What's live like?

[webrunner5]

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.