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Deep In the Hole Looking For A Rat

One item in one trip: the Idol of the Underking out of The Hole for Improved Healing III, and it dropped first try. Plus why difficulty four Cazic Thule stopped dying, and the AA I cannot afford yet.

August 24, 2026
Episode20

A single-purpose trip into The Hole on the Shaman, hunting one named for one focus item, and it dropped on the first kill after I had spent the whole run bracing for a long farm. The rest is levelling honestly: why Solusek's Eye is probably the better zone anyway, an AA I am one rank short of affording, and a difficulty four Cazic Thule that killed me this week having died easily last week.

The Hole Shaman 42 WAR / SHM / BRD Difficulty 1 Improved Healing III
The goalIdol of the Underking, and nothing else
ResultFirst kill, first drop
The weaponPlus ten, 1.6 ratio, cleaves at 700 to 800
DamageAround 280 on the overlay

The Idol of the Underking

The whole reason for the trip.

  • It carries Improved Healing III, up to twenty percent on healing, and it holds that value all the way to level 60 before it starts to decay. So it survives the next expansion rather than being replaced by it.
  • The named sits in the jail, down and to the side rather than deep. Filter the map and the route is short; the mob was a level 54 and a pushover at this gear level.
  • It dropped first kill, after I had talked myself into expecting a long farm. I did not know the drop rate going in; somebody simply handed me one in the private beta.
  • It helps the Druid build more than this one. Shaman healing is mostly the heal over time, and this focus is on direct heals, so it is the Warrior, Druid and Bard build that really gains.
  • Not going in the bow. The bow keeps firing on a tab target and pulling things I did not want, so it lives in a bag and the focus went elsewhere.

The Hole, Briefly

Fine, but not where I would level.

  • Shrink before you go down. There is a spot you simply will not fit through otherwise.
  • Difficulty one was the right call for a trip whose only job was one item. The Hole is usually a pain and there was no reason to make it one.
  • Rock golems carry a lot of hit points, which is where the experience is, but they are slow going.
  • A named was worth 2.7% at 42 on about a six minute respawn, which is not enough to camp.
  • The loot here is poor for a zone added after the fact. The good things are still in Guk and Solusek's Eye.

The Shaman at 42

Melee first, dots second, and a pet that will not die.

  • The axe is at plus ten and reads a 1.6 ratio, with cleaves landing between 700 and 800. That is why this build leans on melee rather than mana.
  • Shaman healing outclasses Druid healing badly. The heal over time ticks for 200 against about 120 on the Druid at max level, and it simply feels better in a fight.
  • Pet rather than charm, not because it is stronger but because it is less work. It survived the whole run on 2,700 hit points wearing hand-me-down armour and Baron's weapons.
  • The pet gets the bard songs and a charmed mob does not, which looks like a bug rather than a rule. On live, charmed pets take your buffs.
  • Venom of the Snake carries the dots until 49, with Odium arriving at 43 to sit beside it.
  • Endurance runs out before mana does in offensive stance, which is the real limiter here.

Naming the characters after their race was a deliberate choice: the Shaman is the Iksar and the Warrior and Druid are the Ogre, so I can tell which build a clip belongs to months later without checking.

The AA I Cannot Afford

Three points in, one rank short.

  • Cannibalization needs one more rank of Mental Clarity before it can be bought at all, which is worth knowing before you spend elsewhere.
  • It is the one that changes the flow. Trading health for mana means never sitting to med, which matters more than any single rank of anything else on the list.
  • Save to four rather than spending at three. There is enough on the AA list to cause genuine choice paralysis, and most of it is worth less than this.
  • Mana is not the constraint yet at this level, precisely because the build is melee first, which is what makes saving easy.

Cazic Thule Stopped Dying

Same build, same difficulty, opposite result.

  • Difficulty four went down last week on Warrior, Druid and Bard, and this week it beat me thoroughly across three pulls before I gave up.
  • I was taking noticeably more damage than the week before, with nothing obvious changed.
  • The likely culprit is exaltations not saving. I noticed while swapping things that the exaltation slots were not holding, which would quietly cost a chunk of stats.
  • The other suspicion is dual wield. I think that build wants two one-handers rather than the two-hander, which means going back to Plane of Sky for the Warrior weapon.
  • Wizards are the worst of the bunch now. Chain nuking and mana detonations left barely enough room to heal.

What the Parser Says

Resist rates you cannot see in game.

