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Arti
Artificial Kid - 5 Priest

Cheddar
Jeboob - 28 Swashbuckler - 27 Armor Crafter
Olub - 16 Shaman
Liij - 12 Outfitter
Deoj - 12 Scholar

Cheddars Friend
Ulose - 5 Scout
 
Lt. Dan
Mordy - 21 Wizard
Kharmon - 19 Druid

Miasma
Stopgap - 33 Conjurer - 37 Provisioner

Mi Ties
Pook - 13 Predator
Tessila - 9 Priest

Mr. Hat
Cerrano - 21 Monk
Jamal - 18 Predator
Jaybles - 6 Mage
Silks - 10 Summoner

Nebu
Nebu - 18 Rogue

Nix
Eckae - 9 Scout

Nix's friend
Fheir - 9 Scout

Ookii
Rawrimalion - 25 Paladin

Sauced
Saucy - 17 Enchanter

Schild
Sterno - 25 Conjurer

Signe
Signe - 14 Cleric
Midden - 22 Monk
Staberella - 8 Scout

Sky
Caviglia - 19 Sorcerer

Soukyan
Wikybiky - 20 Dirge
Soukyan - 6 Priest

SuperPopTart
Mockery - 23 Mystic
Arissia - 11 Summoner

Surlyboi
Tyburon - 15 Predator

Velorath
Kelthoss - 19 Bard

VoodLily
Voodoolily - 16 Summoner




You can view the most current guild stuffs at: http://eq2players.station.sony.com/en/guild.vm?guildId=496208 .  Schild, you never told us you created a guild website thingy!  lol, internet indeed.

I am really having a good time and I hope others will join us in Bat Country (EQ2 edition)!

My computer crapped out. But I'll be playing as soon as we finish "fixing it." Right now only a 10gig harddrive is available to me.

keke la.  Not sure how you want things to go with the guild, so lemme know if I step on your toes.  Or you can demote me.  Or you can pat me on the head and tell me its all going to be ok.  All I know is I am having a blast and it is making me giddy.   :hello_kitty:

I am Klytemnestra, will join as soon as someone invites me.

Edit: I'm a level 6 fighter looking to go monk.

I'll probably re-up my subscription when I get back on Jan 5th.  By the looks of it, you guys are all on the good side... what server?

Steamfont.

So what should I choose?

I <3 Monks but it's a group game and Monks seem like a hybrid, and no one likes hybrids.

You'd think schild would at least list me:

Rawrimalion - 15 Crusader on Steamfont!

Good Lord, it's Ookii!

Yes, and if you actually played we could frolic in the rolling hills of Antonica!

Just think of all the badgers we could kill.

Cheddar,

Fix the guild bank permissions.  Currently only senior members can withdraw.

keke.  I swear I had regular members set to withdraw.  Maybe I am stupid.  Ill look into it soon as I can.

You did, but you didn't set limits and the default is 0. 

Oh my.  Thanks babe!

So... do any of you play during normal hours?  The thought of starting over on a new server and playing with random people scares me.  If I know that I can group with most of you, it seems a lot less painful.

Yes.  And as you can see by the roster, we have a good spread of levels. 

Souk, where are you!

Add me to the list:

Nebu - Level 8 Mage

Might as well take me off  the list, I'm unsubbing at least until I feel like buying more RAM.

Was trying to make a non-fugly gnome methinks. ;)

BTW, Ched. Add Wikybiky under my name as well. Level 10 bard atm. Looks like that'll be my main. Thanks in advance.

Updated list. 

I'd hope nobody on that list would swipe things from the guild bank, but whatever.

My sorcerer/wizard, Caviglia, should probably be added. I think he's 11th.

The guild bank is always completely full. It's meant to be swiped from. Speaking of, I've got some stuff I need to put in it.

I'm going to take something from it today. I don't know what quite yet but something.

And I hit 16, halfway now to 17. Soon I shall be..Mystic or..Defiler.. can't decide what so if anyone out there has any experience/advice, please let me know.

Sometimes I think your guys are an eleborate ruse to get me to play games I am trying to avoid.

(Is there a smite cleric type class?)

There is an "evil" cleric called an Inquisitor, but you would have to stay in Freeport and that city will suck the life out of you.

Depends on what you exactly mean by smite cleric. All healers can heal well enough to be a main healer in a group. From what I have seen the following holds true as far as what else they can do:

Templar/Inq: Great group buffs.
Warden/Fury: Decent DD and DoT spells
Mystic/Defiler: Good Debuffs

There are also slight differences in healing style. All classes have at least one or two direct heals. Templars have reactive heals that go off when your tank is hit. Wardens/Fury's have heal over time spells that go off every 2 seconds or so. And Mystics have something else =)

I am concerned about mechanics.  Heal/Damage/Utility class like Pre-nerf Smite Clerics in DAoC,  Shadow Priests in WoW, and Corruptors in CoV(which I'd still play if PUGs hadn't become a rare beast).

I'm currently playing a notyetmonk and a notyetswashbuckler.

About to start a notyetsummoner.

I'm guessing that if you want something like an original Smite Cleric from DAoC, then you'll probably want to go Warden as they have the most DD spells, or it appears so. I haven't actually played one. I had made a priest with the intent of being a Fury (DoT for teh win!), but Hat made me stop and start all over again. Now I'm happily running around as a Bard... soon to be sad and a Dirge. ;)

As to actual mechanics of play, grab the Trial of the Isle and roll up a priest. Smite is your first damage spell. Get level 5 or 6 and grab a few other folks and try the Orc instance to get a feel for how the class will play. When you sub-class, things can begin to change so it's no guarantee that you'll like it, but priests can hold their own fairly well. I don't know that you're going to find something identical to pre-nerf Smite Clerics from DAoC because they were pretty powerful (thus the nerfs, obviously), but it's worth at least playing because the mechanics are similar but not identical to other MMOGs.

Dirge

AKA The Rapper.

Wikybiky coming at you with the mad rhymes yo!

The first thing I perform is going to be a tribute... to the greatest song in the world.

I love you.

Sounds like you would probably want to play a Warden then. I have one at 29 right now and he plays well solo and even better in groups. My spell line up constists of a main nuke w/ fast recast time, 2 DoTs, root w/ snare, AE emergency root, a Heal over time, 2 different direct heals with minor regen components, group regen & mitigation buff, self mitigation buff w/ wolf form, damage shield, melee buff (increase all melee skills), and a wis&agi stat buff. Oh and of course SoW.

In group your role is mainly to heal but you also have time to throw out some damage as well.

Solo, you have two options. With all your buffs you can actually stand toe-to-toe fairly well and melee and cast. Or you can root and nuke/dot. I use a combination of both. Root/Nuke to soften them up and melee to finish. Doing it that way I usually don't need to heal after it's over. If you melee the whole time you may need to heal during or after.

Updated.

Updated roster.  Please feel free to raid the guild bank for skill books!

We need to think about clearing out stuff that isn't getting used.  I've had some stuff to place in the bank over the past few days and there just hasn't been any room.  Also, if noone is going to play a crusader I'd sell the Master I book I dropped in there and use the money to buy something other people need (or donate it to crafters).

Ookii is a crusader. He's just been busy. I'll get him to log in tonight and clean some of that stuff out. I'll come in as well and check up. Todays the first day I can breathe through my nose in over a week. It feels...new.

I have a few crusader books as well.  Ill mail them soon as I have the time.

Tebonas, soon(or not-so-soon)-to-be Shaman joined the ranks of Bat Country after liberating himself from the German language crutches.

Ill get this updated soon as I have time.

I made a frog priest, who I plan to make a warden.  But he has only has 20 wis, are those few extra points a big deal?

Not really. Gear and buffs will soon fix that and eventually you'll stop looking for Wis gear all together because you reached the cap (7 x level I think). All it does right now is give a few extra power points but unless you are constantly in groups that are pushing the limits of your ablility you'll never have a problem.

Updated Bat Country link (http://eq2players.station.sony.com/en/guild_roster.vm?mode=character_level&guildId=2611206).

I might just copy my character to the test server or beta server or whatever those other servers are and play there.  So far everyone I've met on the new server annoys me.  EVERYONE has a horse or a carpet and they kept stealing all my hearts!  I hate them all.  I'll just pretend all of you are with me... most of my friends in my life have been imaginary anyway.

I've found the people really pretty cool, and helpful. But then, I've long since been used to being way behind on the achievement curve :)

(and having come from the Test Server, I don't think you'll find it any different there. Never having been wiped, they're as old as any established server I think. KoS beta maybe, though not sure how character copy works, if at all, and that's end soon anyway... or, I could just say: staayyyy)

Erm, anyway, I forgot to ask to be added to the Roster:

Darniaq
Goodie two shoes Warlock

Test server is pretty empty, though.  After today, I might like that.

I feel dirty. I need a shower.

I bought the game this weekend. I have now leveled my own assassin on my own account. I am Gracchus, the level 11 Human Assassin in Freeport. I need help. Not game help, but actual mental help. I swore I'd never buy another SOE game.

You and me both. I never had the same level of hate, but you played EQ1 much longer and higher level than I :) I swore I was done with EQ2. But then they went ahead and made it more like WoW, in a good way, leaving other stuff intact that left it apart (unlike SWG). No greater example of autonomous development teams exists than what we've seen with EQ2 and SWG.

Anyway, sorry to dive into a rant. Just notable that the sweeping changes to this title actually do improve the overall experience, from the get-go.

Yeah, the game is a TON better than it was when I left it in beta. As you should expect but don't always get (such as in SWG's case). I still think WoW has more style, and EQ2 could use some instanced battleground type PVP on the PVE servers, but other than that... it's a fun enough diversion game.

I'm going to go mess around a bit in DDO until the twentieth when Oblivion comes out, then I'm going to play that an awful lot.  So I cancelled my sub today, I'll probably be back in a few months since I do like the game as it is now.  See you all then if you're still around, I'm sure you will have all outlevelled me and I still won't be able to group with you but for the opposite reason :wink:.

On a side note when you try to cancel EQ2 through the web it asks you to answer your secret question nonsense even though you've already logged in with your username and password.  I never enter those correctly as I think they are huge security holes, I just type in gibberish.  It seems silly because if someone did get a hold of your user/password they could delete all of your characters but they couldn't do something as mundane and easily fixed as cancelling your subscription.  I think it's just to make it harder to cancel, I had to phone them and listen to the most god-awful on hold music I have ever heard to fix it.  And after all that she only asked me for my login name and real name, there was no phone number/address/visa/birthday verification.  Anyone here who has mentioned their real name and use their handle to log in could be unsubscribed.

Add me to the roster.

I'll wait.
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... and Darniaq.

And within the context of an Everquest thread - ding grats 1000.

You can cross me off the list.  After about 3 weeks I surpassed my typical PvE grinding threshold and went back to DAoC. 

