why do we still have soul fires being broadcasted?

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We have all lost our virginity long ago. Its just a game now. A old game at that, that was very special at one time.

If you have never played EQ before in your life this server is pretty cool. But if you have played it for years and years like I have this server is really not classic.

i'm hitting that boredom wall with the box because of your points. the nostalgia wore off after a couple of months when i started, but now it's just me running around kunark zones on my shaman just because i can run around the zones. it's like a silent goodbye (depressing, realistic epiphany).

[Nirgon]

If you think boxing was a small part of the population in classic-Velious, the # of people who knew about item recharging was even smaller.

Remove item recharging for a more classic experience. Basically no one knew of it and it was quickly fixed after becoming wide spread.

Or allow boxing :P... both are detrimental to the experience and both were possible at the time.

Inb4 mad bluebies (I see you) tryna get ezmode pixels. Remove duck casting from blue too.

8)

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I turned one in a few days ago

I got about 40 HAIL tells, and about 10 tells from lowly paladins asking why a warrior would do the quest

I couldn't bring it upon myself to explain to all them what they're used for..

so young, so naive.. it's beautiful, really

This is mutha fuckin claaaaasic Eq right here. This is why I believe it should remain in.

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But if you have played it for years and years like I have this server is really not classic.

The server is classic. The players are not.

[zanderklocke]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The server is classic. The players are not.

^ Level 1 cleric with Donal's BP and Cleric Epic. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tecmos Deception]

Hey, I didn't have epic until 11 or donals until like 43! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[zanderklocke]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hey, I didn't have epic until 11 or donals until like 43! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNjysERQ4Oo

My mistake, Jacobim.

[Clark]

Originally Posted by Bboboo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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lol

[Ikonoclastia]

Originally Posted by Byrjun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not long, depending on your class. It's a great utility item, especially for classes like shamans and enchanters. Those classes are known to be kinda useless for the majority of raids, so it's nice that they can solo this quest for a bit of utility. A shaman healing for 500 isn't going to do shit on a mob like Hoshkar, trust me.

Honestly, the raid atmosphere here balances it a bit. It's not like you can leave VP to go turn in another SoulFire, so you have a max of 5 clicks for a weekend.

And there's no rogue CH chain. The fights where SoulFire is useful (like Hoshkar and Nexona) are too hectic for a rogue to casually click tanks and stuff to see if they could use a CH. It's really just the job of bench classes like shaman, and even then most don't even bother with the quest.

And just because you didn't know about SoulFire on live doesn't mean that people didn't use them. Can't even begin to count how many bugs/exploits were discussed daily in the crucible, stuff that will never exist here. P99 is much more hardcore, but at the same time it's a lot more fair than live ever was.

If you're a good guild / raid leader and your focus is on progression then you won't be using your soulfire equipped members like clerics imo.

You'll have regular raid, with usual clerics (gotta have them for buffs anyway) but when things do go to shit which should be rarely in Kunark, you have lots of instant get of jail free (horrible corpserun) cards.

That's fair enough.

However,

On live between the time that EQ classic launched and Soulfires got nerfed there was a maximum (disregarding resets) 2000 soul fires on the server (2 years at 3 per day).

On P1999 between launch and now (assuming Luclin will never been implemented) there could be 6480 soulfires that have been created.

On P1999 between now and when ever the server is shut down there is a potential for as many soulfires as you like.

On Live you couldn't realistically own 80 accounts, on here you can, it would be have been very unlikely to have 80 with soulfires, not so much here if your thinking ahead to Velious.

What this means is good guild leaders / raid leaders would be silly not to stock up on soulfires prior to the release of Velious (Not classic) (depending on the mob being hit, a soulfire is as good as half to a whole cleric) it also means all the hard work and effort going into Velious is going to be trivialized by armies of soulfire wielding players (not classic) and that wiping on the new Velious content should be rare (not classic).

So I think its something that the developers should think about carefully. Do they have an item that can cause the server to veer right off the classic track and have all the content on farm rather than progression in a matter of weeks for the sake of keeping that one item classic.

Or do they change that one item which was changed 2 years after release (5 or 6 on this server now), though shortly after Luclin rather than prior to Velious to avoid all the above?

[Lagaidh]

Originally Posted by Ahldagor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

just because i can run around the zones. it's like a silent goodbye (depressing, realistic epiphany).

I remember this moment on Live.

I'd been friends for years with a playing married couple. They had played in the early days and remembered the things of original EQ, the things that bring players here. Me and the husband were both tunnel rats and the real players. His wife, and mine were ancillary, but good support players.

I'd been out of the loop for a while with them. Joined a hardcore raid guild and all that. I burned out and hadn't played in a long time when I began to log in again.

I happened to see the wife one day in PoK, and I hadn't seen her or the husband in nearly a year. We talked in /t for a while and I asked where Gradey was (one of her husband's toons). That's when she'd told me they had suffered an armed break in. They shot him. He had died.

We chatted a while longer and I told her, "Let's go to EC and fire off an /auc for Gradey." We went over. East Commonlands had two players in it: us. We went over to the tunnel. EC had been revamped and it no longer looked the same. I had some item I intended to bazaar, and for old time's sake, I typed up an /auc line and repeated it a few times as we chatted and remembered.

I never felt so lonely in a virtual world before or since. I spent so much time in the tunnel, bursting with player life... and now it was dead and cold like my friend. It was the oddest fucking feeling...

A slow, sad goodbye.

(MAN was I happy when I found p99. I need to hit the tunnel!)