Change ZEMs for a MORE Classic experience!

[Clazxiss]

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

Nerf the hole by 75%? ok

Don't you even think about it! Please! This is a great zone to get that Dungeon Crawl feel that people should have in EQ. I'll ask you to disregard the "classic purists" and to direct them to Green when they want something close to original EQ.

When the Hole launched on live, it saw action for maybe a week, tops. Then it was forgotten, with the exception of people getting their epic pieces. I remind people that their monthly subscription bills paid for that content, why not use it?

Nope. "Classic purists" would rather go to Sebilis, where the zone was constantly camped by 50% or so. Fun fact, you were not dungeon crawling there. You would be zoning in to a place where you could walk from the entrance down to juggs because multiple group camps were keeping respawns dead. That's not an adventure.

I applaud the P99 staff for making ZEM changes to bring adventurers back to dead zones. Before my hiatus, I had friends joining me to explore and level in Xorb, Runnyeye, and Splitpaw! The Hole turned out to be one of the most entertaining zones for a crawl that EQ could offer. One of the biggest complaints in the MMORPG genre is that leveling feels like a structured theme park ride. I've found "classic purists" to be the worst offenders of this in the fact that even if ZEMs were left to their classic states, they'd still choose the zones with the best XP to level in. Coincidentally, those zones also happen to be places of solid loot, such as Sebilis, KC, and such. The classic experience these players want is the lazy inconvenience of having an XP/loot camp for the 16 hours they play while watching repeats of the Springer show.