Comparing EQ to WoW

[Champion_Standing]

Originally Posted by Barkingturtle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Isn't Excalibur pay-to-win?

I played on Emerald Dream some last year. It was pretty fun. TBC was the bestest, though.

Yeah i think you can buy all sorts of stuff from their "donation" store, but pretty much every server I came across with a decent pop had the same kind of crap.

[Laledorie]

Originally Posted by Whirled [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

2 words ... Leeroy Jenkins

haha!

[kickinit]

Logged back into Rebirth today for first time in months after seeing this thread. Have a 25 dwarf hunter if anyone wants to group up or something. Their websites claimed to have 375 max member pool online about a month ago...

[Overthrow]

In my opinion, EQ is definitely tougher raiding experience and leveling experience. World of Warcraft, leveling in WoW was extremely easy, you can attempt Dungeons over and over with real time consuming tasks in between such as corpse runs while having no gear, not to mention the pathing in EQ is probably 10x worse than any pathing in WoW. Not to mention the fact that if you are going to compare EQ to WoW as far as toughness, you would have to go back to when they were first released. Such as, how hard EQ was when it first came out and what they really had to do versus WoW. Majority of you are speaking about EQ raiding even though the content and guides on how to beat the content has been out twice as long. When EQ came out, you had to battle other guilds for dragons, worry about raid wipes, and everything else that came along with it. Not to mention, random spawns. Id say hands down, everquest is much harder than WoW from my experience. Yes, WoW was fun at first but the difficultly level for me was nothing compared to my first Everquest experiences and having to learn from mistakes in Dungeons or Raids, mistakes in Everquest, as someone said earlier, are very unforgiving.

[Tann]

heroic dungeons in TBC, nuff said

the setup for each pull, marking targets, kill orders, crowd control, patrols that caused wipes, dps that followed instructions, dat mage food/water..

Heroic Slave Pens, Shattered Halls, etc., it may not have been as hardcore or as unforgiving as EQ but it was god damn brutal.

[Zapatos]

I played a resto shaman from vanilla through WotLK and can say running heroic dungeons in TBC was about the most fun I had in that game. Roles were important, community was important, and if you were bad it was very obvious. Cross realms/raid finder and making every class require button mashing every single damn GCD really ruined the game toward the end of WotLK.

For healing as a shaman, TBC was really the golden age. Vanilla was fun with mana being so scarce (most didn't know about all the consumables you could use) but spell choices were minimal. WotLK had waaaaay to much mana regen and the game become soley Chain heal nonstop even if people were full HP and you wouldn't oom (which worked splendidly for me all the way through Heroic IC 10).

[Varon]

Challenge mode dungeons are probably the most fun part of Mists of Pandaria. They make the old BC heroics seem easy. Competing for server best times is pretty awesome. Got kind of bored with them after finishing on my 8th character though [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. They were about the only thing keeping me around heh.

[SyanideGas]

Have a 90 Holy priest, definitely got to be frustrating at times. EQ is easier in its own ways. That said EQ> WoW x1000 as far as a community and that goes.

[RNG]

EQ had a much better/close-knit community. Doesn't mean there were no dicks, but it helped not being able to pay your way out of accountability.

I enjoyed WoW for a time, up to and including WotLK. After that, sooooooooooooouth.

[FizzleFinger]

EQ is twice the age but has had five times the expansions of WoW. Everyone remembers TBC fondly because that is when ally got shaman and horde got blessing of kings [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I used to hardcore raid both games for years but in EQ I was on Vallon Zek in a guild that had morals, so we had no loot. I left WoW when Blizz recycled Naxx in WotLK. I've really been blown away by Blizzard's ability to do this and the villagers haven't rioted. Anyways, I left wow when they started recycling content, and I came back to EQemu because mechanics like charming, camp clearing, KITING (of any kind), FD pulling, etc... don't appear in any other game