Classic Everquest II Server

[Mblake81]

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

I think you helped me pinpoint my disdain for EQ2. I expected EQ 2.0 and got EQ2. EQ2 did not feel like Everquest.

The late 90's. RPG world that you do video game stuff in. Reasons we old timers rant on translocator NPCs and taking the tunnel for a bazaar. There was never a place to sell, people gathered. On other servers they did it in Greater Faydark. P99 has hooked me on the single server experience. I was talking with a guy in the tunnel earlier and he mentioned his looking forward to Pantheon (new EQ) and I wished him the best.

[98bcobra]

I kinda enjoyed EQ2 but it never really was the same appeal as EQ1 to me. PvP was fun with all the different builds you could make like the melee warden.

[Canelek]

They didn't get around to fixing most of EQ2 until the first expansion or so, so vanilla would be terrible.

EQ2 was pretty fun, despite the more WoW-like model where quests took the place of grinding mobs for experience. I suppose that can be considered a good thing, but it really did put the game on rails a bit.

I loved the classes and ability to do fairly long quests to switch faction to get the race/class combos you like. The models, capes, mounts and armor were well done as well. Epic weapon particle effects were cool for the most part. Brigand comes to mind.

Raids were thoughtful and challenging! Most raids required guilds to practice encounters a ton before beginning to be successful. Veeshan's Peak comes to mind in Kunark, and there were some doozy encounters in subsequent expansions all the way up until...



...Velious, where they broke the game by completely re-itemizing and changing the statistical mechanics. So, all the tricked-out cool BiS raid gear you have? Pretty much null and void for your slog to the next level cap. Of course, equipment replacement on a new level cap is inevitable, but BiS previously had enough overlap to give you a leg up on the next set of raid encounters.

Blah blah blah, many folks ended their EQ2 adventures there. I am sure there was some cool stuff in there, but with that abrupt end to meaningful progression, there just wasn't much of a carrot to keep chasing.

Player housing and guild housing/features were fun, as was the tradeskill system (after they fixed a few death bugs (yes, death bugs)).

Most of the raid content was instanced, so most of the competition was progress-based as opposed to simply all content going towards the zergiest or unemployediest. There was open world stuff to kill, but it wasn't required for gear progression.

PvP was instanced and really fun (IMO) once they implemented and fixed. It also eventually had special gear you could purchase using a PVP-dollars sort of mechanism, which was perfect for alts to gear up. I'm not sure how regular server-PVP went as I never tried.

[trite]

I tried playing Everquest II beta, was bored after 2 hours and went back to playing everquest 1...There is something more immersive about being able to KS somebody even though you shouldn't...an instanced world with rules that can't be broken isn't very immersive....

[Swish2]

Is it still really badly optimized?

[HalflingWarrior]

Originally Posted by Swish2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is it still really badly optimized?

Unfortunately its the game engine itself. It runs on one CPU core and no more. Last time i tried it, even w a 4790k @ 4.5ghz and a gtx 780, I was stuck at like 45fps tops around other players.

[Bummey]

I just want to collect all the shinies

[Foxplay]

Eq2 sucked wouldn't care at all

[DinoTriz]

Never liked EQ2.

Doesn't it have playable pixies?

Yikes.

[Lunababy]

EQ2 is just a bad game. Would not play.