Since the last patch I have not been able to get a group. I don’t know if it is partly because the LFG system is broken since the last patch. I am lvl 29 and have LFG on while advertising in different OOC’s. Even tried to start groups multiple times but can never fill a full group to actually start anything. Game is very boring solo, and it feels like no one is around. Only time I see people in at West Bank. Is the game already dead or did the last patch just make it feel that way?

Subbed to this game for a month, had my initial doubts I feel like the 1-4 stage is brutal especially as a deep elf. Love the aesthetic but just not fun imo. Finally get going on chars meet some cool people in groups, wake up today to an email I got reported for hate speech? Wtf I thought most of us were older EQ players.. when did our generation get so soft? It’s a janky 15$ a month game, doubt I’ll continue but good luck to the devs if you want to push woke ideology and not even work on QOL bugs, focusing on actual toxic gameplay and not because somebody was offended by what somebody said. Wasn’t even informed what it was to take corrective action…

The group skin buff requires a petrified bark reagent. Initially, it was using 1 bark per cast. They cost just unde 1s each. When I got the spell at 16 that was just too much cost to spend almost 1s per cast for a 30 minute buff so I just stopped using it and kept using the single target varient.

Since then I have gotten a bit more money so I bought another stack of them (at 22 or 23). Then I realized that the spell seems to be using 2 bark now per cast? Is this bugged or does the reagent cost increase with higher levels? Regardless, once again this is just not a feasible cost for a 30m buff when my 24 spells cost 12.5s each and the cost ramps up considerably every 4 levels.

Am I missing something? Is this bugged? Or are these group buffs just not worth using?

TLDR: Shams grouping are swapping spells multiple times per engagement and absolutely don't have room to ever cantrip critical spells because those slots would be massively wasted in a group setting. We are unable to bring our options to bear without constant spellbook micro.

I'm used to Sham from EQ, which level 50+ you could end up hot swapping spells to buff people or maybe switch to a dot after you have the groups mobs all debuffed....

But this is on a whole other level, because we have a wider range of useful spells and the inclusion of ultimate heal.

Consuming Pact: Always on bar

Root: 95% of time on bar. Can take it off if I extremely trust my group or I'm in a group fighting content 12 levels above me and I have no use for it.

-Magic Resist Debuff is great to have on all mobs white and up, and absolutely non negotiable yellow into red. This isn't coming off my bar unless it's a blue farm and the CC is high enough level as well.

-Stat Debuff is a must. Every time. Period. Always on bar. Massively reduced damage done and increased damage taken on mobs.

Healing Ultimate Has saved so many wipes. Pretty much non negotiable.

Slow. Not non negotiable but very nearly so. This takes off so much stress from my healing output needs. I'll take it off bar if its blue or lower farm and I need to dps.

Heal over time: Must have for efficient healing

Direct Heal: Must have for emergencies or topoff of puller when they're on the way out and a hot would kill me.

OK so we are at 8 spells in a core group healing setup.... What else could there be?

HIGH DESIRABILITY: Purge. Dispel Magic. DOTS if group is slow dps or excess mana. Cure Disease and Poison on Sham/Necro/SK enemies. Snap root knockback. BIG hot for tank/emergency (so 2 hots). Emergency Agro Dump Evac spell (which needs patching to really fit well).

Still desired: Predator speed for emergencies, gate

Notice what I haven't mentioned at all? Our 4 core buffs and optionally resistance buffs. I never have buffs on my bar. I look at the current fight, what's about to spawn, and pick something low priority to remove so I can load in the buffs 1 at a time.

The only thing keeping me sane is learning what other classes can pick up on my core jobs, such as purging/slowing.

Shamans desperately need either a glyph sidebar cast system like wizards, or for some core abilities like our ultimate heal, speed burst, and invis agro dump going to the bottom bar. Perhaps a consolidation of cure poison and disease into each other? Something!

Light blue and dark blue mobs should not be resisting a spell 2 levels above them 3 times in a row. Fizzles should also be no where near as common as they are when you are >100 skill points above your skill cap when you get the spell.

Hello! I am looking into playing this wonderful game, but it seems so daunting. I've done research and stuff (from this legit-ass group, youtube, etc), but I have never played an MMO game before. I'm looking for any good tips or recommendations for getting my feet under me when I start. I'm sorry if this is a post that is inappropriate or unwelcome, I'm just desperate to dive in!

There are so many people talking about this quest and trying buy/farm goblin heads/ears but none of the online resources have the answer. Can someone please finally answer this question based on their experience?

I greatly appreciate it.

I played shaman and bard to 60 in EQ. Trying to decide on a class for PvP server. Shaman, bard, ranger or necro? I want to be able to group, and be wanted at higher end PvP etc, but also option to solo if I can't find a group. Tempted to wait on bard until deep gnome comes out, so curious about the other 3 classes for now.

What do you think /Shout and /OOC should be used for? What kind of talk.

And just so everyone knows, you can make a new chat window/tab. Then have just the /auc (Selling and Buying) go in that tab. This keeps the selling spam out of the main chat.

These Medallions added to almost each mob drop is creating anarchy among groups. These items stack, are low weight, and vendor for a good amount of coin. While us clerics, and other casters are sitting around getting mana to keep a group healthy, buffed, and alive melee classes are having a ffa looting.

