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Should I try it?
DreFish
Member Posts: 22
in Everquest II
I'm getting sick of WoW and have never tried this game. I'm debating on this or Lord of the rings online. I've played SWG, WWII Online, WoW, CoH, and Guild Wars and am now waiting for fury, tabula rasa, WAR, or AoC to come out so i need something to tide me over. Is this worth a try? thanks for your comments.
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More content, bigger world, more classes, more races, housing, a solid crafting system, PVP (not that monster play thing)... etc.
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EQ2 all the way for me to be honest. I just think the maturity of the game ( in terms of length of time it has been out and the number of axpansions, etc that have gone into it ) give it the edge over some of the newer stuff. I played LOTRO for 4 months and is a good game but it felt a bit shallow after eq2 (except for thr monster pvp which is an excellent twist on the usual formula).
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You should definatly play this game, if your not used to a pvp game i suggest trying rakion to see if you like a pvp or not, all of my friends think it gets boring after a while, but not me i crank all nighters with these kinds of games. If you like rakion then you should like this game. Whats really cool about this game is that you can custimize your character to wat you want. In other games theres the tank the ninja the warrior and the ranger, but with this you can be a mage/tank, or hell maybe even a ninja/tank(although im not quite shure thats possible. Also you start right off the bat with this game, no wondering around a world asking everybody wat to do. You immediatly get started fighting. Hope you enjoyed my comment, see you soon on fury
UNLEASH THE FURY already jezz ive been waiting forever
You will find LOTRO to be much like WoW. I played it for about a week and found it simple with no variety. Granted that doesn't make it a bad game by all means but it is not a good game for the hardcore or detailed player. If you read around EQ2 is the best game on the market right now. That doesn't mean they have the most subscribers but it means you have the most satisfied player base. There aren't HUGE demands every patch and bugs that need to be fixed. It is a solid and complete MMO that offers a lot. There are tons of classes and races and you aren't limited on your choices. If you play PVP the game gets even better and you will find that it gives you more worth in playing. Give the trial a shot at least.
Depends on what People want to play.. you cant really compere any of these 3 games (EQ2, WOW, Lotro) because they are 3 totaly different games.. .. (graphics/combat system & Ui dosnt tell the whole story)
LOTRO - The Roleplayer Game
- Level Based skill system
- Pure PVE / Roleplayer Game
- Monterplay PVP for special intrests
- Quest / Task based
- Open world Encounters
- 7 Classes, 4 Races (1 faction - Good)
- semi non-level/level based feat system (mostly based on compleating quests after discoverys)
Wow
- Level Based skill system
- PVE Raid game with PVP options (it is not a pvp game, because you cant loose anything or get anything by killing players)
- PVP side of game is mostly battlegrounds.
- semi Quest/Grind Based (one of the reasons it appeals to asian players, it also have point & click)
- Instance based Encounter system
- 9 Classes, 10 races (2 factions, Horde & Alliance - they are not Good vs Evil.. They are both Good, they just cant live togehter)
- Level-Based Talent tree System
EQ2
- Level Based with Tier Based skill system
- both PVE & PVP game (PVE servers are PVE only, PVP servers is mostly World PVP focused)
- Arena pvp (this is the only pvp for people on a pve server)
- Quest based/Semi Grind
- Open world Encounters
- 24 classes, 18 races. (2 main factions - good & Evil)
- NON-Level based Achevement system (it has its own xp bar, and it get xp by competing quests, finding locations, and kill named)
I can't add too much to what has already been said here, save that I too played WOW and got bored. I finally tried EQ2 and I have found that the best way I can describe the differences is that I've found more substance, surprises, depth and most important to me, subtle complexity in EQ2 than in WOW.
The community is light-years better than WOW.
Updates and new expansions actually seem to do more than just add a new land and raise the raid-level another ten levels. It's worth it to add a new toon and try out the new races EQ2 had added (NOTE: the next expansion with a new race will be out in November, I think).
Good luck and I hope you enjoy it!