Oldschool peoples who recently came back to EQ

[Jazendar]

I'm reinstalling this weakend, WoW is too fucking boring. I'll play EQ and log in for raids, that's about it.

[Tossica]

Does BoD exist anymore?

[Xaiveir]

Negative Toss.........they folded.

[Gargamellow]

Ya but it isn't a bad thing because from what I heard it sucked toward the end.

[Metranon]

if you want to catch up with some old BoD, Morphiious is now GM of CT i think, Kavaren still plays too

[Jazendar]

What's so different about WoW now? I quit right around when all the big guilds started to kill Quarm. Lots of new zones? Races? Classes? Is Nameless' economy fucked? Overpriced bullshit? How is it?

[Gargamellow]

eq is just the same as it ever was if u ask me..except u don't have to suffer hunting down a corpse if you own DoN..

the new expansion is pretty cool tho...

you do these monster missions and everyone in ther group becomes like a lvl 25 fairy or whatever in this little instanced zone where you and your friends must clear the zone gearless OR just sneak through and beat the fucker...anyway...you get this phat loots from these monster missions..BUT IF you don't finish the mission, forget the loot.

I never played WoW.

[Darcler]

EQ was dumbed down and made far too easy. This, of course, my own opinion. They took the "skill" required to play certain classes.
WoW is not too much better. Havent found a class that was super hard to play (might be more difficult higher with that class, but I dont think so)

I still side towards WoW more though. EQ just got real easy, real quick.

[Gargamellow]

I agree with you that they made it easy. However, for those who still thirst for the blood of the real mobs, there are a lot of badass places to go and get killed!

[Darcler]

I guess. I saw what I wanted to see out of the game through "applying" to high guilds.

The final straw for me was when they added the twist macros for bards. I figured, there would be no way to show how good a bard is, they can now go AFK like any other class and no one would know. I quit then.

[Gargamellow]

I enjoy the bard I have. She is super geared and lvl 65. However, I don't really know the class so I can't really say anything on the matter except that I would much rather be on my enchanter than my bard.

If you ever played EQ again you should try a beastlord. I love beastlords in my groups. Good dmg, good buffs, pet class, so you can let their pet die and run if you want! It's wonderful grouping with a pet class LOL!

My ride is late. Those bastards.

[Darcler]

I hated playing a beastlord. Not my thing. I loved my bard and was decent at her. But the easybutton made me quit.

[Gargamellow]

I don't even know what the easy button is. Have you played enchanter?

[Darcler]

I boxed Gidan's. I wasn't good because I dont pay attention. That's why I quit the cleric, I sucked hardcore because I didnt pay attention. Bard's used to keep it because I always had to twist something.
Easybutton is that twisting macro. It twists for songs for you. It sucked the fun right out.

[Gargamellow]

Well if you ever want to try playing that enchanter again let me know. I am outty my ride is here. bbl

[Darcler]

The enchanter, along with all our spare accounts has long been deactivated. The only active one is my cleric/bard account which some nice man is paying for me.

[Jay]

I dunno what became of my character. Is there any way to find out?

[Ouchyfish]

Last time I checked EQ it didn't even resemble EQ anymore. I can't bear to even think about going back to Norrath after they fucked it up so badly.

Imagine a really good movie, then imagine a sequel where none of the original cast, crew, etc were used in the making.

What you get basically is something that tries to mimic the former successful model but falls flat on its face at every scene.

[Metranon]

Easybutton is that twisting macro. It twists for songs for you. It sucked the fun right out.

sorry nothing personal but every time i hear someone reduce the function of an EQ bard to just twisting songs, i cringe

[Ouchyfish]

I knew a bard in OT who was proud of how he could twist the sustenance and levitate song during battle.

I told the group "Here I sit broken hearted, tanks a wimp and the bards retarded."

He left after that.

[ybik gnome]

hmm dumbed down? seems so, but after wow big launch cant blame them, everyone wants to be uber quick now a days. Least in EQ, it still takes longer then a month or 2, usually, unlike in wow, were you can be 60, with an epic mount in a month, then either app or pvp like mad, and be end game. I still feel like in EQ your e-nervis can be bigger.

[Gargamellow]

u can email sony tech

Technical Support eqtech@soe.sony.com

they will put you in contact with the actual person who manages your account

[Darcler]

No, thats not all a bard could do, but it was a large part. To pay attention to what you were twisting so group members didnt get mad, or twisting while kiting and you had to notice if you missed one or you died. Now, you can push a button, turn on attack in a group and go get a soda and noone will be the wiser.

[Ouchyfish]

I literally wore out 2 mice while playing my bard. I never used the keyboard except the arrow keys. Was very good at keeping a shitload of songs going.

[Darcler]

I always kept my left hand on the 1 2 3 4 and 8 if I had to mez and targeted with my mouse.