EQDiva

Hey everyone. Just returned to Everquest again after a long hiatus. I started a new bard and the first thing i noticed was the chords of dissonance no longer has the orange glow around mobs that it hits. I kinda miss that. I loved seeing my mobs light up. Is there anyway to see that spell effect again? On an off note is there any way to see the old old old spell graphics like when original EQ came out? My favorite was the cleric heals with the blue sparklies in a circle around them, etc. Thanks for the help!

I'm fairly certain there is no way to get the original particle effects back. I'd probably use the original spell effects if it were an option, half the new spell particles just suck (pointless puffs of colored smoke) and they cause way more lag than the original particles.

There is a way. You have to download the old spell file (I know I've seen it somewhere, I just can't find it right now) and bypass the patcher when you launch EQ. This came up again when they did the stick figure thing and the file was getting passed around, now seems like it disappeared.

After much searching I actually found a way to see the classic spell effects. After running patcher and it says "Play" just delete the spellsnew.eff and spellsnew.edd. I had much fun playing my old bard and seeing the sparklies in a big sphere around him. However, when playing a caster, the sparklies aren't falling from the hands when casting spells. Anyone have any idea how to make it show the sparklies from the hands? If not, not biggie, I'm happy as is. :D

That was it. I must have gotten confused with deleting files versus adding files.