Absolutes in EverquestFollow

Some things in EQ happen with such stunning consistency that it baffles me.

As a necro I often like to group, but groups are sometimes hard to come by. So as a standby I'll throw LFG on then go solo somewhere till I get an invite. Invariably I will get an interested group the moment I arrive at some isolated spot. After making the run to Veksar (hiking through FV and LoIO has always been a bother to me) and making my way down to the Church...I get an invite to an EF LDoN. Which is where I had just come from to pick up my pet rune spell.

Another constant has to do with the Veteran rewards, but can be applied to any other activated ability with a long reuse timer. As soon as I use my double exp reward, without fail, I'll die on the next pull. This group I was in was very competent; we had done one adv in about 40 minutes with no hassles. So we went again. Since I was going to bed afterwards, and the exp was pretty crappy on its own I went ahead and used the Veteran reward. I was getting kind of warm so I took my sweater off. In the time it took to pull the sweater over my head, our tank pulled 2, got 3 adds and they all hit me at once. That ended up leading to a group wipe.

What other extremely annoying situation crops up every time it can?

Being a chanter I experience a problem with the double xp vet award. As soon as I (or anyone else) puts it up the mobs get harder. I see an increase in resists and hits. Mobs tend to be more social as well creating more adds. It appears it's coded in. I'm actually going to try and parse this someday to prove it.

Get into a really good group, things are moving along nicely...then I see the network monitor start ticking down.

Look over at the laptop...dial up connection disconnnected!! OH NOES!!!

LD, reconnect, then get 1017's for 45 mins..finally give up and go take a nap.

Never fails...

In the middle of a fight, the screen goes black.
After a few seconds, the desktop appears, with a message:
"There are new updates for your Symantec products. Do you want to update now?"

NO, I DON'T!!!!! GODDAMNIT! Back to the game...
After the session, I change Norton Antivirus options to automatic update.

During the next session:
In the middle of a fight, the screen goes black.
After a few seconds, the desktop appears, with a message:
"Norton has updated your antivirus definitions."

One thing I've noticed with my shaman, it seems like every time I make the decision not to bother someone for a rez, and just rebuff to go finish part of a quest or whatever I was doing, it happens. I'll fully buff myself, and my pet (which as any shaman knows takes a while in itself. I'll have of course done the corpse summon to get my gear, then once I'm buffed I run off to whatever zone I was when I got killed.

As soon as I finally make my way there, and am in the process of doing whatever it was I needed to do, I get the rez box from some kind cleric trying to do a good deed. Depending on the difficulty of getting to where I am I end up torn. Do I take the rez and thank the cleric, recast my pet, rebuff both of us and make my way back again. Or do I click the no on the rez and visualize the said kind cleric grumbling to him/herself "well see if I ever give that rat-bastid a free rez again"

Go LFG at lvl 63 and get someone asking me to go to a lovely BoT grp and bam mom wants me to go to the store hehe

Edited, Wed Nov 30 10:27:18 2005 by galthran

I got rid of Norton for those very reasons. I now rarely get a black screen where an update on any softwares takes control.
I like how you hit the exp bonus from Vets rewards, and somehow, we die. Is this a fluke or what?


Edited, Wed Nov 30 10:36:10 2005 by Lainie

I catch an bunch of MGBs, begin my hunt and bam I die. Not because I figured I would go after something harder, I die to a LD or an add.

I just start getting comfortable solo and bam I get a great invite to a group. So I start trucking my fat troll butt across to the group. I arrive and half the group now has to quit.

I am in an awesome group and bam, some wiseguy decides we look like we can handle his overpull and poof we wipe and group breaks down.

Get called to join a group 7 zones away where you need to invis through 3 of them and the group breaks up after 5 mobs...

How about this one...

Just about the time you have gotten used to all the "improvements" from the last patch, another "helpful" patch comes along. Now all your windows are goofed up, all the hot keys you had spent hours getting in just the right place are reset, and there are a whole bunch of new "improvements" which crash your graphics down to a place that a TRS80 could eclipse. And of course, this is minutes before you are supposed to meet for the raid of your dreams, so you have to live with visual hell for the better part of four hours. Repeat every 20 days or so...

Here's one...

Be afraid of the phrases "last mob" or "last pull".



Edited, Wed Nov 30 14:14:53 2005 by JoltinJoe

that phrase only applies if you are a ranger in doors :)

Also Mobs know when they are beibng camped just for our enjoyment of having to wait for 5 hours to get Jboots