Fresh pure classic server opinion?

[Old_PVP]

Bring back the blood, sweat & tears. Bring back pure classic. Fighting in rags how Brad intended.

Fuck Kunark, fuck Velious. Game just gets filled with super twinks and overpowered end game gear. It's the death of fun, meaningful PVP.

[Loadsamoney]

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

Bring back the blood, sweat & tears. Bring back pure classic. Fighting in rags how Brad intended.

Fuck Kunark, fuck Velious. Game just gets filled with super twinks and overpowered end game gear. It's the death of fun, meaningful PVP.

It's "fun" having to fight tooth and nail with nothing but banded armor and fine steel weapons all the way to 50, having a single blue clobber you within an inch of your life every one on one encounter?

[Old_PVP]

Don't be so dramatic. You aren't fighting with "banded and fine steel" all the way to 50... and if you are, then you are leveling too damn fast. Go do some quests, go farm a camp for a couple better pieces of gear. Stop and enjoy the journey instead of burning through to end game in nothing but cloth. Or don't.

But yes, this is what I'm looking for. Hardcore, elitist, painful. I want to go back to the days where people actually knew how to play their class... because every skill was needed, every spell was considered and sometimes used. Dungeons were actually tough, "MAGIC" gear actually meant something and in PVP people had to decide whether or not to wear stat gear or resist gear, because it was one or the other.

[Loadsamoney]

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

Don't be so dramatic. You aren't fighting with "banded and fine steel" all the way to 50... and if you are, then you are leveling too damn fast. Go do some quests, go farm a camp for a couple better pieces of gear. Stop and enjoy the journey instead of burning through to end game in nothing but cloth. Or don't.

But yes, this is what I'm looking for. Hardcore, elitist, painful. I want to go back to the days where people actually knew how to play their class... because every skill was needed, every spell was considered and sometimes used. Dungeons were actually tough, "MAGIC" gear actually meant something and in PVP people had to decide whether or not to wear stat gear or resist gear, because it was one or the other.

...alright, I'm game for that.

Question is, will Rogean entertain the idea of a Classic only server? What if we all started a petition?

[Gustoo]

Just make "legacy" items super rare drops at various places so you just get em eventually and by luck and /random 100 for them

Rather than stand in a poop sock line building up your EQ 401k (manastone, guise, lustrous russet)

[GardylooGubbins]

I would definitely play on a classic only server. All my favorite memories and zones are in classic, so +1 for the idea.

[Valdain]

Pretty sure the agreement with Daybreak prohibits any expansion beyond Velious.

As for a pure classic server, I'd be down to dabble on that. I've invested so much time into Blue in my time here that I couldn't see it being my main server, but if I could still have Blue up while I run a classic server like on Green, I'd definitely flit around on there

[Loadsamoney]

So the only class that has any sort of Epic in Classic is the Paladin, with the Fiery Avenger?

(and yes, I know that's more of a pre-Epic, or a 0.5 Epic)

That's the main reason why I love Kunark so much and would prefer Kunark only over Classic only, the Epics.

[Gustoo]

Yeah pretty much.

In classic people wore a mix of bronze and banded to look cool with plate without being too heavy.

In kunark you just have super badass gear for like every slot.

All the expansions have some awesome things and being stuck with vanilla is a sacrifice in some areas.

Coolest thing is human monks and non iksar necros
Not being obsolete and the monk being an actual
Monk like full naked class versus just tons of 0 weight 10
To all stats items in kunark

[oldschoolguy]

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

Yeah pretty much.

In classic people wore a mix of bronze and banded to look cool with plate without being too heavy.

In kunark you just have super badass gear for like every slot.

All the expansions have some awesome things and being stuck with vanilla is a sacrifice in some areas.

Coolest thing is human monks and non iksar necros
Not being obsolete and the monk being an actual
Monk like full naked class versus just tons of 0 weight 10
To all stats items in kunark

yeah kunark basically obsoleted most race choice for monk/necro. and too much good gear brought on heavy twinkage. classic had a much better feel to it imo. kunark imo had some cool things too, but classic i think was just a more eqish eq.