Velious Gear, What to look forward to?

[Nytewind TP]

I was just curious what gear everyone will be looking forward to once Velious opens up?

I'm easy, I miss the lower items which made the game fun, the easy twink gear like the Orc Fang & Cougar Claw Earrings. I was also a big fan of the Crustasean Shell armor regardless the neg hits to CHA. The Rygorr armor was fun to pick up.

In the end and never happened in Live, I've always wanted to play my monk and dual wield SoDs ;)

lol fixed typo

[Ektar]

rings & shawls~

[Aadill]

Courage Claw Earrings.
I assume you're on a phone with auto-complete for words or something? Cougar Claw :)

Also what Ektar said~

[Moonzi]

Guardian and Sentry was my finest memory at the time...looking back it was a bit of torture that I'll endure again.

[Ring]

Best thing about SoV items is that they're available to all players. SoV opens up raiding. You could grab a group and go to Kael to get some armor if your guild was very casual, you could raid PoG, etc.. and for the hardcore raiders there was enough content to keep them happy as well.

I'm looking forward to casual guilds having access to gear upgrades and not having to do the planes for the millionth time when they're looking for something fun to do as a group.

[Xaleban]

Flowing thought!

[Messianic]

Fun Kael/Thurg/Dragon armor...Shawls+Rings...Thurg port potions...

[Zugbug]

netted kelp


-Zug

[Nytewind TP]

I'm also looking forward to the Coldain Ring War. That was one event I remember that everyone would come out to help.

[Atmas]

Mmmm Horn of Hsagra for rogue twink.

[Dravingar]

Best thing about SoV items is that they're available to all players. SoV opens up raiding. You could grab a group and go to Kael to get some armor if your guild was very casual, you could raid PoG, etc.. and for the hardcore raiders there was enough content to keep them happy as well.

I'm looking forward to casual guilds having access to gear upgrades and not having to do the planes for the millionth time when they're looking for something fun to do as a group.

This x 10000.

Also, I look forward to primals, Gnome mask and anything from NToV.

[Asher]

I am looking forward to the biggest RnF bitching thread when the sleeper is woken up after 3 to 4 weeks of the server being up.

Empty Sleepers for the life of the server.

Asher

[Ektar]

ya guise you better kiss and make up before velious is out so that everyone can have primals. FUN FOR EVERYBODY

[Motec]

looking forward to:
serrated dragon tooth
essence mace

[Mcbard]

Fun Kael/Thurg/Dragon armor...Shawls+Rings...Thurg port potions...

All of this +primal/ntov loot!

[Troy]

Everything. I quit before Velious came out.

[azeth]

Mmmm Horn of Hsagra for rogue twink.

wow i was so convinced this item was the 2h piercer, but that's Tantor's Tusk.

velious is awesome~

[Darian]

For me, it was:

1) Worked/Reinforced/Peerless/Matchless Dragon Armor- the dark teal chain that dropped off WW dragons.

2) Netted Kelp from Siren's Grotto- casters with full leather graphic. Sex on a sex boat.

3) Eyepatch of Plunder- one of the most rewarding quests in the game.

[Felwithemagi]

Not looking forward to grinding trade skills to make my Coldain Prayer Shawls.

[Wotsirb401]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=6447


This item

[Tewaz]

Brawl sticks FTW

[aerah]

I'm also looking forward to the Coldain Ring War. That was one event I remember that everyone would come out to help.

or would attract people who wanted to rain on your day and kill the coldain heroes.

your mileage may vary?

[mwatt]

Elder Holgresh Beads.

[Doktoor]

Killing snow bunnies.

Velious isnt coming out anytime soon, is it?

[Nytewind TP]

Flayed Barbarian Skin Leggings & the quest for the Lodi Shell Shield!

[greatdane]

There's lots to look forward to whether you're a casual player or a raider. Still, I think it's sad that Velious is the point when those two types of players are officially placed far apart. In original and Kunark, almost all the high-end gear can be traded and often acquired with just a group and there's not a huge difference between someone in raid gear and someone with good tradeable gear. Most of the BiS pieces can be traded. In Velious, every slot has a BiS piece that's only available to hardcore raiders, and you can get 100 HP/30+ AC/20 resists in pretty much every slot if you're one of those. Velious is the real dawn of the überguilds and the two-tier playerbase where the non-raiders become kind of second rate. If you're a casual player, there's something discouraging about the feeling that every piece of gear you own can be upgraded significantly if you were a raider. It makes the game feel less open.

