With the recent posts on Alla about "What I've leared from EQ" and "What I'm not allowed to do" and the "EQ Memories" thread, I wanted to do something to get in on the action too.
So, here's a place to post your little known EQ facts, game lore, tricks, tips, easter eggs and observations about the game.
Did you know .. ?
There's a bank in Runnyeye. For the newer players, did you even know there's a zone called Runnyeye? No, it's not just north of Runnynose.
There’s a place in Timorous Deep called the Firepot room that lets you port to all the starting cities available from the Kunark days. I have heard about it but never been there.
How to get in / out of Inner Acrylia in Acrylia Caverns? In AC if you work your way to the castle courtyard and go into the room with the big pool of blood and a statue of Khati Sha, when facing the pool of blood you turn to your right. Go through that door and click on the smaller statue of Khati Sha in that room. Now you’re in Inner Acrylia. To leave you have to go through the Cauldron room. There are two cauldrons in Inner AC, you want to find the one larger one that is upstairs. At the far end of that room you need to click on the wall hanging at the opposite end of the room from the entrance. This zones you out to Grimling Forest right at the AC entrance.
You can change keyboard commands by remapping them to other keys in your Options window. The default of CTRL+S for Sit right next to CTRL+D for Disband is just silly.
I have mapped: Sit = S key, Interrupt casting = D key, Duck = SHIFT+D, Disband = CTRL+D, Open Spell Book = B, Bandolier = SHIFT+B. That's most of the non-standard key mappings I have besides setting alternate key combos for some things.
There are features available that do not have key combos mapped by default but are really handy. Toggle last 2 targets, cycle nearest NPC / PC targets, open/close all containers in inventory and more.
I have mapped: Since TAB is default for toggle between yourself and your last target I made SHIFT+TAB toggle last 2 targets. Since F8 is default for target nearest NPC I made SHIFT+F8 cycle through the nearest NPCs, and since F7 is default for target nearest PC I made SHIFT+F7 cycle through the nearest PCs.
You can run faster if you Jump. Unless you're levitating and can't jump then you should cover more ground with a running jump than by just running. Try racing someone with a similar connection speed and see if you don't outpace them if you keep jumping.
There used to be 2 other languages in game. Giantish and Kobold were replaced with Combine and Elder Teir’Dal.
I'll add more later. I'm sure there's pages and pages of stuff we could think of relating to this game that's not covered in the manuals and guides and tutorials.
Edited, Dec 19th 2007 10:45am by mfbrownbear