Can't Decide, Live or P99

[Furniture]

I recently tried live again with a gold account and stopped pretty quickly. I had two main issues which I think if they didnt exist, would make live pretty awesome.

1) The mercenaries being so overpowered its what kills it for me. They give you tank mercenaries for very cheap (even free up to level 12 or so) that can tank and solo any mob up to like 5-6 levels of you because he has insane hp/regen/gear/stats. This is done to boost characters to level 60 asap to catch up on content from some of the newer expansions that they want you to play and to be able to catch up to friends/guildmates, trivializing a massive amount of old content. Since you only get one merc out at a time I think it would be a pretty good system as long as the mercenary was equal to a player. They should replace generic archetype mercenaries with mercenaries you can hire of all the classes with the same stats as players.

2) Defiant gear also further trivializes all old content 1-60. This gear drops off every mob in the game and for a mere 5 bucks you can buy this armor in a full set your your level range from the eq live marketplace thats shoved down your throat every three seconds. Not that you have to even have a full set, the defiant gear is extremely powerful, better stats anything for several expansions, plus you have your godlike tank merc to do everything for you.


If they released a server with just these two things removed, then i'd love to play it. It would be the ultimate casual eq experience.