Hey alacres if your on AB server check us out were 3 weeks old and have 45 members and 34 accounts already .

We just hit lvl 31 and got our guild hall but the main thing is 95 percent of our members our lvl 20-30 right now and were very active about 8-12 on in the evening .So plenty to group with right now.

Our website is EternalLegend.guilalaunch.com if you wanna checj us out or drop me a tell in game tonight .

Exovius or Krylance are my two toons wed love to have ya or you could try us out or ask some questions.

Hope to hear from ya , safe travels.

 

 

Originally posted by Purutzil
Even if there is end game, people will be pretty restricted so I can't see it being very good if your looking for the 'end game' content.

you are speaking -only- from assumptions

I'm an active Gold player on Extended,  have been since August 2010 when it launched

 

Ive been raiding level 90 content on EQ2X for almost a year now (since November)

EQ2X raiding is no different than doing guild raids on Live

 

to clarify - Gold has no restrictions beyond choosing a player race

I just wanted to jump on the band wagon.  I have had a great experience with EQ2 over the last couple of weeks...

 

I had been playing Age of Conan since July and wanted to take a break and try somethign with more indepth PvE, so I checked out the EQ2 forums and started looking at servers.  I wanted to find a place with people to play with so I didn't have to solo to 90 before I could get in a group.   On an early Sunday morning,  I did some checking around and found that AB was highest pop Live server with about 700 players,60% being 90th level characters.   I did the same checking on EQ2X - Freeport and it had more than double at 1600 !   the cool thing was that only 20% of the players were 90th level so there are TONs of people through all the level ranges.

If you have some free time waiting for the next big MMO to come out I would suggest you give EQ2X a try, it's free with the new streaming download tech you can start playing playing with just a 5 minute download.

 

Cya in Norath.

Originally posted by Aelious
It's between WoW and VG (never crafted in SWG). You have progress fighting durability. Each "round" decides how much you progress and how much durability you lose. As you craft problems can come up that you use hotkeys to solve. These hotkeys can be used at any time as well and have progress/durability modifiers. Put simply, it's not difficult to succeed though the RNG can have it out for you. You don't just hit a combine button though.

I always hated EQ2's minigame crafting.  Crafting, by its  very nature, never struck me as something that should require players to be totally attentive.  

Dungeon Finder and EQ2x are both complete garbage.  If these are what has you thinking about resubbing, don't.  You'll be disappointed.

 

The game is still excellent after all these years.  But both DF and EQ2x really suck.

Originally posted by SuperXero89

Originally posted by Aelious
It's between WoW and VG (never crafted in SWG). You have progress fighting durability. Each "round" decides how much you progress and how much durability you lose. As you craft problems can come up that you use hotkeys to solve. These hotkeys can be used at any time as well and have progress/durability modifiers. Put simply, it's not difficult to succeed though the RNG can have it out for you. You don't just hit a combine button though.

I always hated EQ2's minigame crafting.  Crafting, by its  very nature, never struck me as something that should require players to be totally attentive.  

 

I think it comes down to what you are getting in return. Mastercrafted gear is pretty good until late in the game so the time you spend building up crafting levels is worth it in my opinion. It rewards those willing to take part and I myself enjoy the mini game though it could be more intuitive like clicking on parts of the crafting station.

After reading this thread, I was inspired to give Norrath another try myself. Re-upped my sub tonight and started playing on AB server. Joined Safe Haven, which seems to have a lot of good people in it (from what I could tell at the onset).

 

Look me up any time. I'm currently playing a Troubador. Character name is Finkcur.

If anyone is looking for a different type of guild that runs off of fun and grouping with 80 percent lvl 20-30s check out my post here and send me a tell in game ,

We are new lvl 31 just got our hall and have 45 members already 3 weeks old we give out rank for joining events and doing guild related things not grinding status like most other guilds.Enjoy the game not the grind.

Anyway theres a post on here looking for a different kind of guild i put up yesterday it explains more about the guild and how it works if your interested.

Exovius or Krylance AB server

Thanks!

Just thought I would drop by and  say hello. Due to RL events.. Holidays, Warmachine Tournaments (had to paint minitures for), and Excessive Work (not really a bad thing).. I havent had alot of time to play I think in January I only logged in twice. December I might have managed one night. So far this month I have played twice.

