Are you guys sick of Velious already?

[Xadion]

on live velks was the place for exp and nice loot farm... maybe its not tuned right? or whatever- but velks was "the" place to level in velious timeline

[nyclin]

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

on live velks was the place for exp and nice loot farm... maybe its not tuned right? or whatever- but velks was "the" place to level in velious timeline

it's tuned fine, mobs in velks always had more hp and did more dmg than Kunark/vanilla dungeons

the key on live was that velious was fresh & new and people wanted the loot and the experience of playing in a new area. on P99, people realize that velks is subpar exp and instead flock to KC/Sebilis (but mostly KC)

i still wish people would spend more time in HS and Sebilis here. it seems fairly hard to find a pickup group for either zone, but KC is almost always packed.

[maskedmelon]

My recollection was during Velious era, Velks was only a leveling habitat for upper 50s and did not become popular outside that level range until later. Too many misses/resists.

[HeallunRumblebelly]

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

My recollection was during Velious era, Velks was only a leveling habitat for upper 50s and did not become popular outside that level range until later. Too many misses/resists.

Eh. For us it mostly became popular post revamp (added nameds, itemization etc. -- the way it is now) as a luclin AAXP zone when you couldn't manage a seb ae or chardok ae or a CT loot/xp run. All of that changed when fire ae opened though $$$

[Danth]

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

the key on live was that velious was fresh & new and people wanted the loot and the experience of playing in a new area. on P99, people realize that velks is subpar exp and instead flock to KC/Sebilis (but mostly KC)

Live also had twice as many people, or more, than P1999 on many servers and many less at level 60. Pickup groups in popular zones tended to spend a lot of time waiting around for respawns. Velketor's with 20 people is going to be better experience than Karnor's with 80. P1999 doesn't really have sufficient population to overcrowd all the most popular leveling spots so the secondary areas don't see so much traffic.

Danth

[Murri]

Anyone done a full ae of geonid caverns on their bard yet? I feel like that'd be some pretty crispy xp if someone could harmony or peel off the shamans.

[Champion_Standing]

You guys should try drugs.

[JayDee]

Smart people saw this coming. Velious does not offer anything for the casual player.

[ctre]

Velious was always harder.
It is a much bigger time sink.
if you examine the number of hours required to just go and play for a little bit, Velious requires much more time than the Kunark era.
So the Neckbeards still get to enjoy there 18 hour EQ day, but little Jonny cannot put more than an hour or 2 gets the rough end of the stick.
for example I might wanted to go and squish a few frogs for half an hour, but now.. if you want to go squish some spiders in velks.. more time is needed. So the older more casual players are affected in this way and do not log in as much.

My guess, (and opinion) This is an initial hit to the player base and I expect that the older zones will be more used again once some content filters down from the neckbeards to the casual 30 minute players.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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