Gukin' Around - Everquest Legends Pre Order Beta
A casual Guk grind at 28 that turns into the best build talk of the beta run. The experience nerf and the halved storage, exactly which AAs I buy and in what order, and a case that the game's itemisation is upside down.
A casual Guk grind that turns into the most useful hour of build talk in the beta run. I open by apologising: the pre-order beta is not the build people watched me play, experience looks cut by around 30 percent, and storage and loadouts were quietly halved. Then I settle into Shadowknight, Shaman and Necromancer, explain exactly which AAs I buy and in what order, and make a case that the game's itemisation is upside down.
This Is Not the Build You Watched
The elephant, addressed in the first two minutes and again at the end.
- Experience looks cut by roughly 30 percent, which is what players are reporting and what my own numbers support. I am getting around 1 percent per kill on yellows and reds, against 5 to 9 percent before.
- A level 37 at level 29 paid 3.6 percent, and a yellow paid 2.75. Four hours of a session moved me about five levels, with some of it AFK.
- It is faster than 1999 and slower than both a TLP and live, which is the comparison I land on.
- Caster mobs appear to pay less than they should, which I read as a separate bug on top of the nerf.
- Storage was halved from 50 slots to 25, and loadouts went from 16 to 2, with no announcement about either.
- I apologise for it directly. I have made six weeks of videos at one experience rate and one feel, and say it feels like false advertising to have all of that change underneath them.
On hot fixes: I object on software grounds to features shipping inside patches labelled hot fixes. A hot fix should be a quick bug fix, not a feature drop, and I say the version control situation looks strange from outside.
The Build: SK, Shaman, Necromancer
I have no complaints about this one.
- It felt strong from level one and I say I have not felt weak at any point since.
- It is almost purely lifesteal. Spirit Tap is the heal, and I only memorise a real heal for when there is nothing to tap while waiting on mana.
- Open on the caster and tap it down fast. Every nuke it lands is damage I take; every tap is damage I heal back.
- I do not heal the pet, I resummon it.
- I do not slow most things, treating it as wasted mana at this level.
- This is what I killed the D4 content with, and what I plan to take to launch, possibly swapping the necromancer for a bard to get charm.
For contrast: on the test server I ran Shadowknight, Shaman and Rogue to 30 and call it the worst combination I could have picked, though that was before slot backstab and the stance bar existed.
Which AAs, and In What Order
I say people ask this constantly, so I open the window.
- Filter to trainable only. That is the first thing I do before deciding anything.
- Buy everything that costs two points per rank first, then move to the three point ones once the twos are done.
- Fury of Magic early, two points for crit chance, which matters here because it makes the life taps crit.
- Then Spell Casting Mastery, Mental Clarity, and defensive picks: Steadfast Will, Combat Stability, Combat Agility.
- Destructive Fury next for crit damage, then dot damage, because spell damage is where this build lives.
- Skip Combat Fury. It raises melee damage, and melee is not worth thinking about in this build.
- Take stun reduction as soon as possible. I get chain stunned repeatedly on camera and say so out loud each time.
- If you group, take the fear resistance AAs. Getting feared in Befallen means running into a door for 30 to 40 seconds and possibly killing your friends.
I also spent motes upgrading Spirit Tap, which brought the cost down to around 103 mana.
Itemisation Is Upside Down
I read my own gear out, piece by piece, to make the point.
- Almost every slot came from Blackburrow, Befallen or Neriak. I go down the list naming the source of each item and it is the same three zones over and over.
- A Blackburrow belt beats the planar belt shamans get, which I call a joke.
- Blackburrow gear is close to the dark forge helm. Better loot at level 15 than at the end of the classic progression.
- You can skip the entire middle of the game. Which is why I see no point making a guide about earning lambent armour: nobody needs to.
- I got a real item at level five from a named my group killed, and because my friends were all casters they handed me their copies to upgrade it.
- My argument is that itemisation should start from the top. You spend the least time at level one and the most at the cap, so that is where the design attention belongs.
- I am upfront that I lack the nostalgia. TLP after TLP has worn it off, and for me the fun is the bosses and the build swapping, not the walk up.
Things That Are Simply Broken
Noted in passing while I play.
- Shaman heal over time spells do not work at all. They worked on the previous build.
- Players cannot get into instances, which was not a problem days earlier.
- Master YaelMaster YaelEQLElemental WizardLevel: 56 Zone: The HoleLoc: (800, 200)AC478HP32000HP REGEN60MANA REGEN29Hits for 79 - 360, 2 per round, at 83%SpecialUnmezzable, Summon, See Invis, Cazic Touch, Slowable was killed on some server and dropped nothing.