 

Anyway to update this thread. Last night We enjoyed Nektropos Castle. Interesting and twisted place. We are after the fishbone earring there. One of my friends has been leveling alts while I think she has 2 characters in the 50s or 60s now.. She is really happy I am getting a bit more time to play. My other 2 friends just busied themselves doing other things, while RL was intervening for me.

Currently looking forward to finishing Nek Castle though. My guild was extremely happy to hear we were going to start getting on again more regularely and apparently have been doing alot of raiding lately... Granted My character is only level 38, so i am no where close to being able to go along with them. Today after posting this I am going to buy the new expansion, and try out a beast lord.

TTYAL

Freeport server is where everyone is at these days.  I rolled a Beast lord and having loads of fun.

Hi, i think its best place to ask similar question instead of creat new thread. 

My EQ2 account including DoV expansion but do i really need to buy AoD expansion to continue raiding in EQ2?

*Returning player btw.

Originally posted by Ekadd

 do i really need to buy AoD expansion to continue raiding in EQ2?

no - AOD is not needed for raiding

the only thing AOD offers raiders is another 20 AA points

Originally posted by Nadia

Originally posted by Ekadd

 do i really need to buy AoD expansion to continue raiding in EQ2?

no - AOD is not needed for raiding

the only thing AOD offers raiders is another 20 AA points

Thanks for fast answer, much appreciated.

Originally posted by teakbois

Originally posted by cybertrucker
The simple fact that even if u have a pay account u will still be restricted on the x server is telling of how bad the SOE model of ftp/ptw is

Its the best value in the business for people wanting content for cheap.  More content than WoW and Rift combined for the 10 buck silver membership?  Unfortunately it doesnt work for most people because the fabled gear and master spells that arent remotely needed for 95% of the game can't be used.  But if you dont mind not having the absolute best stuff then there is absolutely no better value out there.

 

However if you are going to sub, sub on the live servers.  I doubt it was the intention, but that fairly trivial difference between gold eq2x and eq2live membership keeps people joining both services.  If gold and live were the exact same almost everyone would go to eq2x for the larger low level population (although getting low level groups on AB is fairly easy if you set it up yourself and dont wait for it to come)

 

Also, EQ2x isnt pay to win.  You will need a gold membership for the top 5% of content, but that content isnt adjusted so youll need the only 2 good performance items on the eq2x marketplace, health and mana potions with 5 minute cooldowns.  Its sub to win if you want to look at it that way, but its not like games like RoM where you need to spend more than normal sub money to be effective.  The gear on the eq2 marketplace is for lazy people really, you can get it in game without much effort, and tis not the top stuff in the game by a large margin.

I've been pretty pleasantly surprised with the setup since I'm back. I'm typically quite wary of anything to do with a cash shop, but it turns out SOE seems to have handled it pretty well in EQ2. Like Turbine with LoTRO and DDO, they've opted to keep an option that is, for all intents and purposes, a standard subscription in the form of their Gold membership, which is what I went with. It's basically just like a normal sub fee in that I get access to all the content I've already bought, but just have to purchase new expansions to get whatever is exclusive to them.

Since I'm on a gold membership, I automatically get 500 points a month to play with, which go pretty far considering there's nothing on the shop that I've seen that seems at all compulsory. I'm using them to get the reduction potions for the research skills, or buying nifty social gear. Nothing I've seen has seemed at all "pay to win" and so far I have not encountered any arbitrary road blocks in the game that require a cash shop purchase to get past. So, kudos to SOE on that as well.

Of course, I say this as a gold membership player. It's probably very different as a totally free player or even to a degree as a silver player. I thought about those options but, for me personally, if I'm going to play a game, I just want to play. "Take my $15, get out of my way and let me play uninterrupted", is how I see it. I'm not interested in patronizing an online shopping mall for my e-existence. I'm interested in settling in and "escaping" into a good game for an hour or three.

On a different note: I was watching a video where some SOE folk talk about the Freeport revamp and how they're all excited that it's going to bring people back to the cities to engage in more content and make them more of a social hub. I don't now if I missed the rush, or if it just never happened or what, but Freeport seems no more populated than it was last time I played.  Aside from a regular group of players hanging around the ever laggy docks area of East Freeport, the city seems no more populated than it ever has to me.  Seems SOE might have missed the target on their idea there.

I hope they can turn that around. One thing I've always enjoyed in MMOs, specifically those with a strong server community, is to see a bunch of random people, not just people from the same handful of guilds, hanging around in a central location, chatting, joking around, etc. It's something I've missed in MMOs of the last few years.

