Things Envisioned That Never Were During Classic

[Arteker]

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

I don't think Greenmist and the Iksar Warrior pike was completely finished until Luclin IIRC

greenmist was completed in velious by a sk of Solsuek ro server. after the chardok revamp. was updated in luclin.

[uygi]

Greenmist quest was broken until Chardok revamp, as Arteker said. It was released with Shissar bane damage, generally considered a Luclin teaser. AFAIK the only change to Greenmist in Luclin+ era was that it was changed to be usable by all SK races; don't remember when that change happened but I'd think it wasn't too far into Luclin.

And Greenmist is one of the best "lore" items ever IMO, although I find it curious that while the Greenmist Khukri is either a symbol or fragment of, or perhaps once Rile's "remote control" for, the green mist that drove out the shissar, Trakanon's AE also seems to hint at a connection: A green mist seeps into your skin. Poking around a bit... Sony removed the "green mist" reference from the AE in August of 2003... I wonder why? I think that was LoY or LDoN era? Can't figure what the reason would be. Hmm...

[pasi]

Luclin was basically launched half complete.

Acrylia Caverns was originally intended to be an adjunct to the Vex Thal tier. Really only Ring of Valor and EQMac players got to experience it. Ring of Fire was absurdly broken and half the stuff you did could just break the event. The keying process for Inner Acrylia was also way worse than VT.

SSeru and Katta were also intended to be Thurg/Skyshrine/Kael-esque, but were never fleshed out.

[uygi]

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

SSeru and Katta were also intended to be Thurg/Skyshrine/Kael-esque, but were never fleshed out.

I thought Sanctus Seru was a fucking awesome zone, but yeah it didn't really have content... instead it was mostly just a zoneline for trains from DSP and Marus Seru...

[Arteker]

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

Luclin was basically launched half complete.

Acrylia Caverns was originally intended to be an adjunct to the Vex Thal tier. Really only Ring of Valor and EQMac players got to experience it. Ring of Fire was absurdly broken and half the stuff you did could just break the event. The keying process for Inner Acrylia was also way worse than VT.

SSeru and Katta were also intended to be Thurg/Skyshrine/Kael-esque, but were never fleshed out.

i spend months in vt searching for demiplane of shadows

[Xadion]

Miragul, the soulless litch was to be 'the bad guy' for classic... But not much came of it.

[Tikker]

Luclin was so almost awesome, it hurt


Ssra was a great raid zone, seru hurt the eyes

[ccs88]

As much as EQ eventually needed an expansion after Velious was played out... I wasn't a fan of Luclin at all. I did like where they were going with Stonebrunt Mountains (minus Gnome Rangers), but I couldn't enjoy a space expansion with aliens in the the very medieval game that is classic EQ, which I came to love.

The new character models were just horrible in my eyes. All they had to do was make the old ones less blocky, and maybe a few tweaks to make them more anatomically correct.

Although I didn't like how crazy far they went with AA's, I think a simplified version with way less points would have been fine.

Mounts were alright... but I think WoW ruined mounts for me. Collect all 350!

[Funkutron5000]

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

The tale of Edril has inspired me to play again. Rolling up a High Elf Paladin tonight.

Smart man right here.

[khanable]

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

i think u confusing the lvl 80ish version of kurns with regular one sexy leezard.

Nope this was definitely during the kunark era, 2000-ish.