Hey everyone, I've been browsing the forums and am glad to see the contrast in maturity from the WoW forums. I used to play WoW, as I've said, but got tired of the new content being new material for everyone to spend hours, days, weeks, and months attaining only to brag about. The community in WoW was very cut-throat and rude. I'm looking for a more casual, story-strong, game with a cool community.
I have a couple questions though, what is "end-game" like here on EQ2?
Are the classes balanced? (huge problem in wow...)
How's the PvP?
I played a little bit of EQ1 a few years ago, and I remember loving the wizard spell system where you traveled around looking for trainers for different spells, is it the same in EQ2?
Finally, if not in a guild, or in a small one, is one still able to participate in raids, high-end dungeons, or solo content? In WoW this was not the case.
Thanks for your time.
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Welcome to Everquest II friend. Let me dive into a few of your questions.
The classes in the game are balanced in my opinion. The variations in the profession archtypes give a unique flavor to each class and at the same time make them easy to adapt to.
"End game" is what you want to make of it. There is always the option of joining a raid guild and focusing on that content. What I am doing since there is so much content that I missed from level grinding is going back and exploring those things. For example, the original "end game" questline, Fire and Ice, was something that I missed out on. So I mentored down and worked on that. The same can be done with the Peacock questline from Desert of Flames. Also remember there are 100 AA points to be had right now. Even after you hit the current cap of 70 you'll find yourself needing more AA's, so mentoring down to explore content you may have missed out on helps.
Being in a small guild or no guild at all will not affect your ability to group or solo. As far as raiding goes you could join a pick up raid, but those can be a bit shaky.
And as for your questions about traveling for spell trainers, I'm sad to report that you do not have to do that in this game. There are trainers in the major cities that have your spells for sale, but they are lower end versions of those spells. From levels 1-50 you automatically learn your new spells as you level (Apprentice I). Your trainer sells the next step up, Apprentice II. You can buy from the broker (or gain as a drop) the better iterations of the spell, up to Master. After level 50 you have to have the spell scroll to learn it.
I think you'll find that this game is a whole lot more involved than WoW. Just remember, the journey is half the fun :)
The classes in the game are balanced in my opinion. The variations in the profession archtypes give a unique flavor to each class and at the same time make them easy to adapt to.
"End game" is what you want to make of it. There is always the option of joining a raid guild and focusing on that content. What I am doing since there is so much content that I missed from level grinding is going back and exploring those things. For example, the original "end game" questline, Fire and Ice, was something that I missed out on. So I mentored down and worked on that. The same can be done with the Peacock questline from Desert of Flames. Also remember there are 100 AA points to be had right now. Even after you hit the current cap of 70 you'll find yourself needing more AA's, so mentoring down to explore content you may have missed out on helps.
Being in a small guild or no guild at all will not affect your ability to group or solo. As far as raiding goes you could join a pick up raid, but those can be a bit shaky.
And as for your questions about traveling for spell trainers, I'm sad to report that you do not have to do that in this game. There are trainers in the major cities that have your spells for sale, but they are lower end versions of those spells. From levels 1-50 you automatically learn your new spells as you level (Apprentice I). Your trainer sells the next step up, Apprentice II. You can buy from the broker (or gain as a drop) the better iterations of the spell, up to Master. After level 50 you have to have the spell scroll to learn it.
I think you'll find that this game is a whole lot more involved than WoW. Just remember, the journey is half the fun :)
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Thanks for the reply, this helps a lot. I just "finished" the trial of the game and I really like it. I was playing a berserker and thought to myself, "it would be cool to see this guy in action against a hoard of others..."
One last question, are there PvP raids on towns or just massive world fights in general?
One last question, are there PvP raids on towns or just massive world fights in general?
Within the last week I made the switch from Wow ( played for 1 year ) and as a EQ1 vet ( over 5 years ) I am really haveing a blast. The community is a lot more mature than the one I found in Wow and I am loveing the lore I have found.
2 days ago I couldent figure out why my baby necro was so over loaded and couldent move faster than a snail. Then I remembered in EQ1 the copper really weighs you down lol.
Not if I can find a mature guild on crushbone that would take on a noob I will be in seventh heaven.
Too bad its cutting into my LOTR time ;)
2 days ago I couldent figure out why my baby necro was so over loaded and couldent move faster than a snail. Then I remembered in EQ1 the copper really weighs you down lol.
Not if I can find a mature guild on crushbone that would take on a noob I will be in seventh heaven.
Too bad its cutting into my LOTR time ;)
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One last question, are there PvP raids on towns or just massive world fights in general?
The raids are mainly instanced zones. There are Epic mobs that roam the world that can be raided (Anguis in Antonica for example) but mainly its raid zones. The zones themselves are quite nice... personally though I've only done a few of them.
You could actually make your own city raid if you wanted to. Each of the main cities is guarded by heroic and epic guards. You could actually put together a raid and trample through the city. Its great for roleplaying purposes (death to Freeport!) and I'm assuming the drops have to be worthwhile.
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