- The no-placeholder treatment is not applied everywhere. My understanding was that non-respawning instances would be placeholder-free and the rest normal, and I would rather it were universal so you could clear a zone without camping.
Difficulty and Grouping
What I ran, and why I dropped it.
- I am soloing at difficulty zero. Difficulty two was a slog, because I do not have the weapons I had on the test server.
- I grouped from about 15 to 20 in D4 Befallen and D4 Blackburrow with friends, then lowered the difficulty because every pull brought too many mobs.
- Group experience is worse, and I say it was the most fun I have had in the game anyway.
- An ogre start is worth considering, since ogre faction is still painful to earn.
Why Platinum Is Worthless Here
A side effect of the slower levelling.
- Slower levelling means more kills means more platinum, and there is nothing to spend it on.
- I did manage to go broke buying spells, which I enjoyed as a one-off, since you never really run out again after that.
- Tradeskills are the only sink and they are pointless here, with the server due for deletion in 25 days.
On Being Called Negative
I address the messages directly.
- People have asked me to be less negative, and I say I try hard not to be.
- When I say bored I mean no timers are up, not that the game is boring. It is a different kind of bored and I struggle to name it.
- Nothing on this server survives, so investing effort in anything optional is time spent on something that gets deleted.
- I am not sure I am good at this. I say I am probably not a good streamer, maybe not a good content creator, and that I have too much emotional attachment to some of this.
Channel and What Comes Next
Plans, thought out loud.
- Nearly 90,000 views for the month off Legends, and I expect the decline now everyone has access.
- 7,100 subscribers, against the 5,000 I assumed was the ceiling.
- No streaming until the kids are back at school, and probably not then. The focus shifts to guides.
- EverQuest content is coming back, with a one to 130 solo run with a mercenary in mind, pointing out the flaws along the way. Monk is the front runner, partly because feign death lets me walk away mid-session.
- Frostreaver levelling to get the Beastlord to 60 before the next expansion.
- I am renaming characters to Voxl across every server I can claim it on.
- A possible redo of the Gnomeregard necromancer run, held up by personas making a true fresh start impossible. Starting with a thousand hit points confuses viewers who have 30.
The Side Project
Not EverQuest at all.
- I finished an ASCII roguelike, something I had wanted to complete for a while, and it is going up on itch with a video to follow.
- Built in Rust on the Bevy engine, chosen because Bevy sits on WGPU, already an abstraction over the Vulkan and DirectX 12 style APIs.
- The alternative was worse. My Vulkan voxel engine throws rendering artefacts moving from my Linux laptop to a Mac, and I did not want to implement Metal or rewrite onto an SDL abstraction layer.
- I kept the feature list deliberately small, on the grounds that every feature you add is a promise you then have to keep working.
YouTube Generated Transcript
Hello and welcome to EverQuest Legends pre-order beta. Today, uh we’re just messing around. So, I’m already level 28. Uh I haven’t played as much as uh a lot of people, but uh uh I got 19 hours played, so not too bad. Now, I want to I want to address the elephant in the room first and for foremost. This is not the same build we were playing on the test server. uh days ago. This is this is definitely a different build. There is a lot of different things going on in this build. Namely, uh experience seems to be nerfed by uh 30 30% is what some people are saying, maybe even more. But as you can see, I’m getting 1% uh per and I’m killing yellows and reds, right? So this is this is worse experience than if I was playing on a live server or a TLP server. So this definitely uh does not feel fun uh to me after uh leveling with you know like 5 to 9% per kill. You know there was a yellow for 2.75 there right? Uh definitely is like you know this is this is definitely weird right? Um, and something else, you know, that that like came up was all of the storage got cut in half. Uh, so it’s definitely uh uh definitely interesting to say the least. I know some other people are uh talking about u how it’s being monetized and stuff like that, but you know, I don’t have any info uh about that. So, you know, like I definitely feel I feel bad, right? Like I feel cuz I I’ve been making videos for like the last month and a half and they’re all at a very specific, you know, experience rate, a very specific, you know, fun rate. Right. Right. It’s it’s what it is. And to have all of that changed uh just doesn’t feel that great. Right. Now, like experience is fast. It’s faster than 1999, but it’s slower than a TLP and it’s slower than uh uh the a live EverQuest server, right? Which you could go and do all of this stuff with one class right now. So, it’s just definitely uh definitely feels weird there. I just got a Guys of the Deceiver a few minutes ago. Pop that right there. But uh yeah, I’m just so I’m I’m just sitting here killing uh these mobs here, right? these two those the two up there and then that guy and then