Struggling with No Instances
Personal instances go down on Freeport, which turns leveling into open world West Commonlands with four hill giants on screen and nothing blue left alive. Level 7 to 8 the hard way, and a debugger attached to chase the crash.
Personal instances were disabled on Freeport and Rivervale, so this is what EverQuest Legends looks like without them: open world West Commonlands, four hill giants roaming the screen at once, and every blue mob dead before you reach it. A short episode by necessity, spent grinding to 8 and running the client under a debugger to catch the crash.
What Broke
And what it costs you.
- Personal instances disabled on Freeport and Rivervale. Group instances were unaffected, personal ones simply would not spawn.
- Befallen without an instance is empty. Nothing alive, nothing to pull, exactly like the private beta before instances existed.
- Open world at launch population is not a substitute. Kill stealing, trains, and more players than the zone can hold.
- Patched the next morning, but it cost a full night of what would have been instanced leveling.
This is the TLP problem. Instances are not a convenience in a game with this population curve, they are the thing that makes it playable.
Leveling Anyway
Wisps, bears, and whatever is left.
- The level 7 pet is a real upgrade. Auto-granted, and it buffs itself, which the earlier one never did.
- 8.999% is still the cap at level 7, confirmed against everything from level 10 to level 11 targets.
- Low level mobs give roughly 3%, which is why open world hurts: the good targets are gone and the leftovers are trivial.
- Wisps are the money. A good light stone sells for about a platinum, and they were the only reliable income.
- Hill giant aggro range is small, so four of them on screen is survivable if you keep moving.
Making the Combat Log Readable
Worth ten minutes of your life.
- Interface, combat, colors: set your hits, your crits, and your flurries to distinct colors.
- Melee criticals need their own filter, or you will genuinely believe Combat Fury is doing nothing.
- Use the interface entry rather than the button when applying the change, since the button does not always take.
- Cleaving for 20 in offensive stance at this level, with the occasional 11 point critical on top.
Chasing the Crash
The report gets deleted before you can read it.
- The client uploads its crash report to Daybreak and deletes it immediately, so there is nothing left on disk to inspect.
- The fix is to hold the file open, so everything written stays on the drive rather than vanishing.
- It only ever crashed on auto loot distribution, which keeps pointing at a sound effect.
- Switched the Wine backend from OpenGL to Vulkan partway through, which turns out to be the actual fix.
- Do not buy stacked AA potions yet. Extra purchases are supposed to add five uses to your existing potion and currently do not.
Takeaways
- If personal instances are down, do not fight it. Grind whatever is alive and come back.
- Wisps for money, since light stones sell for around a platinum.
- Fix your combat colors before you conclude an AA is broken.
- The level 7 Enchanter pet buffs itself and is a genuine step up.
- Buying a second AA potion does not stack charges. Wait for the fix.
- On Linux, switch Wine to the Vulkan backend.
YouTube Generated Transcript
Hello and welcome to my legendary adventures in Norrath and today this is I believe episode 3. We’ve been We’ve been having some crash issues and they haven’t happened for a while but I got a debugger attached to it right now and if if it crashes we’ll deal with it then but I I leveled up to seven while waiting on uh you know waiting on it to crash. I’m trying to I’m trying to get it to crash. There’s so many hill giants in uh West Commons now. [music] They disabled They disabled all the instances in Freeport and [music] on Rivervale so uh not that all the instance just the [music] personal instances because the can’t spawn one. I tried to go get one so I could practice uh this bug where I could isolate it where I could find mobs easier to kill faster right [music] but uh no such luck today. So we’re just running around looking for mobs avoiding the I mean there’s like one two three four hill giants on my screen right? Uh and they’re just like all roaming up and down the entirety of the zone like guards out of like some NPC game or something right? [music] It’s just like crazy. Uh we picked up a new pet uh Merissa’s animation at level seven when I dinged. Uh auto grant. Uh which is actually a much better pet. He buffs himself [music] now. Uh and uh you can see there he’s just making short work of stuff. We’re only getting like 3% experience on some of this stuff though. Uh there’s a griffin over there. Bears like like not having instances is really going to like slow this down significantly. Uh, but I wanted to keep trying to push on. Hopefully like some people like leave the surf somewhere else. Uh, we can kill this [music] guy. I killed one. I killed level 61 a minute ago. All right, so we’re going to six him. And then we’re going to change spam new commands. Uh, definitely [music] uh I’m definitely having fun in all honesty. Uh, even though there’s crashes and stuff. I just wish I knew why it was crashing. I uh I switched from OpenGL back end on Wine [music] to uh Vulcan. And uh maybe that’ll help or something. I have no idea what it is. It seems to crash [music] only when auto loot is distributed. So. Uh maybe it’s a sound [music] issue with that sound effect on coin change or something like that. I don’t know. But [music] uh 8999 is the experience cap at level seven, [music] so just schwacking through these guys. But uh going into the fallen without an instance is >> [music] >> uh