Quote Originally Posted by Deathscythe343 View Post
Curious as to when you played EQ1? I played for a good 7 years or more. I was in a couple of raiding guilds. Never once had resist gear. With the resist stats on gear + AAs+ buffs + the veteran buff I never needed resist gear. EQ did have a lot of slots though. Good and bad I suppose. I do miss a lot of things from that game.
2000-2003
With the resist stats on gear + AAs+ buffs + the veteran buff
When the first never had reasonable resists, the second was hard enough to get that you didn't allocate points to them, the third was definitely a thing (but not lumped together until later), and the last didn't exist.
We're talking Kunark->Velious->Luclin->PoP era.
I came back and found oodles of resists on gear. I'm personally glad they changed it...my inventory squealed with glee.
To give an example of what I mean, resists for Nagafen and Vox had to be over 100 or so, and they were introductory raids.
Here's the resist loadout from a Velious-era endgame piece of gear, that pretty much requires being able to farm a few dozen nagafens in order to get: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=5079
So yeah...I still had to wear resist gear while getting that.
In contrast, here's a piece of Defiant armor, which drops from random trash of the appropriate level all over the game world starting a few years ago in order to allow lower level players to not get slaughtered by rats: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=84838
Note to get the former item, you had to be level 60 and an endgame raider at the time. And you thought FFXIV's gear scaling was out of whack.