Teek and Anniversary Tower - a Lose/Lose?

Leave it alone, tons of people playing and having fun with it in.

It does not hurt me one way or the other, but those who feel as if they were deceived will take it personally and many will quit and stop spending money.

For me personally it will do little, to the people who spend and the people who want krono it will hurt both of them in the long run even the people who took part early will suffer long term.

It does stop many of them because they enjoy playing EverQuest with others and this tower removes some of the incentives from doing so

Again, not really worried it's just a really bad look and not in line with how the game is.

You can give everyone max stats, attack, in combat regen, etc.. in Kunark and that will be fun for about a week or two until you realize there is much less incentive for grouping/raiding

I think it should be left as is now, that ship has sailed.

Changing it now would only punish those who haven't abused it yet

the main issue i'm seeing is the people in favor of the tower gear are lumping "random loot" in with "out of era stats". wElL wHaT diD YoU eXPeCt? is the most solid argument i've seen in their favor.

these are not the same thing no matter how hard you try. having random chance drops does not automatically mean you don't care about stats anymore.

it's not worth stopping play on Teek, But this sht certainly doesn't make the game more fun.

People still want their epics, they still want their clickies, those are the primary reasons people raided in Classic and Kunark. They are still going to want their Velious armor, spells and weapons, same in Luclin. This isn't going to stop anyone from grouping or raiding.

It makes it more fun for me.

You have to do the Key quests. You aren't doing this in 4 mins on a level 2 mage. Sorry that's just not how the game works.

They are not forced to use those items and they can still progress with the in era gear. Not only that there are still more slots that you need to fill then you can get from the tower.

Just because you can get a few slots from the tower content doesn't mean you still don't need to raid to get the rest of the slots.

It is a special event and you would have gotten complaints about being excluded if it was left off the server.

I'm on Teek. I caved Lol.

The anniversary Tower is Live content and people on TLPs generally don't like Live. As I've stated in other threads if you aren't familiar with gear all the way up (aka you stop at lvl 70) I can see how this gear is overwhelming (and it is for the era, for sure).

This is an anniversary event on an anniversary server and who cares if its in there, its not like you're going to get PWND in wpvp and lose OW dps races over it /shrug. The friction from my perspective playing on the server is that Tower is Live content and people don't like Live content. They play TLPs to avoid Live content.

If the exact same anniversary gear dropped randomly from Raid mobs I guarantee no one cares. It would probably be applauded.

It sounds like DPG's plan to get more people to buy Krono with money is working very well.

Just leveling up in LOIO I get way more plat than i would leveling up durin classic.

I'm sure the tower quests are impacting it, but the Kunark open is having a much bigger one. Thousands of people leveling up in Kunark are more than dozens running the tower quests.

I'm actually starting to think that you don't even know the details or have any idea how it works. Have you personally done this?

The key quest NPC's don't scale down to lvl 2. They only scale down to about lvl 20. A lvl 2 mage with the pet is not completing the key quest by themselves without help. The plat reward also scales per level. At level 25 I got ~24pp per character.

474pp per character at level 60, however they have to deal with lvl 70 mobs who proc a 2.8k DD and quad. It's around 5k raw plat per hour with 6 toons.

This is also the key quest itself. The tower floors do not give any raw plat rewards.

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No one cares if they leave the live quests in or the tokens, the issue is entirely around the gear being LDoN quality in Kunark and the plat rewards being massive for this era.

You can roleplay to your hearts desire and no one cares man, the issue is the insanely over tuned gear and plat rewards.

What a silly argument.

Hey don't do this dumb, easy, joke of a quest over and over on lvl 1's for tons of plat and some of the best gear possible over the next 3 expansions/year because you and 50 other people can get together for hours on end and get worse gear.

Again, for me personally? It just looks bad and dumb overall, it looks like no one at daybreak thought about what this would do to a new TLP plat/item wise or someone inept just signed off on it without using their head.

They could have left the quests in so people could celebrate the 25th anniversary, made the gear 65 required to equip, removed the plat rewards and everything would have been fine but instead we have this untuned mess.

It's not even a bad look overall so much as it just looks like sheer incompetence and/or disinterest on a broad scale

I specifically said they should have left the tower and quests in the game along with the gear and tokens for the new TLP's, just remove the plat rewards and make the gear lvl 65 required to equip said gear and augments.

This way people could do the 25th anniversary quests to celebrate EverQuest without having gear that is better than anything that will drop for the next year / 3 expansions

It's a really dumb look overall, reeks of disinterest and ignorance

Neither of which is good for supposedly creative jobs.