{"id":373,"date":"2011-03-31T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2011-03-31T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T13:46:45","slug":"returning-from-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Returning from 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2004 would have been&#8230; Gates\/Omens time, I guess, when a lot of people left; EQ2 started, WoW started &#8211; and SOE leadership had been a disaster, with GoD so hated by normal players. \u00c2\u00a0New since then:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>mercs: tank or healer; dps caster and dps melee added later. \u00c2\u00a0For when you can&#8217;t get a group.<\/li>\n<li>Defiant gear. \u00c2\u00a0Global drop from anything, the 59-70 Elaborate Defiant set is roughly Time\/GoD raid gear equivalent. \u00c2\u00a0It is usually very cheap in the Bazaar. \u00c2\u00a0You may also have a\/claim item called &#8220;Gift of Legacies Lost&#8221;, which is a couple of Defiant items including a weapon &#8211; I wouldn&#8217;t bother claiming it until 55+, though.<\/li>\n<li>ooc regen: 30 seconds after you come out of combat, regen hp\/mana rate increases, so that you would regen to full in 3 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>potions: for healing, regen, haste, etc.<\/li>\n<li>tribute: donate unwanted gear to tribute masters for some useful buffs.<\/li>\n<li>Hot Zones: to bring players together, they have revised drops, especially augments, and an experience boost.<\/li>\n<li>new leveling path in TSS, default starting zone for all characters is now Crescent Reach. \u00c2\u00a0All zones give boosted exp.<\/li>\n<li>revised AA exp &#8211; characters under 2,500 AAs get a boost that scales down from zero AAs. \u00c2\u00a0Starts at around 3x normal (may be more now that the limit was raised).<\/li>\n<li>Guild Lobby is open to all; buffs don&#8217;t count down there, so it&#8217;s where people go to hang out and get buffs, as well as just rez.<\/li>\n<li>Many keyed zones (like Sebilis, Howling Stones, Plane of Fire) now have a level requirement to enter. \u00c2\u00a0You can still get the keys\/flags if you want in earlier, but they aren&#8217;t required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should do for a rough outline; lots of big game changes there. \u00c2\u00a0In short, leveling is a lot faster; populations at low levels are thin as a consequence of this, but high level populations are roughly the same density as they were in 2005, after the mergers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2004 would have been&#8230; Gates\/Omens time, I guess, when a lot of people left; EQ2 started, WoW started &#8211; and SOE leadership had been a disaster, with GoD so hated by normal players. \u00c2\u00a0New since then:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leveling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/eqblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}