Depths of Darkhollow ImpressionsFollow

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The monster missions are nice because you don't have to rely on certain classes etc, and as picky as players are anymore that is a very nice feature (IE I hate putting DON's together clerics and tanks are a pain!! Everybody thigns they should be the 6th member to a perfect group of all level 70's UGG!!!)

Anyways as far as shrouds go they are handy for grouping with lower players, however I think the lvl 60+ shrouds are really quite useless. The cleric shrouds heals are underpowered to be used in a grouping or raid situation, and the tanks/melee just don't have the dps to match your normal lvl 60 to 70 players.

As far as the new zones they are 100% crap. Much like Gates, OOW, etc as a melee class you gotta have a group to even walk through them cause of the way they are made. Seems to me, as with almost every expansion made now, the new zones are made for the people with 1000aa's time/oow/gates gear, etc. Mobs that quad hit for 1400dd, difficult to explore zones, yuck. The zoens are dull, mazey and boreing to look at. Yes Yes Im sure there is super uber loot to be seen. OF course I will probably never see it, but Im sure its to be seen none of the less.

I know there is plenty of high end players in the game, but that doesn't mean 90% of every expansion released should cater to them. Be nice to see another expansino where ALL classes can explore them. Ever since Gates almost every new zone is a tightly enclosed dungeon with mobs hitting for 400 to 1400 damage wandering everywhere. Makes it very hard to get any type of group going, and it makes it hard to replace members when a member of a gorup wants to leave. That is probably why so few of the new expansions have really added much to casual grouping.

Anyways thats my 2 cents. I don't regret buying it mainly for the monster missions. I have probably just about used this expansion more then DON, OOW, and Gates combined.

i think its great, not best i think that planes, but even at low lvls moster missions can provide good xp

I actually like the designs of the new zones, but then, I like wide open zones with big falls, I liked the deep. I think the shrouds and monster missions are both spectacular ideas, and as for raiding, I'm waiting to see what awaits in dreadspire to make my decision on that.

I havent had the time to really play the creatures yet. but I did like being a lvl 70 zerka and wizzy.

I agree completely with what is being said here in the above post by Fronglo.

My husband and I haven't bought the latest expansion yet, and I don't know if we will. We haven't even made it to any of the zones from the last 3 expansions. We are casual players, not "uber" and don't have very many AA's (we do have a life outside of EQ)and so we find it hard to find really good groups with people who know what they are doing.

What we do find interesting about Darkhollows is that one can grp with anyone at any lvl, but we don't have the "couple 100 AA's" as said in a post below to cope with all the hard hits.

It would be so awesome to see another expansion come out like Luclin, the last good popular expansion much like Kunark with a wide range of zones for any type of player, solo, casual or uber.

Anyhoo, that's just my thinking...

I really like the graphics of the zones. Being a Rogue, I have not experienced the difficulties that some face getting around. I have not had a great amount of time to get into the details of the lore and the missions. So far, I am impressed with the content part - we will see what time brings.

As for the shrouds, they are a very interesting concept. It should be a real boon for those uber players to play with their not-so-uber friends.

I would say it sucks. Or at least the information given to start the monster missions is very lacking. To this day i havent found anyone who knows or is willing to tell me or any of my friends these pertinent pieces of information.
1. Where are the npc's to get missions from.
2. How come the zones for these missions are rated 60+
3. What do you have to do to get progression towards next image? Is it just hunting in image, grouping in image, or doing missions that we cant start because we dont know where to get them.
4. What is the difference between the gargoyle image, and the other images. Is on for missions and the others just for fun. Can you unlock any as you wish (if you find out how to progress in them), should you try to do them all for bonus items, skills???

I hate this exp for the fact that there was NO information given on how to use shrouds,gargoyle tooth. No pop up saying telling to to seek someone out like they did with ldon..At least that one told you go to home city, search for person a then go to a wayfarer camp and talk to so and so..

THis one is heres a tooth. theres a shroud guy.. Good luck on not knowing where to go, who to talk to or what is needed to advance.

Now part of the problem might be that people on quellious are just getting more and more unsociable and refuse to help if anyone asks, but seems that if they do figure it out they dont tell anyone so they can sell new items at really high prices and if they dont help anyone then its less likly others will go get these items on their own instead of buy them..



Guess its time to transfer to a server where people are nice and helpful to others who ask for basic info that sony couldnt give but should have.

I am enjoying the monster missions and some of them are paying pretty good xp. The naggy one is fun but they nerfed the xp down to 4% reg xp at level 66. I doubt I'll go back to that one but some of the others are still worth doing. If they continue to nerf the xp in missions then this expansion will be worthless to me.

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Minievil - When you eventually go outside and see a ball of fire in the sky, that's called the sun. Do not look directly at it. =)



Edited, Sat Sep 24 12:07:13 2005 by Grimleaper

I have really enjoyed the moster missions...when there arent any bugs..I have to say the intial start up was a pain in the ***..I was stuck in the void with most of my guild for several days and felt very frustrated. But have to say, I do love the shrouds so that I can hang with my younger guildies. That to me was worth the aggrivation
Lea

As much as the monster missions are fun.. provide some decent gear, and the shrouds are useful for general grouping, especially with lower level toons, I'm not particularly happy with the xp zones provided.. The kind of loot that is dropping of mobs that are hitting for 1.2/1.4k a round is really quite frankly rubbish. Its nowhere *near* upgrade quality, and much of it isn't even upgrade quality to toons that are 10-15 levels below the lvl 60-70 toons that you need to *get* the loot. Bear in mind, I'm talking about general grouping loot, not raid loot. The fact that a friend of mine (70 warrior, very decently geared, 1.5'd) needs to take *two* healers with him just to group in the zone is quite frankly.. silly.

Just my 2cp

Great expansion, probably one of the best ever. So much to do, Missions, Quests, great Exp, more spells, evolving weapons, it's real scary too. Finally an expansion that is not a mindless grind. This expansion, seperates the anti-social whiners who **** everyone off from the great players in the game who are friendly and know how to work as a team. Hat's off to SoE on the whole monster mission thing too, the other day our guild was doing a raid and we were a bit short on a class. 3 players turn into monsters and just like that they missing classes were there. Too much fun!

Thanks SoE, great job!

I feel like one of the above poster's in as much as not knowing a doggone thing about DoD other than the hyperbole press about it and I realize that for many that a big part of the fun of EQ is exploring and learning how things work and who to talk to and so forth i.e. powergamers.
However I dont have that kind of time to spend so have to wait for a post of what is what at a site like this to finally be able to take advantage of what any new expansion has to offer.
I have enjoyed having my Roboboar and I'm sure once some site offers the "How to's" of DoD I will be able to begin exploring the zones of DoD (C'mon EQtoolbox hehe).
Until then however even tho I have DoD, I will still be trying to find groups in OoW and waiting for details to be posted to give me a heads up of what is what.
I for one tho are very happy that there are the powergamers/guilds to keep encouraging SOE to produce even more expansions cause even if I havent been to 80% of EQ zones since Velious and have 3 toons over 60 I love the new features that come with the expansions i.e. shared bank slots etc.
It makes game play easier and less time consuming i.e. tedious.

Sofurious
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