Vote for Best Everquest Expansion!

[Gardeltron]

[ndaara]

Kunark, definitely. It was a happy, happy day for me when Droga got revamped to be my level again! chardok is still my favorite zone ever, although i rarely go there now.

It amuses me when people talk about PoP having so much content. Being a non-raider by nature (and too busy to raid, regardless), pop probably offered me the least amount of new content. as an avid crafter i also found PoP extremely frustrating: it was terrible to have to buy all my ingredients in the bazaar.

Overall though, there is something i like in all of them! Even PoP: although i miss the immersion of the boat rides, i don't miss being left out of groups because i just plain couldn't get there fast enough. Or, logging in my druid to port everyone else, and then be told, "sorry, full group!" LOL

There are pros and cons to everything. I took a short break to explore EQ2, and i'm finding several of the things i loved about that game are migrating backwards 500 years: Quest Journal, painless CR (via corpse summoners and/or expedient recovery). Then again, some of those dreadful CRs make such marvelous tales, 5 years later.

Mostly i'm just amazed that i'm still playing this game after nearly 6 years. And enjoying it!

[Nuggruk]

Kunark was the best expansion for the general playing population, Velious was the best for the raiding crowd.

PoK was the worst because of the port stones............... they turned a large immersive world into a set of point and click arcade games and destroyed the immersiveness of the game.

GoD was awful, not sure why but I really hated in, probably the sci fi angle, not my thing.

Nuggs

[Jaruden]

[Veril]

[Ughbash]

Tough call for favorte expanision.

I choose LDON, even though I never use it now, it was at the time hugely useful to me and still has the best charm augment going. Ldon was the expansion that gave the non-raider players so much, yeah you had to grind a lot (but then to max harm it was 366 wins) but you oculd upgrade your gear signifigantly if you were a non-raider. Granted it was a bit of a love/hate relationship after I had my 70 GuK wins I sowre I would never go back there.

OOW is also a great expanison for what it gives to the non-raiders. Tier 1 Armor is better then LDON, and jstu a step below elemetal. For melee the effects on the armor are even better then elemental, but the elemental is still better. PLus the augments and random (rare) drops could make huge upgrades for non-raiders.

DoN despite the panther fiasco, this was great. It allowed people to upgrade weak slots fo armor, get new augments and depnding on how far you were into raiding you cuold get bonuses to stats, extra hp/mana/end, bonus buff slot, or more.

PoP well I hated it cause I could only get into 4 zones, but loved it cause the XP in PoN/PoD/PoI/PoJ rocked. Then I worked my way through it til I was fully flagged. Finishing the elemental flagging (minus fire) and runnign to jsut zone into each elemental zone before you camped cauase ti was late and you wanted to see them. Later zoning into Time and finally standing over Quarms dead body. PoP brought some great memories.

Basically I liked all 4 of those named, but the one that was at its time most useful and easiest for me to get pickup groups with was LDON.

[Nuggruk]

[Brohg]

Before I even started my acct, I remember the trip from Kelethin to Kaladim being a big deal, starting from the lifts and following the path because going into the woods without landmarks meant getting lost instantly. I had no conception whatsoever of zone walls and even that ordinal directions meant something in EQ. Not that ordinals would have been much use, since Sense Heading (no, the compass is right out. unusable before level 20, basically) was so unreliable at low levels. And you'd pass people on the path, going both ways. You'd get to see the high level (20+, omfg) folks standing around the portal spires, no doubt engaged in mysterious high level errands. They could beat you anywhere, because they had SoW, and even more powerfully, they had knowledge.

"Having to follow the road to get around" defines immersion.

[darkpaw]

[Zillanex]

[Fandele Longtooth]

[Gooshemz]

[Gloriana]

[Gooshemz]

[Creach]

[Bernz]

[Rodahn]

[Lickity]

[Naagruz]

[EeyonRN]

[Brohg]

[EeyonRN]