Bruman
Golden Squire
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Huh, yeah, they have more servers, just not all normal English servers.Game Server Status | Daybreak Game Company
Everquest II
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Bruman
Golden Squire
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I'm enjoying the shit out of this game. It reminds me a bit of like Skyrim, where I set out to do 1 thing, and keep getting dragged into 50 other things. Questing, gathering, tradeskills, tradeskill quests, L&L quests, language quests, just random quests I run into out in the wild that are heritage, or signature, or just reward some neat furniture or awesome gear.
When does the honeymoon stop?
And what is the game like at level 100? Typical WoW-style raid progression, or something else?
When does the honeymoon stop?
And what is the game like at level 100? Typical WoW-style raid progression, or something else?
bixxby
Molten Core Raider
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- 47
EQ2s problem for me was always the cap. It's boring WoW style currency grinds, or at least it was last expansion I played ( a few back for sure). The raids were also fucking awful, mana drains and knockbacks seemed to be the only mechanics. Also like 90% of the playerbase you'll hear on voice chat are countrified hillbilly rednecks, it's really weird.
because only hicks and retired vets play this game. The one thing players have in common with this game is that most of the players are actually in fact on some form of life support.
Letsinod
Lord Nagafen Raider
- 199
- 281
My biggest problem when I return to this game is literally 50 different spells that all do the same thing. You get 1) Fireball 2) Stronger Fireball 3) Fireball + Small DOT. I just stare at my hotbars after being going for awhile and say fuck it and log back out.
Jysin
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
- 6,457
- 4,345
The funny thing has always been SoE stance that "if we change combat / abilities now, we could upset the playerbase!". How about some forward thinking!? The game has some really amazing qualities, but the resounding failure and criticism has always been ability bloat. They didn't want to upset the few to have the chance of gaining many. Shame.
Sinzar
Trakanon Raider
- 3,149
- 269
I enjoyed my time in EQ2. I didn't start the game until late last year, so it was already mostly dead by that point. Having played EQ1 long ago, there was some nostalgia going on, and I appreciated a lot of the modern gaming updates EQ2 made over EQ1. I leveled a few classes up, but shadowknight was the one I went all the way to cap with.
What killed the game for me was the total fuck you the game throws your way at level cap. My shadowknight was capped on AA, had his epic quest complete along with the special spell upgrades, and I was wearing the best possible gear from questing. I specced into a full tank build, gemmed and tweaked my gear for tanking, then tried a starter heroic dungeon. Trash mobs 1-2 shot me instantly, repeatedly. It was completely absurd. Researching the problem, it turns out I was supposed to spend like 3+ months farming solo dungeons gearing up with currency before trying to tank the group content. Talk about a stupid progression curve. My character could pull nearly entire zones and face tank it in the open world, but gets 1 shot to trash mobs in dungeons.
I quit not long afterwards, even though I had pre-purchased the terrors expansion for like 40$, and never even logged in since. Sigh.
What killed the game for me was the total fuck you the game throws your way at level cap. My shadowknight was capped on AA, had his epic quest complete along with the special spell upgrades, and I was wearing the best possible gear from questing. I specced into a full tank build, gemmed and tweaked my gear for tanking, then tried a starter heroic dungeon. Trash mobs 1-2 shot me instantly, repeatedly. It was completely absurd. Researching the problem, it turns out I was supposed to spend like 3+ months farming solo dungeons gearing up with currency before trying to tank the group content. Talk about a stupid progression curve. My character could pull nearly entire zones and face tank it in the open world, but gets 1 shot to trash mobs in dungeons.
I quit not long afterwards, even though I had pre-purchased the terrors expansion for like 40$, and never even logged in since. Sigh.
Calbiyum
Molten Core Raider
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- 129
Did she do it to try and fit WoW's daily retarded repetitive farm that now exists or did she do it on her own?
RobXIII
Urinal Cake Consumption King
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I'm convinced anyone with a gnome avatar is either a dev, or dev family member. You can bring up the most broken shit, or stupid change, and they will white knight the hell out of it, while calling people 'whine bags' lol. Good times.
Tearofsoul
Ancient MMO noob
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Faltigoth
Bronze Knight of the Realm
- 1,380
- 212
I think I would probably give this a go if they started up another progression server, I never really gave this a fair shake when it came out. I played a templar for a bit sometime during its early years and was loving it, then there was some kind of massive nerf to templar reactive heals and I said fuck this and dropped it.
If they did a true box type thing like Phinny - which I am still enjoying immensely - I would be down with that.
If they did a true box type thing like Phinny - which I am still enjoying immensely - I would be down with that.
Muligan
Trakanon Raider
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- 901
The time and state of this game that was actually fun is long gone. You can't bring it back no matter what you do. It's a shame they couldn't bottle it up and address the real problems that stifled the development of the game.
It's a shame. It "could" have been a very good game and was actually getting there. Some of my best MMO memories came from that short window of time but it simply didn't last. I'm not sure how much Scott had to do with it but it seemed to be going up while he was leading the charge and then when he left Ponytail brought us SOEmote.
Jait
Molten Core Raider
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He went to Van de Camp's company Trion which honestly was in disarray whether people admit it or not, and helped turn a nothing IP no one heard of into a successful MMO which took EQ2's niche and then some. Why? Because instead of "next level shit" like SOEmote and other retarded side projects he focused on what made CRPG's/MMO's great.
Way too many retarded devs who want to invent a better bicycle seat when they can't even make their own game fun.
Way too many retarded devs who want to invent a better bicycle seat when they can't even make their own game fun.