Good News, EQ Live New Server starts Wednesday

[Japan]

Good news! Another piece of shit standard blue server that will be a ghost town or merged within 2 months!

[Tokum-6n0m3]

It's going to be a REGULAR server, meaning it WILL have hotzones/mercs/ and accelerated experience gain, even the progression servers have the accelerated experience gain......seriously if your a oldschool player that enjoyed the risk/reward offered in the classic experience, this is gonna be a big let down to you, Ive played Live recently, and tho it can be fun, EQ has gone to the same candy coating , lil-effort = big gain system that WoW perfected, If you like being lvl60 in 1 week and grouping with yourself and a merc. Have fun, ill be roughing it here on p99~


Edit= And for those who don't know what merc's are. They added NPC Cleric and Warrior (mercenaries) that you hire to walk with you and group with you so even if your not a boxer, you can group with yourself, cool concept.....but took the community right out of the game.......

[Mynxx]

QFE; Well fucking said Tokum

[Mynxx]

I am so content and satisfied with Project 1999; I have wanted to experience a similar feeling and enjoyment I received out of pre-Luclin EQ, and I finally got it -- I'm pretty much moving all my EQ2 toons to the Bazaar and letting my Druids on EQ1 rot for another 10 years.

[Toony]

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

Good news! Another piece of shit standard blue server that will be a ghost town or merged within 2 months!

Exactly, couldn't figure out where the excitement was coming from.

[Seeatee]

my last post, basically, just sums up the way EQ live has been the past few years, there are 3 maybe 4 zones people hit on the way to 85 , and it is possible to get to 85 with 500 AA in a stupid short amount of time.

the farm camp in dragonscale hills completely broke AAs, if you do that camp between roughly 65 and 70 you can get 3 repeatable quests that give almost a full AA each, the quests are kill 10 scarecrows, 8 crows, and 20 beetles, and the mobs them selfs all yield good exp, my mage went from having maybe 20 AAs to having 400+ in about 2 weeks there.

also , as far as mercs being in, the first group / people to max level will probably be a 3 boxer playing a bard, a melee dps , and a caster dps , using 2 cleric mercs and a tank merc.

[Dac321]

0 interest

[Ripcord]

il be tearing this server up for shits n giggles the first few days. then ill quit. i bet you anything there will be 2-3 guilds of power gamers with no jobs competing to down the first raid bosses and flaunting it in each others faces. the other 90% of the server will laugh at them for having no lives. basically the exact same drama we have here but with different names and ugly luclin model faces.

[Rejuvenation]

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

It would be nice to be on a server where nobody can be PL'd ahead of you. That being said some players don't have jobs and multibox so it will never truly be an even playing field.

Not exactly sure how mercenaries work but if they are in the game along with multiboxing well than shit can get pretty damn silly during that race to whatever the level cap is these days.

Is there even a max to how many AA's you can acquire any more? Or do they basically want you to exp grind forever?

Well I quit live before DPS mercenaries were implemented, but assuming that they function similarly to the healing and tank mercs, heres the run down.

Everyone can hire a mercenary, and while your mercenary is up, it costs a certain amount of platinum every 30 minutes (As you work on your Seeds of Destruction progression, you can get stronger mercenaries) They follow you around similar to how a pet would, except the healers are clerics, and you can set how active you want them to be, there are efficient modes, passive, etc.

The tank mercs have aggressive, assist, etc...The AI is pretty damn impressive, I never really had any hitches. If you aggro too many mobs higher than you the merc will "flee" leaving you stuck alone. The tank mercs are known to be able to carry any character to 50 in essentially no time at all.

If you box with different mercenaries, you can go AFK and your mercs will kill any mobs that spawn in the area with ease. This is a bannable offense, but I witnessed it quite a bit.

The mercs are nice for people who dont have time to set up a group, or those times when you just cant find that last class. (Mercs take up a group slot, and they do count into the exp split)

Personally I think they shouldn't have them on this new server, since leveling is so easy already until 65+

[Rasterburn]

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

Good news! Another piece of shit standard blue server that will be a ghost town or merged within 2 months!

Exactly.

Everything from PoP onwards was horrible garbage. If I wanted to play live, then I'd be playing live. And I'd be playing on my old main, who already has hundreds of AA's and a crapload of raid gear. The whole reason that I quit back in 2003 was because SOE had turned the game into a kiddie-fest for morons. EQ live sucks rat balls.

I'll pass... but thanks for the info all the same.