Everquest

mjn6172 · Post by **mjn6172** » 2006-02-02 11:16am

I've been getting an itch to play a MMORPG again. I played WoW for about 6 months but it just couldn't hold my interest. Eve Online got boring pretty quickly too, I didn't subscribe after the 14 day trial I had of it. City of Heroes just doesn't seem to fill it. I'm thinking of going back to Everquest again. I played it for ~6 years if I remember right (from the summer it came out until about a year and a half ago), but I'm a little hesitant about going back into it.

Does anyone here still play? What's the current state of the game? I know they merged the servers sometime last year, but that's about all I've heard since I left. Also, has anything interesting been added in the expansions? From looking at the information on the latest version, they've added Dragons of Norrath, Omens of War, and Depths of Darkhollow since I left.

Heck, maybe if we get enough people interested in this we could get a regular group together. I'm pretty sure my old guild (The Drunken Fishermen) disbanded after I left.

Haminal10 · Post by **Haminal10** » 2006-02-02 11:30am

I started playing again last year. I'm a lvl 55 Palidin on Tunare/E'ci by the name of Ulriqe.

As to the state of the game:
-Everquest is a very mature game, so the majority of their player base is in the higher lvls. Many of the lower lvl charactors that you will see running around are alts, and are twinked to high hell.
-Many of the zones that were popular when I played five years ago are pretty much devoid of life, and you will have them to yourself. The reason for this is that some of the best experience can be found in instanced zones. .You could in theory go from level 20-70 and not fight in a non-instanced zone.
-Because so much of the player base is high level, much of the new content is catered to them. If you start playing, I would advise you to grind to level 40 so that you can experience it.

That being said, I still have a blast playing. Sony is still releasing regular patches and new content, so you don;t have to worry about support suddenly drying up. I plan on playing until I hit 70, or if I get bored. Neither one has happened yet

Jaepheth · Post by **Jaepheth** » 2006-02-02 11:30am

I play Silkroad (Aege server)when I have enough time.

Stormin · Post by **Stormin** » 2006-02-02 02:12pm

If you are looking for pure PvE, EQ2 will have fewer expansions worth of stuff to work through. If you like some PvP with very little actual risk you can try out DAoC on classic servers.

mjn6172 · Post by **mjn6172** » 2006-02-03 10:29am

I've heard of Silkroad before, but I haven't really checked it out. Naturally it's blocked here at work, but I'll look into that when I get home.

I've tried DAoC a few times over the years, but it's never held my interest for more than a month or two. I remember that I liked the way their tradeskills work (particularly the training quests), but most of the rest of the game was just too bland. EQ2 might be another alternative, I've never tried that one.

What sort of instances are popular now in EQ? I remember LDoN's could be done pretty quickly and were very good experience back when I played, are there any other ones available for lower level players?

Thank you for the good information, keep it coming

Stormin · Post by **Stormin** » 2006-02-04 01:21am

mjn6172 wrote:I've tried DAoC a few times over the years, but it's never held my interest for more than a month or two. I remember that I liked the way their tradeskills work (particularly the training quests), but most of the rest of the game was just too bland.

Are you sure you have the right game? Tradeskilling is simply pushing a button, watching a green line move while waiting for a ding then pushing it again, it's the worst aspect of the game by far

If you are talking about dark age, have you tried since the classic servers came out? Allowing any account with a Level 50 on it to start new characters at level 20 was one of the worst ideas ever but there is no /level, out of group buffing or ToA on classics.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2006-02-05 02:31am

Haminal10 wrote:I started playing again last year. I'm a lvl 55 Palidin on Tunare/E'ci by the name of Ulriqe.

As to the state of the game:
-Everquest is a very mature game, so the majority of their player base is in the higher lvls. Many of the lower lvl charactors that you will see running around are alts, and are twinked to high hell.
-Many of the zones that were popular when I played five years ago are pretty much devoid of life, and you will have them to yourself. The reason for this is that some of the best experience can be found in instanced zones. .You could in theory go from level 20-70 and not fight in a non-instanced zone.
-Because so much of the player base is high level, much of the new content is catered to them. If you start playing, I would advise you to grind to level 40 so that you can experience it.

That being said, I still have a blast playing. Sony is still releasing regular patches and new content, so you don;t have to worry about support suddenly drying up. I plan on playing until I hit 70, or if I get bored. Neither one has happened yet

Hail fellow Tunarean.

I haven't played since before the mergers. One thing though, have single-player instances been implemented? I'd heard some time ago, well over a year, year and a half now, that solo instances were going to happen, but I haven't kept up.

EQ, last I saw, had lots of emptiness. Most of my EQ buddies went to WoW, but I'm just not as into WoW much lately.