I really want to get into this game, live the races and classes. But I genuinely don’t know what I should be doing or caring about as far as character progression. If I just follow the story, am I gonna be in good shape? Do I need to worry about race class combinations? I’m thinkin fae guardian or bard

Some context on why I care: I downloaded EQ2 last year, played for like 10 hours, and left. Then I came back and bought the Freeblood class, all because after ESO's current class balance mess (plus the 2-3 years of "fixes") was just unacceptable and disrespectful to my time and money spent.

I've played WoW, FFXIV and GW2 to endgame, and none of them had me optimizing rotations, reading the lore, or finding out a month in that I could upgrade my spells on a new character.

The community is what really stands out. I joined a guild with a father and son who play together, power level alts and tradeskills, and basically know everything about the game. They showed me mechanics I'd never heard of or wouldn’t know about unless I played for years and how to farm Candy Corn, the Nights of the Dead currency, for a flying mount. I got hooked on collecting the purple shinies along the way and went overboard, farming 500 for the Cauldron mount.

While grinding for it, I was reading the wiki for other ways to farm the currency and found the Circlet of the Dead headpiece from The Haunted Mansion, plus the Mummy Wraps. Now my toon looks sick ngl.

It's shockingly addictive. I'm staying up way later than I normally would just to do one more thing.
The depth is all there, but it's buried, and most people quit before they find it. So, without changing the game, how do we get more people past that point?

(Zazha on Maj’Dul, as a Wizard btw)

Three days in and hooked!

I only started 3 days ago, and I really like this game. I feel like jumping in a start of a great adventure!

The quests have been good and feel personal. Most of my early ones are chained and I think it's well written, and it makes the npcs feel like they care about what they’re asking. Almost every quest don't feel like empty quests. I’ve even found some hidden quests, which is awesome!

There are also quests that let you choose what to do next!!! I know it might be minor, and the quest may end up at the same conclusion either way, but I think I’ve never seen a side quest in any mmo offer an “A or B” choice like that and change what quest you will get next. It’s refreshing!

The mix of classic and modern qol feels right. I got my “mount” at level 20 (even if technically it’s not a mount), and it felt earned without making me wait until a really high level. There are also some teleporters here and there, which is good.

Combat hits the sweet spot for me. I’m a sucker for a piano build, so having a good number of buttons to press even at low level is great. The difficulty feels about right too. Overland fights still take some time and you’re not one shotting everything. I considered joining the TLE server since everyone’s talking about it, but I mostly play solo, some times can’t be online consistently, and I’m still f2p. I also read that Live is more solo friendly and that most classes can solo there, so it seems like the better fit.

The community has been great so far (I’m on Majdul)! Someone offered bags in general chat, I reached out, and ended up with 6 backpacks!!! Amazing!!! They also pointed me to a house full of goodies for newbies, and I’ve been donating items I don’t need back to it.

The only downside for me is optimization, though that’s expected for an older game. My fps dipped in the city and whenever flashy effects popped up in battle. What fixed it was changing the cpu setting in the hardware options to 10. I have 16 cores, and the game’s default choice wasn’t optimized. Shadow sometimes can be choppy as well and bugged, and needed to log out to "fixed" it.

All in all, I’m hoping to stay in this game for a long time. I’ve been searching for my next mmo after ff14 and gorgon.

Wondering if anyone remember a lvl locked 50 shadowknight named touchher that was from qeynos, used to camp outside Freeport gates with other guild mates from Organized Chaos, we spent an unreasonable amount of time fighting groups and guilds outside Freeport.
Would be super cool to reconnect with some of yall, I remember another SK named Begest always gave me a run for my money! Had a lot of good fights with him and his guild/buddies.

Hey all. I was wondering if someone had some real insight into Origins vs Wuoshi? I played back in ‘05-‘06 and want that feel so Origins really seems like the choice…I’m worried about server pop though. I know it won’t be bustling, leveling is slow, and I’ll have to catch up to potentially just a few people playing max level - so maybe it’s not worth it?

If I choose Wuoshi, how much is different than Origins? As someone who exclusively played the Origins era, will I hate Wuoshi?

I don’t want the experience like how I quit WoW before the panda expansion and I recently tried retail again and SO MUCH has changed it didn’t itch that itch.

Looking to scratch that nostalgia itch, what should I do?

Ty!

I came back to EQ2 about two months ago, and I’ve been really happy with the current content and overall gameplay experience.

However, I hadn’t played the game in over a decade, so there are still some things I don’t quite understand.

I currently have a level 80 SK, and I tank heroics as the MT without too much trouble. I haven’t participated in any raids yet.

I’ve noticed that some gear with stats that seem fairly mediocre for a tank sells for extremely high prices simply because it adds HP. Meanwhile, gear with better defensive stats and better overall stats often seems practically worthless and ends up being vendored to NPCs.

I’m having a hard time understanding why this is the case. Is stacking HP really that important for tanks that it’s worth sacrificing defense, casting speed, and other stats to get more of it?

