So I'm a gamer (every day, usually 5+ hours at a time), and I'm thinking about making the switch to EQ2 this week. I have played both EQ1 & WoW and liked them both, but in EQ1 the rocks have points and the game is kinda what? 6 years old now?? WoW bores me, but I like the fact that you can strip down to a pair of panties and dance. The thing about EQ2 that scares me is that people say it is too easy... so I'm here to see what the people that actually play the game have to say. My playing style is diffrent than most, I like to xp, and xp some more. I would rather hunt and kill then spend my time looking up tradeskill stuff for an hour or more a day :/ I would rather go raid or farm for a piece of gear I want than to go buy it from another player. Quests are good and all, but still I'd rather just romp around and hit what I feel like than to go on some chase and spend more time loading than xping. I have heard that EQ2 is mainly quest based, and if that is true I'll most likely get bored and go back to the pointy rock game, which I do not want to do. So would you real players of the game let me know what is really going on with EQ2?
Oh ya, server and guild info could help if there is some guilders checking out the post.
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There are plenty of mobs for you to hunt and kill. If you want quick and easy exp, also buy Splitpaw Saga for US$8. It has scalable instances like LDoN for solo and group.
But like every game that is out now, grinding the exp will quickly bring you to the level cap (50), and you may reach a dead end. Some hardcore folks reached the level cap within 2 months of launch, got bored, and left. They actually missed out on a ton of content that has been added. Too bad for them. :(
I play 1-2 hours a day, a few more hours on the weekends. I have just reached level 46 and have a few alts in the low 20's. Being a guild Patron, I've also spent much time completing Heritage Quests and City Writs for guild exp.
Guilds and raids will help, but remember that EQ2 is young and the first Adventure Pack is due shortly. Level cap will raise to 60 (I can already hear the race for "First to 60")and new zones will be activated.
Farming is almost not possible. When a mob turns grey, the loot drops are effectively turned off. i.e. your level 50 toon can't continuously farm a level 40 drop. The way around that is to join a group with lower level toons. You group level will average, and the mob turn from grey to green, allowing the loot to drop.
For specific guilds, check out this page. UNless you knwo someone in a raid guild, you may have to get yourself to a high level before they will even look at you. As you know, each guild is different.
Good luck.
But like every game that is out now, grinding the exp will quickly bring you to the level cap (50), and you may reach a dead end. Some hardcore folks reached the level cap within 2 months of launch, got bored, and left. They actually missed out on a ton of content that has been added. Too bad for them. :(
I play 1-2 hours a day, a few more hours on the weekends. I have just reached level 46 and have a few alts in the low 20's. Being a guild Patron, I've also spent much time completing Heritage Quests and City Writs for guild exp.
Guilds and raids will help, but remember that EQ2 is young and the first Adventure Pack is due shortly. Level cap will raise to 60 (I can already hear the race for "First to 60")and new zones will be activated.
Farming is almost not possible. When a mob turns grey, the loot drops are effectively turned off. i.e. your level 50 toon can't continuously farm a level 40 drop. The way around that is to join a group with lower level toons. You group level will average, and the mob turn from grey to green, allowing the loot to drop.
For specific guilds, check out this page. UNless you knwo someone in a raid guild, you may have to get yourself to a high level before they will even look at you. As you know, each guild is different.
Good luck.
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UNless you knwo someone in a raid guild, you may have to get yourself to a high level before they will even look at you.
Just like in all the other games ;) If there was a raiding guild out there recruiting lvl 4's and 5's I would be more than a little concerned about EQ2.
Just like in all the other games ;) If there was a raiding guild out there recruiting lvl 4's and 5's I would be more than a little concerned about EQ2.
I would definitely have to disagree that EQ2 is 'too easy'. I cannot disagree with that more. There is definitely a lot to offer in EQ2 as far as quests and exp grinding including a ton of different areas to check out at all levels. With the introduction of Splitpaw, this is going to be a great thing when we see a lot of other zones get introduced into the game that are scalable so for those at level 50 they have the biggest choice of areas to play in.
I found WoW to be rather easy and couldn't get into it as much as EQ2. The quests in WoW were essential to leveling are exping was pretty much based on doing quests (rather than just grinding out). Why don't you download 'Trial on the Isle' if you would like to checkout EQ2 to see how you like it.
Download Trial on the isle here: http://www.trialoftheisle.com/
I found WoW to be rather easy and couldn't get into it as much as EQ2. The quests in WoW were essential to leveling are exping was pretty much based on doing quests (rather than just grinding out). Why don't you download 'Trial on the Isle' if you would like to checkout EQ2 to see how you like it.
Download Trial on the isle here: http://www.trialoftheisle.com/
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The quests in WoW were essential to leveling are exping was pretty much based on doing quests (rather than just grinding out).
Ya, that's kinda why I hated the game :/ Too much talking to this guy and looking for !'s to appear on people's heads. I absolutely love EQ1 baecause you can just kill and basically ignore everything else that is going on around you (until the /ooc train to zone happens ;)
Ya, that's kinda why I hated the game :/ Too much talking to this guy and looking for !'s to appear on people's heads. I absolutely love EQ1 baecause you can just kill and basically ignore everything else that is going on around you (until the /ooc train to zone happens ;)
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The posts so far have been helpful, and I am happy that people are sharing their opinions, but the trial is not going to help me know the culture of the different servers, has anyone been on more than one? And if not how many people are around when you're playing on your server? I know in the games I've played that some servers have 0-4 people in certain areas, and then there are giant servers where toons are stacked all over eachother. I was looking at the guild roster at the EQ2 website and there is a guild with 600+ toons?! Either people just love to make alts or that is one popular server. I also saw some guilds that have <10 people. It's kinda one extreme to the other.I also saw a post from someone complaining about how there is nobody on their server and how there should be a merge. Since these games are progressive, I would think that newbs are joining all servers all the time. Are there servers that are really that barren?
