Where did EQ Live go wrong?

[Galelor]

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

Eh too many people here seem to think time consuming = challenging.

Mindlessly killing hours of trash in Vex Thal isn't challenging. Nor is running across 20 zones that are all green cons to you.

Generally speaking I like games that challenge me, not ones that I zone in with a max force and 1 shot every single raid mob. Raid events that make me think outside the box, on tanking, healing, positioning, CC, etc.

And Classic - Velious raiding isn't that at all, its stack on resist gear and corner tank. Luclin introduced more interesting events, where you needed bane weapons or there is a sequence of killing you need to do to unlock the boss and whatnot.

Planes and Gates both expanded on that and made raids actually challenging which I liked. But I may be alone in that :/.

I agree that the raids ingenuity and diversity was WAY better after Velious. I raided through a lot of the EQ content and we all know that keying/trash clearing is no fun, but this introduced much more exciting raid content.

That said, the group game and non-purist game suffered greatly because GoD was over-tuned. That is where I remember seeing the largest exodus from the game.