Gilgame

so most hardcore players of this game are level 80 already, you could do it all solo, and when you finally hit 80, then what? well you got 2 uncontested dungeons and 4 group instances. thats well and dandy, ive already run every single one of them at least 100 times except chelsith which ive probably done 30 times. i got all the gears and all of the goods that i need from those and now all i got to look forward too is raid content.

ok well raid content, we got what could be considered progression if we were playing in dof still. tier 1 is blown away by all of the top guilds in less than a week after they got a solid raid force. tier 2? probably the best tier, hard and raidworthy mobs, from here it all goes downhill, levithan seems like it exists to keep you from vp solely because of the lockout and VP itself is a tragegy, the loot and the encounters all suck ass and have no creativity.

its hard to be excited about raid content like this, ive been a player of MMOs since early eq1 and the raid content there was very impressive, although everyone quit over it being so hardcore that only 1% of the population enjoyed it, but in all honesty, where do we go from here?

when you get all of the raids down except the content that is either impossible or not available, you feel like your job is over. the expansion is done, and less than 3 months after the expansion was released, thats where we stand.

unless you play this game for 2 hours a week, you get bored of everything fairly quickly. the least the devs could have done was make progression slower and make individual encounters harder (or more creative preferably) so they took longer to bang out, instead the only thing that is between you and a chest full of bad loot is a mob who hits so hard that you need to be creative in how you heal for it. after that? challenge over, expansion over, we'll see you in a year when we do the exact same thing and leave you in a state of boredom limbo killing the same shit you've been killing since a month and a half into the expansion.

i understand what sony wants, they want to put out a game that is easy to play and keeps everyone happy, the majority of their customerbase isnt raiders and i understand that, but you cant have a game that you expect us to pay for that has a foreseeable end before more content is released to keep us interested. i mean even the name of this game betrays itself, 'everquest', now that the game is over and the only thing left to do is wait til devs make more content available, you might as well rename the game to 'quest'.

i had high expectations for ROK especially when i heard there was going to be progression, if i wasent such a dumb optimist all of the time i would have left this game during EoF, because frankly, EoF is the worst expansion i have ever seen for an MMO.

but here i am, phara dar is dead and were waiting for sony to make the content that is even tangible to start being killable as well.

not only did you drop the ball on raiding, you fucking knocked over the whole goddamn ball basket on raiding. now theres fucking balls everywhere and people are so confused about why they are playing everquest 2 instead of picking up a ball and throwing it against a wall for 5 hours a day.

not alot of fun, but it sure as shit is funner and requires more thought than the raiding we got now.

fuck.

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Faxon

long post, suffice to say i endorse what he said, but im shiny farming so im not gonna go into detail. just read it you lazy bastards!

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if you wanna play age of conan give me a shout. trying to get a bunch of ppl from eq2 all on the same server in AoC!

Hitz

agree 100%

Bored to shit with RoK already. With these kind of xpacs, they should really be every 6 months. Doesnt have to be a lvl raise everytime, but 1 full year of these kind of xpacs is way to long.

the_mo

ive also already hit the spot of, theres not much left to besides raiding. but because i kinda like the game in general i spend my time on reexpierencing the lower tiers with alts when theres no raid goin on... pretty much keeps you busy

LFG

It is URGENT for SOE to fix the loot in VP to bring back risk vs. reward to EQ2.

Enough said.

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Kytar

I was quiet impressed with the amount of content in this expansion.

They did not advertise it as a raiding expansion, they played down the amount of raid content there was going to be, so I was pleasantly suprised. I guess my expectations were just lower than other peoples.

It seems to me that what people are complaining about is not really the expansions fault, but a combination of our playing more than most and a fault with the genre as a whole. MMOs cannot really keep hardcore people happy. For a game to be top-heavy with content, it would funnel people through all doing the same things levelling up, which is something developers find anathema to replayability (I'm not sure I agree with them). Although, even if there were 100 high level dungeons, as long as two give slightly better loot that the others, people will say "there are only 2 top tier dungeons, there is no content".

I would have liked to see some heroic mobs outdoors, and maybe even an abundance of quests for groups, in a similar vein to the solo content. Imagine how many hours you would have to spend in Kunzar Jungle if every quest was a group one and all the mobs were heroic. It would be a wierd mix of frustration and heaps to keep us occupied, with 65+ heroic quests in the zone.

P.S. I am not talking about the *quality* of the zones though, especially the raid zones.

Manic

everyone i know who plays wow says the same thing they get free content free raid zones, and they give more intences for those people who dont raid. Look you have taken just about every good idea from WoW so why stop now. dont make us wait 6months for one raid zone one instence.

My 2cents

Illuminator

It will be sad if they prioritized that over stopping master spells from dropping off of solo trash.

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Vizion

Even fixing VP loot is hardly fixing risk vs. reward, its still a joke compared to the "endgame" zones of every other expansion thusfar IMO.

Shard of Hate is this game's last hope basically at any sort of progression with RoK, that is, if they actually make it difficult. But knowing Sony I expect to hear about it being cleared by everyone the first run through

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Kadoer

Hits the nail on the head. I say triple the developement staff and put a 1/4 of the total onto this kidna crap thats been released keeping the majority of casual players very happy, but then use the other 75% of developement for us the end game seeking content eating really in need of semi super creative encoutners to make us happy.