EQ1 Progression server launches June 28

[schild]

You beta tested it too?! OMG WE MIGHT HAVE MET. LOL, INTERNET.

[Signe]

Yep, I beta tested it from day one, before there were even monsters.  Just a bunch of weird people wandering around.  .  It was good fun!  Geez, you must have been a wee sprog back then!

[schild]

I was never a wee sprog. I burst from my mother's head fully grown and covered in armor.

[Strazos]

You wish your birth could be that awesome.

[schild]

I don't need to wish anything. That's just how it happened.

It's your choice if you want to believe it not.

My armor is on display at the smithsonian now next to the gun Hemingway used to kill himself.

[Signe]

Okay... someone's been hitting the gin.

[Righ]

I was never a wee sprog. I burst from my mother's head fully grown and covered in armor.

There are pictures!

[Azazel]

Returning to EQ would be like having sex with my grandmother. My moldy, dead grandmother.

Somethings just shouldn't be contemplated.

You mean you used to have sex with your moldy, dead grandmother?

[Tale]

I was never a wee sprog. I burst from my mother's head fully grown and covered in armor.

There are pictures!

Your mother's head seems to have recovered quite well. It's nice that you're looking concerned about the remaining damage to her left ear.

[Falconeer]

Finding one of Fippy's relatives on a quest in EQ2 made me laugh.  I missed Fippy and all of his pixelated goodness.

Mmmh, I could be wrong here, but if I remember correctly Fippy IS in EQ2. He is the Splitpaw Arena's Host. He's got a booming voice too. Definitely one of the greatest NPC in EQ2.

(I'll investigate and take screenshots later today)

[Glazius]

Everyone's favorite MMO is always the first MMO they ever played.

Exception to the rule here. Heck, on this site, I bet there more than a few exceptions. Probably a reasonable generalisation, however.

Anarchy Online. Anarchy "oops, you have to reinstall your entire operating system" Online.

Exception #2 here.

--GF

[HaemishM]

Returning to EQ would be like having sex with my grandmother. My moldy, dead grandmother.

Somethings just shouldn't be contemplated.

You mean you used to have sex with your moldy, dead grandmother?

Nah, she never did put out.

[edlavallee]

Does a cadaver have veto power?

[Cheddar]

My first was NWN (AOL days), but my favorite was Ultima Online.  Followed by Asherons Call.

[jpark]

Perhaps the only lesson from EQ WOW did not learn:

You can't expect to have a great player community without mechannics that permit griefing.

/train.

[Surlyboi]

Goos are camped.

[vex]

There is slightly more info on this in the June Newsletter.  I could almost play this.

[Simond]

It's now in 'open beta' (for EQ subscribers only, I assume) until the servers go live.

[Koyasha]

Kill Nagafein & Vox to open up Kunark
Kill Trakanon to open-up Velious
Wake The Sleeper to open up Luclin
etc.

Nagafen and Vox will most likely open up the Plane of Fear, Cazic Thule's death will probably open Hate, and Innoruuk's death might trigger Sky.  At least, if they're sticking to linear progression in the order things were originally released.  However, if they make it necessary to kill the Eye of Veeshan at the top of the Plane of Sky before accessing Kunark, it will be a VERY long time before anyone succeeds, and when they do, it will be through massive mega-zerg mode.  And you forgot Veeshan's Peak in Kunark - Velious will probably be opened by the defeat of Phara Dar.  Opening Luclin may be related to any one of a number of things.  Waking the Sleeper is actually pretty easy.  Defeating Vulak`Aerr is harder.  Defeating the Avatar of War is hardest (it was only done on one server pre-Luclin, and I'm pretty sure a year or so passed between Velious and Luclin release).

I'll be checking this out, but I don't expect to have enough time to really play here.  I only got into playing a Bard in the late Luclin Age though, so I look forward to experiencing the life of a Bard of the First Age.

[Engels]

Anyone know if they're also rolling back the toon changes? Like pre-Kunark bard speeds, etc?

