Wow, to the guy who was griping about druids, I tp alot of people, anyone who needs it, just sounds like you are jelious of others, we aren't at you becken call, be nice, you get ports easier, there are alot of zones, and it gets very anoying for people begging for ports.

i cant even log onto my character whos on the moon anymore lol fix luclin before you start another expansion

::Crosses fingers and chants:: (Druid)
Super Werewolf Form...
Super Werewolf Form...
Super Werewolf Form...
Super Werewolf Form...
Super Werewolf Form...
Super Werewolf Form...

(come on! it's about time we get to be werewolves..is that where our evolution in levels is going? so we end up transparent...oooo...give me my Werewolf Form! And make it look like thaaat!!)

(Seriously...just got 46 yesterday...bring it on!!) (Plane of Knowledge open to all levels, all other planes require 46 to enter - EQ POP Website)

Yes about time the made a realm for Karana and his Ranger followers to do something.


Is there going to be diety specific stuff dropped in these new zones?

If you read down to my message then your willing to read what i have to say im pretty sure =p

As for the lvling, I would think it would be a VERY good idea to make it that if you want to lvl up from 60-61, 61-62... and so on up to what ever lvl, I think they should make it that you can ONLY gain that lvl in a certain high lvl zone within Planes of Power. Giving people the chance to go to Velks, or some other zone just to farm spiders to get experience to get to 70 will greatly unbalance the game and the zones within EQ already. A group of lvl 70's could then clear out Hate, Fear, Growth, and Air with ease since they will just be that much higher of a lvl than the mobs in the zone, and it would be no challenge. When I think of a challenge to high end gamers, Id say, make them EARN their experience. Make them kill through UBER mobs to gain exp, it would be a slow grueling process, but It would stop people from soloing spiders or some other mob because their gear is just that good. Next, Make chanters be a little more worth while on raids, Not saying they arent, but many high lvl encounters, you cant even mezz the guys. Which of course makes it tuff, but whats a chanter going to do, sit back wait for c3 calls and shissar plz. Give warriors the ability to bind. Whats the differance... really, Warriors or any other melee for that matter, just sit back and wait for the casters to go in, and rez them back to their bodies. If all else fails, theyll get a necro to do it. But if your in SG, its a real punk to have to run some people from SS or if they forget to bind in SS, run them from Kael or whereever they are bound, back to the zone. While the casters are able to be put right at the zone line. Most of the casters a plenty capable though of making it back down to their bodies since casters are near full power without their gear on. Since they got their spells and a spell book memorized. Tell me, how do casters seem to keep their book with all those cantations on their body when they are reborn at their bind points? And why cant a warrior at least be reborn at his bind point with weapons in hand? Its the same differance, cept favor in casters hands yet again. I also think all types should be able to somewhat hide themselves. Maybe not give warriors or palidines the ability to sneak... but what 2 bit moron doesnt know how to hide? Only rogues i guess can hide, and all other casters except for clerics, everyone should be able to use hide, since EVERYONE either naturally knows, or has sometime in their life knows how to hide to aviod confrentation. But not everybody knows how to sneak around silently, so that can be held solely to those classes which are capable to do so. Im tired of sitting down in a corner, and get up to go to the bathroom, no sooner i get back and realize theres been a train pulled on me and Im all but dead.

Your making the game so ungodly hard and so really lifelike that you cant even escape to do some real life activity safely. Theyre needs to be some thing which will allow that sort of thing. Maybe make it that if you have to go, put a time limit on how long it takes to get back, so people cant abuse it, since when you do leave, your not able to log back in for 15 min. So if you are in the middle of an important raid, your friends better watch over you, or your not going to be able to help out for another 15 min. But if your on your own, waiting to get in a group in the velks or something, that 15 min is a viable escape where you can go to the bathroom, run grab a bowl of cereal or pop in a pizza to eat. Or even answer that telephone call without tearing **** across the house, pick up the phone, then tear **** back to make sure nothings been trained onto you.

