The Pinnacle of Everquest (In your opinion)

[Sampten]

Planes of Power was the greatest expansion every made, save for the stupid portal stones as it made the world too small at that point.

PoP raiding separated the men from the boys. It was unforgiving and challenging.

Furthermore, you could raid not PoP without doing Velious/Kunark as well as some Luclin content to gear up. You didn't need to be VT geared to get to the Elemental Planes, and you could gear up with Ornate patterns.

Post PoP, Velious/Kunark and even Luclin became obsolete.

The only knock on PoP is those stupid portal stones. Had them made PoK accessible off of the Nexus only, it would have been much better.

[Bodybagger]

I'd give anything for classic UI and blindly roaming Qeynos hills or learning Everfrost in the dark as a newb barbarian warrior with my best friend also playing a barbarian warrior, with no real gear at all, or clue what we were doing, just pummeling anything that didn't con Red as we wandered through the lands.

Seriously... no one min/maxed. You played an ogre because you wanted to be a big dumb evil giant ogre. They were hated. It was impossible to do anything... you were oppressed by the game innately even if no one was roleplaying against you themselves. I quit playing my ogre at lvl 11 or so because I couldn't bear it in classic, and unlike iksar you can't just level 1-50 in zones surrounding your newb city...

Gear also meant something back then... and at the same time meant nothing. You weren't constantly inspected for approval, you were accepted for your presence. People were thankful to have an extra warm body there to take hits, even if you were wearing crafted leather armor (I made QUITE the living as a tailorer In Halas/Everfrost as a young Barbarian) and had sharpened tarnished weapons... me and my buddy ran around HAMMERING shit with rusty halberds we had wrenched form the hands of the local undead plight and I had sharpened and honed the blades by hand, to protect ourselves from the vengeful skeletal bards roaming the snowcaps. Life was epic.

[Daldaen]

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

Planes of Power was the greatest expansion every made, save for the stupid portal stones as it made the world too small at that point.

PoP raiding separated the men from the boys. It was unforgiving and challenging.

Furthermore, you could raid not PoP without doing Velious/Kunark as well as some Luclin content to gear up. You didn't need to be VT geared to get to the Elemental Planes, and you could gear up with Ornate patterns.

Post PoP, Velious/Kunark and even Luclin became obsolete.

The only knock on PoP is those stupid portal stones. Had them made PoK accessible off of the Nexus only, it would have been much better.

Don't think I'll ever understand this point of view. People already want a small world, evidence by the fact that most who play here will pay for a port to a place 2-3 zone lines away.

Druids/Wizards keep their utility by being able to port faster to more varied locations.

[heartbrand]

Large worlds suck because everyone is too far spread out. PoK helped eliminate that, and still does to this day in live eq. I really don't get the hate.

[heartbrand]

I think what I hate most about Classic EQ is how underutilized so much of the content is due to poor itemization and the lack of meaningful quests. I love the world of Classic EQ but not so much it's content. I would love to play a classic gameplay server that properly itemized all zones, increased difficulty of many of them such as runnyeye / befallen, added more quest lines etc. oh well

[Nirgon]

Read last 2 pages of thread

HB real mersed

[apio]

yeah there seems to be a group of people here who just like to blindly echo the PoK hate and how the bazaar and PoK destroyed the game. I think WoW and other contenders emerging and slowly siphoning off the EQ playerbase is what really killed the game.

[Velerin]

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Pre-kunark is the best EQ hands down.. Seriously just look at any of it, look at HHK, look at Castle Mistmoore, look at Lower Guk.. a city of end game frogs under the feet of lost club wielding trolls looking for their diaper wearing corpses floating in the bubbling swamp.

Look at Rathe mountains, the mysterious named creatures like petrifin.. look at lavastorm mountains, two dragons, in love and separated by fire and ice.

look at the once great Najina, with its trampled doors and festering corpses hanging from hooks in the endless prisons guarded by dark elf wizards studding the dark arts, visit the foreign quarter of Nerriak and see the ogres trying to make a go of it selling jewlry to the narcissistic elves at Shiny Tings, pop in for a drink at the bar by the lake in the commons, see the leatherfoot raider spies swimming by the windows at the waterline.

look at Qyenos, the clock towers, the NPC dwarves that hang out at the bars and get in fights with the other patrons by the docs. Look at the karanas, the majestically great farmer filled karanas.

Qeynos hills, visit the forest city of Surefall Glade, where you can begin a quest delivering mail as a bard across the world of norrath.

That wonder of what is on any of the myrad of islands you pass by as you travel to the mainland city of Freeport to begin your adventures as an elf or a dwarf.

The dark thermagotists in Befallen, the lizards of Cazic Thule trying to summon the dark lord for thier bidding, the snow capped Everfrost peeks where Karg Ice bear wanders...

It is endless, the depth and detail of pre-kunark EQ.. it was about your imagination and for exploration.. it wasn't about gameplay and min maxing or pixels.. it was a magical time.

Classic EQ pre kunark is by far the best EQ ever created.

As if you needed all that, when all you need is to just look at this SS.

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Yeah, this is perfect. Classic is when EQ felt more like roaming around another world and exploration rather than just trying to find the next loot dropping mob. It's the only time I would actually walk into a bar in Neriak and buy beer and see other players doing the same thing and start a conversation. Random NPCs muttering stuff and wandering around. You had no idea if it was a quest or what for. Chances are it was just some broken quest or worthless reward but you had no idea. Walk around buildings and read all the signs around, etc. That was immersion. Newer expansions had lore but not that same real world DnDesque immersion.

[webrunner5]

Yeah but you would have done the same thing as Sony did. They were trying to make money off the game, and if it got stale with nothing much else to do people would have quit. So, ergo, a new expansion every 9 months to a year. Keeps lots of people happy, money rolls in.

Nobody on live has ever said you have to buy the extensions or ever play in them. I have no clue why people piss and moan so much about Live. Just stop in Velious on live if you want, never get a Merc, and guess what, same as here almost. Jesus. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Daldaen]

They ended up changing too much of the basic code even if the content stays the same.

That was a solid option on Al'Kabor. If you just wanted Velious you could never take PoK books or level past 60, and just stay in Velious. There was a guild devoted to this for several years infact. Never used any AAs or Luclin spells. Just did their thing in Velious.

They cleared half of NToV and everything else except AoW and Tunare from Velious. Was quite impressive.