All that said, the item I look forward to the most is Eyepatch of Plunder. I loved that shit. Pretty good stats and a priceless clicky. My ranger wore it until whatever expansion it was that came after PoP.

[mwatt]

There's lots to look forward to whether you're a casual player or a raider. Still, I think it's sad that Velious is the point when those two types of players are officially placed far apart. In original and Kunark, almost all the high-end gear can be traded and often acquired with just a group and there's not a huge difference between someone in raid gear and someone with good tradeable gear. Most of the BiS pieces can be traded. In Velious, every slot has a BiS piece that's only available to hardcore raiders, and you can get +100 HP/30+ AC/20 resists in pretty much every slot if you're one of those. Velious is the real dawn of the überguilds and the two-tier playerbase where the non-raiders become kind of second rate. If you're a casual player, there's something discouraging about the feeling that every piece of gear you own can be upgraded significantly if you were a raider. It makes the game feel less open.

All that said, the item I look forward to the most is Eyepatch of Plunder. I loved that shit. Pretty good stats and a priceless clicky. My ranger wore it until whatever expansion it was that came after PoP.

What he said. Ultimately, this bifurcation of the player base and continued changes along these lines was one of the major factors in the demise of EQ as the King of MMOs. Still, Velious should be fun.

[astuce999]

lodi shield
vindi BP and boots
drums of the motherfucking beast!
neriad shawl
lute of the howler


and tons more!

[Anger]

I am looking forward to the biggest RnF bitching thread when the sleeper is woken up after 3 to 4 weeks of the server being up.

Empty Sleepers for the life of the server.

Asher

Sleeper will likely never be woken up on this server.

[hedbonker]

BoC

[greatdane]

Also, endgame Velious loot is too good. You could skip Luclin entirely and go from Velious to PoP without any problems regarding the content difficulty and stat progression. Half the VT drops aren't upgrades to their NToV equivalents. The leap from Kunark to Velious is enormous and NToV/AoW/misc. quest gear will last you until elemental planes if you want to. The Velious itemization designers kinda went nuts.

[Aadill]

Killing snow bunnies.

YOU MONSTER!

What was the rumor with the super-undercon bunny or something? that was a good one.

[Nytewind TP]

The Sleeper can't be woken up until I get my 2 SoDs ;)

[Atmas]

Also, endgame Velious loot is too good. You could skip Luclin entirely and go from Velious to PoP without any problems regarding the content difficulty and stat progression. Half the VT drops aren't upgrades to their NToV equivalents. The leap from Kunark to Velious is enormous and NToV/AoW/misc. quest gear will last you until elemental planes if you want to. The Velious itemization designers kinda went nuts.

I mostly agree with this. Velious BiS items, particularly for melee, were not much behind the VT loots. But SoL provided more caster loot for several slots and ofcourse AAs were a major focus of character advancement.

[Darian]

Almost want to roll a warrior just to have a chance at this:

http://common.allakhazam.com/images/9/4/943f6a635a9a0c89eeeb311c434bfda5.png

http://signofone.org/albums/album05/gaudralek.sized.jpg

[Asher]

Sleeper will likely never be woken up on this server.

You are right.

All the raid guilds will kiss and make up and they will happily allow their competition access to this content. :rolleyes:

Asher

[Anger]

You are right.

All the raid guilds will kiss and make up and they will happily allow their competition access to this content. :rolleyes:

Asher

Right? It would take the combined efforts of basically all raid guilds on the server. Something that, likely, would not happen.

Although I hope when Velious opens they do the event where Kerafyrm laid waste to the classic/kunark zones :)

[freakyuno]

Right? It would take the combined efforts of basically all raid guilds on the server. Something that, likely, would not happen.

Although I hope when Velious opens they do the event where Kerafyrm laid waste to the classic/kunark zones :)

You do know, that waking him up, and killing him are very different right? Waking him up isnt that hard at all.

