I visited Rivervale for the first time yesterday... Follow

Yesterday on Vox I explored Rivervale and The Mysterious Drafling. I have not been playing Everquest 2 very long and so therei s lots for me to discover and yesterday I finally went to see Rivervale. It made me sad.

It is really messy, things seemed everywhere and the buildings were hard to get around, the monsters seemed exactly the same as feerott, and the halfing buildings seemed not as great as the ones in Enchanted Lands. While I was there I did not see any other player use the zone, I was there for 5 hours.

I also made a visit to The Mysterious Drafling, and it was really bad, the mosnters kept vanishing as I moved camera and some of the rooms had vanishing decorations.

I really love Everquest 2 so far. It has been fun I am 63 Tailor and level 49 after 3 months playing, but I stopped my combar and quest experience to explore level 49 before I got higher.

So I am not saying the game is bad I love it muchs! But I do think maybe after seeing Lavastorm get changed the next place they could work is Rivervale?

I was just wondering when the last time anyone went to Rivervale was.

Also I did not see many named monsters in Rivervale apart from one, and was wondering how many there were? I really like to try beat the name monsters on my own and try to get the boxs It is a lot of fun!

I was reading another forum and people talking about changing Everfrost again now Lavastorm has changed and I would just like to say that so far Everfrost is one of my favorite places, it is hard to explore with all the monsters always attacking you, it is very big and exciting. I don't think they need to change it, also the named monsters are hard to beat! Don't think that place needs a change.

Heres the problem. SOE has made leveling a character soooo easy, that one barely has time to experience all the game has to offer at each level. There are many zones at the same level and a person can outlevel those zones just by doing all the content of one. So Rivervale is a product of fast leveling. The only way you will see more people in Rivervale is if they are questing (like me) or the revamp the zone.... and I don't see that happening anytime soon.

The first time I went to Riverdale I actually missed the music....

I'm quite the same, unfortunately there were some quests there that took an insane amount of time to wrap up. Trying to spawn named mobs in particular. Almost maddening to be honest.

Do you mean the music from Riverdale in EQ Live?
OMG that tune made me want to drive knitting needles into both my ears! I actually committed suicide with the only hobbit toon I ever rolled because I couldn't stand the music in that zone! :-)


That sounds like a video card issue to me. Personally I've never had or even heard of an issue like that in that zone (or anywhere else in the game for that matter)

It's a very common issue an any MMO as it starts to age that alot of the old zones are empty. Aside from doing them for epic quests most of the RoK dungeons and Instances are barely used anymore. I think part of the issue old zones are so dead now is because the gear from them isnt even remotely close to what you could get in other zones at the same level. The gear from solo-quests in everfrost is actually comporable if not better than gear from bonemire. If they fixed alot of the old drops and made them worthwhile you'd see alot more people of level going to these zones.

Another reason for Rivervale being empty is a simple one. The zone is full of lag (unless they fixed it recently). Just like Neriak.

I remember trying to get a group for Rivervale, and 9 out of 10 people would refuse simply because of the lag factor.

I'm not sure about the monsters being the same as the Feerrott. Rivervale has the dryads, of which there are a few in Feerrott, but there are no nightbloods, lamias, halflings, treants, brambles, etc... in Feerrott.

And the buildings and building design. in my opinion, are incredible. I've completed every quest in Rivervale (except one, grrr) and the inside of some of those building still amaze and intrigue me.

Also, I have never had those issues you speak of in Tower of the Drafling. I wonder if that was just a temporary glitch.

So that was my defense of Rivervale. I will concede some of your points. The zone is packed to the brim with mobs, with few safe spots (but they do exist - and remember, the dryads start non-kos to you, so you can hang around them if you need to). A lot of the mobs are triple-up heroic, which makes it a tough zone. And not many people spend much time there. It's so easy to skip Rivervale because it's quite unimportant in the scheme of things.

Oh, and yes, the lag still exists in Rivervale. For some reason, even when I'm the only person in the zone, the lag makes my FPS kinda jumpy. Fairly easy to ignore, but annoying nonetheless.



Edited, May 3rd 2009 2:41am by Ronium

You can usually fix most of the lag just by turning your graphic settings down by one step.

An annoying thing to do some times but hey, is the lag more annoying that doing this?

If your typical play settings are not default for one of the setting, dont forget to save them so you can reload em later.

As to the bee's flying into the walls....

wow that has to be annoying if a glitch, kinda cool if its ment to happen.

hehe