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Originally Posted by juicedsixfo
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Do you generally cherish things you are FORCED to do?
I agree with you in principal but the exp rate is just horrendous. It literally takes 20 hours of playing time to get level 6. As with most of us here, if I'm coming back to play en emulated version of game I used to love; it won't be to grind again. You'd think since the "purpose" of Red99 is PvP, that it would be possible for it to have an exp rate increase – not godlike, but just a bump. I really think people are underestimating how bad it is, and pair that with classic hp/mana regen.
I'd suggest to anyone who is curious to start up a guy on p1999 and see how awesome it is being level 5 for six hours.
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I certainly cherished everything I earned in original EQ, down to every last peice of cloth armor, derv ring, sister belt etc. Which was a side effect of slow xp rate. The concept of EQ was to socialize and work together. PVP was an added dimension to that original vision, it wasn't meant to overthrow and take away from it.
Getting to level 6 does not take 20 hours. Yes, the grind is slow, but that's the point of trying to enjoy yourself at every level. There is a common misconception that PVP can only be enjoyable at level 50 and it's blatantly false. If you suffer from that misconception, I stand by the argument that you never knew "classic PVP".
Being level 8 in crushbone, grinding xp with a group of red pals on trainer hill and fending off the constant threat of other groups trying to take your shiny brass shield camp is just as much fun to me as any pvp at level 50. What's different? You have different spells to cast? There are more trains and griefing? You are fighting over different pixels? PVP is PVP no matter the level.
Some people choose to stop at level 20 and log on only to hunt people. Some people choose to continue grinding and work through the game to reach 50 for PVP and raids. The beauty of a classic server is it gives people those choices. Having LOLEZ3timesXP-PVPSERVER only takes away from all of the content prior to 50 and forces everyone to zerg to the end for the same old shit that we've experienced on every fail red box to grace the list.