Exploring

[purpherp]

It was always my idea to make a guild or join a guild that was dedicated to bringing together a group of people that all had an interest in exploring. It seems like a lot of zones just get passed by as they are out of the way or there is not enough people to find a group. Is there a community of people on this server who would be down to explore the zones that we never got to experience on live?
I am not talking about a hardcore leveling guild but rather forming the guild as to have a hub to form these exploration groups. Maybe for instance one zone per week will be chosen or a few hours on certain nights will be on the agenda, with willing members signing up and forming groups beforehand. I am not looking to farm the zones where only the best equipment drops or where experience is earned easiest. It would be about experiencing the zones at the levels they were designed for.
It seems like this server would be a great chance to experience the places we never got to visit. What is everyones thoughts on this? Sound like a good idea?

[Flunklesnarkin]

I'd be down to try something like that out.. I don't think it would feel a lot like exploring though if it was on P99. (so much twink gear and lots of the zones are surprisingly inhabited)


might work best if we went to one of them isolated no population servers with like 5 or 6 people and tried to take on norrath with just a band of adventurers.

[Yanomamo]

There are a bunch of zones that almost never have any people. Ones that i can think of off the top of my head are...Cazic Thule and Najena. I personally never XP'd in SolA on live or on here, and from what i hear it's a great zone. I have a 24 monk and would totally be down for some adventures. Send me a tell on Bleugrass or Yano if you are around that level.

[Flunklesnarkin]

I spent quite a bit of time in Najena and there are usually a group or two there or a few people duoing / soloing


now a really empty zone that i've seen (one of the few) is gorge of king xorbb or beholder's maze w/e you want to call it.

[fischsemmel]

I'd be down to try something like that out.. I don't think it would feel a lot like exploring though if it was on P99. (so much twink gear and lots of the zones are surprisingly inhabited)

He didn't exactly specify that he wanted to explore virgin lands with untwinked characters.

I know that I've always had fun exploring places in EQ, even on live after the glory years of the game. Sure, people have done it before. And no, I wasn't always doing it with untwinked characters. But I had never been to those places (or at least never paid close attention to them), and the depths of befallen or paw or whatever are hardly a cakewalk even for a group of superdupertwinks, assuming they're the right level for the dungeon.

There's certainly plenty of places that are USUALLY untouched that would be fun to poke around in. Cb, bb, kurns, unrest, uguk, sola, mm, lguk, solb, com, kc, seb... those dungeons are all pretty busy most of the day, especially at primetime. But all of the rest of them tend to be empty most of the time (kerra, befallen, najena, runnyeye, paw, ct, dalnir, permafrost, kaesora, nurga, droga, mighta missed a couple), and when they aren't empty it will be 1 group, or someone getting pleveled, etc., not multiple full groups.

If you really want to go all out, there are a million little corners of outdoor zones that no one ever goes to that are fun to see, have little settlements of NPCs in them, might have a few quests you can find, might have a named mob tucked away here or there, etc.

[Flunklesnarkin]

I suppose you are right.. it is cool to roam around and see stuff..


but I always thought of exploring as dangerous.. and the more dangerous it is.. the more fun it is... hence the no twink etc

[purpherp]

the whole idea isnt to find new content but to experience the content that i cant on my own. i have a lvl 13 bard right now and would love to check out clan runneye, befallen, etc.. for it to work though it would require people from different classes and a bunch of people around the same level group. it would be cool to have enough people to have mini-events where for a few days we had a group in najena and a group in runneye, etc.. with enough people it could be as casual for each individual as wanted.

[Hitchens]

Splitpaw Lair was one of my favorite dungeons. Shame no one goes there.

[Flunklesnarkin]

ahh like low level raids


I know velious had some stuff like that.


Like that muglwump dude in the warrens


had a blast raiding him low level xD


can't really think of any low level raid content per say but for sure be some stuff you could go after with a low level group.


najena would be good like mentioned before if you trying for a challenge but maybe not necessarily isolated gameplay.

[Danyelle]

City raiding is possibly the most exciting thing i've done on EQ with guildies in the 40s-50s. Could try that? :P

EDIT: Actually scratch that i just remembered you said Low Level.

[purpherp]

Splitpaw Lair was one of my favorite dungeons. Shame no one goes there.

this would be the whole point of the guild. we could get a group or two to visit splitpaw for a few days as an example. but we wouldnt be powerleveled through it, maybe ported around the world by a high level member but thats about it.

it has nothing to do with only low level content either i just mentioned the zones that are around my level. it would just be basically a hub of people of all levels who were down to explore. there is no level restriction or preference, just anyone who likes to explore and group. but the content that wed be exploring would have to be appropriate to our levels, it would be stupid to send a group of lvl 50s to befallen.

