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Why did you get EQ2?
Jd1680a
Member Posts: 398
in Everquest II
For what reason(s) did you decide to come to EQ2?
I came because of the Iksar race. I really love lizardmen, especially playing one. When I saw the trailer with the lizardmen inside Cazic-Thule, I just had to get it. The graphics were very good when I saw the screenshots a few months before its release, thats another reason EQ2 attracted me.
Have played: CoH, DDO EQ2, FFXI, L2, HZ, SoR, and WW2 online
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Content. Ever since leaving AO, I've been looking for a game with good graphics, has massive amounts of content, is RP friendly, and raids at higher level. Ended up playing MxO, mainly because I was in beta, and secondly because of the RP.....but there's no content, and nothing to raid.
The trial kept me busy for a week, and I figured that was a good sign of a game that I wouldn't get bored with.
I played the original EQ for roughly three years. There were a lot of issues with it, as with any game.
EQ2 was promising to address a number of those issues. Down time, grouping issues, and being focused on smaller guilds were a few of the things that I remember that struck me as key points for EQ2.
There's also a great deal more actual questing in EQ2 than in the original EQ. That was also a huge selling point. Huge. I'm an explorer and quester and thrive on those two things more than anything else in these games. I love finding new things and seeing new places.
I also wanted to recapture some of the feeling that EQ gave me when I originally began playing it, but that's of course not going to be possible for any MMOG.
In short I thought that EQ2 was worth a shot when considering what it was promising and where I had started with these MMOGs.
~Mysk
I first began to play EQ2 because my Guild/RL Friends wanted to go to it and play that instead of WoW. They ended up switching to WoW because frankly, EQ2 just does not have enough variety of places to level up. Everyone is in the same big zone lving from like lvl 5 to lvl 20. Killing pretty much the same mob but different lvl and a little bit difference in the name. Sorcer Gnoll/Gnoll Guard etc...
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For some illogical reasons, I assume EQ2 would follow up where LDoN stop...and it didnt. So I left a week later, but with no regret in anyway. I dont regret giving it a chance or walking away, and I certainly dont regret telling SoE they keep lying all the time!
Most of my RL friends never even bother to try EQ2, they where waiting for WoW, and when me and the few of those who tried it left it(1 goes back to old EQ hehe), the rest just enjoy WoW for sometimes...then GW a little...we are scattering, pretty much trying a little everything, until anyone is in love with a game for more then a few months, in which case more of us will prolly try it. Most of them will never buy or try EQ2 now, unless it would somehow manage to make 1 try it and then fall in love with the game...I seriously doubt that! EQ was a gaming & Wargaming slayer...but lack of follow up in interest see the gap filled with new gaming/wargaming. So basically, by been not really appealing, EQ2 and WoW & all the others are helping our groups to meet in RL and do real gaming and real RPG rather then play online.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
I like you quote man so true i.
This video
when i was just amazed. so i got the game for xmas 2004 and it's consumed my life ever since lol.
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I start due to beta seemed fun enough. there were alot of little things and only really one big thing i did not like, but overall i was able to log on play and have fun and did not login to the take a number and wait for a group game.
Then patch after patch ruined the play ability that i quite. the game was to easy also. hitting lvl 15 in one day, got to lvl 50 in just over a month. very very little replay value. so glad i quite and never looking back at this point.
the worst thing they ever did was making everything attuneable. what a poor concet to steal from wow. there was so many other ways to do what they wanted. but hey thats soe for yah.
And you switched to WoW? How is WoW different from how you describe EQ2 above?
I think he's saying WoW has more zones than EQ2 and that's why he switched. I don't know, I do agree there aren't a whole lot of options.
CL/ANT = ~1-20
TS/NEK = ~20-30
EL/ZEK = ~30-40
EF/LS = ~40-50
At least, that's my assumption. I know I've always felt that the EQ2 world is rather small, but it's bound to get bigger. It's a shame that the best zone in the game is the last zone you end up seeing. I think new players would have been amazed at the way Sol's Eye in LS looks.