  • Master Yael resisted 15% of one spell and 23% of chant of flame across the difficulty four kill, which is the sort of thing that decides whether a slot is worth carrying.
  • The area slow may simply need Over Channel. That is the reading rather than Yael being resistant to magic generally.
  • Poison does not land on Innoruuk, so Odium is the only Shaman dot that will stick. I have not yet tried Envenomed Bolt through Over Channel against him.
  • Crit rates sit around ten percent on current gear.
  • A spell set per boss is the habit that came out of this, rather than one set that half works everywhere.

On parsers. Mine is not released and is Linux only. EQ Companion and EQ Buddy are the ones people are actually using, and both are worth a look if you want this data yourself.

Where the Experience Actually Is

An argument with the patch notes.

  • Solusek's Eye is the better zone, and it is not close. You can pull every imp at once and kill them together, then move to the lava crawlers, where The Hole spreads the same experience across little rooms and makes you walk between them.
  • Kedge Keep is worse than either. Being underwater means you cannot simply run a route, and the per-kill experience does not pay for that.
  • The dungeon modifiers were nerfed to push people outdoors, and the problem is that above 40 there is nowhere outdoors to go. It is Guk, Solusek's Eye and The Hole until Kunark opens Burning Woods, the Dreadlands, Skyfire and the Emerald Jungle.
  • Classic EverQuest funnels you into dungeons on purpose, and from dungeons into raids. The best loot from one to fifty is in Guk and Solusek's Eye, so buffing the zones that were underused would have worked better than cutting the ones that were not.
  • Levelling feels slow on a repeat character rather than on the first. A legacy bonus of the sort the progression servers use, ten percent per character taken to maximum and surrendered on reincarnation, would fit this server exactly.

Faction is its own grind. Dwarf wanted around 800 Kiola Nut turn-ins and Knights of Truth looks like another 800, while the bone chip route has been nerfed. A hundred and thirty bone chips from level one to here is fewer than the time spent in Befallen deserved.

The Hole, For One Item

  1. Shrink before you head down.
  2. Difficulty one is enough if you only want the drop.
  3. Filter the map and head for the jail. The named is a level 54 and not a fight.
  4. Take the Idol of the Underking for Improved Healing III, up to 20% on direct heals.
  5. Put it anywhere but the bow, which fires on tab targets and pulls the room.
  6. Then leave. Solusek's Eye is the better place to actually level.
  7. Save AAs to four for Mental Clarity and then Cannibalization.
YouTube Generated Transcript

