Shadows of Luclin server

[Daywolf]

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

teleport spells are part of why people make druids and wizards

1. strong utility spells like ports makes the player feel needed and wanted
2. poor players use it to make money
3. as an old player, you may have already traveled the world, but newer players havent. Instant and free pok books takes away all traveling and everything that comes with it (exploring an unkown zone, coming across a rare mob, running into a sand giant etc)

How would you like it if the game took a major part of your class design and just gave it to everyone for free? Maybe we should have slow wands on a vendor in every city, because getting a shaman to do it for me is too much of a hassle.

PoK made the game feel cheaper and began the long and shit-strewn walk down the path of making the game easier. Fuck PoK. Fuck Luclin.

Yeah pretty much, though not why all play them. Personally, I don't really care for porting people around. Though I really do like having the ability to leave an overpopulated area for a better one at the time, even though my character may not be as good at certain aspects of combat than say a shammy or necro but w/o the ability to port. It's just a trade-off.

Part of the big problem with more modern EQ is it started all going homogeneous. It became more casual and with the blurred definitions of classes. Yeah with porting, but then with C from Enc's but to rather just get that super buff (forget the name now) that lasts a long time. Then heck, why not those followers too? I left live before then and went to the emu but they give heals etc. Then you could buy haste off a vendor, or C or whatever.

It was a gradual slide, PoK books were just a part of it all. As long as it's someone else getting screwed than it's ok. But eventually everyone gets screwed.