So what's there to do in Velious anyway?

[heartbrand]

EQ was @ it's peak during PoP, it died because 1) WoW came out and 2) 72 man raids being reduced to 54 man raids 3) GoD raping everyone who wasn't in a cutting edge end game guild with full plane of time gear, aka 95% of their sub base

[heartbrand]

It's one of those things where people are free to disagree. No right or wrong for what makes one person enjoy a game and another dislike it, [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] . My feeling with PoP is, if you were in a cutting edge guild you had a lot of fun, if you weren't you were prolly cock blocked from 50% of the content and hated it.

[TarukShmaruk]

Also Beastlords were a cool class.

Never could get into Berserkers though - they seemed pretty stupid to me.

[heartbrand]

Berserkers sucked until much later in EQ when AA's finally gave them a role

[Thulack]

PoP's Tier raiding system was the best expansion raiding there ever was in EQ. Simple as that. After playing live for 13 years i can tell you alot of people would shit bricks at the mechanics and attention to detail needed to raid in current EQ. I know 95% of you hate instancing but it let so many people see different zones and enjoy the game more then if they were stuck trying to raid like they do here.

[heartbrand]

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

PoP's Tier raiding system was the best expansion raiding there ever was in EQ. Simple as that. After playing live for 13 years i can tell you alot of people would shit bricks at the mechanics and attention to detail needed to raid in current EQ. I know 95% of you hate instancing but it let so many people see different zones and enjoy the game more then if they were stuck trying to raid like they do here.

[TarukShmaruk]

Kunark a horrible expansion? Huh?

Kunark was a fantastic expansion to EQ vanilla.

-Raised level cap
-Melee disciplines
-Lots of new and mostly interesting zones. Skyfire was really cool, LOIO, TT, OT, Dreadlands,FM
-Lots of great dungeons - Karnors, OS, City of Mist, Howling Stones, Chardok
-WAY more raid targets - VS, Trakanon, 3 RoS dragons, VP (7 dragons?), Faydedar
-Epics which were wildly popular
-Iksar

[heartbrand]

Kunark has pretty shitty itemization, I.e class armor that minus the bp and greaves just about sucks across the board with a couple of clickie exceptions (but you still wouldn't wear it) a shortage of raid content that makes it all too easy to cock block everything, no quests to really speak of (not talking about epic quests which came later), annoying travel, etc.

[TarukShmaruk]

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

Kunark has pretty shitty itemization, I.e class armor that minus the bp and greaves just about sucks across the board with a couple of clickie exceptions (but you still wouldn't wear it) a shortage of raid content that makes it all too easy to cock block everything, no quests to really speak of (not talking about epic quests which came later), annoying travel, etc.

Most of those pieces dropped in a regular 5 man dungeon. Legs/BP were great. Rest of the good loot was in VP.

As for the rest of the itemization I don't know what you're talking about - we got the fungi tunic, tons of OP stuff that had to be removed, tons of great loot for twinking from OS/Karnors/CoM/Charasis

You say shortage of raid content but I count at least 12 raid bosses, not including epics and the Chardok royals/The Hole/etc targets, compared to what...5 from vanilla?

There may be a shortage here on p1999 but on live there were very few people actually doing this content and there wasn't much of a shortage then on most servers.

[t0lkien]

I don't understand you guys - everything you are praising is the reason this servers exists i.e. to provide an alternative to all that and recreate the game before it was changed by it. If you are so in favour of all those additions, why are you playing classic EQ?