Classic Everquest II Server

[MagpieRockyl]

GAME LOOKS LIKE SHIT

[Valakut]

eq2 vanilla was whats up. no need for progression.

[Bessy]

Playing on eqII progression pvp server was really awesome when Nizzar was the Leader. We ruled the server. But i have a family now and cant really bathphone and pvp over a raid mob for a coupe of hours.

[ibetweenk]

i got my 2nd best cyber sex in eq2. 1 time i was a very pretty, lithe 14yo effete,& i had brought my pc to a friends house & wound up like stealth on the floor dizzy off my older internet man with him in the room

[Darksinga]

I loved eq2 pvp.

Granted, I was always about the low-mid range game, my Brigand was capped at level 32. Would just log in and pvp (you could actually earn XP off pvp, lol.)

One of my top memories was killing some noob in the Peat Bogg (sewers type zone for evils to enter into Qeynos,) and this guy had 10 plat on him (plat was huge in EQ2, unlike how it is in EQ1.)

1 Plat back then was the equivalent to thousands of plat for EQ1, so imagine killing some one on a brand new server, and looting 10k.

Was glorious, and I miss vanilla EQ2 pvp!

[Wonkie]

a plat exploit ruined every eq2 servers economy on launch. something to do with companion pets?

anyway i liked killing bears in the first zone and would sub a month to do that then quit

[Rick Sanchez]

i played up to TSO expansion and overall enjoyed enough.

[Zekayy]

Bump

[Bisonzabi]

Originally Posted by Zekayy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How does the idea of a classic EQ II server sound after p99 blue reaches its final patch I know I would love something like this, I would love to hear your thought.

Augh it's hard to really tell if an EQ2 server would be any good or not. I played the game from 2004-2014, it had its ups and down. Features that were needed and some features that were not needed at all. EQ2 at launch was a rushed game and the gameplay mechanics were changed constantly over the course of the following 2 years. Some of the mechanics were grind sake for the pure purpose of stretching out the content, the type of grind that was frowned upon in SoL/GoD expansions in EQ1 such as 'EVERYONE NEEDS A QUEST COMPLETED TO GAIN ACCESS TO EVERY SINGLE OVERLAND/CONTESTED/INSTANCE ZONE' That was fucking bullshit and you basically had to spend time each night helping someone complete an access quest just to dungeon crawl. So I guess it comes down to, what era of EQ2? Because within six months the game was already drastically different in particular aspects that were added. Or is this DoF or KoS EQ2 we're talking about? Usually the people who talk shit about the game are the ones who didn't play it during the golden era of raiding which was EoF-SF (expansion 3-6) and brushed it off during beta or launch. I would definitely say the raid bosses got harder and harder over the course of time as pre-EoF was primarily just tank and spank mechanics with a few exceptions like The Djinn Master.

My favorite period was unironically Shadow Oddyessy due to the raid content on top of Rise of Kunark. Sure, RoK did indeed fuck up the status by giving everyone ridiculous stat bonuses on weapons/armor such as increased crit (RIP unique Berserker status) for practically everything.
Character
https://u.eq2wire.com/soe/character_detail/871878775191
Also god damn has the power creep gone crazy in the past 3 years. Back when I retired once SoE became DBG I had around 500,000-750,000hp (depending on offense/defense gear I had) now the average 110 player has 50,000,000-80,000,000hp

The game was a fucking nightmare in optimization though. SoE dropped the ball hard and really fucked up with making the game CPU oriented rather than taking advantage of the GPU. They assumed Intel would keep making single core CPU's and within a year of its launch Duo Core's were a thing and the game didn't utilize multi-core CPU's until years later and it was only for certain graphical enhancements, not all. So the game ran like shit and looked like shit in 2004 unless you could play Medium if you had a Pentium 4 HT 3.2ghz+ CPU. Though even artistically vanilla EQ2 looked like shit, they all that cool as fuck conceprt art for weapons/armor in loading screens yet NONE of it was in the game. Wonderful baiting SoE. Bravo.

[Bisonzabi]

Originally Posted by holesum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Didn't read

don't care