the three up here plus the ROR and you know just trying to level right like it’s it’s fun fun and casual. I’m I’m like doing some other stuff at the same time. So, it’s it it’s uh it’s very fun for me, but uh like I I I’m seeing so many posts about people who can’t get into instances, people who can’t get into stuff, and none of these things were problems on uh I think it was Monday. I think it was Monday. Monday or Tuesday, right? Like the last day. So, it’s definitely uh interesting to see uh a lot of these things that are different. I don’t want to pull those guys, but uh let’s keep going. But I ended up going with Shadow Knight. Uh I know that was uh it’s probably if you watch the tutorial video, which uh I’m assuming at this point, right? So um you know, views were high. We almost hit 90,000 views for the month. Uh and uh definitely uh going to start hitting a decline now that everybody has access to the game. Uh which is to be expected, right? like I I didn’t expect that that high to ride forever, right? I figured once everybody got access to the game, it was pretty much over. Uh anyway, but uh definitely uh you know, it is what it is. Hopefully you guys are having a good time playing, right? Like I I know some of my friends have uh you know, I did I leveled that’s why kind of took me a little longer cuz I grouped for uh pretty much five to uh 15 to 20 or so. And uh you know know when you group you get less experience, but we were killing in uh D4 Befallen, D4 Blackboro. Then we lowered the difficulty cuz it was too hard because we there was just so many mobs coming at every pole. Uh but it was a fun time. Like we had fun, you know. I went and got uh let’s see here. I got the breastplate from there. I got the face from there. I got the helmet. Like I’m I’m literally like geared out. My friend Exit gave me the kitchen tool belt from Nina. I haven’t been there yet. 10% haste belt. It gave me the sword of the lost. You know, we’re doing we’re doing pretty good. I’m still using, you know, like a sword and a shield. Uh I’ve I’m really liking this build. It felt super strong uh from pretty much day one. Like, you know, level level one I did shaman shadow knight, I believe, is what I what I did, and it was just phenomenally felt good. Uh there are there’s a lot of problems like all the heal over time spells for shaman just don’t work. Um I don’t know what happened. They worked before. They don’t work now. So uh then we’re we’re stuck here. Rewind. 2 3 4. Rewind. Yeah, this is painful. But uh you know definitely uh you know it is what it is. I I I got a few messages from people telling me not to be negative about things and you know like uh um you know stuff like that and I don’t know I I try very hard not to be negative you know like I think when I say like if I’m bored uh I don’t mean like I’m I’m bored of the game. I’m just like you know it’s a different kind of bored. I don’t even know how to explain it because like none of this stuff matters right? This isn’t the final game right? So, like I’m not going to go sit and, you know, whack myself off while I do trade skills and stuff like that, right? Like that’s that is that is what I would call a pointless task. Uh, and that’s how I felt on the test server, right? Like there’s a lot of things that you can do like, you know, alchemy and stuff like that, but that’s just, you know, you’re just wasting your time. Um, and especially on this server here on the pre-order beta, it’s all going to get deleted. So, there’s no point in really going out of your way to do anything you don’t have to do, right? So that’s kind of like how I feel like. So when I say I’m bored, I’m like I got no timers up because I’ve already killed everything. So kind of kind of concept, right? Um and it it seems like uh some someone killed Yale already on some server and he didn’t get he didn’t even get loot. So, uh definitely uh some some interesting mechanics going on right now um that are just total uh totally sad in all honesty for what would would have rather you know been a very successful uh launch of something because I know a lot of people are complaining uh about things but uh you know I don’t I don’t it’s hard it’s hard to it’s hard to gauge. I know a lot of people are having fun and I know a lot of people are complaining. So, it’s it’s hard to gauge where people are uh in their in their thought process and and opinions on uh you know what it is. Like like I didn’t have any problems that I didn’t document in a video, right? Like you saw if you watch my Sky video, you’ll see like all the problems that I had doing Sky. Now, on the runs after that, it was a lot better because they they did, you know, multiple hot fixes and uh multiple patches to it after that first day. So, uh definitely uh you know, having a different experience here, I’ll tell you that. Oh, we got a thick banded belt. What are we wearing as a belt? So, yeah, check this out. So, this comes from Black. This is like this is better than the planer belt that shamans get. It’s just like uh you know it’s kind of a joke really uh when it comes to some of the itemization on some of the stuff. I know a lot of people are complaining that uh not every zone is itemized. Not every zone has uh the no placeholder thing and uh that’s definitely uh you know something