zone experience modifiers

[mgellan]

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

I personally don't even look at ZEM. For me it's about exploring. Also, all of these zones have items that drop. It's fun to see what drops and what you can sell. If you want to enjoy yourself, don't go to the same place all the time to get the best zem. Some things are best left alone. And some of the places that don't have high zem have quests attached to them. Designers kept all of this in mind when they made zones. It's about balance.

Hear hear. If you're on the server to grind and hit 50 in the minimal time, to me you're on the wrong server. Head over to another emu server and you can grind to 75, and have open access to lots more content! The Classic experience to me should be all about experiencing the content, not finding the best zone to grind in to 50 then bitch about not having access to end game encounters because uber_guild_000 has them all down within 15m of the spawn...

Regards,
Mg

[stormlord]

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

Hear hear. If you're on the server to grind and hit 50 in the minimal time, to me you're on the wrong server. Head over to another emu server and you can grind to 75, and have open access to lots more content! The Classic experience to me should be all about experiencing the content, not finding the best zone to grind in to 50 then bitch about not having access to end game encounters because uber_guild_000 has them all down within 15m of the spawn...

Regards,
Mg

Right. My point is if you have all the answers in front of you, then all this game is is 1 to 50 and group gear to raid gear. EVERYTHING becomes a grind once you have all the answers. The enjoyment is completely exterminated in the process. If you like to grind, i guess, and live to do it, then maybe you would enjoy it.

Aside from that, looking at these ZEM to guide you is misleading. As I said in the first post, the designers took everything into account when they assigned EM to zones. Just because a zone has a lower ZEM does not make it any worse. They had to balance EM with other factors. There're many items that drop that would be worth selling or wearing. There're quests to do. There's lore to learn. There's new content to wonder at. Now that I think of it, this is misleading in the same way it's to think that any single class is the best class.

And even if it were true that a particular zone is the best zone, it doesn't matter much if you already know everything there is to know about that zone. Then it's meaningless. Once you know everything about it, there're no surprises and there's nothing to wonder about. At that point, it's just a grind. There's no better way to kill a game, or to kill your enjoyment of it, then to learn everything too soon by reading walk-throughs.

So I am willingly ignorant, but I roleplay a character trying to learn, within the constraints of norrath. Remember, that phrase? You're in our world now. I take that phrase to heart. It's like when I read a book. I don't want to know the ending. I don't want to know what happens to the characters. I wouldn't want to read it if i already knew. The joy is that I don't know what's going to happen. I exist in that book when I read it.

That's what's so different about my time here at p99. On the live servers, I mostly played allahkazam and eqtraders.com and the guild website and guild chat and quest printouts and task windows (basically walk-throughs) and eqplayers.com and 40+ hotkeys and the map window wherever i went and the same instance over and over again and etc. I didn't really play the game. How did my time at live eq get so bad. It's like there was a big obstacle blocking me from the game, and on p99 it was removed and it's refreshing.