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First Neriak is 1 zone, No zoning and zoning trying to get some where. You zone into Neriak and your done. Including the tradeskill area. Even better (drumroll please ). Theres a banker and a broker in the trade skill area.

Say it with me now.

Theres a banker in the trade skill area.

It is all together possable that some one is paying attention. I know, but hey Maybe there trying to start a trend.

Stuff like this started with EoF. Hal, you're so behind.. :P

I was about to post the same thing, but the bank is a laggy run and the broker isn't in the trades area like he used to be in freeport/qeynos.

'Tis a good move, verily.

Um, there's a banker and a broker right in the middle of Neriak Down Below...or are you talking about Kelethin now?
I'm confused. :?

NiX said it started with EoF, I pointed out the faults of the EoF version. I haven't been to Neriak (sub runs out in a couple days and I won't be logging in before then).

You should make the run to Neriak, ifonly to see the city, Sky.  It's all kinds of beautiful, but I'm a graphics whore and I admit it!  The architecture is gorgeous and no zoning is a treat.  I love how they did the tradeskill area as well (as Hal said, no separate zone and a banker right there!).  But then again, I've only come back to EQ2 after not playing anything since last September.

I get about a 5 second lag/stutter when I get near the tunnel mouth to the tradeskill area in Neriak from all the loading of textures and such.  I have 2 gigs of RAM and a 512 MB video card but it still needs to swap stuff off the hard drive for that area.

In other news I created yet another alt, this time a Brigand.  It's like a disease.

EQ2 still kills modern hardware. I have 2GB of good ram, e6600, 8800gtx with 768 VRAM and it still bogs in Kelethin (I do have lighting and shadows turned up, but not maxed...shadows might be maxed).

Rhyssa, I think I'm done with EQ2 for the summer. I did create a couple newbies for the expansion, but I'm totally pwned by the Civ4 FfH2 mod right now (and  :nda: when I need a shot of action). I like to have something big to look forward to when I return, and Neriak it is. My plan is to get my lvl 12 Necro over there somehow, I've saged him a few spells I don't want to lose creating a new one (fire bat!). So...October/November.

Is it still the home of the Teir'Dal or the dumb evil faeries? (Sorry, I really don't dig the fae at all) I played a dark elf necro in EQ on the Innoruuk server, I was into the whole dark elf thing back then. Used to know a bunch of the rp lore people had, the vendui and whatnot, though I've forgotten all that now.

It's still the Teir'Dal city.. the Queen finally took over and then unsealed the city if I read right.  My old guild was a bunch of RPing DEs and they were thrilled as they were queen supporters.

The best thing anyone could do to improve performance in EQ2 is turn shadows off. The implementation of them in the EQ2 engine is terrible.

ISTR reading somewhere that SOE are working on adding simple shadows (read: WoW-type 'blobs') to EQ2 for exactly that reason.

The thing about shadows is that for the few moments you notice a well done implementation of them you're like "WOW".  And then you never notice them again, because we see shadows all the time all the time and our brains process them out.

Actually, I'm consistently impressed with the shadows. Outside of the really packed newbie areas right now or Kelethin, my machine doesn't run too bad and they look completely splendid. EQ2 does a really good job with lighting and shadows (and reflections).

I could definitely see adding simple shadows, my old computer was a slide show with shadows on. Like .2 fps, if that.

I saw in the patch notes for June 1st that they added the capacity to get aquatic life, such as frog legs, in Darklight Woods.

Which is good, considering that the newbie crafting quest still asks you to make a Baked Frog Leg as the first item, heh.

My machine can't handle EQ2 shadows at any setting currently.  But I really really want them for one reason and one reason only: to be able to tell where griffons and other flying critters are!  Without a shadow under the dang thing, you just can't tell if it's a big one a long ways off or a little one about to bite your head off.

'Blob' shadows (a la WoW) are supposedly being worked on.