[Arkhural]

Ok this is for anyone at work who wants something to read about our server, please no TLDR replies you have been warned. <takes deep breath>

Here goes, this is all current info everything in this post is about the state of the server as of now. We are a "classic" style server in that were about the classic style of play, no bots, no MQ active or passive. We are in velious era since Jan 15th and the staff has done a great job of getting rid of all the OOE items and quests. This is old school EQ no hand holding (actully thats not true but ill get to that later) we have corpse runs, annoying seb deaths and long runs over to hard to reach places, this is a server where when you kill something you can actully feel a sense of accomplishment.

Now things that make us different from other servers there are 4 major ones.

First is Leo the gold, I like him, some hate him, but he's a server staple, all mobs have a small chance, to drop a leo coin or GM coin. You turn these into "Leo the gold" and he will give you a random item, and i mean random! you can get anything from Ivy etched gloves up to manastone,fungi tunics,and all sorts of good stuff. He can be a real bastard sometimes tho, and i'v watched people turn in 100s of coins only to get stuff they vendor or give away. I'v also seen new players turn in 5 coins and get a fungi tunic and blade of the black dragon.

Second Quorra the violet she is our great equilizer you can love or hate leo, but everyone wants Quorra by your side. She is our server buffer for a set amount of plat (free to 50plat based on level) she provides a set of max level buffs that would make a schoolgirl blush. Hp/ac, haste,hp mana regen,run speed, levi the works, I main a 60 shaman on most of our raids and i load three buffs for all raids, Focus of spirit (shaman hp) Riotous health (Stamina) and Avatar (100 to all stats+atk) Quorra handles pretty much everything else. She makes it so anyone can solo, and for 6 players to kill a dragon that would take 10ish.

Third GMs, now we are classic, but our server style is based of the "legends" servers EQ used to do back in the day. Our GMs will give buffs, ports, rez's, summon corpses, and run events. We have 10 GMs/Guides over at BnR so while dieing is way harder then on live eq, its not the end of the world. Our GMs also run custom events, and work up there own quests and npcs that they will announce or hide into the world. Anything from one-off Lava dragons to persistant hub quest areas and hidden zones! For myself as a long time classic eq player its nice to have something that we have to figure out together as a server and not just punch up on a wiki, or alakazam and look up..."well it says he spawns at bla,bla" The custom stuff is a nice touch.

Speaking of custom i come to our last major difference in the server, our Tomes. We have seven i can think of but more may be added...Tome of Creation,Transfer,Apostate,Conflux,Skill, Exp and Titles.

Transfer allows the transfer of "almost" any item from one to another, doesn't matter if it is no drop or not, very usefull.

Conflux allows for the creation or change of any race from one to another, class limitation do not matter, ogre rangers, halfing monks, iksar bards all are possible with a conflux tome. Now gear and skills/spell are up to the player to get without any special gm intervention, So if you make a troll pally, expect to do quiet abit of faction grinding!

Apostate our newest tome, allows for the change of ones diety, usefull with a tome of conflux to make that new troll pally not quiet so hated, also nice for those of us with a small roleplay fetish. You can now have your dark elf shadowknight worship Veeshan.

Skill allows 50 points to be added to any skill that your class currently has access to, and normal caps do apply. Not insanely usefull but its nice for tradeskills or something you put off.

Exp allows the automatic and instant gaining of one level, useless to some, very nice to those in the late 50s, quick note all tomes require a GM to use, except this one you can turn it in to Leo the gold and he will give you the level as well as announce it to the server.

Titles allows for the creation of a custom title, can be either pre or post and is really up to the users imagination

Last but not least is what most of us consider the granddaddy of all tomes and pretty much one of the biggest defining things on our little slice of server. "The Tome of Creation" These things drop maybe about one every two weeks, so they are not common but they are attainable.
Allows for the creation of a custom item we have a whole list of rules and such for there making but they allow an unparalleled amount of creativity.
We have enchanters with feign death,necros with compleate heal, druids with slow, This item can allow rangers to dps with bows without having to add 5 expansions.

In closing we have a tight knit group over here at Blood and Rank, but with velious we are really eyeing some of these Ntov dragons and saying...can we do this with 12-18 players? So were looking for some new blood, no pun intended. We tend to have 10-15 on all the time, prime time can see 20-30 people on, I have a few 60s and I would love for some of you guys to come buy and check us out. I have no problem with doing some powerlevling and helping gear new faces. If this sounds even remotely interesting i encourage you to stop by, you don't have to stop playing on your server, but were fun and you might enjoy our little slice of EQ we'v made over here, at least come raid with us a few hours 2-3 nights a week!!

Nez