WoW or Everquest 2??

ins0mni · July 2006

Hi all, i was wondering which one would be the best ??

im not talking about graphic cuz i know that eq2 is way better in term of graphics but talking about the gameplay.I already own WoW but im not actually paying to play. So should i just say fuck to wow and spend another 50 bucks for Everquest2??

I dont know.... Please help me.

DamonVile · July 2006

If you own wow but don't want t play it then obviously the game isn't for you, so yes go try EQ2. Both are good games but they're not for everyone.

ins0mni · July 2006

thanks alot for your reply Raserei.

I think ill go with WoW cuz i really enjoy ur review of the games and it looks like WoW is better in term of gameplay. Also, i just got back from internet cafe and saw alot of people playing WoW , they were kinda higher lvls than i was when i played for free. (i was like lvl 20 or so) and i was like omg i wanna play this game again. (seeing horses and 400-500 hit damage lol haha was just fantastic :P .

So ill prolly go for WoW then.

THANKS ALOT !

:D

Jorev · July 2006

WoW is a good 6 month PVE game. It lacks longterm attraction because of it's simplification but it's worth playing short term.

EQ2 isn't worth playing at all.

cumbom · July 2006

I liked WoW alot, but after a month it really got boring for me. Everything seemed like, same old, same old.

I felt the same way when I played EQ2 at launch, but now I am back with EQ2 well into my second month, and feeling like everything is still new and interesting.

I may have had a similar experience had I made a character on a WoW PVP server, I don't know. As it is now I would take EQ2 over WoW, its a more in depth game, but has managed to take much of what WoW has to offer and incorporate it successfully.

I even feel as though I've been levelling faster in EQ2 than I ever did in WoW, I'm not sure if thats possible, but it sure feels that way.

WoW definately does just about everything right, they do what they do very well, but for some reason it feels empty to me, or superficial.

I must also say I am biased toward EQ2 graphics as well, not at first, simply because my system wasn't good enough to enjoy them.

I'll say this WoW may have killed SWG, but it improved EQ2.

ins0mni · July 2006

Anyone else can help me??

Emoian_07 · July 2006

Originally posted by ins0mni
Anyone else can help me??
Alright, first, if you don't want to be doing a nonstop painful grind, EQ2 is not the game for you.

If you want very exploritory land, WoW is less of a game for you.

So EQ2=Huge Grind

And WoW=Boring after a while and starts to get repetetive.

Personaly i'm not a big fan of either.

I'm a big fan of City of Heroes and that's the main MMO I play. Simply because it's got it in all categories. It's a amazing game.

cumbom · July 2006

City of Heros, at least when I played it, made me long for the type of Grind EQ2 had at launch. Now that game is repetative and boring!

boognish75 · July 2006

i prefer eq2 over wow, as the grind can be avoided to a degree with doing quests , this keeps me interested, as if yer questing for xp, you can also do what is called writs which will give you xp for ywer char and xp for yer guild upon completion, oh yeah and in eq2 guilds have a reason for being outside of a group of people, but when the guild builds up guild lvls, there are advantages to being in it. there are many more reasons i like eq2, but i just wanted to point out a cple good ones.

Emoian_07 · July 2006

Originally posted by cumbom
City of Heros, at least when I played it, made me long for the type of Grind EQ2 had at launch. Now that game is repetative and boring!

CoH has changed alot and a load of new missions have been implemented as well as other goodies.

But each to his own.

But it's not a nonstop grind, you have to admit that much.

EQ2 is.

WoW is pretty good, but i'm not the biggest fan of that Genre of MMOS, personally.

boognish75 · July 2006

grind as in how? to me grind is repetativley standing in a static spawn of mobs killing them blindfolded sleeping the grind i was known., i dont think questing forxp is grinding. and thats one of the reasons i like eq2 as you can quest for xp instead of killing static spawns.

Saigonshakes · July 2006

Contrary to popular belief Eq2 is not a grind unless you make it that. It's all in how you play it. If you stand in the same spot and kill the same mobs, yeah the game is gonna get shitty. Explore, perhaps do a quest or two. It's fun, I promise.

hercules · July 2006

Eq2 has much better staying power.You max your level there is still so much to do.WoW starts off better then EQ2 but as you level up thats when you notice the difference and EQ2 moves ahead.

Crafting is more in depth in EQ2.

Pvp none is a winner.EQ2 pvp is more skill/class based and less dependant on your gear.In WoW if you see someone in raid gear and you are wearing your green/blue armor kiss your arse goodbye.

However,EQ2 pvp server is an annoying place to level due to been constantly ganked,its more level based then WoW,it has some classes that can one shot kill you.

Overall i played both for over a year and would say EQ2 comes out better.I still occasionally play EQ2 as well but seems to have no desire to play WoW(might come back to see the expansion).

Nihilanth · July 2006

I've played both games at one point or another, and I've flipped back and forth between them multiple times. EQ2 is the only one that keeps me coming back. I've played several characters in WoW, and the highest I ever got was to level 40 as a Paladin. That's when I first got bored. I didn't really feel like I was accomplishing anything, I felt like I was just doing the same thing over and over again in a new zone every so many levels, and ALL the quests were simple "kill x number or y mobs" or "bring this item to x NPC," and none of them ever led anywhere. I stopped playing and went back to EQ2, only to come back about 3 months later and leave again for EQ2 after less than a month.

