Sep 182024
 

Expansion.exe loaded…

Unpacking Group Mission (1/2)…

Unpacking Group Mission (2/2)…

Bad Expansion Has Been Installed!

Some time back in the summer of 2023 the first rumors of the new expansion were leaked! Lauron’s Song… The theory was that Lauron’s Song was going to be an under water expansion…and boy do we hate water zones. Soon enough the EQ team began releasing information about the expansion and there was a collective sigh of relief to find out there was no water, EQ hadn’t done us dirty…or so we thought.

Fast forward to December of 2023…EQ drops their new album and we collectivity rush to Napster to download it, and maybe we downloaded the wrong copy.

I’ve dropped my PC off at Mr. Chow’s Number 1 Computer Repair…which leaves me some time to go over the expansion and some of OGC’s adventures.

LS was a feature expansion, not so much a content expansion. Remember LoY?…ya a little like that… With this expansion we received personas. Personas from a raid perspective have been mostly edge case uses for nights when we’re low on enchanters or something…but otherwise adds another level of complexity to loot distribution on raids. However there has been some benefit to the group side of the game….too bad the expansion is lacking in group content(more on that later). Also enjoy leveling your persona when you have no collections or progression achievements left to claim….kill me now.

To the EQ teams credit we received some new zones rather than copies of old zones with higher level monsters. Also some of the zones are actually challenging to navigate (Pal’Lomen) unless you have a solid group or good CC, which is a warm welcome.

Group missions were a big flop this expansion. We received two group missions and that’s it… No reduced lock out timer. Why? Our best guess is the development time that went in to personas took away from the ability to create an appropriate amount of group content.

Raids were mostly a joke aside from Pal’Lomen….Pal’Lomein?….what ever. I do however want to talk about the substitution of difficulty for annoyance….Unkempt Wood’s I’m looking at you…. 54 people standing around with dicks in hand while mobs spawn half way across the zone and have to be drug to the raid with severe lag and warping issues. Are we meant to fight the event or poor server performance?

At any rate I wish I would have downloaded Adam’s Song instead of Lauron’s Song…and don’t pretend like you aren’t old enough to get that reference…

Obligatory Raid Photos

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Rock throwing Rebo makes a huge comeback…

Dantralis downloads Adam’s Song…

How to trap a rogue gone rogue..

Random stuff..

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