Pharone
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There is a thing you click in Freeport or Qeynos to get them. The person that owns it can also go get a portal and put it in your house, so you can go from your house to it directly. That's what we are doing.
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EQ2 TLE - Varsoon server
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Whispers of Mutiny, Enigma, Flow State, Unknown, Boomer Council, Mayhem, Ultimatum. Those are the ones that are raiding right now and clearing prismatics, iirc and are EST-friendly-ish.
Sacred is one. I'm also in that guild. They've cleared prismatics and such.
Raids are a bit full. I think there's a few other Euro guilds like
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Rajaah
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I got to a decent level in this recently (can't remember what level) and was surprised at how fast the levels FLEW.
However I also found myself pretty bored compared to normal EQ. Without the nostalgia component (having never really gotten into this when it was current) I also don't know how playable it is. The Vanguard emu definitely seems more appealing to me, having spent a similar amount of time there (4 hours or so).
I'll still probably get to max level in EQ2 just to have done it and to tour the world. I imagine at this point in time it's doable in like a week given the speed of exp and the soloability of everything.
Rajaah
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I'd like to check out the Halas area since snow areas are my favorite type of game level theme. How feasible it is to get there on an Iksar SK who started in Neriak? Can I run there in my travels without getting nuked by KOS racists? Would I be better off just starting a new character with Halas as their home town?
EverQuest 2 goes to 64bit tomorrow.
This resulted in MASSIVE performance gains on beta. I'd be interested in seeing how everyone here runs the game tomorrow on Extreme Quality - it's pretty much just a recompilation under 64-bit under the hood code-wise (along with pointer alignment changes, etc...)
I'm going to be undertaking the same task on an unrelated game soon, professionally, not in a hobby - so it'll be interesting to denote experiences with this upgrade.
The Windows on Windows 64 (WoW64) translation layer is notoriously slow, so I'm curious how much this game gets.
Before Hawken shut down, I had made a build that ran on DX9 and 64-bit. It sucked, because we announced the shutdown of Hawken for PC at the same time as discovering this.
64-bit DX9 ran about double the performance of the DX11 renderer, and when compared to 32-bit, was about another 20%+ FPS gain, and had more consistency on frame times.
So I'm extra curious about how EQ2 runs across more than just my hardware (threadripper 1st gen, 2070 GTX, M.2 SSD), which went from 39 FPS in Everforst to 135 on Extreme Quality.
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This resulted in MASSIVE performance gains on beta. I'd be interested in seeing how everyone here runs the game tomorrow on Extreme Quality - it's pretty much just a recompilation under 64-bit under the hood code-wise (along with pointer alignment changes, etc...)
I'm going to be undertaking the same task on an unrelated game soon, professionally, not in a hobby - so it'll be interesting to denote experiences with this upgrade.
The Windows on Windows 64 (WoW64) translation layer is notoriously slow, so I'm curious how much this game gets.
Before Hawken shut down, I had made a build that ran on DX9 and 64-bit. It sucked, because we announced the shutdown of Hawken for PC at the same time as discovering this.
64-bit DX9 ran about double the performance of the DX11 renderer, and when compared to 32-bit, was about another 20%+ FPS gain, and had more consistency on frame times.
So I'm extra curious about how EQ2 runs across more than just my hardware (threadripper 1st gen, 2070 GTX, M.2 SSD), which went from 39 FPS in Everforst to 135 on Extreme Quality.
See:
WoW64 - Wikipedia
WoW64
WoW64 (Windows-on-Windows 64-bit) is a subsystem of Windows allowing you to launch 32-bit applications on all the 64-bit Windows versions. Launching of obsolete 16-bit applications on 64-bit Windows systems is impossible.
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Pharone
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EQ2, just like most MMORPGs, is only fun when playing and interacting with others. The game itself is just a laundery list of tasks to complete (just like every MMORPG ever made lol). I highly suggest joining a guild with cool people to hang out, and seeing how the raid game plays. There is a lot of prep work (questing) for raiding, so I feel like if you don't do the raiding side of the game, you are probably missing a good chunk of the experience of the game.
Much like Darklight Woods (Neriak) for the evil side, Frostfang Sea (Halas) was a full new player experience addition to the game. It would be better experienced by creating a new character and starting in Halas to play through it.
I'm looking forward to checking this out in four hours when the servers come back up.EverQuest 2 goes to 64bit tomorrow.
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This resulted in MASSIVE performance gains on beta. I'd be interested in seeing how everyone here runs the game tomorrow on Extreme Quality - it's pretty much just a recompilation under 64-bit under the hood code-wise (along with pointer alignment changes, etc...)
I'm going to be undertaking the same task on an unrelated game soon, professionally, not in a hobby - so it'll be interesting to denote experiences with this upgrade.
The Windows on Windows 64 (WoW64) translation layer is notoriously slow, so I'm curious how much this game gets.
Before Hawken shut down, I had made a build that ran on DX9 and 64-bit. It sucked, because we announced the shutdown of Hawken for PC at the same time as discovering this.
64-bit DX9 ran about double the performance of the DX11 renderer, and when compared to 32-bit, was about another 20%+ FPS gain, and had more consistency on frame times.
So I'm extra curious about how EQ2 runs across more than just my hardware (threadripper 1st gen, 2070 GTX, M.2 SSD), which went from 39 FPS in Everforst to 135 on Extreme Quality.
See:
WoW64 - Wikipedia
WoW64
WoW64 (Windows-on-Windows 64-bit) is a subsystem of Windows allowing you to launch 32-bit applications on all the 64-bit Windows versions. Launching of obsolete 16-bit applications on 64-bit Windows systems is impossible.
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Tearofsoul
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SE is my all time favorite dungeon. The sky bridges and the fire giants are absolutely epic.
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Cupcaek
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Even includes accts that moved there to play with friends.
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Pharone
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That customer service response is so typical of that campany. They have zero class, and they act as if they are proud everytime they treat their customers with disrespect.
The fact that they gutted Warlock's Curse of Darkness without any sort of communication is wild to me. I've also been told the gear in the upcoming Splitpaw/Bloodlines raids is all level 40 which is... a bit demoralizing. Already having trouble finding items worth a damn to spend dkp on.
Kriptini
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It's because it was absolutely absurd in PvP and I'm assuming they blanket patched it without putting any more thought into it.
Muligan
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I really think that had a great thing going with Varsoon's. Multiple instances of a lot of zones even still but honestly I think they should have opened Splitpaw and Bloodlines probably with Vanilla or a matter of a couple of weeks into it. I also think KoS should have been much quicker than another what 14-16 weeks? EQ2 really hit a good stride right around Rise of Kunark imho.
I would have probably released DoF within 4-6 weeks, KoS 6-8 weeks, EoF 8-10 weeks, and then RoK 10-12 weeks. I would have rolled out each expansion starting quickly and then made duration a bit longer as they progressed through content. I think the servers are really going to die out... Assuming these dates are accurate from a Reddit post I was reading earlier, I just don't see how folks will make it. Maybe I'm wrong but I've really been loving it but a lot of the content has already been consumed and it's a long way off before we get anything else. Maybe the ebbs and flows of WoW (Wraith / Dragonflight) will make it work out but we'll see.
| Expansion | Date |
| The Shattered Lands | May 24, 2022 |
| Desert of Flames | September 27, 2022 |
| Kingdom of Sky | January 10, 2023 |
| Echoes of Faydwer | May 9, 2023 |
| Rise of Kunark | September 12, 2023 |
| The Shadow Odyssey | January 9, 2024 |
| Sentinel's Fate | May 7, 2024 |
| Destiny of Velious | September 10, 2024 |