Vyrinn's Earring of Insanity  

 

Of course it would be nice for your Necro, it would be nice for anyone who doesn't have endgame earrings already. But with AC and melee stats its not going to go to casters unless the Melee types involved in the kill all have them...and thats going to take a long time.

If you get guilded and go on raids like this then you'll come to see that the loot tends to go to the people where it will improve the guild as a whole. While a Necro with this would resists AE's a little better a warrior or monk would take a licking better, which is more important to the guild.

are you trying to be an ******* or does it just come naturally to you? for christ sake you elite sob this is just a database you moron its not entirely a pay site and if you hadnt sent it in someone else would have so dont think you so special and if ya dont like this site why the hell are you looking here do you have no life? stop wasting peoples time sorry dont like flaming but i mean c'mon you moron

Wondering why someone who quit and dind't miss it went to the trouble of posting....

I do find it interesting that a game such as Everquest evokes such strong emotions from so many no matter what their viewpoint. While I am of the mind to think that it is simply a harmless game that I play from time to time, I do see those that arerelentless in their pursuit of levels and items, and who react strongly when a viewpoint that appears to attempt to negate their efforts is given. On the other hand, there are those who try to dissuade others from enjoying the pleasures of the game merely because of some supposed sinister plot to rob individuals of a equally supposed freedom or preferred pursuit. I personally fail to see the logic in either polar extreme. The only real freedom we appear to have in this life is the freedom to choose what we do with our time. To be told that one of these viewpoint is better than the other appears to me to be merely an attempt to take that freedom away as well. To either side I say, do as you wish, just don't expect to force your particular preference on me.

I do find it interesting that a game such as Everquest evokes such strong emotions from so many no matter what their viewpoint. While I am of the mind to think that it is simply a harmless game that I play from time to time, I do see those that arerelentless in their pursuit of levels and items, and who react strongly when a viewpoint that appears to attempt to negate their efforts is given. On the other hand, there are those who try to dissuade others from enjoying the pleasures of the game merely because of some supposed sinister plot to rob individuals of a equally supposed freedom or preferred pursuit. I personally fail to see the logic in either polar extreme. The only real freedom we appear to have in this life is the freedom to choose what we do with our time. To be told that one of these viewpoint is better than the other appears to me to be merely an attempt to take that freedom away as well. To either side I say, do as you wish, just don't expect to force your particular preference on me.

Oh yeah. Forgot to answer your meaning of life question. This always is a nice little christain question to ask. Dont know why, but it is a question all religious people try to find. Well for those of us who know, Ill tell you the meaning of life. IT IS TO REPRODUCE, KEEP UP THE EXISTANCE OF YOUR SPECIES. And that is about it. Take the Titsy fly for example. Its born, 2 days later its dead. What can you possibly think that this fly has done in its life time, what is the reason for its existance. Hmmm... only thing its done in them 2 days is grab a bite to eat, *****, and then lay some eggs and die. Not to exciting a life in your terms but THAT is was life means. Might sound morbid yes but hell the truth hurts. Only thing the human race is doing right now is riding the life wave out to its fullest. No other species can find free time in between eating and having offspring to elongate the existance of its kind, so back off on what you think we should do, and what your trying to preach on everyone. Do what you want to do, this is your time to shine, and it wont come around again for a long time, so do as you wish in the free time the human race has granted you.

30 bucks a month? We don't all have 3 accounts, but I guess a lot of people do. I only have 2 personally. ;)

Ever read anything on primatology? Primates in the lab, if not given something to occupy their time and appease their foraging instinct, go insane.What do they give the chimps to quench their foraging urge? They give them video games. For the most part, an dumbed down version of packman. Being as we shair 98% of our DNA with these smaller souled cousins, it makes sense that we too need a to feed this addiction as well. Sony realizes this. So do I. I usually go fishing, and kill and eat my slimy little prey to occupy my instincts, but not everyone has the ability to do this, and at times neithor do I. My second choice is Evercrac. The men and women at Soney are brilliant. They feed the instinctual need to forrage in the human animal, and make millions at it, while preforming an important service to society. The monkeys, when they are denied their video games become violent. Some people do too. Rather than b***ching about the money grubbing Soney EQ corprate conspericy, maybe you should do a little more research into the human mind, and realize, without an outlet for this primal energy, things go bad, and if you can create an outlet, people will pay for it. I think you people, who would probably charactorize yourself as idealistic anti-corperate activests complaining about this kind of thing, are just jaded, and jeloous because you aren't the ones who could capatilize on this urge.

