Question about EQ2Follow

I personally like it for the quests and the rewards you obtain for doing them. In the early levels the solo content seemed good, somewhere in the 20's it seems to disapear(could be that I have not found it). Graphics are excelent(which means you need a decent pc to run it). It's nice getting a free skill every level, if you want to improve it, just buy the upgraded versions. The combat however does feals like it's missing somthing, still not sure what tho. I doubt this answeres many of your questions but if you take a look around there are alot of posts that bash the game as well as praises it..

Edited, Thu Jan 13 08:54:00 2005 by Toshirox

The good stuff:
- Nice solo and group choices no matter what level you are.
- Nice quest system
- Graphics
- Tradeskills that actually means something
- Classbalance (though, imo the balance is so good it is almost bad in some ways. Wont go into that here.)
- Voiceovers
- Housing
- Locked encounters (Also in a way bad, but still better then worse)
- Nice people
- Status and guildstatus. Advanced guildsystem. Guild level.
- Cool traveling with griffons (abit annoying after a while though)
- HUGE giants :P
- Heroic opportunities
- Debt (Good in some ways bad in others. Still better then worse)
- Here comes the most important imo: We can depend on new content and bugfixes for a long time. The potentiall of this game is great!

All classes solo with almost the same success.

Never did much questing in EQ1. In EQ2 there is a TON of quests, many complicated and many simple. The rewards are xp, cash or/and equipment.
Alot of really good gear is quested. Not allways the best gear but sometimes/alot of the times the best gear for a certain level is quested.

Tradeskills is kind of complcated. By rumour I hear that alot of the high-end gear is tradeskilled from raiddrops.
Alot of times crafted stuff is the best you can get. Food and water for example. You gain artisan xp when you do tradeskills and you get to choose what kind of tradeskill you want to do and at higher level you choose a subclass. For example you go Artisan --> Outfitter --> Armorer
or
Artisan --> Outfitter --> Tailor
You harvest stuff in the world to use when you do tradeskill, or you buy them from vendors or other players. Mobs can also drop stuff used for tradeskills.

Housing, well its not of much use atm. You stay there to sell stuff and you can buy a tailorstation for example and do tradeskills while selling stuff.

Status and guildstatus is used to buy stuff from vendors. Also with higher status the guards of a certain city will treat you diffrent etc.
Guildlevel, when your guild level up you unlock stuff you can buy and also unlock some raidinstances.

There is more to this stuff but I cant write it all :)

Actually I find it quite easy Sotonin maybe you just suck like most of your posts.

It gets substantially more difficult, but it's not impossible. I've read many accounts of people soloing as high as the mid-30's. I haven't done it myself, but clearly it can be done.

no you do not have to be a melee class to solo.. in fact my two best soloers are my priest and my Conjuror (summoning mage).. and to be totally honest my conjuror FAR outstretches my priest in solo'ing to the point of being almost scary.. The XP solo'ing is good but it's not nearly as fast as a group.. think of it like this:

grouping, you can get faster XP, but if the group isn't all that good.. well you see where that's going..

Solo'ing, the XP isn't as fast as being in a group, but you know you'll always enjoy the company.

however you sound a lot like me in that you don't really care about instant gratification, you just want to enjoy being out there doing stuff and every once in a while, push yourself to see if you can take on that Orange con over there..

quest seem to be a bit of a mix.. a lot of the lower level ones are solo but as my conjuror has gone up in level I'm seeing a lot more group quest.. Now I "say" group quest.. but it's the conditions that make them group.. tight spaces with little room to maneuver and lots of high-aggro mobs... for example: Armor Quest 2.. I have to go into BlackBurough.. that MAY be do'able alone if I'm cautious.. however the 3rd part of the quest requires taking down a named... =_=

Armor Quest 1 however was supposedly a group thing but I was able to solo the scarecrows at 20th and able to *EASILY* solo them at 21st.

Housing exist mainly for selling items.. unfortunately this is the current thorn in the side of the gameplay mechanics.. since in order to sell things not only must you be online but you must also be *in* your inn room (or house or whatever you own).

In a nutshell.. if you are in a position to leave your machine on over night... or if you have things to do one saturday or sunday or whatever. Just log in, go AFK and while you're off doing other things your character can be in game selling stuff.