Has DAoC changed so much that statement is no longer oxymoronic? I left, err, over three years ago because I found nothing but a grind :)

I can get to the endgame in about a week and enjoy the portion of the game that I enjoy (PvP).  In EQ2 I get to PvE for weeks and weeks only to arrive at an endgame that I'm unable to enjoy (raiding).  Everytime I play a PvE game, I think it will remain fun and interesting only to have my bubble burst.

While the PvE in DAoC is terrible and a grind, I can endure it for a short while knowing that the endgame is at least something a) enjoyable and b) I can participate in without a group. The fact that I have endgame toons on 6+ servers also makes the game attractive. 

Ah ok that's cool. Yea, PvE is sorta pointless unless you like repetitive PvE :) Your ability to hit PvP-levels in DAoC is basically why I liked SB for as long as I did. Hitting max level was about a week, and it was fun to PvP when ya got there. At this point though, I simply don't play with enough consistency to really be competitive in PvP in an RPG system, so don't enjoy it.

My DSL was down for most of last week so I missed a couple of play sessions.  Sad thing is, I didn't miss the game.  I enjoyed it for a while but lately it's basically been blah button-mashing.  My sub runs out at the end of the month (just missed the next payment) but have been playing some EVE instead.

Ok, so I bought a cheap 30 Day Game Time Code.

Sad thing is, when I did a "/who all" for bat country, no one showed up.

If one of you guys sees me online, shoot me an invite, please.

Bilespitter - Gnome Berserker

It has to be /who all "bat country" with the quotation marks or it doesn't work.

Ill be on as Skeag after server resets. 

Server resets?

Exactly.

(http://www.eq2labs.com/article/images/new-spells/Control-Undeath-Necro.jpg)

I'm baaaack. Since I'm on the Station Pass for Planetside, and a goal of building a new pc was to get eq2 with shadows and shiney stuffs...

Not really playing Cav or my SK just yet, since I want to develop my skills and get a feel for the current state of the game, I played around with my ranger and illusionist a bit. Illusionist was whomping butt, only got stomped by one ^^^ Heroic named mob in the Caves, was taking blue ^^ heroic groups of 3, even. Gotta love mez...Stun was a little slow, dicey keeping the pet for a ^^ Heroic and a ^^^ Heroic will usually stomp me but I get lucky...but seems at level 18 to be returning to my more familiar feel of EQ2 where I can barely smack things down (hello blackburrow...die die die). Why don't they want people to play in dungeons?

Crafting is SO MUCH BETTER. Made a bunch of spells and some armor for my guardian.

Still, unless I can find my zen place given the anti-solo basis of the game, it'll probably be a short run :) Some cat guy kept trying to roleplay with me so I roleplayed stepping on his tail. Take that, kitty!

How do you know if he was roleplaying or just hitting on you?

(Why do you torture yourself like this?)

Maybe he asked for a credit card number before continuing?

Probably both.

(because I actually like EQ2...until it cockblocks me)

Resubbed. Oasis, of course.

When I get a new machine, this is going to be one of the first things on it.

Tyburon's up to 42 now and lurking around Cazic.

Whoa, I feel like I hopped into the wayback machine!  Anyone else going to be playing?

I've got a 30 ranger, Kelavere, running around Oasis.

When the new character models go live I will probably come in for a bit.  I figure by then with the expansions I've missed and other updates it should have enough entertainment value in it to be worth checking out.

Not sure when that is though. Late summer?

My Wizard is still lvl 30, but I've been playing some alts, 22 Ranger, 28 SK but mostly my Paladin in Kelethin, who hit 19 last night. I don't normally group, but Crushbone might be fun. I've only got one guy left on Lucan (the one with the pathetic jboots promotion), most of my guys are on Oasis now.

I wish SOE would allow the Pass benefits (extra characters, mostly) for normal subs. I think I've settled on EQ2 as my mmo to mess around with when I'm bored. Now that I FINALLY have an iPod, it's nice to hang out while I listen to tunes. In an odd way I get more music recorded because I've been listening to more music while playing EQ2.

Are you aware of this, Sky?  Probably are, but if not it's the sort of thing you might enjoy knowing about.

http://eq2i.com/articles/Soloing_Timeline (http://eq2i.com/articles/Soloing_Timeline)

Having a "/browser www.eq2i.com" is fairly handy as well.

Do you guys have another guild?  The only semi-active person in Bat Country is Surly.

I'm currently in a small casual guild, the horribly named "Order of the Crescent Moon".  They are pretty decent folk, but mostly I just like having people to chat with while soloing.  They are usually doing shit with their 70s, but I think a massive alt roll is coming soon.

Thanks, Sauced. That's cool. I'm pretty set with my Freeport and Qeynos characters (my 28 SK's quest log is bursting), but I noticed my new Pally was down to like 7 quests and one is a looong one (Dwarven Ringmail Tunic, I should get it just in time to have my Steel Vanguard replace it).

Most of my characters are slightly higher crafters than their adventuring level. I've been loading up the ipod and vegging out harvesting/crafting lately.

I also wondered how to access a browser ingame, I'd heard you could do it. You rock, so I stole this award for you:
(http://www.hereinreality.com/funnystuff/awards/wonderful.jpg)

Signe kicked everyone out and blamed it on Lt Dan  :evil: :-P :cry:

God, I finally got rid of the dwarven ringmail tunic over the weekend.  Pretty sure that the look of crafted chain armor is the only thing that really chaps my ass at this point, but now that I have a fancy level 30 guild cloak on I don't have to look at it anymore, for the most part.

Oh, and glad I could be of some help Sky.  Keep Kelavere on your friends list, holla if you want to team up for some HQ or dungeon crawling action.  Right now I'm in love with Zek.  Took my 30 there and within an hour I was 31.5 and finally got my 24 and 25 AA points to make Archer.  And some really great leather armor, god damn useless as it is since I had just bought a new feysteel chain set.  More fodder to sacrifice to Tunare!

Speaking of that, have you tried the Deity stuff yet?

Heh, I actually try not to level too fast. I'm just cruising along with more quests than I can possibly finish...and I consider that a /good/ thing. Also, my SK was maybe 23ish when I resubbed this time, and there weren't AA abilities the last time I played him. Both he and my wizard (and maybe my 17 Guardian) got shafted, there should have been some kind of credit for quests finished (and exploration) prior to adding AA abilities! I can understand maybe the named kills and items, but the other two were definitely tracked per character prior.

The SK AA's are pretty nice, I use the damage shield (lifetap style) like mad, and adding small lifetaps to harm touch and a dot really round out my solo style. But my 22 Ranger has more AAs than my 28 SK and my 30 Wiz has maybe 2 or 3. Boo hiss.

I saw the deity stuff when I was first exploring Kelethin with my Paladin, wasn't sure what it did. I managed to pledge to Mithaniel Marr (figgering I was a pally), thought maybe I should've went Tunare (because I'm a high elf pally). Didn't really see what to do after that so promptly forgot about it for the next 19 levels.

Well, you can't do the first quest til 25 anyway, so no rush.  Tunare's focus is on increasing healing spells, but it also has a nasty dot vs. undead and a group reactive heal.  Trying to remember what Marr is all about.  I know that Sol Ro has a wicked fire-based DD.

I actually get most of my xp from questing - from 10-16 I had combat xp off.  The thing about Zek is that there are 8 quest givers right off the boat, and most of the quests take place right outside the gates of the encampment.  Right now my plan is to switch between Zek and EL quests, and will probably turn XP off again so I can get all of the quest AA, until I hit 35 and can start Steamfont. 

Keep in mind that you can mentor down and hand in quests for level appropriate xp and AA points.  Just ask some random person in the zone if you can mentor them for a sec while turning in any lower quests.

Oasis is empty these days.  Even worse I made a Fae (safe fall is great).  I am level 18 and I haven't found a single group.  Seems the only way to get a group would be to hoof it to SH which I have already played to death.

Seems like most of the Oasis community currently happens in the tier channels.  Usually several groups in each looking for group mates when I'm on, for dungeon crawling.  But Faydark was fairly empty when I started there, only duo'd a few times.  Seems to be the same with all of the outdoor zones - now that I'm in my 30s, I see more and more people running around.

Where is the ant druid ring?  I have a 54lvl warden.  Did some sight-seeing. Snaged Gfey, BB , and common rings.  But I don't remember there being an ant ring. LOL, got 1-shotted a few secs after zoning into Unrest.  Unrest was my favorite zone from EQ1.  It's a shame that it  is an end-game zone now.

The Ant druid ring is in the NE, east of the KoS Spires on the bottom of the hill.

GU 35 looks good.  Important for me: Low-quality (light mapped?) shadows, and Tie That Binds for Kelethin citizens.

The new mounts are wolves/wargs, supposedly.

So after playing EQ2 since launch, I finally did two Labs raids this month with my guild. Raiding in EQ2 is so much more pleasant than EQ1 raiding. The fights don't take 45 minutes.  Took us 5 tries to split Vyemm the first time and 3 tries the second time. First run was 3hrs 12mins and the second run (2 weeks later) was 2hrs 25mins, perfectly reasonable in my mind.

Ventrilo was used and we didn't have that when I was doing EQ1 raiding so maybe that made all the difference.

I wish I had that kind of time to dedicate to playing games again. I might get a couple hours in a row but I'll never know ahead of time. I simply can't get into the raid/boss encounter style gameplay.

I'm currently not around Oasis because I don't have a gpu (it's RMA). My old pc is way too buggy for a no-save-game game like EQ2, crashy. Even crafting is out after I crashed while making a double-rare-ingredient recipe. Ouch.

So two days ago I took my own advice, and joined a pug in Crushbone.  Had to mentor down (32 at the time), but I was only interested in checking out the zone and playing with other people for a while, so it was worth it. 

The zone itself is fun, with lots of different quest-clickables and mini-bosses.  The first night we never made it too the instance (most of the party was 23-25ish), so we met up again last night.  Were missing some people, so I had a 70 warden from my guild come and mentor down. 

The instance is so awesome.  When you get to the end, you see Emperor D'Vinn (lol) wielding Soulfire and ordering Crush around, and you go through a succession of fights, finally leading to Crush (34^^^, I think.  Maybe 35).  Once you finish him off, D'Vinn curses at you for a minute and then flees into the Acadechism, a 60ish instance if I'm not mistaken.  Apparently a mentored-down 70 is still a massive killing machine against 30ish mobs.

No lewts, tho.  :|  XP is really great in there,  over halfway to 35.  Accidentally out-levelled the soloing content I was working on, but it should be easy now to blaze through Zek and EL.

In the past two days I did Den of the Devourer and the Vaults of El'Arad for the first time, both KoS instances in Barren Sky. Vaults is a fantastic zone with some new mob types I hadn't fought before (heroics that knockback, for instance). Vaults took about an hour and Den took a lot less. No epic mobs in either and only an 18 hour timer. Den is for mid-60s (boss 66^^^) and Vaults for upper-60s (boss 70^^^).

