to come back or not toFollow

Ive been away from everquest for about 2 years now and am thinking about comming back, I just have a few questions. Is Everquest worth comming back to? Are there still as many people as there were? Im not wanting to go to EQ2 but is it still worth paying the cash for a new subscription?

Yes, come back, you know you can't resist.

... yes. About 6 mos to a year before the release of WoW EQ really started adding some quality features. Potions, guild halls, corpse summoners, better transportation system since you left etc etc. HOWEVER! all of eq's new content is very much geared for the raiding population. Most of the remaining active players are in raid guilds. If you are not interested in raiding it might be better to look in another direction.



... No not even close. However with the server mergers most servers have a solid population and not really a concern.




..... EQ 2 IMO was a total waste of time. Some nice ideas but very little follow-through. Typical SOE. However SOE offers a "station pass" that allows you to play both on one subscription. Its abit more expensive but might be perfect for you.


Good Luck!

Come back we welcome you with open arms)

Umm.... no?

DoN instances? Tradable crystals? Monster Missions with very nice loot and xp for zero risk?

There's a lot of raid content out there but there was a lot of casual content added as well. I'd also disagree with your idea that everyone is in a raiding guild. Personally, almost everyone I know in game is a casual player. Probably because... I'm in a casual guild I'm sure if you're in a raiding guild, you mainly just see the raiding players, but there's a lot of us 'working class' players out there as well.

Edited, Sun Jan 15 10:29:03 2006 by Jophiel

No, you will be able to get a group on Tunare... especially if you find 1 or 2 other necros (if that is the class you are choosing) and be friends with them... it is an awesome group, I got plenty of groups when leveling my necromancer up to 50 (and they are usually hard to find a group for) and if you come to Tunare we can be friends =)

Again, totally false information from Froglo, i am begining to wonder if you hate EQ.

Servers are full, or at least the majority are.

getting a group at low level is no where near as hard as it was 12 months ago, sure you might have to stick to the Xp superhighway untill you have a few people on your friends list but i have no problems with my 20-35 alts at all.

Casual players have never had it so good, non no drop loot drops make it possible for casual players to hunt all bar the very very top end zones and if they are a casual player they wouldn't be bothered about those anyway.

Froglo is the ultimate doom and gloom merchant and presents a wholely inaccurate picture of the way the game plays.

Yeah, what Jophiel said. :)

Casual players have access to gear that would make hard core raiders of yesteryear drool. And lots of fun to be had in getting it in DoN, MM, etc.

You have never had to be a raider to have fun.

I am only telling it as it is. Yes if you are big buddies with a bunch of people then maybe you can get from 25 to 60 easy enough, but trying to get pick up groups on fennin ro for me is/was about impossible. I mean when you do a who all 25 30 and you find NOBODY you can't tell me its easy to ge a group. I also tried the newbie server (mordin rasp I think) and ran into the exact same problem. I can about any time of the day run into lvl 25 to 30 zones and 9 times out of 10 find them pretty much empty.

Perhaps other servers are different, but please don't call me a liar when I only speak the truth. You can not run into a newbie zone at 25+ and expect to walk right into a pick up group. Its like once you green out PC people your level vanish. Almost all newbie zones 25+ are vacant. That is all I am stateing, and I thought.

Sure I will admit I am pretty unhappy with the game right now, in fact I am probably going to quit when my time runs up. However once again I am only stateing what I feel is true. And my 4 level 27 to 42 toons on my account feel the same way when they try LFG and find NOBODY in there level range.

Its a very common question.. hell, most of us probably think it after logging off each night, wondering if we should go back to it the next day.

All I can really offer is.. think about what you want from it. Everquest is NOT entertaining. It is, however, quite an escape from reality.. which I believe what most regulars go for. It may seem like an atrocity against your being, but EQ is basically a way to burn part of your life away; still, TV and drying paint are more or less the exact same thing.. 'cept the paint's the only pretty one in the end.

Existentialist cristism aside, I enjoy it enough to come back. Or am I addicted enough? Either way, does it really matter? Enjoy!

I can honestly state that on Tunare the level 20-50 grouping is pretty good... I just logged off from grouping my level 39 Druid in a good group of four-five people and that was just in Gunthak... I don't even think that is a hot zone is it? If I would've just walked into a zone like Echo Caverns I would've got a group right away.