tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post4350466214124776756..comments2024-03-28T10:18:05.213+00:00Comments on Inventory Full: Drives A Little Slower: EQIIBhagpusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-76842459648672931902019-03-21T15:10:23.634+00:002019-03-21T15:10:23.634+00:00My recollection of EQ2 is a lot clearer and more e...My recollection of EQ2 is a lot clearer and more evidence-based and yes, it was pretty much a full-on group game from low levels. As Wilhelm said, you could just about pick your way to the tier 3 zones by finding the thin thread of solo content but it was very slow and very tedious. <br /><br />The entire thrust of the game design assumed you'd group up from about level 7 or so. They have added some of the overland group content back in for the new TLE server but it's an option you can do if you want, not anything you can't happily skip.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-18332010081870930052019-03-21T13:31:45.590+00:002019-03-21T13:31:45.590+00:00I remember EQII's launch exactly as you rememb...I remember EQII's launch exactly as you remember it, maybe even a bit harsher.<br /><br />On the Isle of Refuge I could play solo all right, but as soon as I set foot into Sunken City or The Spawl (or whatever it was called), let alone The Commonlands, a group was a must. Maybe I just sucked though.<br /><br />Don't need that back, ever.Mailvaltarhttp://mailvaltar.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-64242861348992692202019-03-21T10:16:51.956+00:002019-03-21T10:16:51.956+00:00Because I no longer have my chat logs from the fir...Because I no longer have my chat logs from the first four years I played EQ, I can't go back and check some of the things I often quote as "facts" from when I played back then. I know memory is a fictional construct so I don't ever trust it but it's all I have for this. I remember the first ten levels as a cleric, first real character I made, taking two weeks, during which I probably played at least twenty hours a week, maybe more (Mrs Bhagpuss and I were sharing both an account and a computer at that early stage so the traditional EQ player's 40 hour week was split in two). I also remember my Druid taking the best part of a year to get to the high 30s, although I did play a lot of other characters at the same time. Leveling speed as it was back then is hard to believe now. It seems like we must be exaggerrating or misremembering it. It's very intereting to hear that on P1999, where everyone has the huge advantage of two decades of experience and knows exactly what to do and where to go, it still takes a week of heavy play to get to Level 12!Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-70976843233494415962019-03-21T01:30:10.288+00:002019-03-21T01:30:10.288+00:00LVL 12 really sucked for me. I died a dozen times ...LVL 12 really sucked for me. I died a dozen times in Crushbone. Sometimes my fault, often others.<br /><br />I can't keep up the 5+ hours a day gameplay for sure. 16 is my big goal as an Enchanter<br />(I get Breeze) and 13-16 will take me a week at best. Will see the sticking power after thst.<br /><br />Much to my delight, people like grouping and due to downtime people like talking. That's the part of the Golden Age MMO part I do miss. <br /><br />The slow XP, corpse runs, loss of XP on death Not so much - but I am still grinding out the hours and having fun<br /><br />Iseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09489936780809266112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-88951886090435279532019-03-20T20:06:21.791+00:002019-03-20T20:06:21.791+00:00Funny you should mention that. I've just done ...Funny you should mention that. I've just done the same because I wanted to do the Frostfang crafting quest. Crafting is so ludicrously easy at low levels compared to adventuring. I started the Halas evils line when I was craft level 10 and the quests were flagged 15. Took me about half an hour and I did five levels before I ran out of electrum and had to go gather.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-57376095693594154302019-03-20T20:03:06.576+00:002019-03-20T20:03:06.576+00:00Yes, the "must have group" thing really ...Yes, the "must have group" thing really kicked in at what I think we called Tier 3, the newbie zones in the cities being T1, Antonica and Commonlands T2 and Thundering Steps and Nek Forest being T3. That said, I would guess well over half of Ant/CL was heroic and even the newbie zones had plenty of heroic mobs - remember those bears? And even where there were solo mobs the heroics wandered through all the time. Anf the solo mobs gave terrible xp.<br /><br />I wonder if it was really as bad as I remember it? Maybe I'm doing the reverse of what the rose-tinted spectacle crew do... No, I'm pretty sure it was that bad. Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-67350151347938244332019-03-20T19:56:08.285+00:002019-03-20T19:56:08.285+00:00I am lvl 14 or so right now with some casual play....I am lvl 14 or so right now with some casual play. I was having a tough time too. I swapped over to Frostfang. It's a little more streamlined and got some better gear for over lvl 10.Topauznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-72515274772987490072019-03-20T17:16:36.293+00:002019-03-20T17:16:36.293+00:00I remember picking up the quests that you could do...I remember picking up the quests that you could do to help level up your guild, or some of the horrible book quests that were just a chain of "kill ten things" for you to track down, because there were at least some you could do solo. I went through Qeynos then, and Antonica wasn't horrible for solo, though most gnoll groups were heroic, but once you got to the Thundering Steppes it was pretty much all group focused. This is probably why I spent so much time crafting back then.Wilhelm Arcturushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033496821708933394noreply@blogger.com