The Heroes' Journey - EverQuest Emulator that lets you multiclass!

[anvi]

https://www.eqemulator.org/index.php?pageid=serverinfo&worldid=4047

HeroesJourneyEQ.com is a single-character duo/trio focused progression server built around seamless multiclassing and the small-group tuning of Retribution. Combine any combination of up to three classes in a unique build; use any of their spells, equipment, AAs, and skills. Custom client is required to play, visit the website to get our patcher. Intuitive Multiclassing Account-wide progression Multiple Pets Large Bags Select MQ2 QoL features integrated

Over 3000 players now, more than Project1999/p99 which was the most popular.

It lets you multiclass! It is really well made too. You play one character that can use all the spells/abilities of up to 3 classes. It opens up crazy numbers of build possibilities and ideas. Play as a Rogue and have a Mage pet tank for you and then you backstab stuff to hell? Then add Shaman spells for heals and slows. Or be a Warrior/Cleric/Enchanter, the Holy Trinity of the game. Or whatever. I went with Necro, Mage, Shaman. Fun stuff.

Lots of great new ideas too. Like you get a container and anything you put inside the pet will use. So you can find a really good weapon and armor and each time you summon a pet it uses that. You keep the gear in the box whenever the pet dies. Also the Power Supply slot lets you put any item you have in it, and it will gradually upgrade that item as you gain XP. The item first goes to Enchanted, and then Legendary. So as you gain XP for levels and AAs, you are also upgrading an item. It's really good.

They replaced all the tutorial text with new text that makes sense! They overhauled low level gear so you can find some useful things at merchants. Quality of life NPCs all over the place. Teleporter to help you travel. The best travel time saver clicky I've ever seen. Really great to play.

My only concern was them using a ruleset from another server which makes everything easier. So basically you can solo most things in the game including raid bosses. You might need a partner for a few things but mostly it is doable alone. I didn't want to play a noobified version of the game but when I try to play legit EQ, it just requires too many bots. I can have 40+ bots and do raids legit but it lags and is a hassle to setup. So playing this server lets you play through the whole game and solo it! It is still a challenge but much more fun to play.

So enemies are made a bit easier and your one character is 3 classes in one so at least 3x stronger than a single character normally is. The result is you are like a strong group by yourself so you can do any dungeon. But fighting higher level enemies is best XP and fighting a tough dungeon boss is still a real challenge. The Djinn Efreeti guy nearly did me in even 1 on 1. Although he was 10 levels higher. But there are challenges anyway, I love it. And the big raid bosses will be harder. I will need to get some AA's before that.

 

[anvi]

This reached 3000 players. I don't play it but it's pretty cool.

 

[Taxnomore]

I've never played Everquest.

Is playing it offline worth anything ?

 

[anvi]

I've never played Everquest.

Is playing it offline worth anything ?

It's an amazing game but playing offline is a bit complex to setup. It's also designed for 6 real people so you gotta set up bots within the game or you are limited in what you can do.

 

[Starner]

anvi, thanks for keeping Everquest 1 alive on these forums. I knew I liked you the moment we discussed EQ mechanics in some other thread. This server looks interesting and I might check it out when I get some free time.

 

[deama]

Man I'd kill for a DDO emulator that would also allow you to connect with friends and have access to the source code...

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Been playing this a bit. It's been pretty fun. Haven't gotten far, only just unlocked Kunark.

 

[Beastro]

I've never played Everquest.

Is playing it offline worth anything ?

If you play offline play a necro.

Or just play P99 and enjoy a safe version of the game. The most enjoyable solo experience was VZTZ dual boxing before the guild war insanity.

Just whatever you play, make it classic focused.

 

[Beastro]

https://www.eqemulator.org/index.php?pageid=serverinfo&worldid=4047

HeroesJourneyEQ.com is a single-character duo/trio focused progression server built around seamless multiclassing and the small-group tuning of Retribution. Combine any combination of up to three classes in a unique build; use any of their spells, equipment, AAs, and skills. Custom client is required to play, visit the website to get our patcher. Intuitive Multiclassing Account-wide progression Multiple Pets Large Bags Select MQ2 QoL features integrated

Or be a Warrior/Cleric/Enchanter, the Holy Trinity of the game. Or whatever, just not fucking hybrids because they're worthless now.

