hey nice review their are some minor details that are slightly incorrect (its scout not rouge ) but if you are looking for another server or just general game information you can send me a tell at kithicor if you are on a seperate server do /tell kithicor.camphor
“I’ve only played for about 6 hours total, so I might even be missing other stuff”
There’s no ‘might’ about it. EverquestII is absolutely huge, enormously absorbing, and, yes, highly addictive – I’ve tried to quit four times in the last four years and have finally accepted that I probably never will!
The only thing it’s missing is a higher profile in the gaming world, so kudos to you for doing a little to improve that!
P.S. [warning: blatant advert alert] If you do happen to drop by the Nektulos EverquestII server and want a guild to help tide you over till you find one that suits your own playstyle – anyone is welcome in the Lonewolf Guild
Nice review! One thing you might want to add is that the game actually allows you to pick the speed you gain levels. If played with the default settings, you will level up really fast, especially compared to levelling a few years ago. But you can slowly level if you disable combat experience gain or level-lock if you also disable quest experience gain. Players will choose to level lock in order to 1) do all the quests at level and 2) build up alternate achievement experience points. I really like the fact that EQ2 now allows this type of flexibility.
The game just rocks. One of the best features IMO is that there is always new content, whether it’s a holiday event or a new zone or an old zone revamped. It just keeps growing and growing!
Dang…now you’re making me want to resub again. I played for a short time just about 2 months ago and found it to be an incredible game with tons of options, great community and a really nice crafting system. The housing just blew me away. But I was playing too many games at the time to justify another sub.
I might have to just rethink my game time (currently Lotro, WoW and Ryzom) and see if I can swing it again. Thanks for the review.
Heh. I’m in the same boat. And now I’m playing LotRO, EQ2 (soloing, mostly), dabbling with Runes of Magic (not so much anymore), Spellborn, Dungeon Runners, and occasionally logging in to Ryzom. Yikes.
Glad you have finally found the diamond in the rough many of us have known about for years! EQ2 is the most mature (both in community and gameplay), well developed, best looking MMO out there right now. IMHO, of course.
If SOE could just market this game a bit more more (like, at all), people may actually break from other games and find themselves just as “surprised” as you did!
Feel free to send a tell to Wildmoon on Mistmoore if you have any questions on anything.
Love the review (love both EQ2 and LOTRO). Just want to mention a few things you may or may not know about EQ2. First there is a mentoring system where a higher level character can mentor down to the level of their friend (so a level 70 will mentor down to say a level 10 character with stats on their items to match, though you’ll still be an uber level 10), which also provides an xp boost to lower character. Also I think the appearance slots include your weapons now too (not just your armor). Speaking of which LOTRO also has appearance tabs (two of them in fact at level 20) as well as the ability to hide parts of your clothing (yay for hobbit feet). Looking forward to more of your reviews!
Thanks man. I really fell hard for EQ2.. which is funny, considering it was not even on my radar in the least at the beginning of this. I did know about the mentor thing and the appearance thing too.. but not until I was done the review.
Thanks for the compliments – check out the site for some of the other reviews I’ve done. I’m in the process of reviewing Dungeon Runners and Spellborn as well. Watch for em!
Thank you for an awesome review – Sony need to pay you some commission for that! lol (or free-sub you for a few months at least)
I first played EQ2 about 3-4 years ago. It rocked my world! Then left as got distracted by WoW. Then came back as I felt WoW was missing something (mainly a solid community and decent ‘involved’ combat). Stayed for a while on and off. Left again when WAR was released. That game depressed be greatly. and I longed to be back, frolicking (as only a wood elf can do) in the long Antonican grass once again… *hums music*. Then financial hard time hit, and i stopped all subs. After reading this, I would love to come back, but I fear that there wont be many lowbies to group with nowadays.
If anyone knows of a server in which I might feel at home (moderately populated, a good few toons lvls 1-20 running about?) do holla! I was on Splitpaw, and last time I was there, the tumble weeds had taken over
Great positive review, thanks again for stoking the fire that is nostalgia
I used to play EQ on PS2 yeeeeears ago and absolutely loved it. Since then I have pretty much been a WoW-player and recently became extremely bored with it. I decided to try EQ2 and I think I am in love again. It’s like reconnecting with an old friend but OMG have things changed! I now have that old feeling of “can’t wait to get online and explore the world again”. I am so glad that I read your review and the responses on here because it confirms my faith that there are other players still playing the game and they are happy.
I want to hear from you.Contact me if you’ve got content or videos you want to share. Feel free to just drop me a line if you want to chat about games..
