So what did Velious bring?

[Byrjun]

Kunark content was designed exclusively around grinding. 50-60 took much longer than 1-50 did, and then once you were 60 you sat at a cash camp and grinded that, or logged on occasionally for raids. This is evident by comparing the amount of effort and hours required for the VP key vs. the ST key.

Velious designed its content to be a lot more interesting. Not only are the raids much more involved, but there's a lot of progress a character can make that doesn't feel like such a grind. There are a lot of quests from armor to Coldain ring/shawl, SS quests, etc. It just feels like there's 10x more things to do with a level 60 character in Velious compared to Kunark, and it's designed to feel a lot less tedious.

Of course, they pretty much went back on this design philosophy in Luclin, which was designed very similarly to Kunark. VT key made VP key look like a walk in the park, AAs added endless grinding once again, and most of the high end content went back to a focus on hardcore raid content as opposed to the myriad of small questy type Velious progression that just about everyone had access to.

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

Kunark content was designed exclusively around grinding. 50-60 took much longer than 1-50 did, and then once you were 60 you sat at a cash camp and grinded that, or logged on occasionally for raids. This is evident by comparing the amount of effort and hours required for the VP key vs. the ST key.

Velious designed its content to be a lot more interesting. Not only are the raids much more involved, but there's a lot of progress a character can make that doesn't feel like such a grind. There are a lot of quests from armor to Coldain ring/shawl, SS quests, etc. It just feels like there's 10x more things to do with a level 60 character in Velious compared to Kunark, and it's designed to feel a lot less tedious.

Of course, they pretty much went back on this design philosophy in Luclin, which was designed very similarly to Kunark. VT key made VP key look like a walk in the park, AAs added endless grinding once again, and most of the high end content went back to a focus on hardcore raid content as opposed to the myriad of small questy type Velious progression that just about everyone had access to.

yup very well put

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Inb4 Ele

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Inb4 Ele

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rawr!

Unfortunately, Blade of Carnage is without proc and worse dmg/delay until it was upgraded after Luclin released.
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Sceptre is also 10/18 and no mana, but does have proc until Mid-Velious.

http://web.archive.org/web/200106191...il.asp?ID=3945

Sceptre of Destruction
MAGIC ITEM
Skill: 1H Blunt Atk Delay: 18
DMG: 10
STR: +10 DEX: +10 STA: +10 HP: +50
Effect: Anarchy
WT: 0.2
Class: WAR CLR PAL RNG SHD DRU MNK BRD ROG SHM
Race: ALL

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yep, Velious already made the first epic completely obsolete.

[coki]

What if any are the Legacy items that are soloable or small groupable for Velious?

[Cookiefist]

Velious seems less exciting when all(not all) the items come with certain stats later in the game.

Grinding is normal in EQ and at times it seems endless. So, not sure why its any different with the respect to AA's.

[BahamutDF]

True. I just love both of those weapons.

I mean what nerd doesn't want a weapon called "The Sceptre of Destruction?"

Hell, I'll take two.