Nektulos Forest?Follow

Forest no, canyon yes. Guess the programmers were too busy not fixing bugs, broken quests,Nobles's Lag, and line of site issues on flat surfaces to make Nektulos Forest into a forest instead of a canyon maze. Glad they were able to borrow the orc design from WoW. Overall a very disappointing revamp.

For the record, they've been working on a revamped Nek Forest for ages. They announced it when Lavastorm v2.0 went live.

I couldn't care less about the orcs. I'm still upset about the God-awful tutorial kobolds.

Be glad its not like the one from Everquest 2. In eq2 they should call it Nektulos maze. It sucked.

Technically, as an imaginary race, the writer/designer can describe orcs pretty much any way they want. You'll note that the WoW design, the EQ design, and the LoTR designs are entirely different, and if you delve deeper into the myths surrounding them you'll find very different descriptions.

Edited, Wed Sep 7 19:57:01 2005 by TheMightyMagnu

The new forest sucks.

So as far as I can tell, the Greater Wisps, that you have to kill in the Wispglow Earring quest....are nowhere to be found. I love it when they make changes like this, and don't consider the effect it has on past content.

Anyone know about this or where they might have gone?

Imaginary has nothing to do with it. You should see the abomination that FFXI passes off as a rabbit

Has anyone seen Venenzi Oberzendi in the new Nektulos?

Edited, Thu Sep 8 22:59:43 2005 by SuiG

As far as I'm concerned my favorite newb zone has now been ruined. All of the old mobs are all lumped together in the same spot... half of them running into the river. The halflings are gone, so unless they are put back in some of the older quests won't work. The zone is way to small. those impassible hedges are annoying and creating a bunch of wasted space. I don't mind the new graphics, that's always fun to see, but I wish Sony would stop ruining the old content in the game. Adding new stuff in... sure I'm all for it. but now the older quests are going to be almost impossible to do.

Thanks, that was it. Loc is -236, -811 if anyone else needs it.

I agree with dfrnchman and with Kajolus especially:

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yip. especially when you have to pass through at lvl 17, cause you were doing the betrayal quest... man, my troll knight sweated a lot...

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I recall running my Ogre Knight over to Qeynos to work at becoming a warrior. The only part I was really sweating bullets over was the very well known path my Paladin had run dozens of times. Just knowing the Owlbears were out in force and having to weave around, and the always-aggro-everything Fire Bats would be up was a definite hindrance to a nice stroll my 46 Paladin often did. And I did bring a train of mobs with me to the docks and clicked over to TS with about 20% health left. And Nek forest in EQ2 is almost monochrome Grey, with small gradations in greyness. Mobs blend very well, and it is a MUCH more spooky place than EQ is, let alone comparing it to EQ’s Kithikor.

The new nek is now set up to be a closer reflection of what the future nek will become after the Cataclysm. What I thought was funny is the book area is now the newbie area. All the 35+ players zoning in on their way to LS, only to get hit up with “can you buff me please?”. No w THAT makes Nek a really scary place…………

Maybe it was just me bein mental but inside Neriak, seemed a bit different too, could just be I hadnt been in like forever.

I didnt do a lot of explorin outside me home town, What I did see I liked, I also liked that it was super close to neriak now.

I will probably have more oppinions as I do more in it but for now it is one of the better redesigns they have done.

I would still like to kick them for Splitpaw/MM/ and skyshrine revamps, sure I could think of more but =)