Any Point to Come Back?Follow

So I've been having a craving to play EQ again and was wondering how the population count was doing (preferrably on the Firiona Vie server since that's where I'd be going back to.)

Are there still quite a few people playing? Enough to have someone to team up with in the early levels?

I'm thinking about playing beastlord though I think my last character I had was a 51 or something Necromancer. I might just continue the necro. Not really sure.

Anyhoo, is anyone else also planning on starting up again soon? I've tried convincing my friends to at least try out the game but they won't leave FFXI :P

Thanks!

Wich to a necro would be pretty nice : )

I wouldnt say completely dead but i would say its less populated than most servers where before the mergers definately hurts grouping in the pre 70 levels.

On a similar subject. Is there even any low lvl population on any of the servers? I came back and I'm playing on Maelin and at lvl 17, I still haven't found more than maybe one person the entire time even close to my level who wasn't a bazaar mule.


It's wierd actually doing quests this time through instead of just grouping with people and killing things.

"Any Point to Come Back?" No.

The truth of the matter is that EQ is not, and never will be the game you may remember. I've come back twice in the last year, and each time I've scouted servers to get an idea of low-end populations. This last time I went back home to Stromm, one of the more populated servers, and discovered that there are VERY few group opportunities for players under level 40, approximately. Everytime I logged my warrior in, I put up the /lfg flag, and went to solo while I waited. Luckily, I was twinked and could afford to buy heal and skin spike potions, because on average, I would see 1, maybe 2 people in my range /lfg. I was in a total of 3 groups between level 1 and level 41. I would aslo actively try to recruit my own group, but very rarely found more than 1 person in my range who would agree to group.

It used to be that certain low-end zones consistently supported a player base which would facillitate a fairly dependable group opportunity, but even zones like the dreaded Paludal rarely have anyone in them. On a brighter side, there are a lot of great quests in the new TSS zone, Crescent Reach (and the adjacent zone, Blightfire Moors) but many of those are not soloable. Group opportunities in these new zones are also few and far between.

I don't want to completely discourage you from coming back, but I think you should know that if you aren't able to solo the low levels, you're in for a very frustrating experience.

I agree with Elvo! and yes FV is dead but then again so are all the other servers unless your a high end toon.

Population on my server seems ok. I have trouble getting the camp I want so there must be too many people!

The tunare server is greta for all levels. Pretty much the perfect amount of people on it IMHO

i also have been thinking about coming back, probably to my old server, bertoxxulous. does anyone on here play on bertoxxulous, and if so, how is the population and such doing

Come over to the dark side... Roll a character in World of Warcraft, hehe. 8 Million players spread over hundreds of servers... All classes can get groups, all classes can solo their way to 70.


FYI I played Everquest for four years and for the last two, I was really frustrated with the game -- most content required groups, most groups only wanted the holy trinity (tank + cleric + crowd control) so some classes were not wanted in groups ; a new expansion every 4-6 months which further devalued older zones and non-desirable characters... the list goes on and on and on...

I've been playing WoW for 2+ years and have never experienced any of the frustration I did in EQ. Blizzard got it right (they did the unthinkable -- they waited 2 years to release their first expansion (the Burning Crusade), and even resisted the temptation to push out a buggy, unfinished expansion during the holiday season (cough EQ cough).

Ironicly, I played WoW and got kind of bored with it. The gameplay itself is much more shallow compared to EQ. Different strokes and all that.

I was an almost self sufficent group with 5. I was missing a solid Tank. And being so dependent on others to fill the role was very frustrating. So the idea of being my own group beholdent to none is a plus to me as well.

Conversely.. I never really got could play more than 3 at a time well enough to satistify me. Of course, if I was playing all 6.. I guess I might have different levels of acceptable. My standard was to play DPS/healer/CC-slower well enough that the other three real people had no reason to complain.



Sometimes I get struck with the sameness.. but.. camp the Shining Metallic Robes for a day (rare drop of a rare spawn) and WoW suddenly seems a lot more active to me. At least you are moving. Knocking out one quest and moving on.

I also did a almost two month all PvP jaunt. I "knew" that I hated PvP.. and it turns out it's a lot of fun playing against mobs that fight back well. When I get bored again (when all my prime characteras are 70 for example).. might return to PvP.

And, the very easy/casual nature of WoW is a plus for me. A 40 year old in a guild of 30/40/50 year olds.. my play time (high for my guild) is low for some. Only 3-5 hours a day. *giggle* True story:

Mid Novemember.. Felicite hit Rank 10 and retired from PvP. I played all my alts on rest, and started a few Horde alts. And I started playing Celadora my 30 Driud that I made to play with my kids. By mid December she was my Guild's new 5 man tank and tanking Scholomance and Stratholme. In EQ (or Vanguard) I do not believe I could start a project alt and be plugging it into our guild A team in a month. Try 6 months plus.

I miss the "deeper" play of EQ. BUT. So many of my last nights (months worth) in EQ were spent camped in a single spot pulling mobs to the group. For hours. Now, the slowing killing rate made it easier to chat. Yes. But I am not sure why sitting in one place for hours hoping for the right mob spawn and finally drop my goody is more mentally engaging than ranging over a zone or 3 doing a dozen or two decrete (but awfully similar) quests for the same amount of time.

That's a fair cop.

But, as a max level (of the day) Necromancer, Cleric and Enchanter with hundreds of AAs (I was actually within a few weeks of max useful AA with Felicite) I never used any of it. You can only have 9 spells up at a time.. and most of the "fun" spells have little utility at high end.

Yeah, I miss playing a real Enchanter. Being able to lock down 4-6 mobs.

I'm not hating on EQ either.

Just SOE.. and that's between them and me.