Would PoP be considered classic if it was released before Luclin?

[Plur]

I loved Luclin. PoP is where live eq lost me, too much stuff became trivialized.
Nexus was an awesome zone, and I really liked how you could travel to a couple different zones from the spires. The PoP books on the other hand... wayyy too much.

[86753o9]

If a person likes luclin or PoP, why would he play project 1999 instead of live?

[Doil_Boil]

I've heard the idea of attaching the PoP raid zones to the old world. Perhaps reworked with custom content by the staff. Seems like a really interesting idea.

[harnold]

everyone is saying how luclin raiding was bad becuase of high hp/ac bosses....

So i guess that means velious raiding also sucks since thats the same exact thing

keep them at 32khp forever, i say

[Cecily]

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

everyone is saying how luclin raiding was bad becuase of high hp/ac bosses....

So i guess that means velious raiding also sucks since thats the same exact thing

keep them at 32khp forever, i say

I noticed the similarity after doing a few beta raids. Every high end fight in Velious is gonna feel like Vex Thal. Classic EQ sucks lol.

[Satanicmajestysrequest]

I will admit at the time I really enjoyed PoP. The plane of knowledge was extremely helpful. Looking back though, I'm not sure I like idea of the books and whatnot.

[Mandalore93]

Sorry but as I've said before Luclin and PoP are just flat out mechanically superior expansions. People just have terrible memory when influenced by nostalgia and bad recognition of correlation/causation. They do have to be given a slight pass though seeing as it would be the first time many had to deal with top end bloat and inflation. The solutions the dev team made to combat this was pretty great in my opinion.

[oldhead]

Originally Posted by Mandalore93 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry but as I've said before Luclin and PoP are just flat out mechanically superior expansions. People just have terrible memory when influenced by nostalgia and bad recognition of correlation/causation. They do have to be given a slight pass though seeing as it would be the first time many had to deal with top end bloat and inflation. The solutions the dev team made to combat this was pretty great in my opinion.

Everything you said is wrong... how is that possible without trying?

[webrunner5]

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

Everything you said is wrong... how is that possible without trying?

I disagree. Luclin and PoP were well oiled machines compared to Classic. It was probably the Zenith of any game in the world at the time and I think probably the best era of the Original EQ. And Yes, I loved the Beastlord class and AA's also. The graphics in Luclin were over the top compared to Classic. Now I think some of the older character models looked better, Ogre, Troll, but the zones were just beautiful. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[mokfarg]

Originally Posted by webrunner5 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I disagree. Luclin and PoP were well oiled machines compared to Classic. It was probably the Zenith of any game in the world at the time and I think probably the best era of the Original EQ. And Yes, I loved the Beastlord class and AA's also. The graphics in Luclin were over the top compared to Classic. Now I think some of the older character models looked better, Ogre, Troll, but the zones were just beautiful. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Well oiled? I quit because the entire game didn't feel like one cohesive world any longer. The game no longer felt like a wonderful fantasy world, rather a mix matched graphics, cobbled together pile of do, with books, PoK, Bazaar, Sci -Fi theme, cats on a moon, ball of crap. It was no longer built as a wonderful immersive world to pull you in, rather built for convenience as a monster killing factory.