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Title: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Rorce on August 16, 2018, 06:33:37 AM
Welcome to Day 4 of the 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!

Todays theme is the The Darkened Sea expansion. Please post in this thread to participate in day 3 of the contest! We want to hear what your favorite part of the The Darkened Sea expansion was!

For full contest details, please visit the official contest thread here: https://eqresource.com/board/index.php?topic=195415
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Rorce on August 16, 2018, 06:55:19 AM
The Darkened Sea was a really fun expansion! The story line was really good, and I really enjoyed the "Tempest Temple" zone. The artwork in this zone was beautiful, and I thought it was well laid out!

I also enjoyed the Thuliasaur Island zone. Dinosaurs are awesome! I still wish we'd have gotten a dino raid, tho :(
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: NightGod on August 16, 2018, 09:13:19 AM
I really enjoyed the skeletal parrot quest line. It's always nice to have some structure to my otherwise mindless killing ;)
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Thunderkiks on August 16, 2018, 09:24:20 AM
When the expansion first came out it was the first expansion that I was playing during its release. I had recently come back from a 6 year break so CoTF was already out. I remember being excited for a new expansion but unfortunately wasn't high enough level to experience it right away. I wish I had done beta aa I loved the hat they gave as a reward.

After I was high enough level to venture into TDS I really enjoyed the zones, especially all the thunderstorms. I know lots of people dont like the rain but I love it. It sounds so great. The story lines were also very good. Arx Mentis is still one of my favorite zones even today.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Gnar on August 16, 2018, 09:25:23 AM
Killing T-Rex and other dinos on Thuliasaur Island was awesome. Mount Keyring saved me some bag space. Also one of coolest illusions in game T-Rex !
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: goodn on August 16, 2018, 09:27:29 AM
It brought back boats as primary means of travel to and from zones. I like boats.

Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Dirtypaws on August 16, 2018, 09:53:33 AM
I haven't gotten to much in this expansion, a little hunting on Brother Island but that was cause I got that cool parrot and went flying/riding/porting on it.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Ranonman on August 16, 2018, 10:16:13 AM
I got really excited when I found out that they drop Venenium (poison cure) at raid just like CoTF shield (disease cure). I also remembered that when I was questing in Arx. It didn't take me long to learn the map and I was able to get up and down quickly with seconds and my group at the time was still struggling with directions and asked "how did you get up there so fast from downstairs?" lol
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Sheex on August 16, 2018, 10:20:34 AM
Don’t think I’ll ever forget the expansion of Hailing things 1224893365 times.

Favorite part was probably Thuli island parrot aug...was fun and the zone was great.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Mineek on August 16, 2018, 10:38:36 AM
My favourite part of The Darkened Sea had to be the Progression as it was pretty hard at times. That and killing named on brothers island the mobs with what I thought was endless hit points when I first started tanking them hehe.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Sacranor on August 16, 2018, 10:44:30 AM
Ornaments and illusions were pretty cool. Very nice progression didn't hurt either lol.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Corwyhn on August 16, 2018, 11:17:53 AM
I really really enjoyed the Caverns of Endless Song and all the underwater stuff. Now to be serious, loved Thulisaur Island and in general doing progression. Parrot aug was fun to do.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Zarathustra on August 16, 2018, 11:19:24 AM
I love my boat house.

(https://eqresource.com/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fzam.zamimg.com%2Fimages%2Fc%2F1%2Fc18fd79bb2887a82ca6c45edbbb18f55.jpg&hash=88c5bcaef6e6a2db56aa03e91b7e0a7209841809)

(https://eqresource.com/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fzam.zamimg.com%2Fimages%2F4%2F3%2F43e03aff46e02eb3fa8ea0c2736ded41.jpg&hash=e279d5ff83340ed1829c7c74aacf9e741088789f)
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: gotcharms on August 16, 2018, 11:42:04 AM
Oh, baby, The Darkened Sea!

This was it. This was the expansion I returned to after over ten years away from the game.

I could literally do TDS progression in my sleep. I cannot count the number of players I've pushed through TDS on Test.

It's a testament to the expansion that I still at least somewhat enjoy going through this one, even after hundreds of runs!

The story is passable, the quests have some variation to them, and the named NPCs seem to be tuned at about the right level. It feels short when you compare it to the previous two expansions, and it kind of is, but if anything it's short and sweet.

Arx Mentis and Combine Dredge might be two of my favorite zones in the game. I love the design for these and think they both look gorgeous.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Yinla on August 16, 2018, 12:13:49 PM
The dinosaurs, wins this expansion hands down for me, always felt they were underused in this expansion though, they could have done so much more with them.

Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Fizzelin on August 16, 2018, 01:03:59 PM
My favorite part was doing the quest lines and getting the parrot aug. So much fun!
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Gynek on August 16, 2018, 01:09:23 PM
I've only recently started getting into doing TDS progression, as I was gone from the game when it was modern. It's been a lot of fun, and I'm really excited for what people are saying about Thuli Island and the Parrot aug quest, as those are the next things on my list to do!
That being said, Degmar is the most relaxing zone ever to farm my powersources in. One of the first zones I've memorized in a long time, easy to navigate, lots of nice easy nameds to kill, everything is blind as hell there. It's a very positive experience doing things there, I look forward so much to the following 3 areas!
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Yattana on August 16, 2018, 01:16:53 PM
I loved the parrot aug quest. Did it with friends.

