No im pretty sure in my first post it said maxed out I have a geforce 8500 gt 512mb ddr2 and I was not impressed at all and nothing close to lotro which I am currently playing and unlike lotro's photo realistic look to the chars as well as the scenery. I also believe I said boring didnt I?? yea I did I found eq2 boring but I guess I had the same problem with eq the original just not my style of play sorry if that offends you eq lifers
well after archett, i snoozed through the crappy straddle and combe.. go here, go there... hell by the time you got to level 8, you had walked most of the damn map.
The most annoying quest - the two love birds in straddle, luckily they live next door to each other... hell they could probably hear each other.
I'd play it again, but i kinda like staying awake during games.
Anyone else disable the helmet... looks like you're walking around with a grapefruit on your head half the time
Especially try the new "Neriak" evil city free content. It reminds me of Vanguard questing style, only done right. You start off in a small settlement, pick up quests, and move along through a storyline. Just don't get to caught up in the quest storyline and forget to check out the City of Neriak, it is really something to see. Hard to break away, I just spent 5 hours at it, and the time just flew by.
This free content is a different setup from the old Quenos/Freeport setup, I recommend people check it out.
For some reason everything in EQ2 looks so artificial. It looks like they fed a fantasy novel into a supercomputer and that's what it spit out. A sterile simulation of fantasy.
The real problem though is the gameplay. I have yet to play a class that's gotten me interested enough to keep leveling. Usually in MMOs the low levels go by fast and you get that urge to level up but I've never gotten that feeling in EQ2.
I've quit and come back to EQ2 plenty of times. Every time, though, the place is devoid of human activity. I don't play MMOs to solo, and EQ2 is a soloers wet dream. Its a shame, too.
There are some great dungeons that require a group that no one goes to because they are all soloing. Or maybe no one plays this game. Maybe a combo of both. I don't know.
I am considering obtaining a station pass (I play EQ 1 and Vanguard now) to play Everquest. Unfortunately, my EQ characters and my VG character are on separate accounts.
I hear it is a pretty fun game. It just seems too guild and raid-oriented end-game for ME. I like more options. When there are options but guilding is necessary to raid, and raid gear is the best gear, then it is forced for ME.
With the release of Neriak, the place is anything but a ghost town. Try the server Antonia Bayle, it's usually the most populated PVE server. One thing I like about EQ2 is that it's not "raid or die" game. They periodically release instances for groups of 6 people, so it gives an alternative to raiding. The only time you "must" raid is if you want to finish the epic quests.
Pretty sure SOE will merge your accounts if you ask nicely. Also the person who said SOE deleted your account after a few months of inacitivty. Ha, bunch of crap, they never delete accounts or characters. My Everquest 1 Barbian Warrior is still in the database and I haven't played him since 2005.
I just resubbed to play again liking it again for some reason nice change from other games I got bored of.
As for account Merges.
Greetings,
Please provide me the station names which you want to consolidate. Also, provide us the first four and last four digit of the credit card used in the account to verify your account ownership.
Please tell us which all game you want to transfer on your main account. I would also like to inform you something regarding this cosolidation:
Everquest (EQ): If you transfer EQ to other account you would lose your veteran rewards.
SWG : IF you transfer your SWG to other account you would lose Deeded Items and Datapad Contents
Vanguard/PlanetSide/EverQuest Online Adventures/Matrix Online characters : We would not be able to transfer the characters of these game to your main account they will remain in your secondary account.
Let us know which game you want to trasfer in which accont.
I play on highest quality with shadows and sound turned off (sound off is my preference} and i have a ati radeon 9550, 1 gig of ram 3.0 pent 4 processor and i get almost no lag. with just shadows off and everything else maxed.
no disrespect intended, but....your pc is not 6-7 years old with those specs....
Already did. After I quit WoW I searched for something that wasn't so easy...and I found it. EQ2 is great. Their is tons of stuff too do. BUT, it's not as easy as WoW. It's more involved. I'm sticking with this until Age Of Conan or Warhammer baffles me.
I liked the game a lot but it has issues. First off, the person that said everything is too spread out is completely right. I was looking forward to getting to Freeport where there was a population but nothing of the sort ever came. By the time I hit 25 with my assassin, I got 3 bugged quests in a row.
