Worst ExpansionFollow

Heh first Tunat kill and no loot dropped at all, not to mention Tacvi crashing lots, course VT still does they havent fixed that zone yet.

Lots of backwork had to be done on GoD specially its ending.

Edit--as to why I was comparing loy to god its cause it was the most common besides god to get listed as worst expansion. Not because with a good mix you cant get exp there just that KT minus the shot at Meldstones isnt worth it even if you do get good exp MPG will own KT minus meldies loot wise. Forgive too cause I sometimes get pricing farged in comparing servers I play on FV and no drop items are rare.

Edited, Mon Apr 17 09:32:27 2006 by flishtaco

what lower end content did GoD bring to the game please tell me because i missed it completely, it has one zone with 3 camps for anyone below 60 oh yeah and right in the middle of said camp a mob spawns that quads for 4k per hit..... great programming NOT!!!

PoP has 4 zones for low 50's, 3 zones for mid 50's and 3-4 zones+ for high 50/low 60's.

GoD was total Sh*te for anyone not in a raiding guild.

Ldon
Too much stuff you need a group for. Solo or 2 person instances would have been nice.

I would have to say the worst one ever made would have to be PoR personally. i play a 70 warrior and i'm still trying to get through DoDH content (oh yeah lets not forget omens and GoD too...) and i just really haven't had time to "Explore" the new stuff i also hear the mobs are like on crack and steroids (meaning they hit usually over 2k...) but yeah i've done 2 quests out of PoR.. the 55 aura and the spirit tracker cloak quest, that is all.

PoR really doesn't intice me to go do anything in it, the augs are cool, but there is still "other and more important" gear i need to get first.

so in reality i don't do much with PoR i just have it incase i need to go there for something (that and clicking off buffs for good is cool)

2nd in the lineup would be LDoN... no one does them on my server it sucks big time trying to max that aug from them....

k done ranting now lol

Aye LDON just didnt have the legs of other expansions. I also didnt care for how much instancing it used. Instancing has its place, but this was too much IMHO.

The level cap when GoD came our was 65, the majority of lower end players at that time where mid 50's because that is when the main time sink/inability to solo for most classes kicks in.

When GoD came out it only had 1 zone that Mid 50's could level in.

Stop looking at God with 3 more expansions worth of gear and leveling to back it up look at it when IT CAME OUT.

When GoD came out it was rubbish for all but raiding guilds, maybe it's not now but thats 2 years later and there are better places for me to hunt now.

You don't need a raiding guild to level past 60 and i never said you did. I said GoD had nothing for non raiders reading comprhension 101.

imbecile.

please tarv, for the love of god, delete your everquest and allakhazam accounts.

"GoD was worthless for non-raiders! There was only one zone you could hunt in under 60! See, it was worthless!"




you dumbass.

this quote shows how incredibly ignorant you are.

GoD had the first feasible casual player gearing path since.. oh.. I dunno. kunark?

GoD introduced 70-135hp items off mobs that could be done by a group that was paying attention.

case in point:
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=26111

The dude these dropped off didn't even SUMMON until six months after GoD was released! for the love of god, pisspoor geared druids were soloing him! what more could you possibly ask for?

http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=14212
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=26020

These two drop off a mob that hits for about 800. WELL within reach of a group in a mix of ornate and ldon gear.

oh... just for the hell of it, here's a 90hp bp with regen that drops off a mob a 55 necromancer can solo!:
https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=26501

slightly harder case in point: https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=28971

This yunjo sash is very, very, very doable by a casual group. I wore one for quite a while. I got an invite to a group full of people in a mix of hard ldon/ornate/ldon bought stuff, while I was in mostly ornate/ldon easy gear. there was not a single raid geared person in the group. We actually took it further than that, but the waves ahead would probably have wiped most pickup groups.

GoD was chocked full of stuff like this. just because you never got off your *** and went doesn't mean it wasn't there.


Tipt bracers are ******* stellar. Yes, tipt is hard, but y'know what? bring along a ornate/ldon geared cleric. bring along an ornate/ldon geared enchanter. bring along a ornate/ldon geared druid. add a paladin in for the stuns if possible. Congratulations! You just got a 135hp bracer with three or four casually geared/aaed people!


oh, for the love of god. just because YOU were stuck as a level 51 paladin when GoD came out doesn't mean everyone was. For every serious 55-65 raider on FV, there were at least four or five casual players on in that level range at any given time. BoT and PoV usually had around 40 people each, very few of them raiders.

Quite a few, actually. I know several who were doing so at that time. Even then, these molds are buyable in the bazaar, so several had access to them if they wanted.

Once the entrance zones of GoD were properly tuned, there were lots of things for lower end folks to do. Many just didnt want to go their. SoE is partly to blame, as several folks were shell shocked by GoD on release, but the opportunites were there.

LDoN...

For as much community disdain for GoD that is shown, the expansion is still a vital part of Everquest. Msha's are still farmed, Bic is still done, people still suffer thru Uqua, and Tacvi is still raided regularly on every server by the mid range guilds.

LDoN, on the other hand, is basically dead. Other then 2.0 raids and the occasional person stiving to max out his Adventurer Stone for 50 more hp's and mana then the Slipgear Gem, nobody really does LDoN's anymore. The loot is mediocer at best, especially with the availibilty of cultural armor and WoS trash drops/MPG trials/DoDh task/DoN crystal rewards. The experience absolutely blows (4-5 drakes = 1 LDoN.

Ironically when LDoN came out it was one of the greatest things to happen to EQ. It gave both the raiding and casual player something to do during non-raiding hours. Making or finding a group was extremely simple (I can remember seeing 70+ people in Butcherblock on a regular basis). Ran thru BB yesterday.. Noone in the zone.

Then OoW was released and killed LDoN. Why bother doing 25 NRo LDoN's for the bP, when you could camp one in RSS. Augs?? Try RSS.. Jewelry or a range.. do MPG Trials.

If worst expansion is defined by lack of player interest and usage in EQ. Then LDoN has proven itself to be the sad winner.

SoE sooooo needs to reevaluate LDoN and revamp it.

Edited, Wed Apr 19 00:36:24 2006 by Jaddrielle

Sorry I guess you all use different criteia then I do. Mine is simply how was expansion on realease and is it still used. GoD wins booby prize because it fails the worst at both those criteias.

Hardly, and maybe its different on your server but even Ldons see more non raid use then any GoD zone.

Kunark vs GoD, more still use Kunark
Velious vs GoD, more use Velious
Loy vs GoD, more use LoY
etc etc etc not one expansion is less used minus raids then GoD, so unless you are a raider GoD is the suck.

well that depends on what you call "worst"

worst for the game mechanics, worst when it went live, most bugs when it went live, etc...

for worst when it went live with most missing content and most screwed up on so many levels id have to say SoL. heck it took SoE 9 months to get the bazaar open and running as advertised on the box.

as for worse for the game, i would say gOd as it was to soon to release an other known broken expansion after so many in a row. i know for a fact it drove a lot of players away from the game and yes i was one of them. i know about 15% of my guild left due to the mess the gOd was.

but the worst expansion has to be EQII. built on a graphic engine that does not even work with TODAYs hardware and its been out over a year.


LoL

so you reall can say any and all expansions past Kunark have been bad with the exception of LDoN. that was one of the best until SoE nerfed the h3ll out of it and made it basically worthless. LDoN pre-nerf was the best thing to happen to EQ.