3 quick ?'s about rest exp, guild's, and AA'sFollow

1. You get AA's by killing certain named mobs, discovering certain areas, or looting certain items. There is not a definate list of what those are as they are still being discovereed. Generally, you'll get AA exp as you do and discover things, and eventually get enough AA exp to get a AA level.

2. Right click any banker and select Guild Bank. You'll have 4 vaults to store things in. Higher level guilds get more space. You can set permissions on those vaults for your members. Typically higher number vaults can be set for higher level players - up to each guild.

You gain guild exp by completeing writs, Heritage Quests, and "reverse-writ" items.

Writs, also called City Tasks in your quest log, are given by NPC's in your area. They are tasks go "Go out and kill XX critters." Doing so will award status with that NPC's guild and guild exp. Get enough faction status with that guild and their merchants will unlock items for sale.

They are grouped in levels of 5, so every 5 levels you are, you'll need to seek out a new set of writs that get harder. It typically matches your tier anyway, but some writs will require a group.

When you are at the NPC, you are given a list of writs to choose from. If not, you can always accept, then delete the writ - hail the NPC again until you get the writ you want.

You can get only 1 writ per NPC, up to a total of 4 writs (one from each). The smart writ hunter will get writs that either task to kill the same mob, or task to kill mobs in the same area/zone.

Here are the Writ NPC's for Qeynos:
Fighter Guild - North Qeynos at Castle steps
Priest - North Qeynos at Priest Pond
Mage - South Qeynos at Mage Tower
Scout - Eldarr Grove at the Eldarr Tree

Heritage Quests are given by many different NPC's or quest starters.

Reverse writ items are looted coins, statues, amulets from sentient creatures and will say something like, "A powerful guild of fighters will want this." Turn these items into the same NPC where you get your writs for some marginal guild exp. Selling these to a normal merchant will get you a few silver more, but no guild exp.

3. No. You will regen at the same rate no matter your location or position. However, food and drink will significantly increase that rate. So always support your local Provisioner and keep a full stock of chow! Just remember to equip the chow and select to consume it (auto or manual).

EDIT: Added more details about the writs.

Edited, Jul 7th 2006 at 9:38pm EDT by tutanbriarpaw

FOr the record... I think when he said "rest exp" he was talking about the vitality thingy. Not getting HP/Power back. I'm not too sure how the system works myself, so i'm not the best to answer that. However I know you can earn it just by sitting around wherever. I earned a nice chunk when I went afk one time in the field.

Other then that I can't think of anything to add to whats been said.

Not sure where all the armor quest NPCs are, but do a search for "Armor quest" on the offical forums in the quest section and you should find em, that is how I found mine. As for if they are worth it, imo yes. I still use some at 40 (I REALLY need to look into replacing them though...) because the stats are very nice. Some crafted things ("mastercrafted" especially) can be better, but the price on those are pretty high most time. For it's "tier" of 20ish-30ish it is probably some of the best you can get imo. Especially since it is free.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were talking about vitality.

Vit returns at a fixed rate whether you are playing that character or not, logged into your account or not, thinking about EQ2 or not! I can't remember the exact rate of return, but I think it works out to 0-100% in about four days. Maybe 1 percent per hour?

I have burned my crafting vit down to the ground several times and I was able to craft again in a couple days, at full power in under a week. I have even burned my adv vit all the way to the ground, but only once or twice.

While we're on the subject, I have noticed an interesting thing about vit... it seems to me that your level of vit drops quicker when you are crafting white or above recipes or when you are killing white or above mobs. What that tells me is that the percentage of vit used scales to the encounter and the more you reach the faster it is used up. Maybe this is obvious or maybe it is listed somewhere as known intel but I remember it being a revelation when I first noticed it...

I don't know about that... I seem to get it much quicker, and have even gained like a sudden 10% or so just from going afk for a little and not fighting. Came back like 20min later and suddenly I noticed my vit go up from like 0 to 10 or something. I've also gained vit from just running around in the city before doing my normal tasks like selling trash, putting things on broker, ect. I don't think I was in the city for maybe more then 30min and I remember getting some noticable amount of vit (aka not a .5 or so, more like a couple %) since I have a mod that shows my vit in yellow numbers I can keep track of it fairly easily when it comes to whole numbers, but I don't may much attention to the decimals. Maybe some of those "bugs" with vit?

I logged off of eq2 about maybe 1.5 hours ago, and will probably log back on in about 8 or so... I had 20% when I logged off. So, if the regen rate is right I should have about 25% when I log in. From prior experiance a good night of being logged off will net me like 20ish % or so. I'll keep an eye on it more closely over these next couple of days and post here what happens.

I've currently got a little "experiment" running with vit. I took a screen just a split second before I logged off last night, and am going to take one as soon as I can when I log in a little bit later today. My UI mod has a clock that shows both norrath time and earth time, so it should be pretty easy to determine the gain rate I got while logged off in a city (not that that should matter if what was said was true)