Yattana
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Mouriarty on August 16, 2018, 01:21:04 PM
I really enjoyed making it to Thulia island. Fun place and nice tie ins to the book series.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: TenkenT on August 16, 2018, 02:01:05 PM
The T-rex clickie from the progression was my favorite part... 3x grow ftw~!
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Kezik on August 16, 2018, 02:01:20 PM
One of my favorite expansions, progression was fun and the raids were great.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Metanis on August 16, 2018, 02:05:05 PM
I enjoyed the boats that ran on time. And the Arx raids were really challenging!
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Soju on August 16, 2018, 02:07:13 PM
My favorite part of TDS was the variety of TS items added that used Relic Fragments. I still use many of the rec's from TDS to make stuff for pet gear since I farmed quite a stash of Relic Frags while TDS was current content.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Funk on August 16, 2018, 02:16:41 PM
I thought Caverns of Endless Song was a gorgeous zone, hated getting stuck on coral all the time...but a gorgeous zone none the less.

I eventually discovered that Brother Isle is nearly identical to Monkey Island in TBS expansion and thought that was pretty cool stealth reskinning of an existing island from a previous expansion.

I really wish we could have killed Una as she got pretty annoying showing her blue face everywhere.

And that overhaste lettuce made with relic fragments is still useful today! Good expansion overall I'd say.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Zvenn on August 16, 2018, 02:46:26 PM
the skele parrot aug and the ghost ship house were my favorites :) still working on making my haunted ship even more haunted hehe
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Bobsmith on August 16, 2018, 03:12:52 PM
Huge hp mobs, necro friendly single mob group parses /swoon ;D

Really tho I think the best part of tds is the dedicated zone vs power source drop. I really think they should move back to that idea.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Nniki on August 16, 2018, 03:32:42 PM
Overall, I didn't really care that much for TDS as an expansion, but it had some decent things in it.

- Ornaments were all nice, both the armor and vanquisher ornaments and also the beta tricorne hat reward
- Thuliasaur Island was good all-around
- I liked Brother's Island... sort of right in the middle of things with boat connections
- Artwork was great, although the landscape provided for some terrible pathing
- Racing between events in Arx
- Raids were fun
- Rare drop clickies off named in Katta and Tempest Temple

The floating Tyrannosaurus illusion was probably the coolest thing.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Togai on August 16, 2018, 03:38:44 PM
A good story, and an antoganist that we really wanted to kick.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: ghanda on August 16, 2018, 04:57:18 PM
Dino Island !!
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Szilent on August 16, 2018, 05:09:27 PM
The story of TDS was a bit melancholy for EQ, but also well written on the scale of EQ stories. Telling the story through enforced-pace dialogue was a bold choice, I think that'd be good to revisit with a bit of tweaking.

Thuliasaur could have been its own expansion there was so much going on.

I still click my dino illusion for all the victory pictures on the guild website (http://teamnecedemalice.com/portal/) :)
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: kirkisx on August 16, 2018, 06:03:53 PM
Two words FIRIONA VIE... lol just the overall Lore.. and how it continued from the last expans before hand... the parot quest line and how zones were locked under progression the push was good to see people actually having to progress rather then zerg end zones gearing up!! and of course the TriCorne HAT
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Scarytoes on August 16, 2018, 06:36:44 PM
TDS! Lol The whole underwater thing in some zones! I actually like battling underwater. Collectible hunting! Hunting named for the augmentation drops. Quest lines were fun. Many deaths. Good times.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: VorpalChicken on August 16, 2018, 06:42:02 PM
Killing the dinosaurs was awesome, my son, 6 at the time, loved to sit with me and go dino hunting, good times
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Abazzagorath on August 16, 2018, 07:08:45 PM
Never stepping foot in anything beyond the first two zones and Arx Mentis for raids!
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: KellanMarr on August 16, 2018, 07:58:05 PM
Dino Island was the best part of this expansion. Having competing factions in proximity and the parrot aug quest line was actually fun enough that I did it more than once. Locked zones behind progression makes it really rough on returning players or anyone who misses the first two months, really.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Akirrah on August 16, 2018, 08:13:44 PM
My favourite times have been on Brother Island kiting
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: aikeilyu on August 16, 2018, 09:38:02 PM
My first named was the parrot on Brother Island. The most intense fight was the see invis undead ghost wanderer - fought her at the top of a hill, was scared out of my wits that a wanderer would jump me. Was stoked to come out on top and landed the AC aug! Still on the fence about working on progression...would like to get more bags from Hunter achievement, but not thrilled about fighting in water in the Cavern...
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: Tarace on August 16, 2018, 09:59:22 PM
I did the skeletal parrot a few days ago and it was the best part of the expansion so far for me :)
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: playful on August 16, 2018, 11:44:02 PM
This was one of the most fun expansions for me, because I did it with five other people and we were first in out whole guild. There were a lot of sleepless nights, but it was worth it. The zone graphics were really pretty.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: jebidai on August 17, 2018, 02:28:00 AM
I completely missed this expansion when it came out but after having gone back, I liked that they revamped the power sources.
Title: Re: Day 4, The Darkened Sea - 7 days of EQResource Anniversary Contests!
Post by: magister on August 17, 2018, 03:53:51 AM
dino's were awesome, didn't get a chance to raid :(