Kunark down on The CombineFollow

Anyone notice Kunark is done on Combine?

http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/prog_flash.vm?sid=152

waz dis mean for us lowbies?

At least it took a good month to open Velious.

Actually I think other guilds are interested, but these few are jumping to the punch first, espcially though the earlier content. They will have to slow down a bit after PoP, and other guilds will show up from time to time as well. GoD will defintley allow catch up.

I think the sleeper has at least five or six guilds that are trying raid content.

true enough, but I don't really see anything wrong with that, nor does it mean that the progression server is made for them only. there are thousands of regular people on the prog servers, and hundreds raiding.

expect pharadar down in maybe an hour max, btw.

I read somewhere else that the EQ Progression page only lists the "majority guild". So FoH only had 18 members there, but there were people from other guilds. I don't know the total count of people on the raid.

There were 16 of them (!), some of them without VP keys, and they warped past everything to get to Phara'Dar. They didn't "clear VP", and they had lots of gear that wasn't Kunark era, and spells as well, including Aego and KEI. It was a cheap and dirty kill. Still, 16 people...

Velious opens August 28, dev has confirmed.

Oh, so many ways. For one thing, they left in zones like Jaggedpine and the (new) Freeport sewers. There was even a *much* later instance in Qeynos Hills that was heavily farmed, and people who got into PoK through hacks. In Kunark, the drop tables were left the same as on the other servers, so the "hot zones" dropped much higher gear than the era, and spells in places like Seb included Luclin. Add in the fact that even the old gear have had focus effects placed on them - and that melee augments, from much later expansions, are freely available - its not really fair to compare "clearing VP" with what it was in the old days.

Wait a sec, people can hack into PoK? I would think SOE would seriously frown on that if they caught them.

Regarding the spells from later expansions, I read somewhere else that they left the tradeskill recipes for the spells in the game. Since the components can drop in Seb and Vek (for example), I read that they were making the spells via the tradeskill.