Hello and welcome to my legendary adventures in Norath episode 20. So today we’re on the shaman. Uh we’re leveling that up. So uh from this point like the the shaman is going to be the XR. The druid uh warrior is going to be the ogre just so it’s a little bit easier for me to tell when I’m looking at these videos. So, anything with a shaman is going to be uh is going to be the XR. But today, we’re in the hole. And what I want to pick up today, see if I can see him on tracking. There is an improved healing three ranged item. Uh we want, that’s what our goal today. Uh I have no idea where it spawns. Uh so, we’re just going to fight our way down. Now, uh I don’t know if I showed it in the last video, but uh I have upgraded my uh axe to plus and uh it is very nice. GU, sorry about this. Welcome, Shaa. Welcome to the guild. All right. Uh holy. There we go. Auto cell. I feel like I’m getting a lot of lag in the last few hours. Yeah, it’s lagging there. All right. Uh but so yeah, plus 10 on the axe. It’s a 1.6 ratio now. Highest uh highest damage I’ve seen is like 7 or 800 cleave. It’s insane. Uh now this is this is obviously lower level. He’s a 42 shaman. Uh, it’s going to be slight less. What do we got? 1 AA. So, it’s a little less, but we should we should be fine in here. I’m using the pet right now. I don’t know why, but uh just a choice. Uh, I feel like the charmed is a little better, but it’s less less effort, if you will, to uh deal with a pet. Um, but it’s working pretty good. Let me turn on my overlay. Here you can kind of see what kind of damage we’re doing. 282 DPS or 260 now uh that it lowered a little bit. I got some crits there obviously. So uh and I got my uh little 2520. It’s like so close, right? U just from parsing the logs. Got it all going. Uh there is there’s another uh there is another vibe coded uh what appears to be vibe coded I’ll say uh parser out there that’s uh that’s actually available for people to download that’s uh my friends have been saying it’s pretty good [music] uh called EQ companion I believe uh definitely uh check that out if you’re looking for a parser cuz mine is not available uh but you bring it in like I can I I’ve got I’ve added all kinds of cool stuff. I’m just like, Claude, have fun. And it does all this cool stuff for me getting it all going. So, I I’ve I’ve had a blast just messing around with it. It’s definitely uh fun there. But, uh I don’t I don’t feel like I’ll release it just because it’s so uh I haven’t even looked I haven’t even looked at [music] the code yet. Uh that’s how how very little I care about it, right? Like it’s it’s just one of those hilarious things. But uh yeah, these are rock golems. They got some hit points. I’ll tell you what. I mean, we’re we’re in uh offensive stance. So, you can see here we’re doing pretty good damage. Uh I’m not going to lie. Let’s get a slug on us here. Now, we got the new slugs healing at 42. So, I stayed in Guck till 42 and then I was like, “Oh my god, I cannot stand this zone another moment.” And uh then I went on a uh race unlock spree. I unlocked uh wood elf dwarf and I got uh my cloak, not the cloak of flames, but I got my white dragon scale cloak, which gives me improved damage three uh which is a nice boost. I don’t know if it’s going to be a boost for this build uh as much, right? It’ll it’ll boost these yellow damage, but it’s not going to boost the dot damage where this is a uh this is going to be a very dotheavy build here. And uh the way I plan on doing these uh the build guides for these different builds that I do, an earthn blade. Pretty nice. Six platinum. I’ll take it. Um, the way I plan on doing it is we’re going to do uh like a video a day because I only do a video a day, but we’ll do like each of the different uh each of the different fights, right? Um, so like for the druid, the warrior druid bard build, you know, we’ll go kill uh all the different fights, right? Here you can kind of see um you know like all the difference. Yale, Kazak, Nagafin, Lady Pox, Inuk. I I don’t think it’s worth showing uh what’s [music] his name? Finagle at all just because he is such a pushover. Literally, I I like I did it with the Shaman Necro build, uh Shadow Knight Shaman Necro, and like my pet killed it. It was pretty funny. Uh like literally like I just like was standing there messing around and the pet pretty much killed it. So wasn’t too big of a a deal for uh for those builds. So I’m I’m excluding it. Now um last week I killed uh difficulty for Kazak Thu uh with the druid build warrior druid bard. And uh this week it beat my ass like I owed it money and was not going to take no for an answer. Uh I’m not 100% sure what happened there, but uh it’s definitely uh you know something I’m going to try to try again. Like I I got bored of trying. I I gave it like three pulls earlier and I was like, “All right, well, uh I’m gonna go get like 10 more AA and pick up a few a few things, right? Like it it just felt like I was taking way more damage than normal.” Now, one thing I did notice when I was swapping different things, like my my different exultations were not saving. So, I could have had that issue. Uh there’s some things there. um and a few other things, but I feel like I need to go dual wield on that build. I feel like uh dual wield is probably the way to go. So, we’re going to probably go back to sky and try to get the warrior onehander, I think, is is pretty much where I’m at. Like, I need the warrior onehander. Oh my gosh, a lot of mobs. Um I’m only in a difficulty one right now. I didn’t know how hard this would be. Uh, hole is typically a pain in the ass. So, [music] I was just pretty much being cautious with myself here just cuz I just need the improved damage item. That’s all I really care about. Getting