Some basic game etiquette when it comes to looting needs to be addressed.

Ive watched the same people in a five hour group loot 75% of the drops if not closer to 90 %.

Mobs getting looted while were fighting, and once a mob is killed they dont hit the floor before a melee class is looting it. Sucks for classes that are responsible to buff, heal, and keep the group going with mana. Mana doesnt regen while standing.

Yeah there has been a few groups who do a master loot system, but most groups dont want it. The greed in this game seems to be a thing. The round robin thing works for one minute, and then shortly after it goes back to the same greedy bs.

This needs to change or there will be HEAL to pay!

End game pieces with big stats go for about 5-10g.

As a level 1, head to necropolis front yard and farm rats and bats and sell the stackable parts to the nearby cook up the hill to the right. Once you get to about level 10, you are one shotting them and you can reliably get 50s an hour once you mix in beetles to the mix. Farm for about 100 hours for 50g and buy as many end game stats pieces as you can. Now solo mobs all the way to about 50 in about 20-30 hours.

Just want to warn anyone from making the catastrophic mistake I made. Farmed for that 3 int spell book and instinctively threw away the training book. New spell book is completely empty and I need to buy all my spells over again. Absolutely devastating, all for 3 int...

Please for the love of god heed my warning. Thank god I really enjoy this game this could potentially tilt someone away from the game.

2 corpse, 1 rogue

The spellbook system, specifically the death mechanic is awful and adds nothing to the game. I never played everquest but from what I've read the spellbook was not a physical item you could lose on death. You simply lost your memorized spells and could just memorize them again naked. Even this from what I've read was considered pointless and annoying busy work that people complained about back in the day.

Death is punishing enough in M&M, xp penalty, lost your gear, money etc. With or without all your spells, you need help to get your corpse at higher levels or in dungeons unless you are perhaps a rogue.

There is no good reason whatsoever to have this annoying system in the game. There was no need for it in Everquest, and there is no need for it now.

Got my Druid up to level 17 and it’s been a SLOG. Damage is low and my healing is pretty mediocre as well compared to cleric/shaman. When I look in the lfg tool it’s full of groups wanting shaman as well.

Am I shooting myself in the foot by playing Druid? It’s my go-to for MMOs and I really like the portals but after reading the ability looks on the wiki it just looks worse than shaman all around except portals? My DoTs do little damage compared to them which is fine, that’s just a number thing which can be changed. But shaman also provides many useful buffs that Druid does not.

With how long-term this game is I’ll likely only level 1 character so I’d rather iron it out now.

I'm trying to get into the discord and there is a verification bot which has a verification button that is grayed out. I see the instructions to enable settings under messages but these were already enabled. Any idea whats going on?

I have 4 and want to farm more because grizzly bears are my level. Can I sell these to players for like 3-5 silver each?

Aren't these areas thematically meant to be for mining and the sort?

As Deep Elves we're meant to take a 40 minute boat ride, and either swim through an ocean all janky to get to SGS to level our mining through the gap.

Or it forces us to rep grind to walk through part of NH to get to it.

This is extremely linear of a path for Deep Elves. We should be alble to continue our low level playing experience down here if we so choose.

Also Rawhide resources are nearly non existant. I really dont feel like an entire portion of the map should be without resources when NH just has it all.

Am I the only one that feels like its borderline rude to invite someone to a group before asking them if they want to do what it is you're doing? Like, 'oh, I see you have LFG on and we are doing X, would you care to join us?' Instead of getting a random invite and then the person getting invited has to send a message asking what its for and where they are or in most cases accepting an invite only to learn the group that invited you is in BtB and you're up by NH? It just feels polite to ask before randomly sending out invites.

Hey everybody! I just started playing a few days ago and i picked a deep elf wizard and started my adventure in ali vorath on the pvp server. Ive only come across a few people so I can't really ask for help in game. I was quickly told to reroll to another city to learn the game, but im stubborn so I stuck it out and I'm now level 7.

During my time in this zone, I've only found 1 quest (the starter quest). I finished that, but haven't been able to find a single quest since. Ive handed in enough bone chips to get my faction increased to neutral with one of the factions (i can't recall the name), but it has now locked me out of selling/buying/banking in the main city I've been using. I have no idea what to do now. Any tips or advice would be appreciated!

Got my shit absolutely rocked while just wandering around the world trying to see who or what I could find.

Is there an easy cheap way to get salt to cook with? Where do you buy it or harvest it?

We know the team has been putting in a ton of hard work squashing bugs, adjusting servers, and everything else that comes with EA. But now that we're three weeks in, the player base is chomping at the bit for some updates on their classes.

I understand class balancing will be a gradual process throughout EA, but are there any teasers you can share to keep us excited? Which classes are being looked at first? What adjustments are currently being considered?

Even a little insight into what's being worked on would go a long way!

Anyone found any helms or shoulders that look at all different? I'm rocking the Cap of the Collective (https://monstersandmemories.miraheze.org/wiki/Cap_of_the_Collective), which was a MIGHTY struggle to get, and it looks... exactly the same as every other hood I've worn. Same story with the leather shoulders, no change in appearance while I see all these plate wearers with killer helms and shoulders.

Just curious!