[Hasbinbad]

Mmmm Horn of Hsagra for rogue twink.

wow i was so convinced this item was the 2h piercer, but that's Tantor's Tusk.

velious is awesome~
the way mechanics are dinky on this server, that might out parse ragebringer with haste capped.

[citizen1080]

Eyepatch of plunder...the single longest computer session in my life...54 hours straight...oh how I hated you stormfeather.



And yes..very simple to wake sleeper...server not capable of killing him short of a GM dting him

[azeth]

the way mechanics are dinky on this server, that might out parse ragebringer with haste capped.

Massive Heartwood mainhand!

http://i51.tinypic.com/14y7t6u.png

^ the reason i played velious as a hardcore raider

[Anger]

You do know, that waking him up, and killing him are very different right? Waking him up isnt that hard at all.

Really? Shows what I know, haha. I started in Velious.

Can you explain this? Is there some quest that wakes him up and makes him killable?

[wrxBRAH]

With Velious, Im looking forward to more server drama.

[Shiftin]

http://common.allakhazam.com/images/7/5/755e00d0882ce37eee2bf3653da4783a.png

[azeth]

http://common.allakhazam.com/images/7/5/755e00d0882ce37eee2bf3653da4783a.png

i never considered it'd be plausible to add this to my wishlist back in the day :p your best case scenario for Main/2nd/Range will be:

Mrylokar's, Massive, Ragebringer range (yes, range for awhile)


Mrylokar's, Massive, Ragebringer

^ awesome weapon name :)

[Atmas]

Really? Shows what I know, haha. I started in Velious.

Can you explain this? Is there some quest that wakes him up and makes him killable?

There are four dragons that if all are dead will awaken him. People would kill three and leave one up to farm primal.

[Aadill]

Was that 12% BS mod and 55 level added later to the item or did this item start dropping after Luclin was released?

[Ele]

Really? Shows what I know, haha. I started in Velious.

Can you explain this? Is there some quest that wakes him up and makes him killable?

Killing the 4 Warders awakens the Sleeper. To keep from waking him you only kill/farm 3 of the Warders in Sleeper's Tomb; however, if someone comes in and kills the warder you left up, then the Sleeper is awoken.

It will likely come down to who can key up the fastest and get the Warders on farm status to get as much loot out of them and keep the others from attempting the ones you leave up.

On live our server had a consensus to leave at least one Warder up at all times. Went out the window once the #2-4 guilds started getting more ST keys, so guild #1 woke him up.

[Shiftin]

Really? Shows what I know, haha. I started in Velious.

Can you explain this? Is there some quest that wakes him up and makes him killable?

All 4 warders being dead at the same time = sleeper wakes up.

All 4 warders drop primals and a few unique items. As raid guilds you have to pick which warder lives each week so you can keep it on farm status (once you get killing the hard warder down to a science.

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=6462
http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=6460
http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=6464
http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=6461

There are loot tables for you to drool over.

[azeth]

I've never heard of the Salindrite Dagger that Ventani drops, 11/18 procs a 263 dd stun lightning spe

aka if you have this the rogue BotB is ovvverrr

[hedbonker]

Vaniki's willsapper was also a decent item and not hard to get.

[Harrison]

I am looking forward to the biggest RnF bitching thread when the sleeper is woken up after 3 to 4 weeks of the server being up.

Empty Sleepers for the life of the server.

Asher

I wish AIDS and a cold to finish off whoever wakes the sleeper. Every last person involved.

I think waking the sleeper should be disabled so no one can be a massive douchenozzle and fuck over the entire server because they have tiny cocks.

[Ektar]

and the event where the sleeper destroys other zones that you're referring to happens when the sleeper awakens. He comes out of ST and burninates the country-side.

It's not a special gm event or anything, but is a one-time thing.

[Skope]

and the event where the sleeper destroys other zones that you're referring to happens when the sleeper awakens. He comes out of ST and burninates the country-side.

It's not a special gm event or anything, but is a one-time thing.

http://tomatoman.net/images/trogdor/highscore.png

Whichever guild decides they want to pull the asshat move and actually awaken him will catch a LOT of flack from the rest of the server. a lot.

