Poll: Impressions of 'The Buried Sea'Follow

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I got TBS along with DoD and TSS when I bought the anniversary edition. While I've spent alot of time in TSS and some in DoD, I've just barely set foot into TBS, so I'm going to hold my vote until I'm better informed.

Thanks for the poll...how about them sigs now?

Your right it is not as good as most folks would have thouhgt. Not all things in TBS is "NO TRADE" but it does not come any where near the items you can get out of TSS. I run three accounts and have TBS for 2 of them just so i can 2box the zones as most folks do not have that Expan. I do think having to do 39 mini quest for one aug is going overboard some as your faction is up enough to deal with the traders in TBS by just doing afew quest. As for SoE coming out with a new one in Nov. i agree. I think they should wait untill next nov. to bring one out and give people time to play the last 2 they came out with and maybe the can work bugs out of the next one more before they release it.

Personally i think its one of the better expansions , you have solo content even tho its a touch too hard for most classes , thay can still be done duo or trio , The skellie hand even tho it may seam long flys past once you get started on it , ok it will take a good week or so for most to do , but the exp for most of the missions is worth it alone , and you gain a damn good augment at the end of it

Katta i have to say can be a little long winded for faction but in the same breath if you want near anguish level armour on you or your twinks its not going to fall in your lap , everything in EQ takes some effort to gain

Group content you have the pirate and katta missions , Hell if you dont want the faction the orum/doubloons sell for a good enough price , add to that the exp/AAs earned in the process

Raid content - Cant comment on this at present , still waiting to complete 8th progression task and yes the mobs start hitting hard ! watch this space .....

I have to agree with the posts already here. The Expansions crank out way to fast .. granted it seems they are generated to keep the Guilded content grinders interest peaked. But, in reality many of us are not grinding experience or content but we do appreciate all the new avenues to gain experience and equipment.

Just throwing out a figure IMO 75% of the everquest population has not seen 75% of the content in all of Norrath yet, they will flame you in /ooc and tell you how much of a loser you are because you are not lvl 75 yet. Makes me laugh when a lvl 70 Bard is inquiring on how to get to Oot for the Sea fury island. Arent they word traveler's or just coat tail exp grinders.

Personally finding groups in the newest Expansions takes an act of any God in Norrath and a few other things. in the last 4 months I have been invited to 1 group that was not 5/6 all under the same guild tag. Mobs in Tbs hit with insane force .. therefore if you did not hang in with the fast track Raid / progression crowd you are poorly geared and take a serious beating if you live long enough to see it. My first trip in as a Druid looking for spells .. zoned in to Tbs .. found succor point on the map and hit succor. Soon as I rechecked my map and .. track I had been BS'd over 6 times for 1200-1800 dmg ... Loading Please .... Wait. Well mad and with a vengence I ran right back and Rezzed myself 4-5 times in the next hour never killing a thing except myself and friends I drug with me.

No Drop .. doesn't bother me much ... Faction work is not bad .. but Holy Cheese Headed Mice !! If the Hp's & Dmg output from the new mobs is in place to slow people from grinding it out until you come out with your new Expansion I give up. 1) Finding a progression group is nearly impossible. 2) Hunting in nearly any zone for experience and potential upgrades is rediculous as the Power grinders have everything Perma-camped. 3) Tss / Tbs quested armor has insane Stats on it being acquired by those with already insane stats .. while those lvl 30-60 have nothing .. unless they can find some small secluded camp of a single spawn a 3 hour journey from the nearest zone line. When the named finally pops Baam *Power Bot logs in* Power nukes .. loots and scoots have a nice day.

As for me I play 46 characters between servers .. 32 of them are lvl 65-75 .. I personally quit the content .. and Quest / Tradeskill now due to content difficulty and the E-***** attitude's of most those in the new expansions .. as most have been PL'd ... Ebayed .. and Gear upgrades funded by Plat sales. If the Majority of players played with the .. Morals and Ethics .. they did back when EQ first came out, the newest Expansion all the way back to the first would be like having a complete world revamp and game play would ROCK !!

Edited, Jun 8th 2007 1:29pm by meralin

Meh, you get A LOT more than just spells - the TBS armor is fantastic - I ditched some QVIC armor and replaced with TBS armor when I hit ally faction. AND you are allowed to resell your armor for some orum back - so buy the citizens gear on the way up to ally faction, sell it back toward your praetorian gear. Not to mention - some of the spells are fabulous - the enchanter mana recursion HUGE Benefit to guild raiding wizzies and mages, allowing a lom caster to do up to 3500 damage in recursions on ANY level of spell i.e. level 21 spell for 50 mana, up to 3500 damage.

