After Velious

[setver]

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

* Do not make Velious end game content obsolete
* Create custom AAs and implement them in a different way

If the server does keep progressing, velious would be obsoleted. Not quickly I'm sure. Each raid progression/encounter/level needs to be harder than the previous and have better rewards, even if its 5-10hp/mana or couple ac etc. Even on live, some guilds would raid 1-2 expansions before for gear for this reason alone, it might have not have been the BEST, but it was still close enough. That and 72 ppl would raid a boss and get 3-4 items lol.


On AA's, I wouldn't mind if you started some on velious personally. Kunark raises the cap to 60, so I wouldn't mind velious doing some aas, even if its just the normal +2 to stats, tradeskills, food/water lasting longer.. resists. You could look at the general/archtype and chose the ones that you guys felt weren't too strong. I mean like.. Innate Lung Capacity
Increases your lung capacity by 10%, 25%, and 50%. but probably not Combat Stability
Increases your melee damage mitigation by 2%, 5%, and 10%. Each subsequent expansion slightly raising the bars, but not exponentially.

[girth]

* Implement planar access in a similiar fashion to Hate, Fear and Sky

Does that mean like PoP zones that you can go to from old world? That would be AMAZING, but it would end Velious' reign as top content.

It would be awesome though, you could come up with hard to reach places for the zone in's kind of like plane of mischief. Not to mention PoP raiding was the shit, its just everything else about it that sucked - PoK and such.

[Phallax]

Luclin wouldnt hurt. It brought a new element to the game and didnt destroy it. IMO some of the best raiding, altho millions of HPs was in luclin/PoP. Maybe not include Nexus scions so finding a port to luclin back and forth isnt as trivial.

For PoP dont add books, and dont add all the zones could do stuff like.

*Level 46+ required.
*All items are NO DROP
*PoTranq doesnt exist.
*Access to PoEarth the the gate at the bottom of the Hole behind Yael.
*Access to PoWater in Kedge in Phinny's room.
*Access to PoFire somewhere in Burning Woods.
*Access to PoAir in Velks Lab.

The possibilites are endless with an active Dev team that cares about what the players want and wont ruin the game, unlike Verant/Sony did.

[Omnimorph]

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

Luclin wouldnt hurt. It brought a new element to the game and didnt destroy it. IMO some of the best raiding, altho millions of HPs was in luclin/PoP. Maybe not include Nexus scions so finding a port to luclin back and forth isnt as trivial.

For PoP dont add books, and dont add all the zones could do stuff like.

*Level 46+ required.
*All items are NO DROP
*PoTranq doesnt exist.
*Access to PoEarth the the gate at the bottom of the Hole behind Yael.
*Access to PoWater in Kedge in Phinny's room.
*Access to PoFire somewhere in Burning Woods.
*Access to PoAir in Velks Lab.

The possibilites are endless with an active Dev team that cares about what the players want and wont ruin the game, unlike Verant/Sony did.

Haha, i like some of this. But PoAir should be a portal on island 1.5 in PoSky :3

PoFire could be portal from temple of sol ro.

water in kedge works well, Earth at bottom of the hole behind a mob that DT's? not too keen on that, but ... hole is a good choice.

Depends how the server pans out over the next few expansions i suppose.

[Scrubby McGee]

I'd like to see velious be around for a year, and then a server wipe and start over from classic

[Phallax]

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

I'd like to see velious be around for a year, and then a server wipe and start over from classic

Its already been stated they wont wipe, but instead possibly start up a 2nd server as an option to start over.

[Haynar]

If we do anything post-velious, it should be what SOE/VI should have done. Not what they did with Luclin. I am against the going to the moon concept.

I am all for custom content beyond Velious. But that would make the server no longer classic. But after 3 years, we may be ready for something different.

I hate to take something from WOW, but instanced battlegrounds, could help keep people entertained.

Making certain zones temporary hotzones (hotzone = PVP) would be another idea. A lot of work would need done to prevent cheating/hacking if anything PVP is done.

Haynar

[Kazzok]

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

If we do anything post-velious, it should be what SOE/VI should have done. Not what they did with Luclin. I am against the going to the moon concept.

I would dearly love to see Luclin done right. I really enjoyed the feel of some of the zones, like Katta and Ssra and FG. And whatever that one off Maiden's Eye where you went to get your VT key was, with the little alien looking dudes in it.

The one thing I can't figure out about having Luclin but pretending it's not the moon is how to explain the way the sky looks in the zones. On some it's the dark side with what's obviously a planet hanging in the sky, while the light side looks like normal daylight. It's pretty clearly a moon visually.

Edit: There was the occasional decent art/zone feel in Luclin at least:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/scen...tta-nectar.jpg

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/scen...e-entrance.jpg

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/scen...e-basement.jpg

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/scen...tta-garden.jpg

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/scenery/sseru-arena.jpg

[Kluren]

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

If we do anything post-velious, it should be what SOE/VI should have done. Not what they did with Luclin. I am against the going to the moon concept.

I am all for custom content beyond Velious. But that would make the server no longer classic. But after 3 years, we may be ready for something different.

I hate to take something from WOW, but instanced battlegrounds, could help keep people entertained.

Making certain zones temporary hotzones (hotzone = PVP) would be another idea. A lot of work would need done to prevent cheating/hacking if anything PVP is done.

Haynar

Everything you said just rocks. Thank you.

[abedog]

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

I am all for custom content beyond Velious. But that would make the server no longer classic.
Haynar

Hate to break it to you but the server didn't launch 100% classic so there is not need to try and keep up the facade that p99 is a classic server of any type. That being said I am all for luclin content raiding Ssra was some of the most fun in EQ and the planes had some great raid content.

I vote for simliar to luclin AA but still custom

No bazaar
No nexus
No Poknowledge

I love the idea of having zone in to plane of water in kedge and Pofire in Sol Ro temple. Ssra temple could be in Charasis for shits? Vexar?