Anyone still playing EQII?

[Caocao]

Can I get a video of some end game content, like the one descirbed above from where those items droped? Thanks ahead of time.

[Khalan]

EQ2 Raid video's aren't nearly as available as WoW ones. I'm not sure what it is but their are very few if any walkthroughs for most raid mobs (unless they are older tier). Because EQ2 has a lot more contested encounters (like the one above) I doubt you would ever see any video's produced to show how they are killed.

[Caocao]

What about the old content, I can't find shit on youtube lol. All I see is a bunch of RPing love stories, which is fine and all, but I want a damn raid video .

[Zuuljin]

I'm going to go with the fact that WoW has roughly 40x the amount of people killing the stuff. =)

And the fact that you can fraps WoW with good fps, but to fraps EQ2..... well it would be more of a slideshow presentation than a video. =\

[GrobbeeTrull]

I forget where I got it, but I had a video of Lord Vyemm from EQ2 being killed.

Check the eq2 forums - eqiiforums.station.sony.com

[Khalan]

Here we are Cac generally Tier 5 and Tier 6 with a few of the easier T7 Mobs:

Vision of Vox T5 Contestedhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=SHUQvKNH7zg

Mutagenic Outcast Tier 7 http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ni2aNHHMztE

The Kra'thuk Tier 5 Contested http://youtube.com/watch?v=Oiuonp96TmI

Pedestal of Sky Tier 6 http://youtube.com/watch?v=CDlR1XvVGKM

Brutal Acts of War, Splitpaw T5http://youtube.com/watch?v=2rGNgTcoraU

K'dal the Deceiver T5http://youtube.com/watch?v=aBWCeCjdv8A

Chel'Drak The Ancient Lord t7http://youtube.com/watch?v=W7VE-khykCw

[Khalan]

If you need any explanations I will be glad to answer for the most part, a lot of the raids have a ton going on that isn't that visible from just looking at it.

[Caocao]

Thanks a ton . There is a lot of people just watching that seem to be out of the guild or something. Or their just bums lol, any thoughts on that?

[Khalan]

Which video's in particular?

[Caocao]

The one that I was mainly talking about was some desert looking place w/ a brown/yellow dragon.

[Chaid]

Originally Posted by Khalan

If their was any doubt about how bad EQ2's itemization is this will erase it.

Just curious, does EQ2 have set bonuses for weapon pairs (Dal'Rends) or armor sets (Transcendence, Wrath, etc) like WoW does?

Oh it also dropped this 1 per server Mythical item (equivalent to Orange)

That concept is pretty cool. I'd like to see other raid-centric games adopt that as well.

[Asmadai]

There's something calming about there not being 9,000 videos of how to do the encounters of EQ2 being found online.

And Ham, if they didn't put any resists on lower level gear, how long before the lower level people start bitching about them having no resists on their gear? (Because you know something like that would be inevitable.)

[GrobbeeTrull]

Originally Posted by Chaid

Just curious, does EQ2 have set bonuses for weapon pairs (Dal'Rends) or armor sets (Transcendence, Wrath, etc) like WoW does?


That concept is pretty cool. I'd like to see other raid-centric games adopt that as well.

Not yet... they will be with Echoes of Faydwer coming out.

[Asmadai]

Originally Posted by Utnayan

Nice justification.

And those Mcdonalds comparisons were for producers trying to save their ass. I had never seen such idiotic discussion in all my life about why a game wasn't getting subscription revenue. Ultimate spin at it's finest.

You may find it fun, and that's fine. But if it was as fun for everyone else as it was for you, a shitload more would still be playing it. Instead, it just got passed up by Ultima Online in it's current state. And that game as it stands right now is an absolute disaster.

On a calmer note, the total number of subscribers really doesn't affect the player base who just wants to play *all* that much. You are looking at things on a Producer level, wherein numbers = success. To the general playerbase tho, as long as there is enough people for the game to continue, which we've seen is only in the hundreds of thousands rather than the 6 million you boast WoW holds, the game will continue to be fun.

You won't find a crowd more hard to convince of EQ2's failure than the EQ2's current playerbase tho. If from anything of what i've seen, EQ2's player base right now is made of up people who have either always loved EQ, or mostly by people who've done the Lineage/WoW route, and couldn't stand it. Almost everyone i've run into has a loathing hatred for WoW, and EQ2 was just the drug they needed to give them their fix.

I understand why you would think numbers = success, and from a Producer's standpoint you wouldn't be all that wrong. Just remember that this is a board for gamers, not producers, and whether or not a game is successful is going to look alot different thru the eyes of the average player (us).

I mean, Logitech doesn't have to be the best top-selling name brand in the world for me to buy products from them, yes? Even if their selling numbers are lower than say, Microsoft, would you deny the success of Logitech? It's a rough analogy, but it still works.

[Rayne]

Originally Posted by Cuppycake

I'll never understand why SOE decided to use such high numbers for resists. +700 to cold? On one item!? That's ridiculous.

Because firing a star at a planet is sooooo much more impressive than shooting an arrow into a meatsack. Its the SOE philosophy. Bigger is better! Even after it surpasses ridiculous.