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[Aerar]

Just came back after about 10 years away. I played original from launch through luclin - luclin ruined it so I left.

That being said its time to get back on the horse. THANK YOU FOR HAVING THIS GAME BACK IN ITS ORIGINAL STATE!!!

Ok down to brass tacks. I know many of you are already max level etc, I will be starting up a group for people starting from lvl 1. Please let me know if you are interested, my brother and I (he will be playing too) have a lot of experience in the leveling realm of things from playing on discord for a bit.

Plan of attack - likely all will need to get to 8-12 on their own or in pairings, Orc Hill is fantastic and a great memory.

Then we will meet up in CB and wreck shop there for some time, yes I know its crowded - but this is a social game and that makes it so much more fun.

(I personnaly want to hit up Oasis at some time but who knows)

We will make our way to Orc Highway and then up through HK.

After which we have all sorts of options.

These are all up for change but I think its a fairly good plan. When I am on I will keep an active Skype room up so we can all have a bit more fun.

PS i fully intend to do some of the classic quests.

Thanks, let me know if interested or if other ideas?

-Aerar

[iiNGloriouS]

If you guys would like to add a bard to that roster I have a level 5 bard I would love to play, hmu.

[Fael]

Discord was fun, but everyone was a caster.

I'd recommend upper guk scryer and UG zone line late teens and 20s if you have a good group.

Dolic

[Draagun]

Discord was not fun ;P

[Swish]

luclin ruined it so I left.

That's just like...your opinion, man.

I enjoyed Luclin, and people here will all change their tune when we get to the end of the Velious patches :p

Welcome back anyway - would you rather we were at the Velious expansion or are you glad that it's still due in the future? :)

[Elerion]

Kunark expanded the world and added a ton of good dungeons, with really no downsides.
Velious gave the raid game some sorely needed depth and separation, and had a very deep and engaging faction system. As an enchanter I hated it for the stupidly overtuned MR on the mobs, though.
Luclin introduced the terrible graphical upgrades and dumb horses. SOE also designed all the mobs with far too much HP and not enough damage, so the game slowed down way too much. Vex Thal was a shithouse, but some of the other raids (Ssra especially) were admittedly great, and AAs reinvigorated the grouping scene.
PoP returned to a high DPS, low HP model which made everything feel more dangerous again, and the raid progression was fantastic when it was finally fixed. There was a distinct lack of engaging group dungeons, though. Everything felt like an outdoor zone.

Luclin was clearly the weakest of the first 4 expansions, but it had its moments.

Let's not discuss GoD.

[Wrathis]

Is it safe to assume that Luclin and PoP will probably never happen on this server? I started mid Luclin so none of those things really bothered me that everyone else experienced and I tended to enjoy the Bazaar and AAs but as of right now it doesn't bother me they aren't in the game.

[Droog007]

There have been mutterings about bringing in some AA-like abilities without AA grinding, and possibly adding entrances to some of the PoP zones without adding PoK...

But these are just musings from the staff (Rogean) about a very malleable post-Velious future, which I personally hope is a very long way off yet. (Not Velious, the post-Velious part).

I want the slavering maws of the content-starved exclusionists to get stuffed full and be on their way.

[Champion_Standing]

Luclin99 confirmed, launches January 2nd.

[Roku]

Luclin99 confirmed, launches January 2nd.

Cool, what year?

[Aerar]

Velius is a cool expansion, me getting to 60 first will be a tall order but the game was at its most pure and most fun pre-luclin IMO.

I am all for velius and its cool loot etc.

[HippoNipple]

If you guys would like to add a bard to that roster I have a level 5 bard I would love to play, hmu.

Jesus man, you have been on project 1999 for like a week and have 2 chars on each server. One being a guild leader.

[Nodnarb]

I would be interested! I am wanting to play an Enchanter. I am not sure how active I can actually be but I wouldnt mind having a few people to play with when I can.

[Aerar]

Well being that we are Mage, Necro, Druid atm - Enchanter is always welcome. A nice melee would probably be the next best

[Nytch]

you need a shaman and become the kings of DoT damage...

[Aerar]

haha, i have forgotten but the same dots stack multiple times correct?

Im all for a shaman in the group too

[iiNGloriouS]

Jesus man, you have been on project 1999 for like a week and have 2 chars on each server. One being a guild leader.

Havent played on blue in awhile, have a bunch of toons scattered; if I do play the 2 in my signature are the 2 I play the most.

As for being a leader of a guild; no one got enough interest in R99 to help me form it or I would be and trying to help new members. Ive been on P1999 for longer than a week (my warriors creation date was like Feb 2011 and hes only level 25) I just never got too involved in P1999 as I found it boring at the time to not have anyone to play with.

Just recently started on R99 as of a week ago and I have my 2 toons yea, but exp is a bit faster there ;)

[Aerar]

XP is faster on R99?

[iiNGloriouS]

XP is faster on R99?

200% plus 50% for the cancellation of EQMac up until like November 19th (being reduced after this week though to like 20 or 25% iirc)

[Aerar]

reduced from 200 to 20?


If the populations wasnt undoubtedly twinked to heck pvp server sounds quite nice

[iiNGloriouS]

reduced from 200 to 20?


If the populations wasnt undoubtedly twinked to heck pvp server sounds quite nice

Its kinda sorta, just stay outta places like Unrest and you will never encounter a twink usually, most of the time its just end-game pvp/trolling while the low levels catch up, with the occasional powerlevelling group...

If you ever have any interest in R99, let me know, I still want to form that guild and not only that but I plan to make a bard soon for PLvling purposes and do not mind helping people with 1-30 or whatever :) but thatll be a week or so from now.

[Aerar]

but the population is too low to do end game content i assume.

Also like i said is xp going from 200 to 20? I thought P99 was 20 already

[iiNGloriouS]

but the population is too low to do end game content i assume.

Also like i said is xp going from 200 to 20? I thought P99 was 20 already

200 to 20? i dont understand what you are talking about. Can you elaborate?

And no, you really only need 25-30 people and most people might not even be on when a raidboss is spawning or near spawn. Most people are phoned/texted and you'll all the sudden see both Nihi and Azrael go from 5-6 members each to 15+ in the matter of 10-15 minutes.

The population is sort of their, I want to say their are 125-150 consistent players that atleast hop on for a little bit through the day.

But that attitude of "oh the pops so low why even bother" is also a reason why when servers get low on pop, they usually never recover or they have to do an overhaul or big release to get people playing again.