is something special, I’ll tell you what. I will tell [music] you what. There is like no mobs alive, nothing, right? And that’s what That’s how it was in the private beta before they even added uh uh instances to the game and it was it was not fun to play, I’ll tell you that. Uh, because uh you really need [music] instances to play Everquest and um it’s just not fun otherwise when there’s this many people, right? This is the same problem you get like on [music] TLPs and stuff like that, so uh you know, definitely uh oh, there’s another young Cordiac somewhere. Oh, they’re like spawning on top of each other. All right. I think my pet has a little bit more mana now. Hopefully, I can kill one of these real quick before I come back to spawn. I’ve been dying a lot. I have been surely dying a lot, but uh just you know, just kind of trying to get an update on my leveling because I am going to level uh pretty fast here. Just you know, around trying to get get the game [music] to crash, and I didn’t want to Where is the skeleton at? The Oh, this I’m Okay, where I’m standing is where mobs spawn. I get it now. There’s another bear. [music] Can I get him? There we go. All right. So, like I’m I’m going to level uh you know, I don’t think I’ll have every single ding in the videos, right? But uh ideally, [music] we can uh you know, do a lot of the milestones together, which which is >> [music] >> uh right now it’s getting to level 10, right? And then at level 10, we’re going to you know, switch [music] to uh warrior bard uh druid so that we can uh level up the rest of the way that way. Which uh you know, I think it’s good like enchanters, you know, fine option and all that, but I I I really I really honestly want to be be playing the other one right now, so as soon as I uh as soon as I ding, it will work. I think I I would have leveled just as fast with uh with druid at all in all honesty. Uh or uh probably not bard because I would not have any heals or anything like that, but there’s low-level so many high-level mobs. But there’s not enough low-level mobs. Just millions of people running around. This thing’s level 11 here. There we go. We got to We got to We got like what? 12 people in the guild so far? So, that’s pretty [music] good. I think. Getting everybody that’s on Discord in here and having a little bit of a good time. Uh let’s see here. Let’s go like this. But they said they’re going to patch the uh the thing this the instance issue in the morning. Uh so, oh god, did I just get killed by a griffin? No, the aggro range is >> [music] >> tiny, so that’s pretty good. Look at that shadow knight ruining his faction. Hilarious. How is he going to be able to do the uh the mallet quest? Poor guy. Look at the paladin pets, they’re so lame. The uh whatever that was. Oh, all right. So, there we go. This could be the end. Uh but we did pick up some AAs, so there That’s the end, right? Oh, no, didn’t aggro. [music] Uh let’s see here. We got three. What can we get now? Get another another spell point, maybe. Oh, yeah. >> [music] >> Da da da da da da. I’m going to go with uh combat [music] fury two. It’s a melee going to like I don’t think I’ve seen a single crit. Maybe they’re not filtered here, actually. Uh melee >> [music] >> uh critical hits. Yeah, now they weren’t filtered there. Let’s go to all options interface. Uh color melee critical hits. Your hits critical orange. I like this orange color. Let’s change this one to this brown color. There we go. That’s what I wanted to do earlier. All right, let’s grab another point of that. I think at this point we’ll probably start saving them. Uh oh, there’s a spider. And [music] looks like that XR got the spider. Yeah. Uh so, I don’t I’m I’m I’m on the fence [music] of uh you know, going to another server for uh you know, temporarily just to see if I can try to figure out this crash sooner. But, [music] uh at the same time I don’t really want to waste my time. But, that’s just how it is, I guess. Uh let’s see here. That was This is just nothing. Nothing to kill. There’s a mob right over there. Oh. >> [music] >> All right, can I pull it? All right, >> [music] >> perfect. I can pull it over here, right? >> Yeah. Now, uh there is a bug uh somebody said that like if you buy a bunch of these potions, they’re supposed to stack [music] additional five uses on your existing potion. Uh apparently it’s not working. Uh so, don’t don’t do that. >> [music] >> Uh definitely uh you know, we we asked them to put you know, the the shop on the beta, [music] right? So, we could test it, but uh they never did. So, that’s that’s on them. >> [music] >> There’s another wisp. The wisps are actually uh pretty nice. They sell their When you get a When you get a good light stone, they sell for a good amount of money. Uh like a platinum or something like that. What am I at? I have like 44 gold. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Maybe I’m wrong. Still not getting any criticals, though. >> [music] >> Like I did filter those right, right? Filters. Filters, melee. Critical hits, yeah. Me too. Let me change this color real quick. This one. I like this uh this one a little better, I think. Colors are definitely uh makes it easier to see, right? There’s a wisp. This is all just on wisps. And I guess the burnt out one doesn’t sell for anything. Oh, we actually landed the on him. That’s crazy. There we go. It looks a little better. Cleaving for 20. And I I’m in offensive stance right now. So, we’re doing more damage, taking more damage. There we sold that one for seven gold. Still still no uh There’s a critical. All right, 11 11 damage. All right, let’s fight this bear. There we go. Color fox 35. I think once we uh tomorrow we should be able to get into the fallen, right? Uh >> [music] >> so, like my goal is I’m going to edit the the last two videos, get those up, and I’m I’m going to do a video a day on this, and then the guides will come out on uh Fridays. When we get to a guide, uh it’s going to be a little while, honestly. Honestly, it will be a little while, especially with this delay that we’re having here. I think we could have uh I was I was hoping to get 50 this uh this week, but >> [sighs] >> you know, this is delaying me a day where I would be playing pretty much all night >> [music] >> in an instance. Uh so, that is unfortunate. And you know, people are trying to group and stuff, but like people are just stealing kills and stuff. It’s you know, [music] what you would expect this from people without instances. So. Uh let’s see. Okay, there’s just so there’s like so many people in the zone than uh the zone can populate. [music] All right, let’s do a pick. These are all one. [music] There’s a two and a one. Yeah, let’s go there. >> [music] >> Like, I don’t want to go too high difficulty cuz we’re just going to get smashed, but it is what it is. All right. I see a spider. And I see a [music] cat. Let’s get the cat cuz it’s level 10. >> [laughter] >> Is he there? That’s like the real question, right? Is it ghosting? All right, here we go. This should should be an thingus eight, right? [music] And uh All right, that’s very good. >> [music] >> I don’t think we got anything out of granted a level eight. There’s no mobs there. I I saw some uh there’s some you know, a lot of people already level 10. [music] Awes- I think someone said there was someone that was level 20 already. Easy. Absolutely crazy. There we go. Decent damage there. But we’re getting to the point where like we’re >> [music] >> probably going to want to like go inside a zone, which is unfortunate, you know. And I haven’t crashed in a while. Now, I crashed on looting a spider >> [music] >> venom sack just a little while ago, maybe something there. I feel like it’s the coin sound, honestly. [music] There we go. All right, this is going [music] to give us three A’s. I feel like I should just finish out the the >> [music] >> What is it called here? Spell slots. Finish that out. That’s going to be a good one. Auto store, what do we got? Cat on us? No, we have [music] three. Let’s go ahead and grab that. How is there actually anything that would actually make us stronger right now? [music] >> [music] >> Fury of magic. Finishing blow. Yeah, let’s wait. Like I mean there’s things that would work, but at the same time All right. This could be the end right here. Can I get it off? I got one. No, I can’t have it. Oh, we’ll just die. I don’t really care. It’s a free heal, right? >> [music] >> Yeah, the pet didn’t lay his hands [music] on me. All right. Now, so Let’s look at here. >> [music] >> Uh this was zone looks like it has less uh like roaming giants, so that’s pretty good. So just need some mana, and then uh you know, we’ll just kill a little bit longer. Uh I’m just then I’m going to grind, right? I’m just going to be doing mindless grinding like this >> [music] >> until 10. And then go unlock uh in the next video we’ll go unlock whatever, right? Uh I might wait till tomorrow to do it. >> [laughter] >> So that it’s uh you know, we can [music] get into an instance and go back into Befallen and you know, try to actually get some upgrades. [music] At 10 we should be able to kill everything in the first floor with a zero effort. Especially with like all these extra AAs we’re getting from this potion. >> [music] >> So definitely uh going to take advantage of that, I guess. Considering how uh terrible this ex- experience is right now. Didn’t crash me either. It was it just crashing cuz I was even open to you. That could be the hilarious thing. The problem [music] the problem is, right? Is that the uh the EverQuest uh game automatically uploads the crash report to uh to Daybreak, right? So they it uploads it and deletes it immediately before you uh can get it. So I [music] the what I did is I attached it so the file can’t get deleted. So when everything that gets written is sticky to the drive, right? And so uh I got I got Claude in the background [music] like monitoring it. So as soon as it crashes it’s going to grab it, copy it, and uh read the read the file, tell me what DLL crashed in Wine so I can then figure out why the hell it’s crashing in uh in uh on Linux here, so we can try to get it fixed and enjoy ourselves. Oh god. Wait, I’m getting attacked by the skeleton and I don’t want the skeleton. There we go. All right, I guess we’re going to have a three-way here with no hit points. I don’t know why he’s not healing me anymore. >> [laughter] >> I’m probably at 10% health, buddy. You are absolutely slacking. Oh my gosh, there’s one. Ah, almost had it. Yeah. Let’s call it here. I’m going to just be doing this, mindlessly throwing my body at mobs, trying to [music] crash my client. Uh but that’s that, right? Uh I just wanted to, you know, have a quick, what is this? A 20-minute video, right? Yeah, this is someone’s going to shut down in 15 minutes. All right, this is like I don’t know what it is. These pixel ones don’t stay stay up long enough and it’s uh it’s it it’s very annoying in open world. Uh but yeah, hopefully they get it all fixed tomorrow and uh we can continue uh slaying. But I’m going to throw my mind and my body at the uh the mobs until I hit 10. Uh if anybody wants to join a guild, just send me a message and [music] uh you know, you can join up. And find people that want to play and there’s some, you know, Discord [music] channels and stuff. Well, thank you very much for watching and please have a fantastic day. >> Mhm.
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