I also reached the level cap in an MMO before they raised it again for the first time ever (not counting 7xGM, of course.) In fact I went from deep into 68 to 70 in about 4 hours of playing thanks to +55% exp potions received for being a 3 year vet.

EQ2 has to raise the level cap soon, though. There are people in my guild with 4 level 70s.

I had a 51 warrior in EQ1 circa Velious, and a 35 Nightshade in Daoc after that.  I might have my highest mmo char ever here in a month, which is just bizarre to me considering I play these stupid things all time.  If I didn't reroll every time I resub things would be different.

Yeah you fight D'Vinn in the end of Acadechism which is a mid 60's instance.  He drops into stealth numerous times during the fight and will attack random group mates.

In Crushbone Keep, you start to see some of the scripting they are using more and more in encounters.  The recently added "Unrest" is full of these scripts and makes for an extremely interesting zone.  Your screen actually fills with static and a talking skull appears at one point...definitely cool.  After the initial defeat you get mail from the end encounter the next day :P 

Acadechism is a great zone. Takes about an hour (done it in 38 minutes with higher level players), great loot, some tricky pulling and a great boss at the end. It is almost a short, on group raid. My zerk was using 3 items from that zone from 62-68 (arms, legs, buckler).

That's not bad at all for a first time through Labs. Labs is about the same level of difficulty as Lyceum and both of those are a bit easier than DeathToll which was the toughest T7 zone that came out with KOS.

Once you all are more geared out with some of the labs/lyceum fabled gear you'll be able to do Labs in a little over an hour.

I can't wait for one-hour Labs runs.  I am currently in a very casual raid guild, only raiding 2x week.  We always have to rely on at least 4 pick-up raiders to fill out our ranks and it takes about 2 and a half  hours :(.  The loot is excellent though, and Labs seems to kick out more loot the Lyceum.   

Having much trouble defeating Gnorbl the Playful in the Lyceum as well, tough task with some pick up raiders...not that I am hardcore, but one screw up and its a group wipe.

Your mind is fractured.

Agreed. My SK has been parked in front of Harclave's for a month because I haven't had time to run the entire instance in one sitting. Just getting into the lower caves pushed the limit of my time, heh. (Granted for two of those weeks I didn't have a pc)

Got a link to info about new character models?

http://eq2.warcry.com/scripts/news/view_news.phtml?site=68&id=68663


It's not the first place I saw this information but it was the first one that popped up on google.  It's been in discussion for maybe 6 or 8 months now.

Hmm. Sounds like they're going to simplify models and reduce differentiation, with the converse of getting more armor types (that I'd probably never see because they're high end gear :P). Not sure I like that, models are one of EQ2's strong points (if not, as I always say, stylistically).

Frankly I loathe the style of EQ2's current models for 90% of the races.  Also, I am a huge fan of having cool looking gear for my peeps which is something that is seriously missing from EQ2.  This update, when it actually appears, promises to make a big stab at fixing these issues.

IMO these are the two most outstanding issues left in the game since it launched.

So long as they don't dumb-down the models was my point. I like most of my 8 guys, but not really much outside them (and I imagine lots of players are invested in the look of their avatards).

One thing that really turned me off LotRO was the basic looking character models, it was like DAoC or something imo. Versus the tons of modelling done on EQ2 models, with fully modeled noses that interacted with specular lighting and self-shadowing. That shit is hot. Then throw in all the bump or normal or whatever mapping they have going on...

I haven't seen Vantaurd in action, but EQ2 smacks the living shit out of the graphics engine of every other mmo and most other games in general.

EQ's models are technically well executed, it's the art design I don't like.  Slumped shoulders, fat butts, paunchy and thick instead of lean and muscled.

EQ2 is probably the only MMO so far that has lived long enough for its 'future proof' graphics engine to actually get a chance to show itself.  Seriously though that game was near unplayable on the generation of hardware I had when it launched.  I remember getting low single digit FPS in town.

I think they should be able to simultaneously improve the stylistic qualities of the models and make them conform to a more easy to design to skeleton without sacrificing technical quality.

I might be interested in playing this again if you guys have an active guild of some sort.

Do you?

I am sum total of active members of Bat Country on Oasis.

ah.

damn.

If I ever get my goddamn computer fixed I will play.  I ordered a fan and it is not socket 775 compatible.  Back to the drawing board.


And, yes, according to New Egg it was compatible.  Not sure what I am going to do with this $100+ paperweight.

I'm active and guildless on Oasis  :cry:

Ched: RMA away!

I'll be on as Tazelbain tonight starting around 7 central if anyone wants an guild invite.

Hmm...friday night...I might be able to get on around 11pm eastern or so.

The new producers letter pretty much guarantees that I'm probably going to show up again as soon as time and computing power allows. Work sucks.

I might come back for a bit, too, but you know me... I'm as fickle as a Cheddar sundae with an schild on top.

:-D

Being able to return my dark elves to Neriak tempts me.  The free transfers to move over to where everyone else is tempts me more.  But my highest level character was only around 21st level, would I actually be able to participate in any fashion around people of vastly higher level?

Sure you will.  They have that thingy.  You know.  Like wot that other game has. 

According to the test update notes on the latest patch to test, they already pinched musical instruments from Lotro.  Hahaha.

Yeah.  Well, crap.  I'm reinstalling.  I'll probably be on sometime tonight, I don't want to play a Fae but I'll be somewhere in the new Fae newbie zone, maybe a wizzie.  Or on my Old Paladin Teucer.

Is there any restriction on cross-faction grouping?  I wouldn't wanna sign back on, defect my inkies to Neriak, and then discover that I can't actually do anything with 'em.

No.  You can group with whoever you want.  I'll be starting an inkie when Neriak opens though.

I'm patching back up now, have about an hour to go.  I need someone to give me a hand forward in time, however, as I'm a caveman from pre-expansions EQ2.  This is before they revamped the classes, before they revamped the tradeskills, before they added in extra features for the three expansions.  Anything that has happened in this time is a mystery to me, so anyone who can summarize important gameplay things that I should know about would be appreciated.


Also, is Oasis the server with the current F13 guild?  I left my inkies over on Lucan, but if this free transfer thing is legit I can apparently send them over to any non-PvP server.

All my dudes are on Oasis.  I have no clue what all the changes are to the game either because last time I played was before the expansions also.  I'm pretty much just playing the newbie experience and taking it as it goes.

Made a wizzie named Fisz (eventually Bang) in Kelethin.

Tough to summarize all the changes that have happened since pre-expansion.  I have been playing pretty stready since about LU10.  I should be able to answer any question that arises for you as they come.....

Best website out there right now for information is www.eq2i.com (http://www.eq2i.com)

Whether you are a soloer or grouper, eq2i provides complete questlines for either.

My current main is a 38 ranger named Kelavere.  Feel free to friend me and ask any questions, I can kick down a little gold to help get started or whatever.

The key thing for me when I restarted post-EoF is that as long as you have EoF and DoF, AAs start at level 10.  Especially if you start in Kelethin, it's very easy to turn combat xp off at 10 and just level with quests.  You'll have 10+ AA by the time you hit 15.  After that I would turn my XP on and off depending on how fast I was flying through content.  I leave it on all the time now, and am out-levelling some things, but I'm more interested in levelling fast at the moment.

One thing I found is that the market on Oasis has matured a lot.  I logged on a 22 Assassin when I got tired of the newb stuff and was able to upgrade just about every piece of armor and my off-hand dagger for a short hand full of silver.

Now to see if I can finish the greater lightstone quest before I get bored and wander off again.

Edit:  Extreme quality still makes my CPU cry but I have most of the bells and whistles on and Kelethin has it all over the Blood elf starting area.  Both zones are very similar in feel and content but the EQ2 stuff with all the lighting effects looks like a modern game.

Transmuting has had a big impact, I think.  Adept I's tend to go for at least 5g even at lower tiers because they are needed for the transmuting grind.

As long as you sell your junk on the broker (strong boxes for the win) its no big deal to buy a new set of armor and weapons when you switch tiers (10,20,30,etc)  and if you group alot you'll be over flowing with cash.

Ah, I wondered why I was consistently getting that much for my Adept I's. That's the only way I make cash, really. But given that info, I'd request anyone joining BC not use the Adepts in the guild bank for grinding transmuting!

Haven't messed with transmuting or tinkering. I started the tinkering stuff with my Paladin and all the recipes were red to me and I couldn't make anything. I think they may have had funky ingredients, too. I mostly ignore that stuff.

Also, don't take armorcrafting or weaponcrafting, they are super grindy because there aren't many recipes (no spells/skills) and don't make consumables (provisioner flies by). I have my SK at 31 armorcrafting and it's rough. At one level they gave me ONE recipe. I got real tired of making that over and over for 1/3 of a bubble a shot, can't wait to do it all over again for 1/6 a bubble at 38 or whatever.

Finally, I'm not much of a grouper, but I've got a wide range of levelled characters. 31 SK, 30 Wiz, 22 Ranger, 21 Paladin, 18 Illusionist, 17 Guardian, 12 Necro, 10 Monk. Most are in the 20s with crafting, too.

Having the -10% fee Veteran Display Case has made me quite the savvy merchant.  40 slots, so I can keep all sorts of collectibles in there, and I've actually managed to sell quite a few pristine imbued bows for ~ 3-4g a pop.  Currently sitting on 4pp, which will get spent on lvl 40 upgrades, and I tool around on a parade karana plainstrider.  Not to change the subject, but holy cow does WoW soloing suck in comparison.

Other than adept I's at low levels, collectables are a great way to make money.  Some of the lower zones can net your some collectables that go for over a plat (many of the shattered bone fragments), and at times even seemingly worthless things like commonland shrubbbery, moth/butterflys, antonican pine needles all go for inflated prices.  Collection quests can net you good XP and AA points.

As for tradeskilling, anything other than the classes that make spells (jeweler - scouts, sage mage/priest, or alchemist - fighter) are going to be grindy as hell.  Stay away from Weaponsmithing for sure, as not much sells because of easily looted gear.  A level 70 weapsonsmith and transmuter might be profitable, but wouldn't wish that grind on anyone.

The devs have talked about combining Weaponsmith+Armourer, and Carpenter+Woodworker to deal with the lack of recipes for grinding, but no word back on that yet.

I have 28g between my 20 conjuror and 11 inquisitor, which used to be a lot but now maybe not; I sold my collector edition dragon and statue off for a plat and the Adept 3 scroll for my pet.

I've got about 4 or 5 plat, I'll drop some in the guild bank in the AM.

I've got maybe 45g on my wiz, 20g on my SK.

