Poll: PoP Zone Entry RequirementsFollow

* Planes of Power Zone Listing
* Planes of Power Progression Listing



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I voted to leave them alone.

Seems like there should remain some unique reward for the hard work of getting flagged for the zone.

It's not like there aren't plenty of other zones to go to.

I would have liked to vote for "Yes, for every zone including the Plane of Time", but instead I voted for "No, but "alternate access" quests should be offered for EVERY zone"

I would LOVE to do the Planar progression, but

a) I am a casual player and
b) I don't think that there are too many guilds that do it anymore.

Level based access would be nice, but I would miss the feeling of having achieved something.

Level requirements on all the "normal" planes and access still needing to be earned to Elementals and Time would work for me...

...of course maybe I just am completely unopen to the idea of it suddenly being splayed wide open to Time when I've spent the last 5 or so months attending open raids working on Planar Progression, would really bunk up any sense of achievement I've had so far...

I don't believe that lowering or laxing the standers for PoP would help any up and coming raiding guild. I also don't believe that it is hard to flag / back flag for any zone in PoP.

If you want to ask if something needs to be changed as far as progression, take a look at Gates of Discord. That needs a long and hard look at. Specially since they changed the flag requirements for Tacvi when The Burried Sea was release.

I voted to leave it alone myself. Most of this stuff could be done with higher end bazaar geared or TSS quest armor guilds. Very little of PoP raid encounters require any real strat at all up until the Elemental Gods, and they are rootamentry at best.

Edit: Just as a side note. I believe that Plane of Time (Walk in and loot an item and your done) flagging system is one of the fastest and easiest to get as long as you know a guild that is running through there (Happens a lot on Prexus).

You know on second thought I don't believe there is any reason why anyone who wanted to walk into any Elemental plane for EXP should not be allowed to. On the other hand, those zones have long since been empty on my server just because they are not so good of exp anymore. Most of the mobs minus a few spots in each elemental zone are light blue now and are very horrid exp regardless.

Edited, Feb 21st 2007 7:21am by Primist

I voted that the requirements should be kept the same as they are now. The only way I would even think about supporting opening the zones is to massively nerf the xp that can be attained in there. For example, Plane of Fire would be the new place to PL an alt and would be constantly camped. Yes it may be used now to PL alts but at least 80% of those that are flagged actually had to do some work to get flagged for this zone.

I voted to leave them alone.

My guild and i busted our ASSES to get to PoTime, its stupid that others should be able to get in just being 75...***** that...75 IS NO ACCOMPLISHMENT !!

getting levels and AA is the EASIEST thing in the game..what makes the game hard and fun is progression, killing events that are difficult..not grinding in some zone to be able to get uber loot.

Plus...if u cant even beat PoP..HOW are u gonna beat GoD? or OoW? PoP progresison is LAUGHABLE compared to events like uqua, iktuta and some of the 6 MPG trials (some are really easy)

will we soon make it so that once you are lv 75, or 80, or 85 or whatever u can just enter CoA and demiplane willy nilly?

***** that..with my guild I spent about 2 and a half YEARS on PoP, GoD, OoW and DoD progression...no n00bies should be allowed to just waltz in.

Leave them as is if you really want to get into the locked zones,you can. With level 75 being avail. you can do the progression raids with very few compared to what it took when it was bleeding edge content if you want to be able to see what others have seen you should do the same work the others have done, it is easier now..... i promise

I voted leave it alone as is. I'm the guild leader of an Anguish guild, every 2nd sunday for about 2 of the last 3 years I've offered open raids up to LMM and usually outside of 1-2 guilds(which vary) few take the time to come even when I extensively advertise. I've recently done RZ, Angarr, Solro, Fennin Ro on those open raids only to see almost no one outside my guild come. If people on my server are that uninterested to come get free flags, they don't deserve access.

Currently you can do everything up to LMM/RZ/Agnarr/Bert with about 2 groups of bazaar geared. Bert's only rough due to the dps needed to do the script. RZ isn't tough with infusion overall, only crowd control at fake RZ (if slow dps) and the later kiting can be rough.

With 2-3 small guild's allied you could be in elementals within a month or two no problem if you had a good raid leader and people made an effort to show up. Then take a month off to xp, and then another month of backflag + Fennin + Xegony keys+Earth B access. If you offer some open flagging you'll likely get help later also.

Not only do I think it should be left alone, but I think being able to be 85'ed in and loot a drop to get into time stinks as well.

I was in one of those guilds who worked their **** off getting into time. It was a blast. I learned so much about raiding. Being able to just waltz in would take away from the major accomplishment of those who worked their way in. No one should miss out on the Rathe council or being "bobbie taunted" by Xegony. I loved every minute of working my way to Time.

Some things should be worked for and not just handed out because someone made it to level 70.

I don't think opening these zones up would cause more people to run to them. You appreciate things more if you work for them than if they are given to you. If people are going to go to tss, opening time up to everyone is not gonna make Time more interesting than the newer zones. If you are interested in going there, you will work to be there like the rest of us did.

I voted for
Yes, for every zone including the Plane of Time

only because they did not have an option that added all top zones ONE GIMP item to mobs for adding more GIMP access to all zones.

Looting one item from that zone.
Time - ADD MORE GIMP KEYS - all boss Above Teir 3 should drop ONE GIMP KEY.
GOD - Fix the QVIC to add a gimp Drop on Mobs
GOD - Fix Tacvi to add ONE GIMP item to drop from all mobs.

had to vote no. there wasnt even as second thought about it. nerf the best expansion that eq ever put out? there is plenty of new, easy to understand content for new players. you can create a drakkin and go all the way to 75 without leaving the island. dam you can be a pirate. theres no reason, at all, to change something that provides a challege and hours of entertainment for mid level experenced players. POP isnt for new players. with 13 expansions out there is soooo much content out there that there isnt a need to change something that works. pop is still to this day doing what it was meant to do. challenge players. i think that if it was set to a level requirement to enter the elemental planes, all that contenet prior to ep flagging would be lost or very rarely seen. nobodys going to go help mauvin. the peeps in the sick bay in pot, ther not going to get better. grimus? whos that? oh, was he the fat guy that hung out with some guy named bert? rallos zek? never heard of him... besides all that content is great, i loved doing pop raids lots of fun for me.

as always, if its not broke, dont fix it

I have always been a strictly casual EQ'er. I mean no offense when I say this but to all you people complaining about 'working you **** off and just leting 'noobies' just waltz in', I remember when you were 'uber' if you were present for a Vox or Naggy death, I remember when Epic 1.0s made you godly. Vox and Naggy are regularly single grouped or less or even left to sit for weeks at a time. 1.0's can be completed in 1 day with 2 people. I commend you all for working so hard to take advantage of all the game had to offer at the time. Now please let us can't raid / flag to get in see the game, PoP is what 3-4 years old now?