Wuht wrote:
2. Weapons and armor are pretty lame in my opinion. Not many have special effects on them (flaming swords, etc...). If you have a super top of the end PC then they look good (if you look really close they are very detailed but most of the time the detail is lost) but otherwise they are pretty plain. This game was really designed for computers years down the road. Even now 2 years after release no computer can run it at it's best graphics.
Max Resolution Medium Worst/Lowest So as you can see, they can be pretty detailed, but you do have to have a pretty high end machine. The graphics were made in such a way to be progressive over time, so eventually we may see more particle effects on armor/weapons. Like Wuht said, even though they are detailed, you often wont really be looking at them that much and you do have to look close.
Anyways, the graphics overall are quite a sight to see, especially if you have a semi-decent PC and can turn up the graphics to a semi-high level. I wouldn't be at all shocked if some super high end pc could be built right now to run the game on full out max... I know several people say they run on the highest defualt setting (which isn't everything at full max) with about 20FPS or more. Some people think is decent and some think is a total slideshow, but keep in mind that TV and video run at 24 (iirc) and that the human eye isn't able to see a difference above like 40 or something (i'm TOTALLY not sure on that number) FPS.
You would probably need something like:
At least 3.5-4.0GHZ CPU
3+ GIGS (PC3200 or higher and maybe DDR2) of ram (even having 2 gigs over 1 makes a HUGE difference and most people who said they play at the very high settings have 2gigs, so 3 would probably allow you to come damn close to the max and 4 would be best)
512MB (DDR2 or even 3 for memory type) Video Card (if not SLI of those for a total of 1gig VRAM and the extra power, however I hear the preformance boost for that isn't worth the price atm)
Physx Card (not sure if EQ2 is able to work with this though, but it is basically a PCI card that is designed to take the load off the cpu/gpu for particle rendering, so if it is...)
SATA HDD
I guess even that may not be able to pull on full out max, but it'll probably come damn close. Probably the biggest thing you can upgrade to get higher preformance is going to be your ram though... there are so many textures and such that having them loaded into ram for quicker access then the HDD will cut down on swapping on should increase preformance.