that should should happen, right? like um I believe they said that like the no responding ones were going to be uh like no placeholders and the other ones are going to be normal. Uh that would be nice if they could get that activated for everything because it would be nice just to go in and like clear a zone and uh you know not have to worry about placeholders and stuff. But uh definitely uh feels different. Sure. Right now cuz uh for the amount of time I’ve spent here today uh what is my session? Uh I’m at 4 hours in this session. This instance is probably about to die. Um I’ve not gotten that many levels. [laughter] I think I’ve only gotten like four or five levels now. I did AFK and went outside and like messed around for a little bit, but uh nothing too too crazy to uh justify 4 hours. It’s still uh I think I think it was like maybe 23 maybe. Yeah, I think it was 23 cuz I had just gotten regen I believe uh when I got on today. So, I mean, it feels it feels a lot slower than it was. And considering I want to level up, you know, all 16 classes, you know, this is, you know, I’m looking at like multiple weeks leveling and doing, you know, the stuff that I don’t I don’t enjoy as much, right? Like, I love Guck. Guck’s my favorite dungeon, but uh to me the the end game is where the fun is is changing builds out and playing like all the loot we get from uh 1 to 49 is pointless for the most part. And uh I I don’t know, maybe I I have a skewed thing cuz I don’t have the rose tinted, you know, goggles that a lot of people have from nostalgia of the game. I just don’t have that anymore. I’ve done TLP after TLP. I’ve done live after live. I’ve leveled so many characters that the fun thing for me is just killing the bosses and stuff like that, right? Like that’s that’s where it is for me. But, you know, some people they might like getting stuck in the ladders and stuck here. And there we go. Got out of that one without having to rewind. Uh, you know, like running around in these these lower dungeons, right? You know, grouping is fine. I had I I think I had the best time uh of my experience in this game so far when I grouped with my you know my friends Alid uh Exit and Sansa. You know it was a very very fun time but uh you know like the experience is better solo and they’re all working. So [laughter] all right we’re killing these ones. I I didn’t want to kill these because they run right and it’s like annoying. I I’m doing this on difficulty zero, right? I was in difficulty uh two and it was just like it was a schllo. I wasn’t killing fast enough cuz I don’t have uh I don’t have the weapons I had in the uh on the test server. So it was definitely a a different experience there. Now I just realized I don’t have snare up. So this is going to be fun. But uh I’m this build is fun. Uh shadow knight shaman necro. This is the build I killed all the the D4 stuff with last, I believe. Uh definitely has no uh no downsides to it as far as I can tell. Uh it’s definitely fun. All right, we got like 500 platinum. I like ringing out of platinum buying spells. Uh which was kind of fun. like, you know, like platinum’s not hard to get, but it was kind of fun to run out of money because, uh, you know, after you do it once, you’re not probably never going to run out of money again. Uh, leveling up. Um, I am going to do a video on uh the XR start and kind of show what I did. Um, I so I’m not going to be streaming. I don’t think I’ll be streaming probably until my kids are back in school and uh in the fall, but even if then I I probably I probably won’t. I I don’t I I’ve realized that I’m probably not the best streamer. I’m probably I don’t even think I’m a good content creator in all honesty. I feel like I’m terrible at this and I’m I’m h I have too much emotional attachment to certain things that uh make me complain a lot and I know people don’t like that. So, you know, it’s just uh just what it is. So, I I’m I’m going to be focusing more on making guides and stuff like that uh for this game. And we’re going to be we’re going to be doing something on EverQuest one. I gota I gota I got to make some videos for that. Um and I’m trying to figure out what to [laughter] do. So I am open to any suggestion anyone wants to uh offer. I’ve kind of got a I got an idea of what I’m going to do. I’m thinking something on Trenel. Uh but I think we’re going to go do some uh Frost Reaver leveling. Get that Beast Lord up to 60 before the next expansion. just so it’s uh you know it’s it’s done, right? Like that’s [laughter] my goal. I um I I’m not going to be boxing anymore, so that kind of lowers my uh it’s going to lower my my capability of doing things in all honesty. But we’re going to probably be doing a, you know, one to one one to 130 on Trenell with some kind of DPS class. and we’re going to point out all the dirty flaws along the way solo with a mercenary, right? So, that’s what I’m going to do. I just don’t know what merc uh which uh DPS class. I’m thinking monk. I think monk’s my favorite. And monk gives me FD, which allows me just to like FD [laughter] and walk away. Like I don’t know if if you know me, like I I I I’ll play as much as it looks like I do. Uh but when I do play, I’m I’m AFK a lot. I’m doing other things. Like I have faint death up on this guy, right? Um like I’m, you