Finally!
Finally!!
Seriously, do you realize how long this has taken? Six months! Half a year!
I started back in April and I've been at it continually, without a break, ever since. I may have missed a couple days but that's all.
I posted about it in June, twice, and again in September. I've mentioned it in passing a few times, too.
As I said back in April, I was never sure how far I'd have to go. The messaging both in and out of game is confusing. There's an Achievement for reaching Tier 8, the text of which reads:
That does strongly suggest there's a Season 8. Or maybe there will be, one day. Who knows?
Well, I do now. I have the Achievement for reaching 70. Look, here it is!
It's in the same panel in Achievements as the other one
Does anyone understand how Achievements in EverQuest II work? I never have.
Having finally, at last, dinged 70, though, I can say for absolute certain that there is currently no Tier 8.
I had a few extra completed missions left to hand in when I dinged. I was unreasonably excited to see if that thing would happen that's happened before, where levels ending in a zero go ten times as fast as all the rest. I was hoping the handful of missions I was about to hand in would take me all the way to 71, which is where you have to be to unlock Season 8.
As it tells you, right there in the Achievement. Except for some reason they chose not to capitalize season. Which is weird.
Yes, well, it didn't happen. I hit Complete for the remaining missions and nothing happened.
Alright, something happened, as in I got the rewards, but I didn't get the big xp I was hoping for.
I didn't get any xp. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Nil. None.
I suppose, technically, there was xp. It just didn't have anywhere to go. The bar does not move because there's nowhere for the bar to move to. Tier 8 is a lie.
In fact, if you mouse over the bar, it tells you so, in extremely small print.
And that's a good thing. A really good thing. I was dreading having to another ten levels before I got to the current cap, which obviously I would have needed to do before I could have started on the next set of levels that come with the new expansion.
If, that is, there are any. Every year since the feature was added it's been mentioned in the promotional material for the annual expansion. This year, not a word.
I could log onto the Rage of Cthurath beta server and check, I suppose. Seems like a bit of a wasted effort, though. It's only a week and a half until I get to play it for real. I'm not that desperate to find out.
Whether there's a new season or not, at least I've achieved my goal. I said I wanted to be at the cap by the time the expansion arrived and now I am. Whether it'll do me any good is another matter.
There was a time when the rewards were well worth having. I'm not convinced that's the case any more. I have more boosts and accelerators and potions and temporary augments and extra barding slots than I'm ever going to use. The gear probably won't be any better than what's in the Tishan's Box and definitely no better than the quest rewards that will come with the first day's play.
As for the Mercenary tokens, the one thing I really would have liked to have received from the tier I've just finished, I never saw a single one. They're in the list of possible rewards but they just never drop.
It's going to be very interesting to see what the rewards are like for Tier 8, if there is one
Even if there is, though, the quality of the rewards won't really matter. Even if they're awful, I'm still going to have to do the Missions every day. If I don't and then they change things for the 2026 expansion, or the 2027, and suddenly the rewards are good again, I'd have to go through another six months of this.
Never again!
Yes, I know it's only a few minutes every day. I know it's not worth getting worked up about. But do you know what the best part of dinging 70 today was?
Realizing I didn't have to pick another set of goddam Overseer Missions for almost two weeks!
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Congrats on the dubious achievement!
ReplyDeleteI spent the EQ 25th anniversary chasing down every last achievement for that version of the Overseer, then never looked at it again.
The EQII version has always felt a little less... I don't know, robust maybe... that the EQ version. But it did tend to give more tangible rewards... though the EQ version was just giving me straight xp and I got 20 levels or so out of it, so maybe tangible isn't the right word either.
Thanks! If I have the patience, after I max out the possible Tier 8 in EQII, or if it turns out there isn't one, I might swap to EQ and level up my Magician. From what I can tell, Overseer in EQ is now seen as the meta for solo leveling. It's way faster than actually playing the game solo, that's for sure.
DeleteAlso, if you can be bothered to do the market research, you can make a lot of Plat in EQ by taking the Missions that give crafting mats and selling them in the Bazaar. You do need to work out what's currently in demand but I made a lot of money that way last time I was doing Overseer.
I always thought the EQ missions were more interesting, too, in that it does makes a difference who you send. EQII has the benefit of being a lot simpler but that also makes it quite tedious in comparison.