[Anger]

Whichever guild decides they want to pull the asshat move and actually awaken him will catch a LOT of flack from the rest of the server. a lot.

Remember this, TR ;)

[Shiftin]

http://tomatoman.net/images/trogdor/highscore.png

Whichever guild decides they want to pull the asshat move and actually awaken him will catch a LOT of flack from the rest of the server. a lot.

so like, a normal tuesday?

[Skope]

l2quote. Granted, a double-dose of Trogdor is just a double awesome.

If you want to inflate your poor-excuse-for-a-head encasing the little peanut that you call your brain, then sure. Remember, though: There are a lot of us that actually mean it when they say they don't give a shit. I, along with my buddy Ektar if I may speak for him, are two such young chaps. Shiftin, you and your fart-sniffing buddies can delete your characters tomorrow for all i care, I still wouldn't play more than a couple hours a week. Unlike you, my skopeness isn't defined by how amazing I think my gear is ingame.

where's the pwnd button?

[leetlootsale]

Elder Holgresh Beads.

This

[Nytewind TP]

With Velious, Im looking forward to more server drama.

Server drama is what made EQ fun in the first place :)

[Shiftin]

l2quote. Granted, a double-dose of Trogdor is just a double awesome.

If you want to inflate your poor-excuse-for-a-head encasing the little peanut that you call your brain, then sure. Remember, though: There are a lot of us that actually mean it when they say they don't give a shit. I, along with my buddy Ektar if I may speak for him, are two such young chaps. Shiftin, you and your fart-sniffing buddies can delete your characters tomorrow for all i care, I still wouldn't play more than a couple hours a week. Unlike you, my skopeness isn't defined by how amazing I think my gear is ingame.

where's the pwnd button?

First, I once again legitimately have no idea what you're talking about. I don't care at all about when you play or what you do. There is no possibly way you genuinely "don't give a shit" with your post count though, regardless of how often you actually log into the server.

Second, learn what a joke is. I was sarcasticly referencing the fact that regardless of what we do, half the server feels the need to vehemently hate us. For example: You, in like every passive aggressive post you've made this week implying you're holding back a massive conspiracy theory, the guy who thought we were summoning fucking bankers in karnors castle, the 412 page thread in RNF where xz and rogean had to step and and tell everyone to quit being tinfoil hat wearing babies, again.

Third, quit derailing every fun thread into R&F nonsense.

I don't know if i'll even be around whenever velious comes out. I was having a fun time reminiscing about the fun velious loots with everyone else and made a joke about all the rampant TR hate lately including the anger right above my post assuming we're already planning on it or something.

I'm going to go back to what this thread was about, if you want to keep calling me names and stuff, just start a catch all "Shiftin is a XXXX" thread in R&F and take it there.

I can't wait to get my mage one of these bad boys

http://common.allakhazam.com/images/d/4/d4ea038e61e977aaec3d912b9f9947c5.png

[Ektar]

MOMMY DADDY STOP FIGHTING

[Eyeke]

I'm mainly looking forward to buying and selling this stuff. the market gets very exciting in Velious.

[Bruman]

I was there for Velious launch, although I wasn't into the raiding scene at the time. I enjoyed the ring quest series, although I don't think I did it until an expac or two later. Then again, my memory is shot and the timeline is all jumbled in my head.

How tough is it to awake the sleeper anyways? Do you have to kill all 4 (I think it's 4?) warders at once or something? Or is it that the last warder is just that tough to kill in the first place? I get that with the warders up, the keeper stays asleep, but aren't the warders killed as regular raid targets too?

I don't know crap about raiding in Velious, so just curious how it worked. I remember killing Lord Doljionoinoinoin, and a little in a wing of ToV, but that's about it.

[Tewaz]

How difficult is it to take down one warder? Are we going to see the same rush for them like we see for all the raid mobs currently?

[Mcbard]

How difficult is it to take down one warder? Are we going to see the same rush for them like we see for all the raid mobs currently?

No because you have to farm ST keys. Unless ST isn't launched when Velious is and it takes forever for it to come out.

[Shiftin]

I was there for Velious launch, although I wasn't into the raiding scene at the time. I enjoyed the ring quest series, although I don't think I did it until an expac or two later. Then again, my memory is shot and the timeline is all jumbled in my head.

