Heard that velious will be the last expansion, is this true?

[Dr4z3r]

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

yet it was PoP that brought in scripted raid encounters that were more than "tank and spank"

Kinda hard to have tank-and-spank encounters in classic with 2-3 guilds all rushing the target at once. It's more like spray-and-pray.

[yaeger]

PoP definitely seemed to me to be the golden age of EQ raiding and inter-class balance.

Sony gave groups a large exp bonus so it made the game a lot more social and you saw a decline of solo classes on the server thus lots more groups and cooperation.

Keys were needed, however if I recall they had a 85% rule for raid content (only 85% of the 72 people in the raid had to be keyed, the other 15% could be brought in unkeyed to get flags or gear).

Raids were more challenging with tons more raiding content than ever. Probably more than all the previous expansions combined.

Classes seemed to fit their roles better than ever. With the buildup from Luclin the devs finally got a good balance between all the classes and clearly defined their roles.

On the downside, trivialized travel... again =/

[beaon]

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

PoP definitely seemed to me to be the golden age of EQ raiding and inter-class balance.

I would argue that you weren't in a good raiding guild in vellious. But you'd prolly say I was wrong.

As far as raid entertainment goes Vellious raid encounters were top notch. There is nothing in POP that was any more entertaining or more fun. If anything it was just more mind nullifying, boring, and headbashingly annoying.

[azeth]

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

As far as raid entertainment goes Vellious raid encounters were top notch.

Except for AoW's incredible pwning ability the bulk of these encounters were tank n spank + resists. EQ definitely stepped up the fights during raids in PoP imo.

Velious was still the best expansion, just sayin.

[Massive Marc]

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

Except for AoW's incredible pwning ability the bulk of these encounters were tank n spank + resists. EQ definitely stepped up the fights during raids in PoP imo.

Velious was still the best expansion, just sayin.

To bad you wont be playing it :/ OR WILL YOU....

[azeth]

naw i wont, bummer :\ but I still love EQ, wish i was 14 again with infinite time.

[hedbonker]

Originally Posted by Dr4z3r [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Kinda hard to have tank-and-spank encounters in classic with 2-3 guilds all rushing the target at once. It's more like spray-and-pray.

Bind rush 4tw!

[moklianne]

I'd like to see up to PoP personally. The only caveat would be the removal of PoK books from all except a handfull of zones. Easy travel and easily getting your corpse back really destroyed the game.

I loved Velious the most, but also enjoyed Luclin and PoP. Expansions after that were pretty lackluster.

[eqravenprince]

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

easily getting your corpse back really destroyed the game.

How does easily getting your corpse back destroy the game? Respawning without equipment has always been a pain point with me. There is absolutely nothing fun about retrieving a corpse.

[Darian]

No cats on my moon brah