And.. to answer the original question, I picked up EQ2 because of the content monster that is/was EQ1.
Actually I don't see much difference in progression through areas between the two. In EQ2 I played on the Freeport side. From 1 to 6 it's the Isle of Refuge, then from 6 to 10 it was the little starting areas around FP, then to the commonlands till 20, and then I would presume into Nektulos. WoW's the same way with all of its races: starting zone up to 12 or 13, next one up to 20, and so on. The only difference is that WoW's leveling is faster than EQ2's.
As for my reasons of getting EQ2 originally, mostly it was to find a game with a great community, which WoW Beta didn't give but SWG did, so I was willing to give SOE a shot and try EQ2. At first the EQ2 community wasn't that great, a lot of immaturity running around, but now that things have supposedly gotten better I'll give it another go.
I started playing because every other MMO game I'd played recently was full of imature a-holes. I didn't know what to expect, but I went in with an open mind. So I bought the game. Four days later (I play on dial-up and that initial patch was a pain), I stepped into a beautifully rendered world. Within a week of playing, I had found a guild and many other online friends to group and chat with and support each other. I'm sure there are immature a-holes in EQ2, but I would at this point say that maturity>immaturity.
What allowed the yea or nay for me with EQ2 was corpse runs. I didnt enjoy that much...hrm...realism, in my gaming. Thats why I *play* games after all, while I *live* life. Just me though
no corpse runs in eq2...just shards. And that's not bad at all.
When you die in EQ2, you keep all your goods with some durability loss to it like in WoW. You gain a certain amount of "experience debt" that must be paid off before you can start gaining regular experience. After you die, you have the option of going back to your corpse to reclaim a soul shard that is left behind, which will significantly reduce your xp debt. In a sense, they're optional corpse runs, but xp debt is way hellish and makes leveling up very sloooooowwwwww, especially since the debt adds up if you die more than once in a short time span. Also, if members of your party get killed, the rest of the party shares some of their experience debt. Oh well. At least you can never lose xp or levels anymore.
That's the way it was when I started in EQ2, I'm not sure if they changed it sense then.
still basically the same. If you don't recover your shard within a certain amount of time, it recovers automatically.
Debt isn't that bad, as long as you don't make a habit of dying. And it seems that if you log out for a while, when you log back in your debt is gone.
My tank died on me last night, and the debt to the group was.....1%. Nothing too horrible, I'd say, we had it worked off in about 3 kills.
Thought it would be cool, but it sucked and the players sucked with it except for about 2 who seemed willing to help others out.
hehehe well you can't get much broader a generalisation than that.
Would be like me saying I tried WoW for a fortnight and every person was a preteen who couldn't spell... Hey... wait on.. *jokes*
What server were you on? What class were you trying to play? etc. If you ever want to actually attempt to get into it, let me know and I'd be happy enough to show you around.
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Oh. My. God.
I got it because of the massive amount of content and the very mature community. I honestly have met a nicer batch of people than while playing Eq2.
At least in WoW you have your choice of four big zones to do 10-20 in instead of 2
I decided to try EQ II because I heard that it had been made more casual player/ solo freindly. I'm glad that I did I'm having a lot of fun with it. I have to admit that the commonlands is getting a bit old though.
I don't want to write this, and you don't want to read it. But now it's too late for both of us.
I bought EQ2 for many reasons. Mostly because of the beautiful graphics
but also because I was once a EQ player myself, the tons upon tons of content, the battles, and PvP (yay!) and, to be involved in one of the best MMORPGs ever created!!!
Yay!
I came to eq2 not only because i got the all access pass from soe being a vet swg player.
but i LOVE the graphics on EQ2 I don't know how ppl say wow is better. they're dumb... or i'm dumb or something...
wow is the worst mmo ever... I've had pizza that's lasted longer than that game..
Sorry for stealing that line..
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