know, if I have to go somewhere, I just feain death and I literally walk away. If I go AFK and kicks me out of the game, it kicks me out of the game. I don’t care, right? Like once, you know, once it’s there and I don’t care if I die, you know, it’s just it is what it is. So, and you know, it works out pretty well. But this build is is pretty crazy strong. Like I I’m I was I have not felt weak at all in this build. And that’s that’s saying something cuz on the test server I did um Shadow Knight, Shaman Rogue up until like 30 and I was like, “Oh my god, this is the worst combo I could possibly play.” Now, this was before any slot backstab. This was before any of these uh stance things here on the stance bar. um before a lot of changes and uh definitely uh definitely feeling a lot better now, right? Like I’m I’m definitely having a very good time with this build and I already forgot. I’m talking too much. I don’t even know what ones I’ve killed. So, uh nothing there. I feel like those should be up soon, but uh yeah, I’m not even in the right stance, but it’s just been uh pretty good. Like I’m trying to I’m investing my AAS in the the places I feel like they’re worth it, right? I’m I the way I do it um is I take the ones that benefit me the f the most first, right? Let’s look at this because I know a lot of people ask what AAS to invest in like uh see here it is. Uh Fury of Magic, right? What the hell was that? [laughter] What the hell? I’m like back over here. All right, whatever. Uh Fury of Magic, right? I grabbed this. It was uh like two points and it gives me crit chance, right? So, that was pretty nice cuz I that increased my my life taps. Now, uh what I also did since spirit tap is my life tap into like 30 something, I went ahead and put a few points of uh moes in it to upgrade that. Got it down to like 103 mana. And so, it’s it’s pretty nice little heal. And then I took up spell uh spellcasting mastery. Uh I grabbed mental clarity and a few of the defensive ones. I got a few steadfast will in there and then I combat stability and agility. Those go up to four per uh in the next rain rig. So I I try to get everything that’s like a two value, right? Anything anything that’s going to increase my DPS or my survivability that’s two value. Then I go to three value once I’ve completed all of those. Right. There we go. Finally something. And it seems to work out pretty well for me leveling. Um, eventually we’ll have it all maxed out, right? And, uh, you know, if you’re going to be grouping, uh, you got to you got to make sure you take admit will and the fearless stuff because you’ll get feared and you’ll get and while while it’ll add fun, like if you’re playing with friends that are, you know, kind to to you, right? If you get feared and kill everybody, right, they’re not going to like scream at you like I have. But, uh, you know, like I mean, I have friends that don’t scream at me one way. I kill them or uh they kill us, right? Like it’s, you know, it’s that’s the kind of the kind of people you want to play with. You don’t want to play with the ones that, you know, you die once and they they rage quit and scream at you and tell you you’re the worst player in the world and all kinds of nonsense, right? But uh you know, you’re going to want to have those [laughter] to help yourself out because it feels bad getting feared and befallen. uh you know just running into a door for like 30 40 seconds because for some reason the spell lasts 30 to 40 seconds right I’m not doing a good job here let’s slow this guy breath him and boil his blood none of those are landing oh my god can I just not land oh I’m getting stunned I’m getting chain stunned And that’s what the problem is here. Okay, makes sense now. There we go. Nope, let’s kill this one. But yeah, it’s it is what it is. I I recommend the stun one as soon as possible. Uh now you could do an ogre start and which is probably smart to do because getting the faction for ogre is still painful. That pet’s dead. I don’t I don’t heal the pet. I just summon another one. All right, we got him. We’re in the right stance. We’re going to do And he is like stunning us non-stop. But this guy, so we’re 29, he’s 37. How much experience is he going to get, right? 3.6, right? That’s not a whole lot. Yeah, there we got two AA. So what I do is I do trainable only. And then I just kind of look. So we can take combat fury. That’s going to increase our melee damage. But as you can see, where melee damage isn’t really worth even thinking about right now. Uh then we [clears throat] have destructive fury, which is going to increase the damage of our our crits. So that’s probably like where I’m going to go, right? Cuz I’m focused mostly on spell damage, right? like that’s that feels to be like where you want to be with the uh this build. And dot damage is going to be where we go with it next is because the dots do a lot of damage, but the uh we’re going to pull back here, get a little bit of mana, but dots do a lot of mana, but having the uh the the crit nukes increases our our healing factor the most cuz I only pretty much heal with spirit tap. Uh this is a almost purely uh life uh life steal kind of build, right? That’s the way I do it. Now, I do have healing up just for like when I’m like sitting here waiting for mana and there’s