Thoughts on luclin?

[koros]

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

This item, which dropped like rain in Maiden's Eye single handedly crashed the market on so many 1hs weapons from Kunark/Velious it was sick. After the first week, everyone could buy one of these for 2k or less and after the first month, they were like 600 plat. It was way better than so many other weapons out here and it wrecked so much content all by itself.

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And that weapon is worse than a jade mace or a lammy mainhand. Marginally better offhand. Again, why is that an issue?

[Daldaen]

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

This item, which dropped like rain in Maiden's Eye single handedly crashed the market on so many 1hs weapons from Kunark/Velious it was sick. After the first week, everyone could buy one of these for 2k or less and after the first month, they were like 600 plat. It was way better than so many other weapons out here and it wrecked so much content all by itself.

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Centi longsword was absurdly rare. The shortsword was stupidly common but less useful.

Gonna call BS on longsword being 600 pp at any point in time...

[Sturgeon]

I want Beast Lords

[Crede]

Originally Posted by Dakidd4990 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Am I the only person who's favorite era of EQ was PoP and OoW?

From a raiding perspective, I would agree with you. Classic raids don't have shit on them. Time was great, Anguish was nearly perfection.

[Daldaen]

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

From a raiding perspective, I would agree with you. Classic raids don't have shit on them. Time was great, Anguish was nearly perfection.

Anguish was an awesome zone. Stuff going on in each event and the final event was challenging as hell when current

DemiPlane was the shit too. So many awesome mechanics in that zone and the final fight was probably in the top 3~ most epic fights I think. Behind Triunity 1.0 and the Sleeper.

Time had some decent mechanics but it was still just a CH-chain, corner tank fest. Which is sort of boring, but alpha-PoTime was interesting with all it's bugs.

[Psionide]

How do these Luclin and beyond threads ever make it past one page?

[Swish]

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

How do these Luclin and beyond threads ever make it past one page?

Get used to them, the same people who keep making Velious threads will be bored after 2-3 weeks and making demands again [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Teerian]

I'm always amused by all of the Luclin hate I see, especially from people here on P1999. I think most of it comes from the fact that Luclin changed a lot of things (as mentioned before, AA's, mounts, etc), and people tend to be resistant to change. That said, it was not a bad expansion. I thoroughly enjoyed it just as much as what most others deem "original EQ" (up to Velious). Sure, it had some unpolished aspects such as Acrylia Caverns events, but so did the expansions before. Even before Sony really took hold of the reigns, the policy for EQ expansions seemed to be along the lines of release it as soon as it's 'playable' and patch the rest later.

If you're looking for the true killer of EQ, look towards things like Lost Dungeons of Norrath and Legacy of Ykesha. Those so-called expansions were repetitive, dull, and seemingly thrown together in a half-assed manner. I'm always surprised when I see someone praise either in even the slightest.

EQ could have ended and wrapped up fine with Planes of Power. Yes, Plane of Time's ending was kind of a kick in the nuts, but it also made sense considering the whole time travel idea. I'm sure they could have continued on with a meaningful story line even after PoP, but the direction they went in is what killed it. Omens of War and Gates of Discord made less sense than the cats on the moon idea everyone seems opposed to.

While I doubt it would ever happen, I wouldn't complain about seeing Luclin or even Planes of Power on Project 1999. I would, however, like to see it limited in some way. Making it a kind of custom content MUCH later in the future would be cool, but perhaps as either a second server that you can copy a max-level character to after you feel you've 'retired' from Velious (assuming Rogean and crew could afford to start and maintain another), or perhaps have all AA's/mounts/other Luclin+ additions switched off for Velious and older. I suspect this would be a coding nightmare, but at least there wouldn't be a timeline to follow anymore.

[fadetree]

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

I'm always amused by all of the Luclin hate I see, especially from people here on P1999. I think most of it comes from the fact that Luclin changed a lot of things (as mentioned before, AA's, mounts, etc), and people tend to be resistant to change. That said, it was not a bad expansion. I thoroughly enjoyed it just as much as what most others deem "original EQ" (up to Velious). Sure, it had some unpolished aspects such as Acrylia Caverns events, but so did the expansions before. Even before Sony really took hold of the reigns, the policy for EQ expansions seemed to be along the lines of release it as soon as it's 'playable' and patch the rest later.

If you're looking for the true killer of EQ, look towards things like Lost Dungeons of Norrath and Legacy of Ykesha. Those so-called expansions were repetitive, dull, and seemingly thrown together in a half-assed manner. I'm always surprised when I see someone praise either in even the slightest.

EQ could have ended and wrapped up fine with Planes of Power. Yes, Plane of Time's ending was kind of a kick in the nuts, but it also made sense considering the whole time travel idea. I'm sure they could have continued on with a meaningful story line even after PoP, but the direction they went in is what killed it. Omens of War and Gates of Discord made less sense than the cats on the moon idea everyone seems opposed to.

While I doubt it would ever happen, I wouldn't complain about seeing Luclin or even Planes of Power on Project 1999. I would, however, like to see it limited in some way. Making it a kind of custom content MUCH later in the future would be cool, but perhaps as either a second server that you can copy a max-level character to after you feel you've 'retired' from Velious (assuming Rogean and crew could afford to start and maintain another), or perhaps have all AA's/mounts/other Luclin+ additions switched off for Velious and older. I suspect this would be a coding nightmare, but at least there wouldn't be a timeline to follow anymore.

I agree. Actual EQ ended after PoP. Pop was a good, fun expansion and other than ruining the travel experience was a lot of fun. The lore ended there, that shit afterwards was just randomly made up.

[RiffDaemon]

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

How do these Luclin and beyond threads ever make it past one page?

Because everyone wants to take the opportunity to throw in what he'd be acceptable with, e.g. "I'd be cool with everything up to [Expansion A] but without [feature 1] from [Expansion B] and [feature 2] from [Expansion C] .... and so forth and so on."