So what's there to do in Velious anyway?

[Furinex]

I love exploration and immersion. Free ports for everyone breaks this for me. Why choose a travelish class if everyone can do it? I play a druid, I like being able to get around easily, cart friends all over the place and what have you. Do I still use the boat? Hell yes I do. I love the boat. I might be the only one who thinks like that but, I think the boats are a great feature, they make things seem epic in terms of travel. I remember the first time I took the boat from Faydwer to Freeport. I dont think I'll ever forget it, it just felt like... well an adventure! Even at higher levels, I still find myself exploring places I've never been to, places I've avoided on live for a long time, and opening myself up to more options. This has shown me gratification with Travel to and from. The idea of exploring my way around dungeons, or even open areas gives me a thrill. Although, Being able to zip right out is a great thing too. Its also nice to be able to Evacuate groups. Ive gotten re-invited to groups over and over again due to my fast reaction with Evacs. I generally have good timing. The interaction my class has given me with the server is one of the highest I could ask for. Even if it is getting bombarded with tells for ports, I have made quite a few powerful allies just by going out of my way to use my EQ-given abilities to help someone. Later, this will come to fruition, and it will be paid back I'm sure.

[Thulack]

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

I love exploration and immersion. Free ports for everyone breaks this for me. Why choose a travelish class if everyone can do it? I play a druid, I like being able to get around easily, cart friends all over the place and what have you. Do I still use the boat? Hell yes I do. I love the boat. I might be the only one who thinks like that but, I think the boats are a great feature, they make things seem epic in terms of travel. I remember the first time I took the boat from Faydwer to Freeport. I dont think I'll ever forget it, it just felt like... well an adventure! Even at higher levels, I still find myself exploring places I've never been to, places I've avoided on live for a long time, and opening myself up to more options. This has shown me gratification with Travel to and from. The idea of exploring my way around dungeons, or even open areas gives me a thrill. Although, Being able to zip right out is a great thing too. Its also nice to be able to Evacuate groups. Ive gotten re-invited to groups over and over again due to my fast reaction with Evacs. I generally have good timing. The interaction my class has given me with the server is one of the highest I could ask for. Even if it is getting bombarded with tells for ports, I have made quite a few powerful allies just by going out of my way to use my EQ-given abilities to help someone. Later, this will come to fruition, and it will be paid back I'm sure.

Taking the boat is a timesink. No real other way to put it.

[Gadwen]

Travel is as trivial as you make it in EQ....even into the PoP era.

I don't understand how paying for a port and/or using sow and levitate to run through a zone and face absolutely no danger is so immersive and challenging to people. Or is it just the 3 line covo that you have with the wiz/druid that's porting you that really makes the experience amazing?

[porigromus]

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

Travel is as trivial as you make it in EQ....even into the PoP era.

I don't understand how paying for a port and/or using sow and levitate to run through a zone and face absolutely no danger is so immersive and challenging to people. Or is it just the 3 line covo that you have with the wiz/druid that's porting you that really makes the experience amazing?

It is the way they did it. Books you click on sitting around the world that teleport you to some big floating city in the sky? Books lined up and down the walls? It was cheap, ugly, and a quick fix that didn't mesh well with the original wonderful world.

[Gadwen]

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

It is the way they did it. Books you click on sitting around the world that teleport you to some big floating city in the sky? Books lined up and down the walls? It was cheap, ugly, and a quick fix that didn't mesh well with the original wonderful world.

But nothing stopped you from running right past that book and traveling on foot.

You can trivialize your travels even in classic. Like i said before, porting and running with a sow/lev isn't exactly a challenging or immersive experience.

[skacat]

Mentioning Luclin anywhere near here should be a bannable offense. Luclin is not EQ. Honestly, the game was over way before that anyway. It's probably hard to remember that even the Kunark expansion was basically awful. Kunark had absolutely none of the charm or cohesion of the original world, and Allakhazam and the like ruined any chance of people exploring shit for themselves. Everyone went running to forums to get info like a bunch of pissy pants little bitches looking for a game genie cheat code instead of just playing the damn game. No one would give a fuck about Kunark if it weren't for the loot you could pick up there, which was completely unbalanced. boohoo not enough pixels to get for my toon. roll another one or go the fuck outside. The original zones had ten times more style than what they shat upon us with Kunark. And the Iksar didn't fit at all, looked like they were from a completely different game. The original game didn't contain enough level 50 content for the number of players, and thats the only reason anyone gave a shit. The gear they came out with basically ruined the game and made previously epic shit a joke. Honestly they should've left the whole continent lost and just started rolling out more Planes earlier. Velious had more potential but the game had long rotted by then. Lamezords from fuck knows where had long since come and formed a megatron of internet scrub bitches the likes of which id never seen and descended on every corner of EQ 'min/max'ing and cybering in the corners of kelethin for p and rmt and turned the whole place into a cesspool long since. Games ruined, mystery is gone, its never coming back, shits done.