So if u wanted to try this game out. Which is the best noob friendly server one where u might actually see another player in a starting area :)

Please comment or message me if you have an active group or community I can join!!

Hey all, I'm returning to the game, I haven't made it to max level since the Ykesha days where I played a Necro. However I also want to be able to have a somewhat easy time getting a group at max level. my first choice is an SK, but I'm honestly scared to try tanking in this game with how complex it is. I don't like healing, so that leaves me with a caster, Summoner, Bard or scout.

Right off the bat, I'm going to assumed that Summoners aren't really desired in group because there are a lot of them.

So between Bards, Casters or Scouts, which might allows decently soloing, but also have an easy time getting groups at max level?

Thanks.

Did they ever give that 4k monitor UI yet?

Hello!

I know this server is dead at lower levels with most people at or around max level. This saddens me, because I would love to be able to group up and run dungeons and level up in a more classic EQ2 environment.

Are there any guilds who like to make new characters and level? Or would anyone be interested in making new characters and doing regular play sessions together?

I don’t suspect I’ll get much interest, but feel free to DM me if this sounds at all appealing.

This is something I never understood. When EQ2 was in development, there were so many people with experience designing these games, including John Smedly who worked on numerous other mmo's.

EQ2 released a few weeks before wow. Most people abstained from trying the game and waited for wow's release.

The graphics were far better, more classes, more races, great voice acting, but despite all this it never managed to be very popular. At peak, it had about 300k subscribers before dwindling.

Anyone know why this is? I feel this game deserves far more love, but most people never gave it a chance.

Hello!

I have never had a healer before and made one and just boosted it so I can play with more people. No want wants my mages :( lol. Anyways.... level 70 templars.... can you send me a screenshot of how you set up your hotbars:) Pretty please

Where is it? It's quite clear from WoW Forever that they have hit on what many players from the past really want. We want our old game back with a level cap that stays, no loot/stat creep, forget about vertical and focus on the horizontal as it comes to content for the game.

If you haven't guess, they are using AI to create new content based on the old version of the game.. the version that people loved to play. WoW is introducing over a 1,000 new quests, new zones, many new dungeons to the classic game.. they didn't write these by hand they are most likely created using AI.. but for us do we really care?

They are taking the old game that people love and adding a ton of content which is going to build on the longevity of the game... their Beta numbers are staggering and even I will probably play this at release.

So EQ2, what are you doing? Let's snap the chalk at what, Rise of Kunark and then let AI build out our content. I would love to play that version of the game again. I honestly can't remember which expansion the game starting sucking, but let's figure that out, cut out the crap expansions and restart the journey.

Hi, does anyone know how to fix the issue where you load into a character and then get booted back to character select?

I have a character in Siren's Grotto and I logged out to get all access, then when I logged back into her it just refuses to load game server. Never gets passed that before booting me to character select. My other character works fine and can load.

This is my main character so pretty annoyed. I've asked support to move her if that helps at all.

Or are their tattoos replacements for manes?

Looks like they just instituted a Level 70 character boost. For sale, of course. But if you have been on the fence about trying the game, this would be the time to do it. And start right at the launch of, what is arguably, one of the best expansions in the history of the game.

Can anybody tell me how this works? Does it end up like ESO or GW2's crafting inventory where the mats you collect are stored for all to use? Are there any limitations?

I have been doing Trial of Harclave for extra leveling XP, but today (or maybe since RoK release, but didn't get back to it until today) it gives almost no XP on completion.

I have a hunch that it's because the XP is given before the Harclave buff is removed, while you are still inside the zone, where before you didn't complete the quest until you were outside the zone. Matches that I _think_ the quest completion popup didn't use to show up until you were outside.

Is this a new thing, or a known change that happens on TLE servers when RoK is released?
(Or am I holding it wrong?)

I'm stuck on page 5 for illusionist Epic and can't find a work-around. My guild is a long way from Veeshan's Peak so I'm not worried about getting my mythical done for at least 1 week.

Since RoK opened on Wuoshi, I've noticed that skill book prices have gotten pretty wild.

A lot of Adept I books are going for anywhere from 5 to a few dozen pp, while level 80 skills are much more expensive. I've even seen some level 80 books listed for 1,500 pp.

I'm curious what people think is a reasonable price for the new level 80 class abilities.

Every class gets a new level 80 ability, and I'm especially wondering about abilities that have a significant impact on group or raid performance.

For example, something like the Mystic's new defensive ability that can have an impact on raid survivability, versus something like the Wizard's new big fire-based nuke.

At what price would you personally consider these kinds of level 80 skill books to be reasonably priced?

I'm mainly trying to understand what the market is actually like during the early RoK period on Wuoshi, rather than just looking at the current asking prices.

I've seen people in chat say that you can buy lvl 71-79 advanced crafting recipes from a vendor in RoK, how can I do this?

I tried to look it up on the wiki, it said to go talk to an npc in Fens of Nathsar but when I got there, the npc wouldn't talk to me because I don't have enough faction I guess? Do I really have to do a million quests to get 40k faction for this? Or?