Pomegranate

I recommend giving EQ2 a try. I really don't think it will sink with the release of AoC and Warhammer. My experience has been that EQ2 is a very solid and fun game. Most critics are disgruntled raiders, while there is so much more to the game. What's kept me to Everquest2 is the look and feel, the environment, the graphics, the races.

Jalek

The biggest problem I see for actual new people is the population. That it's spread over five areas doesn't help where there're so few.

The Freeport and Qeynos starting areas don't compare to the new ones anyway and they'd probably take a lot of time to retune since the questlines are relating to a game environment that's different now. They need a sign pointing to Kelethin and Gorowynd, the only places really worth starting in.

The ruins in freeport's heroic quests from like level 12 on, and the caves in qeynos are similar. You can stop there and go solo in CL and Antonica, but that's more grind than quest.
In TD, you can easily solo strictly through quests to 20-21 and have at least something in every slot.

So when you see level 1 toons running along the Butcherblock beach, you know where they're going.

Pomegranate

Not sure if exp locking is common on PvE servers, but you can hit all the starting zones if you disable experience.

Brinelan

If you had fun, sub up. Worst thing that can happen is youre out $15 after playing it for a few weeks.

Gout

Should you buy it, meh, whats a few bucks and a few hours. EQ2 is like a cheap date honestly and in the end if you want to dump it, its a lot like a stalker.

Take it from someone who played EQ2 since day one and EQ since day one (I can tell you EQ was WAY better then EQ2, at least in its day) and decided to cancel the EQ2 account. Summary, It's ok, but honestly unless you don't have anything better to do, its not going to be your thing.

Personally, spend your money elsewhere (thats why I decided to cancel, mine is going somewhere else, although not sure where yet).


Up until ROK I had leveled 6 toons to level 70 (gah, 420 levels, doh!), been on too many raids, put up with too many nerfs, patches, bugs and waaaay too much bullshit. I tried ROK, leveled them up until each one was boring and it was nothing but more of the same shit only worse. I decided fuck it, I am not doing this any more, half of them never made it past 75 and the few 80s got boring because of game mechanics and bugs.

Basic rundown of how to play the game -

Make a toon, something that can level fast and solo well but will be useful later on.

Enter the game.

• Level 1-10 in about an hour by figuring out how to make your toon do what you want and exploring a bit.
• Level 10-60, feel free to solo away and grab the occasional group of people who are locked out of all the raids and instances and are forced to play alts so that they can have more then one level 80 toon (thus no lockouts). Be warned, don't tell them this is your only toon, you won't get an invite. Don't spend your money on ANYTHING no matter how cool it seems. Save it. Focus on killing named, doing collections and exploring to max out your AAs.
• Level 60-70 solo some more. Get used to group dynamics with the ~casual players~ who are doing content slowly either because they suck or because they simply don't play enough to keep up with the levels and raiders. Learn what a bot is and avoid them. Keep saving your money.
• Level 70-79, welcome to ROK HELL. Do every quest possible to get your AAs to 140. Kill every named you can. Do every collection possible. If you don't have at least 100 AAs by 70, stop slacking and get to work. Familiarize yourself with the level 70s chat channel. Understand the big players on your server. Don't group more then you have to and only ask to join a group if they are announcing in channel they need ~one last person and we are ready to go~ meaning they don't care who they bring they just don't want to go into an instance alone and can't find any more level 80s. Figure out a guild to join at level 80 that raids.
• Level 80. Join the raiding guild, be prepared to move from guild to guild if necessary. Make bonds with individuals not groups or guilds. USE them if you need to use them. Be prepared to spend way too much time raiding, sitting around bitching and learning that you honestly HATE the fucking game that you have just spent 3 months of your miserable life on.
• Level 80 140AA Mythical weapon. Get bored, cancel your account and sit here reading forums listening to other people bitch about the game and newbies asking if they should buy it while you wait for something better to come along.

Any questions?


PS just before you cancel, sell all that plat to the people with too much money and not enough brains so you can buy a new game. you had to have wondered why I said keep saving it.

Satinah

SOE should add the above post to their terms of service and use agreement.

Sharpteath

my god, this is truly the personification of eq2..wow
totally sums it all up.