For some reason I'm thinking chat channels got implemented towards the end of Luclin / beginning of PoP, and weren't directly attached to any expansion, more so just a feature that was randomly added in.Pretty sure Luclin.
How is everything camped? Every time I go to sol A to PL there's literally no one ever at gnomes. They're fking amazing exp and so easy!I didn't realize how crowded / active this server was until I checked out the EC tunnel during primetime. EQ definitely does not cull the number of on screen players
Also, everything's camped, always. Maybe that changes soon (I'm low 30s), but every dungeon seems to be highly populated. At least it makes group finding easier! And when I can't, the fun part of being an Iksar is not caring about faction. Hello solo HHK guard kills for quick exp.
Which is why you snare em, not root Also, you can pull them to the equipment roomup top and it gives you plenty of run room. Admittedly enc CC onceyou get to the XAs/ XCs is worthless and they need to be prioritized, but pretty much everything else is CC'able. I think most people don't want to fuck their faction.those gnomes are so annoying to kill when you're close to their level, though. them and the clockworks both have really high MR. it was nearly impossible for my 45ish paladin on red to keep them rooted when i was working on the Armor of Ro quests. they ended up causing a train almost every fight when they ran off. i ended up having to pull them way over to the Sol A zoneline in the west part of the zone just so i'd have enough room to chase them as they ran off.
Solos on a paladin, complains about killing slow. Oh, you.was doing it solo on my paladin, so root was my only option =p they drop a component needed for the Armor of Ro quests, which i did all of on Red.... and yeah, my faction got fucked. =/ i always thought it was pretty dumb that they made paladins kill good-guy gnomes for one of their major quests. i don't mind the ruined gnome faction as much, but they also lower your faction with the dwarf rogue guild.... which you have to run past in Kaladim B in order to do a different part of the same quest.
My game outright crashes when I switch to full screenthat only happens to me as a bug once in awhile. usually switching to full screen and back out will fix it.... sometimes i have to completely restart EQ though.
if it happens to you every time, then idk.