TLP live server better than green p99

[magnetaress]

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

In everquest the gear system went like this

Classic had almost nothing , kunark had good droppable weapons but no real raid gear, only once velious hit was there a "Set" For your class that wasnt garbage

None of which were required to do anything as once luclin hit you could get tons of gear much easier, sure the bosses got big hp boosts but you still eventually won

Once pop hit ornate destroyed all previous raiding because it was "Good enough" to not bother with any and all previous content

However, you could not raid gates without at least ELE planes gear from pop preferably time gear

And once Omens came out you werent raiding anything with omens ornate so you had to raid pop. Later, DODH came out and still you werent doing anything without time / gates gear so even tho it was 4 expansions old, you still HAD to do previous content


This was destroyed once SOF Came out with elaborate gear and eq died at that point

Always why i say the best "Era" of everquest was pop to dodh

AAA post. Thanks for sharing.

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[magnetaress]

All of this said, on live, at max lvls or near max lvls you only need 6 or so friends to 'beat' the previous expansions. I don't see how impossible it could be to make a few buddies that want to do similair things, there's got to be a least a few thousand people on this planet who don't mind looting +10 earings instead of +100 earings.

On wow i ran pick up groups where I organized (and kicked bad players) to do the previous expansions content using their group finder tool, which is pretty good actuaully. After several runs, it was possible to get a group of people who wanted to run it a few times for vanity items or just because they liked doing the old raid with 3 or 4 people instead of 40. In this way I was able to complete most of the old expansion before the Lizard Lady Queen of the Oceans BFA mini expac.

[magnetaress]

Personally, I like doing content @ level once when it was hard, then overlvl and twinked thereafter if I just want to RP an elf maiden.

I am not at all invested in the perpetual nuclear winter that Velious locked servers and end game are. It's boring. Though I really appreciate the challenge of the lower lvls and 'starting out'. from scatch, ish.

[magnetaress]

start populating mobs and longswords babe, the SQL is there [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] this time qeynos is overrunn by the gnolls and everyone lives in a hovel in splitpaw, the quest line is to take back qeynos and through making copies of Qeynos eventually u will have re-taken the city via phasing with your trusty merc! Aka WoW. And the hidden forest! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Swish]

It was all downhill after Planes of Power. Great expansion, but alas.

Nobody really mentioned mercs in previous posts. Once you see people preferring to have a merc healer over trying to group anywhere... "you're in you're own world now"

Same reason why a lot of P99ers don't want to play on servers where boxing is the norm.

[magnetaress]

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

It was all downhill after Planes of Power. Great expansion, but alas.

Nobody really mentioned mercs in previous posts. Once you see people preferring to have a merc healer over trying to group anywhere... "you're in you're own world now"

Same reason why a lot of P99ers don't want to play on servers where boxing is the norm.

I got that but what is wrong with a human healer bringing their own merc dps, merc tank with a few target selection commands or auxiliary healers? Options should have been good. Mercs where supposed to breeze people up to 85.

I think, yes think. It is not the games themselves, mostly its people can't be assed to socialize for hours at a time.

If I was a billionaire I would definitely pay people to play with me though. And I wouldn't group with any F2P mentally ill elf IRL larpers.

Actually the more I think about it it Mercs are a 1st step towards the inevitable, interaction with AI slaves. Familiars already crack jokes and try to fill out the missing social depth.

[Sibelia1]

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

I got that but what is wrong with a human healer bringing their own merc dps, merc tank with a few target selection commands or auxiliary healers? Options should have been good. Mercs where supposed to breeze people up to 85.

I think, yes think. It is not the games themselves, mostly its people can't be assed to socialize for hours at a time.

If I was a billionaire I would definitely pay people to play with me though. And I wouldn't group with any F2P mentally ill elf IRL larpers.

Actually the more I think about it it Mercs are a 1st step towards the inevitable, interaction with AI slaves. Familiars already crack jokes and try to fill out the missing social depth.

i know this dominatrix, she scraped and owned a property in portland where she whipped ppl, sold it and now is "on a compound" so to speak with like 20 ppl who wait on her desperately. just a lifestyle thought

[Bigsham]

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

It was all downhill after Planes of Power. Great expansion, but alas.

Nobody really mentioned mercs in previous posts. Once you see people preferring to have a merc healer over trying to group anywhere... "you're in you're own world now"

Same reason why a lot of P99ers don't want to play on servers where boxing is the norm.

Mercs didnt come till seeds, thats a long long time after pop

lots of people liked TSS it felt very classic , i quit at SOF myself because it started to cater to new players too much but i guess they needed to or the game would have died.

Through the whole list of expansions games kept coming out that were good so everyone took breaks.

[magnetaress]

Live EQ1 still seems better than live EQ2.

I even socialized some which is a miracle since I even found ways to avoid interacting with anyone on red. There's that.