The Pinnacle of Everquest (In your opinion)

[Nirgon]

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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.

[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.

[mwatt]

I voted Luclin even though I strongly disagreed with the introduction of the SciFi theme.

Why? There were some great zones and there was AA. LOL I think there was AA, if memory serves. If not, then I go with Kunark.

POP was too problematic. Books, Bazaar and locked out zones. Casuals paying for others to play was a retarded concept. THIS was the beginning of the end. The available gear diverged too much between casuals and raiders. SOE was forced to create two games within the same game. Something had to suffer for it. That turned out to be the satisfaction of the non-raider player base and also it constrained the available development time to develop content during expansions.

[fadetree]

You can't ever go back to your original feels. Those are gone. Even if you played the exact same software/hardware/server as 1999, you STILL wouldn't be young and with your best friend in a world of wonder. So forget that. Given what we're left with, I would much rather play a 'stop at pop' server than anything else.

[Origin]

PoP easily. The depth that you had by the time PoP was released was insane.

[fadetree]

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

Actually I have the same feeling now as when I first played in 99. So you are wrong. The key is play untwinked and un powerleveled.

Good for you! You sure told me what for. Get em, tiger.

[jolanar]

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

Good for you! You sure told me what for. Get em, tiger.

I'd say he is right.

[Larkverdin]

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

Actually I have the same feeling now as when I first played in 99. So you are wrong. The key is play untwinked and un powerleveled.

Not to derail the post but I'd tend to agree here. I'm playing something race/class wise that I never even considered during Live and its pretty much all new to me so far (only 19 atm). But I agree that starting with nothing and not caring about min/maxing makes for a more enjoyable experience for me than when I did care and pushed the latest expansion/boss in other games. That's why I came to P1999.

[foldupmonk]

PoP was my favorite. I would give anything if this server someday made it up to Pop*










*I play a ranger, I just want AA points.