Eqii

DEmeant0r

Anyone still playing this? I ordered my copy last week with the newest expansion, it should be arriving this week, the sooner the better

What's the PvP and Raiding like in EQII? Hope the PvP isn't similar to WoW... you know BG farming... it's so boring! :mad:

Ivan

haha, PvP in eq2... hahahaha!

Seriously though, they just added it in, in a patch there recently or something. EQ2 is not exactly PvP centric, for the longest time it was purely PvE. I wouldnt expect that too much, imho. Anyway, lemme know how it works out.

jaggeh

i play on the US servers as i cant stand multilanguage servers, i hate not being able to understand other languages but thems the breaks.

PvP - is decent, reminds me a lot of old UO pvp. dont bother leaving your city until you are level 17 or so, and even then you will get ganked in the noobish areas (i made an assassin got to level 10 started in the graveyard and was killed 5 times in my first hour by a higher level slayer)

if you fancy it join me on Lucan D'lere (us server) im in a 200+ guild and they are a decent bunch.

Drakar

The question is should you play on the pvp enabled buy items for cash server!

DEmeant0r

and what server is that?

nix

Ive started playing this game more now. I find it alot better than WoW.

I play on the kitchicor server on the US servers, it used to be the Neriak Server but we were merged with kitchicor.

I have a level 40 Bruiser, 35 Defiler, 30 Necromancer and 27 Ranger. My fav so far being my level 40 Halfling Bruiser

Havent got the new expantion yet though, i dont see a point as i have bought the first expantion desert of flames and have yet to even touch off that expantion. Although i will soon >=D

Drakar

Demeant0r wrote:

and what server is that?

By the look of http://eq2players.station.sony.com/en/news_ff.vm?FeatureName=pvp_combat&section=development it's Vox.

DEmeant0r

hrmmm I'll avoid Vox then.

DEmeant0r

OK, i'm in Darathar in EU servers with the ingame name of Senritsu, anyone else in this server?

DEmeant0r

I know this may be looking a little far ahead seeing as I'm level 18, but what's end game raiding like in EQii? Similar to WoW?

ripclaw

I'm on Darathar as well (Jinpaw).

Have to say, so far I like the PvP. And overall I like EQ2 more than WoW, but thats more a matter of personal taste i suppose. Anyway, can really recommend to anyone to try it out.

Just tried DDO out, which of course is completely different. And I think it definitely needs more polishing...

DEmeant0r

Quaynosian or Freeportian? I'm Freeport

Drakar

I found the dark side so depressing. I mean it's like always raining in the city. Boo!

jaggeh

tbh tho the euro servers suck balls
i did not have fun on them at all. im having a great time on us servers. i finally got around to getting to level 30 on my wizzy

nix

Yeah i just dinged 42 on my Halfling-Bruiser, US servers pwn Euro servers. I always play on US servers, euro servers just seem so... lame!

Jag how ya finding wizzy? I'm thinking bout rolling one, trying to find an ideal alt to switch to from bruiser.

Defiler didnt cut it, got him to 36 then SOE made them look ****.

Ranger was my first class, didnt like them. **** at close range (which is always where the enemy is)

Necromancer is ok, but ehh just not my cup of tea i guess. I may go back to him some day.

DEmeant0r

Well the Euro servers are slowly improving...

I have a 21 Troubador, my favouritest class ever! Well actually I found Dirge more fun, but I wasn't bothered to make another alt... I've tried a Wizzy, and they pwn, but the problem is they, being cloth wearers, are very frail =(

nix

Demeant0r wrote:

Well the Euro servers are slowly improving...