nothing to tap, I can heal myself, but uh uh that would be the heal over time spell, but none of those work. So, uh you got to pick your battles, right? All right, let’s go over here. Let’s go right here. I like to get right on this first guy when I start doing this cuz I nuke them down with uh spirit tap as fast as possible because every time they nuke me, they’re doing damage. Every time I tap them, I’m uh doing damage and healing that back that damage back. Right. I wait for them to nuke me. I think they’re nuking my pet right now. But there you see I got nuked. Boom. And these are only worth like one because there’s I guess another bug going on right now where casters aren’t worth as much experience and uh whatnot. So this is some crazy [\h__\h] It’s not even the same it’s not the same build we were playing, right? Like this is this is different. Um I just you know like definitely uh no idea what is going on with the version control. Uh during the during the beta, they would like do a hot fix, which to me, a hot fix is something that is a quick fix, right? Not it’s not a major feature. It’s oh, there’s a bug, we fix it, right? But uh they they they’re dropping they’re dropping features in fixes, which is definitely some weird stuff to me, right? like um uh that was you know knowing anything about software development this should should feel weird to you too if you know anything about anything out there but um definitely uh it is what it is I’m not trying to be negative or anything I’m just just talking about the facts of and reality of life right so uh but uh I don’t I I don’t know when this video is coming out I’m probably going to put it at the like whatever my end of my queue is right now. So, it’ll be scheduled for uh next week, which is is fine cuz I I’m I’m going to be out of town here for a few days. And so, uh I don’t have any videos really queued up for that. But, uh definitely uh when I uh when I get back, I’m going to really focus more on this. I’m I so I made a I also made a ask asy rogike, right? Uh I don’t have it on this computer, but uh like literal 2D as rogike. I’ve been I’ve been wanting to finish one of these for a while. I finally did and uh I’m going to put it on itch and whatnot. So it I don’t I’m going to do I’ll do a little quick video on it and stuff like that. But fun little time and uh we’re going to start we’re going to start doing some other things I think on the channel um while you know while we play some of these other games but uh definitely uh had a had a blast doing it. It was a very a very fun uh you know learning experience and stuff like that. I ended up using uh Rust and Bevy uh the Bevy game engine. So it felt it felt pretty nice. Let’s see here. And uh mostly be mostly I went with bevy because I was having uh I was having some issues. I have I have I I have this uh voxil engine, right? like think Minecraft voxels um that I’ve been working on and I’ve been doing that in uh Vulcan and bringing trying to take that from uh my my Linux development laptop where I do all my my coding and stuff and taking it to like my Mac. um you know there’s no there’s no Vulcan so you got to use this uh third party library and then uh you know I was getting all kinds of weird rendering artifacts and you know it’s like this it was getting to the point where I was like oh my god I don’t even want to I don’t want to implement metal right which is the Apple rendering API um and I didn’t want to convert everything to using the SDL abstraction layer I don’t know so I’m I’m still I’m Still trying to figure out what I’m going to do with that. But uh this one I just like went straight with Bevy, which is uses WGPU, which is already an abstraction layer that’s closer to the uh Vulcan DirectX12 kind of APIs. So it was it was pretty nice. Uh definitely felt good to do that. So that’ll be out on itch and I’ll do a little video and you know to give me some feedback. [laughter] Uh I wanted to make I have I have in my head a more detailed version of uh the one that I I am going to release like a like a sequel or just a redo right of it. But uh I kind of wanted to keep the features light because like every feature you add is a promise [laughter] and it takes a lot of effort to uh make sure all those promises work at the end of the day. I can’t even climb the damn ladder. My mouse is like hitting my keyboard. There we go. But uh yeah, so that’ll be something that’s uh going to come out. Uh, I think I I have to do a I think the producers letter for EverQuest came out, so I got to do that video here uh today. And just like I’m I’m still trying to figure out what to do uh that sounds fun in EverQuest, right? Like I’m I’m renaming all my characters um on uh on like all the servers to to Voxil. That’s going to be the name of my uh my character going forward and all the all the servers that I can get it. Hopefully nobody takes it before I can reserve it, right? But uh I’m going to So like my character on Janelle, Hamrock, is going to beame become Voxil once I rename him. And then uh I’m actually going to rename the gnome regard on FV to uh to Voxil. Um and the reason I’m doing that is cuz I like I kind of want to redo the Gnome Regard’s journey from level one as a necromancer and do like the the whole everything we did, right? But the see the