Hey Kaz,
Thanks for the interesting info on EQ. After getting a small taste of RvR
its lead to something more akin to bloodlust! hehe. EQ is simply not a game
that I think that I could go back to. Many of the features that you've
mentioned sound like they're getting their act together, but good bit of
those features are already present in DAoC.
The dungeon design in EQ was really good. I did like that about the game. I
left EQ due to a REALLY high frustration level with it. While some of it
was the game mechanics and the poor attitude that Verant had with customers,
and the jerks that ran around (all games have them) I just decided it simply
was not worth my time anymore to play. I have some friends who I see quite
often that still love the game and have the uber level 60 characters with
all the goodies, but when it comes down to it, I just prefer DAoC. I played
EQ since BETA and thought it was great. I still think its a great game. Its
just a great game thats not for me. I'll re-evaluate that when EQ2 is out.
I just enjoy the RvR aspect of DAoC too much. I never understood why a
Highelf would group with a character that was supposed to be his sworn
enemy. Anyhoo, I'll give EQ2 a try, but until then I am a DAoC player...well
ok, I'll play Planetside as well. ;-)
Thanks again for all the interesting info its really good to know that Sony
is catering to the customers. :-)
I'm not sure, but would my characters still be there if I decided to try the
free 30thing? Would I still have my stuff too?
Thanks
Oskar
Hibernian Bard Extraordinaire
Gathering of Ancients
Palomides
----- Original Message -----
From: <kazvorpal@...>
To: <EQ_Necromancer@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 2:15 PM
Subject: [EQ_Necromancer] EQ Has Improved Since You Left...
> --- In EQ_Necromancer@yahoogroups.com, "Howler D. Wolfe"
> <howler@b...> wrote:
> > Stuart,
> >
> > I play DAoC. I quit EQ well over a year ago. Personally, I REALLY
>
> You should log into EQ and see how much it's changed in the last
> year.
>
> The interface has gone from one of the worst in online gaming to one
> of the best. Windows can be transparent, you can move them and
> configure them easily, you can have multiple chat windows and
> configure them to each serve specific purposes. Pets no longer take
> experience, even if they do the kill alone. You can quickly and
> easily get around if you have Planes of Power, as there are Plane of
> Knowledge teleport books in every semi-civilized zone. There are
> soulbinders, so no hunting for someone to bind you in a new zone.
> Raids can now share experience cross-groups. Actually, the number of
> changes is so huge that I can't even begin to think of everything.
>
> Oh, and I think the hot spell of the day is only a year old or
> so...it's called Kodiak's Endless Intellect, or KEI, and it gives
> you sixteen mana per tick plus like 30 INT and WIS. A lower-level
> character cannot run out of mana, a mid level character never faces
> downtime at all if he's careful, even soloing, and an uber character
> has his downtime cut to a fraction, or none if in an effective group.
>
> I dunno if KEI was around more than a year ago, but nowadays there
> is /always/ someone casting it for donations in Nexus, so it's at
> least gone from nearly unknown to something anyone can get with a
> little effort...and it lasts over two hours.
>
> What's more, with the all-download expansion (Legacy of Ykesha)
> coming out in a few weeks, you can be a Frogluk, you have SIXTEEN
> slots in the bank, there is an automatic (and a manual) mapping
> system, you can dye armor SLOTS so that any armor put in it will be
> the color you like to wear. There is a new item slot called Charms,
> and a charm is a special kind of magic item which changes according
> to circumstances, like growing more powerful for each of a certain
> kind of armor you wear (like gaining HP for each piece of plate you
> equip), or other things like growing more powerful the more PP you
> are carrying.
>
> Lee's see...you were around for Luclin, which probably is what drove
> you away, but they fixed every single bug from back then. Zoning is
> faster, and messages are never lost during zone, they queue up and
> you see them after you get through.
>
> They've put out two stable, very useful expansions in just four
> months, too.
>
> In effect, once Verant ceased to exist and it became officially
> Sony, it seems they got ten times the development quality and funds,
> and it's gone from an annoying game to being as good as anything out
> there.
>
> But for the coming expansion, the Frogluks have taken over my
> original home town of Grobb, now known as Gukta, and the Trolls have
> been relegated to hanging out in the foreign quarter of Neriak until
> the new Troll city is built with the new expansion. That one thing
> really annoys me.
>
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