FAQ

When designing this server, multiple factors were taken into account, some of which were contradictory. The server aims to provide players with a high degree of autonomy, allowing them to choose their party composition and targets freely. The focus is not on reaching the maximum level as quickly as possible. The game and its encounters should be enjoyable and replayable, without becoming too easy over time. Players should be able to make progress independently, but also be encouraged to collaborate and progress together. Additionally, "alt" characters should serve a meaningful purpose. 

Your initial level cap is 52. To raise that to 55, you need to complete Tier 1, either in group or solo instances. Group: defeat Lady Vox in Permafrost, the Ghoul Lord in Guk and Lord Nagafen in his lair in an instanced zone and hail the progression Spirit that spawn upon their defeat. When soloing, defeat GrimClaw and his brothers in North Karana, Alizewusaur on the Oceans of Tear and Icebane in Everfrost.

Single players have conquered Tier 9 and unlocked Tier 10 by playing a team of six, without any outside help.

Groupcontent up to and including Scars of Velious is tuned for 6. Beyond that, it's tuned for 6-9. However, with the Aura of Might, smaller groups and even solo players can tackle group / raid content.

If you want to play a team of six and be as strong and independent as possible. The following group setup should work to get you through almost everything except what's mentioned above:

• Tank of your choice

• Cleric

• Shaman or Druid

• Three DPS classes (or a bard) of your choice. They all come with their pros and cons. At lower levels caster groups tend to be slower, due to limited mana pools.

Extensive player written Guide by Wutz for 6-boxers on EQ Might.

Tokens of Might can drop from most named. Low level named have a chance of 1-3% of dropping Token of Might. Higher level named, and particularly fabled, have a much higher chance of dropping. The highest chance comes from chests. Small treasure chests drop 1 to 5 Tokens of Might. Larger treasure chests can drop more.

Tokens of Epic Might are gained in the same way, they are just rarer and drop mainly from high level fabled, progression bosses and chests.

Here is an example if you do an Innoruuk instance:

• Innoruuk himself has a 75% chance of dropping a Token of Might and a 10% chance of dropping a Token of Epic Might.

• Depending on the mode you are in, a number of chests will spawn.

Trivial

• • no chests

Easy

• • 1x Small Amber Treasure Chest (2 Tokens of Might, 30% chance for a Token of Epic Might)

Medium

• • 1x Small Topaz Treasure Chest (3 Tokens of Might, 40% chance for a Token of Epic Might)

  • 1x Small Jasper Treasure Chest (2 Tokens of Might, 20% chance for a Token of Epic Might)

Hard

• • 1x Sapphire Treasure Chest (4 Tokens of Might, 60% chance for a Token of Epic Might, 2% chance for Token of Legendary Might)

  • 1x Small Topaz Treasure Chest

  • x Hard Mode Treasure Chest (5% chance for Token of Legendary Might)

There are intermediate modes, like Easy+ or Normal-, which are not documented above.

Chests also contain additional items, particularly the Hard Mode Chest always contains an Invaluable Coin for faction with Merchants of Might.

The concept of Might puts a party's power within a bandwidth. That is the main driver to un-trivialize content. You will not be able to engage Lady Vox or Lord Nagafen with a level 65 character. Every (instanced) encounter should therefore always be non-trivial. As consequence, for now, there are no lockouts. You can do your favourite encounter back-to-back if you wish to do so.

Might on the otherhand, can be a hindrance at times. E.g., when you want to do a certain target and your party's might doesn't fit in the given bandwidth. That may be particularly true if you team up with someone and you combined Might is too high to get the chest reward. However, you can always do the instances without the chest rewards.

Might may also appear confusing at first, specially if you don't like numbers. The server greeter can tell you your party's might. The Might-Table gives some examples for standard party sizes.

The player requesting the instance must have unlocked this instance. This is usually done by completing the previous tier.

If requesting a solo/duo instance with two players, the same is true for the second player.

If requesting a group instance, at least half the playeres must have unlocked the instance, the rest can be piggy-backed, provided the difficulty mode is not Easy or Trivial.

The server's hardware is a dedicated i7 laptop with 4 cores. running Windows 10. In case of power outage, the battery lasts for 8-9 hours. It's got a 1000/100 MB/s cable Internet connection, also with battery backup for several hours. The server is located near Zurich, Switzerland. You can expect the following minimum pings (ms):

Europe: Brussels 21, London 20, Madrid 31, Milan 5, Munich 12, Paris 21, Stockholm 29, Vienna 19 

Americas: Atlanta 107, Boston 105, Buenos Aires 258, Chicago 109, Columbus 131, Los Angeles 166, Montreal 99, New York 90, Toronto 111, Vancouver 148

Rest of the world: Cairo 49, Dubai 141, Hong Kong 255, New Delhi 160, Shanghai 265, Sydney 263, Tokyo 216, Tunis 33

Wifi and particularly mobile internet providers add an additional delay. A ping of over 60 ms is noticable. With a ping over 150 ms, the Internet "feels slow". However, the ping in EverQuest is not as critical as in other games such as racing or shooter games.

Availability (July 4, 2022 to August 12, 2023)

Uptime 580320 minutes (99.96%)

Scheduled maintenance: 260 minutes (0.04%)

Unexpected downtime: 0 minutes (0.00%)

Casters benefit from various settings:

• Mana regeneration from items cap is 70.

• Spell power from items cap is raised to 1800. Spell power increases the direct damage spells by about 20% of the spell power. It has no impact on damage over time spells.

• Enchanter's aura adds spell and dot critical chance (8% for the 66 aura), as well as mana regen.

• Enchanter's have custom illusion spells, which give extra damage (similar to bard) to selected elemental types (fire or magic).

• There are various custom items with click-effects, such as direct damage, damage over time or mana flare.

• There are various custom, necromancer-only items with out-of-era damage over time focus effects.

• Pets of all levels are boosted. Some High-level pets from rank IV or V spells with 45 pet power focus do up to 2.5k dps.