How tough is it to awake the sleeper anyways? Do you have to kill all 4 (I think it's 4?) warders at once or something? Or is it that the last warder is just that tough to kill in the first place? I get that with the warders up, the keeper stays asleep, but aren't the warders killed as regular raid targets too?

I don't know crap about raiding in Velious, so just curious how it worked. I remember killing Lord Doljionoinoinoin, and a little in a wing of ToV, but that's about it.

3 of the warders are pretty much pushovers. The last one (I want to say Ventani) is a huge pain in the arse and took folks a relatively long time to come up with a strategy for originally. Now tons of people know the two ways she was originally killed so it'll be hardish still, but not "hard".

IMO the hard part about sleepers tomb is getting people keyed up for it. Sontalak, Klandicar, Zlandicar, Tormax, Lendiniara and Yelinak (I think that's all) all drop the pieces you can turn in for ST keys, but they're really spread out and in a high competition environment like this server, they'll all get swarmed immediately on popping.

Lord Vyemm in NTOV, AoW and the vulak ring are both harder than anything in sleepers tomb based on my recollection.

[Ektar]

I'm pretty sure all 4 warders are of equal difficulty, as they are just the four warders of the sleeper. They don't have to like, be killed EXACTLY at once, but they all have to be dead at the same time - that is, before respawn.

Leaving one alive is merely meta-gaming (an intended meta-gaming, I'm sure).

edit: so as I see above, one is harder than the rest! I never did sleeper's tomb. I just logged in one day and my friends had logged me in and gotten me a primal.

[azeth]

whichever warder procs mezmerize is pretty much the easiest boss mob in game iirc

[Shiftin]

whichever warder procs mezmerize is pretty much the easiest boss mob in game iirc

I only saw ST a couple times in its original state but I seem to remember one of them involved getting super shrunk and hiding behind a big step then popping up between the timed AE and either range attacking or jousting. I feel like dozekar also involved hiding behind steps with double shrink too...

So many bosses in velious blend together. I just remember my favorite times being being NTOV dragons for the first time, getting my cleric armor from PoM and how much i HATED plane of growth.

[hedbonker]

Lord Vyemm in NTOV, AoW and the vulak ring are both harder than anything in sleepers tomb based on my recollection.

Vulak ring is not classic...

One of my favorite things that my old guild did in Velious was NToV. On one clear, we engaged the dragon that has the huge knockback. The MT positioned the mob in such a way that it blew half of the raid into the lava lake. I laughed so hard at that. Good times...

[Dantes]

I'm looking forward to everything. I quit not too long after Velious was released and I didn't really get to see any of the new high end content there. I got some quest armor, that's about it. The new armor textures are bad ass too!

[baub]

mostly looking forward to custom helms and some slick looking robes like the one shiftin posted earlier~

not looking forward to growth, most boring shit ever.

[Eyeke]

No because you have to farm ST keys. Unless ST isn't launched when Velious is and it takes forever for it to come out.

I hope Uglar and CoS shows up to add to the drama.
no one farms PoM like CoS amirite?

[freakyuno]

I was there for Velious launch, although I wasn't into the raiding scene at the time. I enjoyed the ring quest series, although I don't think I did it until an expac or two later. Then again, my memory is shot and the timeline is all jumbled in my head.

How tough is it to awake the sleeper anyways? Do you have to kill all 4 (I think it's 4?) warders at once or something? Or is it that the last warder is just that tough to kill in the first place? I get that with the warders up, the keeper stays asleep, but aren't the warders killed as regular raid targets too?

I don't know crap about raiding in Velious, so just curious how it worked. I remember killing Lord Doljionoinoinoin, and a little in a wing of ToV, but that's about it.

3 of the Warders are all about the same. As mentioned above, one of them is harder by quite a bit, but now that there's lots of strats, she wont be to hard. She's usually the one people left up, so that the sleeper didnt wake up. The respawn on most of ST was kinda long the way I remember it. Like a week. The warders dont have to be killed at the same time. The Warders are what keep the sleeper, asleep. If at any time you kill all 4 warders, the sleeper wakes up (he's not even targetable before that).

