I'll agree MOST of it is soloable depending on level
Under level 50, you're going to need a bit of help.
After level 60, it's mostly cheese.
After level 70, the only part holding you back is probably the final three items including the cape.

I had very bad luck on the cape and had to kill the horsie four times for it to drop (Thanks Swifft!!)

I will also take sides on the clicky effect being not-so-great. While it will possibly save you 300ish mana on a pull at level 50ish, I have noticed it gets resisted more than I'd wish seeing as how the resist check is neutral.
Nontheless, the stats are very nice at the minimum level you can obtain it (and after). Considering it has more saves than the Scythe of Sundering, I consider it a better item (it also looks a lot cooler!).

The best part is that I've only ever seen a hand full of necros with the 1.0 in the entire time I've been playing EQ for - now - obvious reasons.

I went back and looked and I can't find the post I saw, you might be right and I was looking at the chanter epic but if I'm correct it is not spell haste but attack haste.

or those random moss snake attacks. damn moss snakes.

"A moss snake looks ready to attack, what would you like your loading pls wait screen to say?"

I pity people who think that twinking is pathetic. To me it's a choice, and you either choose to do it or you don't. Why should it bother someone if someone else chooses to do it? And why wouldn't anyone want to do it when it simply makes your life easier...your character's life and your REAL life.

Here's a scenario. You're out romping around in a zone and for whatever reason you kill something. It drops something you can't use on the character you're playing, but you have a low level character you started playing, or you have an idea for a character you want to start playing, and you choose to use that item for him/her.

If you don't use that item you would either
1) just let it rot,
2) pick it up and just give it to someone else,
3) pick it up and sell it to someone else, or
4) give a shout to the zone to let everyone know they can come pick it up.

While selling an item is okay and giving it away is a nice thing to do, why wouldn't you use an item yourself instead of letting someone else use it?

The same scenario applies to seeing an item go up for sale. If you have a character with the cash to pay for an item, and you have a use for the item on another one of your characters, why wouldn't you buy it and give it to him/her?

If you don't you're forcing your RL self to go through a lot more effort to play a game that should be more fun than work, and while playing an untwinked character may be fun for some, it's a lot more work for some others.

I for one choose to twink my lower level characters at every opportunity, and it has made my game playing time more fun for me. If someone else chooses NOT to do it, fine, but don't give grief to those of us who choose to do it. There really is no reason to let it bother you.

p.s. and just to avoid some flames, I'm not talking about trying to get an item the character you're playing can't use while someone else who helped kill a mob wants the item for the character they're playing. An item should go to the character in the group who needs it most and if more than one player has similar needs, you should either roll for it or use a point system.

Edited, Thu Aug 1 14:44:49 2002

Okay, I am a lazy person, but I do want nice gear. When I want nice gear, say epic, I weigh the value of it against the trouble (time, resources, giving up opportunity to get lvls and AAs) I will have to go through doing it. I come to a conclusion that it is not worth it.

I agree with Ishtara that gaming experience (and I dont mean the lvl experience, but the mastering of killing and survival skills, using tricks and etc.) is way more important. My 65 mage has shameful gear that made my bf cry. However she kicks butt like no other and looks hot may I add.

I think epic weapons need to be improved to make them more attractive as rewards for hard labour.

Yevdokia Romanova lvl 65 mage - Veeshan server
(3 pieces away from epic and not going to bother completing it)
Yeva lvl 55 necro - Veeshan server
(also not going to bother with the epic)

Edited, Tue Dec 9 09:00:25 2003

Well, you're right. The necro epic IS hard. I've been working on mine for 8 months and JUST today got the slime blood from some friends that were picking up after a guild that couldn't handle the golems. The herb is indeed harder to get because it's not on the path to get everyone else's epic so you have to make a special trip. Luckily, I diddn't have to deal with that. Nah, you wouldn't be getting friends to go kill the golems for you specificly, but you would get your guild to kill the golems for all the cool stuff they drop and hope your epic piece dropped too. I don't know how Hate works on most servers but on mine, you just go on public raids and hope the minis drop the eye. Otherwise, it's sold fairly often. Not a hard piece like the blood is. When guilds do Sky, they just go to farm epic pieces and your's is there too so yay. :) Not a rare drop either.

Also, VI never reffered to necros as the soloing class, as far as I know. Verant is publicly against soloing and is very for people grouping to get their exp. That is why necros have been given group taps and why Fungus Grove, that used to RULE for soloing has been nerfed to hell so it's very very hard to do anything but group there. They nerf stuff to make soloing harder and grouping more desireable all the time. They can't get rid of soloing and they never will try to get rid of it. But they'll make grouping as attractive as they can.