What's live like?

[MilanderTruewield]

Boxing is a bad thing if that's all anyone does and you actually expect a social game to be... well, social.

[MilanderTruewield]

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]

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

[Swish]

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]

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]

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.]

[MilanderTruewield]

Originally Posted by Laugher [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

[Swish]

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.