Anyway, if anyone wants to join our sad little guild do a /who all "bat country" and send them a tell with you board name so we can add it to your description. Anyone will be able to invite you.

I'll be on sporadically for a while.

 :nda:

I'll be with Sky....  :nda:

Don't ride Lord British too hard.  Remember scamming Koreans to fund your pet project is hard work.

Not if you do it right...

Lord British is fruity.

Less talky more boobies.

So is anyone actually playing these days?  More importantly, is anyone actually playing ON OASIS DURING KOREAN HAPPY HOURS????

I'm on Oasis from around 7pm EST to 10 pm EST.  Either my 15 Bruiser "Religion" or my 25 Assassin "Reshe".  When Neriak opens up I'll be starting another alt, probably an SK, no idea what name yet.

BTW, selling collectibles == easy cash.  Stupid bone fragments and things from the Commonlands go for 5g a pop.  There is no reason you can't end the night with a bag full of these things to stick on the vendor.

I couldn't believe it...but Murgos is right. I've been destroying the stupid collectibles for months...woops.

I'm cancelling at this point for the summer and to focus on  :nda:. I'll probably resub around October.

Kelavere is up to 42.  All of the 70s in my guild (which means everybody, basically) transfered to a raiding guild, so I'll be guildless the next time I log in, which will be in about a week or so.  Family in town for the weekend, and all that.

If anyone hasn't seen the LFGuild tool, login to an unguilded character and open the guild interface ("U").  Every game needs to steal it.

Also - found a level 60 collection quest from KoS, the components for which sell on the broker for a measly 4.5g total.  I'll try and poke around and find it, it's 3 coins.  Great xp, obviously, and a Droag illusion.

Better hurry up.  It will probably get nerfed.

Not that gaining levels is hard though, I got 4 levels on the Bruiser last night (3 hours or so) and the last time I played the Assassin it leveled twice in the same amount of time.  The illusion sounds cool, whats a Droag look like?

If it's a guy in white long johns and a bowler I'm in though.

There are actually quite a few cheap level 60+ collections to be had...great XP.  The majority of the player base is in that range so the collections are very common.  EoF collections are a little tougher because they always have one rare collection item, but the KoS collections (beholder eyes, dragons scales, droag teeth, etc.) can actually be quite cheap...and now they are much easier to find with improved searching on the broker.

I always found the EQ2 AH-equivalent to be rather non-intuitive.  WOWs is easy happy time for me, and I list stuff all the time.  But when that EQ2 thingy pops up...my eyes start to glaze over.

Oh, and my highest level char was 19 before.  I never got very far because I dont know anyone else playing.  And back in the day, it was much less pleasant going alone.  I hear that has changed, but I'm not feeling at that hopeful.

Do we even have a guild?  Any experienced crafters?  I like crafting ^^

~sigh~

If you played at release you will probably recall that the VAST majority of mobs just roaming around were group only mobs.  It's completely reversed now.  Soloing is very easy so far.  All the instance zones now have a solo version, most anything not in a dungeon is soloable, lots of the stuff in the dungeons is also soloable, well, eventually anyway.   Lots of solo quests and etc...

Most new players are over in Fae or as of last night Neriak.  Darklight wood was packed with two instances up on Oasis which was listed as a Medium load.

I don't know about crafting but from what I understand the whole thing has been redone.

Also, I named my SK 'Taxes', because there is nothing more evil than Taxes...

Umm.....maybe "Dubya"?

Proper horrorshow, that...

The Broker works fine. I like it. You can go to  your sell window and browse for each item, so you can see the going rates, including the broker commission and location (I'm an undercutting bastage). It keeps a nice log of transactions, too. Splendidness.

I've soloed two characters to over 30 (Wiz and SK). There's plenty of solo content, just don't expect to go soloing in dungeons when the items mean anything or expect to get any experience doing it. Dungeons and many named encounters are still non-scrub (group-only). But if you set that aside and just stick to questing, there's tons of content to enjoy. Really...it's the mmo /I/ like most, and soloers come no more rabid.

Bat Country. Not real active. I have several crafters in the 20s and a couple in the 30s. But I'm now inactive ;)

Droag, Droog, close enough  :-D

Well, I want to be able to group sometimes...

True, true.

Well, I whipped up a cute little Dark Fae Fury.  He's adorable!  But there are too many other fairies out there.  And an overabundance of reddish bat wings.  :(

Anyway, my name's Chayai, so feel free to contact me when I'm sporadically on during times which are not convenient for most of the civilized world.

I remade the iksar bruiser I had to delete to make my high elf pally for faydwer. Cool little starting area, but unfortunately they really blew it, maybe in feedback to all the people 'depressed' by Freeport. The place is Hate's Envy (or whatever) and everyone is all happy and friendly. Wtf? It screams 'not-evil'.

A bajillion people in there, even on Lucan D'Lere, a low-pop server. I'm glad I won't have time to play it for six months, maybe everyone will work it out of their system by then. Laaaggy and overcrowded right now.

And I refuse to play a silly little fairy, even an 'evil' one.

Any one else check out Neriak? I was impressed. Kinda like old EQ1 but different as well.

Yeah, I like Neriak.  Much more than Freeport or Qeynos at least.

BTW, the collectibles market fell out the bottom with all the newbies running around Darklight wood (three instances all weekend on Oasis).  Things that were selling for a couple of gold ea, like cracked bone fragments, have dropped to 10s or lower.

I actually prefer Neriak & surrounding zones to Freeport, personally. FP always seems to be evil for the sake of being evil, to me - "Watch me eat this live kitten" sort of thing. Plus it has the stereotypical SOE "Evil = Dirty & run-down" look*.

Neriak seems much more a "These are our goals, if anyone gets hurt during them...too bad" type of evil, which is more believable to me. It's not being friendly, it's just that the newbies are useful; for the moment, anyway.

*Which is why my favourite part of the Luclin expansion for EQ1 was the Katta Castelium/Sanctus Seru thing: Seru has clean streets, white walls, bright sunshine, neatly tended gardens etc. and was run by an -pseudo-immortal nutcase inquisitor overlord whereas Katta was in perpetual twilight, torches everywhere, etc. and was (nominally) the 'good' town. Shame that, like so much else in Luclin, both cities were only half-finished.

You nailed why I hate FP exactly on the head. The whole "Look how evil we are" just screams to me, "4th graders who's piss their pants when faced with the real thing". Evil that's amoral is so much more compelling.

I just started Trias the Dark Elf Inquisitor on Oasis.  Running around doing newbie stuff at the Neriak newbie zone.  Well done so far, if a little bland, but I'm heading to Neriak now so I imagine that should be more interesting.

You should come to AB... There are people there.

I'm amazed at how much easier this game is to play now compared to the last time I subbed.  My assassin, which I started just after release, was nearly impossible to solo last time around and yet I've picked up 5 levels this time in just casual dinking around.  It took me loads of time to get my Pally up to 25 last time I played but now I've leveled two characters (an SK and a Bruiser) up to 20 with about half the effort involved total AND they are equipped better and much better off financially.

So far I'm liking the SK best of all my toons, more effective at soloing yellow targets (even yellow^) than the bruiser and also more effective at soloing groups of greens.  The bruiser is much better at single pull even cons though, just drops em down and moves on to the next.  The SK is good at those too, just takes more time so isn't as efficient.  I leveled both these characters in the same zones and in the same quests so the differences have been pretty obvious.  The paladin is still horrendously slow against any target regardless of level but I understand that he should get some good AoE stuff in the near future, dunno if I will have the patience to get him there though.  The assassin is sort of a mixed bag, anything killable drops in seconds but there is a very narrow range of whats killable and just forget ^^^ mobs, it ain't happening even at 10 levels above.

Started in on DoF over the weekend, after dinging 43.  Wasn't sure if I was going to be able to handle it, but I was taking down 46-47 level mobs in Steamfont fairly easily so it was worth the trip.

I know it's old news, but what an awesome expansion this is.  Maj'dul might be my favorite MMOG city - the art alone is the best I've seen in the game so far.  The NPCs that are all attackable, various pick pockets eyeing your coin purse, agro thieves hiding in alley ways.  And that's just during the day - at night the arena crowds fill the streets and since they are 55+ they can all see through stealth at my level.

And why did no one tell me about the Court of Tears missions?  My only complaint is that they are too short.  Picture CoX style missions, they are basically short versions of that.

Hopefully starting the carpet quest this week.  Doubtful I can find help on finishing it, but you never know.  I imagine most people don't bother, just get to 57, walk in to Loping Plains, and pick up your Warg mount. 

Sauced, that's my quest for next winter. Ditch the alt-itis and push my SK up into the 40 bracket. I like the ranger and wizard, but the SK is my favorite all-around.

Of course, I need to re-enable combat exp at some point, the last three weeks I played with it turned off :)

It was kind of make or break for me.  It was my next short term goal, and if I got there and found the content inaccessible or bad, it may have crushed my will to proceed a little bit.  But it's done the opposite - being able to access Kunark on day one seems entirely possible now, even on 10-15 hours a week.

Next short term goals - getting access to the solo instances in Feerrott and Everfrost, starting Prismatic One and Peacock (hahaha, maybe when I'm 80 I can come back and solo them).

Since it's been out long enough, I guess it isn't a bug, but it turns out the 30 minute timers on the Tears missions start on completion - you can get to the last guy, leave, re-enter the house (they all happen in the same house, which is meh) and the quest respawns.  Haven't bothered "exploiting" this yet, but the groups of mobs you fight there seem to have a high coin/chest drop rate. The quests also use the object placement system to cool effect.

That's the nice thing about EQ2, they've added so much content, I really look forward to going back every year. They could stop making new content right now and I've got several more years worth (since I solo and level slow).

Sure, I'd like to take on more Nameds and Dungeons, but at least they throw mountains of content in to distract me from that most of the time.

Not sure you can really exploit the tears grifter quests that way.  I don't believe the drop rate on the mobs is any different than solo mobs elsewhere (actually I think it may be less - don't they only drop minute amounts of cash?), plus the benefit of doing them really comes down to the XP reward for turning them in and the Coin/Blade/Truth tokens recieved.  The tokens actually sell pretty well on the broker, up to a couple gold each - or can be used to gain faction with one of the courts.

Also, unless another change has been made - I though it was a 15-minute wait.

I'm sure it's all relative.  The one time I did it (as a result of having to flee due to running out of poison against a yellow^), I wound up making a few extra gold off the mobs and looting an additional adept I that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise.  The extra 10g is nothing to most people, but it's plenty to me.  Worth actually running in and out?  Nah.

Didn't know the coins sold on the broker - thanks for the tip.  And I've only read about the 30 minute timer on Tears quest resets - I usually carpet back to SS and work on the beetle quests or factions quests in the interim.

