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Lethar, We Come

Starting a Necromancer from nothing on Lethar, a quiet live EverQuest server with no pick zones. The tutorial for baseline gear and platinum, a Legends UI skin ported across, and a mercenary the server will not let me hire.

August 28, 2026
Episode1

A second Nomeregard, started from nothing on Lethar. The whole episode is the tutorial, which is the right place to begin on a server this quiet: it pays out the baseline platinum and gear, and it is the last content for a while that nobody else is standing on. Lethar has no pick zones, so every named in the tutorial is camped and every kill is contested.

Lethar Necromancer Weekly No picks
CharacterNecromancer, from level one
ScheduleThursdays, one video that day
Episode lengthAiming for about an hour

Why Lethar

A quiet server, on purpose.

  • The population is low and I am not expecting many people about. My guess is it behaves like Vaniki, with ebbs and flows rather than a steady crowd.
  • Weekly, on Thursdays, and the only video that day. One video a day is the rule and this one takes the slot.
  • About an hour an episode. Past that it gets cut.
  • I do not know what is here yet. Whether defiant gear exists on this server is an open question, and the tutorial will answer part of it.

No Pick Zones

The one thing that changes everything.

  • There are no picks. The tutorial NPC offers to send you to another instance and then cannot, which is a fine joke at your expense.
  • So every spawn is contested. Somebody is camped on each named, and kills get taken out from under you.
  • It turns the tutorial into a waiting game, which on a busier server it never is.
  • No mercenary either. The hire is refused outright, so that tutorial task simply cannot be completed.

What the Tutorial Pays

Worth doing before anything else.

  • Baseline platinum and a starting gear set, which is the entire reason to sit through it.
  • Glooming Deep pieces handed over for little more than hailing the right people.
  • A sharpened dagger from the weaponsmith, traded up from the first one.
  • An augment from McKenzie the Younger, straight into the weapon.
  • A movement clicky, lore and no trade, so it stays on this character.
  • Siphon Strength as the first spell, with the lesson on memorising it attached.

The Interface

Legends theming on live EverQuest.

  • The UI is the Legends skin rebuilt for EverQuest, which took an afternoon and an AI rather than a week of XML.
  • Hot buttons, socials and loadouts copied from the Nomard Necromancer so the bars start where I expect them.
  • It needs tidying, and the theming is the part that matters. The extra hot bars can go later.
  • The parser is not ready for EverQuest yet, so there are no numbers in this one.

Starting on Lethar

  1. Do the tutorial first. It is the platinum and the gear, and it is the least contested content you will see for a while.
  2. Expect to wait. No picks means the named are camped and the kills are taken.
  3. Do not count on a mercenary. The tutorial offers one and the server refuses.
  4. Take the augment from McKenzie the Younger and put it in your weapon on the spot.
  5. Sort your interface before you leave, because the tutorial is the calmest it gets.
YouTube Generated Transcript

