Trip report: Been playing here for a week or so. Here are my findings:
PRO:
- GM is active, responsive, and fairly knowledgeable!
- EXP is a little slower than I'm used to, but it makes the leveling feel good, and it only took a week or so to get my group to level cap (50)
- The Exquisite / Flawless items is a cool touch - It makes me want to farm mobs I never would really consider because WHAT IF I GET A REALLY AMAZING ITEM!
-Community - everyone is helpful. I'm grouping up with a paladin and his group today to try to kill fire giants in SoldungB for word drops so he can upgrade his mage pets
- Free druid ring ports up to level 5! I love this. My group is evil, but we did all our leveling up to 20 in crushbone / unrest without any trouble. We can pay the npc at the butcher ring now to go south ro to upper guk if we want, or we can find one of the druids or wizards online and ask them for free ports
- Definitely evokes old-school nostalgia with some great quality of life changes like extended targeting, the druid porters, the not-quite-classic spell list (spells are awarded every level or two, not every 4 like old old oldschool eq) and the ability to see NPC and PC buffs.
- I dont think you can de-level from exp loss, which is pretty cool, because holy cow I die a lot when I'm doing stupid things! Makes me feel like It's okay to struggle through LGUK or try kedge keep
- Loot drop system is awesome. Normal mobs drop normal loot, but named mobs drop loot by bucket (level range) which means if you dont want to farm solsek a you can get drops from upper guk or najena if the mobs are the same level range. It's an amazing feature.
MID:
- Spell Research. What can I say; it's old school research. There's no spell scribing, so getting color skew, or the level 48 water pet for mages or ice comet feels like an epic achievement.
- Bazaar! The old bazaar is active, but there isnt a huge population yet. A few merchants , but it would be awesome if there were more people, right now it feels a little clunky
- Druid port NPC feels a little clunky with regards to the bazaar, since it costs a little plat to get there after level 5, but it's free to port out to any druid location. Double edged sword I think, which is why it's in mid.
- It would be nice to have a DEV ROADMAP, so we can roughly know when to expect changes to be implemented and expansions to drop (not really an issue because the dev is pretty good about just openly chatting on discord)
- Low(ish) population means peaks times are social hour and off-times can be kind of slow in terms of chatting
CON:
- Cazic Thule is being revamped for 1.0 so it's not available, which severely limits the places you can go from 40-50 to pretty much LGUK and SOLDUNGB
- Rathe Mountains is being revamped to kick the frogs out and move the giants back in so it's not 'live' yet, which is fine, but I miss killing giants.
- GM Could be a little better about communicating changes. Like, there's a 50% exp bonus for 24 hours today but there's only a small announcement in the discord, and nothing in the server-updates channel. Small thing though.
TLDR SUMMARY:
If you like old-school TLP servers (currently in CLASSIC PRE-KUNARK) with Quality of Life changes/fixes that still has a nostalgia feeling without the nostalgia tedium, that lets you box a full group and hunt for rare drops in a cool way, this might be a good place for you.
I've been having a lot of fun!
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