Winter is coming - Page 7

wycca · #61 04-13-2015, 12:25 AM

Yea, EQ's population really took a nose dive mid-GoD. GoD's difficulty plus bugs, sorta capped the WoW-exodus period.

I'd peg the peak sometime in there. Coincidentally, GoD was the last expansion with the classic zone graphics and engine.

Lorian · #62 04-13-2015, 09:19 AM

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EQ's population did not peak in Velious so to say it went downhill is just 1 opinion. I personally consider classic progression to be the start of EQ till the end of PoP. With that said, its up to the server devs and they have stated that Velious is the end of classic, and anything after that will likely be custom content with classic in mind with a likely new server to start up years from now.

Mmm, during the height of PoP on my live server there were always groups and people in 'old world' zones like Splitpaw, Karnors, Kurns, Blackburrow, the Karanas, Ro AS WELL AS people xping in Paludal Caverns and some newer zones. The old world zones was actually more populous than MOST of the Luclin zones.

As there were no bard AoE kiting whatsoever, most outdoor Velious zones were fairly empty, while the dungeons like Velks and Crystal Caverns always were full of people. Btw, having bard AoE kiters in every outdoor zone is by far the most un-classical thing about P99, but its not a big concern for me personally

Variable Hot Zones could be a good way of getting people play in areas of P99 that are mostly shunned by the general population, but the Classic EQ Talibans will probably declare Jihad on me for saying this.

Daldaen · #63 04-13-2015, 09:28 AM

Bards AE kited just fine in classic. They did smaller trains but they definitely AE kited.

Most bards instead swarm kited which doesn't work here because of aggro not transferring correctly.

Grizzler · #64 04-13-2015, 10:05 AM

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but the Classic EQ Talibans will probably declare Jihad on me for saying this.

I lol'd real hard

Pringles · #65 04-13-2015, 10:59 AM

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Yea, EQ's population really took a nose dive mid-GoD. GoD's difficulty plus bugs, sorta capped the WoW-exodus period.

I'd peg the peak sometime in there. Coincidentally, GoD was the last expansion with the classic zone graphics and engine.

90% of my guild pulled out for WoW for sure. GoD was OK but WoW definitely sealed EQs fate. Too bad WoW didnt learn from EQ and also bloated up the game. Vanilla was great, the monstrosity that is WoW now..... not so much.

Larkverdin · #66 04-13-2015, 04:22 PM

Very excited to play in the snow. Big thanks to all of the devs and testers that spent their free time making this even possible.

TheLieka · #67 04-13-2015, 08:32 PM

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Very excited to play in the snow. Big thanks to all of the devs and testers that spent their free time making this even possible.

This. Siren's Grotto - oh mama.

<3,
Stiles

Sirken · #68 04-14-2015, 06:25 PM

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This. Siren's Grotto - oh mama.

<3,
Stiles

all i did in SG was camp out on one side and camp back in on the other side.

also, <3 you

TheLieka · #69 04-14-2015, 08:26 PM

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all i did in SG was camp out on one side and camp back in on the other side.

also, <3 you

Now - THAT is classic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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wycca · #70 04-14-2015, 08:51 PM

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90% of my guild pulled out for WoW for sure. GoD was OK but WoW definitely sealed EQs fate. Too bad WoW didnt learn from EQ and also bloated up the game. Vanilla was great, the monstrosity that is WoW now..... not so much.

I didn't see anywhere close to that sort of exodus, although it was a bit rough in a mid-tier guild.

GoD was under-appreciated, it was a bit too brutal on the group side, and a bit too buggy on the raid side. It got polished later and ended up one of their best expansions - but it never really overcame the problematic thematical issues (not that they fixed that in OoW really - DoDH did though).

I did appreciate vanilla wow when I got to play through it. They did quite a few things right, but I always sorta disliked how all these games get muddled down so that soloing Timmy with no social skills can be uber. TBC wasn't a bad expansion, had alot of neat stuff. Think that was about the end though.