Voxl the Ogre works his way through EverQuest Legends from the tutorial up, and the guides come out of the run.
Sol B from 42 to 46 in two or three hours of casual grinding, charming imps on a loop around the Efreeti Lord Djarn camp. No placeholders means Djarn is always back, which took the boots to plus four and the ring to plus three. Nagafen is next.
Master Yael at level 42 on difficulty zero, solo, in Befallen and Lower Guk gear. Charm the channeler, let the wizard burn his mana, and hold a heal over time. Earthshaker and Brell's Girdle drop, plus the Void-touched Potential from the quest.
Level 40 in Lower Guk, where Bard charm turns the King into a two on one fight. The charm-and-send trick, the focus items worth farming on live side, and 1,500 platinum earned since 32.
Solusek's Eye from 25 to 32, goblins first and then gnomes, which turn out to be the best money in the game at that level. Steadfast Will gets started, the Iksar unlock gets priced, and the plan gets cut short in favour of Lower Guk.
The Befallen basement from 20 to 25, with the named rotation mapped, 48 AA banked, and the Linux crashes finally gone after switching Crossover to the Vulkan backend. Next stop is Solusek's Eye.
Ring of Surefall Glade to Blackburrow at 15 for the shrink shoulders, which drop twelve minutes in. Then the rest of the zone gets cleared for the belt, the breastplate, the bandana, and the bow, because being an Ogre in doorways had gotten old.
Instances are back, the loadout switched to Warrior / Druid / Bard at 10, and Befallen goes from a grind to a walk. The scythe drops on the very first kill of the named that carries it, Improved Bash comes online, and level 12 becomes 15.
Personal instances go down on Freeport, which turns leveling into open world West Commonlands with four hill giants on screen and nothing blue left alive. Level 7 to 8 the hard way, and a debugger attached to chase the crash.
First trip into Befallen on a D0 solo instance at level 5, learning that an Enchanter pet is not a tank, and fighting a Linux client that crashes on loot four times in one session.
Launch day on Freeport. Voxl the Ogre Warrior / Enchanter runs the tutorial for boots, crosses Antonica by dying on purpose, borrows Sneak from a Rogue loadout to buy tiny daggers, and reaches level 5 outside Befallen in an hour and a half.