to 46 and getting the improved healing damage, right? [music] Uh, once we have that, like I don’t really have too much concern there. We don’t need to be in here. Let’s go into this and this. We can go into inversion here. I’ve been uh I’ve been falling in love a lot a lot more with inversion. I miss the shadow knight uh the shadow knight what you call it uh arcane mastery that those pure casters get. So I’m I’m kind of excited. Like the next build I’m going to do is going to do be this this new meta that has emerged. Paladin monk enchanter. I’m going to do that one just to see uh just to try it [music] out and stuff like that. But um I’m definitely curious to be exact. That’s the guy we want right there. All right. How do we get to him? He’s this way. All right. Hold on. That is the guy. We need to shrink up in this hole. All right. Come on. Shrink me. Shrink me. There we go. one. So, we just got to go kill him. Hopefully, it drops first time. Uh I don’t know the uh I don’t know the drop rate of this thing. Like on the private Yeah, the private beta. Some guy just handed to me. I think it was Aether Fox, man. Nice guy. Just handed it to me. People are so nice. Uh there’s a Ratman warrior right there. All right. What do we do? What are we dealing with? Okay, we’re we’re there. We’re in the jail. All right, perfect. So, if we filter Z, there we go. There’s not many mobs down here. So, [clears throat] these things got a lot of hit points, though. So, that’s where we’re going to deal with the experience. Uh 1.4 23. That’s That’s a range, tell you that. But I don’t think we’ve done whole yet on any of the uh All right. Well, we might have done hole in one of the videos, but uh I don’t really feel like I’ve done a lot of the hole. Uh definitely. Uh interesting. Let’s get a slow on this guy. Is that even the right slow? That’s 38 to. All right, I did upgrade that one. Um I’ve I’ve been farming trying to farm moes and we are still pretty bad off right. Uh I got 18 lessers though. So that’s that’s something that’s from So I got those lessers that I’m lagging so I can’t open the door. Um the uh the lessers actually came from uh Guck 2. So that’s uh that’s something there. O look at that. That’s Yeah, there we go. Come on. Come over here. Geez. Three. That’s like two. Perfect. Let’s get him slowed. I’ve been I’ve been trying to use slow more. Uh I’ve been like, you know, druid brain, right? Like I’m like I don’t have slow. And uh the the shaman is just like a powerhouse. Like look at this. The shaman heal does 200 a tick. The druid one is like 120 at uh max level, right? So it is it like it’s wrong button. Uh I ritual spells. Let’s look at this real quick. Uh forest heal like 671. Not bad. E for teal 150. I was wrong. 150. So, it heals 50 less, but then it has that 450 heal at the end. Still still doesn’t doesn’t feel as good as this jamming. There we go. We got this guy right here. All right. He’s a level 54. Hopefully, we get it first time. I mean, you can see where we are down here in the jail. We filter this out, right? You [music] just like come down here through like that. Boom. Easy. Uh, at least I think this is the guy. I’m trying to remember the name, honestly. Um, but like this guy’s he’s he’s a joke for our current gear level. All right. I mean, I’m in I am in offensive fighting [music] him, which I’ve been try I I I did Yale uh Master Yale zero through four in offensive uh with the druid build, [music] which was pretty good. Um there’s, you know, there’s a there’s a little bit of time where you’re spending more time healing, and it would probably [music] be beneficial to not be an offensive, right? Just going to defensive while he’s doing his nukes. [music] Heal through it. And there we go. Oh, we got him. First try. Idol of the Under King. Improved healing three. Let’s go and loot loot that. And uh take a look at that. Improved healing three. So, this will improve all our uh direct heals, right? By up to 20%. [music] And this will still be good when uh the new expansion comes out. All right. H you know what? I am I’m gonna go to this. I think I think I’m going to go to this. I think I could put it into the bow. Uh but the bow is the bow the while the bow is nice. I am starting to get this situation where when I use the bow, I am getting uh accidental [music] aggro and I can’t do it when it’s in my bag there. Let’s go ahead and put that in there like that. So, I’m getting this accidental aggro where like I’ll tab target and then it’ll shoot an arrow at a mo. It isn’t [music] fun. All right, so we got that. There we go. Now, we have improved healing three, uh, which should improve our direct heals, right? Obviously, I haven’t done a single direct heal, but it will improve my druid build uh more because the druid heals is a direct heal. Let’s hope that makes sense. How How the hell do I get out of this this place? All right, like this. There we go. All right, let’s go kill something else. I mean, that was that was too easy. I’ve been like I’ve been like, “Oh man, I got to go do this. I got to do this. It’s going to take me forever. It’s going to take me forever.” And then, wham, bam. Thank you, ma’am. We are uh already there. All right. Oh, we got a rock. Perfect. I like these guys cuz they’re uh a little bit more experience. I think that one guy we just killed was 2.7% experience. If he spawned more faster than 6 minutes, it might be worth just sitting there and killing him over and over again. Uh, but probably not. I got to cookie click on my AC cuz it is hot in my office. I got my editing machine going. I’m editing like four videos or rendering, I guess. Uh, getting those out and uh ready to go. I think I have like the way I the way I do it is I kind of pre-record the week before. So like what