Heroic Opportunities:Follow

Anyone actually use those anymore? I do it out of habit, and now and then I get the Hero's Armour, which is nice. But ultimately, if I didn't use it anymore (soloing that is), it would make little difference.

Time for a change or am I missing something?

I use them all the time. It's free extra damage or a stun or a buff for using skills that I would probably use anyway. I certainly can't think of a good reason /not/ to do them.

As a side note, I've seen some people theorize that using HO's on named increases the likelihood of better chests dropping. I'm not sure I subscribe to that theory, but some people live by it.

Oh no, not green but red I believe.

And you first have to run around the node clockwise! That's vital.


An HO is indeed a bit more damage, and it's all done automatically after all that time, it's just that it's so little, almost pointless at our levels. (edited to add: my regular melee attacks are higher lots of times than for instance the HO's)


Edited, Dec 5th 2007 11:00am by Zieveraar

But only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and half a day on Saturday.

Nub Inc ...

What's a Heroic Opportunity?

I mean I have an ability that starts one, but I have no idea ...

An HO is a sort of combo that leads to an extra attack, heal or other event.

As a monk, my HO solo will lead to three possibilities: sky cleave (single damage), crushing anvil (AOE damage) or hero's armour (mit increase against normal damage, the rare event).

It's a three step combo, you first start the HO by clicking the ability that starts it (don't recall the name of this, you get it at lvl 5), then you'll see symbols in the circle, you should have at least one ability that is flashing, this means that these abilities will continue the chain, after the first one, you should have to use another (again, all possibilities will be flashing) which finishes the chain and you get the result of the HO.

Usually two regular ones and one rare event that even at my lvl is still interesting.

Group HO's are quite interesting, done properly you will do a fair amount of damage, or get a good group heal. If you want to focus on this anyway, I've never bothered with it and in all my groups we all just clicked away really. The end result will differ depending on who starts the HO and who continues it, not everyone will have an ability to continue it.

I can't recall exactly when the HO's became a waste of time (apart from the rare event), but it's been like this for some time. Half the time, my melee attacks are better. Which is a shame, perhaps they should include a way to improve the HO's.

I like using HO's for the spectaculer graphics affects, And I seem to quit using them after my char gets to around lvl 40

I use five hotbars now, or rather four and a half. Although I could reduce it to three perhaps, after all my buffs don't have to be on one. But it's easier imo.

There's no way I can fit all my attack spells on only two bars.

Respecced to chi btw, very handy spell to have! Altered the rest too a bit and I must say that things go quite smooth now.

I also remembered why I never went for Chi before. They altered it, at first there was a rather serious downside to the spell as after the 30 seconds of increased everything, the spell then decreased everything by the same amount for the next 30 seconds.

That's changed luckily.

Ofcourse, trying out EQ again isn't helping my EQII playing time , although I seriously messed up. I petitioned to have my 52 paladin restored, but in my stupidity I created a new paladin with exactly the same name. Apparently that overwrites all previous records

Ah well. (I got help within two days, very swift actions for such a request imo)


Edited, Jan 10th 2008 1:55pm by Zieveraar