Experience Penalties...

[Atmas]

I played EQ2 briefly after they launched PvP servers. I was one of the first lvl 70s on the server and got the first Ice Nova Master spell on the server. I got kind of burnt out.

I will admit visually the game was pretty awesome and it did right a lot of things that I thought the original EQ miss-stepped on.

I didn't really like the two faction environment, but that was mainly because I had played on a pvp server with 4 teams and felt that was a more interesting dynamic. I also wasn't a fan of the packs of mobs. I feel that social mobs are fine but I'm not really down with the idea of unsplittable mobs.

As far as crafting goes I would like to see a game with something between EQ/EQ2 and WoW. I don't really like WoW's super easy mode grab a bunch of this and a bunch of that and hit combine and AFK to make a sandwhich. On the flip side it also doesn't make sense to me to fail a combine so epicly that you lose all components involved.

The layout of zones is tough some games pack in too much stuff, others like Vanguard give you long stretches of desolate areas. I think the orignial EQ zones were good for when they came out, what was reasonable to achieve in the day. The later ones were just garbage. Dungeons were just repeating textures in unimaginitive right angle patterns.