is today? I don’t even know. I don’t even know what today is. Today is [music] the 8th of August, right? So I already have the this coming Jeez, what the hell’s going on in this room? I already have this week’s videos for like today’s uh Friday, right? So, I have next week’s videos all done and ready to go. There’s, you know, that’s why there’s a little bit of delay. And I I get messaged by people saying, “Oh, you’re already 50, right?” Yeah. Uh I can’t I can’t produce a video in like one day. It’s It’s a very hard It’s a very hard turnaround uh for me sometimes. and [music] uh getting it, you know, getting it recorded, getting it moved from this computer to my editing computer, editing it, then uploading it to YouTube, which usually takes the longest part of the whole world deal. Like sometimes I, you know, I have like six videos I’ll click to upload on my little uh editing box and it will literally still be uploading sometimes in the morning when I wake up. So, uh that that is the big thing. And then once it’s uploaded, there’s another processing that YouTube does which has gotten faster over the years, right? It like when I used to make like Fallout videos and stuff, uh it would take like 30 30 plus hours for a video to like go through processing. Now it’s, you know, it’s less than usually less than an hour per video, but still it can it can be quite a bit. But uh O. All right, we got to deal with this mistake. What do we got? Do we still have a pet? We still have the pet. He’s still alive. I’m not going to heal him. I don’t believe in healing pets. They’re uh they make their own choices. They should heal themselves if they need to be healed. Uh there we go. All right. Everybody’s Everybody’s choking on that. and we go and do a slug and get there. This is platinum is pretty good here. I finally got my money. I was at 550 5.5k and then I went and bought a bunch of Kyola nuts and uh here we are. I had to buy a lot because I need I need at least I needed 800 800 turnins for the dwarf dwarf faction and then I’m going to need I think another 800 for the Knights of Truth turnin in uh Freeport if I’m not mistaken but uh who knows Who knows? Who knows what that’s going to take cuz they nerfed the bone ship thing. So, that’s going to be a whole another. I’m going to have to figure out faction for because uh I have I have 130 bone chips from uh level one to now. And I was expecting a little bit more in all honesty. Um, considering how much time I spent in uh, Befallen and all and in all honesty, I spent a lot of time in Befallen and uh, uh, I actually that’s probably a good idea. I could probably get my parser to tell me where I spent the most time in, but uh yeah, it was uh it was a lot of time was spent there and I don’t feel he’s going to summon me. I don’t feel like I got enough bone chips out of that, but uh you know, there’s there’s other places to go, I guess. Um, we’ll have to figure that out when we redo that because we we are going to the next build after I get the after I get all the videos done for warrior druid bard and warrior shaman bard. [music] Um, we are going to uh I’m going to primary if if I don’t unlock it first doing sky quests. I’m gonna primary uh a paladin and then we’re gonna do monk, paladin, [music] monk, and enchanter. And I’m going to level up three classes at once versus uh doing one at a time. I think uh doing it that way will be a little bit more interesting because it’ll it’ll be three new things versus me leveling Paladin and then leveling again and again cuz I’m I’m I’m kind of I’m kind of schlogged out on leveling. It’s a little too slow for me. Like everybody’s saying it, oh it’s too fast. I feel like it’s way too slow. Uh and you know that’s that’s the hill I’ll die on. Uh because I I feel like the first time Yeah. Like it’s fine, right? Like I I feel like we should have uh the legacy character system that they have on TLPs where every uh every time you level something to max level, you get a 10% experience bonus. I feel like that would be it would fit very well in the mentality of this this server where you [music] you know you’re leveling constantly and then when you would you know prestige whenever they come out with that in uh like January or whatever it was on that timeline to when you prestige you lose the bonus right you don’t you you’re not allowed you don’t it’s reincarnate I believe is what they called it um but you you would lose lose the bonus, right, when you reincarnate. So, it would work out. You know, you [music] you don’t have that many max levels anymore. So, I I feel like that would be that would be fine. I I I feel like it would definitely uh feel good to be able to [music] have some kind of uh thing to work towards. I know uh some people have been talking about trying to get access to planer earlier, which would be fantastic because like they they they nerfed the the the the dungeon modifiers for all the dungeons um you know right before the uh right before the public beta. And the reasoning what they said was is that it is uh you know to encourage people to go to outdoor zones but there’s no [  ] outdoor zones for the 40 plus leveling. It’s it’s guck soulbe and hole and this is this is dick experience right like like [laughter] this is this isn’t a one 1.9 this is this is just this is lame. [music] Uh, and I I don’t feel like they should have nerfed the experience at all. I think they should have uh buffed the experience of the zones that they thought were having problems cuz quite frankly, there is no zones. It’s not until Coonarch. [  ] Arc is when you start to see outdoor zones in the high levels, right? You got uh Burning Woods. You got parts of uh Dreadlands. Uh what is the other? Skyfire. Uh how sense of dungeon. What’s the other one? There’s