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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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LoY, Ldon were the best! GoD was alright going back to it after oow, but it had a terrible colour palette and muddy details. I preferred the strong contrasting colours and clear boundaries in details of earlier eq.
I think they added instancing for Plane of Time too.
I don’t mind too much the raid system in p1999 - it is pretty cool to get an email inviting you to kill a boss at that moment. Someone said people that won’t try non-instance are missing out, but many of these players don’t play the game as a sport but as a narrative and they want to be able to play the story of going to the dragons lair with no one but their choice friend and saving the world from this terror.
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Most players overall were not happy with LoY and LDoN, although they did add some good things (armor dyes, guild manager, augments), it was the content of those 2 expansions that was lacking, and at the time we had to wait a year for a new, big expansion.
A big reason GoD failed was SOE, for whatever reason, did not add the 5 levels that the expansion was supposed to have - making the content extremely difficult. Only a small number of guilds beat GoD without the level cap, I would be surprised if more than 5 guilds beat it before OoW. There were other issues as well (graphics issues, unfinished quests and zones), and it was considered a waste of money by most of the players and pissed everyone off.
I raided heavily back then and PoTime was on a guild rotation for most servers. It wasn't until after the server mergers, which was OoW era, that SOE went back and made Time instanced. Most guilds were bottlenecked in Time and still struggled in GoD (Uqua) due to the rotations / not having quality geared raiders.
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And once instances became common on Live, high-end (at least on my server) competition switched to your gear and where you guild stood, server wide and on your individual server. It was tracked on 2 websites: EQrankings.com, which was a server wide guild tracking and rankings website, and the class rankings on Magelo.
Neither of those can apply on P99 due to the time-lock, maybe the gear ranking for a short time would have worked a few years ago, eventually BiS characters will tie one another and it will become pointless.
Different eras of the game...