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Originally Posted by sox7d
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@people who have played in the last 6 months.
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I played it about 6 months ago maybe. I exploited the free heroic level 85 for two characters. If it's any indication how successful that was, I enjoyed hte game leveling them from 1 to 70, but quit fairly quickly after 85. Of course, I had been playing a while, so was probably burnt out. However, I did have a faint sinking feeling skipping past the 15 levels. Tragically, I had a lot of nostalgia for 70-85. Still, there're 15 more and much more content I haven't seen, so I think the reason I left was burnout. Keep in mind I've played this game off/on since 1999, so I'm very familiar with "burnout". Burnout happens to me usually after about 2 months.
What's the game like? Umm, different than p1999! One of the things which I think should be brought up is that live is just as grindy as it has ever been, despite it having in-game maps, dozens of other addon windows, no coin weight, items not stored on corpse, summoning corpse to GL, auto-mercenary to play with you, instances, spreadsheet items/classes and so on. I mean, many will tell you live is superior to classic for these reasons and others, but let me tell you, it's still grindy, especially at hte upper levels where you start really feeling it.
And another thing unstated, I hate the new item window! The older one, up through SOD or so, was better. And all of the windows and hotkeys very much started to feel bloated to me.
I want to say EQ lacks a lot of polish compared to other games. The feeling I get is they grabbed all of hte talent and moved htem to other departments - EQ Next, Landmark, PS2, H1Z1, EQ2, etc... Expansions seem shallow from my vantage point.
It all reads bad, but to put it straight, you should try Live if you haven't. Instead of getting opinions from people like myself which may not apply to you, go try it and see for yourself. And to get the full flavor of hte game you should subscribe, although it's more important 80+ than pre-80 because I think you only really notice when special augs and higher tier items aren't wearable. And another thing is you can't have the tier 5 mercenary. Probably other things too.
Don't be afraid to Box. Nowadays, for a midlevel player, boxing opens up more of the game. And even though there're still some levelling players, it won't always be easy to find groups.