Everquest II

ansar_sl said:

Hmm, where do you go after the islands? Does it take you to Qeyons/Freeport?

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Believe it depends on race? Idk it's been over 10 years lol

So, I had planned to roll a coercer, but kind of want to roll a necro since I never tried one. I don't want huge issues getting groups though. Ugh, so torn now.

ansar_sl said:

Hmm, where do you go after the islands? Does it take you to Qeyons/Freeport?

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You can choose to go to Freeport/Qeynos or DLW/FFS.

XP system is all sorts of fucked up, did all of newbie island and was leveling way too slow for the quests, went to DLW and same thing is happening. I cant even wear the gear I'm getting and most of the mobs for the quests are 2-3 levels above me. Not to mention I was already level 4 when I got to DLW.

Free 16-slot bag on the marketplace.

penalty_sl said:

XP system is all sorts of fucked up, did all of newbie island and was leveling way too slow for the quests, went to DLW and same thing is happening. I cant even wear the gear I'm getting and most of the mobs for the quests are 2-3 levels above me. Not to mention I was already level 4 when I got to DLW.

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I'm experiencing something similar, left the Isle at 6, done all I could in the Sprawl and the Ruins, which got me to 7 before the quests turned red. Now I have Graveyard and Sunken City left, which I doubt will be enough to get me to 10 or whatever the minimum level for a reasonable start in CL is. This is definitely better than just having people fly through the content, so I'm not complaining. I just hope there's enough grinding groups in CL and higher level zones. So far it seems that people stick together to their guild / premade groups a lot.

Level 9 Coercer named Coercion. Almost 10.

So who didn't punk out and actually rolled red? Flobees 11 illy atm

I've never played EQ2 before but was huge into EQ pvp. Are assassins any good? Also, someone explain what exiles means.

Luminati_sl said:

I've never played EQ2 before but was huge into EQ pvp. Are assassins any good? Also, someone explain what exiles means.

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All scouts are good atm from what I understand but yes, as I recall assassins are pretty legit 1v1, not sure in group v group. EQ2 pvp has three factions, good, evil, and exile. Exile is only a faction in the sense that it is not on the good nor the evil team. Exile is FFA anyone can kill you, including other exiles. They have the advantage of having access to all classes however which makes them preferred for PVE folks.

On top of what Flobee explained, Exile was part of the old betrayal quest system. For example: If you rolled a "good" character aligned with Qeynos and then later decided you wanted that character "evil" aligned with Freeport, there was a long'ish quest where you would basically sabotage / kill Qeynos aligned NPCs nuking your faction along the way. After a certain point in the quest, you would be banished from the city. You still didn't have enough Freeport faction either, so you had an Exile hub where you could bank and go about your business. Ideally, you would continue the betrayal quest and build your Freeport faction enough to be accepted there and class change if you wanted. From that point on you would lose access to Exile.

Some players just liked to hang in limbo and remain in Exile.

Exile aint complicated.

It's FFA pvp. All things being equal, it means you can attack 99% of the server instead of 50% or less.

Do we have a plan for the PvP server? Got home late from work. Got to lvl 5 and have to log for a full day tomorrow. Had a blast on the island though. Nice bit of nostalgia there.

Ok cool. So you can't start off as an exile but have to choose to become one basically. Seems interesting.

Another question. Is there a "best" race for assassins or do races not matter as much as they did in EQ1 like ogres making the best warriors etc.?

Rolled up on PVP. Got a Master chest on my first kill on the boat. Gave me my lvl 1 nuke. World first disco. Most of my guild is around 15-18 right now and we're hitting it pretty hardcore. I stopped playing a few hours ago after I hit 15 and did some pk'ing. My day was made when I logged in and saw this:



The boat ride and noobie island really were great. EQ2 had such promise in the beginning before they got scared of WoW and conformed.

Blitz_sl said:

How much like original EQ2 is this? Shit tons of ability bloat still etc?

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I mean its only 1-50 for now so ability bloat is going to be the same as classic

If you guys on PVE need a guild alot of us faceless guys are going to be raiding pretty casual compared to EQ1.http://eth3real.guildportal.com/is our website.

Damn those boat pics bring me back.....