Before you sell the coins though, make sure your gaining enough faction with one of the courts to actually gain access into that court - which opens up new quest lines, brokers, access to 51-60 apprentice II's (spells are not automatically gained upon leveling post 50). titles, etc.  Coin seems to be the best located, so after grrifter quests take blade or truth coins, it doesn't matter, just don't take coin ones.  Turn those coins into the appropriate coin dude at the bottom of the tower of moon which is basically at the gates of Maj' Dul.  Obviously, only do coin related quests off the docks in this case as well.  You may have already known much of this, just a few tips.

I'm a little on the Blades side, but the Coin quests at SS are easier, so no biggie.  Hilariously enough, I started on the Coin side, but I didn't know how the Tears quests worked, so the first time I finished one I took the Coin... um... coins.  Since I wanted to go Coins.  Whoops!

Had forgotten about the "no auto-skills post 50".  That would have been a fun surprise.

It is no real biggie if you do go blades, not that much difference between the courts....just different locations in Maj Dul, and different titles at max faction.  The Coin Court though is conveniently located next to the Golden Sceptre crafting area (if you craft), plus I like the layout of the Coins Court the best.  The mission difficulties within each court are relatively the same, but the Coin one does offer a unqiue repeatable faction quest - where you have to catch monkies in cages, which can be annoying but at least different.  A named monkey called Chim-Chum will spawn among them once in a while for named XP - easily soloable, drops chim-chum gloves.  The monkies will go bat shit though, and I have been killed numerous times underestimating those little bastards.

You can kill low level truth and blade guards to gain the court coins as well.  If you kill too many in Maj Dul at one time though, the Shairs that fly around in carpets will throttle you.

Ultimately though, if your a quest junkie you will have to go through all the courts for the "Ring of Fate" line.  At the end that torturous quest line you will gain max faction with all the courts and the title "Hero of Maj'Dul".  One of the more dynamic quests though, you will know if someone is going through it if you see Orcs all over Maj Dul.

I've seen (or, been chased by) a lot of orcs in Maj'Dul.  Figured it was a night-time hazard. 

So, once you max out a faction, does it not decrease when you start working on a 2nd?  I know you have to do all 3 eventually, but how does that work exactly?

It's a real grind - you actually have to start grinding out each court faction from the max negative faction to max faction.  You will recieve a 1/3 peice of a medallion after the final quest of each faction.  You will need these 3 medallion peices as well as a few other requirements - DoF can keep you busy for months.

http://eq2i.com/articles/The_Courts_of_Maj%27Dul:_Of_Fate_and_Destiny (http://eq2i.com/articles/The_Courts_of_Maj%27Dul:_Of_Fate_and_Destiny)

The max faction for all courts is part of the final reward in additon to the ring of fate and the title. Until that point you can only really be working for one court.

Hope you are using eq2i.com, easily the best and most organzied site.

Oh, yeah, I use it constantly.  I guess I could have looked the faction details up - I suppose I'm enjoying talking to another person about it.  Thanks!

No problem, happy to answer any EQ2 questions.  Just wanted to make sure you were aware of EQ2i.  The explanation above is essentially why the faction tokens/coins are worth some money on the broker - not sure how many people would be going through that part of DoF now....but it seems there is always a buy for them.

Tangent...

So AB would be a better place to start than Oasis?

And I'm debating between the dirge, brigand, or inquisitor.  Can the Dirge/Brigand get groups?  What about soloability, and the all important interesting gameplay?

AB has a few more players. But either should be fine.

Dunno about AB vs Oasis.  Oasis is fine though, I haven't noticed a lack of people and whenever I have wanted a group I have been able to get one.  Lots of guilds and several big guilds recruiting lowbies, which is nice.

From what I understand Brigand and Inqui are both great soloers while the dirge is 'not so much', all three are group friendly with the group edge probably going to Inqui because, you know, main healer.  I've heard whispers that if you want to be able to solo things at level 70 that leave every other class going OMG! Did I really just see him solo that?  then inquisitor is your best bet until the nerf bat swings.  Dirge probably has the most utility but I don't think I have ever seen one in game so YMMV.  Dirge and brigand are both scouts so I imagine that the root of their game play is pretty similar, I have an assassin (which is also a scout) which is pretty fun to play, if something of a glass cannon.

I watched a lvl 16 warden (hybrid healer, shaman subclass - I think) solo level 20 mobs that were giving my 20 Bruiser a rough time (comparatively, for that level of fight i.e. two at a time was very risky and I was too hurt from one at a time to chain pull with no breaks for rest) last night.  But what's true at sub-20 is almost certainly not true throughout the life of the character and I have no idea of she was twinked to the ears or not.  But, soloing +4's was pretty impressive.

As a 45 ranger, with 45 AA (AGI, almost done with INT), with Adept I skills and the best gear I could get off the broker, I can take 47^ with ease.  That's as far as I've pressed it so far, but I haven't encountered many green/blue ^^ recently to test my luck.

As far as "interesting gameplay" goes, that's really subjective.  I have arguments with a friend who likes to tell me how WoW's combat is so much more dynamic than EQ2, and I just stare at him like he said the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Furies are insane in their solo'ability as well. I've seen one tank like 4-5 even cons and just AE em down.

Illusionists with full DPS specced AAs are supposedly godly, also.

If your class has good AA's you will be overpowered. Swashbucklers used to be horrible with their AA's. Dunno how it has changed with the class unique ones.

I was really digging my illusionist alt I kinda dropped for a while when I started my ranger. I had serious altoholism this past run of EQ2. Levelled a ranger, illusionist and paladin to 20ish and pushed my SK from 20 to 31. The illusionist was really jamming, though it's hard to get a good feel up to 20. 20-30 is when the classes really start to show strengths and weakness imo, and probably intensifies after that since I haven't levelled up that high with anyone.

I stick with the SK because he has the lifetap stuff, mostly. The ranger's fights can get real dicey without heals imo, paladins are damned slow. The SK is no total powerhouse, but I like the mix, and I mostly played casters in EQ so it's a nice change being able to smack things and take a bit of a beating. Wish feign death wasn't so gimpy  :cry:

My wizard devastates single targets, but I haven't played him in so long I forget where his level ranges were, some good aoe stuff, too.

Sure, if it gets to melee.  There is a quest at the beginning of Sinking Sands, where you have to kill 3 45^^down - but they ambush you, so there is no 2K hidden shot from stealth to take out the first one off the bat.  Took me 2 tries at 44 to get it right, and by the end of the 3rd guy I was kiting his ass in circles with my health in the red.

My assassin has problems with grouped mobs because I can't use the stun-stealth-backstab to take one out quickly so I have to tank and melee until there is one left.  But, I have literally dropped the last mob within 1 second of the second to last mob dying.  It sounds to me like that ambush encounter will be very rough for the assassin when I get there.  From what I understand Swashies and brigands get several stuns apiece and the swashie even gets mezzes.  Having a couple of quick cycling stuns, or even better, a 15 - 20 second mez would make the assassin a real powerhouse soloer though.

I've never had this many alts in an MMO before, this is a good thing.  I have a 27 Assassin, a 25 paladin, a 20 bruiser, a 20 sk and a 13 wizard.

When EQ2 first launched there was a distinct vanilla flavor to all the classes with the sub-classing system the way it was.  That good class and evil class were merely reflections of each other and that everything under a class tree was mostly the same.  Now it feels like every class has it's own nuances that make each one interesting.

I have to agree, I hate Sony hate hate. But this game really does kick ass. And the classes play different. No mater your class some stuff is easy and some stuff is gonna be tuff tit hard. It is gonna make you think, you will try something. And it just might work. Its fun, It has turned into a really good game in my opinion.

hal is the greatest person to play games with.  HE NEVER TALKS.  Ever.  But he plays his characters well.  Its like having your own personal bot following you around.

Ty guy. I do respond to questions. But ya , I am there to accomplish something and I am very results oriented. Don't confuse effort with results.

Still wierds me out.  Of course, I am the one bitching about getting sex in the middle of the "OMG THIS BOSS KILLS US!!!!111ELEVEN" battle.  I just talk.  A Lot.  And type fast.  Ventrillo is worse because I sound like a 10 year old girl.   :lol:

All solid choices as far as I am concerned....dirge might be the toughest to solo, but they definitely bring the shit to a group. People told me that Troubs suck for soloing, but I found it quite easy....and loved it, the bard has been my favourite character in EQ2 thus far.  So don't listen to what most people say, especially on the bee hive of the main forums.  You can successfully solo any of those characters, and each one of them are loved in groups.  The brigand more for their sheer top tier DPS than anything. 

You could also go a little different direction with the brigand if you primarly solo.  I have seen succesful solo builds for brigands with the sword and board AA's and they can even fill in for tank in situations.

The Inquisitor starts a little slow solo-wise, but using AA's you can pump the DPS way up.

You are not ?

Well, he certainly screams like one.

Quacks like a duck and all that.

So, question: is there a digital download that's Faydwer + expansions + base game or is that only the retail box? On a WoW lull and I'd like to take a peek at what EQ2 is now.

Only the retail box has everything for the $40 price tag.

Personally, I thought the box was worth it as you also get a bunch of 'retail box' goodies, like pets and reward things and you also get the gnoll and vampire stuff in addition to EoF AND some free time.  If you do it through the online store all of that stuff has to be bought separately and no free time.

My account is almost 1200 days old, the /claim bennies with the retail box stuff took me around 20 minutes to read through. :-)

It doesn't come with the gnoll and vampire stuff, I'm fairly sure.  You sure you didn't buy it 2 years ago and forget about it?

Hmm, Maybe I don't have the gnoll and vampire stuff then.  I haven't tried to use any of that content yet.

I'll check it out later.

Uhh, I just picked this up and I don't see a fucking account key anywhere in this box. I'm about to get stabby.

Oh, how that would be hilarious.

It's failing to amuse me.  I'm assuming it was to be printed on a game manual (ohh teh irony) and all I got is a quick start guide, a map and a buddy key. 

Only reason I picked this up is because I won $130 in a poker game on Friday.  Figured, hey, free money.

Edit: Called EB games, it was on a slip of paper they failed to include. ERRRK.

Edit numero dos: So, most people are on Oasis or what?

Define most?  2 out of 3?   8-)

I'm on Oasis but not in Bat Country.  Whenever I looked I didn't see anyone on.  So I joined Fabled which is a pretty large guild but they seem ok.

Looking mostly for just what server has the most active players.  I tend to end up higher level and I like to group on occasion, so I'd like to hook up with folks that perhaps are in more cohesive guilds, but not necessarily for raiding.  I don't have time for that anymore.

First, if your higher level please ignore me. but if your starting on oasis I have a 27 templar and 26 necro and a full boat of teens I am leveling. It would seem that we need a way to connect.

Send me mail in game and we can try and meet up?

I'm actively playing Reshe who is a 31 Assassin and Religion is a 22 Bruiser, Tuecer is a 25 Paladin but is mostly retired.