ST is a great place to gear up, primals and such, but getting enough keys to get a raid force in there will take some time. I'd guess if ST launches with Velious, it'll be 6 weeks before the first ST gear shows up.

[Kope]

I wish AIDS and a cold to finish off whoever wakes the sleeper. Every last person involved.

I think waking the sleeper should be disabled so no one can be a massive douchenozzle and fuck over the entire server because they have tiny cocks.

This

[Troy]

I'd like to see the sleeper's wakening event end in the server doing down then coming back up completely wiped and back to classic (no Kunark, no Velious, no characters).

[Eyeke]

I'd like to see the sleeper's wakening event end in the server doing down then coming back up completely wiped and back to classic (no Kunark, no Velious, no characters).

This

[Ele]

I'd like to see the sleeper's wakening event end in the server doing down then coming back up completely wiped and back to classic (no Kunark, no Velious, no characters).

I felt a great disturbance in the server, as if two-thousand nerds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

[Tewaz]

^^WIN!!

[Feachie]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=7008

[Asher]

3 of the warders are pretty much pushovers. The last one (I want to say Ventani) is a huge pain in the arse and took folks a relatively long time to come up with a strategy for originally. Now tons of people know the two ways she was originally killed so it'll be hardish still, but not "hard".

IMO the hard part about sleepers tomb is getting people keyed up for it. Sontalak, Klandicar, Zlandicar, Tormax, Lendiniara and Yelinak (I think that's all) all drop the pieces you can turn in for ST keys, but they're really spread out and in a high competition environment like this server, they'll all get swarmed immediately on popping.

Lord Vyemm in NTOV, AoW and the vulak ring are both harder than anything in sleepers tomb based on my recollection.

Velketor also dropped key piece iirc.

Ventani was the "hard" warder. AE'd a Slow/DD proc in addition to silence.
Strat is to have clerics/healers levitate under the bridge out of sight so Silence will not touch them. He isn't that hard. This is also the warder that drops the Salindrite Dagger and monk robe. This isn't the shitty one to leave up IMO.

Hra drops the SoD and has a Fire spinstun DoT.

Tuk drops the Gnome mask. His only AE is the silence iirc.

I forget the black/purple phara dar looking dragons name but it is a top slot buff dispell and Fire DD. When I pharmed the shit out of these on Al'kabor this is the one we always left up.


Asher

[SupaflyIRL]

Dire charm three boxing in halls of testing was a lot of fun.

[Harrison]

Dire charm three boxing in halls of testing was a lot of fun.

Dire charm is an AA.

[SupaflyIRL]

Dire charm is an AA.

Thanks for the info captain NOT CLASSIC.

[Cyrano]

EoP, Coldain Rings, Willsapper, PRIMALS, the list goes on and on. Velious is the best expansion in any MMO ever.

[Psionide]

Jumping off the bridge in icelad or the great divide?

[Pyrocat]

Eyepatch of plunder...the single longest computer session in my life...54 hours straight...oh how I hated you stormfeather.

I'm right there with you brother, that was the longest I've stayed awake ever.

I ended up locking myself out of the house from sleep dep.

[Arkanjil]

I fell asleep at my computer from camping him so long, woke up to him staring at me. I freaked out and gave him the ole 1-2. 5 Minutes later some chap comes over to see if stormfeather was up.

Luck was on my side that day!

[Loud]

I always loved willsapper

[Aquelin]

http://common.allakhazam.com/images/6/a/6a140b1c63c33cbc0cfe913f55fca5b6.png
http://common.allakhazam.com/images/5/7/5710de345ece574f135f4d6ff4d603be.png

Anyone?

[greatdane]

More like Wavecrasher and Frostbringer. Probably the best tradeable tank weapons, excluding of course BoC which barely counts.

