Originally posted by sebbonx

Originally posted by sallan75

 

Notning like quoting hearsay!!! Oh so and so got 63 in so and so days I believe. Fact is anybody can max level in WoW quickly with minimal effort or intelligence, just follow the !/?.  Maybe if the Merc's in EQ held your hand between quests of killing 'X' a million times would you come back? Thats even if you ever played EQ LOL.

 

It is NOT heresay, my character was there for everyone to see, just over 6 days played at 63rd level with 10 AA's! EQplayers shows time played. I finally reached 12 or so days and got my VT key and some flags before I was bored of this way easy game.

I think all you guys do is come here to flame anyone poking fun of EQ because you sure don't know jack about YOUR own game! You don't even know how to look at time played? Thats pathetic, btw laugh at some of the guys with 800+ days played, and lots exist.

I also AFK leveled a Necromancer, how messed up is that? I parked him on known easy hitting high exp mobs and let my pet kill the mob when no longer anywhere near my keyboard! Mage would have made it even easier. Thats what I call a company out of touch with class balance.

I know a lot of DUMB people play EQ. They make out like it is hard, rofl. All it would take is one account with the afore mentioned Mage and you could power level ANY character class grouped with the AFK Mage. Blizzard would ban you, SOE doesn't care. 

You still havene't answered the EverQUEST question, wtf doesn't EverQUEST have any decent exp and item quests? Devs to bored and just collecting money? RMT, excessive expansions, broken classes, these are all reasons EQ sucks.

To answer the original question, HECK NO THERE IS NO LOW LEVEL GAME AND HASN'T HAD ONE IN FIVE YEARS AT LEAST!

Hi champ, trust me, I know my own game. You can type /played in game to see total time played. You don't need to go to a  website. I have a 65 Ranger with 35 AA's that has a total of 5 days and 4 hours play, OMG I am way better then you!!! But that is playing grouped most of the time, which EQ rewards. But this is where EQ differs from a boring piece of crap like WoW, XP will slow down now as AA becomes more important. I can level my character almost indefinitely, seeing him become more and more powerful. What does WoW offer? Ooooh talent builds, which of course Blizzard ruin all the time and people respec to what ever the most powerful build of the week is. All I can say is /yawn. But hey once you have finished levelling you can start enjoying WoW's end game, rerolling another toon and levelling it.

As to your moaning about gear & xp reward quests. Ahh I guess you come from the line of thinking that I killed 10 boars, give me some cool shit and xp even though I got xp for killing the boars line of thinking.  See this is the whole thing wrong with MMO's and gamers in general these days. Want to be rewarded for minimal effort. When I started EQ many years ago, my SK ran around in grey no stat gear for about 3 months. In WoW, after about 3 weeks I bored with the amount of gear being given to me for doing next to nothing. But if that floats your boat power to you. Trust me there was not that same sense of accomplishment as in EQ when you finally got a good piece of gear. There are alot of quests in EQ, and anything worth it will be a long drawn out quest that requires effort, oh and yes, the is no !/? above the quest givers head. You actually have to talk to people.

But yes I am obviously a dumb EQ player because I found WoW boring. Also I must be dumb because I found the WoW community to be a bunch of asshats. You know the types that get in an instance and leave the moment they got an item they were after leaving the group high and dry.

As to broken classes I got no idea what you are on about? You mean that not every class can do everything like in WoW? That you may actually need to group with someone that has some abilities that your character doesn't?

From the sounds of it, you got keyed for VT but never actually really did anything decent in EQ before you quit. So how seriously do I take you opinion? Well I shouldn't take it too seriously you like WoW.

 Ohh I should add, WoW is extremely challenging. I was able to do 10 Arena's a week to maintain my teams ranking. Total time played a week 30 minutes. Net result after a few months, a full set of Epic gear. I get what you mean, Everquest is an easy boring game and WoW is challneging, satisfying and overly entertaining, if you just play for 30 minutes a week.

Well, I have to say that all this is rather entertaining.

