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Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod
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It was a fuckin beast. Notice how none of these nerds can defend Velious?
Literally nobody has been able to mount a good pro-Velious rebuttal. I always smash nerds on it and send them packing.
Sadre even self-destructed over it and now hes riding w/ BDA on Phinigel.
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Luclin has dope raiding and some of the AAs are cool (ranger actually becomes a class cool), but it also came with cats on the moon, gay models, etc. It's the first expansion that was kind of a mixed shit sandwich instead of just being str8 content. Like u can say things about Velious raiding and how it was kinda a barebones expansion in some regards, but still those shortfalls are much less of a big deal to me than adding in shit that is gay and destroys game culture, like the Bazaar (I think that was patched in closer to PoP though? but it's still something intended to be in Luclin).
This is the same problem PoP has to a greater degree -- a good amount of dank content but slaughters the game's culture by adding PoK. Repudiation of initial design philosophy. You are now playing a different game.
There is also the fact that every subsequent expansion was destined to suffer further mudflation. On a fundamental level these games have limited lifespans, can only suffer so many expansions before trash like PoK becomes necessary design elements.
Can't mount a pro-Velious argument because I'm not really that big a fan, but still, however weak or strong it was, Velious doesn't add anything to the game that is a for-the-worse direct contradiction of EQ's original design philosophy. In that sense it does constitute the "golden age" classical era of EQ in that it's the maximum span of content EQ had before travel and social interaction began to be modulated by automated systems.
EQMac was more fun than p99 tho so maybe PoP really is the tippie.