(I tried to get the WoW enthusiasts to lay off squawking about the thread being there... it somewhat worked... a little... maybe? )
PentUpAnger wrote:
Now I realize that my opinion doesnt matter to anyone here but here is my two cents on EQ2.
Last year I stopped playing WoW in April, and I went back to FFXI for a couple of months... In June I decided to ditch FFXI again and went to EQ2...
I REALLY enjoyed EQ2, and then at around L.35 Shaman I hit a wall. Questing didnt seem fun anymore, and I sure wasnt going to go out grinding... there was nothing left for me to see or do that I WANTED to see or do.
Sure there was the new Desert of Flames expansion pack (that I did buy and install.. and couldnt really do much in at L.35), but I just couldnt bring myself to play EQ2 anymore... it lost its newness to me.
I hated how you crafted, and I hated how a lot of the content [see: L.30+] that required you to do quests and such was centered around killing a group of heroic enemies which was very difficult without a group... and I hate being made to group when I dont want to 90% of the time. So I quit EQ2 in July or August. (this was all before the revamp of classes)
Came back to WoW in September or so.
Then last month I decided to try out EQ2 again, so me and a buddy jumped on and started new characters. It was like last June all over.. I enjoyed everything about the game except two things... no more class quests :'( and the crafting still sucked (IMO, of course). This time I picked to be a Conjurer and was having a hell of a good time playing.
Then after about a week playing Sony did the new Live Update and revamped the crafting system (AMEN!), so I was REALLY having fun.
Then it happened...
I started to accept quests that had me going into Heroic monster encounters which wasnt too bad, so I started my L.20 Armor Quests and was able to slowly but surely get through the first two quests... til I accepted the third and it was sending me into Stormhold. The third armor quest was listed as a L.21 Heroic and everything I needed to kill was L.18^^^ Heroic (or somewhere around there)... Now if you ever played EQ2 you would know that ^^^Heroic monsters are damn hard even with a group. Even at L.22-23 I couldnt kill these easily solo.
Anyway... I figured I didnt have to get that quest done right then, so I went to Thundering Steppes to get to L.24 and to get my Tellurian Soldier, which from what I remember from playing before was a real badass and could tank like mad.... so here I am awaiting the day that I get the Soldier and are able to withstand some tough monsters. The day finally arrives and I ding L.24 and I get the new most awesome pet EVAH... right? ...not really...
The soldier is a better tank than my centipede pet, but no where near what I expected... so I go and try to kill a L.18^^^ Heroic in Stormhold and I cant heal my pet fast enough to keep him alive and of course it dies and I die about 2 seconds later. This is with an Adept I healing spell, but the soldier was just an Apprentice I spell.
So I am sitting here (like 3 days ago) wondering if I can tough it out til my next tank pet, and I decide that I dont think I can so I go ahead and cancel my EQ2 account yet again. Mainly because I didnt want to group. I just had no wanting need to keep doing the same "Go kill 10 [insert mob here]" quests in order to get me my levels....
I might have picked the wrong class... I even thought about keeping the account open and playing a Monk... but if I cant devote at least 10 hours a week to it I dont think I need to keep it open... :/
I have a baby on the way and as of right now I have FFXI and WoW payments, and I just dont think I could get away with EQ2 payments on top of that.
I have thought about cancelling FFXI and keeping EQ2 and WoW, and I am still not 100% that I wont do that... we'll see.
(side note: Yes... I know I griped about not wanting to party... and yes... I realize you cant do anything in FFXI without a party... I just cant bring myself to cancel FFXI mainly because I bought the XBox 360 FFXI and installed it on the XBox already and have yet to play the 360 version. I always just play the PC version. Yeah... I wasnt too smart with that purchase. :/ )
Last year I stopped playing WoW in April, and I went back to FFXI for a couple of months... In June I decided to ditch FFXI again and went to EQ2...
I REALLY enjoyed EQ2, and then at around L.35 Shaman I hit a wall. Questing didnt seem fun anymore, and I sure wasnt going to go out grinding... there was nothing left for me to see or do that I WANTED to see or do.
Sure there was the new Desert of Flames expansion pack (that I did buy and install.. and couldnt really do much in at L.35), but I just couldnt bring myself to play EQ2 anymore... it lost its newness to me.
