I'd like to leave WoW, is EQ2 the place where I want to go?Follow

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hope this helps you out some. I think you will be happy with EQ2.

no problem at all. you will find friendly, helpful people and guilds on any server you roll up on. Should you roll up on Crushbone though, my guild always welcomes and helps out new players to EQ2 (and we recently added some who came over from WoW). just let me know if you want more information, and I will send you a PM containing all the info.

EQ2 is definatly worth it if your looking for a long term MMORPG. The community IMO is alot more mature then in WoW, PvP servers are fun, its like constant paranoia :) I say give it a try, i said i would try it and left FFXI, The game is great.

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No in all seriousness though this is a great game, I have played most of the MMO's out there and keep coming back to EQ2.

I played EQ2 from beta and even though all my online friends with whom I had made the switch from EQ then moved on to WoW I stayed with this game.
When I was offered the job of database editor for OGaming's DDO site I stopped playing EQ2 to give more time to my work and get a true feel of the game I was covering. And as nice as DDO is, I found myself missing EQ2.

Over the Xmas holiday season a group of friends and I decided to use the Play the Fae trial to meet up once more and to revisit Kelethin and remember our days in EQ.
After the week ended they went back happily on with their lives, but I found myself wanting more than just this small taste. The game was better than it had been - the new features were all things we'd said "I wish we could...." and enhanced the game rather than so many other games who just add extra shiney effects and hope people will be satisfied.

In the end I gave in, I re-activated my account but limited my playing around the time I had to spend with DDO. But I mentioned to my boss that I was playing EQ2 and if a job opening arose to keep me in mind.
Several months later that opening came along, and now I am happily entrenched in the EQ2 allakhazam team able to devote time to this game for work and pleasure.

With WOW the only way to get good in the end is to dedicate your entire life to the instance world, spending 4-6 hours per raid often 2-3 times a night...no life *cough*...With eq2 there are 2 completely different sides of the game...Tradeskills and combat. Most people play to level 70 in combat and then grind their tradeskill level to 70 after that. EQ2 is so much bigger and it has such a great design it seems that they took the good stuff outta WOW and threw it into their game...The interface is the same key-wise, so you wont be getting used to a knew set of keys. I played WOW for about a year and got bored of going to instances all day for a couple items. The broker system is almost exactly like the auction house from WOW...you can search and buy right there at the NPC. In EQ2 there is player owned housing in which you can put items into your house virtually anywhere and completely customize it with new finishes and addons.When someone buys a house, its generally because whenever you buy one, you get extra slots to sell items in the broker. You can become a Carpenter in the tradeskill world and build new items to place into your home. Generally new players cant afford a giant house, so they stick to the old fashioned apartment with weekly rent (:D). its like 6s per week to keep your apartment, but youll be making gold from almost everything you pick up so 6s will be nothing. The gold system is almost the same (100b=1s...100s=1g...and the plat, which is just 100g stacked into 1 unit) I dont know much about the PVP except that its not worth doing...You see, whenever you go to instances you group with both the good and evil classes, because each class gives something to the party. I have also heard that instead of good vs evil in pvp, its you vs. all...Dont quote me on this because its just what ive heard...Instances are pretty much the same as each instance has a goal at the end, with lots and lots of loot that comes with it. LOOT: lets talk about loot. Whenever you start out on "beginner isle" you will be "poor" as you might say, only having 10s at the end, but as you level, you will discover that with almost each Encounter (more than 1 monster linked together, kind of like a boss in WOW that has 5 companions that you aggro once you attack him)you will get loot worth 2g-15g, depending on what the market is doing.

Well, this wasn't the ideal way to size up me telling you about how EQ2 is better than WOW (coulda included some paragraph breaks) but i hope you read it all and can understand a little better about EQ2...It really is a great game, and if your looking to get your life back from evil WOW ;) than EQ2 is the best place to come...There are so many classes and races to choose from, you wont be very limited on what you want to do...Thanks.