Velious has loads of new gear that ramps up logically and forms a sort of pre-requisite acquisition tunnel to higher content, a fantastic setting and story/lore, and serious raid targets. There are meaningful faction choices (giants or dwarves) which directly affect available gear/items/encounters, and it's really a guild competition paradise. It contains possibly the most epic quest ever implemented - the Coldain Ring War - and just so many fantastic areas it's impossible to describe. You have to play it. I started EQ right at the beginning of Velious and it took me a long time just to get high enough level to visit it, let alone raid there. It's the best MMO expansion I've ever played through (and no doubt there is a bit of nostagia attached to that, but not much). If you like classic EQ as it is on p99 now, you'll love it. If you don't really, you probably won't.
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06-24-2013, 07:30 PM
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