FTFY


You could nake some pretty hilarious combos, though, like anything multi'ed with a bard or monk or both.

Have both Selo's and FD.

How would that effect penalties, btw? Does this mean Monk weight limits apply or are invalidated by the multiclassing?

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

I haven't made it to max level on retail, and probably won't. Got to 95 after a month or two of playing with 6 box setup and then moved onto other games. But Heroes journey has been pretty fun. Got a level 50 pet cuck (nec/mag/bst), and a level 40 war/clr/bst. 60 is level cap right now.

 

[anvi]

https://www.eqemulator.org/index.php?pageid=serverinfo&worldid=4047

HeroesJourneyEQ.com is a single-character duo/trio focused progression server built around seamless multiclassing and the small-group tuning of Retribution. Combine any combination of up to three classes in a unique build; use any of their spells, equipment, AAs, and skills. Custom client is required to play, visit the website to get our patcher. Intuitive Multiclassing Account-wide progression Multiple Pets Large Bags Select MQ2 QoL features integrated

Or be a Warrior/Cleric/Enchanter, the Holy Trinity of the game. Or whatever, just not fucking hybrids because they're worthless now.

FTFY


You could nake some pretty hilarious combos, though, like anything multi'ed with a bard or monk or both.

Have both Selo's and FD.

How would that effect penalties, btw? Does this mean Monk weight limits apply or are invalidated by the multiclassing?

Good question, I asked a few on their discord and it sounds pretty smart. Like you pick Bard and some spell casters, you can run while using Bard songs but not the other spells. I don't play it but I thought about it a lot and read about it. Pet classes sound fun having the Beastlord pet tank and using the BL heal on the other pets.

I saw another server that I'd like to play on, a Roguelike version of EQ inspired by Slay the Spire and stuff. You level up faster and get random spells and then die, and try again, but you keep your AAs through each run so get stronger. I wanna play it but not sure if it's ready yet.

I haven't made it to max level on retail, and probably won't. Got to 95 after a month or two of playing with 6 box setup and then moved onto other games. But Heroes journey has been pretty fun. Got a level 50 pet cuck (nec/mag/bst), and a level 40 war/clr/bst. 60 is level cap right now.

It sounds fun. I am waiting on a huge update coming soon to bots then I will play offline.

 

[anvi]

Been playing this a bit. It's been pretty fun. Haven't gotten far, only just unlocked Kunark.

Did you do Naggy and Vox by yourself?

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Been playing this a bit. It's been pretty fun. Haven't gotten far, only just unlocked Kunark.

Did you do Naggy and Vox by yourself?

Yeah, Naggy was pretty easy, and I didn't even intentionally try to aggro him when fighting the fire giants at the side of the bridge but noticed my minions fighting something that wasn't what I was looking at. But Vox was sort of tough because she's got an arena with a bunch of mobs, ended up dying twice while pulling them out but was able to get it done.

 

[anvi]

I downloaded this damn thing 3 times but I didn't want to play it. Now I changed my mind. Gonna give it a go!

I really want to play through the whole game because I haven't seen most of it. I wanted to do it legit to see the spectacle of huge raids but it takes too much time to set up. I've done part of it before with 24 bots! But gearing them all up and picking all the AAs on everyone and perfecting all their routines... takes ages. It was fun for me for a while but I have other shit to do now.

So I think this server will be worth a go. I didn't really want to play a butchered easy version of it but it sounds like they have it balanced pretty nicely for soloing. That's the best chance I'll get to play through the game without having the hassle of bots or playing with guilds. And the three classes can add some depth!

Anyway, I'm gonna be a BER, BAR, NEC. I plan to hack stuff to bits as the Berserker, heal myself with lifetaps from the Necro, and use the Bard for haste and more dps (but mostly for Fading Memories). My first choice was going to be BER, SHM, MNK but it's so common I wanna be a bit different

 

[anvi]

It's really good :D Total DadQuest, just takes all the hassle out of the game and far shorter time requirement. But you can still easily die early on.