Worst of all, they deleted my account after only a few months of inactivity.
This game has great potential but it just doesn't get it.
I don't think "they" deleted your account. It doesn't happen. I started EQ2 as a beta tester, then played it when it went Live, then took 2 months off to try WoW and spend more time raiding in EQ, then back to EQ2, no trouble resubscribing the same account, then cancelled due to a job change, then back to EQ2 after settling my working hours, then dropped it again for 20 months, due to being in a different part of the world where I had no business, then back to find my EQ2 characters waiting but somewhat "left behind" by the game, but played the same account. "They" don't delete accounts. They might "ban" an account for any one of quite a few reasons, but they don't "delete" accounts. Same with WoW, DAoC, EQ, Asheron's Call, AO etc... Diablo 2 is the only MMO I've seen delete accounts for inactivity.
Also, Freeport's player population was always less than Qeynos, and then Kelethin. But I've started new characters in all the starting cities when I've had friends starting the game, and always found other players around. Always. Sure, it's not like it was 2 years ago. There's a lot of other places for players to go. I even use the "Play the Fae" trial occasionally since my main account's got no character slots available, and go visit the newbie areas for fun, whenever there's been changes to the starting quests. Always people around. Not a lot. 6-10 people in the newbie areas is normal.
Around Freeport and Qeynos, and Kelethin, there are always higher level players doing whatever it is higher level players do, banking, tradeskills, etc. On one of my new characters, recently, I was in Qeynos when I saw an /ooc of someone wanting to start a guild, so I met with him, and the other people, and helped start the guild. It took maybe 10 minutes from start to finish for this guy to find enough unguilded people IN TOWN to start the guild.
There are plenty of people around. I've read too many of these posts that it's an abandoned game, it's like a ghost town... and it's just not true. Having actually been there, all times of day or night, several different servers, I can only conclude that some of the people posting here are lying. They have no clue what's going on in EQ2. They're just posting negative comments because they like posting negative comments. Some of the claims are ludicrous.
Maybe they tried the "Play the Fae" or "Trial of the Isle" free 7-day trials and got mad because SOE doesn't let them move into the cities or the real EQ2 world, so they post nonsense about the graphics and characters and quests. My own ongoing experiences are nothing like these posts.
EQ2 has graphics that are touted industry wide. Has been that way since the day the NDA was lifted during beta. Professionals in the MMOG industry have rated EQ2 graphics, mechanics, gameplay, quest system, lore... virtually every single topic of interest concerning EQ2, in the highest categories of the industry. Period. That's indisputable.
But on these "player community" forums and websites, people like "nowarranty" are free to make up their ludicrous stories, or borrow from other posts, simply to have something negative to say.
You won't see these kinds of comments from ANYONE who has actually spent time in EQ2. Only from the pouting SOE bashers, the "griefers" who just want to flame.
So, the next negative comments concerning graphics, game play, character mechanics, quest system of EQ2, just chalk it up as lies. You can go out and spend $20 to get started in EQ2, and prove them wrong yourself.
By the way, why did the OP say he had a 6-7 year old computer, then post again after 1 reply, saying he had a 9550 graphics card, and a 3Ghz processor, and 1G RAM? 3 years old maybe... probably a bit less. That confused me... but anyway, it's true that on an older system such as that, you may not be able to run EQ2 with all the graphics at Very High settings, but there's so many things you can adjust to make a pretty decent appearance. My 2.6GHz P4, which I upgraded to 2G RAM, and a Geforce 7600GSOC 512M graphics card, does pretty well with EQ2. Can't compare this to WoW, since WoW's graphics engine is nothing like that used by EQ2, and will run easily on 3-4 year old hardware.
Ok, that's all for now. You other people quit making up lies about EQ2, and all the other games you like to flame without any experience. I don't like WoW and Blizzard, but I'm not flaming their broken quests, goofy cartoon graphics, the player character's HUGE hands and feet.... any of that stuff. If millions of people like playing that type of game, fine with me. I retired a night-elf hunter at 60, a human paladin at 60, a Tauren shaman at 58... If I choose to bash WoW, at least it'll be based on actuall experience. I'm not bashing it, I'm just not going back to spend my time and money on something that is far less enjoyable than the other games I play or beta test.
