Shadows of Luclin

[Triode]

Wayfarers Haven (formerly p2002) is up to LDON now and has a great, if small, community with four active raid guilds. The server admin, Trust, and GM's are outstanding, highly responsive and have zero tolerance for toxics or exploits. They also script and run some very cool holiday and anniversary events and quests from time to time with great rewards.

For me, three boxing with wineq2 is good times in outdoor zones, although I don't prefer it for crawling. No other third party software allowed. Autofire and melody are both enabled on WFH (unlike TAKP, if memory serves), so bards and rangers make nice boxes. Word of warning though - monks are post-nerf over there and certainly don't facetank like they can on p99. In any event, if you are looking for some new content and a low key, welcoming community with an instanced raid scene appeals, WFH is a great place to relive Luclin/PoP/LDON content. Sunday evenings, there is often a copperstore in the baz to help gear up those new to the server. I still play 99 blue from time to time, but running only one toon often feels kinda slow compared to WFH now.

[dragosanii]

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

Wayfarers Haven (formerly p2002) is up to LDON now and has a great, if small, community with four active raid guilds. The server admin, Trust, and GM's are outstanding, highly responsive and have zero tolerance for toxics or exploits. They also script and run some very cool holiday and anniversary events and quests from time to time with great rewards.

For me, three boxing with wineq2 is good times in outdoor zones, although I don't prefer it for crawling. No other third party software allowed. Autofire and melody are both enabled on WFH (unlike TAKP, if memory serves), so bards and rangers make nice boxes. Word of warning though - monks are post-nerf over there and certainly don't facetank like they can on p99. In any event, if you are looking for some new content and a low key, welcoming community with an instanced raid scene appeals, WFH is a great place to relive Luclin/PoP/LDON content. Sunday evenings, there is often a copperstore in the baz to help gear up those new to the server. I still play 99 blue from time to time, but running only one toon often feels kinda slow compared to WFH now.

Just jumped into this server with the wife for the past few hours and it feels great....will be spending some time here I think.

[Triode]

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

Just jumped into this server with the wife for the past few hours and it feels great....will be spending some time here I think.

Nice! Glad to hear your first impression was a good one. If either of you could use a decent starter weapon or two, shoot me a PM with your character names, and I'm happy to see what I have banked or collecting dust on my trader. Can also toss you an invite to Train - the de facto leveling guild if you haven't gotten one already. (Train has a huge spell bank that is a great resource.)

The Baz gets some use, and there are a number of folks who regularly run well stocked traders (visible/searchable here: https://magelo.wayfarershaven.com/index.php?page=bazaar ), but in addition to that and the copperstore I mentioned, quality gear and spells are also regularly offered up and gifted in PoK. It is a really nice culture for those who enjoy a non-competitive game economy where supply outstrips demand - or simply want an alternative to mix it up with p99. Being handed a copy of torpor for free makes for quite the contrast as opposed to the 100k price here...

[Ravager]

More like "Shadows of Fartlin"

[Scalem]

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

More like "Shadows of Fartlin"

Haha got em!

[Snaggles]

Id assume staff could make a mirror server and xfer people over if they want to go down that route. Just a matter of the staff wants to reinput all that Luclin code or even deal with that aspect of fixing things that took them over a decade to dial in on Blue (as best they can).

Watching guilds pull their hair out on what to do would be amusing though [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] .

[Worry]

Will never happen but Luclin is a great expansion. No idea why so many people hate it

[Gustoo]

It isn't about the hate. It is about the fundamental shift of the entire game that resulted from the massive changes.

1. Find
2. Maps
3. Bazaar easy sell no personal interaction
4. Teleports
5. Old world totally obsoleted by super exp zones all through luclin
6. Old world items totally obsoleted by super elite weapons and items super easy to get through luclin
7. ETC

Its fun to continue progress but as mentioned, project 1999 was about re-creating the original, simpler yet harder and less assisted version of everquest.

Lots of servers have those other features and include luclin for you to enjoy.

Maybe one day whoever owns regular EQ will do a proper TLP. They have to have original code somewhere.

[Croco]

1. Find was super limited, not really used much
2. Maps are fantastic and you can use them on p99 already with a 3rd party program.
3. No one except no life EC fatcats like EC. Bazaar was the single best thing ever introduced to EQ ever.
4. Teleports from the nexus are super limited and only happen every 15 min, at this point they would supplement the fact that Dial is a shell of it's former self with so many of it's members going to green.
5. That can be easily fixed by having some hot zones across various continents.
6. That happens with virtually every expansion in every MMO. The high end kunark weapons don't hold a candle to velious weaponry for most classes. Also 100hp is still the top end for luclin except for 1 item so high end gear from velious and select kunark 100hp items aren't obsolete.

Luclin is the Rodney Dangerfield of early EQ expansions. It's actually a great expansion but gets no respect.

[Gustoo]

Derails original content. AA's too.

Great expansion. Great game. Changes the game too much. Not classic. Literally any other server basically gives this to you. Stock open source EQ EMU Code is pretty much luclin + code so maybe put together your own server?