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I completly agree. The first week of this stuff was fun, but now it's just a pain in the ***. I can't walk into BB without getting a 500000 skellie train, can't walk in any newbie zone safely at night, and thats just not fun. I've already died once to the fabled Assassian, which wasn't fun at all (quads for 1700). I just can't wait till they stop spawning on the 15th (I hope)

I agree. Made mistake of binding my soul to Adventure camp in BB. Well skullys pop and I die, and die, and die....can't even turn and run to zone. now down to lvl 19 form just below 22. The ones coning blue to me are wiping me of the face of the planet. Even those coning green are fighing more like a yellow. and doing anything is up there is well a pain. Its diffcult to move around. While it was a great idea for higher lvls it should have been kept to one area so as the rest of us could go on as normal.

I still am surprised people are waiting for this to stop. I love it.

I can farm bone chips for hoarding & selling later, or for the many in-game uses; got a couple levels on that Kaladim bonechip quest. I got a bunch of neat items for my low-level alts by running around during skel invasions; got killed a lot too but who cares when they are less than level 10? My highest character @ 37 formed skel hunting groups which were a whole lot of fun.

I took on the various fabled mobs which I could find and weren't heavily camped. I still want to get the Fabled Barnacle Bones but he must be a super-rare spawn; I check for him each time I'm on.

And I keep getting free cake & beer :) .

It's a shame if the celebration is irritating some of you, but I almost hope it never ends.

They can keep the celebration - just move it to more newbie friendly areas - like Kithicor woods, lavastorm mountains, etc. Places that a newbie wouldn't really be in right away.

The celebration is centered too much towards higher level characters, almost to the point where its hard to start a lower level one.

/Nod Ihuffman.

Some of the Fabled mobs have been fun, and some have dropped nice gear, but many of the locations have been seriously questionable.

Of course bone chip farmers will love it, and others too, but the skellies could pop elsewhere. Having to contend with hoards of skellies is bad as a newbie. They are also annoying for those of us sitting in a camp waiting for adventure.

It is the fableds that I am most frustrated about. I want to start epic, but cannot get any friends to go help me kill burgurgle because he may be fabled...and that place is a long run (by today's standards) to go in and find he is fabled. So have to wait for anniversary event to end to go and get him.

Was really stupid IMO for a Naggy raid to have to worry about a couple of NPCs over Naggy. The dragon should be the biggest and baddest in zone.

Edited, Mon Apr 12 13:33:38 2004 by lhuffman

WOW! and here, for the last couple of weeks, I thought it was just me!

Speaking as a newbie, (I first started playing EQ only a couple of days before the *celebration* began), and so, have had to shift to a *daytime only hunter* mode.

At sundown I have to run back to the city and do night stuff till dawn's early light when it's safe to venture out again. This has helped a lot with tradeskilling, (does anyone out there need some fish fillets or some class 2 arrows? didn't think so...), but has been hell on level progress.

At first, I would stay out in E-Commons or N-Ro after dark but after getting smacked around a few times in a world where EVERYTHING at night cons an angry red, I decided to wait out the celebration by choosing to only *work* part time!

On a couple of occasions, I have had a character out questing more than a zone from safety, and so have had to resort to camping out of that character and playing another one until morning.

In addition, since none of my guys are more than lvl 10, I haven't been grouping much, just chipping at the newbie armor quests and trying to develop some value to a prospective group. *What do you mean your ranger doesn't have any spells... Oh, he's only lvl8... Sorry dude, later!*

Also, since as a player I am still very green (in more than one sense of the term), I am also spending a lot of time getting a handle on how each of my different characters actually *works*, like teaching my ranger to forage and shoot his bow, teaching my bard to twist and shout, all of the things that I'll have learned to take for granted when I've been at this for a year and the 6th anniversary celebration rolls around!

By the way... if you killed Fippy only to discover that the fabled paw is not an original, but an immitation... would it be considered a *faux paw*???

Since I only play for a couple hours each week (RL demands) I am still enjoying the fabled aspects and the skellie armies - I can't yet take advantage of anything but the conscripts, but am nonetheless enjoying myself - SOE - keep it going or - maybe modify it a little, just don't nerf it completely...

