Lair of the Paw on Green99?

[loramin]

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

Honestly pretty fascinating how all of the roaming Gnolls in SK were originally the bosses in pre-revamp Paw. Can't say they didn't use the whole buffalo when they revamped the place.

It's a common practice in EQ, because they don't want to "break" old stuff when they add new stuff. They did the same with Chardok 2.0 (goblins got moved out to Frontier Mountains), LoY (trolls got moved out of Grobb when the Frogloks took it over), etc.

[Bardp1999]

It wouldn't even be unclassic to give underutilized zones a ZEM increase. Not doing it while adding the 100 other non-classic items is really just curious. The spirit of EQ is exploration, yet nothing is done to prevent 90% of the player base going Crushbone>Oasis>MM>HHK>MM>CoM>SolB>KC>Seb over and over and over and over and over and over. Classic spirit is not being nurtured IMO when the fix is so simple, added ZEM in underutilized zones.

Nearly all of the raid scene is custom content and/or exploited by today's knowledge so that it might as well be custom, I guess I just don't understand why the core of the game has been neglected for so long.

[sacman08]

On Live, pretty sure it got revamped a second time and made all the gnolls up in their 50's. I was actually sad that it was changed from lower level to 35ish dungeon. It was out of the way and rather unused. Looking back, I can see why they changed it, Kunark was still a few months away and Classic EQ only had 3 dungeons for 30 to 40 to level in, Cazic, Sol A, and MM, and they were packed.

[Tingowingo]

Should we move this to green discussion?

[Jibartik]

Yeah I figured it'd get tossed over sooner or later, it belongs there hehe.

[Jibartik]

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

It's a common practice in EQ, because they don't want to "break" old stuff when they add new stuff. They did the same with Chardok 2.0 (goblins got moved out to Frontier Mountains), LoY (trolls got moved out of Grobb when the Frogloks took it over), etc.

Well it was a big part of the story in this case though, they put a big theme on this lore, as it was changing origional bad level design.

Instead of admitting that they blew it with that zone, they said, the new Splitpaw Gnolls eradicated the curse of the the Tesch Mas Gnolls (or visa versa?) that were delving too deeply into dark magics, and expunged their leaders and their and in their escape, they now roam the south karanas.

Not saying there isnt story for chardook, as this came months after launch, it was a very big deal, this inspired a lot of people to think the entire world of norrath was going to be a living changing place with GM interactions and stuff, annnnnd then that never happened haha

But at the time, it was no small change, it was an event!

[Dolalin]

I updated Nixx Nenix's wiki page with all the info I've figured out so far.

http://wiki.project1999.com/Zixx_Nenix

[Green Nec]

splitpaw my favorite dungeon in the game wish they gave it more good items so there was more of a reason to go.

[Valion]

Great find original paw was awesome. I remember going there with 3 friends, we died gloriously.

[Cen]

I'm a huge eq gnoll fan so id love a lore video from that weird bro