Can you still order Pizza online? That was the best feature.
Seriously I did not like EQ2. They constantly changed the game since release. If you liked it originally , they changed things so it sucked. If you liked some of the early changes then they changed those so it sucked. It never ended. The game was in constant production. I am not gonna invest my time in a MMOG if you change the basics all the time. It was like they kept throwing crap against the wall to see if it would stick.
Can you still order Pizza online? That was the best feature. Seriously I did not like EQ2. They constantly changed the game since release. If you liked it originally , they changed things so it sucked. If you liked some of the early changes then they changed those so it sucked. It never ended. The game was in constant production. I am not gonna invest my time in a MMOG if you change the basics all the time. It was like they kept throwing crap against the wall to see if it would stick.
I guess there are some people who are upset they can no longer play a damage immune tank, a healer that can cast 3 spells before a fight and then sleep, tanks that out-damages every DPS class or a plate tank with high DPS and self heals. There is a certain appeal to playing a class that is blatantly overpowered but it’s still broken and still needs to be fixed.
The underlying mechanics causing this were fixed in update 13 about a year after release, and there have been comparatively few significant changes since. Sicne thene there have been far fewer class changes in EQ2 then there have been in WoW and most other games. The ones that have taken place were intelligently target at the root cause of the problem that needed fixing and should be an example to everyone in the industry.
If you want to see how a live team should function what Scott Hartsman has done with EQ2 should be *the* example everyone in the industry needs to follow.
I'd play EQ2, but the armor all looks the same and combat is similair to letting off a bomb in a firework factory. Im not being attracted.
Don't get me wrong Im looking for an MMO but what ive seen in the past of EQ2 is beyond disapointing.
Let me reiterate my earlier statement that people who are writing things like ^^^^ that one have so obviously not done anything in EQ2 except possibly the Trial of the Isle or Play the Fae 7-day free trial.
It boggles the mind. Really. But sure, all the wizards look the same at the newbie levels. It's another inducement to get out there and hunt for something different, or make something different. On every server I visit, there are people who will help new players. One needs only to look around and ask a few people. When I restarted EQ2 after 20 months gone, I started new characters because I'd forgotten how to play my original main, and many spells and abilities and items had been changed, but I had no trouble finding people to help me figure out everything I needed to know.
So... get out there and play it, or leave it alone, but either way, quit making up blatant lies to post here.
I'd play EQ2, but the armor all looks the same and combat is similair to letting off a bomb in a firework factory. Im not being attracted.
Don't get me wrong Im looking for an MMO but what ive seen in the past of EQ2 is beyond disapointing.
Let me reiterate my earlier statement that people who are writing things like ^^^^ that one have so obviously not done anything in EQ2 except possibly the Trial of the Isle or Play the Fae 7-day free trial.
It boggles the mind. Really. But sure, all the wizards look the same at the newbie levels. It's another inducement to get out there and hunt for something different, or make something different. On every server I visit, there are people who will help new players. One needs only to look around and ask a few people. When I restarted EQ2 after 20 months gone, I started new characters because I'd forgotten how to play my original main, and many spells and abilities and items had been changed, but I had no trouble finding people to help me figure out everything I needed to know.
So... get out there and play it, or leave it alone, but either way, quit making up blatant lies to post here.
Jaymenicus
Kalmenicus was right, and MMORPG.com knows it.
Actually, I played EQ to level 30.
Interesting how you choose to attack me instead of disproving my points.
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well after archett, i snoozed through the crappy straddle and combe.. go here, go there... hell by the time you got to level 8, you had walked most of the damn map.
The most annoying quest - the two love birds in straddle, luckily they live next door to each other... hell they could probably hear each other.
I'd play it again, but i kinda like staying awake during games.
Anyone else disable the helmet... looks like you're walking around with a grapefruit on your head half the time
Especially try the new "Neriak" evil city free content. It reminds me of Vanguard questing style, only done right. You start off in a small settlement, pick up quests, and move along through a storyline. Just don't get to caught up in the quest storyline and forget to check out the City of Neriak, it is really something to see. Hard to break away, I just spent 5 hours at it, and the time just flew by.
