So what's there to do in Velious anyway?

[Thulack]

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

Edit: judging from other posts I will assume you mean GoD and totally agree.

Everything was bland, ugly, and looked the same. Looked like all architecture was a cut and paste job. Mobs looked like bad sci-fi creatures.

You playing the wrong game then if graphics means anything to you.

[heartbrand]

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

PoP's Tier raiding system was the best expansion raiding there ever was in EQ. Simple as that. After playing live for 13 years i can tell you alot of people would shit bricks at the mechanics and attention to detail needed to raid in current EQ. I know 95% of you hate instancing but it let so many people see different zones and enjoy the game more then if they were stuck trying to raid like they do here.

[TarukShmaruk]

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

You playing the wrong game then if graphics means anything to you.

Graphics don't need to be high quality for them to have a great art direction.

[Gwence]

not sure people think there are instant ports in luclin

there are 4 spots you can port to from nexus on a 15-20 min cycle, pretty similar to waiting for a boat

then you would have to run from those locations if you had another destination


aka people still look for ports in luclin on a large scale

velious is only a great expansion if you like to raid alot, otherwise it's a pretty dull expansion with not very much for the casual player to accomplish.

also bazaar is about 1000x better than ec tunnel

whereas the opposite is actually true for luclin, the casual player has much more benefit in that expansion with aa's and a ton of stuff that can be accomplished solo or within a group and it beefs your character up to go back and do some velious stuff that you might not have been able to without the aa's.

likewise the raid scene in luclin is absolutely brutal (personally I loved it) but for alot of people, they simply can't handle it and burn out or quit or whatever and it carried over into PoP with the flagging system (another amazing mechanic) which was just too much work for many people.

Ranking EQ expansions is easy - just go backwards.
1) PoP - by far
2) Luclin - because of AA's
3) Velious - beside AA's it's the same as luclin for the most part.
2) Kunark - horrible expansion

[Atmas]

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

You playing the wrong game then if graphics means anything to you.

I'm not talking about high polygon count artwork or something, I'm talking about older zones having very distinct areas and changes in terrain, versus everything looking as spartan as a giant stone office building.

[heartbrand]

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

not sure people think there are instant ports in luclin

there are 4 spots you can port to from nexus on a 15-20 min cycle, pretty similar to waiting for a boat

then you would have to run from those locations if you had another destination


aka people still look for ports in luclin on a large scale

velious is only a great expansion if you like to raid alot, otherwise it's a pretty dull expansion with not very much for the casual player to accomplish.

also bazaar is about 1000x better than ec tunnel

whereas the opposite is actually true for luclin, the casual player has much more benefit in that expansion with aa's and a ton of stuff that can be accomplished solo or within a group and it beefs your character up to go back and do some velious stuff that you might not have been able to without the aa's.

likewise the raid scene in luclin is absolutely brutal (personally I loved it) but for alot of people, they simply can't handle it and burn out or quit or whatever and it carried over into PoP with the flagging system (another amazing mechanic) which was just too much work for many people.

Ranking EQ expansions is easy - just go backwards.
1) PoP - by far
2) Luclin - because of AA's
3) Velious - beside AA's it's the same as luclin for the most part.
2) Kunark - horrible expansion

ur like my eq soulmate bro

[Thulack]

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

not sure people think there are instant ports in luclin

there are 4 spots you can port to from nexus on a 15-20 min cycle, pretty similar to waiting for a boat

then you would have to run from those locations if you had another destination


aka people still look for ports in luclin on a large scale

velious is only a great expansion if you like to raid alot, otherwise it's a pretty dull expansion with not very much for the casual player to accomplish.

also bazaar is about 1000x better than ec tunnel

whereas the opposite is actually true for luclin, the casual player has much more benefit in that expansion with aa's and a ton of stuff that can be accomplished solo or within a group and it beefs your character up to go back and do some velious stuff that you might not have been able to without the aa's.

likewise the raid scene in luclin is absolutely brutal (personally I loved it) but for alot of people, they simply can't handle it and burn out or quit or whatever and it carried over into PoP with the flagging system (another amazing mechanic) which was just too much work for many people.

Ranking EQ expansions is easy - just go backwards.
1) PoP - by far
2) Luclin - because of AA's
3) Velious - beside AA's it's the same as luclin for the most part.
2) Kunark - horrible expansion

3rd this

[TarukShmaruk]

Kunark a horrible expansion? Huh?

Kunark was a fantastic expansion to EQ vanilla.

-Raised level cap
-Melee disciplines
-Lots of new and mostly interesting zones. Skyfire was really cool, LOIO, TT, OT, Dreadlands,FM
-Lots of great dungeons - Karnors, OS, City of Mist, Howling Stones, Chardok
-WAY more raid targets - VS, Trakanon, 3 RoS dragons, VP (7 dragons?), Faydedar
-Epics which were wildly popular
-Iksar

[heartbrand]

Kunark has pretty shitty itemization, I.e class armor that minus the bp and greaves just about sucks across the board with a couple of clickie exceptions (but you still wouldn't wear it) a shortage of raid content that makes it all too easy to cock block everything, no quests to really speak of (not talking about epic quests which came later), annoying travel, etc.

[t0lkien]

I don't understand you guys - everything you are praising is the reason this servers exists i.e. to provide an alternative to all that and recreate the game before it was changed by it. If you are so in favour of all those additions, why are you playing classic EQ?