thats not how it was

l my guild did VT in summer 2004 (just in period between GoD and OoW releases)

You needed a sceptor key to enter the VT itself- which was an ass long camping shard quest + Emperor of Sssra component drop
EVERYONE needed to have this key to enter VT
this was the key just to enter the zone.

in the court yard you had to kill a giant stonegrabber mob called Va... something - who droped the palace door key. - you only need 1 such key.
The Va... was on 1 hour respawn timer, and took our pre-elem geared 2 groups 45 min to kill (a shit load of hp)

Inside VT there were some more keys which were locking out the door into Main hallway
atleast one of the Mini-bosses before main hallway had to be killed for this key

inside the main hallway there were 2 towers on the first floor, and at least 1 of the Tower bosses had to be killed in order to depop the wardens leading to the 2nd floor.

with 8 pre-elem groups it took us rathly 5 hours to do the 1st floor on day 1, camp the mage at the portal to 2nd floor, and another 4 hours to do the 2nd floor on the day 2 inclduign Aten Ha Ra kill.

Wow, that makes Everquest sound hard. :shock: :D

Heh, I was going off websites I read. I had never been there before.

Boy, that sure is a lot of work though...


p.s. Just wanted to add that the problem was all me to begin with. I misunderstood what I had read online for what it took to get into Vex Thall. I had zoned into Vex Thall from Umbral Plains oringinally without the Scepter of Shadows so when I read that you needed one, I just assumed it meant to actually get into the Palace not to zone in.

thats only the part of the story =)

the VT Sceptor consisted of:

the Sceptor frame (box) - rathly 2 hours of camping with atleast 2 groups to have enough dps to kill phs fast enough

the 10 shards - took me personaly 2 month to get them all with camping them rathly 4 hours a day (3 month to get themf or entire guild - 60+ people)

the Emperor Ssra drop - this one a whole separate story on ist own:
you needed to get internal Ssra key-ring to get to the Emperor Chamber- rathly 1 week of camping 3 hours each to get all 4 parts

kill Emperor of course - no trivial task


travelign around VT- is another major pain - trash mobs repop at machine gun rate, hit in 800+ range and have 200k hp each, and come 5-6 at a time
a hallway path from oen named to naother had 50+ of these guys to clean up
I swear in was much harder to clean out the trash than to kill actual named.

and of course entire Vt had to be done in specific order - you had to kill specific named first to dispawn the wardens or you could not get to the 2nd floor. Wardens themselve could not be killed all had Death Touch

of course after all this pain- VT was truly a candyland for loot even 4 expansiosn later. The gear was MUCH better than Tier 3 PoP (inclduing gods like LMM, Saryrn, TT, Bertox and even Ro) but somewhat worse than elemental.
but the good part was than each named was droping 5-8 items at once!
During our first clearing the guild scored a total of 25+ truly nice items - it would taken us a YEAR of farming Tier 3 pop gods to get this much gear

Out of all time in EQ VT was my favored raiding ground - i could realy feel all the time invested was WELL paid off

ofcourse elemental or GoD items were way better but that was entirely diffirent level of dificulty. Our guild marched victories in VT was ripped to shreds on lowest rank raids we atempted in GoD, like Smith Rondo event =)

of course once DoN come out in 2005 with raids for casual players with ala-ldon style points reward system, VT was quickly adandoned

Hmmm. The server isn't listing on the EQemu login. Is it down?

Yeah, I tried getting on after work today and cant find it either. Ruh roh!

I think it has something to do with what happened 2 days ago to all of emu, and he hasn't gotten it back up

Brach when this gets resolved we need to finally finish a Veeshan and Vex Thal run.

-EST

Aka
Drops Mobs-Warrior
Heals Drops -Cleric

I agree 100% :)

aka
Loon's

Sorry Guys, i just got in from a business trip to Chicago and never had a chance to check the forums or server status... I'll reset it right now. I probably should have mentioned that I would be away.

Grouping and Instances
 

Im not sure if I am the only one running into this (maybe Im not even doing it right).

I was trying to do some PoP flagging and some of it involves being transported to an Instance to run an encounter. I cant seem to get my entire group sent into the Instance. Basically, whoever initiates the text in the group is the only one sent over. Needless to say this is causing me some issues.

I am running 3 toons but I cant even find a way to get just 2 of them in at a time.

Also, what I have noticed with groups is that whoever I have invite people and create the group is the only person who can "see" in the group box all the other group members. My other group members dont have anything showing up in the group box. I have tried to have the group leader initiate the text for the instance hoping that because the entire group shows up on their screen that the full group would be sent to the instance but still only the 1 person.

I logged in to the server yet none of the commands are working. Is this intentional or something that's being worked out?

Thanks :)

I guess that depends on what commands you were trying. The only command I know of that works for the average player is #zone.

There is an NPC in PoK that will level you and there is free gear on the merchants behind the leveler.

The #summonitem and #itemsearch do not work for the average player.

Oh, yeah - that's what I was trying to use was #summonitem and #itemsearch.

I would really like to use these two commands. I was logged onto this particular server a couple of days ago and could use the commands just fine so I'm not really sure what changed...?

Are there any servers out there that have them enabled for the average player?