Luclin

[Swish]

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

I think I even liked LDoN more.

Agreed! The time limit quests were particularly awesome - its a shame the rewards weren't too spectacular for continual grinding but I wholly enjoyed LDoN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also, Calabee's bard reminds me of all the pink bards that appeared around Luclin or PoP with the armor dyes... not sure what it was about pink bards but Venril Sathir (EU) had a ton of them [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Danth]

I hated LDON. The concept was nice, but it came at the height of Sony's greediest period. The result was an expansion composed of modular cut-and-paste instances. The entire thing reeked of cheapness.

I'm dubious as to the effect Alternate Advancement would have on P1999. We have a fairly closed community here (relative to Live during this period) and I suspect it'd turn the lower level game into a ghost town.

Danth

[heartbrand]

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

I hated LDON. The concept was nice, but it came at the height of Sony's greediest period. The result was an expansion composed of modular cut-and-paste instances. The entire thing reeked of cheapness.

I'm dubious as to the effect Alternate Advancement would have on P1999. We have a fairly closed community here (relative to Live during this period) and I suspect it'd turn the lower level game into a ghost town.

Danth

LDoN was amazing because it allowed you to log in and play within minutes. Before LDoN you were forced to often sit LFG for an hour +, then you had to get there, get COTH'ed or set up, buff up, etc., etc., only for the group to break up shortly after. LDoN offered quick groups of predictable duration where everyone got a reward, and offered the very fun hard mode LDoN's.

[Gadwen]

I had a lot of fun in the Luclin-PoP era on Live. Although I do prefer the Classic-Velious game a lot more. I would be hard pressed to say that Luclin and PoP "ruined" Everquest, for me anyway. IMO, the game itself is simply not that impressive from a game play or technical standpoint. It's meeting cool people, and accomplishing goals that I set for myself that keep me playing EQ, neither of which was taken away from me when either of those expansions came out.

[Briscoe]

What people always overlook is the amount of time and effort it is taking nilbog and company to develop Velious. The implementation of Luclin, PoP, or any other expansion will take a commensurate amount of time and effort.

There is much more to it than Rogean simply saying, "Oh yea, we'll open up Luclin now."

[Taboo]

I would be happy bypassing Luclin and just adding in PoP [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Add ports to planes to certain rings around norrath. Make it a portal spell for druids and wizards but make it so they have to be at a certain ring or spire to use it.

I remember reading somewhere that they butchered the AA system so it will not be even an option.

[Danth]

Don't even get me started on Planes of Power. For folks like me who didn't really like raids, it was the absolute worst expansion not only in Everquest, but in the entire history of this genre. From my vantage point that expansion was unredeemable trash.

About the only thing from Luclin I care about is the Bazaar; I hate East Commons. That being said, I'll take the bad with the good, and stopping at Velious is a lot more good than bad. When I take everything as a whole, I feel every expansion past Velious just made the game worse and worse. Heck, the majority of my favorite content is pre-expansion stuff.

Danth

[falkun]

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

I would be happy bypassing Luclin and just adding in PoP [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Add ports to planes to certain rings around norrath. Make it a portal spell for druids and wizards but make it so they have to be at a certain ring or spire to use it.

I remember reading somewhere that they butchered the AA system so it will not be even an option.

https://www.project1999.org/forums/s...ad.php?t=11879

[Elmarnieh]

PoP did do more to move high quality gear into the hands of the non-raider. Elemental bows were craftable and crafting got a huge amount of new very good items.

What PoP did to kill the game was to make travel so easy. Luclin made travel for not porting classes bearable, PoP made it trivial and broke some of the class interdependence to a point where the community suffered for it.

[heartbrand]

People cry a lot about books but let's be honest, if you were of the appropriate level you spent all your time in PoP anyway so who cared you could book to Halas.