perhaps the most unvisited zone has to be The Seething Wall -http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zstrat=352 Ild love to see a show of hands of players and Devs that even know of this zone
I feel sadness when I visit an old zone that used to be busy back when I started EQ in 2001, but is empty now. But I understand the game has to progress or die.
I love going to old, desolate zones. I also like how old content like the epics make people go back to these old zones. Especially with all these "returnees", people that have been gone for years, lots of old content gets revisited with people trying their hand at content that they missed back in the day. I realize that this content is trivial, or at least the loot is, but doing an old school raid sure can be fun with your box-group. Therefore I think none of the zones that have any kind of Epic 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 content in them could really qualify for "deadest zone". Nor can those zones that have permacamped mobs in them. Or even zones like North Karana, as long as there are people that put up a barter that pays 15k for a High Quality Lion Hide. Or zones that have drops/NPC's in them for still viable, long Quests. Or Qvic, where I will be trying my hand at the Raid targets, to see if I can get a BL-usable weapon with a slot8 for my Shard of Eternal Pain! As far as dead zones go, I would vote for Maru Seru, if not for the fact that they made this horrible zone a Hotzone now. Almost devoid of any features, 5 types of the same mobs, huge aggro range and some sort of horrible glare/lighting of the zone sure must make this a candidate.
lol, good one, RBD. I avoid them though I origin a lot to Kelethin. >< Oasis too. /testcopied my Cleric and she ended up Oasis. She's still there.... Clerics need port to bind!
Wish SOE could do something elegant like a slowly increasing ZEM when a zone is all but dead. Then again, the new lower lvl hot zones are dead too, though some were very poorly picked like Frontier Mountains and Plane of Air.
another forgotten zone is The Forgotten Halls http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zone.html?zstrat=258
all the newbe zones would have seen the most death. i remember just falling down a hill kept killing my newbe toons.
I had some characters parked in Stonebrunt when I came back so I poked their heads in The Warrens. Sheesh that zone is dismal and out of date. Nobody seems to start an Erudite since all characters are created equal now and if they did, smart play would be Crescent Reach. Even when it was new it was bad. Long runs to sell anything and not a lot of stuff worth keeping. Some of the quests like "Azzar's Dreadful Hat" were weak and hated when they were new. I see now there is a PoK armor quest that gets you a level appropriate mask in The Warrens, I don't think many people run it. I don't think there is anything that could save The Warrens. Someone else said ~A zone to run through to get some place. Too much competition from Crescent Reach, too many fixes that would have to be made. Double experience points, a vendor in the zone, and Kobold's carrying diamonds are about the only thing that would interest people in today's game.
I still hit up The Warrens all the time for easy charged snare clickies. It is also a great exp zone at low levels, and one of my favorites to level shrouds in.
I bet for the players that don't have so many teleport clickies rely on Origin so I bet they are visited just for the sake of getting to a PoK book. All of those are good (I love old Xorbb and Najena,) but I bet Veeshan's peak is still visited for people trying to get an ALEX.
People visit all the open world raid zones, especially ones with dragons. Even if there isn't loot, killing dragons is fun. Add in useful loot and nostalgia and those dragons are doomed. Also, swarming up through the trash is a fine way to faction up for an OT hammer.
My idea is that loot should accumulate on mobs over time, so if you clear out an unhunted in zone, you can really cash in; once a patch cycle.
What are you talking about?!? Dalnir was the place to go for a long time. Maybe it just varied by server. I would say the the wedding chapel zones.
That's a good point. On The Rathe, I never, ever saw anybody there. No groups. No one soloing. Nothing. I don't really know why. The only issue that zone had at first was "the kly" mob who would proc something like 500-800 damage every swing and wipe a group in seconds, before he was fixed.