[SupaflyIRL]

As far as items, click effect class armor and holgresh beads mostly

[Seaweedpimp]

Staff of the Morning Dew
MAGIC ITEM LORE ITEM NO TRADE
Slot: PRIMARY
Skill: 1H Blunt Atk Delay: 12
DMG: 4 Dmg Bonus: 21
STA: +10 INT: +25 MANA: +100
SV FIRE: +10 SV DISEASE: +10 SV COLD: +10 SV MAGIC: +10 SV POISON: +10
WT: 3.0 Size: MEDIUM
Class: NEC WIZ MAG ENC
Race: HUM ERU HIE DEF GNM IKS FRG DRK


wow

[falkun]

Almost want to roll a warrior just to have a chance at this:

Gaudralek, Sword of the Sky

http://signofone.org/albums/album05/gaudralek.sized.jpg

You realize that graphic also exists on Petrified Heartwood Flamberge (http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=7040).

I'm also looking forward to Nature's Defender, the BEST 2HS weapon graphic in any game, ever (IMO), with PHF/Gaud as a close 2nd.

I will enjoy that the raid content in Velious is tiered. The people killing Giants for Thurg armor won't have to fight with the people killing in NToV for skyshrine armor, etc. There's a literal TON of raid content out there in Velious, and also lots of group content and even some really good leveling content (ToFS and CC anyone?). It's an amazing expansion, with some epic quests (rings, shawls, eyepatch which I never knew how to get). I'm so excited for this expac!

[Raavak]

The people killing Giants for Thurg armor won't have to fight with the people killing in NToV for skyshrine armor, etc.

I agree except it was Testing Halls. And people could be in west wing farming Kael armor.

[Messianic]

The only downside of Velious is the 10-40ish population is going to become extremely spread out and may start to decline pretty dramatically as the average level of active players on the server increases..

I'm thinking some kind of system could be set up where people could sign up, indicate their class, level, the times they want to group during the week, and could be matched up with others and coordinate accordingly.

Basically a ghetto or do-it-yourself form of...and I hate to call it this...Dungeon Finder.

But with a sparse population, just showing up in upper guk, sol a, etc might prove unfruitful for grouping classes.


Just a thought.

Edit: as a clarification, I don't mean a system built-into EQ which is actually like Dungeon Finder - but something else which is similar to what people would have used from 1999-2001, i.e. a p99 forum channel titled "LFG," etc.

[SupaflyIRL]

The only downside of Velious is the 10-40ish population is going to become extremely spread out and may start to decline pretty dramatically as the average level of active players on the server increases..

I'm thinking some kind of system could be set up where people could sign up, indicate their class, level, the times they want to group during the week, and could be matched up with others and coordinate accordingly.

Basically a ghetto or do-it-yourself form of...and I hate to call it this...Dungeon Finder.

But with a sparse population, just showing up in upper guk, sol a, etc might prove unfruitful for grouping classes.


Just a thought.

Edit: as a clarification, I don't mean a system built-into EQ which is actually like Dungeon Finder - but something else which is similar to what people would have used from 1999-2001, i.e. a p99 forum channel titled "LFG," etc.

I think there was a LFG tool that when you flagged yourself as LFG it was global and put you into a window (this was during luclin or PoP i believe).

[aerah]

originally no giants dropped keys (or pieces of keys) to ST. it was only Zlandicar, Klandicar, Sontalak, Yelinak, and Lendiniara the Keeper.

velious is when i really hit stride raiding, and distinctly remember 12+ hour stints in West wing? of ToV camping giant-faction armor.

that and PoGrowth sucks.

I'm looking forward to this item: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=4027 -- solely because I never got it in live. and this one, because of how many hybrids hated my rogue ass for having it: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=4341

i liked the fights of velious much more than any particular gear though, AoW, Aaryonar, Vyemm, Vulak ... duoing Lodizal. these things made Velious the best.

[Fazlazen]

originally no giants dropped keys (or pieces of keys) to ST. it was only Zlandicar, Klandicar, Sontalak, Yelinak, and Lendiniara the Keeper.

velious is when i really hit stride raiding, and distinctly remember 12+ hour stints in West wing? of ToV camping giant-faction armor.

that and PoGrowth sucks.

I'm looking forward to this item: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=4027 -- solely because I never got it in live. and this one, because of how many hybrids hated my rogue ass for having it: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=4341

i liked the fights of velious much more than any particular gear though, AoW, Aaryonar, Vyemm, Vulak ... duoing Lodizal. these things made Velious the best.

The good old days of Nightbane!