Who needs a mount in Everquest II when you can run? Believe it or not you can run faster than the fastest mount in the game. Those mounts are the Wargs, Rhinos. Nightmares and Mistrunners. They all clock a 52% runspeed boast. Okay I know the Glorious Steed +55% is the fastest but that only lasts 1 hour and is limited to those whom can worship MITHANIEL MARR. But even then you can out run that mount with your own two feet.

For one a lot of races in Everquest get a +5% bonus to runspeed. Some classes also get AA points and Spells that enhance runspeed. Spirit of the Wolf from the Wardens and Mystics can grant you as much as +45% with full AA points. So with just a racial bonus of 5% + a buff from a Warden you can run at 50%.If you are a Warden you have an AA line called Hierophant Movement which can add another 10% to your runspeed giving you +60%. All you need now is to finish the Heritage Quest that rewards you with the Journeyman Boots and get another +10% bringing your runspeed to +70%. Are you kidding me?

I know that not everyone can be a Warden or a Bard but if you are you are one of the lucky ones. You can still get quite boost to runspeed if you were a Human Wizard for example. Here you get no racial benefits or spells that enhance your runspeed. You can buy Totems. At level 20 you can get Spirit Totem of the Wolf+24%. And once you reach Level 65 you can get Spirit Totem of the Chokidai +45%. There is off course the Journeyman Boots giving you +10%. So even if you are one who does not normally get any runspeed boost you can achieve as high as +55%. If you are a level 80 crafter you can get your epic and get Earring of the Solstice giving you +45%. This doe not stack with the Totems but at least you don’t have to buy them.

Let’s look at some examples for how fast you can run on a PvE server. PvP servers have a different rules ets allowing many items to stack that won’t in PvE.

Half Elf Ranger –> (Racial +5%) + (Fitness AA +10%) (Shroud of the Forest +8%) + (Enhance AA: Pathfinding +46%) + (Jboots +10%) = +79%

Fae Warden –> (Racial +5%) + (Enhance: Spirit of Wolf +45%) + (Jboots +10%) + (Band of Panic +10%) = +70%

Karen Dirge –> (Racial +5%) + (Harbinger’s Sonnet AA +8%) + (Selo’s Speed of Sound (55) +44%) + (Jboots +10%) = +67%
For more on this topic check out EQ-IQ Show #7 and download the full guide to Travel in Norrath.