Things I would like to see back from EQ1Follow

Hey there! We all have a few favorite things from EQ1 we see missing and would love to see come back. Im not talking about those offline merchants either...glad they dont have them, but a gameplay thing i thought was fun.

Here is my list off the top of my head:

1) I remember the commonlands being overrun with a werewolf every now and again, thought that was great and added that extra caution to grouping. Would love to see a unique mob pop once in a while ina newbie type zone and start rampaging. Even at the cost of my death, adds that excitement.

2)My 2 favorite zones were Mistmoore and Lguk. Even after all the expansions they remained my favs. Would love to "find" them back again.

3) Dueling. I loved to duel, and pit my Paladin against all comers. I was good and enjoyed a good fight. I also miss those quirky "Coke Defeats Pepsi in a duel to the death" or "Oprah Defeats Loseweight" ah those were the days.

4)I havent been there yet so forgive if this is in the game but... Velious had some wonderful zones, the Dwarf city, TOFS, well i sure miss the Snow days. I knwo everfrost is there and will make my way there soon enough, just hoping its as good as Velious was.

5) Prolly the thing i MISS THE MOST is Skill Points. I loved accumulating skill points when i gained a level and was able to decide where to spend them. I wouldnt use my Skill points for 20 levels and then dump them into something, i miss that customization.

6) Another Biggie for me is AA, Alternate Advancement. The customization was Great, bring it back perty please!

7) Bone Armor. Sure the stats werent that great but wasnt it cool to look like a Skele! At least different armor. Sometimes My twinkies(yeah we all had them) would wear lesser stats armor just to look Unique, like Charred and be all black, things like that. To much Carbon copying right now.


Well thats the list of the top off the top of my head, whats yours?

Elfrir

There are those mean rampaging mobs on EQ2. There is that giant rat thing in The Caves that will spawn and roam around. There is a named spider that roams around in Forrest Ruins.

As for PvP I never could stand it. Nothing but people taking cheap shots at somebody lower then them (level 12 necro vs a lvl 9 melee who is fighting a orc....gee who will win?). I don't see a problem with them opening a PvP server some day, just I won't have anything to do with it.

I agree I loved Guk, although Mistmoore was too buggy (like the mob that roamed through the graveyard and pulled the entire castle on a group if agressed). Also was very bad about mobs aggressing through the walls etc. Just wasn't much fun to hunt IMO. Guk though I loved it in there.

When Eq1 first came out we had no velious, AA's, etc. Before EQ2 is done Im sure something like AA's will pop up in future expansions. Can only imagine what sort of places will show up in the expansions.

Far as cool looking armor, Im sure there is some out there somewhere. I never remembered Bone armor actually making you look like a skeliton though, I thought it looked like plate? Maybe that was so old school even I don't remember (I started playing Eq1 about when Kunark just came out).

EQ2 kinda gives me that feeling I had when I first played EQ1. New world to explore, merchants who actually sell items you want, and surprises around every corner. I played so many charactors on EQ1 that nothing ever surprised me.

Also I finnally learned how Qeynos was pronounced. For the past 5 years me and my friends have pronounced it Kway-Nos. We also pronouned Luclin Luck-lin as well.

I just saw the Antonican Drakota yesterday for the first time, Anguis or something - lvl 23 ^^^ - yep 3 up arrows - and it's little friend - a lesser drakota.

The variety of things you are talking about took years to develop in old EQ. They will come about in time in EQ2.

What I really miss from old EQ - and what we're extremely unlikely to see - is the rich and wild variety of tactics in that old game. I think w/ a lot of them the developers had no idea how players would end up using them. There was a sense of a "frontier" to explore here - of ideas - this was a huge challenge for us - usually starting w/ "how in the heck can we kill that thing there?" or "how can we beat THE GRIND? how can we get better exp at this new level?" And the myriad ways - they were so cool to me.

These are simply gone in EQ2. My druid/fury can either team, where he heals and sometimes dots or nukes. Or he can solo. Most soloing is just straight out fighting - buff, pull w/ DoT, HO HO regro self, HO HO dead. Or there is another tactic, grinding (ironic name ). DS self, pull w/ DoT, melee, regro and refresh DoTs, rinse and repeat, til it dies. That's it.

So many things have been improved - quest items don't have to be handled for the most part - auto facing in melee - so many player friendly features - don't think I don't notice or appreciate these. It's just that among all these cool improvements, why did the area of "variety of tactics" have to be truncated, chopped down to nothing? The only tactical choice left in many group situations is which HO to angle for and is it worth it for this fight. Ho's... such a sterile, arbitrary - video game like - substitution for real tactics... sigh.

I know you won't all agree w/ me, at least not at first. That's okay. Not all of us play the same. But a lot of us share the opinion I've displayed here. A lot of us feel "cut out" of this game.

Disagree. EQ2 players are comparing a lot of it to EQ1. My take is that a lot of us are excited to get into a new world and explore again, c'mon thats the beauty of it. What a lot of us are realizing is EQ2 is awsome! But wouldn't it be nice if a few things from EQ1 were kept like being able to heal people without grouping with them first or even worse after you have to revive them. What I'm saying is I don't want to play eq1 anymore, eq2 has everything i'm looking for but it would be perfect if they moved a few things from eq1 over. Love the game. Just commenting =).