Like to let people know that EQ2 > WoW. I doubt the Penny Arcade guys have touched the game since its original release. Yeah, I guess you didn't like the game cause it was HARD. While in WoW you're blinded by neonish hyper pretty colors and loveable cartoony characters that are often found cybering in the noob area which they call "Role Playing".
I played both WoW and EQ2. Got two 80's in raid gear on WoW and a couple 90's on EQ2. I would start up WoW cause some person wanted me to start up my account again to play with them. I play for 2 months, get bored to all hell and quit. When all that's left is to do dailies or join a raiding guild well there isn't much else to do but jump around D-town on your 10 different mounts and 50 unique pets. Yeah you could go farm, level up another character, run through the opposing factions noob areas taunting the lingering 80's to come out and try to kill you; but that shizzle gets old quick. I rather take a wooden splintery spoon to my eyes than try to lvl up another character in WoW.
EQ2 has evolved a lot from when it first started. I was turned off at first as well but you know if I want to wear some bad ass looking gear I'll wear that gear for appearence while secretly wearing my stupid looking mix matched legendary/fabled gear. You don't like riding around on that free rhino mount but like the looks of a slower mount with less stats? Friggin do that shizzle my nizzle.. make everyone think you're ridin that unicorn when its really just a fat rhino.
Where do I want to put all my phat loot and trophies? OH I KNOW! I have a house that I can decorate and use to store all my stuff in as well as I can turn it into a shop where I can sell stuff cheaper than the broker/auction house and there is no limit of how long it stays up there!
Wish you could play your druid in boomkin spec without looking like a fat bird with horns? Easy, you can turn off illusions in EQ2 if you want. You don't see our droods runnin around like some thanksgiving dinner or a tree that resembles an angry old man.
You want an epic mount without spending 10 weeks farming somethin.. just go buy an epic mount off the station cash center, better than risk getting your account banned in WoW dealing with some gold farmer.
Battlegrounds, yeah we got that kinda stuff too. LON for when you want to play cards and get confused doing it. We get flying mounts next expansion.
Don't like the way your race looks, friggin switch to alt models. Yeah and both are fully customizable. Unlike wow where you just flip through premade faces.
You got werewolves, well we got vampires now (that turn into bats for travel instead of sparkling). We can play with players of different factions or kick thier butts depending on the server! We also have a dragonish player race.
So Penny Arcade guys, think you should give EQ2 another chance unless you think its still to complicated and difficult to play.
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Also, Gabe and Tycho don't read the forums.
Other than that, cool story bro.
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People with Avatars bother me. Especially moving ones.
You can turn them off.
How do you tell posters apart? Do you, like, read their names?
Sounds like a waste of time.
I used to identify posters by their avatar, but sometimes they change. Makes me very mad.
Didn't know I could turn avatars off, I'll try that.
Edit: Oh man, this is great. Many thanks.