I can tell you that Butcherblock is a pretty solid server, in both population and guilds.
Most guilds have a solid player base of about 15 to 30 members, there are quite few raiding guilds, but if you are just starting out, you will be a few months from doing decent raids, unless you are "race to 50" kind of player.
You can also just start your own guild. It's very easy, and it isn't too hard to get 10 players to join up. If you do this, make sure you are really careful who you make patrons, as they will effect your guild lvl by doing writs and heritage quests. If they just up and leave, you get a reduction to your guild xp.
I have seen a guild go from lvl 21 to lvl 12 from this alone.
I think EQ2 will be a good experiance for you if you give it a chance. It is not easy by any stretch, it has tons of content, and being new, it also has great potential for the future. Just don't rush it. Take your time, learn to play you character the best you can, and you'll have the most fun.
Most guilds have a solid player base of about 15 to 30 members, there are quite few raiding guilds, but if you are just starting out, you will be a few months from doing decent raids, unless you are "race to 50" kind of player.
You can also just start your own guild. It's very easy, and it isn't too hard to get 10 players to join up. If you do this, make sure you are really careful who you make patrons, as they will effect your guild lvl by doing writs and heritage quests. If they just up and leave, you get a reduction to your guild xp.
I have seen a guild go from lvl 21 to lvl 12 from this alone.
I think EQ2 will be a good experiance for you if you give it a chance. It is not easy by any stretch, it has tons of content, and being new, it also has great potential for the future. Just don't rush it. Take your time, learn to play you character the best you can, and you'll have the most fun.
I play on Mistmoore server in a casual guild (Mistmoore Eternal Knights). I can't really help regarding the best communities since I do enjoy my community but another server maybe much better. What I would do is search the official eq2players.com website forums and look at the individual forums for each server. If you check Mistmoore server, you can see 31000+ msg's which is the most active forum on the site. That seems to be a sign of the community being large on it. And also, might as well ask on those individual server forums since they can tell you how things really are.
Oh but keep coming to this forum - it is better!
Oh but keep coming to this forum - it is better!
The thing I really like about EQ2 is that it's very much more quest based than EQ ever was. Some great loot comes from quests and you also get exp from doing them.
It's virtually impossible to totally ignore quests in this game.
On the newbie Isle you get your first pieces of armour from quests.
When you get to your home village at level 6, you do a quest to become a citizen which gives you full access to either Qeynos or Freeport.
You do a quest at level 10 to select your first sub-class and another at 20 to select your final quest.
At level 20 there are a series of armour quests.
These are all compulsory quests.
Certainly at lower levels most people run around doing every quest they can grab to get the cash rewards and armour pieces. There aren't really all that many great armour drops as such. If you rely on this method to get dressed, you'll probably end up under-equipped compared to others.
There are also quite a few zone access quests; some zones also have level entry though.
It's virtually impossible to totally ignore quests in this game.
On the newbie Isle you get your first pieces of armour from quests.
When you get to your home village at level 6, you do a quest to become a citizen which gives you full access to either Qeynos or Freeport.
You do a quest at level 10 to select your first sub-class and another at 20 to select your final quest.
At level 20 there are a series of armour quests.
These are all compulsory quests.
Certainly at lower levels most people run around doing every quest they can grab to get the cash rewards and armour pieces. There aren't really all that many great armour drops as such. If you rely on this method to get dressed, you'll probably end up under-equipped compared to others.
There are also quite a few zone access quests; some zones also have level entry though.
EQ2 is definitely a big improvement on the quest system. A good example are Epics in EQ1. This was a huge quest and you did not have to complete many quests in the game to play at the high levels (since you could get insane drops in raids). However, it was almost essential at some point to get your Epic weapon via the quest since this was the best you could get. In EQ2, there is no epic however, there are quests at a lot of tiers of levels where you can get the best gear for your level via quests (such as the lvl 20+ armor quests although those may not be the BEST example since some are not too useful).
Armor quests on the Isle and at lvl 20 aren't mandatory, but you'll find lots of people doing them. There's not a lot of point in skipping the Isle ones; they aren't hard and you might as well get the free armor. Armor quests at 20 are a little harder; at some parts you'll need a group. If you want, you can just buy armor from players (so far, I like crafted stuff) but the quest armor is often a little better. If you don't want to do any quests at all, I suppose you could skip most of them, but you'll be poor. There are plenty of easy quests that give out a little money as reward. And many quests involve just killing mobs -- if you're doing that anyway, you may as well get a quest and kill two birds with one stone.
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Everyone is giving some great feedback. I'm gonna get online today I think /nervous. I think I'm going to take some of Yurlen's advice and go look at the official site to check out the # of posts from different servers to snag an idea of the populations on them. The almost necessary quest thing kinda makes me ill, but if I don't like it I can always downgrade my graphic card and go back to EQ1 ;)
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Rather than start a new subject I decided to post in this thread since its somewhat related.
Does anyone know a good..err evil (FP) guild on Najena that caters to higher lvls and raids during U.S. hours, preferably central or pacific??? I have a 40+ inquisitor who will be shopping for a guild in the near future and the EQ2 site doesn't allow for searches by home city so I thought I might get a faster response here.
Thanks!
Does anyone know a good..err evil (FP) guild on Najena that caters to higher lvls and raids during U.S. hours, preferably central or pacific??? I have a 40+ inquisitor who will be shopping for a guild in the near future and the EQ2 site doesn't allow for searches by home city so I thought I might get a faster response here.
Thanks!
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