superspanky36

I consider myself pretty noobish at this game. I have played very casually until now, playing a bunch of alts to find one I can stick with. In 1 and a half years, my necro has just now dinged 66, with a few others at 40ish. I play this casually because I am an officer and dedicated raider in a T6 raiding guild in WoW. However, raiding in WoW is extremely repetitive and bores me to death sometimes. It's bad when sometimes I just wish my interwebs or something would just crap out so I don't have to go.

Anyways, my questions is for anyone who raids, preferably those with experience in both games, but any help will be greatly appreciated.

1.) How do the raids stand up here compared to other games?

2.) Do you run into the whole "same boss, different skin" thing that seems to be pretty common in WoW?

3.)Do you run into an hour worth of trash for each 5 minute boss fight?

4.) Do you ever run into "creative" mechanics here? To explain this one a little better...In WoW pretty much all bosses live and die by timers. You know that hey in 10 seconds he is gonna whirlwind and immediately after he will switch to demon form so you know exactly what to do, or hey we have 3 minutes to kill each of 8 waves of trash then he will come, etc. I've heard of a raid in EQ1, I think it was Mayong Mistmoore, where you have to help bards sing and stuff, is there anything like that here?

5.) How long does an end-game raid take? If your guild raided say 4 hours in a night, would they get a lot accomplished? Or is it more like EQ1 where you needed to raid like 8 hours a day?

Overall this seems like a much, much better game, and it's not completely balanced around PvP which definitely gives it bonus points. Thanks in advance for any answers!

Niber

1&2. EQ2 raiding involves an AE, something you need to cure and an adds group 99.9% of the time.
3. Most zones contain a considerable amount of trash or named mobs that might as well be trash.
4. Nothing creative.
5. Depends on the quality of the guild.

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SprokEQ2

Well, I personally don't raid. But I spend a lot of time with raiders and talking to them... but a lot of harder raid mobs have special things that you have to/can't do or it makes the fight harder/unbeatable. And it seems that with this expansion at least there is less tank and spank, and a little more strat involved with the fights.

Niber

So basically you have no idea what you're talking about and instead rely on second hand information from someone who probably has no clue either. Gotcha.

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Illuminator

lol, I'm sure he meant well.

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Niber

Yeah, in any other section I would have kept quiet.

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SprokEQ2

By my "I don't personally don't raid" comment, what I meant is currently, I haven't spent enough time on my main to get him ready for raiding. I have raided some DoF, most of KoS, and a little bit of EoF. One of my closest in game friends has done a lot of raiding in KoS and has been raiding in every other teir.

I have raiding experience, I'm just currently not raiding. I still know what's going on.

Holymoly

In my experience, when you find yourself in a hole stop digging. Otherwise ph34r the wrath of Niber.

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SprokEQ2

Damn... I really need to proof-read my posts... lol... reading my 2nd post in this thread I now feel like an idiot lol...

and because I can't edit my post to not look like an idiot... there was only supposed to be one don't and my friend does **RoK**... not freaking KoS lol...

Eminaria

1.) How do the raids stand up here compared to other games?

- Dont know, only raided in DAoC before, and well DAoC raids were weird, lol.

2.) Do you run into the whole "same boss, different skin" thing that seems to be pretty common in WoW?

- Actually I think alot of the raid mobs in RoK have some kind of flavor to it. But most do have a predictable aoe. But there's also the charms and other random stuff that you have to deal with.

3.)Do you run into an hour worth of trash for each 5 minute boss fight?

- Also in RoK you dont have all that much trash, VP has some, Thuuga has alot, SoH has a fair share but that can be plowed through. So its at the most 50/50 boss / trash fighting.

4.) Do you ever run into "creative" mechanics here? To explain this one a little better...In WoW pretty much all bosses live and die by timers. You know that hey in 10 seconds he is gonna whirlwind and immediately after he will switch to demon form so you know exactly what to do, or hey we have 3 minutes to kill each of 8 waves of trash then he will come, etc. I've heard of a raid in EQ1, I think it was Mayong Mistmoore, where you have to help bards sing and stuff, is there anything like that here?

- See 2, there's some creative mobs, and some are quite intresting, other's are just anoying. But the first 1-4 times of killing alot of the bosses are very intresting.

5.) How long does an end-game raid take? If your guild raided say 4 hours in a night, would they get a lot accomplished? Or is it more like EQ1 where you needed to raid like 8 hours a day?

- We raid about 4 hours a day and can beat several zones in a day, except VP that we usualy need two days to beat. So yes, for most guilds 4 hours is plenty, espesically now that we have presistant zones.