There was a Velks revamp during Velious on live which increased the level of the mobs and turned it into a decent xp zone. Prior to the revamp it was pretty much an AIDS zone, but the revamp happened in Era so people did utilize it quite a lot towards the end of the expansion and people used it during Luclin some.
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I don't know what to tell you, you were probably level 22 at Velious and were a dumb kid. Unike you I was a smart kid 
and had two 50+. The minute velious launched I was exploring it. I was one of the first people in Siren's Grotto and I made it to Westwastes before anyone outside of FoH. So I remember leveling in velks, it was shit. I wasn't some newb flicking boogers in gfay and then finally gets to Velks by the time Legacy of Ykesha comes out. That's why you don't remember Velks right.
Wow, much respect. Autograph, please?Ya'll racing to the bottom as quickly as you can eh? Drive this really cool, fun concept into the ground and beat it into a bloody pulp, toss a bomb behind your back and wipe your hands clean of it. One person wins the 15 green dragon scales in a row? Lol, why so averse to making rules for your guilds? Do people have not feel bad whatsoever? This is like removing all regulations from corporations and telling them they can do whatever they want and telling Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon to just go for it. Emit all the co2, enslave all the children in the factories, price fix all you want.
But hey, you'll make a lot of krono in the process. Too bad it will damage the game permanently.
Ya'll racing to the bottom as quickly as you can eh? Drive this really cool, fun concept into the ground and beat it into a bloody pulp, toss a bomb behind your back and wipe your hands clean of it. One person wins the 15 green dragon scales in a row? Lol, why so averse to making rules for your guilds? Do people have not feel bad whatsoever? This is like removing all regulations from corporations and telling them they can do whatever they want and telling Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon to just go for it. Emit all the co2, enslave all the children in the factories, price fix all you want.
But hey, you'll make a lot of krono in the process. Too bad it will damage the game permanently.
Every expansion in EQ's history has had stuff that got released and very quickly tweaked right afterwards. Why would you hold the pre-adjustment state as standard? Velks has never had a bad ZEM since early into the very expansion they released it in; nobody gives a fuck if some mentally ill autistic explorer like you managed to dive in before the first set of patches and didn't like it. For the majority of velious and "always" afterwards its ZEM has been fine, if not great.
Badly worded for sure. I did mean back in the day. Haven't exp'd in either of them in ages. I should have said it sucked dick for at least the first stretch of velious.
LOL, that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I remember people would get offended if you inspected them.
Doesn't help that you didn't even have to raid to bid so the /rs thing wouldn't work. Like I mentioned before there is/was a guy that kept a character in guild just to bid on items for his character in another guild. He even asked in guild for help on his epic for the other character(in the first few days of kunark). I laughed so hard. Wouldn't be shocked if there was more like that. Since you can earn farm more on your own then doing raids.
You don't like capitalism?Ya'll racing to the bottom as quickly as you can eh? Drive this really cool, fun concept into the ground and beat it into a bloody pulp, toss a bomb behind your back and wipe your hands clean of it. One person wins the 15 green dragon scales in a row? Lol, why so averse to making rules for your guilds? Do people have not feel bad whatsoever? This is like removing all regulations from corporations and telling them they can do whatever they want and telling Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon to just go for it. Emit all the co2, enslave all the children in the factories, price fix all you want.
But hey, you'll make a lot of krono in the process. Too bad it will damage the game permanently.
I played on EMarr and while I'm not sure how it got later(I quit mid SoV to play DAoC for a couple years), it wasn't all that frequented early on, except by statics. Most PUG types still just sat at Seb zone-in OOC spamming LFG, hoping to get lucky replacing somebody or having enough of the right classes to form a group.
That's interesting to me. On Bertox Velk's was relatively untouched for much of my memory. You'd find a dozen people in there... maybe on any given day. But Seb was chalk full of randoms at all hours functioning identically to Lower Guk. People would sit around the entrance forming groups and heading to camps, all day every day. If anything, the dregs would do Karnor's because of the lack of key requirement and the central location of it.
