Korzax Stonehammer
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EQ TLP - Mischief (Free Trade / Random Loot)
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Tranny Chaser
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The only problem with Classic is Sky. It's just shitty for a lot of classes. Either you can't land shit, you're taking DTs or you're constantly rebuffing people that took DTs. Waiting on Keeper blows and the mega Spiroc Lord and Sister farms are so fucking lame but it's how you get the gear so its what you do.
For me the expansion that has lost the most shine is Velious. It has not held up.
For me the expansion that has lost the most shine is Velious. It has not held up.
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Animosity
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100% agree with this. Luckily my life seems to always end up becoming super busy when Velious launches so I never play it anymore. Kunark always seems to get the short end of the stick. Ya the raids are minimal but the leveling zones are fun and always get skipped over.
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Vlett
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Instead of focusing on AoW every week we got to the point of splitting the raid to be able to run multiple Tormax for more T1 loot. Cheese, and I agree completely about Velious. I don't think we ever cleared ntov in under 3.5 hours. I basically only played to raid or farm gems with friends.
Cyni
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Yah Velious back in the day felt like peak EQ, but now I absolutely can't stand that expansion. Its the point in time where being a solo player you just run out of options. There feels like nothing to do (or nothing you CAN do) without a raid. Even 2-3 boxing feels weak.
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Ryoz
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Have a bit of dilemma hopefully you TLP vets can help with. As a casual player/raider, I've been able to stay on top of content pretty easily on Mischief. I can typically raid once, maybe twice a week. The guild I'm in raids 4 days a week (sometimes 5 if they decided to add an extra day) but has no minimum req for earning/spending dkp. The schedule hasn't really been an issue so far, but now that I'm looking at the guild's schedule for PoP flagging, I'm worried I'll fall behind. They are hoping to setup an arrangement with other guilds for back flagging, or recommend sharing account info, neither of which gives me a great deal of comfort. I'm wondering whether I should look for a guild that has a more casual schedule. I really don't want to be on the sidelines while ele gods are being pummeled.
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Any zones worth your time for experience (Fire, Water, Earth) are easy to back flag if there is room for you to piggyback in. I expect there will be pickup raids for the earlier zones a few weeks into the expansion, so don't feel pressured to buy a hail (the general opinion is that's scummy and some guilds will give them away for free a few weeks into the expansion just to piss off the sellers). In addition, there are several smaller groups of boxers who will probably let you tag along if all you want is a hail, assuming you aren't going to be dead weight or make things worse.
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Kirun
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I thought Droga/Nurga revamps don't happen until LDoN?
Hot take: Velious was always a shitty expansion. It had HORRIBLE dungeons for leveling that are out in bumbfuck nowhere and had shitty mechanics like massive amounts of water(SG), traps (DoN), "events" (ToFS), etc. (Velk's only gets love now because they made massive changes to its exp mod). Tons of faction grinding/gem farming, long, boring ass raids (PoGrowth trash clearing sure was a hoot). It just never got noticed because most "normies" were still fucking about in Classic or Kunark zones. People thought it was "omg awesome", because they saw folks like Triton, FoH, etc. bringing back hauls of loot and assumed it must be amazing. Repeated TLPs show what a dogshit expansion that was - not surprisingly, it had a LOT of apprentice level designers on it, just like Luclin did.
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Vlett
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We (Elf Sim) only raid Fridays and Sundays since the majority of leadership play somewhere else too. If you need something that casual let me know and I can PM you a draft of the planned schedule. ( We don't plan to be in time until January, but some things may go faster. )
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mtnhmr
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Lambourne
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Since competition from other players is usually the biggest issue on launch day, popping any DZs you can will give you some stress free private zones to clear. A full clear of Griegs, Seru, and AC trash will give you a good chunk of XP and it beats the hell out of waiting for respawns in a busy open world zone.
A half decent guild should do Manic Behemoth and Grummus in the first few days and that will open Crypt of Decay and Tactics to you, which are decent zones to grind in.
Korzax Stonehammer
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Muligan
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I've always really enjoyed classic as well. While I didn't like the idea of instancing at first, it's a nice QoL since it's not like a group gets their own private instance with all the camps, I personally really enjoy splitting camps and seeing groups roll through dungeons. That is one thing I have never enjoyed about WoW or other MMO's is the closed, instanced dungeons. Dead horse I know, but it takes a large part of the MMO experience when I can just sit in one place, interact with a piece of the UI (Dungeon Finder), and spam a private zone over and over again. I might as well play Diablo.....
Anyway, Classic and PoP were and still are my favorites but I do agree about Velious. Outside of raiding, I goof around in Velks and that's about it. You could have probably taken the good pieces of Velious and added them to Everfrost/Perma/Halas and just make those zones a little more exciting
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Evernothing
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Prioritize your PoJ trial and Hedge Maze.
Joining a more casual guild like the Elf Sim mentioned by Vlett is probably a good idea.
Getting Plane of Storms items is easy now, it can be done with 1 - 2 groups. If you pop a DZ you can usually key 12 people per clear.
Even if you don't have full flags, you can usually get piggied in. Once they are on Elementals / Time there are backflag pieces which drop.
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DickTrickle
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I've resigned myself into not attempting to be the first 65 on the server. I have up around 2700 pieces of planar armor but I'd have to miss some flagging to actually turn all that shit in. Still gonna time myself when I do turn it in, though!
Cinge
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Zaide
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