I never played WoW. I did play EQ, EQII, Ashrons Call, Shadowbane, Dungeons and Dragons Online, World War II Online, Eve Online, Pirates of the Burning Sea and a few other games here and there. I even played EQ and AC at the same time. I liked them both but for different reasons.

I preferred to play on the PvP servers. The simple reason is this; when things got boring, and they always did, I could rely on the Pvp aspect to keep things alive.

There has been a lot of talk about the woes of what caused EQ to fail. I can say that they are all rather true. EQ failed because the game changed so much from what it originally was that it was no longer the same game after a few years from its release. The game suffered from too many expansions that did not add any serious content to the game but merely mucked up the game with adding more loot that over balanced the game. After the 3rd expansion came out, people could come back to the "old world" and dominate with their new gear. That is why the game "got" easy. In the beginning, it was not so easy. I started playing the day the Valllon Zek server came online. The game was not easy back then.

EQ has always suffered from "balance" issues. The game was made for the sole purpose to have players group. Soloing was not in the agenda. Only a few classes could solo very well, and some classes could not solo at all. The classes where balanced with each other only in terms of what each class could do with each other in a group. When you take a full group of 6 and assess each class in that group, they all worked well together. However, if you take them apart from the group and assess them, you find many flaws. The melee classes had it the worst.

As stated before, a lot of the "gear" that was offered in quests, just was not up to speed with what was being dropped by the latest greatest mob in the latest greatest dungeon. Even before the expansions, a lot of the quest gear was not really that great at all. The rogues Burning Rapier comes to mind. Only a decent weapon for mid teens to low twenties but by the time you got the damn thing you where nearly lvl 30. I did not get my rapier till I was lvl 36. The exp dinged me the lvl.

I have always hated raids and being forced to group.

I remember back when i played, was a Froglok Wizard. Did this one quest for a piece of equipment, by the time i was done I was kinda outleveled on the braclet (had just dinged 39 and the braclet only boosted up to lvl 34 spells)

Well, it's good to see my thread has devolved into another useless WoW vs EQ less shrivelled dick contest.

Anyway, seeing as the progression server is no longer up and the new 51/50 server option sounds about as fun as cancer, I was wondering about the EQMac server. It seems like the closest thing there is to classic, but considering how old the server is I have to assume the population is pretty stagnant. If there's anyone who plays on that server, would there be anyone to group with if I started a new character there?

Jamesd129,

If it has been a number of years since you played last, then do yourself the favor and log onto the station account web page, station.com There is a free trial menue that you can get a 14 day pass to play EverQuest: Escape to Norrath. It is free of charge and you can advance up to lvl 10, if you so choise.

I just got done wasting the last hour and a half of my life finding out just how bad they have crapped up the game. The User Interface is for total crap now. The graphics have completely gone down hill. I could barely move around. Couldnt even make it down a hall way without bouncing off all the walls. Damn, I am so glade I found thatout before I decided to give the game another try. It brind back to memorie all the reasons why I quit in the first place. Every time they tried to improve the game they just made it worse.

I so wish I could play again back in the days when the game was fun. Sadly, those golden days are long past.

 The "free trial" is only the tutorial zone, which isn't connected to the game (you can't return after level 10, anyway), the UI is completely configurable. EQInterface to the rescue! (Though I hardly ever do anything other than put in a new player window that has experience bars on it-- otherwise it's all opening new windows, filtering chat, and moving/resizing/recoloring the existing windows. Once or twice I've replaced the entire UI with a complete set from EQInterface, just for a change of scenery. )

I really don't miss the square trees from the "good old days". 

But if you hated the tutorial zone, you'd REALLY hate the new Freeport. (Everybody hates the new Freeport.)

They never should have played around with the games graphics in the first place. They were not that horrible to begin with. Even if it was a tutorial area, it was nothing what I recalled the game being like, nothing. The sound was off, the partical effects were going crazy, the charater models looked horrible. Why change something that does not need to be changed? If its not broken, dont fix it!

Tutorial zone? I didnt like the tutorial zone in EQII, why the hell would I want them to muck it up in EQI? Idiots!