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EverQuest II: All Around Norrath - Rise of Kunark
Stradden
Managing EditorMember CommonPosts: 6,696
In her weekly All Around Kunark column, Adele Caelia interviews players of EverQuest II in-game to find out their opinions on a variety of subjects. Today, it's the Rise of Kunark expansion.
Rise of Kunark is now in its second week and I must admit that although I was a bit of a naysayer before, I am quite pleased now. The expansion is completely turning the world of Norrath upside down! The new gear has stats undreamed of, and I have almost completely replaced all of my fabled raid gear with treasured gear from quests!
As expected, I’m sure that a few raiders are slightly upset that the gear they have raided for the last six months is immediately obsolete, but on the other hand it is nice that all types of players can get great gear just by questing. Being a mage, let me tell you, the quest gear is extremely mage heavy, so much so that I have been spending a lot of time debating which I should wear. I am more pumped to raid now than ever before. I know that if the treasured gear is this awesome that the raid gear is going to blow us away!
Ah, Everquest, you finally live up to your name! The game is now truly living up the second half of its name, and this has also put a few people in a grumble. They have taken out the experience grind and replaced it with questing! Questing is now the only way to level in a timely manner, and in my opinion this is how it should be. It’s not called Everquest for nothing! Those players who used to find themselves a nice spot in a dungeon, stay up all night, and grind to level are finding themselves in quite the pickle. In order to level this way it would now take weeks! I can’t deny that this makes me giggle a little in delight! In my opinion it is pretty pointless to play a game called Everquest and have a fit because you have to quest…
Read the whole column here.
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
Comments
could we please get correspondent writers and moderators, on the eve forum at mmorpg.com, who are well-versed on eve-online and aren't just passersby pushing buttons? pretty please?
yea he did say the R word alot in the begining. But, I have to say I am loving the expansion so far. It's kinda like a new game to me in ways.
I think the article was written by a "she" not a "he" but anways,
I would have to agree with a few of the comments that the expansion was a let down. I think EOF was a much more rewarding and fun experience, as was DOF. I just didn't get the "wow" feeling I did with some of the last expansion zones. Everything is of muted greens and browns for the most part. The lava area feels like lavastorm, as it should I suppose. I just can't believe I am level 76 already, with many guildmates at 80 and I have been to all the new zones, in just a week! 39 bucks for content to last me "maybe" one month (and yes I am doing ALL the quests) sucks. I just hope next time they bring out their imagination hats as they did with EOF.
I really enjoyed this expansion, it was very fun. It's not that grinding has slowed down at all, it's just that quests are much faster and rewarding then before. Very, very fast. 70-80 now is taking less time then 20-30 took at release. And that's even going solo.