BDA to Phinigel

[Raev]

oh man, did Sadre actually get banned for quoting Pulp Fiction?

[Daldaen]

Ssra had some really baller mechanics.

Even something as simple as XtC was a huge change up. A mob that Rampaged every round meant you had to run two CH chains simultaneously while keeping your tanks cured of the Debuff. No more "just spot heal the ramp tank" strat.

High Priest encounter though I only did it a handful of times when modern, was also incredible. Remember those banishment spells that went on page 32 of your spell book? Yea pull those bitches out and actually use them!

Emperor was a great one. I have mixed feelings on the banes but I really liked how the event required all forms of CC. Unmezzable slowed mobs for your knights to offtank, unslowable mezzables for your Enchanters to lock down, main boss for your raid to tank, and respawning adds if you're too slow for DPS to handle. Great all around event.

Luclin crushed Velious in every way. Hell some of the best parts of Velious, came during Luclin. Shawl 8 Quest and Vulak Ring event namely being great examples.

[big_ole_jpn]

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

It was a fuckin beast. Notice how none of these nerds can defend Velious?

Literally nobody has been able to mount a good pro-Velious rebuttal. I always smash nerds on it and send them packing.

Sadre even self-destructed over it and now hes riding w/ BDA on Phinigel.

Luclin has dope raiding and some of the AAs are cool (ranger actually becomes a class cool), but it also came with cats on the moon, gay models, etc. It's the first expansion that was kind of a mixed shit sandwich instead of just being str8 content. Like u can say things about Velious raiding and how it was kinda a barebones expansion in some regards, but still those shortfalls are much less of a big deal to me than adding in shit that is gay and destroys game culture, like the Bazaar (I think that was patched in closer to PoP though? but it's still something intended to be in Luclin).

This is the same problem PoP has to a greater degree -- a good amount of dank content but slaughters the game's culture by adding PoK. Repudiation of initial design philosophy. You are now playing a different game.

There is also the fact that every subsequent expansion was destined to suffer further mudflation. On a fundamental level these games have limited lifespans, can only suffer so many expansions before trash like PoK becomes necessary design elements.

Can't mount a pro-Velious argument because I'm not really that big a fan, but still, however weak or strong it was, Velious doesn't add anything to the game that is a for-the-worse direct contradiction of EQ's original design philosophy. In that sense it does constitute the "golden age" classical era of EQ in that it's the maximum span of content EQ had before travel and social interaction began to be modulated by automated systems.

EQMac was more fun than p99 tho so maybe PoP really is the tippie.

[entruil]

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

slaughters the game's culture by adding PoK. Repudiation of initial design philosophy. You are now playing a different game.

can only suffer so many expansions before trash like PoK becomes necessary design elements.


"golden age" classical era of EQ in that it's the maximum span of content

These parts. By themselves.

[arsenalpow]

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[Cecily]

Good stuff. Congrats.

[moss_snake_shadowknight]

BDA showing how its done!!!

[Cecily]

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BDA showing how its done!!!

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[Kushie]

Welcome to page 230

[jcr4990]

P99 won't be in stale old Velious forever. Custom content is coming right after Discord server. Won't be long now.

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