So what's there to do in Velious anyway?

[Thulack]

Originally Posted by t0lkien [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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?

Cause there is nothing better out there. Just like any game there are things you like and things you would change. I'm all for alot of the changes that came to EQ over the years while i wasnt a fan of others.

[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.

[heartbrand]

If there was a progression server with boxing and mq disabled I'd be there in a heart beat. That and velious.

[TarukShmaruk]

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

If there was a progression server with boxing and mq disabled I'd be there in a heart beat. That and velious.

Agreed.

I thought about Fippy but they're already on PoP or something.

[Dirtnap]

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

If there was a progression server with boxing and mq disabled I'd be there in a heart beat. That and velious.

I think there is a ton of people on the server who feel this way. Myself included.

[heartbrand]

They're much further along than pop I think they're on por. Itemization for casters sucked balls, you get some better robes and then what? Insignia protector? ORS? I have basically bis gear on my chanter and excluding VP loot / epic I think I have two Kunark items on. Yes melees get showered with loot but there's still no class armor progression like in planes, velious and basically every subsequent expac.

[heartbrand]

Someone needs to work on a progression server project that does that, I'll help fund it bros get to work! How far does the eq emulator data go to?

[TarukShmaruk]

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

They're much further along than pop I think they're on por. Itemization for casters sucked balls, you get some better robes and then what? Insignia protector? ORS? I have basically bis gear on my chanter and excluding VP loot / epic I think I have two Kunark items on. Yes melees get showered with loot but there's still no class armor progression like in planes, velious and basically every subsequent expac.

True but they considered the new spells as part of our itemization.

[JurisDictum]

This server's core philosophy is to recreate and preserve the EQ classic experience. Nevertheless, I'm clearly not the only one that would love to see this server eventually evolve into a full on progression server (stopping around PoP). It could ideally occur along side a Classic only server for all those that just want to stick with that content.
The fact that it takes so long for the expansions to get released on p99, is in some ways an asset. It allows everyone enough time to fully experience the content of each expansion and era. Afters a good 2 years of Velious content. I'm sure plenty of casual players would love to play Luclin, as would the dedicated raiders.
The reason people like me don't just "go play live," is because EQ is basically easier than classic WoW in its current state. Yes there is no other place to go for EQ classic. But there isn't exactly a viable server for PoP either.
Luclin and PoP respectively, offer near endless progression for even hardcore gamers. You won't see the dedicated crowed with 4+ maxed our characters...because it simply takes too long to get all the gear and AAs. With the necessary delay that takes place between expansions, more casual players will be much more prepared to tackle the expansion content than they were on live.
PoP did kill the 1-60 experience imo (and it was pretty hard to be a crap geared no AA'd 65 as well). But there are a lot of things that were also great about it. Such as:
More difficult raid content
Better class definition/balance
Better itemization
Better raid targets/rewards for more casual guilds
Platinum only gets you so far

[porigromus]

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

This server's core philosophy is to recreate and preserve the EQ classic experience. Nevertheless, I'm clearly not the only one that would love to see this server eventually evolve into a full on progression server (stopping around PoP). It could ideally occur along side a Classic only server for all those that just want to stick with that content.
The fact that it takes so long for the expansions to get released on p99, is in some ways an asset. It allows everyone enough time to fully experience the content of each expansion and era. Afters a good 2 years of Velious content. I'm sure plenty of casual players would love to play Luclin, as would the dedicated raiders.
The reason people like me don't just "go play live," is because EQ is basically easier than classic WoW in its current state. Yes there is no other place to go for EQ classic. But there isn't exactly a viable server for PoP either.
Luclin and PoP respectively, offer near endless progression for even hardcore gamers. You won't see the dedicated crowed with 4+ maxed our characters...because it simply takes too long to get all the gear and AAs. With the necessary delay that takes place between expansions, more casual players will be much more prepared to tackle the expansion content than they were on live.
PoP did kill the 1-60 experience imo (and it was pretty hard to be a crap geared no AA'd 65 as well). But there are a lot of things that were also great about it. Such as:
More difficult raid content
Better class definition/balance
Better itemization
Better raid targets/rewards for more casual guilds
Platinum only gets you so far

EQMAC