I’m back from an exhausting yet awesome long weekend in Vegas at SOE Fan Faire. I’m not going to go into details about the event as most of the info can be found elsewhere on the web – but all I can say is that between the Evercracked documentary and the passionate fans..I became quite nostalgic for the Everquest franchise. So, upon arriving home after the short plane ride, I logged into EQ2 to play my little Illusionist, Decembriah.
I’ve decided to set a goal for myself. I WILL be max level in EQ2 before the next expansion come out in February. I am going to push through the terrible zones like Steppes and Zek and finally see some of the high level content in the game. I have a few friends playing on Antonia Bayle as well, and between them and my guild – Mystic Alliance – I am going to stick with EQ2 as my main MMO. The game has everything I love – from rich lore, to dungeons, to classes I enjoy, player housing, awesome guild system, rich crafting, etc. and there is no reason I shouldn’t keep playing it.
I leveled Decembriah a couple of levels tonight, and she’s now level 15. I’m working my way through Greater Faydark and just achieved citizenship in Kelethin. I still have my bare one-room-inn and very little belongings…but it’s good fun. I really enjoy this game, I just need to stick with it. Antonia Bayle is a great server with a vibrant large community and the game itself is a lot of fun.
Tami Baribeau is the Associate Producer for Metaplace, Inc, currently working on Island Life. She is also the Lead Editor of feminist gaming blog The Border House, and the National Facebook Games Examiner for Examiner.com. She can be reached on Twitter or by email.
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I love AB as far as servers go, and as soon as the new character transfer is implemented in game, I'll be moving back 'home' to AB (the server I started on way back in 2004) and bringing friends. Looking forward to poking you and keeping you up with your goal! Teehee. *hugs*
There's enough content now that you can just bypass the Steppes, I think.
I've stopped doing my gray quests and am waiting for the auto-mentor system. It'll be great to be able to just do the quests that sound interesting on a particular day, and know that I know have to rush to do green quests before they gray out. If they do, I can just mentor down and take care of them later!