a few other ones that are higher level too. Emerald Jungle [music] into uh Tracken’s Teeth and stuff like that. That’s where you start to find higher level content. And I like it just makes no sense to me because you know Classic EverQuest is designed 1 to 50 funneling everybody into dungeons. It’s not funneling people into [  ] East Kirana, right? It is funneling people into dungeons cuz then you funnel them into raids after the dungeons, right? Like that’s that’s how this classic game is made. That’s what it does. It funnels you to these places, right? All the best loot is in Guck. It’s in Soul B. And then they added hole and put really crappy loot here. I don’t know. Well, the experience is supposed to be good here. Is but I don’t know. Um but you know, I’ve tried I tried catch. I did not like catch. Like catch is terrible because it’s catch, right? because you’re underwater and so you can’t just like run around, right? Like if it was 15% a kill, I would literally sit in one room and catch and kill that 15% a kill mob every 6 minutes or whatever the hell it is. But uh that is not the case. That is not the case at all. So we are in uh we’re in hole now. I feel like soul B is probably the best the best bet in all honesty. Like I’m killing this [  ] fast enough, but I definitely feel like like Soul B is probably uh better because I can pull all the imps at once and kill them all at once, right? Like even probably more more so now with this this build. And then once I kill the imps, I can go kill the uh lava duck crawlers and stuff like that, right? Like it it it all works out. This it’s like spread out in these little rooms and [  ] and it’s a little bit annoying to go and like Oh yeah, here’s one right here. A little bit more annoying, but damn. [laughter] Did I take him down to like 50 almost 40 almost down 40% in a single hit, right? Like look at these hits over here. Oh, I’m out of endurance. That’s another problem. Yeah, it’s hard to keep up the endurance. There we go. This is two mobs. It is. And this is Venom of the Snake, right? Like I put a few points into it with uh some stuff. What am we at? Venom the Snake 3. O, it is It is a nice dot considering we have to use it all the way until like 49. But it’s definitely uh definitely like the part of the the fun of the shaman is is the dots, right? I think we get ODM here pretty uh like soon. Like 42 or 44. Um maybe we already got it. Let me see here. 42. No, that’s why we got slugs. Yeah, it’s a little bit later. But any digress. It’s it is what it is. But uh I just I just feel like experience is too slow. Uh cuz I I I feel like maybe on the first time it’s it’s fine and what it is, right? But on the subsequent ones it is it just feels slow because this this isn’t what I want to do. Like I I want to go I want to go raid, right? I can’t even zone into the raid zones with this character, right? I don’t want to I don’t want to sit here and, you know, do whole for, you know, the next 6 hours until I’m uh 46 and I can go to plane of hate, you know. To me, it’s this that’s that’s the boring part, right? Like that’s the oh god, it’s a schlog, you know? Like that’s that’s how I feel and uh that’s my truth, right? Everybody else has, you know, everybody can have their own truth of how they feel the game feels, but to me it feels slow. I don’t know. Maybe if you feel like the game is slow or, you know, feel like the game is too fast, you know, leave your comments. I love I I try to respond to every single comment on the channel uh when I look at, you know, when I look at my YouTube app on my phone. So, you know, like I I’d love to know what other people’s opinions are of the of the leveling speed and stuff like I, you know, I you know, I got I I had I had issues on my first day because I [music] couldn’t get instances and I was having crashes with Linux, right? which delayed me uh by like a day and a half I would say because my my friends were all you know much higher level than me by the time I started getting flowing and uh once I once I had the flow going like it started working fine once I had once once Freeport to instances I was good to go. Uh I think I did like two videos without instances, right? And uh those are definitely uh you know it was painful, right? Like that was definitely a painful situation [music] but uh we made we made do. I think I need elacrity. I thought I got elacrity now. My Yeah, it’s just healing really slow here. Let’s let’s look at this route. Uh, it’s going to be a healing chat not heal me. Do I have to target myself? What is What is the Oh, it’s the wrong wrong damn button. Where five? There we go. 539. O, what does this say? Heal for four. Oof, that is a nice heal. Plus, I have uh I think they the healing a so it really adds up. Oh, we got three AAS now. Truly don’t know what what to buy. There’s so many things. There’s so many things left I need, right, that I just don’t even I have uh choice paralysis, right? So many choices. I’m not 100% sure what is what is the best for this build or the best for the other build, right? I kind of I’ve been trying to think of it in that regard, right? But uh like this one needs cannibalize, right? And I don’t even see mental clarity. There it is. I still need one more rank of mental clarity to be able to buy cannibal cannibalize. So that is a reason to save to four, right? And then we get cannibalize and life becomes true because then we don’t have to wait for mana anymore. Uh we can just cannibalize it back, right? It’s much much better flow. Uh, but as you can see, I’m not really burning mana too much at the moment because I’m relying more on the melee side, which is one of the reasons why I picked a warrior for this. Right. 43. What do we get here at 43? 