As for stuff already in place, make some areas that will allow for better experience gaining up to lvl 60. The worse part about the game I find is the grind and repetative nature of leveling up. Or even going for AA points. The only nice thing about lvling up for lvls or AA points are those hard to get camps in which a rare spawn or named spawn pops up, and theirs a chance to pick up decent gear which is a step up from mid 30's quest gear, but not as good as 50's quest gear. Like in the Upper dogs in the velks, drops spider fur gear, and shimmering terror hide gear. Also a Barbed BP and some nice gems, hides and paws for good deal of cash. Only problem is, this spot is camped over HEAVILY and all other spots below, with Top shelf or the very highest point in the entry way to the velks, everything else is a constant flow of the same looking spiders, the same screeching annoying spiders. Same boring loot which the mass majority of people destroy, and not worth the arrows you buy to hunt there with for items dropping which you can sell for some pp. Spice it up a bit, make exp gaining a little more fun. Most fun in exp gaining is basically when people poke fun, or do stupid things. Which is fun, dont get me wrong, but when you get into a group thats not very active, and not in the mood to joke around. Having a grinding spider after spider, is BORING!!! Good exp, but BORING!!! Sebilis is a little more fun, cause the froggies are a little easier to poke fun at, but other than that, its the same basic thing, with the exception of rare stuff droping at most all camps, which makes it a nice place to go to. But when you zone in and hit / and find that theirs 40 players in the zone, that leaves absolutly NO camps left open. If a spot does open, you got them stupid entry way frogs stopping you from joinin the people within. They see invis, and you cant sneak/hide past em, so its basically an annoyance when u have to leave your camp, go all they way up to the entry way, and then come all the way back down. There are ways of getting around this little annoyance =p but thats for you to find out... The new CT zone would be cool if it wasnt for the fact its frickin harder than all else to get past even the courtyard. HS is good exp but without the keys, and without a very skilled group your not going to be gettin exp all that much. But i do think HS is a viable way to make the new expansion for exp wise. Make a tuff zone which involves questing to get into, then in that zone alone is where you can lvl up in. Make it a little more multi group friendly but other than that, make it a REAL challenge, and a lot of fun to get exp.

Well my internet connection just cut on me, for no apparent reason, gotta love dial-up... /finger dial up... So I hope this little rant/personal opinion on how the game should be directed still gets posted. As said in the first post, Id like to see some more stuff be able to be done and accomplished on the singular lvl, but I wouldnt go so far as to say that Vulakk can be killed by yourself and get his gear, then if 2 people comes he gets harder, this isnt Diablo 2, and if you know the people in Diablo 2 theyre not very friendly and the game is so impersonal it gets boring. Main factor which has kept me coming back to EQ and has kept me on the same server, are the people i meet and the people I will meet in the future. Also keeping in touch with old friends who cant play at the same time as me because of RL changes. But in rare occasions i am on when they are and it is nice to catch up with them. Diablo 2... BigBadslaasher you meet on your first day is now BigBadCaster or BigBadNecro... and that person is lost within the network of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of accounts. And if BigBadSlassher isnt their, oh well, the game is just as challenging and just as rewarding if he was replaced with ImCoolAt12, you cant do anything to me so ill be a moron. Basically, in D2 people are expendible. EQ... ok you are somewhat expendible, but not really. Players with skill and lots of effort put into the game are definatly NOT expendible. Leader of guilds and those that get people motivated to achieve goals that individuals couldnt do on their own are NOT expendible. Those that help achieve those goals are not as expendible as in D2 since its the collective which forms together to advance the guild, but if one or 2 people leave, the game will allow you to adapt as such that your not totally left out. In the end everyones position is expendible, but the person is not. And in EQ you really get to know the person behind the computer, who is by far NOT expendible. If they act in such an impersonal manner like they do in D2, they will not be accepted into guilds, and they will not succeed. Just as in real life, those that dont follow the norm, or work hard to achieve the goals they set or goals set before them by others, they will not succeed and they will not advance farther in our society. /yawn ok im done now. Seriously talked a bit to much =p looked over at the clock and its much MUCH later than what it was at when i began this post. heh.

Have fun in the game, no matter what turns it will take in the future. And respect your elders, in or out of the game!! Dont rip on the high lvls when verant caters to them, theyve by far earned their keep, and earned the stuff their getting.

I haven't been around EQ as long as probably 99% of you that have been posting here, and most of you might laugh at the idea of only being lvl 15 after 6 weeks of time on EQ, but I have a few words to say. You are all a bunch of ungrateful, selfish, little people who are looking for the next expansion or patch, or whatever it is that they come out with to be geared toward YOU. Well guess what people, it's a big world out there, several million people playing this game, not everyone can be where you are, and not everyone can dedicated straight 40 hours a week or more to the game, like having a second full time job (or even a job for those of you out there too young or lazy, or unfortunate enough not to have one).

Having said that, I played EQ about 5 hours in about 3 days, before I was hooked. It was that simple, ease of play, vast open world, that for someone who only puts in if their lucky, 15 hours a week, this game seems almost endless. Now they are coming out with a new game, GREAT, I don't have to worry about running out of things to do for another 10 years at least at my pace, just with the current material out there. I blame EQ for my craze to run out and upgrade nearly every aspect of my computer (including the whopping speaker system) in order to fully enjoy my game play, just so I could enjoy Luclin when I purchased it. Personally, yes, there are some things that after only 6 weeks I can find that I would like to have changed (like the ability to bind at any zone), but people, if you quit dedicating your life to this game, sit back and enjoy it instead of rushing to get as high as you can as quickly as you can, then maybe you might enjoy the new things that EQ does get to the customer. For instance, I am a dark elf,and still have never left the continent of Antonica, yet, and just the other day in a patch they changed my home of Nektulos Forest, what seems almost entirely, and I have been enthralled since, just to check out all the new things.