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hey nice review their are some minor details that are slightly incorrect (its scout not rouge ) but if you are looking for another server or just general game information you can send me a tell at kithicor if you are on a seperate server do /tell kithicor.camphor
Thanks. I updated it to reflect that.
Maybe I’ll see you online.
“I’ve only played for about 6 hours total, so I might even be missing other stuff”
There’s no ‘might’ about it. EverquestII is absolutely huge, enormously absorbing, and, yes, highly addictive – I’ve tried to quit four times in the last four years and have finally accepted that I probably never will!
The only thing it’s missing is a higher profile in the gaming world, so kudos to you for doing a little to improve that!
P.S. [warning: blatant advert alert] If you do happen to drop by the Nektulos EverquestII server and want a guild to help tide you over till you find one that suits your own playstyle – anyone is welcome in the Lonewolf Guild
Nice review! One thing you might want to add is that the game actually allows you to pick the speed you gain levels. If played with the default settings, you will level up really fast, especially compared to levelling a few years ago. But you can slowly level if you disable combat experience gain or level-lock if you also disable quest experience gain. Players will choose to level lock in order to 1) do all the quests at level and 2) build up alternate achievement experience points. I really like the fact that EQ2 now allows this type of flexibility.
The game just rocks. One of the best features IMO is that there is always new content, whether it’s a holiday event or a new zone or an old zone revamped. It just keeps growing and growing!
But I might be biased
Dang…now you’re making me want to resub again. I played for a short time just about 2 months ago and found it to be an incredible game with tons of options, great community and a really nice crafting system. The housing just blew me away. But I was playing too many games at the time to justify another sub.
I might have to just rethink my game time (currently Lotro, WoW and Ryzom) and see if I can swing it again. Thanks for the review.
Heh. I’m in the same boat. And now I’m playing LotRO, EQ2 (soloing, mostly), dabbling with Runes of Magic (not so much anymore), Spellborn, Dungeon Runners, and occasionally logging in to Ryzom. Yikes.
Glad you have finally found the diamond in the rough many of us have known about for years! EQ2 is the most mature (both in community and gameplay), well developed, best looking MMO out there right now. IMHO, of course.
If SOE could just market this game a bit more more (like, at all), people may actually break from other games and find themselves just as “surprised” as you did!
Feel free to send a tell to Wildmoon on Mistmoore if you have any questions on anything.
Love the review (love both EQ2 and LOTRO). Just want to mention a few things you may or may not know about EQ2. First there is a mentoring system where a higher level character can mentor down to the level of their friend (so a level 70 will mentor down to say a level 10 character with stats on their items to match, though you’ll still be an uber level 10), which also provides an xp boost to lower character. Also I think the appearance slots include your weapons now too (not just your armor). Speaking of which LOTRO also has appearance tabs (two of them in fact at level 20) as well as the ability to hide parts of your clothing (yay for hobbit feet). Looking forward to more of your reviews!
Thanks man. I really fell hard for EQ2.. which is funny, considering it was not even on my radar in the least at the beginning of this. I did know about the mentor thing and the appearance thing too.. but not until I was done the review.
Thanks for the compliments – check out the site for some of the other reviews I’ve done. I’m in the process of reviewing Dungeon Runners and Spellborn as well. Watch for em!
Thank you for an awesome review – Sony need to pay you some commission for that! lol (or free-sub you for a few months at least)
I first played EQ2 about 3-4 years ago. It rocked my world! Then left as got distracted by WoW. Then came back as I felt WoW was missing something (mainly a solid community and decent ‘involved’ combat). Stayed for a while on and off. Left again when WAR was released. That game depressed be greatly. and I longed to be back, frolicking (as only a wood elf can do) in the long Antonican grass once again… *hums music*. Then financial hard time hit, and i stopped all subs. After reading this, I would love to come back, but I fear that there wont be many lowbies to group with nowadays.
If anyone knows of a server in which I might feel at home (moderately populated, a good few toons lvls 1-20 running about?) do holla! I was on Splitpaw, and last time I was there, the tumble weeds had taken over
Great positive review, thanks again for stoking the fire that is nostalgia
I used to play EQ on PS2 yeeeeears ago and absolutely loved it. Since then I have pretty much been a WoW-player and recently became extremely bored with it. I decided to try EQ2 and I think I am in love again. It’s like reconnecting with an old friend but OMG have things changed! I now have that old feeling of “can’t wait to get online and explore the world again”. I am so glad that I read your review and the responses on here because it confirms my faith that there are other players still playing the game and they are happy.