Do you still play LIVE? [poll]

[perditionparty]

2005 or so was last year I played. Checked out live in December of '14 and it was awful, but from it I found P99. Signed up for live in June or so when the progression server went live, it paled in comparison to p99 and was not worth a monthly subscription.

[Taminy]

Quit during early GoD.

Tried to play again before P99... 2007 or 2008... there was so much crap cluttering up my screen I found it stupid. Didn't even have my original account info.

Game should have tried to simplify/consolidate stats and gear instead of continually building and building upon itself.

[blondeattk]

should be an option for not live, just emu servers.

p99 isnt the best emu server, it just has the largest community.

[Monty405]

I have been away from EQ since GoD. Out of curiosity I booted up my old account info and logged into gfay where a character was parked. I then proceeded to nuke an orc pawn and received a piece of defiant armor with ridiculous stats for a lvl 3 npc to be holding. I didn't even need to walk to its corpse to loot it - talk about lazy mode.

I soon logged off and went back to P99.

[absol]

I still play live from time to time, got a beastlord up to 75. But honestly, I tend to play my lower level chars more and stick to old world zones. Its more of a nostalgia kick for me that anything else.

I wish there was an xp slider that controlled the rate at which you get xp. Leveling is ridiculously fast now. Took my 40 ranger to CoM, left after an hour or so at 43 and I wasn't even trying. You just outlevel zones long before you settle into them. You can avoid unsing the overpowered defiant armor that drops randomly from mobs, but you can't avoid the fast xp. Not unless you kill youself and lose xp... which I have done on more than one occasion.

Its funny. I was killing beetles at lvl 3 back in the day. I'm still killing beetles at 75, only this time they have a ton of hp and hit harder than old world dragons. But as much as I rag on EQ, its still the only MMO I've tried that I've tended to go back to. None of the others have that same 'stickiness'.

[Monty405]

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

I still play live from time to time, got a beastlord up to 75. But honestly, I tend to play my lower level chars more and stick to old world zones. Its more of a nostalgia kick for me that anything else.

I wish there was an xp slider that controlled the rate at which you get xp. Leveling is ridiculously fast now. Took my 40 ranger to CoM, left after an hour or so at 43 and I wasn't even trying. You just outlevel zones long before you settle into them. You can avoid unsing the overpowered defiant armor that drops randomly from mobs, but you can't avoid the fast xp. Not unless you kill youself and lose xp... which I have done on more than one occasion.

Its funny. I was killing beetles at lvl 3 back in the day. I'm still killing beetles at 75, only this time they have a ton of hp and hit harder than old world dragons. But as much as I rag on EQ, its still the only MMO I've tried that I've tended to go back to. None of the others have that same 'stickiness'.

Are most of the classic zones still the same? At what point can you go back to old raid zones such as ToV and just clean house solo?

[absol]

Originally Posted by Monty405 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Are most of the classic zones still the same? At what point can you go back to old raid zones such as ToV and just clean house solo?

Most old world bosses die 1 min after they pop. I don't know who's doing it, but people must have them timed and on lockdown because I've very rarely seen them up. Maybe I've just been unlucky. This is on the FV server where pretty much everything is tradable so there's a market for the loot still, particularly as old world gear has no level requirements so its good for twinks. Or maybe its fuelling the secondary market so real life cash is involved. I dunno.

Last week was different. I was running through Kael to get something for an alt, and Vindi was up. Never seen that before. I killed him and his 2 protectors, fight took about 10 mins. He dropped the bp.

Kael was empty, nobody else here but me so I made my way to Tormax's room. He wasn't up, but I was just goofing around anyway, so I started killing stuff in the room. I turned around and all of a sudden there was someone sitting on the throne, who definitely wasn't there when I came in. Dude came out of nowhere. I said hi and tried to strike up a conversation being friendly and all but the guy just ignored me. Undeterred, and realising just my presence here was messing with his plans, I kept on talking. After 10 mins I thanked him for being such a good listener and left.

[Villide]

Originally Posted by Monty405 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Are most of the classic zones still the same? At what point can you go back to old raid zones such as ToV and just clean house solo?

A few months back, I rolled a Paladin on FV to work through some classic dungeons. Way back when, I was a casual mostly-soloer and reroller (only got one character to level 50) so figured I'd grab a merc, gear up and see the more difficult parts of the zones I'd missed the first time around.

It was pretty fun, and a bit nostalgiac - but of course, not overly challenging. Spent a fair amount of time in Befallen, Unrest, Highpass, Guk, Najena, Gulf of Gunthak, ToFS, CoM. Just started to spend time in the Hole before I came back to try Red 99.

Those old zones are dead empty. I'd see someone occasionally pop into zone, but it was really rare.

The gear and the mercs made it relatively unchallenging. Not sure how that would translate to places like ToV or the Planes though.

[fadetree]

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

should be an option for not live, just emu servers.

p99 isnt the best emu server, it just has the largest community.

Hmm, I don't know about that. I don't think it's a coincidence that it has the largest community,

[Lamil]

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

Hmm, I don't know about that. I don't think it's a coincidence that it has the largest community,

I think thats the guy always pushing the 2002 server.