This free content is a different setup from the old Quenos/Freeport setup, I recommend people check it out.
Not going to play a "must-raid" game again.
I rather died of boredom.
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The real problem though is the gameplay. I have yet to play a class that's gotten me interested enough to keep leveling. Usually in MMOs the low levels go by fast and you get that urge to level up but I've never gotten that feeling in EQ2.
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There are some great dungeons that require a group that no one goes to because they are all soloing. Or maybe no one plays this game. Maybe a combo of both. I don't know.
I am considering obtaining a station pass (I play EQ 1 and Vanguard now) to play Everquest. Unfortunately, my EQ characters and my VG character are on separate accounts.
I hear it is a pretty fun game. It just seems too guild and raid-oriented end-game for ME. I like more options. When there are options but guilding is necessary to raid, and raid gear is the best gear, then it is forced for ME.
Pretty sure SOE will merge your accounts if you ask nicely.
Also the person who said SOE deleted your account after a few months of inacitivty.
Ha, bunch of crap, they never delete accounts or characters.
My Everquest 1 Barbian Warrior is still in the database and I haven't played him since 2005.
As for account Merges.
Greetings,
Please provide me the station names which you want to consolidate. Also, provide us the first four and last four digit of the credit card used in the account to verify your account ownership.
Please tell us which all game you want to transfer on your main account. I would also like to inform you something regarding this cosolidation:
Everquest (EQ): If you transfer EQ to other account you would lose your veteran rewards.
SWG : IF you transfer your SWG to other account you would lose Deeded Items and Datapad Contents
Vanguard/PlanetSide/EverQuest Online Adventures/Matrix Online characters : We would not be able to transfer the characters of these game to your main account they will remain in your secondary account.
Let us know which game you want to trasfer in which accont.
Warm regards,
Nick M
Already did. After I quit WoW I searched for something that wasn't so easy...and I found it. EQ2 is great. Their is tons of stuff too do. BUT, it's not as easy as WoW. It's more involved. I'm sticking with this until Age Of Conan or Warhammer baffles me.
I don't think "they" deleted your account. It doesn't happen. I started EQ2 as a beta tester, then played it when it went Live, then took 2 months off to try WoW and spend more time raiding in EQ, then back to EQ2, no trouble resubscribing the same account, then cancelled due to a job change, then back to EQ2 after settling my working hours, then dropped it again for 20 months, due to being in a different part of the world where I had no business, then back to find my EQ2 characters waiting but somewhat "left behind" by the game, but played the same account. "They" don't delete accounts. They might "ban" an account for any one of quite a few reasons, but they don't "delete" accounts. Same with WoW, DAoC, EQ, Asheron's Call, AO etc... Diablo 2 is the only MMO I've seen delete accounts for inactivity.
Also, Freeport's player population was always less than Qeynos, and then Kelethin. But I've started new characters in all the starting cities when I've had friends starting the game, and always found other players around. Always. Sure, it's not like it was 2 years ago. There's a lot of other places for players to go. I even use the "Play the Fae" trial occasionally since my main account's got no character slots available, and go visit the newbie areas for fun, whenever there's been changes to the starting quests. Always people around. Not a lot. 6-10 people in the newbie areas is normal.
Around Freeport and Qeynos, and Kelethin, there are always higher level players doing whatever it is higher level players do, banking, tradeskills, etc. On one of my new characters, recently, I was in Qeynos when I saw an /ooc of someone wanting to start a guild, so I met with him, and the other people, and helped start the guild. It took maybe 10 minutes from start to finish for this guy to find enough unguilded people IN TOWN to start the guild.
There are plenty of people around. I've read too many of these posts that it's an abandoned game, it's like a ghost town... and it's just not true. Having actually been there, all times of day or night, several different servers, I can only conclude that some of the people posting here are lying. They have no clue what's going on in EQ2. They're just posting negative comments because they like posting negative comments. Some of the claims are ludicrous.
Maybe they tried the "Play the Fae" or "Trial of the Isle" free 7-day trials and got mad because SOE doesn't let them move into the cities or the real EQ2 world, so they post nonsense about the graphics and characters and quests. My own ongoing experiences are nothing like these posts.
