Thoughts on luclin?

[phacemeltar]

if luclin stat-counts were more on par with kunark/velious, and the whole expansion was just more places to go. what i think the problem with luclin is that it made the original content obsolete, outside of xp grinds.

but then, the same could be said for velious.

[Daldaen]

Byrjun said it best I think.

[phacemeltar]

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

Byrjun said it best I think.

ah yes, agreed

[Telin]

Luclin was a stab to the heart of Norrath. That's how I feel.

[Sturgeon]

I want Beast Lords

[koros]

Why does everything seem to think Luclin had rampant mudflation?

[Archestratie]

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

Why does everything seem to think Luclin had rampant mudflation?

This item, which dropped like rain in Maiden's Eye single handedly crashed the market on so many 1hs weapons from Kunark/Velious it was sick. After the first week, everyone could buy one of these for 2k or less and after the first month, they were like 600 plat. It was way better than so many other weapons out here and it wrecked so much content all by itself.

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[Iumuno]

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

I like Luclin a lot. It definitely started to change EQ a lot, but classes were more balanced during it than most other parts of classic eq.

It definitely had it's problems - a lot of boring/useless zones, shitty model overhaul, timesink key quests, ridiculous mob AC and obviously unfinished content.

Every class in Luclin was half-decent. Casters finally got gear upgrades that mattered. AAs fleshed out classes pretty nicely. There was plenty of grinding to do at max level. Single group "raid" content (burrower). Cool (in theory) scripts that drastically modified zones for a time. Ring wars, cool quests, etc.

Also, I liked the lore. Vampires, faction power struggles, a continuation of the storyline of race that enslaved the Iksar, mysterious two faced citizens of Katta, etc. Velious faction wars were fun, but damn were they "generic" giant vs dragon/dwarf. I don't get the hatred for cat people, but no one bats an eye over frogloks or lizard people.

The lore thing apart, I agree with you for the most part.

The thing is, pretty much everyone seems to agree that apart from some raid events, Luclin content was shit. I do agree with you that gameplay was substantially improved, namely class balance, caster gear and aas.

We don't necessarily need Luclin for that though.

[koros]

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

This item, which dropped like rain in Maiden's Eye single handedly crashed the market on so many 1hs weapons from Kunark/Velious it was sick. After the first week, everyone could buy one of these for 2k or less and after the first month, they were like 600 plat. It was way better than so many other weapons out here and it wrecked so much content all by itself.

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And that weapon is worse than a jade mace or a lammy mainhand. Marginally better offhand. Again, why is that an issue?

[Daldaen]

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

This item, which dropped like rain in Maiden's Eye single handedly crashed the market on so many 1hs weapons from Kunark/Velious it was sick. After the first week, everyone could buy one of these for 2k or less and after the first month, they were like 600 plat. It was way better than so many other weapons out here and it wrecked so much content all by itself.

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Centi longsword was absurdly rare. The shortsword was stupidly common but less useful.

Gonna call BS on longsword being 600 pp at any point in time...