Hello and welcome to Nome Regard’s Journey, Lethar. So, today we’re going to start a new Gnome Regard here on Lethar. So, let’s uh get this log. We got Necromancer, do an advanced uh you know, that looks good tutorial on and enter world. So, we’re going to do the tutorial, which we’re going to spend a good amount of time in the tutorial. This will get us our baseline uh platinum. This will get us our baseline crude defiant gear, I believe. I have no idea. I don’t even know if defiant is a thing here on lethar. Uh so we’re going to see. We’re going to see. Uh now it might not be defiant. It might be like whatever the you know the quest reward is because it’s not doesn’t give you the quest does not give you defiant. It gives you something else. But uh it is definitely uh you know we’re going to spend a little time here. So I expect this to be a weekly series. Uh I I enjoy ple playing legends a lot and I got a lot of videos made for legends. So uh I think this is going to be a what is tomorrow? Thursday. So if I can get this video edited. This will be a every Thursday series and then it’s going to be the only video of the day. I only do one video a day. Uh so we’ll uh you know go through and do it that way. So we’ll see how it goes. Um like I I the population is low. So uh I’m not expecting there to be a lot of players on the server. I don’t know how it’s going to you know I think it’s going to be a vani if you will where it’s you know got es and flows of players. But, uh, we’ll definitely see how it goes and try it out, uh, and see where, you know, things end up. But, uh, I’m I am excited. So, the the tutorial is where we’re going to be. So, I’m going to try to keep these about an hour per episode. So, if it, you know, we hit an hour, we’re it’s going to, you know, probably uh, we’re going to do a a cut. All right. So, welcome to the tutorial. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. All right. Hail escape. And put that right there. Accept. And then speak with him again. Right. H. All right. So, find the jail the jailer, right? If I remember. I’m going to change my UI once we got it here. Uh, let’s see if I can get it to work. Here we go. And then what do we got like four? I think it’s the button. My hub. There we go. I couldn’t cast there for a second. I don’t know why. All right. I then we hand him the key. And then uh there we go. Level two. Easy peasy. and then he should Yeah, it’s I think there’s a lag going on. I think that’s what’s going on right now. That’s very laggy. All right. So, uh No, I did not finish my parser for legend or for EverQuest. So, we don’t have that on yet, but uh hopefully my log is on. But if not, it doesn’t matter. All right. All right. Oh my god. Is there no picks here? I’m stuck inside this fat man. Oh my god. All right. This might be a come back and play later kind of situation. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah, there’s no pics. Oh my god. All right. Well, I guess we got some time. Uh, see here. Chat. Uh, general display. Where is it at? UI. Where’s the UI one? All right. Load UI skin. Modern. Load. Come on. Load. Load. There we go. Look. Yeah. Look what I did. Oh, does it not. So, I took the legends uh Oh, there’s like too many too many broken things here. I took the legends um UI and I was like, “Hey, Claude, can you do me a solid?” And you know what Claude did? He produced this uh a fully functional UI skin based on the Legends uh thing. No, we’re going to do this. Copy. We’re going to copy uh Nomard Necromancer. We’ll do hot buttons, socials, and loadouts. Why not? And then that should give me a UI that looks more aligned with what I like. I’m probably going to tweak it more, but get that. All right. So, there’s no picss, so this is going to suck. Oh, and it didn’t Oh my god, it didn’t save the UI skin. The load UI skin. And go back to modern there. I think it was Yur on uh Teik is where I did did the testing on that. But that should give me should give me something there. All right, that looks better. Now, like in all honesty, we don’t need all these hot bars, but I’ll deal with that later. All right, there’s a lot of a lot of things going on here. window unlock. Let’s move that like right there. There’s a window behind this. All right, we’ll we’ll clean that up later. But we got the theming going, right? Like that is all that matters for me. All right, so uh we got to do a lot of little tutorial things here. So I don’t doubt there’s anything to kill. Hail. Just hailing him gave us some arms. All right. What do we got? What do we What do we get off him? Glooming deep. Uh, cobalt sleeps. Nice. Look at that. Thank you very much. All right, that’s all we needed to do there. All right, swimming al. All right, let’s see here. Is there a sword in the water? There it is right there. I’ve done this I’ve done this a lot. So I I think I know all I know the tutorial here. But here, let’s do this. Hide models all. That might speed this up. There we go. This ridiculous. All right, we give that outside here. Now, what do I need to go over here? Talk to Bazer. I’ll make weapons. All right. Okay. Hell, open your inventory, room. Okay. Hey, I got a weapon. Give your weapon hit to him. All right. Here, buddy. Take my All right. Okay, now we get a sharpen dagger, which is slightly better. Open your quest. Alt T and basic training. All right, what’s next here? We probably achievements guy right here. Tail him. Accept it. Let’s put it right here. And all right, we can talk to this guy now. Hail. Okay. Okay. I don’t I don’t need to read any of this, but there we go. There we go. We learned achievements. Got that done. Merchant. We can right click him. Close him. Accept that. Hail that guy again. Okay. What is this guy saying? Will I don’t see him even see him on the list. All right. There we go. And we got the banker. You got anything to say to us? Hail. All right. We can take our bag out of the bank here. Boom. Two bags now. All right. Perfect. All right. Done there. Then we talk to this dude. He’s going to give us a random spell. Okay. I would like to be blessed. Thank you very much. What’ he give us? He gave us siphon strength and he’s going to tell us how to memorize a spell. So, we can right click that. Boom. Spell book. Lovely. All right. And we can move this song effects like over here, too. We’ll figure that out later. All right. What else we got? Priest of Luckland. Where’s the priest of Luckland? It’s over here, isn’t it? Oh, wait. We got to talk to the merc dude. Hey, hire a mercenary. All right. You going to give me a mercenary? You dirty son of a [\h__\h] All right. Oh, look at that. That’s I can’t even do that quest because I can’t hire a mercenary. Well, that’s no fun. You think they would have changed that? All right. Form a group. Talk to all the things. Soulbinder. Hail. Uh, I think we finished that one, right? Bind my soul, maybe. There we go. Flutterwing siblings. Except that gives us the next quest there. Hot bars. Hail. Except what do we do for hot bars? Uh, talk to her again. Hail. