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is EQ2 just EQ1 with a facelift?

shadowbreedshadowbreed Member UncommonPosts: 21
in Everquest II

this might have been posted before, sorry if it has.

i preordered the game and got a starter kit with it, i noticed in character creation that there appears too be no new races. so my question is: is this EQ1 with a facelift? which is fine if it is, but i game for new experiences and not the same old same old. i am too old a gamer too worry much about graphics.lol. so i hope someone can answer my question please

 

thank you ahead

shadow

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  • alerumalerum Member Posts: 407
    the ratunga are new.image


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  • dsorrentdsorrent Member CommonPosts: 1,627
    Nope... From what I gather, EQ2 is more "interactive" than EQ1.  Just look at the combat system in EQ2 alone and you'll see significant changes.


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  • shadowbreedshadowbreed Member UncommonPosts: 21
    ya i trying to psycho analyze EQ and WoW.lol. wish 1 would get delayed a bit. would make my gaming life much easier. gonna be tough playing 2 games like this at once.lol.

  • Kaynos1972Kaynos1972 Member Posts: 2,316
    No i never liked EQ1 but after reading stuff about EQ2, watching videos and reading more and more stuff that game is gonna rock.  Definetively not EQ1 with better graphics, it's a brand new game.

  • KnoxayKnoxay Member Posts: 98

    http://www.eqii.com/mgi.php

    Behold, the Moorgard Index.  More info on EQ2 than anyone should have time to read. image

  • VersaintVersaint Member Posts: 43

    [quote]Originally posted by shadowbreed
    [b]this might have been posted before, sorry if it has.
    [/quote]

    It has. On multiple sites. Apology accepted. ::::35::

    All joking aside, I can easily understand this conception to someone who is new to the EQII community. Expect a totally different game than EQLive. More immersive and enjoyable.

  • jimothypetrojimothypetro Member Posts: 1,437

    EQ2 are EQ are entirely different games, really the only thing the same is the names(places, people, races, etc.).

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  • jayheld90jayheld90 Member UncommonPosts: 1,726
    yeah its continuing EQ1 of course the races are going to be the same.(although ratonga are new, and frogloks are semi-new, they were in EQL but not until recently) and lots of names of course will be the same. so its not going to be the "same" but yes of course its going to have similarities.

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  • ColdmeatColdmeat Member UncommonPosts: 3,409

    and the camping, can't forget the camping.

    And standing around LFG for hours.

    and the catassing.

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  • jayheld90jayheld90 Member UncommonPosts: 1,726
    coldmeat...i have never played an mmorpg that doesnt have that stuff. and i have played probably like 6 or 7 different ones. thats due to the players not the actual game, mind you. image

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  • RoenynRoenyn Member Posts: 4
    Im hoping it is . I thoroughly enjoyed EQ1 and wish it had more "content" or a new "graphical" engine for me to stare at. It just seemed repetative as all they did to most of the loot is give it a different name and add 100hps to it LOL.

  • 92165449216544 Member Posts: 1,904

    I do not think you will be standing LFG forever lol, they will probly take in over 100,000 players in the first week, as will WoW. In EQI you had to wait so long for groups and stuff cause it was a 5 year old game and 30 servers with not alot of people playing. So there wasnt to many people in each areas.

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  • jayheld90jayheld90 Member UncommonPosts: 1,726
    well, he is in beta so i dont completely doubt what he is saying, BUT, there arent that many people playing in the beta and a lot of them are playing for different websites and probably dont care to group. i would say maybe 5,000-10,000 people are in beta, when it goes live im sure there will be way more people PER server than that.

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  • ColdmeatColdmeat Member UncommonPosts: 3,409

    Well, I'll be playing a healer type at release, and I am going into the game with a guild, so having a group won't be a big problem for me, but for certain classes, getting a group could be problematic, as they don't bring as much to a group as their contemporaries. Casual players will find themselves getting the short end of the stick again in this area as well.

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  • 92165449216544 Member Posts: 1,904

    Well in the beggining I do not think that any class will have a hard time, since there is only mage,healer,fighter, and scout. So that isnt alot of classes. Later at the next classes people will really see what they need in a group and be more experienced. I do not think EQ2 will have a grouping problem at all. But for casual players I think they should play WoW instead. EQ2 is more for hardcore gamers.

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  • ColdmeatColdmeat Member UncommonPosts: 3,409

    The early levels go by pretty quick, and are soloable, except for one quest on the IoR. After level 10, when you choose your subclass, the classes begin to differenciate a little bit. Some more so than others, at about this point is where soloing becomes inefficient, and the need to group really sets in. Especially if you're big into questing.

    It's also at this point that the classes I mentioned will start to feel the sting of not being needed over other classes in their archetype.

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