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Old 10-21-2021, 06:10 AM
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Yeah, every expansion made the game worse on the whole, but Kunark was the best by far. Amazing zones and sense of adventure, and the new zones really were needed at the time, with the way server populations and game content was being handled. Most existing game areas had become much too overpopulated, and Kunark provided great new areas for the playerbase to flow into. The problem of Kunark is in the itemization and some game balance issues, and also just how damn long it took to level once you got to the mid 50's, which could feel frustrating.

I think the next best is Legacy of Ykesha, because it was the least disruptive to the game and did what they should have been doing the whole time - filling in zones on the actual Norrath map that weren't implemented yet (without instancing, ugh the stupid Lost Dungeons of Norrath) and introducing alterations to zones based on story events. Although the Frogloks taking over the Troll city had almost no actual impact on the game, it's very interesting to think about taking the concept further. Imagine if the original EQ cities were all raid zones, with major changes happening sporadically.

Velious is #3, it has some great ideas, but the game world is getting splintered up too much at this point, and the further power creep is part of the cause, since people people can just skip a ton of game content. The hugely increased HP of Velious mobs also can make things more tedious and introduces further balance issues.

I have no experience of expansions from Gates of Discord onward (aside from seeing some of the zones be repurposed in emulators)...how many people actually do? It's basically a dead question to ask what the top 5 expansions are. But I'm certain that plenty of the expansions released for the game over the years are better than the Planes of Power bullshit. From what I experienced some of, Luclin is #4 by default, because although I disliked most of the design there, at least it doesn't have fucking clickable teleportation stones all across the game and everyone beaming up into some random box in the sky. #5 is whatever, take your pick of whatever random expansion from 2005 onward, when the real Everquest was long gone, but when they were at least trying to again implement more Norrath-based zones.
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Old 10-21-2021, 01:41 PM
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1. Velious
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3. PoP
4. Omens
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Old 10-21-2021, 01:59 PM
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1. Velious
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3. Planes of Power
4. Shadows of Luclin
5. Kunark
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Old 10-21-2021, 02:08 PM
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1) pop
2) pop
3) pop
4) pop
5) pop

Hands down the best overall expansion ever released
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Old 10-21-2021, 03:35 PM
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Game was best vanilla and Kunark only.
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Old 10-24-2021, 04:52 PM
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Pop was cool except for PoK, which generified the game.

Even the luclin spire system was kinda game killing. The world started feeling smaller at luclin.

Vanilla, Kunark and Velious are still the best. I hope p99 introduces some custom content based on classic zones and lore, that would be great. I don't want any cats on the moon or central hub zones.
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Old 10-24-2021, 05:27 PM
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Old 10-25-2021, 02:46 PM
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Kunark, velious, pop, omens of war, seeds of destruction hard mode.
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Old 10-25-2021, 04:36 PM
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Kunark
Luclin
Planes of Power
Omens of War
Depths of Darkhallow

I know Velious gets a lot of love around here but it's pretty mediocre IMO, it's mostly just raiding content and the raiding content isn't really that great. Ring quests, and Shawl quests were really cool additions but they weren't enough to make it a good expansion. If I want an expansion focused on raiding PoP was way better.
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Old 10-25-2021, 10:02 PM
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Kunark
Luclin
Planes of Power
Omens of War
Depths of Darkhallow

I know Velious gets a lot of love around here but it's pretty mediocre IMO, it's mostly just raiding content and the raiding content isn't really that great. Ring quests, and Shawl quests were really cool additions but they weren't enough to make it a good expansion. If I want an expansion focused on raiding PoP was way better.
Ya I agree velious is kinda overrated imo. Some really cool raids like aow and vulak but luclin had awesome raid content to with ssra temple/vex thal being super legit and pop was a masterpiece of raiding design. How they designed the flagging and progression leading into time and all that glorious loot it just was epic. Plus all the faction grinding in velious gets annoying fast. Ain’t no one got time for that. It’s good but not that good.
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