thinking of hanging up the belt

[Tombom]

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

giev

loots plz

[Zalaerian]

EQ PvP is more about knowledge of mechanics and which can be bent.

[compulsion]

- "After a month of playing 5-8 hours a night"

So um, nothing is fun 5-8 hours a day for a month straight. What are you expecting? The one, perfect fair fight from which you emerge victorious and all the glories of the world are bestowed upon you?

Since EQ is not providing the sense of validation and meaning that you expected, why not give Scientology a try?

[Knuckle]

Originally Posted by Caravelle1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

After a month of playing 5-8 hours a night. It dawned on me that I'm not really having that much fun. I've played the majority of PvP mmo's starting with Ultima Online, shadowbane, FPS shooters, Warcraft, Starcraft, and Dota clones.

Everquest PvP mechanics really suck. It's by far the single most imbalanced PvP game I've played. I'm not saying this cause I'm upset with my class or anything, in fact I think chanters are too good and probably need to be toned down here. PvP is BORING, there's very little variability in the skills or how you can use them on people.
EQ does not promote even fights. In my history of EQ > Playing on Sullon Zek for 4 years, and a few previous boxes to this one. I have NEVER seen an even matchup, or anything close to resembling a fair engagement. Out literally thousands of fights someone is either low on health, the groups are uneven, there's a mob agro'd on them when you engage, OOR healers, trains, zoneline disconnects.

I WANT a challenging encounter. DAOC comes to mind if anyone has ever played it PvPers respected each other and enjoyed even fair fights, so much so that if there was a 8 vs 8 fight going on, and some random people walk up and attack, the groups would disengage from each other, kill the randoms, and then restart the fight.

Not sure what I can ask for or expect. What I thought would be cool was a EQ server in a classic setting, but balance the chars for PvP. Which wont happen ever, so I'll look for something else maybe.
Exp bonus wouldnt hurt either, I'm near 50, but I feel really bad for people and see them quitting too because they find time to spend 3 hours grinding, and make 1 blue of exp.

I feel ya bro, not anything about the PVP, but about the grind, keep sticking out to 50 and its fun.

[webrunner5]

1999 PvP is the best game going right now. One day you get PKed 5 times by some bastard and the next day you find him and kill his ass. It gets your heart going and puts a pit in your belly.

You want to quit one day and can't wait to get up the next day to play. I don't know of anything that has that power in a game?? It can be a rush. Good or bad.

[Massive Marc]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

1999 PvP is the best game going right now. One day you get PKed 5 times by some bastard and the next day you find him and kill his ass. It gets your heart going and puts a pit in your belly.

You want to quit one day and can't wait to get up the next day to play. I don't know of anything that has that power in a game?? It can be a rush. Good or bad.

you need help broski

[bionicbadger]

can I have your stuff?

[Tassador]

i love everquest pvp cause it has threads about people quiting, QQ. If your playing 5-8hours a day thats why you hate it. I love crack but, if i do crack 8 hours a day i would be an unproductive crack head.

[Slave]

Teams alone would pretty much fix the Lonely Leveler syndrome. Add in item loot and a small exp bonus maybe to restart the server population? Sometimes it feels like I can't wait for this box to die already so we can get a real one started.

[Melveny]

I dot think balanced pvp is untill late game, when people are outfitted In gear. Some say gear ruins but I disagree.

With 0 resist items, getting one shot is not "fun pvp". When your actually fighting resisting , dispelling roots / debuffs back and forth 10-20 minutes, that is the pvp I like. Those epic fights are what makes it fun to me.

Since chanter was brought up. I had a fun go fight with natural yesterday. Caught him doing JC at a merchant, so he obviously had plat etc. Jumped on him he starts running trying to hide, I'm on his ass. He runs to bank and makes me Agro guard and tries to dick me and root mr with mob. I'm self healing tanking guard as he nukes me. My grp kills guard, I continue my fight with natural. He suprised with a mez before I crim pot. Chain mezzes me, I got a lucky resist or two, mez faded before refresh, I crim pot and chase him down. I failed q bash and a stu and he got gate off.

I know, I know TLDR.. But I had fun fighting him. No insta win wow pvp. Neither of us died but had a epic battle.