Prophecy of RoFollow

*Shrug* If you think so. I'm logged in so I could run my lvl 58 Shadowknight through the Tier 1 PoP zones and Dranik's right now and let you know how many groups are there (much less groups looking for my class/level specifically) but it probably wouldn't prove much to you. I'm not arguing a lack of content, I'm saying there's a lack of people more interested in that content than they are interested in the easy, risk free XP of Monster Missions. Maybe it's different at lvl 70 but I'm working on raising up a new class. The annoyance of levelling in the 50's only makes the situation worse since everyone wants to do MM's to get past it.

Well, I wish my experiences were closer to yours but they haven't been recently. Not much more that I can tell you beyond that.
But, hey, have your monk shoot me a tell sometime

HA!! So you ADMIT you can't really say!!!

Hehehe... really, this seems to be a recent development. I log into EQ and find half the guild in Highpass and the other half in Nek Forest. And everyone about three levels higher than I left them the night before. Again, I can't blame them and I could get a slot in at the drop of a hat -- it's just not that fun for me. Less so to know that my characters are alienating themselves by falling behind in levels and AA's because I'm not interested in playing an orc.

Dude, that's what I said!

We have been spending a lot more time in MM's than I'd like to. Part of it is due to shorter play time during the holidays, part due to laziness.

For the record though, I did my leveling from 65 - 67 in real zones, no MM's. I had 5 days off work and spent a LOT of time in BoT and WoS over the course of three days. I was on for 14 hours one day

I think now we are working towards doing more DoN content. That is where I would like to see us go as a guild.

Personally I have no interest in playing alts, so if you want to do content in the 50's, I can shroud down to a rogue, just like the LDoN the other night :)

On Ab all the tier 1 2 and 3 zones are packed.

A guildie was caomplaining last night that there was 3 groups in PoI and he'd been waiting for a spot for 30mins.

So far this week i have played

4 different MM
2 DoN
1 LDoN
grouped in BoT, HoH, WoS, PoN (Hobgobbos for Raw diamonds and xp for Guildies) Marus Saru (Alt but full group) PC (Alt full group most camps where full)

I have plans for the weekend for Justice trials for Jark, Hedge trials for Adeara and Jark, i also have a standing invite to group in MpG and the Hive with a friends regular group since thier chanter is on holiday.

Things are looking up for me, i am rarely without a group or something to do. I have seen 10x as much content of DoN and DoD than i did of GoD and thats dispite spending over 3 months away at sea since September.

Could be. I did /who all 55 - /who all 60 on Povar after I typed my post a few posts back and saw five people not in PoK/GH/Bazaar or a MM zone -- Two in Noble's Causeway, one in Sebilis, one in Chardok and a 55 wizard who was hanging out in Dreadlands of all places.

I know /who all doesn't show anon/role players but, out of the ~60 players it did show, that's not a large percentage in non-MM xp zones and I certainly wouldn't extrapolate the tier 1 planes being packed from it.

With the revamping of Feeport will zones like NRO and EC also get revamps

I think they could easily make Freeport 1 big city now. I am sure at the time they made freeport the way it was due to PC limitations etc. I know there was big zones in old world such as the Karanas', but the Karana's didn't have a bunch of buildings to lag peopels voodoo 3 video card and MMX processors with that big 64 megs of ram at the time :p. I just hope the layout is similar so we don't have to try and learn a new city.

As far as DON being for casual players I have to slightly disagree. The zones themselves are geared more towards the higher end players for starters. Of course you see plenty of casual players doing them but you also see alot of casual players failing them. A casual tank generally can not do a DON because they can not tank them due to not having armor from raid zones. I have watched plenty of bazaar equiped tanks die over and over again with a shaman and cleric both healing them. And as far as Creator being the only one they do might have to do with the progression crap they threw in with DON? Isn't creator the first mission you can do? And you can't blame people for only doing 2 MM, why spend any amount of time in a hard MM and end up with 0 exp and 0 loot to show for it? At least with DON and other instanced missions if you fail you still have exp and loot to show for it, but with a MM if you fail you basically wasted your time.

I won't start a arguement about how SOE nerfed the MM's, most players agree they needed to be nerfed. But as usual SOE can't just do a minor nerf to make them still playable but not insanely hard, they have to super nerf it to the point they are very hard. So why do a mission that you have a small chance to pass when you know the exp won't be much better then doing a creator mission which rewards you 30 to 40 crystals, exp, and chances at loot? I would rather kill greens in lowerguk for PP and loot then do a 45 to 1 hour monstermission that I may or may not get anything for.

And as far as the actual zones of DOD they are not very casual gamer friendly. I have even heard raid geared groups needing 2 healers sometimes just to keep up with heals because of the damage mobs do. I know the day me and some guildies went into the ruins of whatever our lvl 70 300ishaa tank with epic 1.5 and uber gear dropped like a fly to a gargoyle. And of course its all dungeon like zones with KOS mobs all over the place making it hard for a casual group that has members coming and going to do anything. The number 1 thing I always liked about eq1 was pickup groups and most of your pick up groups have members coming and going. That is hard to do when your 2 or 3 zones into a area with KOS mobs everywhere.

Maybe I am wrong, but I figure these will all be high end dungeon zones with the KOS mobs everywhere. Be nice to actualyl walk through a zone with a mob or 2 that DOESN'T scowl at you. I guess I gotta go back to antonica for that though.

I would have to say nope.

For instance, All Paladins that have completed their SoulFire portion of the Epic 1.0 (and anyone who helped them) are Permanantly KOS to all of Freeport except for North.

So combining 3 zones into one is a bit more complicated than just combining real estate....There are Factions and other considerations that exsist.

Well, one solution would be to finally resolve the Freeport faction issue and boot the Knights of Truth out. And yes, lots of quest updates and things would be necessary.

Are they moving towards the lore of EQ2 or ignoring that "future lore" as a bad dream EQ1 won't be flowing into?