What's live like? - Page 4

webrunner5 · #31 01-31-2015, 07:39 AM

I still play live a lot and I don't have the latest expansion. But I have 3 100 level toons and a lot more lower than that. I used to 6 Box a lot, but that really adds up money wise to have 6 to 8 paid accounts going each month. And my son was 4 boxing also on Live, so I was paying for like 12 accounts a month for 3 or 4 years. Crazy stuff. And they have a thing called the Money Market that will drain your Visa card dry if you get hooked on it.

I like to solo a lot there here, Sleeper also. Live is just about impossible to solo anymore. Mobs hit so hard it is scary. Mage is about the only class that can. And it has for awhile taken a shitpot full of Quests to be able to even get into the higher level zones. None of them can really be done solo.

And you NEED like at least 10,000 AA's on any toon to be worth a crap solo wise, or to even Tank in a group, even if your group is all of you 6 boxing. I think you can have up to over 14,000 on some classes now lol.

It has become grind hell to play anymore and the cost wise to get to some zones, and the cost to buy the gizmos to self rez, and keep the Merc going is really costly as hell anymore. Let alone if you are 6 boxing.[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.][You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I play on Live yet because there are hell , I no clue, well over 500 zones I bet. So it does not get as stale as it does on here or the Sleeper server. I have been playing EQ straight since 2000 pretty much 7 days a week. I mean you can only go to the same damn 25 zones so many times before you want to kill yourself like it is on here. And if you are level 60 on here there is only about 7 or 8 zones that are any challenge to them other than Raid zones, which take 30 seconds to kill the Mob. Takes longer to answer the Batphone than to kill the damn thing.

And even if and when Velious ever comes out on here, no big deal to me, I have been playing that zone on Live and the Sleeper, and EQMac when it was going, which I liked a lot, for years and years also. So it won't be some "OH BOY", this new stuff is great for me thingy. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Unless you have a high end Bard that can run fast as hell you are going to hate running through the long zones in Velious just to get to the next zone. And God help you if you are a class that can't bind and have to run through 4 zones to get your corpse when you die, which you will a LOT in Velious. Enchanters are going to be a pissed off class for as many times they are going to die in that expansion also. Better hope you have a good friend that is a Mage in the group or a Cleric. Hell there will even be a use for a Pally in Velious for a 90% rez lol. But they can pull pretty well in it also, so that will help them too.

MilanderTruewield · #32 01-31-2015, 07:57 AM

1 account: 100 cleric, 100 paladin, 100 necro. Cleric is raid geared with tier 2 RoF raid armor, paladin has raid weapons and some corrupted ToV armor. 2nd account: 100 druid, 100 rogue, 96 monk. Rogue is likewise raid geared, t2 RoF. 3rd account: 100 warrior, 97 berserker, 89 bard. Both war and zerker have RoF and CoTF raid weapons.

I still won't choose live over P99.

Bristlebard · #33 01-31-2015, 08:05 AM

Every time someone boxes, an angel dies [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Swish · #34 01-31-2015, 08:14 AM

Sounds horrible, but an unappealing report on a game is subjective - you can say the same for P99 if you were talking to a new player.

Epic MQs, camp lawyering, and all around nastiness is part of server life... its just how you choose to paint it. (not to mention the raid scene ofc).

Sounds like bad management on live though in terms of having to box and/or have 10000 AAs :/

MilanderTruewield · #35 01-31-2015, 08:39 AM

Well, honestly, Sony began a system to continue progressing at max level, and it grew...and grew...and now you have so many aa's it's ridiculous. I enjoyed the game, maintained myself as a hardcore raider but when I found p99, it replaced live immediately. Granted, the raid scene here is toxic as hell, But the entirety of the game is so much better. You actually interact with other people, which was the best thing about live from the get-go.

Personally, I believe mercs destroyed EverQuest.

Laugher · #36 01-31-2015, 09:52 AM

tl;dr live is not too bad, mercanaries now taper the amount of boxing you have to do (only need to 3 box for a full group~!) like players they now also get AAs and gear

webrunner described what I saw happening pretty well; could get up to 10k+ aas and will need them for your char to be more useful than your merc in group roles like tanking, but there is also hundreds of zones and content along with items like mounts to collect. Probably a good amount of fun to be had, but be prepared to pay for a sub on at least 2 accounts in order to just be able to get around and kill [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Swish · #37 01-31-2015, 10:34 AM

Yeah I'd go with mercs being the downfall, or devs programming content on the basis that everyone uses them and having to "aim off" and make things more difficult.

MilanderTruewield · #38 02-01-2015, 05:14 AM

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tl;dr live is not too bad, mercanaries now taper the amount of boxing you have to do (only need to 3 box for a full group~!) like players they now also get AAs and gear

This is exactly why mercs killed the social aspect of a group. "100 Cleric LFG" "Meh, I have my cleric merc out and I don't feel like talking to anyone, so... " 10 minutes later, Cleric still looking for group. And yes, a real cleric with AA's will out-heal a merc any day of the week, but that little bit of convenience for some reason outshines the actual player.