I have a 21 Troubador, my favouritest class ever! Well actually I found Dirge more fun, but I wasn't bothered to make another alt... I've tried a Wizzy, and they pwn, but the problem is they, being cloth wearers, are very frail =(

I love the scout classes, but they are the hardest class to solo with. My experience however has only been with the ranger. Most of the Rangers attacks are ranged so you can only get a few shots off before the targets up close and your meleeing with it, then you can only do most of your melee skills either from behind or in stealth which is useless when in the middle of a fight =-/

Bruisers are the best class IMO, and believe me ive done alot of testing =P

Bruisers can tank, DPS, mezz, and heal themselves =D

DEmeant0r

lol nice, I wish Bards could do some AOE healing or Healing over time like Bards in Ragnarok could do...

jaggeh

i love my wizzy, i have become intimate with most of the floors of norrath.

i rolled an SK a few days ago man sk's rock my socks off.

DEmeant0r

I've gone a little crazy the last few days, I've leveled from 20 to 27 since Friday, lol... won't be able to do that again with the exams creeping ever closer

seanok

I bought the game and played it all over Christmas. Very addidctive...:D

Started playing again this month. I am level 18 Bezerker.

I wonder if there is an Irish guild I could join?

EQ2 name is seanok on the Runnyeye server

DEmeant0r

dunno, but the guild i'm in has another irish person apart from me, guild is <Darkside> on Darathar

jaggeh

Wizzy is about to hit 35 and shadowknight is 25.

Seanok come play on the US servers.

i finished downloading all optional extras today, its really cool. practically every monster that uses a speech bubble has a sound file.

seanok

Do I have to start a character from scratch to play on the US servers or can I just use my current char and just log onto teh US servers?

jaggeh

i abandoned my EU characters. the problem with playing on a US server is that you have to re-patch as they get different add-ons to europe.

aint that a kicker. thats one of the reasons why i choose to play there. they get a lot of preferential treatment.

the guilds are bigger, a LOT of euro players play on the us servers. theres people from UK, ireland, sweden, germany in our guild alone.

you can make a new character fairly quickly. didnt take me long to get my Shadowknight to level 25.

the option is there. anyone planning on playing i advise the US servers.

seanok

Started on the US Server Darathar.

Was up at level 8 Beserker before leaving the island for Queynos.
Just arrived there last night and have strated some quests.

See you around the place.:D

Dinh_Gunslinger

Hey Guys,

I've been playing EQ II since it's inception in 2004 and it's easily the best MMORPG on the market and if SOE got the finger out and became more customer friendly they would have a lot more subscriptions!

I've played on Mistmoore since the beginning mainly because there were no English speaking EU servers in the beginning so I went with a U.S. server...play times suited me anyway because I'm a night owl, lol.

I tried out a toon on Butcherblock or Blackburrow (don't remember which) when English speaking servers came in but they population was mind numbingly low so I stuck with Mistmoore with it's high population at almost anytime of the day!

A couple of weeks ago I started up a toon on Darathar because a friend of mine played PvP and told me how good it was. I was a little sceptical at first but I actually don't think I'll ever go back from PvP because it's just so damn fun! Yea the server pop could be better but I think it will improve over time. I have a good and evil character, Kilbharrog and Drakonious respectively, but I mostly use Drak because I've gotten used to FP and kind of like it.

We are looking to set up an Irish run guild pretty soon because we had one on Mistmoore <The Dark Tower Guardians> and it was great fun. If anybody is interested and has a toon on Darathar then send Drakonious <Indigo Rage> a tell or PM and we'll organise a guild. Two of my other friends play in the same guild now and we just want to get a core group together so we can go hunt some Q's!

We'll be doing a load of HQ's soon but we need to do them in big groups otherwise we'll be slaughtered because most of them require you to venture to Qeynos a lot.

We are all experienced EQ II heads so even if you don't want to join a guild with us just give a shout if you want to group!

Take Care!

Drakonious Deschain
18 Necro - 20 Sage
<Indigo Rage>

jaggeh

you have a char named kilbarrack

im gonna have to start a new char on drath to hunt you down.

ripclaw

Been playing on Darathar since it went up, all my chars are in the guild "Iron Will". So if you see Grimmbart, Eldren or Jinpaw running around, you know he's from Galway

Big Chief

been playing eq2 for a long time now..

