Ideas for zones

[quasigenx]

<div></div>I would love to see some instanced zones in future expansions that bend the mechanics of the game. What do you guys think of these? Do you have any suggestions of your own?<p><b>Modified Mechanics:</b></p><ul><li>Power regen and power regen items are disabled. There are fountains littered around the zone to give the player full power.<b></b></li><li>Heals and DPS are reversed. Any damage you do to a locked encounter heals your party; any heals damage the locked encounter.<b></b></li><li>One member of the party at a time is stunned at all times. Each member takes a turn for 2 minutes and then it loops around.<b></b></li><li>10 second zone-wide AE dmg proc, which hits mobs too. All mobs are healers. <b></b></li><li>Naked instance. All str is reduced to zero, forcing the party to fight naked.<b></b></li><li>No nuke instance. Mobs are 100% resistant to any direct damage spells.<b></b></li><li>Melee only zone. No spells of any kind are allowed, but there are single session class specifc weapons provided. Healers have a weapon that procs heals, etc. Weapons despawn on exit.<b></b></li></ul><b></b><b>Environment:</b><ul><li>Underwater<b></b></li><li>Zero light source instance, or where the only light sources are the mobs you kill.<b></b></li><li>Low gravity instance. You have to land long platform jumps to advance.<b></b></li><li>Maze instance. The zone has a general layout, but every time you zone in random walls/doors are permanently locked, meaning the maze is different every time.<b></b></li><li>No chat instance. Group chat/say/ooc etc are either disallowed or garbled.</li><li>Have to fight on narrow walkways besides endless pits. Mobs have knock-back. If you get knocked back you can try to hit teleportation circles on your way down to get transported back to the fight.</li></ul><p> <b>Miscellaneous:</b></p><ul><li>Each named in a zone is a heroic version of a random member of your party, computer controlled. That player is stunned for the duration of the encounter.</li><li>Escort instances. Chests are already up when you zone. A npc is at the start. Once you talk to him, he starts walking to the first chest to unlock it. You have to keep him alive until he gets there.</li><li>Goal of the zone is to have everyone in the party dead at the same time. Zone procs a mandatory revive/full heal every 30 seconds. Half the mobs proc a group heal, half proc group dmg. You have to agro a bunch of them and weed out the healers to wipe.</li><li>Mobs are stationary, but then can pull you towards them. At close range they do massive melee damage.</li></ul><div></div>

[EQ2Playa432]

<div></div><p>I think some of these ideas could possibly be great. Some that I like:</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote><hr>quasigenx wrote:<div></div>I would love to see some instanced zones in future expansions that bend the mechanics of the game. What do you guys think of these? Do you have any suggestions of your own?<p><b>Modified Mechanics:</b></p><ul><li>Power regen and power regen items are disabled. There are fountains littered around the zone to give the player full power. <font color="#ff0000">Could be a great thing if implemented right.</font></li><li>Heals and DPS are reversed. Any damage you do to a locked encounter heals your party; any heals damage the locked encounter. <font color="#ff0000">Don't think this is a good idea. Healers are short anyway, imagine needing a group of full healers?</font></li><li>One member of the party at a time is stunned at all times. Each member takes a turn for 2 minutes and then it loops around. <font color="#ff0000">I could see very good potential for this.<b></b></font></li><li>10 second zone-wide AE dmg proc, which hits mobs too. All mobs are healers. <font color="#ff0000">No point in this really, if everyone is getting hit by the same thing, why add it?</font></li><li>Naked instance. All str is reduced to zero, forcing the party to fight naked. <font color="#ff0000">Would be too difficult and long.</font></li><li>No nuke instance. Mobs are 100% resistant to any direct damage spells. <font color="#ff0000">Then you would leave out all nukers.<b></b></font></li><li>Melee only zone. No spells of any kind are allowed, but there are single session class specifc weapons provided. Healers have a weapon that procs heals, etc. Weapons despawn on exit. <font color="#ff0000">Leaving out nukers again.</font></li></ul><b></b><b>Environment:</b><ul><li>Underwater <font color="#ff0000">Yes, we need some more of these.</font></li><li>Zero light source instance, or where the only light sources are the mobs you kill. <font color="#ff0000">Could be cool.</font></li><li>Low gravity instance. You have to land long platform jumps to advance. <font color="#ff0000">yes, yes, yes!</font></li><li>Maze instance. The zone has a general layout, but every time you zone in random walls/doors are permanently locked, meaning the maze is different every time. <font color="#ff0000">Very nice idea for a dynamic zone geometry.<b></b></font></li><li>No chat instance. Group chat/say/ooc etc are either disallowed or garbled. <font color="#ff0000">Too many ways to go around this.</font></li><li>Have to fight on narrow walkways besides endless pits. Mobs have knock-back. If you get knocked back you can try to hit teleportation circles on your way down to get transported back to the fight. <font color="#ff0000">Interesting, but the zone might be huge for that.</font></li></ul><p> <b>Miscellaneous:</b></p><ul><li>Each named in a zone is a heroic version of a random member of your party, computer controlled. That player is stunned for the duration of the encounter. <font color="#ff0000">I don't know about stunning the person who you are facing, but nice idea.</font></li><li>Escort instances. Chests are already up when you zone. A npc is at the start. Once you talk to him, he starts walking to the first chest to unlock it. You have to keep him alive until he gets there. <font color="#ff0000">Could work very well with no bugs.</font></li><li>Goal of the zone is to have everyone in the party dead at the same time. Zone procs a mandatory revive/full heal every 30 seconds. Half the mobs proc a group heal, half proc group dmg. You have to agro a bunch of them and weed out the healers to wipe. <font color="#ff0000">Would be hard to do.</font></li><li>Mobs are stationary, but then can pull you towards them. At close range they do massive melee damage. <font color="#ff0000">So you would have to kill them quick, could be interesting.</font></li></ul><div></div><hr></blockquote><p> </p>

[quasigenx]

<cite>quasigenx wrote:</cite><blockquote><ul><li>Each named in a zone is a heroic version of a random member of your party, computer controlled.</li></ul></blockquote> So, where is my royalty check? <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Sorry, I know this is a necro post but I just had to go back and dig it up. Hope you're all having fun in Unrest!