My combo worked out better than I expected. I forgot that Necro gets stuff like Grim Aura which gives you a random lifetap. Having that on the Berzerker is amazing. Also I got Tolapumj's robe which has a lot of haste on it. Always used to be useless on a caster but now I'm a Berzerker! In a robe! You can wear any of the gear from any of the 3 classes so I've built mostly for AC but with that haste robe.

Also the Bard gets some fast personal haste which now applies to the Berzerker and the Necro pet. I love that you don't have to twist the songs, they are permanent the same as buffs you cast on yourself.

It's setup so you feel like a full group with that one uber character. So you can handle group content.

 

[Beastro]

It's really good :D Total DadQuest, just takes all the hassle out of it. But you can still easily die early on.

My combo worked out better than I expected. I forgot that Necro gets stuff like Grim Aura which gives you a random lifetap. Having that on the Berzerker is amazing. Also I got Tolapumj's robe which has a lot of haste on it. Always used to be useless on a caster but now I'm a Berzerker! In a robe! You can wear any of the gear from any of the 3 classes so I've built mostly for AC but with that haste robe.

Also the Bard gets some fast personal haste which now applies to the Berzerker and the Necro pet. I love that you don't have to twist the songs, they are permanent the same as buffs you cast on yourself.

It's setup so you feel like a full group with that one uber character. So you can handle group content.

What about epics? Can you do all three classes?

 

[anvi]

Yep! Can equip 2 of the one handers or just one at a time of the 2h. And you can swap stuff around. There is a Bandolier. Pets can use everything too. Clickies would work too. They have a great idea with the Power Supply slot. You can put any of your items in there and it loses their stats while it's in. As you gain XP the item will improve to Legendary and something else. Then you can equip it or sell it and charge up another item.

They have an AA ability too which insta ports you to the Bazaar which they have setup with all the spell merchants and everything you need. Then the same AA you can click and it sends you back to where you first clicked it. So cool.

 

[anvi]

This has been more fun than I expected. Really enjoying it. It is easy fighting soloable mobs and even group content, but it still hooked me. The easiness just means that instead of soloing 1 mob at a time I can pull a bunch of them like a full group could handle. But I can still die if I pull too much so it's still exciting to play on the edge of the limits. Fighting red cons give the best exp so I've been hunting reds in groups of 3 or 4 which I can do. But a few too many and I die so I still end up playing carefully.

Not that dying matters, there's no exp loss and you keep all your gear. So I think corpses are only there for rezzes to save you travelling back. But it's enough to keep me excited. I did upper guk in the mid 20s and then L Guk fighting all the red stuff. Fun times. I went from level 1-30 in just a few nights. I did a bit of sightseeing too, some fighting in Mistmoore but it all went blue/light blue pretty fast.

The challenge is the raids I think. I have get to 50 then you can't continue until you kill Naggy and Vox. Then it unlocks Kunark and I can dominate that before Velious etc. Looking forward to it.

Mots people are playing as "pet cuck" which means you pick Magician, Necro, Beastlord, and the 3 pets kick the shit out of everything and you just buff them and heal them. I think the Mage pet tanks best so they set that to taunt but the beastlord heal is good or something. I see people running around with huge swarms of pets. I think that must be from an AA or something and it lets them keep it for a while.

My classes turned out better than I thought but for me there's a downside to having a Bard. It's super strong just makes something difficult with spell casting. Worth it for the powerful songs and abilities though. But it would be easier to play without a Bard.

I think this could be something everyone could play. If you like blobbers or full RPGs or something it is similar, great music and locations and vibes and exciting realtime combat. And so much content. It manages to have the best parts of EQ with most of the time consuming and harsh stuff removed. I never thought the game would work like that but it's working because they have so much content and expansions.

