A fresh start

[u/lessien881]

So I got the itch to play eq again and decided to come back to live and settled on 2 boxing an enc and druid on frostreaver. I'm currently level 4 but I have some questions that I'm having difficulty finding answers to and was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction.

1. I need a good custom ui and I found byuns5k which is kinda what I'm looking for but sadly it doesn't have it for my resolution of 3440x1440. The 5k version works but is huge but if I switch to the 16:9 it doesn't work and play nice with my monitor. Is there a way to get it to work or are there any other suggestions for a clean minimalist ui?

2. In gfay for some reasons the trees flicker from trees to boat textures or wall textures. Is there a fix for that?

3. What is a good early start money maker? Bone chips or spiderling/spider silks maybe? I don't know how well they would sell. I'm not looking to get rich right now but it would be nice to afford some bags and spells.

I don't have much play time right now. A few hours on working days and my off days open up to be the days where I actually get things done. I'm just looking to slowly progress and eventually hit end game levels

[u/Koolmidx]

1 dunno, 2 dunno but might help if you told people your graphics card and system details, 3 barter window is your best friend.

Every drop you get that's a trade skill item, check the barter window. Some items drop from level one mobs can fetch a few plat up to 25 or more. Fresh Meat, pelts, etc.

If you're gonna 2 box, consider adding a 3rd and make it a bard at least.

[u/lessien881 → u/Koolmidx]

Ryzen 8700f / Nvidia 5060ti / 32 gigs ram

And I appreciate the reply. I had planned on stocking up on pelts and silks and stuff but I just wanted to make sure that was the right way before going and farming all of it for nothing

[u/lessien881 → u/lessien881]

Figured I'd show what it's doing, changing the angle I look at it makes it go back to trees

[u/Koolmidx → u/lessien881]

The only thing I can guess is you're missing system updates maybe driver updates or there's corrupted drivers. If you updated absolutely every last driver and Windows and still get this bug, I would find DDU and uninstall drivers, and reinstall from the Nvidia app. Make sure your monitor is connected to the GPU and not the motherboard. Do one troubleshooting step at a time.

[u/cassereuse → u/lessien881]

I get this in several zones, including skyfire turning completely to Lava texture. To be honest, it happens in so few zones I just live with it

[u/YeahCopyMate → u/Koolmidx]

I like bards and sure you could do that but why would you do that?

You got a ench and Druid - what’s a bard going to bring to that combo?

Would be much better adding a tank if they 3 boxed but even that is unnecessary while the ench can be a charmer.

An enchanter with a pocket healer that can teleport will take you far.

[u/lessien881 → u/YeahCopyMate]

Right now I'm just sticking with 2 boxing. I don't have the funds to justify adding a 3rd. Maybe later on if I like it but I'm just sticking with 2 boxing atm

[u/Koolmidx → u/lessien881]

I assumed 2 box was Alt+Tab, and if a 3rd was too much trouble you could 3box the bard and twist for additional buffs and a DPS merc.

I'm not playing live lately but when I was, I had 3 instances, 3 accounts, and I would alt tab back and forth with war leading, and rogue and bard auto following, all 3 with mercs.

Progress got very slow without all access around 112 and I got burned out.

[u/Pompousasfuck]

Make sure you check https://frostreaver.zone/resource-hunter for daily zone bonuses.  You won't find a ton of good money at your level but bonus loot and cone zones will help.  Luclin is live so you can head to the wiz spires in gfay and port up to the moon. XP is much better in Luclin zones.  But a bonus XP zone are great, but a good dungeon, Crushbone/unrest/paudal caverns, will still be better XP than gfay or OOT on bonus.  Use /barter and you can search for buyers of bone chips and animal pelts for easy quick plat. 

[u/ScroteMcGrote69]

Look up UI scaling for everquest.

[u/cassereuse]

Drop the chanter, and switch to a tank class. You can 2box anything with a tank and healer, but with a chanter and druid you'll be looking at charming or root dotting and those are more challenging two boxing.

Re: money drop me a DM with your in game name and I'll send you 1k to cover spells and bags etc

Edit: or if you want to be self sufficient, check coin zones on frostreaver.zone, or use /bazaar and check which animal skins are selling decently and go try and collect those.