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Just returning back to EQ2. I used to play for about 3 months or so after the launch. Many of the old features that turned me off seems to have been carefully corrected. I am extremely impressed with the game now and plan to play for quite some time. I appreciate this post, it really helped me in my decision to stay. I am now sorry I had ever left at all =)

PS: On another note. I have been playing Vanguard and it is supposed to have better graphics and all, but personally I feel EQ2's graphics is better.

Classic is just the base game, without any expansions. Echoes of Faydwer is the base game plus all three expansion's, a much, much better value. As of this post boxed copies are getting really hard to find, but if you can endure a very long download, get EoF. I wouldn't be too concerned about the manual, the tutorial is quite thorough and where it's not the players can usually fill in the blanks.

We have many good guides on crafting in our Guides section.

Can someone update this guide again? Just with changes since EoF. Anyone please? Mostly because I'm curious on the answers. :-P

I have played eq1, eq2, wow, lotr and I am thinking about Vanguard. I left Eq1 and joined eq2 because I had hoped to see the same type of game as eq1 with improved graphics. The graphics were there and the game immersion improved imo because of the graphics. What became quickly apparent was the lack of challenge and playabilty that eq1 showed. EQ2 class creation was not distinctive enough and created to many classes that were barely different except in class name. As the game aged it became less a game about the indiviual players skills, to more about INSURING that one class could not do more then another. Balancing the classes seemed to equal some type of non flavored mush instead of insuring that each class could play the role that it was given. If there was a report of a player "insert class here (____)" soloing a mob or could do more damage in a group then another class, the cry was immediately about IMBALANCE and this is not FAIR. Instead of applauding player skill the game robbed players of acheivement with a nerf. I was hoping that someday this game would acheive some of the thrills provided in eq1 but for me so far it has not occurred. I know that the mobs can kill you and there are challenges to each and every game I just hope that someone at SOE will realize that the challenge of a game is too create the class and role of the class and let the players take it to new levels. I am still searching for that game..maybe Vanguard if SOE does not turn it into another game of unflaverd mush. I would come back to this game, if they have changed this game to a more player ability challenged game style.

Frustrated


Edited, Oct 6th 2007 1:25am by BLUWATR

I had a 70 dirge and a 65 SK, leveled a zerker up to 50 also. Played a shaman65, enc62 and a beastlord62(my favorite) in EQ and really did enjoy all three classes. I would love to see a mix of EQ2 graphics, game mechanics put together with the gaming style of EQ I think that would be a roller coaster ride of thrills. EQ is the one game that could get my wifes and my blood pumping, a couple of the zones in EQ2 started out with that gaming style and were quickly reduced to a easy style strategy of just kill the mob with brute power...which can at times be satisfying but not all the time. My wife and I both stopped playing a few months before the winged fae people were found.
Is the game any more challenging? A carefully constructed Dungeon is an art work. Is the game getting better in that reqards? Not just graphics but mob placement, mob type, respawn rates and strategies required.

It's not a false path, there's plenty of grouping You sound a bit bitter :)

They're changable. Might cost ya a little gold, but you're not stuck.

You get one free respec. And occasionally they'll change something and throw another free one, but you can only have one free respec at a time.

But if you want to pay for it you can change it all you want, I think.

That's great to hear! I'm thinking about wikifying it.

Will we ever get those nifty sigs like FFXI and lolWoW users get? I mean I know I'm cool enough because I play Eq2, but sometimes I still want to advertise...