What did people dislike most about luclin?

[Portsche]

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

I remember finding a spot in paludal where mobs would just ignore you

Made a lvl 1 necro and soloed 1-18 without ever moving lol

Right about there...

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[thufir]

Originally Posted by astuce999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Paludal Caverns trivializes prior content".

P99: Oasis > MM > CoM > KC > Seb is the path chosen by the overwhelming majority, over and over again. It really would just be replacing the one zone everyone goes to with another one.

Just some thoughts.

Astuce

Sorry, but this just isn't true. It only seems this way to people who take this route. I've literally never taken it on this server. My characters have occasionally hit those zones but never spent very much time in any of them (except Sebilis, but Sebilis was also the end game dungeon on Live during this era and is in fact less full on p99 than it was on Live). You can go to other zones off the leveling path and find groups because this server is still thriving, no matter how it seems to raiding types.

If you replace everything within levels 1-30 with Paludal, nobody goes to the other zones because the PC ZEM is too ridiculous. There's no reason to go anywhere else, and in fact nobody did on Live. Doesn't anyone else remember how empty these low level places were in Norrath after Luclin got released? Remembering and not caring is an option, but saying PC didn't kill 'em is not correct.

[xKoopa]

I played pvp on live so paludal rarely saw more than 15 players

Old school dungeons were thriving cuz PC so danger

[pasi]

At the end of the day, a lot of EQ is visual.

Luclin made a lot of great changes to gameplay. However, the visual/aesthetic aspect of the expansion was complete shit.

[Kotopes]

EQ up untill GoD was classic for me, I'd remove nexus, bazaar and PoK books alltogether however.

[Jimjam]

The change of artistic style.

[elwing]

Luclin was a quite good expansion, I have to admit art is strange, but it's not that bad. what killed it is the nexus and bazaar for sure. releasing luclin without these would be fine for me, I'd actually enjoy running there...

[fadetree]

I didn't *hate* anything about luclin, and I loved the original tier of AA. I thought the cats were kind of dumb, and the zem in Paludal was a terrible idea. I loved PoP, but I thought the books kind of trivialized travel.

After PoP is where my idea of classic EQ ends.

[LenkoCambria]

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

I didn't *hate* anything about luclin, and I loved the original tier of AA. I thought the cats were kind of dumb, and the zem in Paludal was a terrible idea. I loved PoP, but I thought the books kind of trivialized travel.

After PoP is where my idea of classic EQ ends.

I was just about to post all of this myself. This is exactly how I feel. I even liked the graphics update. Took some getting used to, but I did enjoy it.

[Tankdan]

The Bazaar was 10x better than EC, get off your nostalgia boners. The same people crying about EC being classic are the FIRST ones to use websites like p99auctions to find their shit, hypocritical neckbeards.

VT was spread out over multiple days, people had fun in it because the rewards paid off.

Ssra Temple was a challenging zone that lasted the entire expansion.

Mid/High leveling zones were awesome.

Nexus Scion made porting less of a thing? Who the fuck cares. Telling a random druid to come get you is overrated.

At the end of the day Devs don't want Luclin, so P99 is pretty much dead.