Yes you have opened this thread. This is another one of those stupid noob threads that you all love or hate to read so just forwarning you now.
Ok was a long time ffxi player on playstation 2. I am now convinced EQ II is the next game i want to play. However, I have never played a MMO on a pc. As a matter of fact the only thing i can think of that I have played on pc is spider solitaire and the occasional bespelled.
With that said, I have been doing a lot of reading and trying to figure some things out about this game.
Im not too woried about the requirements to play this game as I think I am buying all the right hardware. What I am worried about is my ability to put a pc together as this is my very first PC that I am going to build myself. So once all the pieces get here finally i get to bust that cherry so to speak.
ok on to the questions and what not.
~~~first off a friend of mine use to play the orignal EQ and was telling me about it dont know if its the same. But about armor and weapons and currency does items have weight? such has if you had on massive armor would it slow you down if you are not strong enough to carry such heavy items?
~~~Just curious about population wise. It seems like there are a lot of people that play this game which is awsome. However, is there a low lvl population? Cause I know in the last days of my ff exp there was hardly any low lvl people and if there was low lvl people it was actual people just leveling a subjob to help his or her main. Wich would bring power levelers not to say I didnt mind that I just wouldnt want that being a new player trying to learn how things work.
~~~How about scamming? I know there was a lot of ruthless people in ff and trying to trick people especially new people. Didnt know if this was a problem with EQ.
~~~jobs from my understanding you can be any job with any race and lvl up multiple jobs not effecting the lvl of your other jobs all on the same character just curious if I have this right?
~~~ crafting is it possible? ok I know im comparing this to ff but hey only mmo ive played. I know in ff it would cost millions to raise lvls in crafting and was very unprofitable in a lot of cases. Unless you got to 100 + the guild items and even then is was very expensive. Just curious if profit can be made and if the economy is ok. cause in FF /sigh is all I can say.
~~~ fishing I heard from someone that there is fishing in EQ II is this true? I heard you can actually jump in the water and attack lol sound like barbaric fishing to me lol.
~~~ I was watching some of the videos over on the main EQ site and was very impressed. The thing that got me was the griffins I think...were a mount that looked amazing. oh and the baby dragon.
At the moment I am overly excited that I am going to play my frist pc game however I am scared about the fact that I am probly one of the ultimate noobs. Not sure how this mouse and keyboard thing is gonna work but I will find out soon I suppose. any additional comments to EQ and other great tips of info is all greatly appreciated.
before I wrote this I had a million and one questions but now my mind if blank and I cant think of anything