problem is is doing it with personas and everything like that. you start with, you know, a thousand hit points or whatever stuff like that. So, it’s not truly a, you know, new start. And it it can be confusing when people watch a video and they’re like, “Oh, I have 30 hit points and you have a thousand hit points.” What? And you know, like so I I’m becoming more more aware of these little things that, you know, I do in videos that might not, you know, be as obvious to somebody who’s brand new. And hopefully uh that. So I was thinking I was thinking, you know, maybe we’ll redo that, but um maybe do it on the live server. I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just do it on Danell. Um or just, you know, put all the put all the names of the serves in a and a hat and draw one out and make him there if I can get the name, you know. So, definitely uh definitely something there to think about. But, uh I if there’s any uh any suggestions, I am willing to take. But, uh you know, I’m having fun in Legends and that’s that’s really where it’s at. That’s where my focus has been for the last bit is playing the beta and then now playing the pre-order beta. Uh but uh I don’t really plan on streaming. So if you you’re subscribed on Twitch, I mean you can it’s like you’re helping the channel. Uh but uh you know, you don’t have to. You can you can do the follow, you know, thing. That’s that that that helps the channel because to stay in these these EverQuest creator programs, you got to have a certain amount of followers and stuff like that. And you know, it’s it’s kind of crazy. Uh we’re like on uh YouTube, we just hit what 7,100. So that’s that’s pretty pretty crazy to me. I didn’t think we’d be able to get that high in all honesty. I thought I thought it was going to cap out at 5K in all honesty. I didn’t think it would go any uh any further than that. But uh you know, thanks to everybody who subscribed to the channel and whatnot. I really I really appreciate it and I I definitely uh definitely definitely am happy about it. But uh it is Come on. There we go. It’s a lot of work and I’m I’m kind of running out of ideas. Like I there’s ideas I want to make for this game, but I’m I’m I’m not 100% sure on what is useful because for me, I can I you could literally just skip almost all the quests [laughter] like uh with all the the stuff that they put in Nina and Befallen and uh what’s the other one? Black bro, you can literally skip all the mid-tier quests. uh you can skip uh almost everything honestly and get go straight to planer gear in you know befallen or black barrel armor right so there’s I mean there’s no no real point in doing a video on uh you know hey here’s how you get your lambit armor because uh you don’t really need to do it [laughter] it’s like it’s definitely uh there’s a there’s an itemization thing that I I’ve been critical of of the whole time is you got to start from the top and you don’t start from the bottom. Like the bottom, you know, you’re somebody’s, you know, people are going to see they’re going to get this nice stuff, but the the top is to me the most important part of the game because that’s where you end up. It’s not where you start and the shortest amount of time is level one. I mean, you’re going to spend the least amount of time at level one. You’re going to And then it just progressively, you know, you spend more and more time per level as you level up. It’s just basic basic math, right? Um, and all the low-level stuff just is is just meaningless to me. To me, like I I mean, you you might enjoy like running through Blackboro. Uh, I never did Blackboro in Classic EverQuest. I by the time I got there, it was all great and it’s a it’s a walkthrough zone to get to Perafrost, right? Um, same with TLPS. There’s there’s literally no reason to ever go to Blackboro. Um now it’s you know you get better you’re getting better loot in Blackboro than planer armor, right? These are like this this necklace. Black burrow. Black burrow. Black burrow. Black burrow. Look at this. Almost as good as the planer or dark forge helmet. Uh black burrow. Uh that one’s from Nina. My friend gave me that one. Uh that’s pretty good. Uh, Befallen. Uh, Blackboro. Blackboro. Random trash. Uh, random trash. Befallen. Befallen. Befallen. Random trash from Befallen. Uh, the Gina. Befallen. Right. Like, like I there’s no other items. [laughter] Like it’s just that’s the thing. Uh, which makes the game a whole lot easier, right? Like you can I can just go straight into like level five. You can go into befallen. You can start getting items. You can like I got this one at level five, right? We killed uh we killed the named at level five, the group of us, and I got this, right? And then everybody in the group gave me theirs, so I was able to upgrade it, right? And uh you know, that’s pretty crazy, right? Because they were all they’re all casters, right? My friends or um using different kinds of weapons. So, you know, this just like it’s just how it is, right? Like don’t have to do any of the in in between, right? Like I was I was thinking like my my path was uh going to be, you know, 1 to five in the Rose and then five to 25 in befallen, but we we went to 10 in Befallen and then we went all the way to Blackboro. uh which is like you know two second run because