Fabled has so far been very good about pickup groups and not putting pressure on people to raid.  They are large, 300+ members, and most of the active ones are 60+ but there is lots of alts and stuff and people generally seem willing to mentor down to help with a quest or whatever.  As with any large group of people there are idiots though.

Been thinking of doing the same thing, actually.

I remember you from Darklight Woods.
Bat Country is dead.  Sky went on summer vacation and I have been migrating to a small guild called Cursed Crusaders.

I'll send you a mail.  Current character is a berzerker (evil fairy race) named Rasi.  Game's much improved that I can see.  Only problems are that I tend to get some sort of DX9 out of memory crash (fucking fantastic), and the berzerker doesn't seem to solo that splendidly yet.  A single level up for some mobs tends to tan my hide (fight's close though at least.. eh).

I had the DX9 out of memory error too.  I went hunting on the boards and found a reference to a windows help thingie and after a bit of work it seems to be a DCOM  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Component_Object_Model)related thing.

If you are using a home computer that's not on a microsoft exchange domain just go into the services (local) panel under administrative tools and disable it (DCOM server something or other).

Fixed it for me.

DCOM has been deprecated anyway so I doubt if it will screw anything up.

Oooh. I'll have to try that.  Hope it works.

Anyhow, anyone recommend a good melee DPS?  Reading the zerker board has me frightened as they seem to be mostly tanks, poor soloers, and using either a 2h or likely a 1h and shield.  I just wanted to maul stuff with double axes, not use a damn shield.  A nice DPS healer would be also cool. 

Edit: Heh, mainly I just want a really good soloer.  And hopefully something that isn't too fragile.  Group utility is nice, but I mostly solo (I play later at night).   It's really weird going into a DIKU like this and just being overwhelmed.

Start up on Unrest. Evil side (or good side, doesn't really matter)

I'd check out Brigand (if evil) - send me a tell, name there is Dogface - only level 15 so far.

I heard Shadowknights are still excellent EQ soloers.  Seems to be true at low levels, too but we know how that can sometimes end

Long time F13 Lurker; been playing EQ2 on/off for three years (best MMO available IMO.)

My main is a 70 'Zerker; at later levels, they can solo fairly well, but are heavily gear dependant. The 'must have' AA ability is the stamina line, which requires a buckler. Of the fighters, bruisers/monks probably are the best soloers, with SK's right up there. Brigand is also a good choice, plus they get stealth, evac and tracking, all of which help a great deal with soloing. Just be sure to keep up on your poisons :)

Melee soloer you say?  Well, listen up then because that's the path I've been down.  So far I have tried Bruiser, Assassin, Brigand, Swashbuckler, Shadowknight and Paladin.

Shadowknight rocks for soloing and grouping.  Wanted as tank and does good dps.  Life taps are awesome, whenever you get a master II choice you better be making it a lifetap or your gimping yourself.  Most of the launch BS about Paladins and SK's not being good tanks has been done away with.  So far one of the best at killing heroics (a 15^^^ at 18 was close but doable) I've played.  Killing heroics is important to me because that means you can do dungeon content at a reasonable level.  Doesn't get an invis but does eventually get feign death (35 I think?) which is obviously invaluable for soloing.  Oh, and SK's get a couple of effective PBAoE's, which, along with the lifetap damage shield means groups of blue non heroics go down like grains of wheat to a scythe.  SK is probably the best all around solo class I've tried.  My Sk is 18.

Paladin is great in a group but dead tedious as a soloer.  Slow and steady, if you fight something that has lifetaps be prepared to be there a while as you trade hit points around.  No invis, no feign, does have a lot of AoE's, even more that the SK and gets several procs vs undead.  YMMV.  My Pally is 25.

Bruiser is very good at soloing also and from what I have read on the boards gets ever better as time goes on, big avoidance means you don't take much damage against no heroic even cons and yellows (though I am having a tough time against mobs with lifetaps) and was also the best at killing green^^^ so far (probably due to very high DPS and that he just doesn't get hit by green stuff very often).   I understand that bruisers are acceptible tanks for most things but they have a stigma so it may be tough getting groups when there are options available for other classes.  My bruiser is 22 and has been the fastest to level without a doubt.

So, now for the scouts.

I like the scout playstyle most of all I've tried so far because of high damage and invis.  Brigands a swashs are two sides of the same coin.  Brigands are a little better against single mobs I think, just due to the way their special attacks work and that they get several stuns, swashes may be better against groups as they get two AoE's and a mes.  Both are welcome in groups for DPS and that they get group invis and evac.  My brigand is 17 and my swash didn't make it past 8 as just being to similar to the brig and I was more comfortable playing around freeport, neriak and the commonlands.  I have more confidence taking the brig up against yellow and orange con non-heroics than any other class I've played and also for fighting even con^ and ^^ ups (haven't tried the 15^^^ I've been testing everyone against, maybe I'll do that tonight).  The brigs mitigation is higher than the Bruisers and his avoidance is almost as high with a shield equipped.  I've heard of people using a brigand for a tank in groups (they get taunts).

The assassin is less effective than the Brig in every way.  Not as effective against single mobs due to not having a lot of stuns and not effective at all against heroics.  The assassins AOE's are only from stealth so, good luck with that.  But, that said, I play the assassin pretty much every night.  Go figure.  The assassin is 32.

I've never tried a guardian, berserker or any of the bards and have only played a wizzie up to 13 and a fury up to 10 before losing interest.  Someone else will have to help you there.

Yep. I'll be around next Octoberish, but I don't group much and I'll never be high level. BC is more a social thing and resource sharing than a 'serious' guild. Which is perfectly fine by me!

My latest 'main' is an SK, level 31. Solid solo ability, since it's all I do. Can get a bit troublesome without solid gear, I have mostly non-rare imbued crafted armor (he's an armorcrafter) with a couple quest pieces that need updating (The 20AQ kinda screws you with a heroic encounter for the chest piece). Using a rare and imbued crafted sword. My gear has always sucked, because good gear is for groupers, apparently. I can usually craft better stuff. Without crafting, my SK would blow chunks.

Murgos is right on with the taps, though. I've got the one lifetap/dmg shield spell for my Master II right now, plus I've pumped AA into it and all other tap effects on my main spells. It really makes a huge difference, though the heroic stuff can still get really difficult quickly. Feign hasn't worked for shit for me, I almost never use it, though I was pumping my AA into that when I quit for the summer.

I've been playing on Nagafen, which is a whole new wide world for me as far as EQ2 is concerned.

I will say this though, and that is you have to have pretty tough skin to level past the level lockers that are doing low level ganking. It's insanely prevalent at lower levels. Once you get into the higher tiers, it starts being less of a problem.

I win fights against scout classes simply by outliving them. With over 1k HP at level 18, they can't outdamage me. Having a horse helps, too. Being able to knockback and cause double vision on targets is also fun.

I'm currently rolling around with a Fury, a Shadowknight, and an Assassin.

Furies are e-mazing on the PvP server. Tier 2 DPS, and more then serviceable heals. Assassin is alright, although I wished he was a Brigand.

Shadowknight is easymode harm touch PK go.

Oasis chars: Rasix - SK 8, Vindal - Inq 11, Rasi - Zerker 9 (going to delete for space if necessary)
Unrest chars: Rasix - Brawler 3 (just made to see if Nija was on)

Inquisitor is OK, it looks like you can make a pretty mean melee, point blank nuker priest. SK looks pretty damn cool so far but where the hell are my drains?  :-D

And thanks for the DCOM tip, Murgos.  I've only had one lock up since and that's where my video card seized up and gave me a BSOD choking to death on Neriak's s scenery.  Man, this game still has a ways to go in regards to performance.  I've had to make it ugly(ier).

Happy to help.

Have you tried turning off shadows?  I can play at MUCH higher model detail and quality with shadows off (pretty much maxed settings with an x1950 pro).

Simple shadows are to be patched in 'soon' so you shouldn't have to play too long without them.

If any of you guys need a guild on Oasis, I can vouch that the Cursed Crusaders are a small, pleasant, helpful guild. 

Good to know.  I waved at you in Klakanon the other night, and would have responded to your LFM later on if I hadn't gotten a support call.  Saw last night that Fabled was 60 now, so my stacks of status items would just go to waste there.

GU36 scares me.  Hopefully rangers don't get nerfed too bad, that would bum me out.  It could work out well, though.  It'll be nice to not be restricted to daggers to keep the INT aa line useful, and I'll probably switch to Alchemy if I ever decide to grind crafting.

Alchemy is easily one of the best crafting professions.  Not only your scout spells, but potions seriously rock.  Very underused, but make a massive difference when you are grouping or soloing.  Potions are your best friends when you learn how to use them effectively.

I thought scout spells were under Jewelry.  Or did that change?

I remember because it made Jewelry seem like a must have for a scout.  Half your item slots AND all your spells in one trade skill?  No brainer that one.

edit:  Also, big changes coming for crafting coming: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=366825

Shit, your right, fighter spells rather....regardless, alchemy is still sweet.

Sadly, not even dark fae could keep me interested in this game.  It's slow and not exciting.

Back to DATH'REMAR I go.  My dwarf hunter HARGUK is still having a blast, and my coworker is now trying out a bizarre paladin/engineer combo that could prove interesting. 

Most fun so far:  solo-taming a RFK armored boar (the brown one, not the over-tamed black one).  Made it in, used a lesser invis potion, got insanely lucky and hearthed right the fuck out.  Much love.  He's my most favorite pet ever.

Anyway, farewell EQ2. 

Dear WOW:  Please steal collections.  They were cool.  And take a look at provisioner.  WOW cooking needs more variety.

I've played the assassin up to 44 now.  Soloing is much easier now, improvements really started to be noticable around 38.  Yellow con non-heroics are not a problem and green^^^ nameds are doable.  Still has a problem with groups of mobs because all the AoE's have to be done from stealth.  The damage the assassin does is very dependent on procs though so it's pretty bursty but the proc rate is high enough to not be an issue.

Pretty much haven't played any of my other toons and just been focusing on the assassin so I have no clue if the Brig would have been able to keep up or even out pace the assassin but I'm having enough fun not to worry about 'optimal' progression.  Brigs also get a 100% chance feign death that with a maxxed AA line is usable once a minute.  I'm pretty sure that even monk FD isn't that effective.

Reinstalling, starting a new toon. Will check other toons for moneyz and love. What's the easiest class to solo with?

Conj/Necro

Night elf huntress.

With how much starting cash? Right out of the box I would say Swash, Monk, Brigand or Bruiser if you have no money and no gear. Those classes can get by fine on quest gear and mostly app. 1's - app 4's.

If you can afford to at least buy adept 3 pets then conj/necro would be easier. But since they are so dependent on the pet if you don't have an upgraded pet things will suck.