Very eloquently spoken, and there is alot of truth to your words. VI and Sony indeed are some money grubbing SoB's. They are both worthy of much hatred. Please allow me a moment of your time to perhaps offer a different view though. Sony, like most corporations, makes no secret of their mission to make money. In fact that is the ONLY goal of Sony. All other goals exist only to accomplish their true goal... TO MAKE MONEY. That is how the wheels of our democratic /capitolistic society turn. The all-might dollar bill. Now this may seem like a bad thing at first. It's all too easy to pin our problems onto some nameless greedy untouchable far off giant. The truth is that you and I (the consumers) make up the very blood that gives Sony life. Every month is a heartbeat that drains your ATM to provide it nourishment. And so Sony will bend over backwords, dance, skip, and/or run to our fickle whims so that we might continue to feed them. Sony invests countless dollars and manhours designing Everquest, it's expansions, and patches. Not to mention maintaining a large number of over-used servers, (sometimes useless) GM's, customer service, infrastructure, various websites so on and so on. It's a cycle you see. They provide us with a product, and we provide them with the one thing they want.. money. If they do not adapt to our needs by providing us with a constantly adapting service/product then we do not provide them with money. Everquest is by no means the perfect Online Roleplaying Game experience. I can think of a myriad of ways to improve the game. Nevertheless Everquest is currently (in my opinion) the best roleplaying experience to be found online. So long as Sony continues to provide what I feel is the best product, I shall continue to feed them. For those of you that are disillusioned or wish to fight the power, you can do the one thing that'll truly send a message to Sony... QUIT. This game is not for everyone. The reason items like this exist can be found in the title of the game. EVERQUEST. aka a quest that NEVER ends. There will always be better items, new monsters and zones so long as enough people support Sony so that it's profitable to continue expanding. Sony has done their research. They know (as is written in every psychology101 book) that people will stay interested in something far longer if your rewards are given out randomly in small quantities. That's why people can sit at a slot machine for 24hours straight. Everquest can certainly be a habit forming addiction if you allow it, but it can hardly be called brainwashing. If you wish to send a message to Sony that their product isn't worth your money, do the one thing that matters to them.. stop payments. I played when the game first came out. Rest assured that the game was considerably more limited and difficult. At level25 I'd had enough of the game. Real life simply demanded too much of my time to waste what little extra I had on this game. After conditions changed and I found myself with more free time I started back up in March 2001. I can honestly tell you this much, the game has improved drastically. The experience is almost imcomparable to my previous gaming. I can ramble on the subject of Everquest literally for hours, so I'll wrap this up. This is a game folks. Nothing more or less. It can be a great recreation or suppression of reality, but you can't let it be the only thing in your life or you'll just become unhappy and disillusioned. Leave or Stay, it's completely your choice. One last thought Scholar JackofSpeed, what motivated you to come to this website at all, much less post such a longwinded message if you are truly over Everquest and don't miss it?

If stuff like this drops off guys like that, what's going to be in the next expansion. Verant has a history of giving us stuff then making it look useless compared to the critters we have to kill next. If the evolution from EQ to Kunark to Velious, and Verant's track record is any indication then we're liable to have to send more than one uber guild decked out in this stuff to kill some of the guys in the next expansion...

I beg to differ. Lets use the example of the kid who rushes out to buy Diablo the week it releases. He plays it, learns its ins and outs, and then beats it. That is what killing Vulak is being perported to be: essentially beating the game thusfar. So. Then he gets kinda bored (as a LOT of EQ'ers have lately) and goes online to get a utility to hack Diablo. He figures, "I beat it already 5 times, I deserve what I want." So, he makes platemail with 500ac, +150 to all stats and gives his character all skills and spells, and a weapon that does 192,000 dmg along with a variety of other juicy bonuses. Does this make the game more interesting, or 'better'? No. It makes it a cheap throw-away that he only takes out once a year to install, beat honestly, and throw away again.

My point here? Verant is going at it all wrong. Instead of making the game truly challenging, they're just simply subsiding to the greed of players and playing to the general "pissing contest" mentality that has plagued many MMORPGs before EQ, and will plague all that follow. They add these weapons just as the 'next thing' to get. If you don't have it, you're not uber enough, and so you need to pay us $10 more each month to attain some ficticious title in a game.

By releasing such items, Verant is placing an emphasis on the ideology that guilds need only work together to accomplish tasks like beating Vulak in order to attain items. It is frequent enough game-wide that Vulak dies, that they cannot possibly do something truly cool like listing the names of the guilds who defeat such foes. Even if they were to do so now-a-days it would mean little, because this is not an impossible MoB.

The reason its not impossible? Its the same as every other MoB in game: takes brute force and organization of predictable elements to kill him. There is no logic, no random variables to account for, no blind luck, nothing to make the game REAL. Its all too orchestrated and plastic, and that's why this game will eventually become a throw-away.

Don't get me wrong. I play the game. I like the game. I just get sick of seeing "gotta have this" on every item that comes out of every 55+ zone. There NEEDS to be trash items. There NEEDS to be no loot on some uber mobs. There NEEDS to be an emphasis on ingenious adaptation to spontaneous occurance rather than just "do your job" ideology.

Verant is blind. They don't get that. I hope some of you get that now.

By the time your able to get this item you have, for all intents and purposes, basically beaten the game. The last challenge as far as I can tell is the sleeper. The items are great, but when theres nothing left to beat...well...its status symbol hehehe