Problems with this easy fix:
1. New players to the game (albeit few these days) can easily get frustrated and will want to quit as they won't necessarily know better.

2. Newbie Armor - why should it be that only the Iksar and Vah Shir (and a couple of other races) should have an easier time of doing their newbie armor, than say Dwarves, who's entire newbie zone is overrun.

3. Players new to a server. Part of the above can be writen off if your twinking - but if your starting fresh on a server, say FV, a PvP server, or Stromm - how exactly are you to start out since you can't do many of the lower level quests.

4. Bazaar Prices. Some of the gear is really good, probably too good. Take Skelies - the Rod they drop that procs a 40 pt lifetap at level one - is causing the prices of some of the lower end items to drop - worse is the effect of the marshal's blade, Elder Wolf Jawbone, which used to sell for 75 - 150 has seen a dive to 25 - 65 as people are just twinking out with the new sword. On the bright side, I have sold more sow and ivu goods than ever before

That absolutely means NOTHING. The official EQ2 forum, and even a lot of the fansites, frowns on these type of behavior (warring between games, even if it's just a simple poll), where as WoW seems to be nothing but EQ2 haters. Second, of course there's goign to be more interest on the WoW forums than EQ2, WoW is in beta, so when that poll was linked in the WoW forum, more people went and voted.

Patch on April 14th, btw. Get your fabled mobs now because I'll bet dollars to doughnuts (or platinum to pastries) that the 4/14 patch is going to revert stuff. It's been assumed for a while that the events will stop when the "free month" to cancelled subscribers ends on 4/15.

Or if it's causing you a problem, maybe it's time to do some adventures in another dungeon. Tak and Guk for instance, have no skeleton issues. And I believe several classes get an invis to undead spell right? My Cleric never fears the skels for that reason.


I created a beastlord just before the anniversay. He leveled from 3 to 9 in the Feerott, his newbie zone. How? Even at night, there's a substantial portion of the area where skeletons just don't venture. And when he ran into a skeleton, he got killed unless it was a low-level conscript, and repopped near the town, and went right back at it. Even better, with the celebration people would /ooc when they had killed a skeleton with something on it which they didn't need. My beastie didn't make it to all of those drops, but he made enough.

Newbies have no corpse recovery or experience loss issues. Just get going again after you die; it's simple. Granted, it is a whole different story in Kaladim where the skels spawn at the entrance to the town. But there's no real problem for Freeport, or for Everfrost, and Toxulia from what I have seen is also still playable. To me, the dwarves and determined Mistmoore LDON'ers are the only ones with trouble. Oh, and people who hate twinking; I mean a 3rd level character with a 40 pt lifetap weapon?

Maybe I count as an experienced player, but I'm assuming not, entering my 4th month playing. And I thought true new players were almost nonexistant anyway - I've only met two.

Yep, you got a legitimate gripe. But suppose because people complained so much, SOE removed the fabled and never again did anything like this. That would really blow IMO; I love seeing that Fabled tag on a monster and wasting it. The loot is great, and you get an extra level of fun factor since you *know* that you're fighting something special, even if you haven't absorbed 99% of the game knowledge from playing for 3+ years. Simply put, the fabled are a great deal of fun and I really do not want it to end because of that.

You want Naggy. OK. Have you gone after the Fabled ghouls in Guk? The Fabled Allizesaur, Garanel Rucksif or any of the others? Even better how about Naggy's fabled companions, as an end goal in itself? It's probably my newbness showing but I don't see why any of those aren't at least as much fun as taking down one of the oldest dragons in the game.

In any event, I'm sure they will disappear and probably soon. In the meantime I will continue to do nothing that doesn't involved skels or fableds; and when they disappear, I'll go out into the big wide world of Norrath, and find something else to do. <Chugs a free beer and smiles>

Count me in as against the damned "fabled" mobs. I was helping a friend in Lower Guk the other day and climbed a ladder into a loft to check out what might be up there.

Fabled ghoul assassin jumped on my **** and beat me like a circus monkey.

No good deed goes unpunished.