So what's there to do in Velious anyway?

[fadetree]

I liked luclin, if for nothing else than finally some ranger love. SSRA was a very cool zone as well...lots of good stuff in luclin. PoP was a great expansion, but I don't want P99 to go there...it just really finalized the end of the game I knew for me. After PoP, it was a different game. Still pretty good, but not the same.

[Tecmos Deception]

I think there is a lot to be said of playing EQ for the sake of playing EQ. Just because CC doesn't offer upgrades to a level 60 doesn't mean that level 60 isn't going to have a hell of a good time for many hours /played on an alt in that zone.

Also, I think the "errybody has a 60!" thing is quite an exaggeration. http://p1999pop.dmsimard.com/db/Levels ... 5500+ characters seen on the server and fewer than 300 of them are 60s, even though we have a bare minimum of 800-900 different actual players on the server every single night. 3/4 of the characters on the server are sub-50!

[falkun]

Heartbrand, I don't think there are enough players on Red to clear NToV, kill AoW, and the like. It took Red how many weeks from their first foray into VP until they had cleared the zone? And that was with mobs with 32khps. Ya, you'll be in NToV and ST faster because you have far fewer people to key, but you'll also get far less done because you have far fewer people keyed/playing.

[heartbrand]

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

Heartbrand, I don't think there are enough players on Red to clear NToV, kill AoW, and the like. It took Red how many weeks from their first foray into VP until they had cleared the zone? And that was with mobs with 32khps. Ya, you'll be in NToV and ST faster because you have far fewer people to key, but you'll also get far less done because you have far fewer people keyed/playing.

Red cleared PD / Silverwing / Xygoz with 19~ people day one of entering VP. We full clear VP with 28-30.

[Tecmos Deception]

Besides, it's not like having AAs on red would help "new players" at all anyway. So there are more 60s on red grinding AAs. How is it you figure that will help "newbs" in in the 1-40 zones feel like the server is thriving?

[heartbrand]

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

Besides, it's not like having AAs on red would help "new players" at all anyway. So there are more 60s on red grinding AAs. How is it you figure that will help "newbs" in in the 1-40 zones feel like the server is thriving?

Pop begets pop. When you see the server with double digits, no one wants to roll there. When it hits 200+ etc., you start thinking oh this server has picked up again let me roll here, and because of this multiple people are now rolling up, more newbs in zones, more people who got burnt out @ high 40's low 50's due to groupage issues etc. It's called momentum.

[heartbrand]

A lot will depend on resists, if they continue to let us pump our resists to 500 [gotta love having 500 FR vs Nexona], then Velious is going to be pretty trivial.

[FenninEQaddict]

I think there will be plenty of fun to go around and keep everyone occupied for a few years in Velious. Lets not jump ahead too far yet.

I wonder though with all the zones being CSR zones how the competition will be. Hopefully they will let us know a couple weeks prior to release so I can take vacation time for a week to enjoy the release.

[freakyuno]

I fairly clearly, remember week 2 Velious AoW raids, and running CH with spot healing chains for 10 to 12 minutes before everyone was out of mana and camp and succor calls started. DPS early in Velious is really low before farmed / geared out velious raid forces.

[radditsu]

North dragons do not have THAT many HPS. 100k-200k range. But most of them have pretty tame Ae's Except for Vyemm , aary, and a couple of the trio (one gflux, one disease). The rest are pretty standard AE cold /fire resists. In ST, everything besides 2 of the warders are pretty easy to deal with. If you can take Tormax, you can take the majority of ST. Sont is going to be a pain due to outdoors. I always remember outside fearing dragons wrecking raids much more than anything in NTOV.


Take paludal out and luclin was amazing. It really was not worth it to exp in any zone due to the mobs being so much harder/much more hitpoints, it was all gear farming. Paludal wrecked the newbie/first tier zones for exping. Luclin put hair on my balls and made my body ready for the planes of power.