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Originally Posted by Orruar
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Pretty much this right here. People bemoan the ease of today's MMOs, but are frightened of the more grindy era of EQ. Velious is actually one of the expansions that requires the least effort. There are no new levels to obtain, and you can gear up a guild quite easily from tov trash. Even faction grinding really just takes the form of tagging the boss on a few kills, which you can do regardless of who is killing the mob. You could say that it takes some effort to gear people up to handle the tougher mobs of the expansion, but I'll go ahead and make the bold prediction that no guilds will take the "right" path of gearing up 30-40 solid raiders to then challenge tormax/aow/ntov. Instead they'll be zerging around with 60-80 people, some of whom may have the best gear, but not many.
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Maybe I played a different version of Velious somehow but there is no way you could get the faction required for quest turn-ins by "tagging the boss on a few kills"; that's an outrageous statement (look up the definition of 'a few' if required). When I needed to turn in the Dain's head to Tormax I killed a zillions dwarfs outside Thurgadin in addition to tagging and killing numerous bosses to get to the required Ally. It was a grind for sure.
I would agree Luclin took more effort and I liked the expansion but Velious wasn't ez-mode either.