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12-17-2014, 02:37 PM
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People here for classic experience...?
If you came to p1999 looking for a classic experience, are you playing blue or red? Curious because I can't even enjoy blue now that I went to red, not because I wanted to be red exactly, pvp is rough in EQ, but the fact of the matter is it is infinitely more classic than blue where the world has grown stagnant in a 3yr old kunark economy with a top heavy population.
Anyone care to share thoughts or expand? I came for classic and stayed for red. I spent a few days ECQuesting blue and could twink heavily any character I want. Pixel heavy on blue but not classic to me at all... and all of the excess twinking discourages grouping and leveing. Everyone seems to only PL or twink to hell and solo mostly or duo with a friend. Red actually has me finding and making more friends in level range as I level, and having a genuine experience with people from rags to riches, thanks to XP mod for group bonus. I was very surprised to have an easier time getting grinding partners on red where they have the option to kill me instead of group with me, but 90% or more are down to party up and clean house. Who here has experience with both and can share? Not meant to bash blue at all, it's a very fun experience, but blue reminds me of luclin era EQ'ing, sans bazaar, beastlords, and vah'shir/content. Economy and play wise, it feels more luclin-ey to me, while red feels pure classic. Thanks to developers for great options both ways though, really cool to have my blue twinks and easy money and gear, and red earned and enjoyed classic experience! | ||
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12-17-2014, 02:42 PM
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Suggestion: Take this thread and 10 pounds of sand and shove it where the sun don't shine, er, move it to the red forum for some kneejerk +1'ing. Also, deceptive title for 9857th tiresome "come to red" thread is bad and you should feel bad about yourself for having posted it.
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12-17-2014, 02:44 PM
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12-17-2014, 02:45 PM
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Agree with most of that it has to be said. I still play both. I hate EC, chardok AOE, people locking down a camp in CoM solo/duo while everyone else has run out of mobs and is competing and getting mad trying to steal from others.
I leveled a wizard on red in starter robe til 35ish, and then an oracle robe to 51 with very little else... empty slots everywhere etc. Not saying that in itself is "classic" but the level of twinking on blue has trivialized the content for wherever you end up grouping. The people who whine about the red XP rate probably have had a character PL'ed or Chardok AOE'd on blue, so I never see the argument there...and red pals need to stick together anyway and the XP bonus helps people interact [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Red isn't a terrible place, but funny isn't it how often people say "gear me and I'll play there"? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Get back to the roots of EQ, leveling with a rusty weapon or your starter robe. Just consider it when you're bored or thinking of making your 4th-10th blue alt. It's a new challenge [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | ||
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12-17-2014, 02:47 PM
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12-17-2014, 02:57 PM
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I am sorry if you don't agree, but this feedback was for BOTH servers regarding classic experience. Your experience on either server may vary, as may your classic experience. Luckily, dealing with pricks is totally classic so my feathers aren't ruffled at all by your completely useless and rude post. All part of the experience. Happy hunting to all! | |||
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12-17-2014, 02:58 PM
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you will never have a classic experience. Part of EQ's fun was exploration. People who spent years playing know( or know how to look up) right where everything is and how to solo it or what not.
Mental maps are still engrained in people, so travel is easier than when you were exploring the world. The fun you remember is not knowing anything. You cannot get that back. the closest p99 staff could get to this is making their own quests, and not using sony's. With this they could make every zone relevant, by forcing travel and scattering quest pieces everywhere. But thats not classic. | ||
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12-17-2014, 03:02 PM
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I disagree, within a month or two of playing and exploring if that's your intent, you know most of it anyways, most peoples' classic experience to me is not joining and playing p99 from LAUNCH DAY on.... so if you join in 6+ months or a year out, or say around kunark launch, Kunark classic is more my idea of what myself and most others experienced truly. How many people played end game content prekunark at launch would you imagine? 5% or less of the population? I just can't imagine it being much more than that. So for 95% of players, their classic experience probably mirrors mine.
Also being much older, most of us play a lot better now and don't do as much stupid stuff. Some of it is info gained, but a lot if not most is info available through the in game social network in classic as well. Just now instead of asking a question and getting 10 dick responses to 1 useful one, you can p99wiki or google something and avoid the rude people lol | ||
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