It’s weird that I don’t feel more excited about reaching the current max level in EverQuest Legends. I’m glad, of course, but it just feels like work. Like, yes, I have finally made it!
But now the fun part has ended. The raids, Kasul and I ran through Hate and Fear on D0, then went back and did Hate again on D1. We could do D2. And we need to; we need to do it a lot, because they drop the best class armor and archetype armor in the game. Class armor for specific classes; archetype for plate and chain wearers, and another set for leather and cloth wearers. The reason we care about this is for changing your primary class. If you’re wearing a lot of Warrior-only armor and you suddenly decide your primary class is now Cleric, well, now you’re an unhappy adventurer who is not wearing clothes.
Embarrassing.
And of course, this is exactly what happened to me.
When I got to level 50, the game granted me a Primary Class Unlock Token. I think these costs several dollars in the cash shop, but you get one for free at 50, and they are said to be fairly easy to unlock with quests in the Plane of Sky. But we were talking about class armor.
I spent a lot of time getting the Warrior-only Crafted armor earlier; and as Kasul and I leveled to 50 in the Plane of Hate, I picked up a lot of Indicolite armor — warrior only — and some Ethereal Mist armor, which is for clerics.
And that did fit into my plan. I used that Primary Class Unlock Token to unlock Cleric. From now on, I am a Cleric. This echoed a decision I made a long time ago. I grew up in EverQuest on the Erollisi Marr server. First as a druid, but nobody wanted druids in groups so I had to solo. I went to rogue, and that was very good, but I was a Pacific-time player in an East Coast guild, so I would often arrive late to raids, when they had all the rogues they’d need most times.
So: When the Stromm server opened, I moved over, and joined a West Coast guild, and started a Cleric. I would never, ever, be without a group, ever again. (And I wasn’t!)
I started in EQL determined to tank, but it turns out tanking isn’t needed — no roles are, really. Everyone is a self-contained murder machine. But I didn’t want to have to be a warrior any more.
I wanted to be a shadow knight, but every single person in the game (it seems) is a shadow knight. So all the guides are making the assumption that you are also playing a shadow knight because why would you not? How to get your glowy SK sword. How to get your other glowy SK sword. How to get your swift SK horse. How to FD your way through Sky as a SK, well that’s assumed. “How to FD your way through Sky!”.
I’m a warrior, though, so when I feign death, I have to do a corpse run right after. (Well, not in EQL).
I decided I wanted to be a cleric because there are three healing classes in game, the hybrid healers Shaman and Druid, and the queen of the healers, the Cleric. So, I was a Warrior/Cleric/Enchanter and became a Cleric/Warrior/Enchanter. And that was fine, armor-wise.
But, I wanted to get into that hot steamy SK action like all the cool kids. Except, you know, without being an SK.
Enter: the Paladin. The other knight class. But as with the SK, they get glowy weapons and Fashion Quest is the endgame for every MMO. They also get a swift horse. And they absolutely DEVASTATE the undead, in a way that Shadow Knights cannot (if not frend, y frend shaped? SKs against undead are conflicted).
So I switched to Cleric/Paladin/Enchanter, and found myself undressed. I was able to piece together everything except chest armor. The weird part is that I had camped the Avatar of Fear in the Temple of Cazic Thule and got the Rubicite Chestplate, but it wasn’t better than the Crafted BP I’d already quested for, so I stored it and later deleted it for space. So back to W/C/E and camping that frickin’ AoF for a couple of hours until I got it. I was in a D4 instance, so when it dropped, it dropped at +4. I waited for awhile but another one that would have been able to merge it up to +5 didn’t drop before I became bored.
Every time I go through Befallen, I go through faster. This time, with some planar armor (the Ethereal Mist, the Paladin-specific Valorium armor, the chain/plate Lustrous Russet, and with the Paladin undead killing spells, it was murder, or whatever it’s called with you kill animated dead. Mutilating corpses, I guess. There’s no laws against that in Norrath.
Everything’s legal in Norrath.
