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Hi, I suppose you are all sick of noobs like me asking advice on the differences between wow and eq2. I have done a perfunctory search of the forums but I cannot find the definative answers to my questions. I appreciate the forums on alla and other sites are full of these sort of posts but if you could help me it would be greatly appreciated.
I played eq for 2 years and wow for a year so I am fairly accustumed to the terms and nuonces of the genre. Anyway here are my questions

1 Due to recent addition to family I have a very erratic playing duration. Is soloing a viable option for ALL class's or like eq is necro/bard/magician the best options?

2 Is there a site like www.thottbot.com (not this site) for an easily accesable database?

3 Which are the most recent servers?

4 Does eq2 have aa's like eq or does it fizzle out like wow at the end-game?

5 I have read somewhere about "heritage quests". Do these quests bring back an actual item from a toon on eq or does it make one up?

6 with a pentium 4 (3 ghz), 1 gb ram and a radeon 9600 (256 mb) will there be any lag?

Thanks for your time in reading this and I fully appreciate any answers.
Good hunting.

First, most of these questions have been answered before in other threads, go back a couple pages and look for them to get a better idea. The sticky is also nice.

Anyways, that being said...

Wow, i'd never thought i'd see the day where SR was actually a bit helpful. If you take away his negative spin on things becuase he did just about everything wrong, and you actually get some decent answers.

(Removing the twist and adding more info)



1. Yes, every class can solo just like in WoW, there are some that are more suited to groups then others, but in general most can solo. Contrary to what SR says though, you will NOT be soloing all the time. SR just doesn't know how to LFG right, there are some flaws in the LFG system but keeping an eye on the chat channels and asking in there always gets results. Just SR is too stupid to even get the facts through his head.



2. Ok, that was a flat out lie spoken from someone who DOESN'T EVEN PLAY THE GAME anymore.

eq2.ogaming.com/db

MUCH better site, though mainly only to having a bit more updated information. If you remember the zam.com thingy from awhile back (if you were even here) thats one of the networks that will be merging with alla, so come that time this WILL be the best site. Timeframe, August.



3. The first wholly truthful answer... which i'm shocked he didn't put a spin on like "which isn't surprising since the game has very few people playing and is loosing them daily" (which of course isn't true). I don't know of any new servers having gone up recently, though they may be putting up some soon. Most servers are always sitting along the line between medium to heavy pop unless the severs have gone down recently.



4. Again a partially true with a twist. At 20 with the KoS expansion (comes bundled with base game if you go to a game store) you can start gaining the EQ2 version of AA, Achievment points. One of the easiest ways (I wont go into all since there are quite a few) to gain AP is to do quests that con blue and above to you. Once you hit 70 all exp you gain is put into AxP which you can have 50 levels of max right now. The raiding scene is much different in EQ2 then WoW, many more dungeons and not as long There have been some other threads devoted specifically to raiding if you wanted to get a better idea.



5. I've not played EQ1, so I don't know about the naming thingy so i'll have to take SR's word on that again... however his little rant about them not being good by the time you complete the quest is total and utter BS. Sure some wont, if you wait long enough, but others will be used for quite some time. Just breaking down some of what he said:

J-Boots, these are only a 10% speed bonus, and suspend during combat like most speed bonuses be it buff or mount, so of course you can't outrun the mob there. The nice thing about J-Boots is they STACK with other run-speed BUFFS (not mounts, not sure on sprint, but sprint is usable in-combat and J-Boots don't work in combat) so say you play a class who has a run speed buff, once you get J-Boots you can effectively add 10% to that. Dirges (not sure about Troubadors) get the max run speed buff, same speed as bought mounts. So if you have j-boots, you'll actually run quite a bit faster then even people on the best mounts at cap.

Hadden's Earring, while there aren't that many all underwater quests, there are quite a few quests that involve killing things underwater. Sure there are spells that let you breath underwater, and even let you walk and jump underwater, but you may not always have access to those, so this is quite handy. The stats aren't bad for a scout-type either, 8agi on a ear item is fairly large for when you can get it.

Lightstone, when I finished this quest, I didn't use anything else until 40ish when I got some neck item from a quest in Feerrot. +4 to all stats is nothing to laugh about. I was also able to finish it fairly close to 20, which is what level the quest was marked as. I spent maybe 20min advertising in the level channels and waiting for some guildies to finish up some business who also needed it, and I ended up having 4 full groups of people, most of which needed it. Ran into a small problem of the zone only holding 3 groups though so had to have some people who didn't need it sit out.

A good guild, and knowledge of how to LFG/LFM helps with completing these quests near the level you get them, its just SR doesn't know how to LFG and probably made such a complete *** of himself that people ignore him.



6. Besides the part about maybe seeing them if you play a healer or dual-box, again it is quite truthful actually. The system you have IS decent enough (2gigs ram will help you SOOO much) so depending largely on the settings you choose the game will either lag or be great. There are a couple other threads if you go back far enough that talk a bit more in-depth about system requirements and which settings have the biggest preformance impacts.

Oh and disregard everything Shadowrelm says. He is our resident troll.

The world has changed. The Shattering sundered the lands, Luclin broke apart etc. You will see familiar locales much changed, Blackburrow is still there though a dungeon populated by Gnolls, nice lvl 16-24 pug hub.



24 man I think though not positive.



I'll have to look next time I am in North Q. I'd imagine he would be pretty old considering its 500 years after EQ1!

Fippy Darkpaw IV lurks about in the Qeynos Catacombs (aka The Down Below) He's a quest NPC, so you can't kill him.

Maybe Fippy V will take up the crusade and storm the Qeynos Gates every 15 minutes and inevitably get killed by the guards... every time...