I hated how you crafted, and I hated how a lot of the content [see: L.30+] that required you to do quests and such was centered around killing a group of heroic enemies which was very difficult without a group... and I hate being made to group when I dont want to 90% of the time. So I quit EQ2 in July or August. (this was all before the revamp of classes)
Came back to WoW in September or so.
Then last month I decided to try out EQ2 again, so me and a buddy jumped on and started new characters. It was like last June all over.. I enjoyed everything about the game except two things... no more class quests :'( and the crafting still sucked (IMO, of course). This time I picked to be a Conjurer and was having a hell of a good time playing.
Then after about a week playing Sony did the new Live Update and revamped the crafting system (AMEN!), so I was REALLY having fun.
Then it happened...
I started to accept quests that had me going into Heroic monster encounters which wasnt too bad, so I started my L.20 Armor Quests and was able to slowly but surely get through the first two quests... til I accepted the third and it was sending me into Stormhold. The third armor quest was listed as a L.21 Heroic and everything I needed to kill was L.18^^^ Heroic (or somewhere around there)... Now if you ever played EQ2 you would know that ^^^Heroic monsters are damn hard even with a group. Even at L.22-23 I couldnt kill these easily solo.
Anyway... I figured I didnt have to get that quest done right then, so I went to Thundering Steppes to get to L.24 and to get my Tellurian Soldier, which from what I remember from playing before was a real badass and could tank like mad.... so here I am awaiting the day that I get the Soldier and are able to withstand some tough monsters. The day finally arrives and I ding L.24 and I get the new most awesome pet EVAH... right? ...not really...
The soldier is a better tank than my centipede pet, but no where near what I expected... so I go and try to kill a L.18^^^ Heroic in Stormhold and I cant heal my pet fast enough to keep him alive and of course it dies and I die about 2 seconds later. This is with an Adept I healing spell, but the soldier was just an Apprentice I spell.
So I am sitting here (like 3 days ago) wondering if I can tough it out til my next tank pet, and I decide that I dont think I can so I go ahead and cancel my EQ2 account yet again. Mainly because I didnt want to group. I just had no wanting need to keep doing the same "Go kill 10 [insert mob here]" quests in order to get me my levels....
I might have picked the wrong class... I even thought about keeping the account open and playing a Monk... but if I cant devote at least 10 hours a week to it I dont think I need to keep it open... :/
I have a baby on the way and as of right now I have FFXI and WoW payments, and I just dont think I could get away with EQ2 payments on top of that.
I have thought about cancelling FFXI and keeping EQ2 and WoW, and I am still not 100% that I wont do that... we'll see.
(side note: Yes... I know I griped about not wanting to party... and yes... I realize you cant do anything in FFXI without a party... I just cant bring myself to cancel FFXI mainly because I bought the XBox 360 FFXI and installed it on the XBox already and have yet to play the 360 version. I always just play the PC version. Yeah... I wasnt too smart with that purchase. :/ )
BLARGH!!
So... I cancelled FFXI (yet again) and I really want to keep playing EQ2 (cancelled 3-4 days ago)... all of this talk has made me want more... but..
I dont know if I can contribute enough of my "I dont feel like playing WoW tonight" time to get a new character up and running... especially starting on a new server. When I went back to EQ2 last month I started a Conjurer on the server The Bazaar just because my friend knew someone on that server... well the person he knew only played with us three times and apart from those times we were running around solo doing stuff.
Dont get me wrong... I really REALLY dont like being forced to group and getting help to do quests isnt that bad... but I despise having to group for EXP.... but I like to have people to talk to and ones that will help when needed, and I would even be willing to help when I got to a point where I could. The PvP aspect sounds really cool, but the PvP in WoW turned me off of PvP realms and now I am afraid to even roll a character on one. (I hated getting ganked by a L.?? Rogue/Warrior/Hunter/ETC when I was only trying to complete a quest at L.15)
I just started a Human Paladin (L.11) and a Troll Warrior (L.6) in WoW, and I am already wanting to play EQ2 again when I just stopped playing 4 days ago... but I also want to play the new characters on WoW... I am a very confused MMOer at this time... ::cry:: :'( ;_;
HELP ME!!! ( ¬_¬) (._. )
Edited, Jun 28th 2006 at 9:25pm EDT by PentUpAnger