you can go through the te translocator in uh Freeport but we got there and we stayed there till like 15 and then we kind of like all just went our own you know ways cuz I you know I had to log and everybody’s like doing their own thing and uh you know some of them were in the genie yesterday they’re a little bit lower cuz they they switched they switch characters cuz they weren’t happy with their load out uh and stuff like that and then uh you know one guy outle everybody and one of my other friends is already like almost 45. So, it’s definitely uh crazy. Like we’re all in the Freeport server, too. So, it’s it’s pretty good server here. But definitely uh definitely some interesting things, but uh you know, it’s just you know, it’s just fun solo solo play. I just wish the experience rate wasn’t nerfed. like I I feel like I’m spending too much time in the zone that I don’t want to spend time in. And like the byproduct of that, right? So leveling fast has its benefits because you’re not getting as much platinum. But since I’m leveling slow and I have to kill like twice as many mobs to get to where I was, I’m going to have twice as much platinum that’s worthless, right? Because there’s nothing else to do with it really. Uh at this point in time, there’s nothing to do with platinum that I I know of other than trade skills and other nonsense. It’s not worth doing on, you know, a server that’s going to be deleted. And what what is today? Today’s the third. In 25 days, the server is going to be deleted. There’s zero point in investing time in trade skills, right? Zero point. Um, especially in the way they are because if if if trade skills allowed you to merge the item that you make into the next item you make, that would uh Oh, that’s stupid. How the hell did [laughter] I target How the hell did I target those guys? Uh, yeah. All right. Well, yo, buckle up, buddy. This pet is uh this pet’s trying his damnest, I’ll tell you that. I need to go back into Befallen and get him uh get him another dagger so I can give him the proc. There we go. I’m not slowing any of this stuff because it’s it’s a waste of mana. I think I like on some of this stuff, it’s just it feels like a waste of mana to slow, but uh other stuff not so much. But see here, I’m getting chain stun. So, putting more points into the stun AA is probably worth that. But you can see here like reving strikes up to like 124 and it double attacks. So, it’s pretty nice. I’m really hoping I have enough time to try this build with warrior uh instead of Shadow Knight. I feel like that was something I wanted to do before. Uh but uh you know, if we don’t do it now, we’ll do it on live cuz So this is the build I’m going to go live with, I think. And uh you know maybe you know maybe a bard the first time instead of a necro is that’ll make make some things slightly easier that uh for doing things but maybe not. I don’t I don’t know. I’m really liking necromancer in the pet. The bard would give me charm which uh is pretty strong but definitely uh you know your mileage will vary and all that but uh yeah uh anyway I’ve been rambling for for like almost an hour and I just wanted to you know say I just kind of kind of really apologizing because this this feels different than what it did and I feel like I’m kind of false advertising and stuff so I just want to make sure that, you know, everybody’s cool and they’re having a good time because, you know, this is this isn’t the build that I was playing on Monday. I’m gonna say it right now. Uh there’s a few changes here. Like all the all the storage got nerfed, right? And 25 storage items is just not enough. Uh loadouts got nerfed, too. Um and they haven’t said anything, so if they say anything about it, it’ll be good. But you can only have two loadouts versus I think it was 16 before. Uh, and I felt limited at 16 trying to do all the different cool things, right? Because like each one has its own UI, its own everything. For some reason, it’s stored on the server versus being stored on my client. I don’t know, like some kind of weird ass [\h__\h] there. But uh, it definitely uh, you know, it is what it is. But uh, that’s that. That’s you know, I’m just going to sit here and level. We got like what, 29? We got to level while just sticking around. So, uh, uh, I’m going to sit here. I’m going to keep grinding. Uh, you know, we’ll have videos. You know, I’m trying to think of things to do. So, if there’s something you want to see a video on, you know, leave a comment and, uh, you know, I’ll get to it. And, uh, I have a list of things for live that, you know, people have given me over the years, and I’m going to try to do some of that stuff. Uh, but I feel like I need a new character to do it, and I just haven’t decided how I want to do that yet. So, cuz you know, everything I’ve done up to this point on live is, you know, six boxing, you know, with boxer and the most I’m going to do is one boxing with maybe a true box, uh, healer. Uh, that might be the only thing I add, but uh, you know, not at this point in time. I don’t think so. I’m just I’m just done with boxing for right now. But, uh, if you have any questions or comments, please let me know. And, uh, thank you very much for watching. Please have a fantastic day.
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