EQ2 has graphics that are touted industry wide. Has been that way since the day the NDA was lifted during beta. Professionals in the MMOG industry have rated EQ2 graphics, mechanics, gameplay, quest system, lore... virtually every single topic of interest concerning EQ2, in the highest categories of the industry. Period. That's indisputable.
But on these "player community" forums and websites, people like "nowarranty" are free to make up their ludicrous stories, or borrow from other posts, simply to have something negative to say.
You won't see these kinds of comments from ANYONE who has actually spent time in EQ2. Only from the pouting SOE bashers, the "griefers" who just want to flame.
So, the next negative comments concerning graphics, game play, character mechanics, quest system of EQ2, just chalk it up as lies. You can go out and spend $20 to get started in EQ2, and prove them wrong yourself.
By the way, why did the OP say he had a 6-7 year old computer, then post again after 1 reply, saying he had a 9550 graphics card, and a 3Ghz processor, and 1G RAM? 3 years old maybe... probably a bit less. That confused me... but anyway, it's true that on an older system such as that, you may not be able to run EQ2 with all the graphics at Very High settings, but there's so many things you can adjust to make a pretty decent appearance. My 2.6GHz P4, which I upgraded to 2G RAM, and a Geforce 7600GSOC 512M graphics card, does pretty well with EQ2. Can't compare this to WoW, since WoW's graphics engine is nothing like that used by EQ2, and will run easily on 3-4 year old hardware.
Ok, that's all for now. You other people quit making up lies about EQ2, and all the other games you like to flame without any experience. I don't like WoW and Blizzard, but I'm not flaming their broken quests, goofy cartoon graphics, the player character's HUGE hands and feet.... any of that stuff. If millions of people like playing that type of game, fine with me. I retired a night-elf hunter at 60, a human paladin at 60, a Tauren shaman at 58... If I choose to bash WoW, at least it'll be based on actuall experience. I'm not bashing it, I'm just not going back to spend my time and money on something that is far less enjoyable than the other games I play or beta test.
That is all.
Kalmenicus rules, MMORPG.com knows.
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Can you still order Pizza online? That was the best feature.
Seriously I did not like EQ2. They constantly changed the game since release. If you liked it originally , they changed things so it sucked. If you liked some of the early changes then they changed those so it sucked. It never ended. The game was in constant production. I am not gonna invest my time in a MMOG if you change the basics all the time. It was like they kept throwing crap against the wall to see if it would stick.
I really miss EQ2. I still think it is the most complete game out there, I just can't bring myself to give SOE another dime of my money.
Don't get me wrong Im looking for an MMO but what ive seen in the past of EQ2 is beyond disapointing.
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Let me reiterate my earlier statement that people who are writing things like ^^^^ that one have so obviously not done anything in EQ2 except possibly the Trial of the Isle or Play the Fae 7-day free trial.
It boggles the mind. Really. But sure, all the wizards look the same at the newbie levels. It's another inducement to get out there and hunt for something different, or make something different. On every server I visit, there are people who will help new players. One needs only to look around and ask a few people. When I restarted EQ2 after 20 months gone, I started new characters because I'd forgotten how to play my original main, and many spells and abilities and items had been changed, but I had no trouble finding people to help me figure out everything I needed to know.
So... get out there and play it, or leave it alone, but either way, quit making up blatant lies to post here.
Jaymenicus
Kalmenicus was right, and MMORPG.com knows it.
Let me reiterate my earlier statement that people who are writing things like ^^^^ that one have so obviously not done anything in EQ2 except possibly the Trial of the Isle or Play the Fae 7-day free trial.
It boggles the mind. Really. But sure, all the wizards look the same at the newbie levels. It's another inducement to get out there and hunt for something different, or make something different. On every server I visit, there are people who will help new players. One needs only to look around and ask a few people. When I restarted EQ2 after 20 months gone, I started new characters because I'd forgotten how to play my original main, and many spells and abilities and items had been changed, but I had no trouble finding people to help me figure out everything I needed to know.
So... get out there and play it, or leave it alone, but either way, quit making up blatant lies to post here.
Jaymenicus
Kalmenicus was right, and MMORPG.com knows it.
Actually, I played EQ to level 30.Interesting how you choose to attack me instead of disproving my points.
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