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this. not going to make a single bit of difference 1 month into release. we saw a project that was being made specifically to cater to our interests as gamers, and our players interests as gamers, and said 'we need to do something big to help these guys.'
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That first month is of course the most important month for many people....

........you obviously a not understanding which camp is effective and which isnt.

This actually will happen on Red. WTB Server transfer from red to blue.

Doesn't matter if they're assumptions, because P1999 has made it possible. Will one guild pay to get all of their main warriors and clerics into early Velious? No idea, but they could. I've seen some of the dumb shit some people have paid for. Someone paid $28,000 for a grilled cheese sandwich that vaguely resembled the Virgin Mary.

Get 3 groups or so of people SS keys and CS keys before Velious launches and sure, they could go do Klandicar or probably even Zlandicar (depending on how many people are paid for) before other guilds even have a chance to see Cobalt Scar. And then go park a Mage outside ToV and you're cothing the non-paid-for people into ToV and getting in there first too. These are advantages regardless of whether raid bosses are spawned for that week (and who knows what a raid boss is - will Lodizal be available? Vindicator?).

Besides the whole SS key / CS key bottleneck fiasco and cothing opportunities, getting tanks and clerics in quest armor is pretty big. For the most part that gear shits all over Kunark gear, so yes that will be significant to raiding for the first month.

Furthermore, when guilds kill raid bosses and other guilds don't kill raid bosses, the gear disparity between these guilds continues to grow. This is how EQ works. I'm not sure how you couldn't see that affecting the game only a month into the expansion. Especially when we're talking about Velious, where gear actually matters.

None of this matters as this is the beta server. The true heroes will arise on P99v2.0 with a proper timeline.

I just crawled the Kickstarter site for Pantheon, and although I obviously can't see how much individual people pledged (and therefore if they will be in early access Velious or not), there are 176 people who have pledged with P99 in their name. Early access will be plenty crowded.

Will my xp potions carry over to the proper server?

Better never be bonus xp on the rerolled server.

30 day early access to individually instanced Lower Guk and 50 150% xp potions - $500 usd

it's getting there but 176/15 different guilds = 11.7 per guild if it was an even amount for each guild. Still not enough to kill all the wurms in ToV that rarely drop quest pieces needed and to farm the gems for a full set for an entire raid. Also most of these will be 3 day early access probably.