I play on the splitpaw-EU server, alot of hardcore raiders on there. and I dont know why most of you had a problem but 99% of it is all english speaking.

End game raiding is fantastic, have been MT raids on my 70 berserker for about 6-7 months now and I love every bit of it, raiding is for me what keeps me playing and loving it more and more..

Loot and money wise youll usually find me on my 70 wizard soloing the triple up named around KoS just to try and get some cash up (wiz... solo gods if played correctly as some of you may know)

if im bored or ppl need help i log the ranger (58) or the healer etc but usually always on the berserker or wizard

If your on splitpaw anytime give me a shout, usually am very happy to help with anything I possibly can, from random quests/how to make cash or help with end game raids, have main tanked every t5 zone/every t6 zone except masters prism and every t7 zone except deathtoll and only small parts of halls of seeing

You can also send cross server tells so you know, so if its just to ask for advice dont hesitate to pop me a tell.. chars are:

Bastila (70 zerker)
Owenie (70 wizard)
Linzi (58 Ranger)

If your not on splitpaw just use..

/tell Splitpaw.Bastila or Splitpaw.Owenie etc etc..

happy gaming

Drakar

I do like the cross server tells in the game, and the webpage stats on your character and guild (though they were really really slow when the game first came out). Freeport is so depressing though, it needs more sunny non rainy days and someone to plant some flowers

Venom

Been playing EQ2 on and off pretty much since beta and have bounced around from MM to Grobb and finialy to Spitpaw Lo BC I went the evil route early on and jumped ship to freeport and made an Assassin and solo wise as scouts go there pretty awesome and can drop ^^ mobs with ease if played correctly.

Leveling up is very easy if your smart and the best advice i can give is use collection items to aid you. Most of the T7 quests items are dirt cheep and at lower level these will power level you up fast. I made level 24 on my Zerker in 2 days lol.

While Iv enjoyed my Eq2 run so far at this point Im getting kinda bored as a high level raider, due to every mob in KoS now being on farm status and all all im doing lately is leveling up my Jewellery skill to finish the wrymslayer quest. But this is more due to lack of T7 content rather than anything else but like Big Chief raiding is the only thing that interests me but I guess thats the power gamer in me coming out lol.

After playing on US servers for so long all I would say is if you every wanna be in a raiding guild you will probley have to stay up real late during

Spitpaw folks dont be shy

Jounar of Fable
70 Assassin

DEmeant0r

right, so I rerolled Qeynos because Freeport, it's surrounding towns and NPCs were all very depressing. On top of that it can sometimes rain in CL which makes it uberly depressing when it's actually raining outside irl as well

Anyways rerolled a Paladin, and seem to enjoy it so far

Blessed, 16 Barbarian Paladin, Darathar.

jaggeh

i just renewed again, had to wait till i got back from holiday.

im starting the push for endgame now got 3 levels in 1 day

Level 38 wizzy - Lucan

Rev Hellfire

Must ... resist ... resistance ... failing ...

Its been quite a while since I played this. What server is everyone on ? And whats the ideal char type to role?

jaggeh

by the looks of it we all play on different servers. splitpaw if you are EU
drath or lucan in US.

as to class..... there is a severe lack of mages on my server, ive really only tried shadowknight and wizard tho so i cant give you much more than that.

nix

Ive tried several classes in this game, ill name them by class and level.

Ranger lvl 27
Necromancer 32
Defiler 36
Bruiser 48

Now ive tried other classes but didnt get any of the others past lvl 20, the best class by far in my experience is the Bruiser. The y can tank, dps and they have a small self heal which restores approx 30% of your health. They are the best survival class and are exceptional both soloing and in groups. I never have trouble finding a group with my Bruiser, if im not needed for tanking i can dps well.

Hope this helps, pm me if you require any additional info =D