Enjoy the game for it's complex system of characters and places to search, you'll never get this currently from any final fantasy game, so take your choice. And for those of you that want to back your arguement by saying Lord of Camelot or another online game is better, well I wouldn't know, but if you're so unhappy, go there yourself and quit ********* You pay your money every month like a good boy/girl and you will get what you pay for. Try paying $50 for a game that you beat in 2-3 months (some people maybe 2-3 days) on one of these home console systems, or offline computer games, and then what do you have, not an ever changing, expanding, and fully interactive environment. I personally love what I've seen so far, and kudos to those of you who don't ***** about this being the worst thing ever.

By the way, I've heard there are mobs out that take a full group of lvl 60's currently to beat, and I'm sure at least some of you know what I'm talking about. Maybe instead of getting on a kick about what to do for increasing the difficulty of a grouped mission, what about gearing the game more towards those that like to interact, but hate to fight with other people. Sometimes teamwork is not an option, and you just kill on your own, so how bout making high level stuff that doesn't require groups, but if attacked in groups, becomes exceedingly difficult. If you're that high in the game, then what do you have to lose but lots of exp :)

is there a release date announced yet? i dont wanna browse for an hour to find out

Why have level caps at all?
it could be an infinate system where level 70 is an infinate amount of exps, that way level 70 exists but you can never get to it! That will ***** up some people who will still try and get to it!

Also as regards disused zones allot of the problem is getting close bind points, why can't melees be bound anywhere. I mean they have to get someone to bind to start with why should it be only casters can bind nearly anywhere and melee's cannot? melees have a hard deal as it is without being able to do many things without a group doesnt make any sense to me why it should be made harder.

EQ is also run by money and to get more they are releasing expansions, instead of improving the actual gameplay and running a realistic world with events that are not just half-arzed.
This is supposed to be Everquest not Everlevel
Evertwink or Everslay

I wouldnt mind paying more per month to have a decent EQ for everyone that actually makes you think and take part. Each server could then evolve as the players want leading to more variety.

just my opinion

Xorthan druid of the 50th circle
Bristlebane

Im angry, why would they go and release a new expansion when the world they have isnt finished. I was staring at my EQ map yesterday and could point out dozens of places that are there but dont have a zone to them. Gee whiz, why dont they get the bazzar up and running first. Or how about finishing finishing the town of Sanctus Seru? It seems to me that Luclin was rushed to get it out before Christmas so they dident finish it all, thinking they could just finish it later in the patches. Then it came out, people are happy, so why bother finishing it. BAH!! And how come the graphics from the screenshots on the back of the Luclin box look oh so much better then the actual game graphics. <dont belive me, whoop out the box, turn it around and look at the screenshot of the highelf, third one from the top.> All i can say is BAH!!!

"A central storyline linking these together into one compelling quest"

Uber_Player_01 hands in last peice to last mob to complete the last quest.

You gain party experience!
Congratulations you have just beaten Everquest!

Thank you for your patronage. We look foward to seeing you in Everquest 2.

"opens portals to Norrath making travel easier than ever"

Either more Luclin portals... or perhaps Miragul's highway is gonna open up finally?

Everyone has to realize that this is just a game and just a computer incrementing some variable.

Original Everquest:

You: You have slain a snake!
You gain experience!

Computer: Experience = Experience + 10
if Experience > Level_1_Experience
{
Level = Level + 1
}

Kunark:

You: You have slain a Drolvarg Sentry!
You gain experience!

Computer: Experience = Experience + 20
if Experience > Level_45_Experience
{
Level = Level + 1
}

Velious:

You: You have slain a Crystalline Watcher_001!
You gain experience

Computer: Experience = Experience + 50
if Experience > Level_55_Experience
{
Level = Level + 1
}

Planes of Power:

You: You have slain Ralloz Zek!
You gain experience!

Computer: Experience = Experience + 1,000,000,000
if Experience > Level_70_Experience
{
Level = Level + 1
}

You have gained a level!
You are now Level 70!
A mystic voice tells you "Now what are you going to do! You just wasted 300 days of your life on EQ!"

http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/march02/humblerod/1s.jpg

Its a shot of Tarew Marr -- Water God.

Edited, Fri Mar 22 16:12:52 2002