Horsham, Pennsylvania

More on than off since July 2000

SWG, WoW, LOTR Beta

I'm a college student, but I work at Starbucks part-time and during the summer I'm a camp counselor at a day camp for kids from inner-city Philadelphia.

When I have nothing to do that day, could be from 10am-2am if I wanted haha.

Grouping/soloing... I also tend to look in the bazaar for upgrades a lot.

Half-elf druid, technically. Actually, he spawned outside Surefall, and I was corpse camped by "a skeleton" for 5 min til I restarted my computer. I deleted him and made him a wood elf druid (so he's really my first character)

With so much information being posted in the EQII Official Forums at all times, it can be very hard to keep up with it and very easy to miss some real gems and opportunities to share. Have no fear though; the Treasure Chest is here to highlight interesting, unusual, and humorous posts, as well as opportunities to help your fellow player with a question or two!

Treasure of Knowledge

What to do if you're just too tall? Here are some tips on getting small.

Torches? We don't need no stinkin' torches.

A bit of advice on reloading the game on a new machine and keeping your UI settings.

There's no place like home!

Clearly everyone's busy playing the new expansion, because this week we have a shorter list of homes on parade. I'm sure we'll be seeing an influx soon, though!

Guild Halls:

Aftershock - Crushbone Celestial Flame - Kithicor XANADU - RunnyeyeSabaki Guild Hall - Najena

Player Homes:

Doomsar's DimensionCrystaliana's Little House Rivered's HouseKrugus' Estate

Did we happen to miss anything of note over this past week of informational or entertaining no

Chapters:

Chapter 1: Why making a pure str bow?
Chapter 2: What skills do I need?
Chapter 3: What equipment should I use?
Chapter 4: Some Video's of pure str bowers.

Chapter 1: Why making a pure str bow?

What is pure str?
Pure str means, you put all your stat points (which you gain when you lvl up) in str.

Why pure str?
A bow build is based on criticals, and as you maybe know. How more str, how higher the criticals are. That's because there are less ppl who use armor at the caps (Thx to raphaell666). Also Str criticals more times, because of the skills which have criticals increasea like Anti Devil Bow Series and Strong Bow-Craft.

Why bow?
- Bow is the fastest str-grinding build, because of the ranged attacks.
- Bow is a real good Unique-Hunt build, also because of the ranged attacks and criticals.
- At lvl 73, bow gets 5 Arrow Combo. Which gives Knockback, usefull in critical sithuations.
- At lvl 76, bow gets Strong Bow-Craft. Which gives shotrange increase, critical chance increase and the probability of stun.

Chapter 2: What skills do I need?
Now we have the build. But what masteries should I use?
In my opinio

1. Explanation?
This build is probably the equivalent of the Wizard nuker. It contains no bicheon skills because I believe that only Bladers get the most out of this tree. This is mainly for support fire. Why choose a weapon mastery which focuses on phys. attack? Yes, it's good against other pure int but this is a support character, Chinese are known to be better at solo, but this is a Party PvPer, it would work well jobbing with other people. It would do decent at solo pvp. If you want a good PvPer, I suggest making a blader.

2. Gear
Of course, you want STR/INT blues, +s, HP/MP increase, SoX (if you can get it). I prefer to wear protector just because you're not too focused on one area and you're still getting adequate physical defense. It's a good balance between mag. def and phy. def although you will take considerably more damage from phy. base mobs than from mag. based. The extra phy. defenses and snow shield should make up for the (still) low phy. def. from protector. The buffs from cold (mag.) and fire (phy.) plus some good SoX protector gear should put you abo

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