It is pretty skill based to play though at times. Most of the time I hit auto attack and do nothing so you get a false sense of security. But when I get jumped by several enemies, I only survive if I do the right spells and quickly. It pays to be fast with hitting important buttons. Also getting good at targetting things can be important. Like a room with multiple enemies. With a few clicks I can target the back one and put it to sleep and pull the others. But you have to get your head around the controls (and set the keys up how you want) to be able to play like that.

 

[anvi]

Took down Naggy and Vox and unlocked Kunark. Got myself a Circlet of Shadows pre nerf :D Now I plan to level up to 56 and then farm AAs in Dragon Necropolis.

My build is weird. It felt strong but I tried to kill Nagafen at level 40 ish and got owned. So I got to 50 and some AAs and bought uber gear from the bazaar. Got Naggy down and it was easier but still a battle. And yet I can go to the basement of Sebilis with all the red con golems and I can fight 6 at once and live! 6 red cons vs little ole me! Hell of a fight though. I think against a Dragon I have to work hard with the lifetaps to keep alive but against large swarms I can kill em all with songs and without even spending mana.

The part Bard means I can slow everything nearby and then the Berserker chops them down one by one. The Necro probably would have been safer as a healer but I've been coping with the lifetaps. They also made pets really good on this server so he is paying off. There's a 2 Handed axe which has a lifetap on it so with that I hardly take damage anymore unless I'm fighting a small army. Which I do a lot. Looking forward to farming DN and getting geared up and AAs. I think I'll need it to take down the 4 dragons.

 

[anvi]

This is like bliss for a lot of old timers and a lot of newer players too. I see them all chatting as we play, it's 3000+ people and growing all the time. People love it.

I think RPG fans and blobber fans etc, they would love this game beyond anything. But it's so hard to join if you are really new to it. The install process alone is complicated. Also most people playing this played EQ when it was new and it was simpler then. So we all got eased into this over years. This server contains all the content and you are meant to play through the whole game solo. So you have no group to learn things from. And you are playing 3 classes in one. Anyone who does it will be rewarded with the most incredible RPG, but I can't imagine most people would cope with the complexity all from level 1.

I think I would encourage new people to play real EQ (you can get it on Steam), (avoid the tutorial) or P99. Learn the game that way and then if they feel up to the challenge of soloing the whole game as a triple class, they can start here.

 

[anvi]

I'm really into this! It's very popular too, not just the numbers but looking at all the player comments in the game. People love it, it's the EQ they always wanted. You get to solo everything in the game. Just a few big raid bosses need a partner, but it depends a lot on your build/skill.

But the multiclassing aspect makes it really interesting to play too. 560 possible combinations. There are some that are super popular because of how strong they are but people are constantly trying whole new characters because it's fast to level up and they encourage you to make new characters. You get bonus to AA exp on new characters based on what you earned already.

Also everything is tradeable. So you can buy and sell everything and give your new characters full sets of good gear. It also has this amazing thing where you put an item in the Power Supply slot and it upgrades the item as you earn XP. Some cheap items can become amazing once upgraded.

My first character was a bit of a let down though. I failed to kill some of the last few bosses. I got all the way there but the last few were too hard for that build. It's great at killing swarms of things though so I can use that characters to make cash. But I made some new characters with the aim to take down those bosses. I am enjoying working on it, so much fun building up to that point. So much content.

Also Planes of Power releases tomorrow.

 

[anvi]

My first character got to level 56 in about a week or two. Then spent another week or two doing AAs and improving his gear. Then he went from 56-60 (max level) while I was afk! His pet could kill anything that attacked so I could just leave him overnight. I came back and was 60!

So about a month to 60, but that included 1500 AAs and lots of work on gear. Also you have to unlock each expansion. You have to kill Nagafen and Vox to unlock Kunark and go beyond level 50. Then you gotta kill several Kunark dragons to get to Velious. Several of those to get to Luclin. Then you have to kill Emperor Ssra and some big raid targets to unlock Planes of Power.

So there's a lot to do but the progress is super fast compared to how the game usually is.

 

[anvi]

Some popular builds so far:

Wizard + Bard + Whatever. The Bard runs at warp speed, hoards up 100 enemies, then blasts them all to hell with Denon's Dirge which does critical blasts because the Bard is also a Wizard!

