EQ: Elder Dragons, Heart of Heroes. Made to stay, made for heroes!

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What makes us different from other servers? The first thing to mention is the professional IT background of the operators. If we're gonna do something, we do it right. We are financially independent and do not rely on donations to run the server. Unlike other Velious/Classic servers, we always give the player the freedom of choice. No matter if he wants to play strictly classic or if he prefers for example the Luclin models, it is possible. Our server is not based on another copy of PEQ. The database and the quests are unique.


OUR SERVER POLICY



OUR VISION
- Recreating the golden Velious Era with all classic zones and classic inspired gameplay.
- High quality custom quests, carefully designed in a way that they do not interfere with the original feeling of the game.
- Providing a stable and well balanced home for players.
- Challenging and rewarding long-term game play.
- Not made for multiboxers or players who want to reach everything as fast as possible.
- Single Box Server (exceptions for family on request).
- Zero tolerance for cheats like MQ2 and any kind of automated gameplay.
- This project comes from EQ enthusiasts and is made for EQ enthusiasts. No donations needed or wanted.



FEATURES
- Professionally hosted in a data center. Will be there for many years. It is made to stay!
- All zones of the Velious Era in their classic versions.
- Unique handmade database including all beloved classic items.
- Every single quest has been revised and adjusted to the Velious era.
- Lots of fluff added to recreate the original feeling.
- Most 'nerfs' have been rolled back.
- NPC guilds in which you can level up.
- Over 300 new quests.
- Many new secrets to discover.
- Level related weekly quests.
- Sortable leaderboards.
- Achievement System with unique player titles.
- Own Storyline with new items, spells and currencies.
- Hub zone in East Commonlands Tunnel with many new quests.
- New ways to obtain epic weapons and epic weapons are upgradable.
- Fully working ship travel between Butcher and Freeport.
- Gigglegibber lottery, treasure goblins with shiny loot!
- And much, much more!



QUALITY OF LIVE FEATURES
- Balanced instance system for demanded raid zones.
- Shadowrest is available in case everything goes wrong.
- New ways to travel.
- Simplified way of guild creation via RoF2 client.
- State of the art website.
- English, German and Japanese speaking Gamemasters.



THE DRAGON CLIENT
- Our RoF2-based client provides a custom made Velious style user interface, classical magic effects and classical sound.
- The client is available in two versions: DragonClientClassic and DragonClientHd with high-resolution textures.
- Yes, we have the brown skellys, even with Luclin models.

Alexzander said:

This server looks interesting.

Any word on what race/class experience penalties are like?

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Race/class EXP bonuses or penalties are not in line with our design principles:
1. Group play always has priority
2. The higher the risk, the higher the reward


Playing a certain class or race should not affect the EXP received. In the end, the group has to work and the more options there are, the better it is. However, the second principle can have some impact at the beginning. Some starting areas are easier than others (lower risk) and therefore give less EXP. At the latest when you leave them with level 4 or 5, it doesn't matter anymore.

Speaking of this, the zone EXP modifiers are balanced in such a way that it is definitely worth doing a dungeon crawl as a group in the "Classic" dungeons.

Alexzander said:

Heads up: users have to be registered at your forum to read posts under Knowledge Base. I can view threads under Features and Policy no problem, but not threads in other sections.

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Thanks for pointing this out! The guest access to the knowledge base category is now working.

Mur said:

Speaking of Exp, I see you mentioned modifiers, but what is the basic levelling speed you guys are shooting for?

If I am grouped in a high mod. dungeon, am I going to fly through levels, or is there still going to be that oh so sweet old EQ grind I miss so much.

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The experience is as close as it could be to the original EQ. Many of our team's best EQ memories are from grinding groups, you're absolutely right. Even in a dungeon with a group it takes a very long time. We have implemented the original hell levels as well.

Even at level 60 it doesn't stop. Actually, that's where it really starts. There are "things" you can buy for experience points. And believe me, you want those "things". Only one of these vendors is easily accessible. For the others, you have to slay powerful creatures first. But I don't want to spoil too much

Nothing on this server is handed on a silver platter. It's not called Heart of Heroes for nothing.