Finally a sign of hope. I for one am really happy about these two zones getting the revamp, for a few reasons. First its a good sign that Sony isn't going to leave us deticated EQ1 players hanging out to dry anytime soon. Also, it will give some newer players the chance to see some of these zone we old farts grew up in, though in a newer, more difficult fashion. Some people will be pissed about the zones getting the revamp but honestly, when was the last time you were there? The answer is probably a long time ago, so there is no reason to ***** about it. The thing about EQ is its basically Expansion'ed itself to death. By this I mean it has made so many really interesting and fun zones completely trivial. Thus leaving no reason for players to go there because the zone doesn't have elemental XP or PoTime equivlent drops.
If I had it my way Sony would revamp 70% of the exsisting zones. There are going to be very few if any new players starting EQ and the people who plan to stay here already most likly have 2+ 65+ toons with 500k pp. And there is always Paludal Caverns to level newbie's anyway.... Its amazing to look back and to remember this game used to be hard. It seems latly that every person has gear that is equal to the Elements on thier level 50 toons, with 100k in the bank. LOL, makes me laugh since my grind to 65 which took awhile... I only made about 10k the entire time. My point being is so many items are so compleely useless that once were reguarded as "Uber". With that, the zones that contain those items are now so barren because there is no real reason to go there, other then nestalgic reason. I would like to see a wider varity of XP/Loot zones. Sony keeps making new expansions and just leaving the old zones just sit there. Much could be done with these older zones. And I think people would go there. Some revamps just don't work like the VP one. So who knows, I may be looking at the past to much I freely admit I miss the old days of EQ. I miss the game being a challange. Not including Time and Upper God and OoW.
I do have to say I agree with some of the stuff CodeguruX said. GoD is a mystery to me as well. To me, OoW and GoD just don't feel "EQ" to me. I like the zones, but there are deffinatly flaws. As for making people go deep into zones for raids, well its usally always been this way in one way or another. It used ot be raids were set up for one or two targets or so and the raid had to fight to get to them. So the GoD stuff is rehashed, although much more difficult. I agree PoP was probably the pennicle of EQ in terms of Raiding format. Agian though if you look at it the mobs you raid for in those lower PoP zones have one mob thats deep within the zone. Elemental on the other had have lots of raid mobs that are realitvly easy to pull to set places. I.E. PoFire. LDoN was a good idea, just didn't last. LoY.. what was tha about anyway? oh yeah maps. GoD had tough zones that are now completely empty 90% of the time, agian this goes back to bad level design due to XP, not so much Gear there though there is some good drops in the *cough* lower end GoD zones.. It's funny that people will scoff at an item now that doenst have at least +7 to all stats and 100+ mana, HP and Endur.
Well we can all ***** as much as we want its not going to change the world. I posted here because I care about EQ and I'm not going to go to another MMORPG. So in closeing I am glad that Sony is continuing to put forth an effort to keep people interested in EQ1. And those poeple who are pissed off so bad they quit well, I'll let you in on a secret. if you go to WoW or EQ2 or some other game, the odds are about at 99% your gonna find somthing about that game to ***** at as well. there is no perfect MMORPG. EQ is the best there ever was until this point in time. EQ isn't dead nor is it going to die in the near future *Crosses Fingers* So the idea of revamps is a good one, who the hell wants to go to Western Plains of Karana nowadays anwyay... put some dragons that drop good gear there :+)
Thanks for reading, take care everyone.
Edited, Sat Dec 11 15:50:45 2004