Mage + Necromancer + Beastlord. One character made from 3 strong pet classes, so you get to have 3 big strong pets. (And swarm pets too). You set the mage pet to taunt and tank and the other two do damage. Beastlord spells can heal the pets really well. Necro lets you lifetap to heal yourself. Mage pet gets a special backpack with about 20 item slots and any item in the game you can put in there, and the pet will use it. And it will last forever. So you basically get to build the pet like a real character with real gear. They call this Pet Cuck build because you sit back and watch a swarm of pets wreck stuff.

Berserker + Monk + Cleric/Paladin/Shaman. The Bers/Monk can tank and dish out insane damage and a healer can keep them alive. It's one of the strongest builds in general and highest damage, but it struggles with the last few bosses unless they are pimped.

Ranger + Enchanter + another dps. No healer wtf?! But apparently it survives because the Enchanter can spam rune spells that are really strong. And it does huge damage. I think most do Ranger/Ench/Bard. Or rogue instead of bard. Not sure. But these weird Enchanter builds are one of only a few builds to beat the final bosses.

Bards are really popular because one of the biggest bosses is in a huge dungeon that you would want to skip a lot of. Bard can skip stuff really easily. But maybe with PoP releasing tomorrow people will make new characters with no need for a bard. Some people said the top stuff in PoP won't be doable by most people unless they have a warrior.

 

[anvi]

This server plays more like Diablo or something but miles better.

I run around aggroing about 50 creatures, then my Earth pet taunts them all and tanks them. Then I blast them to hell with magic. When they turn on me I Feign Death. And when the Earth pet is injured I heal it which drives them mad but I can FD anytime. It makes them all go back onto the Earth pet. I built him up so strong now with some of the best items, I managed to beat all the stuff in the game. My first character couldn't do it so I had to start again. Didn't take long the second time knowing some stuff. Looking forward to beating those bosses more to get their fancy loots. And tomorrow a whole new expansion opens!

 

[anvi]

Hooked on this, huge xp boost for Easter so I've been making lots of twinks, trying out various builds. FD takes forever for mobs to go away but you can use bazaar and back to cut it short, very useful. Having that or a bard or a rogue seems pretty important for taking down stuff like Sleeper or you have to kill everything on the way. VT even more.

Pet cuck (mag bst nec)
Really strong. Less of a cuck since PoP because the BST can use 2 powerful weapons and Bloodlust so you end up meleeing a lot with the pets. Hard work to build because you have to basically gear up 4 characters, yourself and 3 pets full of gear. The mage pet especially. But once it is geared it becomes a real tank. A lot of the gear you can buy cheap and then level up yourself in the power supply slot. But a few of the best items you either have to get from Plane of Time or buy them.

Pet Lord (mage bst bard)
No idea if it's stronger or weaker than the cuck but it is a lot easier to build because the Bard lets you level up a lot of tanky gear. Very self sufficient.

SK WIZ Bard
This is popular but kinda over rated. It's probably the best swarmer, you can pull a whole zone and then a few clicks of DDD and it will blast them all down. Single targets suck, you have to spam low level spells over and over to use the Symp Strike for damage. It's a lot of work and not great dps. But definitely swarm king. And it can get the job done against single targets. I can take down sleeper at least and probably could do PoP with some better gear.

Warrior Cleric Wiz
This was my idea and is really fun. The Cleric has a clicky that casts Tremor and with the Wiz AAs it lets you just swarm yourself with mobs and tank them all while clicking that. Blasts them all to shit. Fun and easy to play. Needs good tank gear to handle the swarms and lots of wiz AAs. Wiz epic helps too. That seems doable in a few hours or so. The only problem with this character is I can't sneak to sleeper or fd.

x / rng / rog
The ranger rog lets you do a lot of damage, some say the fastest clearing of potime. The x can be anything, most people go with pally to tank. Works well but it's kinda boring. I also suspect they will nerf it if it's the fastest. They already nerfed a lot of stuff.

Fun server though. On my second mage epic, pain in the ass but so good and saves me buying them at 100k.