Green99 pro strats and early game goals

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

Well I beg to differ, gear in classic and fear/hate were regularlly raided during kunark for end game players, if you look at warrior bis in kunark at leastg 3 items are pre kunark, while if you look at bis warrior velious 0 are. And that's an almost unfair take because they wear pure AC and that is the one stat kunark bumped with class armor, so thats with a full set of colbot, if you want stats, you're going to be wearing 3-5 more peaces of classic blazing ro or hate armor. I mean just look at the monk linked above, its wearing like 90% classic gearz.

This may be true, though I don't think warriors from Kunark to Velious are the best example. Bosses in velious hit unbelievably hard, and they needed a huge gear boost to even be able to survive a round of AoW or Vyemm, or even a flurry drake.

I also dont think comparing BiS to BiS is really fair. In PoP the lower tier Tranquility armors would be near BiS in previous expansions. A character in "damn good" Kunark gear wasn't swapping out for Thurg gear.

My point wasn't that expansions don't inflate gear, my point was that PoP inflated it so much that it made everything before it obsolete, and that this started a brutal trend that has harmed MMOs ever since.

I watched it happen on Agnarr. Vex Thal gear getting swapped out for drops from low ass planes bosses, and by PoTime literally no one wearing a stitch from any previous expansion with the one exception of the Aten Ha Ra neck.

One example, though this is an edit so I dont have time to find the link, was a 2h axe ... something or other Windblade, that dropped from trash in a low level plane, that was as good as NToV and Vex Thal 2 handers. Or the Cord Hilted Spike Driver, every bit as good as a Blade of Carnage, but it dropped from a miniboss in Plane of Innovation.


Found it, it's just Windblade
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=16695

Why ever go back to Velious or Luclin when XP trash drops this shit?