[Galanteer]

Droga, Nurga, Dalnir, --even on live at Kunark release it was hard to get groups for these places (Dalnir usually had some monks hanging about).

Droga became one of my favourites.

[Elements]

I'm down to join you on some of these adventures. Send me a pm. Have multiple alts 20-40.

[Within99]

I have mixed feelings about this, yea seems cool to explore.
Also seems like it would be hard considering travel, lots o' time invested.
That, and I personally have a KOS everywhere main.
Sandwich.

[szechuansteve]

Some of my fondest EQ memories were forming groups for dungeons that weren't very popular. Kaesora, Dalnir, Najena, Splitpaw... I'd definitely be down for an exploration guild on an alt.

[Kope]

This sounds like a great fun idea. I'm always trying to drag groups to dungeons but people enjoy the fast easy exp. I'm working on an iksar SK alt atm and would love to just hang out and do the more obtuse dungeons.

[Servellious]

I'm currently trying to put together a dungeon crawl group as well. A necro and myself have been tearing up najena got the second key so far. Message kagok anytime I'm down to crawl

[Servellious]

Ps only problem is I play mainly at night but I am down for anything besides outdoor boring grinding

[Bohab]

Cazic was pretty popular on my old live server even post Kunark... here it's empty

[purpherp]

well like i said guys i only have a lvl 13 bard right now. maybe we can use this thread to get something going. maybe we can setup a najena group soon, what is best suited for there, to make it through the zone.

[Lexter]

I'm interested ..

Back on Live I would always join up with guilds that went off the beaten path and avoided hot zones. In those days and so true now, it seems that players just want to hit max level asap and skip the majority of content in the process. To each their own I guess.

[CBG]

12 Monk here, count me in

[Kedaien]

I'd like to adventure through all these zones too, most of the quiet ones listed I've never been in. Kedaien is my 25 Druid main, but I've been looking to make some more alts and could fill in a gap. Send me a PM once you get some stuff set down.

[Deecay]

I'd be down as well, Litehouse is my main, only a level 12 cleric, but I suffer from Alt-ism so wouldn't mind starting out from scratch if we could get a low-level, leveling group going.

[Ikonoclastia]

sounds cool, i'll join, I've been mapping out spawn points n patrol paths in between farming green spiders for silks. I'm in no rush to level :)

[blakedubois]

I'm game for this as well. I have an 11 shaman from a while back and I recently came back and made a druid :). This guild sounds very fun though

[purpherp]

glad to see some interested people :) . So I am going to create the guild this weekend called Explorers of Norrath. Pretty much any level and classes are free to join as the more we can get the smoother our journeys will be. It is looking like the majority of us so far will be around lvl 13, so please try to get the word out in crushbone, oasis, etc. to get some more members. If there is a higher level player who would like to try to lead groups of their level let me know and maybe I can make you an officer or something along those lines to organize some higher level runs. Send me a tell in-game anyone my bards name is Hooka.

Just to make it clear this is not going to be a hardcore and strict guild. I think we will probably run into our fair share of wipes and miscommunications especially in area we haven't been to and at the start-up. I don't want people being pricks to each other, just try to relax and enjoy it. That being said you must be good at your class and as a part of a group. I want this to workout.

Thanks, send me a tell guys the guild should be up by Saturday. Feel free to bring any alts you have as ports and invisiblity will be very helpful with some of these zones. Hit me up, Hooka.

[Haymaker]

Just started out but i'd be happy to join. sounds like a lot of fun

[purpherp]

I need everyone who was interested to either post character names or send Hooka a tell.

[Galanteer]

Galanteer 33 enchanter, casual player, likes out of the way dungeons.


edit in --i guess this should be in guild discussion.

[purpherp]

So just an update. The guild has been made and I am in the process of inviting peoople now. Have about 10 so far and more who have yet to come find me for the invite. Im in the Oasis of Marr right now and I am going to have an officer around crushbone sending invites. Send Hooka a message anyone whos interested, hopefully we can go to our first zone in a few days!

[sbvera13]

Color me interested. Would love to see the depths of the more out of the way dungeons, since I never saw a lot of them even back on live. "main" is lvl 14 druid Rhysa.

[purpherp]

So, we have maybe 30 members now, most of us between level 13-20. We sent a group to Kurns last night to pick up some members and grind for the club and plan on going to either Najena or Runnyeye in a couple days. So if anyone is interested to check out the guild send Hooka a tell.