And while you are getting the faction? The AA xp in TBS is amazing as well - spending 1-2 hours on a Atiki mission or the greenhouse snakes will net you 2-5 aa's.

A+ in my book.

It exceeded my expectations. Though, for pre-75, and high and raiders. it probably sucked. I thought it gave a lot of great grouping content.

I was disappointed to find that the casual player can not play in this zone. My highest toon is 68 and she will not be able to do the tasks to get faction to even purchase spells from the merchants. This is not a casual player friendly expansion. The players we play with are taking a break from EQ which leaves us unable to play many high lvl zones. We will work up our younger toons until the game becomes unplayable. We dont play enough to be in a guild. To bad we love the game and we are coming to the end of it.

My main is a casual player and I thought Katta and the Buried Sea were great for casuals. I see necros, druids and wizards in upper 60's soloing in Katta all the time. They earn the faction with the quests and get great exp. They will probably ding 70 by the time they have enough faction to get an item or spell, but that works out fine for them. They often group for faster kill credits for the faction quests and usually will take any class lfg if asked just for faster killing. But as they are soloing, they do need anyone else and you have to go to the solo spots and ask if you can join. Just /ooc or sitting in GH /lfg won't usually get you in there.

If your guilded travel to katta is easy , take the guild hall portal with the katta powerstone , to get to the buried sea just stand on top of the small pyramid in the main building , it will port you to the wiz port in in the buried sea zone , For travel around the zone look up the portal quests , after completing 1 and 2 you can travel most places in less than 1 min
would suggest you take 1 enc 1 tank 1 healer tho , portals tend to spawn a mob or 3 and thay will follow you if you CoH ( learned that one the hard way )

Edited, Jun 8th 2007 7:41pm by Laldawen

It fell short of my expectations.

To be honest I really didn't have ANY expectations. The only reason I got it was because it was in the Anniversary Pack. I just got that for the /claim items. I am not too big on alternative forms of currency. It just creates more work in the long run. Eventually when no one does this content anymore and new alts are created it becomes a PITA to obtain the new spells. SOE then has to create new methods of obtaining the spells. I guess after DoN and LDoN I just wonder why they haven't thought of something else.

But with the small amount of time I did spend in TBS (only Katta Castrum) I do have some good things to say about it. I run EQ on a pretty old computer. TSS completely slaughters my PC. I had pretty much ZERO lag in Katta Castrum which is a HUGE zone. How they managed to make a zone that size with so little lag is amazing. And I was completely speechless standing in front of Tsaph Katta. With all the cool lore in Luclin it just felt awesome standing in front of Tsaph as he is repeatedly healed and kept on the edge of death. And the zone itself looks amazing. Seeing the water barely held above the far areas of the city was cool. You could see sea life swimming around :).

Sadly I really doubt I will ever get too deep into this expansion. Stupid forms of currency mixed with a few other things are enough to keep me away from this expansion. Seriously when like 30 people are sitting around the greenhouse it gets annoying. Also, I wish mobs in the expansion had a pretty rare chance of dropping some of that expansions currency. It would do a lot to stop time from ruining the expansion.

Edited, Jun 8th 2007 11:15pm by BrknLadr

I can honestly say I dont get to do much hard core xp'ing in many zones cause I paly on zek so I need to stay on my toes, but I have played in some of the Jewel of Atikii instanced zones and it really is a reward for players of all types. Doing the Katta Castrum Orum missions can reward you with some sweet gear and get you spells that become very handy.

I play a 74 Druid and Furnspur rk II is def worth the time !

just my $2.50 cents on the matter.

I have to agree with several posts here too much too fast when most are just getting into the dodh or tss expansion.. but it seems like it might be one of the better expansion though I haven't really done much in it other than getting port spells for my wife's druid and a few minor glances at quests or zones...one thing that really makes no sense is for the port spells is that only WIZZYS can port to katta while DRUIDS port to buried sea which I think sony should have made both classes able of porting to both zones and not just one or the other...and if one isn't in a guild or have guild hall access the trip to katta gets expensive for those who don't have the plat for the stone cost