Favorite old word zones?Follow

Blah.. that's an expansion zone, not old world.

My favorite Sol A. I basically learned the game in that zone. I did pretty much all of 25 - 35 in there when I first started playing.

One of the greatest moments I had was me(cleric) and a ranger(RL friend) taking down the King in there. We were FAR from equip'd very well. Think I may have only had 140ish WIS and he was equip'd about the same, but we still managed to pull it off.

Opps …. My bad on the wording there =/

I just wanted to share a favorite older zone with you all, and give some of the newer players a place to look at. =)

Yeah, SolA is good, real dungeon - danger around every corner, feel to it. Especially when you see the drop off the cliff into the lava for the first time.

I have very fond memories of the Warrens, I swear that the first time I went there the smell of damp ole stinky dogs wafted through the room.

It is interesting though, that two of the oldest "dungeon" zones, Kedge Keep and The Hole can still present a major challenge to most players even this far down the track.

Befallen in the DE control era man that place rocked, then they nerfed it and it sucked

Oasis for the xp grind and the days when SGs used to run rampent there.

and my all time fav old world zone = Guk. that is just a great dungeon.

also like lava storm. very good feel and music for that zone.

well, its hard to get a group going in Unrest these days anyway... people are just too lazy to walk through BB and DC...

apart from the fabled mob hunters you rarely have more than 4 people in Unrest at the moment (Kane Bayle). and at least half of the time I am on my own - which his not a bad thing sometimes, as you can get ur skills up nicely

Great kick, when I went hunting the basement for the first time 2 weeks ago...no, not pulling the werebat or festering hag from below the stairs, but really going in and checking where the secret door is, remembering the tip with the lava...

want to make at least another 2 lvl in there (34 at the mo).

ah yes, and Mistmore, only grouped there 4 or 5 times or so, pulling to the zoneline. but these casters and gargoyles, really scary... although, when I think of it, hunting hill giants in Rathe Mountains 3 weeks ago was great fun too... and I was kind of scared when I figured, that my Stuns don't work there...

another favourite is Steamfont. not because I am a gnome, but it's just quieter than Greater Faydark, the mobs are nicely seperated lvl wise, the Grikbar Kobolds are not social (at least it never happened to me that they aggroed). but still need a few lvls to kick Meldraths butt :-D

but when I see the zones listed here, there is plenty for me to do, only know half of antonica so far.

anyway, I do have only one vote, so that one goes to Unrest :)

EDIT: almost forgot about Splitpaw... great moment, when you actually set up your camp behind the doors the first time...

Edited, Wed Mar 31 02:57:50 2004 by Kajolus

Unrest and Lower Guk are my favorites for undead loveliness.

This is slightly off topic but is pertinate in a way.

My main is a 65 Time flagged Wizard. For quite some time I have been too busy doing XP/AA grind, flagging for GoD zones or raiding PoP/GoD content to do much of anything else. On Sunday night we had PoTime raid scheduled and I really didn't feel like sitting in the EP grinding XP out til raid. So I did something I hadn't done in a long time. I saddled up my horse Fizzle and took a casual ride from Halas to Freeport and on to the Temple of Solusek Ro. With the new sky/graphics it was beautiful! I stopped many times just to enjoy the views. A starry night in the mountains of West Karana, sunrise in East Karana, riding through Kithicor Forest in the bright (for there) sunshine. All quite lovely and was one of the best times I have had in game recently.

What that little trip reminded me of is just how large "our world" is. And the game is not just about XP, farming, flags and loot. Think everyone should make that trip from time to time. Just to relax and perhaps discover somethings you had forgotten or didn't know existed. Get out there and explore! Maybe do a quest or two-even if the reward is something trivial.

As for me I think I will do this with other continents.... Hear the snow flakes actually look like snowflakes now, may just have to take a ride through some old stomping grounds in Velious. Perhaps visit my good friends in Thurgadin-been awhile since I did the beer stein quest there 8). (quest link: https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=929 ) While I am at it think I will have to check out Norrath setting over the turquoise waters of the Twilight Sea again, too. The view was always beautiful from the beach by the Scarlet Desert zone line. Hmmm...a trip to go skiny dipping in Ehud's Crossing may be in order. Grab some friends, a backpack or 2 of Dire Wolf Pale Ale, some Barbequed Cragbeast Steaks and just hang out. Lev up and do some "cliff diving" or just hang out and chat with friends while watching the sun set.

Fondest memories are probably of Northern Ro and Oasis of Marr - I think maybe that's because they are where are first starting really grouping and made my first friends.

Oh just the fun and life that used to be there. The fearsome derv camps. The panic a spawning sand giant would cause - god I feared the thunder of those feet - and the cries of "Lockjaw to Zone!", how many times a night I lost count! - and i never run through now without taking down every dry bone skelly I see.

Sadly these zones are now full of 50plus toons on their way to or from an adventure and instead of being good grouping zones have now become great soloing zones for the early mid teens.

Sometimes I really miss the simple pleasure of running like a Frenchman in a thunderstorm through Blackburrow and screaming "Train To Zone". Ah, good times.

The Warrens was a really fun place too. The first time I went there, I couldn't believe that anyone could make it all the way through there in one piece. And that giant tadpole (Mugwump?) is just plain weird.

*nod death* Old-world Cazic was one of the best and most enjoyable dungeons I have played in. Good mid-level range and by the time you were done it was time to move into lower guk. Great times had in Cazic...but sony, in their infinite wisdom, had to take it away :(

Aye Freeport has a "good" warrior guild, Steel Warriors or something, and an "evil" warrior guild, the Freeport Militia. Sir Lucan even has new nifty Warrior GM thing tagged on his name.

Ahhh, nice to hear about your trip.

My son and I were bored the other day...and, well, we had both been pushing for XP a little too much. We had both hit 45 with our latest toons and decided to give ourselves a treat.

We listed zones we had not seen or been in in a while and decided to head out. We brought along a newbie friend (lvl 43...imagine that...in the old days someone at 43 would know almost every zone intimately except for the highest of the high dungeons)) who had only been on the prescribed leveling path, unfortunately and knew nothing of these once great zones.

We took him to the bird house in SK and then to Lake Rath. We ran through Rath Mountains. We took him to Lavastorm and into Najena. Then to Perma, stopping to take a griffon and a giant along the way. We even took him to Kerra Isle.

We had a blast, my son and I. Was great to see the old stomping grounds. Our newbie friend did not get it and felt we had wasted an entire night just running from palce to place. we felt the opposite.