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Just came back after about 10 years away. I played original from launch through luclin - luclin ruined it so I left.

That being said its time to get back on the horse. THANK YOU FOR HAVING THIS GAME BACK IN ITS ORIGINAL STATE!!!

Ok down to brass tacks. I know many of you are already max level etc, I will be starting up a group for people starting from lvl 1. Please let me know if you are interested, my brother and I (he will be playing too) have a lot of experience in the leveling realm of things from playing on discord for a bit.

Plan of attack - likely all will need to get to 8-12 on their own or in pairings, Orc Hill is fantastic and a great memory.

Then we will meet up in CB and wreck shop there for some time, yes I know its crowded - but this is a social game and that makes it so much more fun.

(I personnaly want to hit up Oasis at some time but who knows)

We will make our way to Orc Highway and then up through HK.

After which we have all sorts of options.

These are all up for change but I think its a fairly good plan. When I am on I will keep an active Skype room up so we can all have a bit more fun.

PS i fully intend to do some of the classic quests.

Thanks, let me know if interested or if other ideas?

-Aerar

If you guys would like to add a bard to that roster I have a level 5 bard I would love to play, hmu.

Discord was fun, but everyone was a caster.

I'd recommend upper guk scryer and UG zone line late teens and 20s if you have a good group.

Dolic

Discord was not fun ;P

That's just like...your opinion, man.

I enjoyed Luclin, and people here will all change their tune when we get to the end of the Velious patches :p

Welcome back anyway - would you rather we were at the Velious expansion or are you glad that it's still due in the future? :)

Kunark expanded the world and added a ton of good dungeons, with really no downsides.
Velious gave the raid game some sorely needed depth and separation, and had a very deep and engaging faction system. As an enchanter I hated it for the stupidly overtuned MR on the mobs, though.
Luclin introduced the terrible graphical upgrades and dumb horses. SOE also designed all the mobs with far too much HP and not enough damage, so the game slowed down way too much. Vex Thal was a shithouse, but some of the other raids (Ssra especially) were admittedly great, and AAs reinvigorated the grouping scene.
PoP returned to a high DPS, low HP model which made everything feel more dangerous again, and the raid progression was fantastic when it was finally fixed. There was a distinct lack of engaging group dungeons, though. Everything felt like an outdoor zone.

Luclin was clearly the weakest of the first 4 expansions, but it had its moments.

Let's not discuss GoD.

Is it safe to assume that Luclin and PoP will probably never happen on this server? I started mid Luclin so none of those things really bothered me that everyone else experienced and I tended to enjoy the Bazaar and AAs but as of right now it doesn't bother me they aren't in the game.

There have been mutterings about bringing in some AA-like abilities without AA grinding, and possibly adding entrances to some of the PoP zones without adding PoK...

But these are just musings from the staff (Rogean) about a very malleable post-Velious future, which I personally hope is a very long way off yet. (Not Velious, the post-Velious part).

I want the slavering maws of the content-starved exclusionists to get stuffed full and be on their way.

Luclin99 confirmed, launches January 2nd.

Cool, what year?