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• • EverQuest II: Expansion - The Shadow Odyssey

  • The game is great, I've always liked it.  But I won't be returning with this new expansion for the same reason I left:  lack of groups.  I hate to solo and could never seem to find a regular group to play with in Everquest 2.  I played it starting at launch, solid for the first couple of years and then on and off til a few months ago, and only once during that time did I manage to join a decent, active guild.  Everyone I know IRL plays WoW, which I don't care for.  But everytime I join a new guild, it seems to be dying and on its way out, and too many people play only with the family or group of friends they already know, which leaves me always LFG.  I once spent an entire week LFG with my wizard that left me totally demorarlized about the game.  I would suspect that I'm just really, really bad about meeting people, but I can logon to City of Heroes and be in a full group in mere moments despite that game having far fewer players, so I think its something about EQ2 itself that creates this problem for me.  I have nothing but praise for the game itself, its really grown over time, but if my only choice is soloing then I'll just stick with a game that doesn't have a monthly fee.

  • Posted: 8/23/08 8:53 AM
    General Discussion
• • What would make a good efficient combo?

  • Oh, and don't forget to back the pet off before casting mez.  Put the pet control Back Off in your hotbar.

  • Posted: 7/06/08 9:47 AM
    Everquest II
• • What would make a good efficient combo?

  • I've had great luck running my wizard with an illusionist.  If you include the illusionist personae (a kind of pet) then you have access to 3 roots and 3 stuns.  And  as long as you avoid using dot attacks, the illusionist is always free to mez should roots break (the illusionist has 3 mezzes, and the two single target ones can even be cast while moving!)  Have the illusionist get the Time Compression skill early on so that he can put it on the wizard to have the big nukes back up quicker.  The wizard brings heavy damage and the illusionist brings medium damage with excellent control; he covers the wizard's one weakness, which is the break-prone root.  Illusionist root is so powerful, in fact, that will often use dot attacks on non-Heroic mobs.  For heroic targets, avoid dot attacks, just double root, have wizard cast Ice Shape and Frostgift buffs and the illusionist cast his skill and Int buffs, and nuke fast; when root breaks mez and wait for heavy nukes to come back up.  Easy once you get the hang of it!

  • Posted: 7/06/08 9:45 AM
    Everquest II
• • 60 days of free timeplay??

  • I've been playing steadily but let my sub run dry for a month so I could switch back to play City of Heroes a bit.  Getting tired of CoH already, and I come here and see this.  My EQ2 account ran out on June 6, so of course the game tells me I have no account.  I look on SOE's account info page and it shows 54 days like for everyone else, but the account is Pending.  It seems you had to be unsubscribed exactly on April 30th to get the free time.  Long time players are indeed screwed over.  I was going to re-up until I saw all this and realized I might get some free time, and now that I see I'm omitted due to bueacracy I'm thinking I won't re-up at all.

  • Posted: 6/10/08 10:05 AM
    Everquest II
• • Official forums only viewable by account holders?

  • I agree with the OP that this is strange and annoying, and I say this as a now-paying customer for AoC.  I can't access the forums, it won't let me log in.  It doesn't recognize my password, and when I tried password recovery it says it doesn't recognize my e-mail address.  If it didn't keep people out I would at least be able to read the forums, so wth?  I had similar weirdness when I put in my key to activate the game, it kept telling me it didn't recognize, though it apparently did as I can log onto the game.  They need to work on their website or something, its very user-unfriendly and its starting to annoy me greatly.

  • Posted: 5/21/08 8:06 AM
    Age of Conan