Okay it has been about a little over a month and have hit level 85 with almost 1750 aa's but still cannot solo HOT. Groups are very hard to get in the zone. Trying to get updated armor per your level is going to cost anywhere from 20k to 60k plat and thats for the easy stuff. You will also need to be able to kill level 90-91 mobs to get a drop to do the combine. If your going to get the expansion a guild is what I suggest you try to find as hopefully they will help get those items for you but you must be able to get into those zones. Its that little thing that's called progression and it is a bit aggravating at times. The new HOT expansion is great but by the time you get to 90 a new expansion will be out.

Herachilles 85

Btw...everyone's screaming for revamp of old zones with newer content, which is fine, but higher level content would just ruin most of them. That being said...EQ has revamped several zones (straight revamp) since I started...including Cazic Thule, Freeport, North Ro, South Ro, Oasis of Marr (now included in the new Ro's) East & West Commonlands, now just the Commonlands, Steamfont, Nektulos Forest, Toxxulia Forest, Kerra Isle (now part of Tox Forest), Lavastorm, Highpass Hold, Misty Thicket, Runnyeye, Ocean of Tears, Plane of Hate, Plane of Mischief, Veeshan's Peak (twice), Chardok, Infected Paw, Nurga, Droga, Plane of Fear, Plane of Growth, Plane of Time, Kithicor Forest, Innothule Swamp, the Hole, City of Mist, The Warrens, The Bazaar, Mistmoore, Siren's Grotto, Mines of Gloomingdeep, Ocean of Tears and Befallen.

They've also revamped several zones, by adding higher level versions of them...Kaesora, Blackburrow, Field of Bone, Karana's, Kurn's Tower, Kithicor, Feerott, Plane of Fear, City of Dranik, Bloodfields, Permafrost Keep, Befallen, Lower Guk, Nagafen's Lair, Feerrott, Solusek's Eye, North Qeynos, Highpass Keep, South Karana, Grobb, East Commonlands, Crushbone, Unrest, Lesser Faydark, Commonlands, Plane of Earth, Stonebrunt Mountains, Frontier Mountains, Crypt of Dalnir, The Overthere, Icewell Keep, Great Divide,

If EQ wanted new players...all SOE would have to do is - "advertise". Seems to be a lost art-form, less they're pushing the latest expansion out. When's the last time anyone out there SAW or HEARD an ad for Everquest? I'd say a good 5-7 yrs ago...least that's my opinion.

Player housing? Sounds like a cash cow for Markeplace, or a way to redeem plats from players(like merc's are).

Ooooh - new level cap increase. Surprised they refrained from doing it on the last expansion, but guess if you want to maintain the shrinking player base, you gotta please the masses...

Expansion ratings

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original EQ - TSS = 10 of 10 (mostly original formats / content
TBS = 2 of 10 (P.O.S. IMO)
SoF = 5 of 10 ( same 'ol same 'ol)
SoD = 4 of 10 (same 'ol same 'ol, just harder)
UF = haven't messed around in it too much, so no rating, yet...(only got UF for the additional AA's, was already lvl 85 when it came out.)
House of Thule = ( just guessing, gonna be 4-6 of 10), ... same 'ol ....you know the rest =P

I like the idea of added space. I have tradeskill junk coming out my ears, but nowhere to put it. I have one of my toons who does nothing but hold my stuff. The larger bags are a good idea too.

In my opinion, what is needed is the continuance of the epic line, but they need to realize that with mercs now in the game, there is a lot more soloing going on and while grouping provides fun at times, they need to have content that can be challenging yet possible for soloing. Underfoot is virtually impossible to solo for most classes and in some zones for ALL classes.

Housing should prove interesting, if it's done right. Certainly, any advanced player could use more room to store their stuffs! Would be really cool if you could hang up spare weapons and the graphics would show.

I do seem the recall the promise of "ship to ship combat" in one expansion of long ago.... The Buried Sea, IIRC. Anyone recall that?

Let's hope "player housing" is really as good as advertised!


Edited, Aug 8th 2010 1:04pm by Sippin

Houses for all intents and purposes is a gigantic bag where you can store stuff. Anything that you got can get tossed in a moving crate in there as long as it is not lore, including supposedly nodrop items. And you can hang all your weapons you want to keep but don't use a whole lot (again not those that are lore) on the walls instead of cluttering up the bank. Additionally, in the future you will be able to make your house your TS center with loom, smithy, etc and just stockpile all your stuff right there where it's going to be needed. This is in addition to the larger bags and two inventory slots we all get. In short, there is a lot of possibility here for the EQ player who technically doesn't give a whit about having a house persay and doing all sorts of fancy decorating and whatnot...we get stuff we can use, and those who want to be "The Next EQ Architectural Star" and "Next EQ Design Star" can go off and dump their pp and TS's into that. Win win all around in my opinion.

Player housing?? REALLY?? So now we get to buy nails and bolts thru the marketplace? WONDERFUL!! Great job, really amazing.

And yet, we can't upgrade our epics....

Soooo glad I don't play anymore...

Edited, Aug 8th 2010 12:21pm by shaiz