43, stamina, durge, and odium. There we go. We got odium. Perfect. Damage over time, magic odium. There we go. Uh I’m not going to use that right now, but uh it is it is worth upgrading in all honesty because uh it is going to be your only only dot you’re going to land on in I believe if I’m not m if I can’t if I remember correctly maybe fire lands on him if you take necromancer but shaman spellwise [music] poison does not land. Now, I have not tried in venom bolt 10 with over channel against nrock. I have not done that yet, but almost certain it won’t land. Uh I have uh on my druid, I have a literal [music] uh spell set for every single boss, which I did not do in the beta at all. I just kind of like yoloed it until Let me see if I can pull this in real quick while we’re fighting this mob that’s not going to kill me. Um, where did I put it? Uh, see here back here. Let’s do it. Yale. Really? No. Yale. Master. Really? Oh, I’m searching the wrong field. Master. There we go. All right. >> [music] >> Master Yale Solo 4, right? So, you can see resists in my little thing here. Uh, what was fought? Resisted, right? So, Master Yale resisted 100% of my AOE slow. He resisted [music] 23% of my chant to flame. Uh, now I wasn’t in I wasn’t in uh over channel, right? So the there’s a reason for like that. But uh this is the slow the AOE slow. Now it does it feels like he’s not resistant to uh to magic as much. It’s just he’s resistant to that spell and it might have required over channel to actually land. But you can see here like we still landed. like it’s still doing damage, right? What is going on here? So, 100% 18 resisted. So, it was a 15%. All right, never mind. I was reading that wrong. 15% resist rate on that spell. 23 on that one. Right. There’s another one I was looking at that had a 100% resist rate. But you can kind of see our crit rates like 10% and stuff like that. So it’s it’s the more I put into the to that like I’m getting more information out of that than I ever got out of the coup log parser, right? Um and that is just you know for my for my benefit, right? And I can take all that data and then I can put it into the videos that I do for uh all the different uh you know how I play videos is kind of the kind of my workflow with that. Uh, but you know, there’s a there’s, you know, a better a better shipped version that some guy made, uh, like EQ companion. I think there’s another one called EQ buddy. Uh, you know, you pick your poison, I guess. and use those. But there might even be another one. But um they they were all like Windows very Windows specific whereas I I have this one completely uh Linux specific right and this is this like overlay is only on would only work in way the way it’s written right now. Uh, and uh, I actually have it so I can turn this overlay into an OBS uh, overlay. So, it’s not actually So, I wouldn’t see it right here. Uh, it would only be on the uh, like [music] the video, which is actually probably the way I’m going to end up with it once I’m done uh, you know, vibing this thing. Man, [laughter] it’s it is uh, it has been fun. Tell you that. It’s fun to make something that’s not uh not serious in any possible way. Uh where is that? All right. Tab targeting somewhere else. This pet has not died yet. He is he is an absolute god. And all my uh so like all my stuff’s wearing off of him, right? Uh I I was I was about to say, “Oh, look. He’s gets my spell, my songs, but apparently he does not. Does he get K? He does get Katana smoothing. All right, though. There we go. So, he does get the songs. That is That is good. I just It doesn’t happen on the charm pets. So, which is weird, but >> [music] >> uh cuz on live your charm pets benefit from your uh your stuff, which is weird, but uh you know Uh, it is what it is. But definitely uh chucking along there. Let me look at this pet real. He feels like a god. He’s only got 2700 hit points. I gave him uh the lustrous russet armor, right? Plus a room bolster belt I had in my bag. And then he’s got these crappy baron weapons, right? I haven’t uh I haven’t gone on my way to make get more weapons. I probably give it my fingle once I uh once I get to onehanders and stuff cuz I feel like onehander with bard is is the only way to go honestly. So you can uh have all four four bard focuses, which might not sound bad because like wind is like the one that I’m not using, but I feel like if I had the wind one, it might help with charm in some way. I don’t I truly don’t know. Like I truly don’t know, but I feel like it might help cuz I charm a lot normally and uh if I got a you know 1% bonus from it, it would be definitely worth it for me personally. So, you know, whatever it is, whatever it is. There we go. Look at this. Just having a good time here. Let’s get that on there. And good. And oh, there goes the pet. Oh, poor guy. Didn’t stand a chance. All right. You know what? I’m going to charm you. And you’re not my pet. But you can see here, he does not get katana soothing. I feel like he’s a bug personally, but who knows? Uh, let’s see here. 8 seconds left on that. Let’s go and do that and then a heal. But I’m probably I don’t think I’ll stay here till 46 cuz we already got the item we wanted. Uh, probably go back to soul [music] A or soul B. I mean, uh, and spend some time there. I feel like I feel like Soul B is probably the the better of the place. Like I just I mean I’m killing this stuff plenty fine, right? But the amount of hit points this stuff have has is a lot more than the other other zone, right? So definitely uh some thoughts there. I want to get into to hate is really my goal. Um, I was considering like it’s it’s it’s tearing me up, right? Because I need a full Valyium, right? Uh, like if we look at this, I don’t think I even have a full set of Valyium