| I recently took a three week break due to work but am back raiding atm. I still think VG has the best class/race mix of any of the Diku type MMOs. I am enjoying the raiding (we're not on core processor so that may be why) and looking forward to the griff quest.
However I do think VG still needs to address the following issues to bring in more people.
Adventuring:
Almost all the dungeons look good to great but there are too many blah encounters for the bosses and final bosses. Just as importantly there is still far too much generic loot at the sub-50 level.
SOE should be doing some passes on each of the major sub-50 dungeons to address the encounter/itemization issue or at a minimum a pass on the final boss/final boss itemization. However with the majority of the pop at 50 this is a low priority item. I am sure the majority would rather have a new raid dungeon than redone encounters on lower level dungeons.
Lore. They need one guy to just sit and build the lore.
Crafting/Harvesting:
Got me. I'm not a big crafter but those that are seem happy.
Diplomacy:
Needs better low-level ties between dip and adventuring. All major sub-50 dungeons should have had dip levers that tie into the lore of the world and the area.
There still isn't anything else I'd play (well barring a new EQ progression server that didn't have the problems of the old EQ progression server).
I think everyone should check it out (even if just so they can bitch about it more intelligently) but SOE still doesn't have a free trial. Not sure why they don't right now. Performance is fine except in the highest traffic areas and hitching/chunking is probably as good as it can get without a rewrite of the engine. I suppose they are waiting for trial island to be finished -- not sure when that's due GU5? |