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All,

I've been away from EQ for a few years and decided to come back and give it a go again. I used to be a premium Allakhazam subscriber, and had created profiles here for my toons. One of the things I used the most was the character upgrade search, where I could load each character's profile and do an upgrade search where Allakhazam's would recommend upgrades from what I was wearing, based on the search criteria I'd selected.

When I logged onto the site tonight, for the first time in years, I wasn't able to find much initially. I checked out what was offered for premium subscribers, and they clearly state as one of the benefits of paying for this level of support that you can load your characters, and do "Character upgrade search"es. Figuring in for a penny, in for a pound, I went ahead and paid for a year's subscription.

Now, however, while I can find my old characters loaded, there doesn't appear to be any way of editing the profiles (to either update equipment or to put them on their new server, post consolidation). Further the search function itself seems to be severely gimped and I see no way of being able to have Allakhazam (or ZAM, I suppose) compare my severely outdated equipment and offer recommendations as how I should upgrade based on my class and level. The only reason I paid for premium service was so that I could have this ability. Being out of the game for so long, I don't know what's great gear anymore, and what I could look to buy in the bazaar (or loot myself) for my toons, and this was a way for me to quickly and painlessly learn this.

So my question to you all is did I miss something and these features are still there (or maybe I have to wait a day for things to sync up), or did they stop supporting these features but not correct the "benefits you get by being a premium subscriber" page on their info page. I will be somewhat upset if the latter is the case, as indicated earlier, those features were why I paid the subscription fee.

Any clarity you can provide me is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Tim

Maybe also tell us what server you're on and some folks here could assist you as well? Give advice? Group? Guild with?

We'll do it. We're weird like that.

Edited, Jan 29th 2015 12:17am by Bijou

Sorry, double post. I got hung up and hit the key a second time.

-Tim

Edited, Jan 29th 2015 8:30pm by TCaretti

Sippin,

I agree with you, that it is very hard to find. But ... go to the upper right hand corner of any page, and to where your account name is in light blue letters. Put your mouse over the name you'll see 8 options, one of which is "characters". Click on that and you should come to a page with your characters listed. Click on the character you want to look at. Once there, near the top of the middle of the page, just a little higher than your character's name, is some choices in small blue letters ... profile, edit gear, etc. Click on "tools" and it will take you to the equipment upgrader. You have to have "premium service" aka pay a monthly fee for the tools to work, I'm almost certain.

Let me know if this doesn't make sense!

-Tim

Assuming defiant was already in the game when you last played (and I think it was), that's not surprising at all. Your characters are all in the low 70s. The new stuff has all been added to higher level gear as they've progressed through those levels (now up to 105). There hasn't been any gear updates for that level range. Defiant was added in as a default gear for anyone to use while progressing past those levels. Not a lot of reason to spend time on new/better gear.

The next big upgrade for you really wont happen until level 80/82. That's when the HoT stuff becomes available. There are some bit pieces that you can find along the way, but I'd really just focus on getting to level 80 and buying/grouping for HoT gear. It's a night and day jump in terms of quality and nothing between what you've got and that gear will really be worth spending much time getting in the meantime. At that point, there's a pretty even curve of gear upgrades ahead of you that will certainly keep you occupied. But yeah, there's not really going to be anything new for the level 70 range.