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This one gives us the clicky uh for speed. Wherever that went. Actually, let’s see here. This is lur no trade. I guess I can’t. All right. Let’s put that like right there, maybe. All right, there we go. Now we can move slightly faster. All right, McKenzie the Younger. He’s down the hall. Priest of Luckland. Let’s go right here. I think the priest of Leland’s like right here. There we go. H aid. There we go. Perfect. and talk to Frisnet about the trade skills. Just so many people here. All right. And hail. All right. Okay. So, we’ll cook some rat steaks. All right. All right. And All right. Perfect. manual. Okay. Click and click continue. Task stage complete. All right. Uh I think that’s all we needed to do there. Does this have any good stats on it? 5 HP. Lovely. All right. Who talk about Valeria? We already talked to her. I don’t know why she didn’t get checked off others. We go she wants us to bring us back something I believe is what? All right. Uh, hail Araris. I thought we already did that. Hail him. Oh, wait, wait. No, I don’t want to. If you wish to seek allies and other instances of the mind, I can send you there. All right. What does that do? See our type slashpick. No picks. All right. So he’s he’s trolling. All right. Now we can talk to this guy except and then hail him again. And then hail her and then hail again. All right. Now we need to go talk to McKenzie the uh the dude. Obviously there’s not going to be a single freaking mob alive here. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, there’s like someone camped on like every single damn thing. There’s one. I got it. Cobalt barrel. Yeah, this might be a come back and play later. Oh, you son of a [\h__\h] You took my kill. All right, McKenzie’s down here. No, he’s not down there. He’s over here, right? He’s not even here. Where is he? Where the hell is McKenzie? My drunk escape tunnel drunk page dig site too. I could have swore McKenzie was right here. Or AUG is not a thing in the game yet cuz that’s what he teaches. All right, let’s h this guy. Maybe I’m drunk. All right. Well, maybe he’s dead. Maybe they killed him. I don’t know. All right. Well, there’s not much I can do here then. And this is this is a good reason why you need Oh, there he is. Right here. All right, perfect. Pale. All right, augmentation. I could give you a lesson. Listening. All right, he gave us an AUG. We’re going to put that in our weapon right there. Like that. Okay. Okay. And then we’ll hit him again. And that is done. So, we can go back up here. till we finished our basic training. And uh you know, unfortunately uh this is this is not There we go. 14%. We got our uh charm slot right here. This This is pretty freaking good for this level, right? Five whole stats, 10 HP. All right, that is good. Now, um the problem we are going to run into now is it’s uh going to be quite difficult to uh finish. Can we kill? Yeah, we can’t even finish this quest because of that. All right. So, that’s unfortunate. So clearing. We need to kill every single spawn point is camped, right? Yep. Every single every single one is There’s a rat. There’s Oh my god, there’s something already attacking. There’s a bat. Ah, there’s a there’s a person on that one, too. All right. Now, um I’m going to make an executive decision right now to probably take a break. Uh let’s see here. Let’s see if we can kill a few of these things. And I only say that I can’t cast on these, can I? The only reason I say that is because I’m gonna have to wait for people to like leave. Uh I think I feel like that’s that’s where we’re at with this. I didn’t even get any loot, but we should be able to like break all these barrels and maybe get something. There we go. Yeah, there we go. Small bag. And we can we can sell that junk, right? We need one of those arrows anyway for uh one of the quests. So, as well, I was I was so like right click ready to click sell. Uh we got a backpack. We’re going to need those. Now, this is this is one of the ways to get a lot of little items early on. That guy like pulled it right as it spawned. That is insane. Like I didn’t even see it on my screen and that guy had already cast it on it. That is crazy. All right. Nothing there. Where? I think I took the wrong turn. There’s like some other spot right here with some other dudes. These are all yellow. These are all kill me. All right, let’s go up here. Oh, there they are. Right there. These are the dudes. These are the dudes I’m looking for. All right, let’s hail them. Nothing for me. Hail you. Nothing for me. All right. apparently because I have not done the first quest. But we can steal their barrels while we’re here. Now, we can’t do this quest. So, I’m going to go ahead and remove it now. Maybe maybe they’ll fix it. Maybe they’ll just like hot fix mercenaries and so you can actually do that quest. All right. What do we got here? That looks to be about right. We just need to go kill some rats and destroy verminest. No, those all take place over there, which is uh kind of like where we got to go. I’m surprised I have 150 150 hit points. Dooming we guard need. All right, let’s go get some cave rats. Definitely this this this instance would be better as a solo instance, right? Uh in fact, almost everything single player uh in this game should be a solo instance to make it not terrible. Uh if that makes sense, right? like this. It’s just not a good experience to log in and to have to compete against a gazillion other people to kill a cave rat. Uh, but it’s it’s server start day, so I’m I’m being a little bit uh I’m I’m I’m trying I’m It’s so hard. But hey, we got this UI working. So, that’s pretty nice. And we got a Oh, look at that. A for long bow. Let’s loot that, too. I’m going to have to I’m going to have to do something with my bags here in a minute. They’re all jacked up. There’s the cave rat. I’m just killing bear. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, we got one, boys. We got one. Life tap it. Life tap it. Get it under 50%. Get it under 50%, boys. Oh my gosh. All right. Uh, salute all that stuff. All right. Yeah. So, I’m going to I’m going to I’m going to pause the recording here. Uh because this is this is never going to happen. This is like hide models. None. This is the most people I’ve ever seen in a tutorial. Uh so, let’s uh let’s call it right here. Uh we’ll come back. Uh we’ll do another video. Um, I mean, we’re we’re 23 minutes in, so we’ll do another video, but obviously you can see uh it doesn’t feel dead. The population on the screen said low, but uh it there is not a low population. This is a you know, highly concentrated population. Hopefully in the next uh few hours they enable instancing here and, you know, life will be better. But uh I’m going to I’m going to I’m not going to I’m not going to suffer through this. So, I will uh thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic Okay.