Slow Monday at work so here goes:
What are your favorite zones? What are the zones you wished you never stepped foot into? List and explain!
Favorite Zones:
1.) Stormhold - great zone for the 20-30 crowd. Lots of named and plenty of cool mobs, quests, and differnt ares to explore. The named are loose with Master spell drops and the Scions always add an unexpected fear element to the zone.
2.) Sanctum of the Scaleborn - Awesome zone with so many quest lines and mobs. I used to think this zone was tedious but I have come to respect the entire dungeon. Anyone level 58-70 will spends days in this zone just completing quest lines or going after named.
3.) Tenebrous Tangle - Wonderful island zone with plenty of soloable and group quests. I enjoyed everything from the basket quests to exploring all the islands and areas. Great for anyone level 54-70.
4.) Peat Bog - great zone for the newbies. Plenty of quests that take you through the whole area. Some named mobs that drop cool stuff (for level 8!). Great for anyone level 5-12 or so.
5.) All the dungeons under Qeynos - You can basically spend the first 30 levels of your life down in the dungeons beneath Qeynos. Possibly a nostalgia factor from the time I spent playing eq1 as a lad. Qeynos catacombs was a great zone to learn how to play!
Zones I never want to see again:
1.) The entire Desert of Flames expansion - Wide open, boring zones, and lack of creativity. This is one expansion that should have went the way of the Dodo.
2.) Feerot - Besides the Flowing black silk sash (way overated IMHO) heritage quest, was there any reason even to enter this zone? CT is a nice dungeon but it takes an hour to traverse through the zone to get there...
3.) Everfrost - Only reason to go to this zone was Permafrost. Even then when you died in Permafrost, you had to start all the way back at the begining of Everfrost (I think this was eventually changed).
4.) Rivervale - This was one of those zones that should have been grouped with The Feerot. Nice to explore but not much to do.
5.) Thundering Steppes - This zone caused me to quit EQ2 for awhile. My pally hit a leveling wall around 25 or so (before Vitality and stuff). Now, the only time I spend there is on the dock heading to other zones...
P.S. I haven't included any EoF content because Loping Plains is the only zone I have spent any time in. That was a good zone! Also Crushbone looked really sweet while I was running around trying to get Discovery EXP. LFay is kinda gay with all the flowers and big (vision obstructing) leaves and trees.