The troubles with modern MMO's...

[Kika Maslyaka]

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

I disagree with your disagreement.

Somehow, EverQuest made items more recognizable than any other MMO even with extremely limited resources.

How many armor sets can you recognize with just one plate texture? Crafted, Indicolite, Cobalt, Singing Steel, Lambent, Totemic, Jaundiced Bone, Ethereal Mist, Rubicite, Valorium, Mrylokar's, Woven Shadow, Ro, Cleric Sol Ro, Thorny Vine, Blood Ember, and a few dozen more. And that's not counting all the highly recognizable single pieces like Mithril. You can usually even figure stuff out if it's undyed. Leather pants on a priest class are probably Gatorscale, plain chain chest is usually a fungi depending on class and the rest of their gear, etc.

Except all of these used EXACTLY the same texture only in different color. Warriors Crafted and Warriors Indicolite use exactly the same texture only in different color. Bronze and Fine Steel was also exactly same texture. Until Velious special textures, there were only 3 sets of textures per race. The only reason these sets were recognizable is because there were so few of them. If you saw a Light Blue Plate - you new that only 1 set in game is a plate of this color. But this situation only lasted until more sets started to appear, and armor coloring.

WoW by contrast had dozens of different of textures right of the start, which is now up to a hundred. WoW does use different approach - the texture looks the same for all races, rather than race specific like in EQ, but at the same time total number of textures far greater.

Same goes for famous weapons - they were only famous when there were too few of them. No one will needs/wants SSOY when Velious is out (I doubt anyone uses it now in the proper level range). After 2-3 expansions there is going to be so many unique items around you won't ever remember them all.

And as far as WoW "random" green items go - they are basically WoW version of bronze and fine steel you had in EQ, which during early days some people still used all way up to the dragon raids. During WoW early days there too were famous items (Sulfuros anyone?), but 3 expansions down the road they were forgotten cause they became obsolete, just like EQ epics will get first matched with Velious and then obsolete with Luclin. Its natural. The game HAS TO progress. If there is no progression it will die.