Classic Everquest II Server

[Just facts]

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

How does the idea of a classic EQ II server sound after p99 blue reaches its final patch I know I would love something like this, I would love to hear your thought.

EQ2 start Corps run was so bad that after a while they changed policy so one could petition to have a guide summon your corps, plus the exp penalties...

I don't think many people on this server would want to experience that.

[Ezrick]

I very much enjoyed EQ2 to a point. Looking back, it was a bit on rails up until level 30 or so. You could easily get more xp from completing quests than just grinding xp.

The locked encounters were good if, like me, you hate morons (/yell unlocked the encounter if you wanted to ask for help). So kill stealing and most other things some think of as "competition" in a PVE game were mostly eliminated. There were still some contested mobs at the raid level if that's your thing, but they were few and my guild mostly ignored them.

Raids were awesome though and, by extension, so were guilds. 24 players max. Period. That was all that could enter the largest raid encounters. No zergs allowed. Be good, or die. It separated the good players from the average. It also managed your guild for you. A good guild was no more than 30 of the best around. Even then we sometimes had to turn guild members back at the entrance to an encounter.

This would, of course, drive the average P99 raider bonkers. "What???? We cant have 17 clerics in a 1.5 second rotation?" ! It would totally screw them. No you couldn't pull a dragon to a zone line.

Almost no contested raiding spawns, but almost no guilds could truly raid the toughest encounters (there were only three on Kithicor and the third was iffy at best).

I can see where some wouldn't like it, but if you were at the top of it, it was a lot of fun.

[Mblake81]

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

This would, of course, drive the average P99 raider bonkers. "What???? We cant have 17 clerics in a 1.5 second rotation?" ! It would totally screw them. No you couldn't pull a dragon to a zone line.

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[clacbec]

I played on nagafen server, good time. Also crafting pre nerf was fun

[Foxplay]

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

I very much enjoyed EQ2 to a point. Looking back, it was a bit on rails up until level 30 or so. You could easily get more xp from completing quests than just grinding xp.

The locked encounters were good if, like me, you hate morons (/yell unlocked the encounter if you wanted to ask for help). So kill stealing and most other things some think of as "competition" in a PVE game were mostly eliminated. There were still some contested mobs at the raid level if that's your thing, but they were few and my guild mostly ignored them.

Raids were awesome though and, by extension, so were guilds. 24 players max. Period. That was all that could enter the largest raid encounters. No zergs allowed. Be good, or die. It separated the good players from the average. It also managed your guild for you. A good guild was no more than 30 of the best around. Even then we sometimes had to turn guild members back at the entrance to an encounter.

This would, of course, drive the average P99 raider bonkers. "What???? We cant have 17 clerics in a 1.5 second rotation?" ! It would totally screw them. No you couldn't pull a dragon to a zone line.

Almost no contested raiding spawns, but almost no guilds could truly raid the toughest encounters (there were only three on Kithicor and the third was iffy at best).

I can see where some wouldn't like it, but if you were at the top of it, it was a lot of fun.

Sorry but the idea that raid caps make raids instantly "hard" is drinking the Kool aid retarded. All it does it let the developer more closely tailor the encounter to a more predictable limitation I order to tune the difficulty. You can still have easy raids and overtuned raids with raid caps. Its a set lazy control by Dev teams in order to theme park raid content

To say a game with no raid caps can't be hard is also dellusional.... On p99 it's been figured out for over a decade with prior game knowledge. But getting 80+ ppl together without wanting to throw your computer monitor out of the window is a challenge in itself

[Ezrick]

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

Sorry but the idea that raid caps make raids instantly "hard" is drinking the Kool aid retarded. All it does it let the developer more closely tailor the encounter to a more predictable limitation I order to tune the difficulty. You can still have easy raids and overtuned raids with raid caps. Its a set lazy control by Dev teams in order to theme park raid content

To say a game with no raid caps can't be hard is also dellusional.... On p99 it's been figured out for over a decade with prior game knowledge. But getting 80+ ppl together without wanting to throw your computer monitor out of the window is a challenge in itself

On Tarew Marr there were only two raiding guilds all the way through Luclin. I'm not even sure there were other guilds who could do NTOV when PoP came out. If you weren't in Black Company or Enlightened Dark you never seriously challenged the high end game.

After PoP was released I took a long break, about 8 months then returned. I was invited to a new guild and went to my first raid. There were 88 people. Eighty fucking eight people on a single raid. That's not a raid, that's a zerg. I remember killing Seru the first time on our server with 23. Black Company didn't have 50 full time active players in the whole guild, certainly never more the 35-40 at any given raid.

So yeah, a mechanic that cut out the zerg rush to content was a pretty refreshing thing to see in EQ2.

And yeah, pulling shit to the zone with 10kpp worth of expendables, and 18 cleric chain and 70 or more people to kill it (only after having practiced it all on your own test server) gets absolutely less than zero respect from me. The only skill displayed is the pullers and only then with a hundred clicky crutches to prop them up.

[shuklak]

Rather hold on for pantheon... eq2 is the reason we came back to eq1.

[Zekayy]

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

Rather hold on for pantheon... eq2 is the reason we came back to eq1.

going to be waiting along while

[Foxplay]

Don't forget after the long wait there is also the possibility of it being a bad game...

I thought eq2 was going to be amazing but even going into it with high expectations the younger me was amazed at how a newer game could be worse infact way worse than it's predecessor

[Zekayy]

Bump....