Velious

[Jimjam]

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

Having never played velious in live I was mentally damaged when people on p99 hyped it for years and then it turns out to be succ.

Smart and ATG hitting it home here for me.

I also never played Velious in live. Tradeskill hub, diametrically opposed factions, huge swathes of Tundra with just one texture. Giants and dragons dungeon. Evil magic guy living in cave labyrinth... Gnolls...

It's like Verant looked at the Everfrost area and thought "Hey, lets just reskin this as a new expansion, except lets not actually reskin it".

Apparently the idea sold pretty well, but no thank you.

I don't think I bought the expansion until after LoY because a friend was desperate to kill names in velks with me (for unknown reason).

[skarlorn]

Not to mention, Veeshan's Peak is about 10x cooler than Temple of Veeshan.

[Convict]

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

Let me just recount a conversation I had with a friend of mine, a year and a half into Velious when I poked my head in to see if the dust had settled.

“How’s raiding been after all the Velious stuff?”

“Terrible, there are too many targets and we have constantly run and park toons all over the world to get them.”

“Oh! Why don’t you just go for a few of the targets instead of all of them?”

“What do you mean?”

“…”

lmao sums it up perfectly

/thread

[Vallanor]

The recent Scout thread reminded me of the few dozen times I stood in a big pile clicking the air rapidly waiting for the quest npc to spawn. This is my most soul crushing P99 experience by far even though it only wasted a few minutes at a time. The day I swore off Scout forever was a very good day indeed.

[skarlorn]

need some self-aware AM, Aftermath people posting in this thread. Especially anyone who has raided hard since Rampage.

This is your chance to be free.

[Convict]

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

need some self-aware AM, Aftermath people posting in this thread. Especially anyone who has raided hard since Rampage.

This is your chance to be free.

At least awakened has seemed to shift focus to only high valued targets like NToV, PD, KT, statue/aow, yelinak, etc. Good on them, that's how the top guild should behave.

8 years into server and 2 years into velious and Aftermath still farms fucking everything that pops for plat its disgusting

[Papa]

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

"[...]there are too many targets and we have constantly run and park toons all over the world to get them.”

“Oh! Why don’t you just go for a few of the targets instead of all of them?”

“What do you mean?”

“…”

the sickness is real

[Papa]

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

8 years into server and 2 years into velious and Aftermath still farms fucking everything that pops for plat its disgusting

those pixels feed more than just am, you've got to follow the money all the way to the top

[Valakut]

had the least amount of people petition a gm on me during velious so i think its obvious its the SAWFT era

[Bardalicious]

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

Due to technology advancements and gaming experiences being so much more advanced now, it's hard for me to imagine a mmo ever being able to replicate the magical moments that some of us experienced during the early periods of time of mmo development which is a shame imo.

It's like any drug you try. You'll never succeed in chasing the feelings of that very first high.

A fully immersive VR MMORPG may come close though.