To me EQ2 is just more fun, especially once you get past level 20. Scratch that. ONLY after you get past level 20. They've done a lot to try to make the first 20 levels more fun by taking out the archetype system, but there are still remnants of it left. You really don't get any cool class-specific skills until around level 20. Even today, with a 66 Paladin and after playing since the game came out, I absolutely hate making alts because I view the first 20 levels as nothing more than crap I have to get through to have fun. Luckily these levels don't take that long, especially if you've played the game before, but it's a strong deterrent to many people. Once you get there though, the game opens up tremendously. The game becomes much more fun, there's more to do, and there's more options. Quests beyond that point tend to be more involving (although not always), and many times you'll run into quest lines that start as solo quests, progress to group quests, and end up as fully fledged raid quests (even at the lower levels). Generally I think if a person can make it past the first 20 levels, and they actually like EQ2's general format (many people don't), they are golden for the rest of the game. Very few people reach level cap in EQ2 and then quit. There's still a lot to do in EQ2 when you hit the top, and that's one of the reasons I like it so much. I can't speak much for WoW's end game because I never got there, but EQ2's is pretty damn fun.

Basically WoW starts off much more smoothly and is much more fun in the initial levels than EQ2, and I think that's largely the reason so many people intially left EQ2 for WoW when the games first came out (among other things, many of which have since been changed). But at least in my opinion, EQ2 has more to offer once you really start gaining levels.

Jazia · July 2006

Oh really???

Tell me the difference here

I tried WOW, and the first two "quests" are
1. Go kill 10 wolves
2. Go kill 10 thieves

I tried EQ2, and the first two "quests" are
1. Go kill 10 goblins
2. Go kill 10 bats

Both games' "quests" are the same as grinding. You "talk" to a npc(in fact just read a short text", then go find the place where those wolves or thieves or bats or goblins located...then keep killing them on the same spot until you meet the requirements. When you finish, you find yourself standing where you started. And the mobs you were sent to kill are still there respawn with fast rate like nothing happened. And you return to the npc for reward. Then go pick up another "quest"...and so on

Is there really a difference? Is this really no longer grinding???

As for the guy who must pick 1 of these two games, the PvE really have no difference. EQ2 obivously have better graphics. Neither PvP is good imo.

cumbom · July 2006

Originally posted by Emoian_07

Originally posted by cumbom
City of Heros, at least when I played it, made me long for the type of Grind EQ2 had at launch. Now that game is repetative and boring!

CoH has changed alot and a load of new missions have been implemented as well as other goodies.

But each to his own.

But it's not a nonstop grind, you have to admit that much.

EQ2 is.

WoW is pretty good, but i'm not the biggest fan of that Genre of MMOS, personally.

When I first played CoH it basically was a non-stop grind, and it got repitive faster than any other game. It has its good points too don't get me wrong, its just that it was a game with only one layer, although with the addition of PVP I'm sure thats not the case today.

I played EQ2 at launch and you're right... it was a grind. Basically u quested to lvl 10, did Black burrow to level 18ish, then stormhold, to level 25, then you went to RoV, then RE, then I cancelled, because my game was the same dungeons day in and day out.

The game has changed alot.

With the AA line, easier xp, less debt, no shard run, and PVP its alot of fun. I swear I must be leveling faster than I ever did in WoW and that surprises me, I almost think its a little too fast... I go out and get some awesome gear and it seems soon after I have to replace it... kind of annoying, I've been considering turning off XP just for a while.

cumbom · July 2006

Originally posted by hercules

Eq2 has much better staying power.You max your level there is still so much to do.WoW starts off better then EQ2 but as you level up thats when you notice the difference and EQ2 moves ahead.
Crafting is more in depth in EQ2.
Pvp none is a winner.EQ2 pvp is more skill/class based and less dependant on your gear.In WoW if you see someone in raid gear and you are wearing your green/blue armor kiss your arse goodbye.
However,EQ2 pvp server is an annoying place to level due to been constantly ganked,its more level based then WoW,it has some classes that can one shot kill you.
Overall i played both for over a year and would say EQ2 comes out better.I still occasionally play EQ2 as well but seems to have no desire to play WoW(might come back to see the expansion).

Join us on Nagafen, I will twink u if ur a Scout... I would love to have you join my guild.... personally I don't seek out PVP that often, I just wanted it as an option, but once u accept that ur gonna get ganked we'll have alot of fun.

Shadow4482 · July 2006

Enjoy end game raids and very greedy people, hope you have no life or you wont be getting any equipment.

Blaener · July 2006

id have to go with WoW.......... EQ2 is pretty cool though i gotta give it that

scaramoosh · July 2006

Originally posted by Raserei
I played both EQ2 and WoW.... WoW since release and EQ2 since release off and on.

Must say, WoW has better PvE content and PvP content...... Wrong

BUT EQ2 has better crafting and exploration. But WoW also has crafting and a bit of exploration but EQ2 feels more like an open world. Wrong

WoW has lots of solo content, where EQ2 claims to have solo content yet soloing takes 5 years to get 1 level. Wrong

BOTH games offer a ton of quests instead of grinding.

BOTH games offer versatility in classes and group roles. Wrong

BOTH games offer a unique loot system. (WoW has a Diablo II like loot system where EQ2 items benefit just about any class unless its class specific, I preferred WoW loot system) Wrong

EQ2 releases more content faster where WoW waits a month or 2 but the content is very refreshing and fun. Wrong

My personal choice would be WoW although I had a blast in EQ2 while it lasted. I recently stopped playing.

Also, WoW is going through a HUGE upgrade. There linking servers for PVP... Meaning, battlegrounds will ahve no ques and you can be pvping with ppl on different servers. Its gonna be really cool.

Go with WoW man.. EQ2 just has cool graphics but so does WoW in its own way. THERE NOt CARTOONY there artistic. Eq2 is bland but powerful.