yet. So, I need to get that. I got bracer GL. So, I need like the breastplate. [music] So, I I probably should go to fear in all honesty is what I’m trying to get at. Um, so that when I make the paladin after this one’s done, right, he’s he’s got gear, right? Like we’re going to twink him out as best we can. We’re going to try to get the the monk sky weapon. We’re going to try to get the the paladin sky weapon. Uh, we’re going to run um I’m going to run a few classes through uh through uh uh what is it? lower uh upper guck and try to get two ghoul two ghoul baines. Uh we need two ghoul banees. Uh one for the two different well one for the uh god what’s it called? The new the green weapon that’s out. One for fiery avenger. So we’re going to do that. Uh we’re going to do two gold banees, two soulfires, one fiery avenger, one torid corruption or whatever the hell it’s called. Uh it’s going to be uh it’s going to be some stuff and definitely something’s chunking us down. Not able to heal up. There we go. I could slow or something. I’m just being lazy. There we go. And he is 20%. He’s level 50, too. Jeez. [snorts] I feel like I’m Oh, I lost all my buffs. That’s what it is. There we go. Oh, getting interrupted even with full stun immunity. and most of stoicism. I think I think I have stoicism maxed. Yeah, stoicism’s maxed. I am almost Where’s persistent casting? Like I’m pretty far into persistent casting, but at the same time, uh I got 15% here. So, uh definitely uh definitely some interesting things going on with that, right? But I still get stunned a lot. Like even if it’s not a like a melee stun, it’s like spell stuns and stuff, it’s just it’s a little bit ridiculous at some sometimes. like uh I was doing fear today for uh progressing through Kazakh to um you know the difficulties just to see where see where I was at you know after after the the on the second week right and the gorggon like a 10second stun like I’m literally standing there I can’t do anything it’s like the most boringest thing in the world like truly don’t want to like it. I truly don’t. But uh I mean it is what it is. But damn, I did not like it. Come on. All right, let’s get this guy. We’re going to do a heal on us at some point if it lands. Get a little closer. Now I He’s a wizard, right? Wizards are like one of the most annoying mobs now because they uh they chain nuke. I had I had D4 Kazak chain mana blowing me up. Mana detonation or whatever the hell it is. Like that was annoying [laughter] knocked all around in that room. Barely had enough time to like heal and stuff. It was definitely uh a frustrating fight with Kasix as a wizard. All right, this is looking pretty good. I probably need to rebuff, but I’m going to throw an Odium on this guy, right? That’s not even going to [  ] land. Jeez, there scorch. Can’t land magic on these, I guess. There we go. Come on. Wow. This is something. All right, we’re like full endurance. We should be I wish you could have it automatically switch. I really wish all of these were just different focuses [music] that you could put on gear and combine them all together. I think that would have been more fun. I don’t like really switching them around and stuff. It’s It’s novel at first, but oh my god, it’s so annoying now. Like especially when I’m playing a bard song, right? I can’t switch any of this [ __ ] And it’s I can switch stances, but I can’t switch my invocations, which I like being able to switch them like, you know, as I need. It’s just kind of frustrating cuz then you’re like spamming stop song and then in sometimes it doesn’t work, right? It’s just like I don’t know. That’s probably a complaint that uh no one else has. But like I have songs that just stay like [music] they’re casting, but they’re not really casting. They’re just like lingering there forever. It’s just like, “All right, well, that’s bugged.” And I have to spam the button. I don’t know if anybody else got that problem, but I used to get it all the time on normal EverQuest and I just I just chocked it up to boxing, right? Like, oh yeah, I’m spamming the button over and over again. It’s probably just all jacked up. But apparent it’s just not that. Oof. This is uh I just realized we are like low on mana here. I’m not even paying attention. That’s how easy this is right now. But uh come on. Where is he at? There we go. But yeah, I think I think we can wrap it up here. I’m I’m actually falling asleep. [laughter] I’m falling asleep and we’re, you know, pretty much going to have to med break for the next, uh, good bit, if you will. Um, now, uh, with that said, that’s, uh, that’s pretty much what we’re going to talk about today. [music] Uh, we got our a new item, which is the improved, where is it at here? improved healing three uh focus which gives us an up to 20% extra healing damage to our heals. So bonus to us uh which is going to help out my druid build. Hopefully it’s enough to push me back into being able to kill D4. I don’t know what’s going on there, but maybe I just didn’t have the right gear on or something. But I I was getting frustrated and I didn’t notice it until too late. But yeah, but uh we’re going to continue leveling the B shaman. I’m going to probably uh stay here for a little while while I’m uh you know, just messing around. Maybe [music] maybe we’ll have another video before hate. But uh the goal is to get to 46 and then uh go to fear or hate. I think we’ll do we’ll do fear because we did hate on the druid. We can do fear on this guy. I need I need valyrium. Uh I need valorium, whatever it’s called. I need a breastplate. I [music] need the rest of the set to replace my my warrior gear when I switch paladin. So, it’ll be fun. It’ll be fun. [music] Uh, thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic day.