| The last time I played EQ2 I loved my Dark Elf Assassin and the starting newb zone that got me to level 17-18 or whatever and as soon as I finished the zone and all the quests I got stuck so I quit because the commonlands and the other forest area were awful like you said.
The texturing is downright awful and that goes double for the animations. The Fae animations are great, and so is the world texturing. Anything else was an eyesore.
There are really two different games here. A shitty one and a decent one. Only bad part is the Shitty one is much bigger. They should really take out the classic? old? world and get rid of it.
Though I do have to say Freeport was pretty cool, minus all the little newbie zones laced into it. That was over done.
If the whole game was like some of the newer zones, and some of the texturing you mentioned got fixed, I might be able to look passed the silly combat abilities and play the game on the side. | 