BogusMeatFactoryOh I got in trouble in the Everquest Legends Discord. I'm sorry but creating an MMO where you can solo everything and make every zone instanced just for you AND allow you to set the difficulty of the game... WHY IS THIS ONLINE AND NOT A SINGLE PLAYER GAME?
Greg@greg Yeah it is wild! This new "Classic experience," has you able to multi-race/multi-class your character with THREE classes and everyone is very thrilled with this idea of having a character that can solo everything in the game by themselves, never have to rely on anyone or interact with everyone and being PISSED when people say, "There is some flaws with this design."
@Bogusmeatfactory I did not play Everquest, but my college roommate was hooked on it when he was in high school, and my understanding of the "classic" game is that you'd play as a druid and have to put up with everyone spamming "SoW" at you all day for a buff. now THAT is social gaming
@greg Yeah, one of the big draws everquest had was that classes had specific features that were in high demand. Wizards could teleport players to major cities and to raid-specific zones that only they had access to.
Rogues could be a fool proof body dragger if you needed to recover your body from a difficult to reach area.
Shamans and Druids had super helpful buffs like Spirit of The Wolf that increased run speed for players.
Now you can just be every class.
@Bogusmeatfactory I really enjoyed hearing his stories (waking the sleeper, or getting killed by it I guess), getting drunk on in-game booze and then lost in the wilderness, having to make crazy corpse recovery runs after venturing into a hostile area, walking along the zone lines to avoid aggro mobs, etc.
@greg Exactly! I can tell you stories of how I would turn into a spinning flagpole selling 4-week adventuring correspondence courses, or when I would be a druid shouting wildlife health PSAs informing people that the bear you are having intercourse with is not a druid in bear-form... it's just a bear.... and we have an outbreak of bear herpes now. Or how I would hold funeral services for player corpses about to decay. Those are the BEST TIMES!