[Gadwen]

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

Mentioning Luclin anywhere near here should be a bannable offense. Luclin is not EQ. Honestly, the game was over way before that anyway. It's probably hard to remember that even the Kunark expansion was basically awful. Kunark had absolutely none of the charm or cohesion of the original world, and Allakhazam and the like ruined any chance of people exploring shit for themselves. Everyone went running to forums to get info like a bunch of pissy pants little bitches looking for a game genie cheat code instead of just playing the damn game. No one would give a fuck about Kunark if it weren't for the loot you could pick up there, which was completely unbalanced. boohoo not enough pixels to get for my toon. roll another one or go the fuck outside. The original zones had ten times more style than what they shat upon us with Kunark. And the Iksar didn't fit at all, looked like they were from a completely different game. The original game didn't contain enough level 50 content for the number of players, and thats the only reason anyone gave a shit. The gear they came out with basically ruined the game and made previously epic shit a joke. Honestly they should've left the whole continent lost and just started rolling out more Planes earlier. Velious had more potential but the game had long rotted by then. Lamezords from fuck knows where had long since come and formed a megatron of internet scrub bitches the likes of which id never seen and descended on every corner of EQ 'min/max'ing and cybering in the corners of kelethin for p and rmt and turned the whole place into a cesspool long since. Games ruined, mystery is gone, its never coming back, shits done.

Tell SOE that the game was over before Luclin, they didn't see their peak subs until the PoP era. Unfortunately game devs don't base a games value on the quality of each individuals experience, they base it on sub numbers and sales.

[spoils]

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

Mentioning Luclin anywhere near here should be a bannable offense. Luclin is not EQ. Honestly, the game was over way before that anyway. It's probably hard to remember that even the Kunark expansion was basically awful. Kunark had absolutely none of the charm or cohesion of the original world, and Allakhazam and the like ruined any chance of people exploring shit for themselves. Everyone went running to forums to get info like a bunch of pissy pants little bitches looking for a game genie cheat code instead of just playing the damn game. No one would give a fuck about Kunark if it weren't for the loot you could pick up there, which was completely unbalanced. boohoo not enough pixels to get for my toon. roll another one or go the fuck outside. The original zones had ten times more style than what they shat upon us with Kunark. And the Iksar didn't fit at all, looked like they were from a completely different game. The original game didn't contain enough level 50 content for the number of players, and thats the only reason anyone gave a shit. The gear they came out with basically ruined the game and made previously epic shit a joke. Honestly they should've left the whole continent lost and just started rolling out more Planes earlier. Velious had more potential but the game had long rotted by then. Lamezords from fuck knows where had long since come and formed a megatron of internet scrub bitches the likes of which id never seen and descended on every corner of EQ 'min/max'ing and cybering in the corners of kelethin for p and rmt and turned the whole place into a cesspool long since. Games ruined, mystery is gone, its never coming back, shits done.

Ladies and gentlemen...this guy is mad.

[porigromus]

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

Mentioning Luclin anywhere near here should be a bannable offense. Luclin is not EQ. Honestly, the game was over way before that anyway. It's probably hard to remember that even the Kunark expansion was basically awful. Kunark had absolutely none of the charm or cohesion of the original world, and Allakhazam and the like ruined any chance of people exploring shit for themselves. Everyone went running to forums to get info like a bunch of pissy pants little bitches looking for a game genie cheat code instead of just playing the damn game. No one would give a fuck about Kunark if it weren't for the loot you could pick up there, which was completely unbalanced. boohoo not enough pixels to get for my toon. roll another one or go the fuck outside. The original zones had ten times more style than what they shat upon us with Kunark. And the Iksar didn't fit at all, looked like they were from a completely different game. The original game didn't contain enough level 50 content for the number of players, and thats the only reason anyone gave a shit. The gear they came out with basically ruined the game and made previously epic shit a joke. Honestly they should've left the whole continent lost and just started rolling out more Planes earlier. Velious had more potential but the game had long rotted by then. Lamezords from fuck knows where had long since come and formed a megatron of internet scrub bitches the likes of which id never seen and descended on every corner of EQ 'min/max'ing and cybering in the corners of kelethin for p and rmt and turned the whole place into a cesspool long since. Games ruined, mystery is gone, its never coming back, shits done.

I have to admit I liked the original game without expansions but a lot will disagree. I felt it was better then too. I would like a permanent server without any expansions but that isn't going to happen.

[heartbrand]

I thought GoD had the best music of any expac, each song fit its zone perfectly, it made eq hard as fuck, just getting through natimbi or w/e that second zone was called was hard as fuck, gl if a dog saw invis and got you. Also the aug quest was amazing even if it was incredibly difficult to do. It was also the only expac in eq history where the final boss didn't die before the next expac, underfoot was close to this.