[Strazos]

Imagine having to progress through the Luclin raids again. Temple of Ssra? UGH.

[edlavallee]

How about old EQ with new EQ2 pixelated goodness? Gotta keep the midi's retro though, those still bring nostalgic tears to my eyes. Major rotation time on the iPod.

[Merusk]

Anyone know if they're also rolling back the toon changes? Like pre-Kunark bard speeds, etc?

It was previously mentioned (previously in this thread, I think) that no, classes won't play like they did at release.  It'll be current-classes with oldworld equipment/ zones.  So no UberNecroDeathGOD, gimpy rangers or super-speed bards.

[edlavallee]

So no UberNecroDeathGOD, gimpy rangers or super-speed bards.

Rangers aren't gimpy anymore? How so?

[Merusk]

I dunno, they may be again.  I just remember them not being so bad when I quit for good 3 years ago.  (Though the perception was still around.  Much like the whole "only farmers and lamers play hunters" thing in WoW.. groupthink hates non-cloth ranged classes)  They were able to take a few hits as a light tank, and even did decent ranged and melee damage.  However, I recall a large part of that was AA tweaks.

[edlavallee]

Yes, that was what I remembered too -- the AA tweaks were nice, but you needed to suffer through how many levels gimped to get there? 50? 60? Too masochistic for me. My ranger died a reluctant death around level 24ish I think.

[El Gallo]

Imagine having to progress through the Luclin raids again. Temple of Ssra? UGH.

I hear most of the more recent EQ raid targets are instanced and well-designed.  Too bad you have to grind to 70 and a trillion AA on a regular server or grind through the cockblock-ridden shitfest of original-PoP uninstanced raids on progression to actually get to them.

If they instanced or psuedo-instanced (whit character flags or whatever) the raid content in the old game, I might play for a long while.  There is a load of content there.  But no way in hell am I going to stand around in line waiting for my turn at it in 9 after the guild of unemployed shut-ins, the guild of europeans, the guild of high school kids, the guild of college students, and the guild of early-EST workers have finished farming it.  At least I get to cockblock the "west coasters with real jobs" guild!

[shiznitz]

Imagine having to progress through the Luclin raids again. Temple of Ssra? UGH.

The server won't last that long.

As to rangers, Kunark is what really killed the ranger as a tank. Mob DPS was too high, although a well-equipped ranger could tank even cons fine with a slower. I was always a ranger in EQ1. The first 40 level were the best 40 levels for that class.

[Soln]

The server is called The Combine right?  I thought that was a joke, then I read a bit more and I think it's real.  How ironic.  I'll skip this one. 

[Engels]

The server is called The Combine right?  I thought that was a joke, then I read a bit more and I think it's real.  How ironic.  I'll skip this one. 

You know, the Combine Empire, from Norrath lore? I can see the irony tho if you're one of those poor gits like me who got Smithing up to 200 before stacking.

[vex]

The server is called The Combine right?  I thought that was a joke, then I read a bit more and I think it's real.  How ironic.  I'll skip this one. 

There are two.  The Combine and The Sleeper so jokes all around.

Vex

[HaemishM]

The server is called The Combine right?  I thought that was a joke, then I read a bit more and I think it's real.  How ironic.  I'll skip this one. 

You know, the Combine Empire, from Norrath lore? I can see the irony tho if you're one of those poor gits like me who got Smithing up to 200 before stacking.

Unfortunately, in a disgusting bit of irony, the Combine was also the name of one of the biggest collection of cockmongers on the planet at release, the Combine guild on the Karana server. Said guild also broke up when it was discovered that the leader was ebaying the guild's loot back before Kunark.

[Lum]

That the same Combine that Deyth wrangles?

[WindupAtheist]

I don't know why anyone would want to play such an old game with such shitty graphics and boring advancement.  Now if you'll pardon me, I'm going to go log into UO, as soon as I check on how the freesharders are doing with their days and days of macroing.
 

[HaemishM]

That the same Combine that Deyth wrangles?

Yep.