Prophecy of RoFollow

well here it is EQ casters realm first to get news about it today. the new expansion has been announced.

http://eq.crgaming.com/viewarticle.asp?article=10068

new spells, tradeskills, discs, and tasks.

players can set traps, destroy doors walls and buildings, 8 new bank slots (woot),

buff filters -
decide if you want that buff from other before it lands, to help keep you not buff locked, like why's a warrior need blessing of devotion? =P

7 new zones, 6 instanced zones, 25+ new creatures,
old world revamps.

sphere's of influence - help out players or use to hurt enimies

more to come soon!!

http://www.mobhunter.com/001454.html

Looks like Freeport gets the revamp

Gee, i wonder what the "hidden exploit to generate sales hype" will be?

How sad. I rather liked Freeport.

:(

Im so ticked about how dirty they was with DOD that I doubt I will get this one. Sounds like a bunch of boreing dungeon zones with lvl 70 KOS mobs that hit for insane damage and will eat any group without raid geared armor etc.

I am sure the first week of launch there will be some way to make easy money, or some way for easy exp. Then after people buy it up they will nerf the crap out of it like with DOD.

This can only be blamed on players and not SOE.

Why do you sound so venomous when you say that? Like being a casual player is a dirty thing to be? lol

Proud to be a dirty casual player...

Just get rid of the wife. That's what a buddy of mine did and now he all the time on the world for EQ2.

Sad, really....

I will probably buy it just for the pre-nerf advantage, got 50 or so AA's in my casual "dirty" playing style before the nerf of DoDH. Still love getting on for 30 minutes and being able to advance my toon, even though the same orc mission is boring as hell. But I am better off when I do get to play my shammy for all the AA's I've received.

Like I said this is the players fault not SOE's. If you don't like MMs don't do them. There is plenty of other stuff to do even for a casual player.

Get a group of friends or guildies and explore and fight in some new or old zones. Try a DoN mission none of you have done before. There's other MMs that can be fun, like the Naggy raid. You could shroud down and join some lower toons in various zones. So what if the XP isn't as good, this is about having fun. What's the point of getting good xp if you're just going to do the Fairy/Orc MM again when you ding or get a 1000 aas?

Edited, Wed Jan 4 16:08:19 2006 by MentalFrog

It is not Players fault the game has gone the way it has. It wasn't the players who made a access system such as planar power that even now alot of people can't get through. I mean really almost all of your high end raid zones take a tremidious amount of effort from a guild to get through. Casual players just can not do this alot of times. Also players are not the ones who designed a ton of expansions catered to raiders only just about. I think if they would realease another expansion for ALL levels then maybe people would be more likely to make alts again? But for the heavy raiders why should they play alts when they are eatting through brand new expansions getting loot that makes them nearly godlike in any non raid zones, etc. It wasn't the players who designed mobs that a tank can't tank unless they have either high end raid gear and/or hundreds of AA's. I can't count how many times a DON mission has went sour because the lvl 70 tank couldn't tank the mobs.

I would love to go to old world zones and fight again, but you can't hardly get anybody to go with you. Half the time they don't know where these places are. And unless your a super duper twink and/or a decent solo class taht is hard to do.

If I had a powerful mac computer I would really think about eq mac. It stops at Planes of Power and its actually cheaper per month.

Cry me a river! Don't ***** at me if you can't have sense enough to keep $120 to afford a few entertainment items. That's not my fault.

If you can't afford it don't buy it, I dont' need to hear about your situation, nor do I care. pbbbbt.



Nicely said. I've maintaned that belief that SoE as heavily catered EQ to the casual player of late. It's our fault that it isn't used to it's potential, not SoE's.

Edited, Thu Jan 5 12:01:19 2006 by Frakkor

Unfortunately, this is what everyone else is doing. I don't really enjoy MM's. They're boring, repetitive and take away from the time I've put into levelling, gearing and learning my characters by having me play a lvl 30 fairy or goblin or orc instead with three hotkeys. There's zero risk involved which, to me, translates to zero interest other than seeing how quickly you can grind out the next one for more experience. Sitting at the windmill in LoIO was more exciting since at least you cared when a Sarnak gave you a dirt nap.

But, as I said, everyone is doing them and little else. And I can't even blame them. Not in the least. There's simply no quicker way to advance for a casual player and perhaps even for some more dedicated players. Suggesting we do this zone or that zone is like suggesting we ride a horse from Chicago to New York because I think airflight ruins the feel of travel. Maybe I think it'll be fun but everyone else will (rightfully) look at me as if I'm insane.

So, yeah... "Just don't do them". About as practical a suggestion as those who say "Hey, just don't use PoK!" and ignore the fact that no group in the game is going to wait for you to run from Freeport to Greig's just because you don't like PoK.

Off topic from the Prophecy of Ro discussion but, ironicly, SOE's big hand-out to the casual players is doing more to disinterest me in Everquest than anything else they've done.