WoW has that kind of "people hanging around" thing, but it's not really in a social way. Those folks are either afk, checking their bank, checking the AH, or queued for a dungeon. There's usually flaming going on in the chat channels between a handful of people, so it's not like there's any real conversation or "community-like" activity going on. It's a huge, colorful mass of muted loners for the most part. That's not really what I'm hoping for in EQ2, heh.

 

 

 

 

Originally posted by TangentPoint

On a different note: I was watching a video where some SOE folk talk about the Freeport revamp and how they're all excited that it's going to bring people back to the cities to engage in more content and make them more of a social hub. I don't now if I missed the rush, or if it just never happened or what, but Freeport seems no more populated than it was last time I played.  Aside from a regular group of players hanging around the ever laggy docks area of East Freeport, the city seems no more populated than it ever has to me.  Seems SOE might have missed the target on their idea there.

Pretty much the only thing that could turn cities back into social centers would be to thoroughly dud the guild halls (which have all the amenities of cities and then some). Not going to happen...

Originally posted by CasualMaker

Originally posted by TangentPoint

On a different note: I was watching a video where some SOE folk talk about the Freeport revamp and how they're all excited that it's going to bring people back to the cities to engage in more content and make them more of a social hub. I don't now if I missed the rush, or if it just never happened or what, but Freeport seems no more populated than it was last time I played.  Aside from a regular group of players hanging around the ever laggy docks area of East Freeport, the city seems no more populated than it ever has to me.  Seems SOE might have missed the target on their idea there.

Pretty much the only thing that could turn cities back into social centers would be to thoroughly dud the guild halls (which have all the amenities of cities and then some). Not going to happen...

Freeport and qeynos were dead before the guild halls.  Kelethin andNeriak hurt as much as the guild halls, if not more.

Originally posted by ArcheAge

Originally posted by cheyane

It is true the draw of Everquest 2 was its community just like Everquest itself. After years of wandering about from game to game I have found that it is very seldom you come across a good community and without it a game is just  lifeless.

Best communities in MMO.

EQ1.

EQ2.

LOTRO/ Laurelin Server.

Vanguard.

 

I have found the EQ2 community to be awesome, love it liek the old days in the MMO games. DAOC used to be on the good list of MMO communitys but thety all left. And know it`s all kids or pissed of vets.

Originally posted by teakbois

Originally posted by CasualMaker

Originally posted by TangentPoint

On a different note: I was watching a video where some SOE folk talk about the Freeport revamp and how they're all excited that it's going to bring people back to the cities to engage in more content and make them more of a social hub. I don't now if I missed the rush, or if it just never happened or what, but Freeport seems no more populated than it was last time I played.  Aside from a regular group of players hanging around the ever laggy docks area of East Freeport, the city seems no more populated than it ever has to me.  Seems SOE might have missed the target on their idea there.

Pretty much the only thing that could turn cities back into social centers would be to thoroughly dud the guild halls (which have all the amenities of cities and then some). Not going to happen...

Freeport and qeynos were dead before the guild halls.  Kelethin andNeriak hurt as much as the guild halls, if not more.

I guess I'm atypical, then. Back when I started on the Island, I'd run the first couple quests for the gear, then ditch the place for the Big City. I do the much the same thing now with the new starting areas, heading to the old main cities for the noob quests in the racial neighborhoods before heading back to pick up the later quests.

Hey all,

First time posting here. I have always come to read for info but never posted myself.

Anyway! Great read cyber, like you i came to mmo's from EQ1. And also when EQ2 came out i was there from day one. I only played about 1 month.

 

I'.m going to give it a try again today based on a lot of stuff  read. One thing that stands out from all the posts here is the community. Coming from a long time WoW as a 39 year old it sounds refressing.

So now i ask, is the AB server one of the fuller one's to roll on? Also ill be starting out friendless! boo hoo. tried to get my wife to play other games but she is more about spending my money then playing MMO's, and my 2 kids are to young.  Are there guilds still looking for new members ? I know some times games that have been out so long are harder to come by good guilds.

Last i would ask as far as the new class Beastlord. Is there a thousand of them running around now?  And if so what is a good class to lvl up as a some what n00b. I might actually have a lot of rewards to claim since i got the CE when it first came out.  I know tanks in the end game are probly set already in most guilds so i wouldnt want to roll one and not be needed.

 

Thanks again everyone and i hope to be in game tonight!!!

And one more thing. I have heard when starting out to set AA exp gain to 50%? that still the way to go? thanks!