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You have every right to your opinion, and I didn't mean to try and stamp on that at all, and if you feel that I did/am, then I apologize. What I ment, was essentially: I have my opinion on what I think about levelling, which seems to be in direct conflict with the actions and apparent feelings&opinions, of a large number of people. I'd like to understand those other feelings&opinions better, but by their nature explanations are difficult to carry the weight that actually drives them in a person. Nontheless, I am curious, so I can better understand this radically different method of playing and, presumably, enjoying EQ.
I also didn't mean to imply that you specifically had levelled in 6 zones - I just ment that I tend to find that the two groups, those who level in 6 zones, and those that say EQ starts at 65, tend to have a large amount of overlap, but are by no means the same. There are many people who are 65 and have taken a worldly path of levelling.
I'm not 65, and so I can't comment on that difference. I've done some things which can give me some degree of perspective, but its by no means the same as actually being 65.
I've farmed ToFS, elemental isle, Najena, Unrest, Hollowshade, Warrens, Rathe Mtns, and Befallen when they were greened out (usually deeply). I've also gone through them when they were primarily dark blue or higher, and, for me, there is a world of difference between those two experiences. Both can be fun for me, but in very very different ways, and yield a very different perspective on and perseption of the zones (for me). As you point out (I think), being any given level cuts both ways - you open up new content, and lose old content. I just become frustrated by the people who blast through levels as quickly as possible, "losing" huge quantities of old content without touching them, then become frustrated by congestion and boredom at the high end (another, probably small, but certainly loud, subset of people).
I spent 8 months at 52 raiding Naggy & Vox for my books for my epic. AA was ingame, so I could divert what xp I earned into that, but until I got those books, xp toward levelling's sole purpose was to offset deaths, and anything more was a problem rather than benefit. I wound up grinding 7AA during that time, but I wound up playing EQ very little other than the dragon raids - without that carrot of real advancement hanging there, EQ just lost a lot of its charm, as it felt like there wasn't much to do (its ironic, tradeskills are more fun when they're a distraction from levelling, for me, it seems
). 65 would naturally be different, as the "you're too low" comments would finally cease, but that primary carrot is gone, which is not something I'm looking forward to.
When I do finally hit the max level, assuming EQ isn't dead by the time the lines of maxLevel and dunthorLevel intersect, it'll be curious to see what I think.
As I just got GoD about 4 hours ago, I haven't had much chance to see just how little I'll be getting out of it yet I'll probably get the same as I got out of PoP and LoY (ignoring books) - some new tradeskill recipes, maybe a few "trash drop"s for upgrades, a new "tradeskill heaven" zone, and some miscellaneous number of zones I'll get to pop my head in on rare occasion. GoD won't have spells for me, at least not for some time, which LoY and PoP did provide and I have taken advantage of. LDoN and SoV were the only expansions I've actually liked, and along with SoL are the only ones I've spent large amounts of time in, and SoL was mostly for tradeskill-related activites.
I also didn't mean to imply that you specifically had levelled in 6 zones - I just ment that I tend to find that the two groups, those who level in 6 zones, and those that say EQ starts at 65, tend to have a large amount of overlap, but are by no means the same. There are many people who are 65 and have taken a worldly path of levelling.
I'm not 65, and so I can't comment on that difference. I've done some things which can give me some degree of perspective, but its by no means the same as actually being 65.
I've farmed ToFS, elemental isle, Najena, Unrest, Hollowshade, Warrens, Rathe Mtns, and Befallen when they were greened out (usually deeply). I've also gone through them when they were primarily dark blue or higher, and, for me, there is a world of difference between those two experiences. Both can be fun for me, but in very very different ways, and yield a very different perspective on and perseption of the zones (for me). As you point out (I think), being any given level cuts both ways - you open up new content, and lose old content. I just become frustrated by the people who blast through levels as quickly as possible, "losing" huge quantities of old content without touching them, then become frustrated by congestion and boredom at the high end (another, probably small, but certainly loud, subset of people).
I spent 8 months at 52 raiding Naggy & Vox for my books for my epic. AA was ingame, so I could divert what xp I earned into that, but until I got those books, xp toward levelling's sole purpose was to offset deaths, and anything more was a problem rather than benefit. I wound up grinding 7AA during that time, but I wound up playing EQ very little other than the dragon raids - without that carrot of real advancement hanging there, EQ just lost a lot of its charm, as it felt like there wasn't much to do (its ironic, tradeskills are more fun when they're a distraction from levelling, for me, it seems
). 65 would naturally be different, as the "you're too low" comments would finally cease, but that primary carrot is gone, which is not something I'm looking forward to.When I do finally hit the max level, assuming EQ isn't dead by the time the lines of maxLevel and dunthorLevel intersect, it'll be curious to see what I think.
As I just got GoD about 4 hours ago, I haven't had much chance to see just how little I'll be getting out of it yet
I'll probably get the same as I got out of PoP and LoY (ignoring books) - some new tradeskill recipes, maybe a few "trash drop"s for upgrades, a new "tradeskill heaven" zone, and some miscellaneous number of zones I'll get to pop my head in on rare occasion. GoD won't have spells for me, at least not for some time, which LoY and PoP did provide and I have taken advantage of. LDoN and SoV were the only expansions I've actually liked, and along with SoL are the only ones I've spent large amounts of time in, and SoL was mostly for tradeskill-related activites.
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