Debt - when you die.. you don't loose XP, you "gain" XP debt.. that is to say it takes more XP to level until you get enough xp to "pay off" the debt.. if you recover your shard you'll pay off about.. 80 or 90 percent of the debt you have. When you log off debt is removed at something like 1% every 1/2 hour.. or something like that... dunno the exact numbers on removal.. but I hear if you have max XP debt it'll all be gone if you log off for 3 days, also all lost spirit shards are returned to you in 3 days.. so if you die someplace you can't get back to easily it'll eventually come back to you.

in a group debt is shared.. so if a group member dies you get a small part of their debt.. some people hate this, some love it, some are indifferent.. In a good group XP debt gained while you're in the group gets wiped out quickly.. in a bad group... well I've logged off of Nerris with 168% debt before... so I just played my alt for a few days. Sure I could have gotten a different group or solo'ed it off.. but I was in a mage mood.

I suppose key to this is give a group a chance but remember you can solo.. so if they don't get it together at least a little bit.. politely bow out of the group before you accrue an extreme level of debt.

HO's are heroic opportunities.. I suppose the closest way to explain them are like specials which are achieved by chaining certain combat moves or spells.. you have the "starter" for the HO, at which point certain spell icons on your bar will flash. hitting any one of those will continue the chain.. at which point others will begin flashing (or sometimes it's the same one if you don't have many spells or combat arts), hitting it will complete the HO.

When solo'ing it's possible to chain HO's very easily.. and honestly they are the key to solo'ing strong mobs. (my conjuror can solo Orange con.. easy.. no, but I can do it). In a group HO's are a bit tougher to pull off due to the coordination needed to make it happen.. I've had the best luck by determining the HO starter (since anyone can start an HO) then declare who will be the second and finally who will be the HO finisher... the starter will in group say let everyone know they're begining.. and everyone will stop doing specials.

in good groups.. this is great.. double ^^ yellows fall like dominos to well coordinated HO's

dunno much about tradeskills.. my highest tradeskill level in any character is 5. and none of my characters are guilded.. so on these two topics I cannot say.

Where is the best place to get info on spells? Oh that brings up some more i have been trying to understand how they have the toons set up. I want to start a cleric as my first toon. What do i start out as? Finding the spells for this toon, where do i go?
The spells that i did find are all low lvl. Do they get stronger as you gain lvls or do you have to buy the advances for each of the spells?

Also i would like to get my hands on the maps for the zones of Eq2 so i don't run around asking everyone were everything is.. Where would i go about getting it?

Edited, Thu Jan 13 10:54:13 2005 by Tjskrat

Well i do thank everyone for there help.. I know I will learn more just playing the game. I would still like to get others good comments on Eq2. As asked in this thread.

I would like to hear some good and funny things that have happened in gameplay.. I remember when i was an EQ1 addict, i would get laughing so hard sometimes i couldn't even play. And until i buy a new comp and get EQ2 up and going i have to live vicariously through all of you.. So that being said, Thanks again for all of the info.

Edited, Thu Jan 13 11:32:42 2005 by Tjskrat

With the recent "big patch" Conjurers seem to have outpaced other classes in soloing ability. Their pets work better now, esp. w/ the "specialized training" skills that work on pets (chose those and not others). Priests still solo well because of reasonably good damage spells and the ability to heal mid-fight - it can be a long grind, but a priest can kill a powerful mob. You just have to learn how to pace yourself - a druid, for example, often has to stop nuking and save mana - er power for heals and let his pathetic melee and damage shield finish the thing off. But everyone can solo.

The other game to consider if you are shopping for an mmo is WoW. You can go over to Alla's WoW site - just click the name in the upper right hand corner - and read about it for yourself. It has some interesting game mechanics. But be sure to read their general forum posts. I ws there reading last night - avatars of people's heads exploding in sprays of blood, avatars of Smurfs doing things I don't want to see Smurfs doing, harsh stories of PvP battles (I'm not sure I ever want to try WoW now - please, Sony,please fix eq2), etc. You don't see much of that stuff here, just the guy w/ the stick figures. But there are TONS of posts over there....

Thank you soo much for the map info.. Will be used to my fullest. lol. Anyhow does anyone have a good site to go to that will tell me all the spell for all the classes. Or could i have some one explane how to get the spells and understand them.

Oh an while i am asking. How is the armour and also i read that a plat will go a lot futher in Eq2 than it did in Eq1. How are the prices on items and equipmet in Eq2 compared to Eq1.

Edited, Thu Jan 13 12:02:50 2005 by Tjskrat