Also, if you have the fae expansion start an Arasai. Darklight woods is much love when it comes to newbie quests and gear. Just do every quest you can find and you'll find yourself at level 20 and decently geared (other than skill upgrades.)

I've had no trouble soloing green and blue heroics with my conjuror and an App IV tank pet. (Which are dirt cheap right now.) That's pretty fast levelling, but honestly I'm finding the class one dimension and dull both solo and in group. It's good for working of stress though.

I think the most fun I've had soloing was with a bruiser or swash. My swash is only like 20 or something, but she's been one of the most diverse and fun classes I've ever tried.

You can start other races there, can't you? I'm pretty sure that's where I started an Iksar bruiser.

Those little faerie characters just bother me!

So far I've liked my shadowknight best for soloing. I've played SK and Wizard to about 30. Paladin, Ranger, Illusionist to 20ish. Wizard is actually not too bad, either, though you will die more often. Root/nuke ftw, but more downtime, the SK was pretty smooth hunting. The paladin is solid but slow as hell, ranger is fun but vulnerable, illusionist was great.

Since Righ has good proper gaming kit now, he's giving this and some other crap a go.  I might start a new character, maybe a fairy to bother every one so if we chat on TS expect a very high squeaky annoying voice.  There might be some sort of flapping in the background.  That would be my wings, that would.  Possibly an emo rat now that we can do the betrayal quest any time. 

It made me misty eyed that schild decided to return to MMORPG gaming on my un-birthday.  Expect thousands of strange beta test invites in many different languages, Eric.   :heart:

For soloing past level 30 or so I highly recommend getting some totems to help you out.  They last about 30 minutes and grant a substantial boost to either health or power regen.  Downtime is low with good food and drink but with a totem effect it is nonexistent even into the 50's.  You can usually get them for a handful of silver off the bazaar.  Also, there are effect specific totems to help out in for certain issues, like needing an invis or underwater breathing or run speed boost.  The totem of the Monkey is awesome simply because turning into a cheeky little monkey that dances and makes monkey noises never gets old.

Someone in my guild soloed a 34^^^ at lvl 30 yesterday with a Fury, which is pretty ridiculous.  Heals, nukes, travel, utility etc... Furies are pretty good at everything and so I have to give them the nod as to most soloable.  Add in that they are healers with great group buffs and so they are always welcome in groups too.

Wizards are great soloers as are Necros and at higher levels I am given to understand that illusionists can solo some things/areas that no one else can.  I, personally, find finger-waggler play pretty boring though.  Of the scouts I hear that Swashbucklers are the most soloable, followed closely by brigands (Both classes get Feign Death now which along with invis means they have ridiculous survivability).  Monks and bruisers always are always put near the top of the list for soloing.  Every class can solo though so if one plays more to your style then go with that one.

I've, uhm, never played a finger waggler in an MMOG really. I always play the rogue/archer class.

This will be my first foray into waggling. Illusionist or Necro starting in Neriak is where I'm leaning.

Then you're playing a necro if you want to start in Neriak. Coercer is the evil illusionist and I was never able to get into the whole charm thing personally. I much prefer a persistant pet. Although for those that get good at them supposedly Coercers are awesome solo'ers as well.

My name is Ailes. She is a fairy thing with black and silver stuff and I did it for the no-falling damage. She is a necromancer and I will not roleplay. I am on Oasis. I have mailed myself a giant sack of cash.

I have a lvl 11 Necro named Murgos there.  I'll log him in when I get home.

Are you guys on the same server or spread out all over the place?  I'm strongly considering a re-sub and would prefer to go someplace where I'd have at least a small chance to chat with someone both articulate and familiar.

But I love it when you act all dainty and girlish!  I'm a rat named Staberella on Oasis.  I can't be arsed to mail myself anything.  I still have chars in Bat Country.

We are spread out all over the place on the Oasis server, if that answers your question.

edit: lol spelling

I created a guardian called Righ. The interface is annoying me, and I'm not sure that guardian is a thrill a minute. I think I'm going to go in search of UI mods then probably create some other character.

I could not live without my mods and EQ2Map.

I'm on Oasis as well.
Cadwin 21 necro
Pathei 20 SK
Mathos 14 fury
Ixion 8 dirge

Can someone email me the EQ2map installer? (schild@f13.net). I don't want to sign up just to download that. I'll attach it to a thread if someone would be so kind... .:P

Stickied and attached EQ2Map in a new thread.

Oof... Skip the guardian. If you must play a plate tank type class go SK first and Bersker second. If you ever plan on soloing the guardian and paladin strategy is to attempt to bore the mob to death.

The only time I would suggest a Guardian is if you're going to have a steady trio of the Guard, a Templar/Inq, and a DPS class.

By the way the Inquisitor is getting better and better as I play it. I'm up to 34 now and have 24 AA's which means I can fully spec down the EoF battle priest line. It basically turns a lot of your spells into combat arts which means MUCH faster cast time and no more interupts.

I will second that Paladins are the suxxorz for soloing.

Characters I may be using at any one time on Oasis are:
Reshe 52 Assassin
Teucer 25 Paladin
Religion 23 Bruiser
Cassa 21 Brigand
Murgos 13 Necro

I also have a wizard which I started last night and is probably going to be rerolled for a different race named Fisz.

I agree about the Paladin and Guardian. Especially the Guardian, if you're not going to group alot, skip him. SK roxxorz.

I'm also on Oasis, in Bat Country.

I have leveled my guardian to 61.  Its a tough road.  Pickup groups are scare these days. A Guardian who is not Main Tank is a Tourist.

Berserkers are slightly worse tanks and have much better damage. Not that same solo power of SK, but beserker can still MT if that is important.

Oh good.  I'll let you join up my character.  She is a rat girl named Stabarella.  When I get sick of the new-ish evil area, I'll do the betrayal thingy if I must.

So we're going to be a dozen shadowknights, taken to a remote island base and trained in commando tactics to carry out brilliant and daring missions for Bayle in return for forgiveness for our misdeeds?

I settled on Fetish Nightfall and EQ2MAP for interface mods. I'm still up in the air about characters. I made a shadowknight drow called Malaprop and its more fun right from the offset than guardian, but then the race and name seemed more suited to a wizard, so I rerolled him. I'll probably make an ogre or ratboy shadowknight - seem to be limited to the 'pure evil' races if you want to start in not-Freeport.

Looking at the character creation screen, I think the fairy boys have a little Captain in them.

I shit the bed and accidentally joined Antonia Bayle.  Everyone said it was the best (and by everyone I mean two random internet dudes) but AB is full of the douchiest Arr Peers in all the land.  I've never been so talked down to in my life for merely having the nerve to say "hey guy, want to group?"  Now I'm armed with "Hail," "Aye," and "Well met" macros.  I feel like I'm starting to fit in.

Seriously, you're pissed that people expected you to rp on the rp server?

In EQ2, you don't need to go to an rp server to get a way from the jackasses, most of them have long since left.  In the same way Jupiter protects Earth.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v464/barney1969/group4.jpg)

"Hail dusematic, bow before our greatness!"

If the level of RP on AB is too much for you, you must be pretty hateful on RPers because there's virtually no RP on the server other than a few specialized guilds.

Is there anything keeping good and evil toons from grouping and such on Oasis?

Other than the guards. no. And the Guards are only an issue in the 20 something zone. Good and evil can be in the same guild as well.

No, just a few occasions where you have to look out for guards.  I think it's just parts of BB, TS or Antonica if your evil, nek and darklight if you are good and, of course, the cities.  Though I walked my assassin around Greater Feydark and Felwithe without too much hassle and have made ventures into Qeynos on occasion for quests and played in Thundering Steppes and Antonica routinely while leveling so even that isn't really more than a minor annoyance.

Its hard for new players from opposite sides to meet up.  The run between nek doc and commonlands can be tough for low level players.

What is "low level?"

Yeah, the Griffon towers in Nek would be hard for someone in their teens to activate.  Of course, with Darklight and GFay you can level to 20 pretty easily.  I see pretty much no reason to try and group in Commonlands.  Frankly it's the least interesting and least well put together zone for the 10-20 set out of them all.

Darklight takes you to 20 in about 4 and a half hours just running the quest time line.  I assume GFay is similar as the run up to 10 is a snap but I haven't tried it past 10.  I've started a couple of humans and half-elves just by doing the newb isle and then running straight to Darklight from freeport and skipping CL altogether.  I would also stay away from Fallen Gate, and do Stormhold in Antonica instead if you really want to group in the low 20's.

I ran my Erudite wizard through Nektulos, doing many of the quests there. No big deal. Even went to the Ruined Knowledge Portal in Longshadow Alley in Freeport, which is RIDICULOUS for a newbie quest (Erudite newbie quest).

My SK has done a little in TS, but I've mostly stopped trying to quest there as I clean up some lvl 22 stuff (mostly Nek) before it greens out.

Yes, I'm playing again as of last night. I love this game (mostly). Still kinda bummed out by Harclave's, made it 90% of the way to the and and got wiped out by a group of yellow ^ Heroics. In a solo instance. After a couple hours of the instance. :roll: That's one of the things I hope is fixed by that instance change upcoming: that I can just go back in and start at that group of yellows rather than waste another couple hours to get rolled over again.

Supposedly some of the instances will allow you to pick them up again after you have left but I don't know what all the rules for that will be.  Harclaves, as I recall, locks you out if you die so I am not sure that mechanism is going to change.  Will be interesting to find out though as I never did finish Harclaves.  I kept getting killed at the same point.

Send me a /tell in game if you need help with a quest or something (posted the names of my characters above), I'll gladly mentor down to lend a hand.

Had a hard time with my Paladin in Harclave's, even with the buff I just couldn't last long enough to make it through.  With the Ranger, it takes 6-10 minutes from start to finish.

Having the attuned Stone that teleports you to Lower Tunnels (with a quick click to TS from there) makes it worth buying an invis totem or 4 and finishing Harclave's the fast way if you aren't a stealth/invis class already.

If it still works the other "trick" (maybe bug) is that you can mentor someone before zoning into any of the solo zones in Splitpaw. Once you zone in then unmentor and you can green or grey out the zone.

You can actually do that for any instance there not just the solo ones.

IE... I'm 35 but invite a level 25 to group. I mentor the 25 and zone into Harclave. Harclave gets set as a level 25 zone. I unmentor and now I can breeze through.

recently resubbed to eq2, is the bat country guild still alive?

Under 20.

Bat Country is sort of alive.  My characters are in, Midden, Gunda and Staberella (who I'm playing now), Sky is still playing and in but I forget his names, same with Shirley Bob, and I just added Righ's character, Smegolas.  Everyone is able to invite.  There are more in the guild but I'm pretty sure most are not playing... well, the ones left after I booted everyone because I was in a mood last year.  I only looked at members active in the last two weeks.

well im gonna roll a char there tonight probly..  anyone gonna be on tonight that can invite?  :headscratch:

So...you finally admit it! I told you not to eat grunk's brain. You kept blaming it on poor Lt. Dan. Now go sit in the corner and think about what you did.

