Favorite Zone/Least Favorite Zone within Norrath

[absol]

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

I hate east commons because everyone trades there. North freeport is the true OG master race trading zone.

Somewhat related: how EC became the trading hub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXZ7_zNurY

[Alovia]

on Tunare our auction zone was Gfay

[Sallan]

Favourite is definitely original PoM. So many good memories

[sktank]

favorites: north karana, OT, kc, warsliks woods, velks
least favorites: sol a&b, chardok, Freeport, neriak, kaesora

[Shjade]

Favorite: Crushbone. I used to go back there after almost every level on my bard on live just to mess around, help groups that seemed to be struggling with some quick downtime regen, hand some things off to new players, derail trains, etc. Good times.

Least favorite: Odus. The entire continent. All of it.

[thedaruma]

I actually loved Odus, specifically The Warrens and Stonebrunt Mountains. I just loved the idea of the kobolds vs the kejek, the wild roaming pandas, Tigers and gorillas, and the cool bamboo splint and cold iron armor that dropped from the highland kobolds. There was even a neat blue-tinted variant of the mail bamboo armor.

The idea that it was essentially a ghost town simply added to the mystique of it. I became sort of a mountain hermit, and would love to take my friends there and introduce them to all of the cool stuff the zone had to offer-- including the Wakizashi of the Frozen skies, a 1hs that procced an 81dmg DD.

I have good memories of the mad dash through the Warrens to the Stonebrunt zone line, pulse pounding from the adrenaline. It's a shame we may not see that any time soon, as it was implemented well into Velious.

[Lagorto]

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

on Tunare our auction zone was Gfay

Pras. Gfay true and most glorious trade hub.

Favorite: Velks. Easy. I just loved the layout and look of the place. Not to mention all the traps and slippery ledges - it really made me feel a sense of danger. It was DnD brought to life for me and I couldn't get enough. Just the idea that I was evading all of these risks to meet the big baddie at the end was great. (Unrest a close second, so many great memories).

Least: Dagnors. Dear Prexus under the mighty seas I would do anything to banish that zone to the depths. If I didn't enjoy KK and Unrest so much I'd never even look in its direction. The amount of secondary deaths sustained in that barren hell hole trying to recover from a basement train were entirely too high. Shit mobs. Shit xp. Shit aesthetic/geometry (fuck those hills). Shit everything. Hatehatehate.

[iruinedyourday]

Im bringing back SolB

SolB was not my favorite zone back in classic, Lguk was for sure. First Lguk was a great zone becuse pre kunark it was basically a regular city. If you could get down there at like level 10 you could p much roll around in there without invis, everything was down before it even had a chance to agro anything else it was so crowded.

This was too cool to me, considering just a few stories above were a bunch of diaper wearing trolls with clubs smashing froglocks having their minds blown by on occasional mesh drop. If they only knew the magical majesty that was happening below their feet.

Ok, but why SolB?

SolB on p99 is great. You can literately do everything in that zone. You can camp valuable items at the royals at level 30. You can level up to 45 there, and move into the bugs room with a group, camping MORE valuable enough items to make it exciting. level up to 50.. to 50+ solo or group all the way to 60, at yet more great treasure filled caves. Delve deep enough and you can see spooky adventurers turned to stone from the infamous stone spider! Find the imps and the magical EFREETI! a mob that should wow anyone, no matter how seasoned they are in EQ. I stare deep into his texture maps every time I kill him.

I mean come on, go deeper in and there is a CASTLE! filled with GIANTS.. and they have magical ITEMS & TREASURES! THERE IS EVEN A KINGS THRONE! with a WORTHY KING! LONG LIVE KING TRANIX!

Finish that up, with it even has RAIDS! Dragons, two of em! one you can group, one you learned how to raid on!

seriously, solB has it all.. what other zone can you start leveling in at 30 and go all the way to end game raiding, without leaving it once!

thats p goog.

anyway been wanting to say that for a while but i was BANNED

[coki]

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

on Tunare our auction zone was Gfay

same for vallon zek, loved stun knock-backing people off the treetops to their death or lureing someone away from bank with a too good to be true deal only to have 4 or my friends gank em for their plat/gear

[LethClaypool]

I'll add and second on Gfay.

The music is amazing and my first eq experiences involved playing a woodelf warrior. Was the hub zone on my server as well.