane of Sky at 46 instead of waiting for 50, clearing two islands for wind runes and a level, and turning in enough to walk out with a feign death clicky. Plus why difficulty four Cazic Thule still will not die.

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Deep In the Hole Looking For A Rat

Deep In the Hole Looking For A Rat

One item in one trip: the Idol of the Underking out of The Hole for Improved Healing III, and it dropped first try. Plus why difficulty four Cazic Thule stopped dying, and the AA I cannot afford yet.

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Guk Is So Good - WAR / BRD / SHM

Guk Is So Good - WAR / BRD / SHM

Guk in the high twenties on the new Shaman, and the episode where the numbers get explained: why the Bard chants are the free damage, what each third class actually adds, and why Innoruuk needs his own melody. The Hole at 42 is next.

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Quick Trip To Najena - WAR / BRD / SHM

Quick Trip To Najena - WAR / BRD / SHM

Najena from 15 to 19 on the new Shaman, and Journeyman's Boots off Drelzna on the first attempt. The zone is close to unreadable in the dark until you turn on the client's enhanced vision setting, which the illusion you need to get in does not fix.

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Crushing Some Bones - WAR / BRD / SHM

Crushing Some Bones - WAR / BRD / SHM

A second loadout starts at level 10 wearing the level 50 gear, and Crushbone has exactly one thing worth the trip: the Spiky Splintmail and its permanent Bramble Coat click. The experience here is poor, and the zone's own Hunter achievement does not credit its named.

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Plane of Sky

Plane of Sky

Part one of Plane of Sky at 49, with the swim from East Freeport that gets you there without a Wizard. Includes an alchemy crash course, the island boss knockback trick, and the Grandmaster shortcut that skips Plane of Fear for Warrior armour.

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Innoruuk, Prince of Hate

Innoruuk, Prince of Hate

Innoruuk at difficulty zero, plus the Agnostic deity quest that asks for him and Cazic Thule. His resists are the exact inverse of Cazic's, which is the one thing worth knowing before you build a spell set.

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Cazic Thule

Cazic Thule

First trip into Plane of Fear, difficulty zero, and Cazic Thule at the end of it. Fire and cold both bounce off him, so half the chant melody does nothing. Plus a home built log parser to prove what is actually landing.

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Hate is the Place to Be

Hate is the Place to Be

An hour of Plane of Hate on difficulty one at 46, farming Warrior armour and platinum. The chant build runs itself, a charmed pet does most of the killing, and Befallen gear still beats what drops here.

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Lady Vox

Lady Vox

Lady Vox at 46 on difficulty zero, the day after Nagafen. Same build with one spell swapped for her immunity, one charmed priest, and the third raid token of the week. She dropped a 32% haste belt.

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Lord Nagafen

Lord Nagafen

Lord Nagafen at 46 on difficulty zero, solo, in Befallen leftovers. The Bard chant build does the damage for free and health regen tanks the whole clear. The dragon was easy; the loot was not worth it.

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Imps Are Easy In SolB

Imps Are Easy In SolB

Sol B from 42 to 46 in two or three hours of casual grinding, charming imps on a loop around the Efreeti Lord Djarn camp. No placeholders means Djarn is always back, which took the boots to plus four and the ring to plus three. Nagafen is next.

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Master Yael

Master Yael

Master Yael at level 42 on difficulty zero, solo, in Befallen and Lower Guk gear. Charm the channeler, let the wizard burn his mana, and hold a heal over time. Earthshaker and Brell's Girdle drop, plus the Void-touched Potential from the quest.

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King Voxl Lord of Guk

King Voxl Lord of Guk

Level 40 in Lower Guk, where Bard charm turns the King into a two on one fight. The charm-and-send trick, the focus items worth farming on live side, and 1,500 platinum earned since 32.

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The Eye of My Desire

The Eye of My Desire

Solusek's Eye from 25 to 32, goblins first and then gnomes, which turn out to be the best money in the game at that level. Steadfast Will gets started, the Iksar unlock gets priced, and the plan gets cut short in favour of Lower Guk.

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Befallen Is The Best

Befallen Is The Best

The Befallen basement from 20 to 25, with the named rotation mapped, 48 AA banked, and the Linux crashes finally gone after switching Crossover to the Vulkan backend. Next stop is Solusek's Eye.

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Gotta Get Our Shrink On

Gotta Get Our Shrink On

Ring of Surefall Glade to Blackburrow at 15 for the shrink shoulders, which drop twelve minutes in. Then the rest of the zone gets cleared for the belt, the breastplate, the bandana, and the bow, because being an Ogre in doorways had gotten old.

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Back On Track

Back On Track

Instances are back, the loadout switched to Warrior / Druid / Bard at 10, and Befallen goes from a grind to a walk. The scythe drops on the very first kill of the named that carries it, Improved Bash comes online, and level 12 becomes 15.

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Struggling with No Instances

Struggling with No Instances

Personal instances go down on Freeport, which turns leveling into open world West Commonlands with four hill giants on screen and nothing blue left alive. Level 7 to 8 the hard way, and a debugger attached to chase the crash.

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Some Befallen

Some Befallen

First trip into Befallen on a D0 solo instance at level 5, learning that an Enchanter pet is not a tank, and fighting a Linux client that crashes on loot four times in one session.

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Executing the Plan

Executing the Plan

Launch day on Freeport. Voxl the Ogre Warrior / Enchanter runs the tutorial for boots, crosses Antonica by dying on purpose, borrows Sneak from a Rogue loadout to buy tiny daggers, and reaches level 5 outside Befallen in an hour and a half.

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