Aaand...who are you?

What do you have?  Some kind of fucking bionic memory or something?  Sheesh.  (http://www.terranuts.com/forums/images/smilies/standcorner.gif)

Those of us caught in the swath may forgive, but we'll never forget.

eh nobody, just looking for, as someone said before, a group of ... articulate gamers to game with?

Just give a shout if you see Staberella or Smegolas on.  I don't remember Sky's names, like I said.  And don't listen to those guys up there.  I have a kind disposition and good manners and I'm pretty sure Lt.Dan must have tricked me.  He's a sly one, that Lt.Dan.

DDA: that's cool. I mostly solo, so I don't know how much those guys group up. My only reservation is that you're pretty new, so maybe we should withhold bank and invite rights for a while, eh? I've "known" most of these knuckleheads for years. That's kinda scary.

Just watch out for Signe, she's a zombie. She can't help it.

URFACEISAZOMBIE.

I primarily solo, too, although when we were all playing (you guys remember that week or so) we used to group for some stuff.  It would probably take 3 seconds to get Cheddar to re-sub.  Hal maybe, too.  They're good groupers.

Don't listen to anything Sky says.  He's a well known pervert and degenerate.  Really.  I saw it YouTube.  I don't lie.  I will leave it up to him to give you permissions.  He'll probably make you rub his smelly feet first.

I want to play this game with Signe. Add me to your buddy list signe.

My name is Ailes. I think.

I tried talking to Signe but she never responded.  I feel ignored by a forum celebrity.  :cry2:

what no bank rights !  :tantrum:  I'll be on tonight. Who else?!

i'm in ur utubes (http://youtube.com/watch?v=3iacZDoXaVQ) playin ur guitar hero

I should really update that profile with something decent

I'm sorry!  :oops: I was mostly afk last night which is why I went from level 11 to level 11 in three hours.  EQ2 doesn't boot you like CoX.  I ALWAYS respond when I'm there.  I'll autograph your breast later if it makes you feel better.   :-P

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cuQ63P_sJiA

I got in quite a decent amount of playtime over the weekend. The fiancee was shacked up at her house doing housecleaning and finances for much of the weekend, and the damned neighbor's dogs precluded sleep as an option (I slept ten hours in three nights). I estimate I got about ten hours in over fri/sat/sunday.

The part I found interesting was gaining two levels (now 33 SK) with combat experience turned off in that amount of time, which included stuff like dicking around setting up my new apartment in Neriak and generally learning the city layout. Also got a decent amount of AA points, I think maybe six over the weekend.

I'm gonna be playing a bit this weekend, I'm trying to tear through a bit of Titan Quest IT though.

Did that baby dragon sell?  Checked the broker last night out of curiosity and only saw one on there but it wasn't mint so didn't think it was yours.

Oh shit, really? Fucking awesome. Money Money Money MOooooooooooooooooooooney MOOONEY

(http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-Moonies3.jpg)

That shit was up there for 100 plat, yo.

Holy what? What the heck was it? That's crazy, I'm a 3 year vet and I've seen 1 plat :P I'm a broke non-powergaming soloer, though...I don't sell shit because I have 6 alts.

If you sold it for 100pp, I will seriously reactivate VDL's old account.  She had one in her apartment.  Did it have to be in un-cracked egg form or anything? 

Mine was uncracked. I have uhm. Four of them total.

If it actually sold, I'm going to be one bad motherfucker. Can I look at my characters inventories online?

I don't think you can see how much cash you have.

Le cry.

Whoa, didn't intent to start a freak out session.  There is the thing about only your last character logged in (or is it last one to use the broker?) has their broker stuff displayed for sale.

Didn't see it on there, but that doesn't mean it sold.

37 went live today, but before that it was last logged in.

Hasn't sold, and through NO FAULT of my own, the market is flooded. On that same note, I have the coolest colors.

Are you guys all on the same server or are any of you on AB?

All my chars are on Oasis, most in Bat Country.  I'm playing a rat named Staberella if you want in the guild, Douchey.  Just yell me a holler.

Edit:  "Just yell me a holler"?  WTF?  (http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/confused0044.gif)

I have a dude on AB.  I don't know if I'm ready to play on two servers.  I mean, that's a MAJOR move.

My boyfriend and I came back when we received the "No like-y Vanguard?  Yousa come back to EQ2!" postcards.  All of our toons are on Oasis.  I have a 62 Templar, he's a 62 Guardian which we paused on after a brief tour of KoS.  Recently we have been playing a 19 Fury/Necro combination to explore the new stuff, just casually since I'm taking bass lessons right now and have to practice every night.

If you guys there need any food/drink or a Guardian to cheese through some HQ's send a mail to Elsebet.  :)

Yes, yes you do :) Check out my post in General Discussion > Guitar Thread (near the end of the thread), I just posted a little clip of me playing bass. Bass is a very fun instrument!

Thanks for the offer for help, as well.

It is very fun!  The only detriment to my fun at the moment is having fretting wrist fatigue.  I can only play the bass for about 20-30 minutes before that wrist just gets sore and tired.  I have owned it less than a month and have taken 3 lessons, so hopefully this is just temporary.

Unfortunately for me, male bass players have a developed advantage in the wrist endurance area.   :-o

Just remember it's not like weight lifting, pain is not gain. Just take it slow and easy and you'll build up stamina over time. I'm limited on bass due to my right hand fingertips, I don't play much anymore (at all, really), so I can get blisters in about a minute because I still play hard.

I am back (with a new station account), downloading as I write this (30 minutes to go, WAY faster than my LotR Trial, I am impressed already).

Why the hell is it, the moment I came back to EQ2 I got absolutely smacked down with betas and shit. I don't get it.

I was sending you and Righ stuff (like spell and combat upgrades) from my alchemist but neither of you log in.  I am poking you in the arm very hard in my mind.  (Righ gets his big toe squeezed instead.  HARD.)

My new guild has been helping level my guardian a good bit. I hit 66 last night and half way through the Hat Quest.

I keep doing "/who all bat", but don't seen anyone but sky.

What was the "place to be" again ? Oasis ?

Yes, Oasis.  My chars are Staberella, Midden and Twee.  Mostly evil.  I'm usually off and on during the day, after 3PM GMT. 

I'm on at 10 pm pst usually.

edit: umm, not the best thread for this. Sorry. Moving to "Why I don;t like this game"

Sky is also quite the awesome SK

So if I wanted to get in on the f13 server is there a startup loan one can take out? (yeah, I did it.)

Thinking of resubbing for a bit.

That was interesting. I haven't grouped in years, I think I've grouped a total of once before, and that was with the old BC. I totally don't have a 'group mode' and it was tough because a lot of my playstyle is based on mobs hitting me and my lifetaps going off. That's why I lasted so damned long when we were getting mobbed in that instance (until the epic bouncer mob wiped us, heh).

I think I'm going to ding 35 soon, trying to clean up some old quests. I might be the only EQ2 player that actively tries not to level.

Modern Angel: Speaking for myself, I'm broke. If you do the legwork harvesting stuff I have crafters that can make you stuff. Talk to me ingame about what you want/class you are/etc and we can figure out what you'll need. At the least I can hook you up with AppIV spells/arts and some armor and weapons.

Tragny and gimpyone group regularly, and I'll be trying to hang out with them more often. I usually play for an hour or two weeknights at 11pm Eastern.

And oh yeah how about the half-dozen times I hit feign death by mistake and knocked out the swash or Oly. I was cracking up. Whoopsy! I can't get used to FD being a targeted ability, it's weird.

I also didn't know that my proc lifetap could be cast on someone else, or Oly probably wouldn't have died quite so much :)

I was also trying to off-tank a few mobs for him, but I couldn't taunt for shit.

Have room for another joker in Bat Country? I was just thinking about reupping to get ready for Kunark.

Sure. We can all invite, just /w all bat and ask.

Heh, that's exactly what I'm doing.  I logged back in as Stopgap last night and Tazelbain actually ran across me as I was discretely sitting up on a hill going through the fifty screens of options and trying to remember how to play.  It's a small virtual world.  I just want to level up and get some money for my new little chicken head in November.

I made an F13 chat group.  Since many of us on Oasis aren't in Bat Country.

Traitor!  If I didn't like you so much, I'd call you a swear word!  I will join your betrayal chat channel, you betrayer you,  but only as a constant reminder of your... umm... betrayal.

You should call it the Bat Channel. Same bat time, same bat station.

I've had a few players stop and yell "We can't stop here!" at me. It's amusing.

Siggie, you have to think about the benefits of having friends in big guilds. Because all the big raiding guilds are in dire need of more SKs for their raids.

There was a sarchasm in that last sentence.

It's guild with people who actually play the game.  When I came back earlier this year, I was the only person to log in over 2 weeks.  SO I found a new guild.

Don't listen to Signe, she's afraid to leave the trades instance because her hair might get wet.

When I came back all my characters had been kicked from the guild, after close to 15 levels without seeing someone from BC on I joined a different guild.  It was a good choice.

However, I will sit in the bat channel.  Am I clear that in that it's called "F13"?

Yeah, more details on the channel plz, from someone else in the "other guild" camp.

No problems with you being in another guild, this is Signe messing with you :P

As for everyone getting kicked out at one point, yes that did happen. I was kicked out, too, and I'm not real pleased about that as this guild is supposed to be open to f13 members in good standing who don't act like jacktards in the game. This is why I've taken to putting newed community members in the lower privelege ranks for a while to see how it works out, but anyone who we've known for years gets full leader benefits. I hope this doesn't have to change in the future.

And the person who did the kicking knows who they are and I hope will not pull such antics again, or blame it on other people :) This is a Drama Free™ guild. And it will always be open to you guys if you get tired of guilds that actually Do Stuff.

That wasn't Signe.  He is confusing us again.  It was just Sky pretending to be Signe.  Damn them.

Anyway, we didn't really want to kick anyone out but that was back when they were doing funky things with the guilds and we were having trouble getting guild points or something.  There was a reason which is why I said something on f13 so people would know.  I also said just give a shout if you want start playing again.  Not long after that, they changed the way guild points worked and I felt guilty.  I'm sure Lt. Dan isn't fussed about me blaming him because he knows I love him to bits. 

Anyway, don't pick on me.  You'll make me cry.  I'm having allergy attacks, you know!   :cry:

That's where I'll be.

Somebody isn't good with subtlety.

Since resubscribing a few days ago I seem to have lost my Mastery Strikes, were they taken out or is there a way I can re-choose all of my racial/special choices?

Edit: Nevermind, I remembered there is an in game level channel and found out I need to do the lore and legend quests.