I don’t expect every new visitor to my blog to know my history with EQII so here it is in a nutshell: I loved the game for 3+ years but when Kunark came out it just didn’t do anything for me, and in my personal opinion, it felt like a crazy grind. If it’s working for you, then that’s awesome, continue enjoying the game.

To address your other outlandish “points”, I didn’t say the graphics were bugged, I said they were “bugging me”, as in, I don’t particularly like the looks of them when compared to WoW. That’s not to say they’re bad, just that they don’t suit my tastes. In fact, in my post previous to this one I even said that surprised me because while I played EQII, I LOVED the graphics and would have defended them against any other game out. Thanks for informing me that I need to update my graphics drivers, I’ll look into that right away – although I have to say it’s really tough finding updated drivers for Windows ME these days. (That’s a joke by the way).

As for your most helpful suggestion that I quit playing MMOs entirely and stick to single player games with cheats that will satisfy my desire for instant gratification…. in this very post I talked about my dislike of people buying raid slots to whip through their Mythicals. I figured, and hoped, they would be extremely difficult to get.

Believe me, if I were into instant gratification I wouldn’t have gone back and edited this reply.

My suggestion is to quit playing MMOs entirely and stick with single player RPGS (with cheats), but there still will be grinding in those, so maybe stick with FPS games. Because it sounds like you want instant gratification.

Part of that might be explained by the fact I started on and still play WoW, I’ve played on three different WoW servers in Europe and outside of the guild the game is pretty unplayable.

The problems are rudeness and anti-social behaviour. I’ve had people swearing at me, seen a group of people opening mocking and ridiculing one of the people in a pick up raid group because his gear wasn’t good enough, and the whole “link ur achievements” spam really does cheese me off.

Still, if you think too many people are getting mythicals. the next WoW patch is effectively giving everyone access to the same gear and better gear that the current top end raid instance drops. All for running the super easy 5 man’s over and over again, I really would not enjoy that grind and resent the way Blizzard treat their players like suckers if that’s the sort of content they are releasing.

It both destroys the sense of progression mid expansion you get without actually putting anything new and interesting in to work at, this is because the new raid instance is just a arena with one of 25 previously released bosses turning up – I think I can skip this one. If any other MMO did this they’d get rightfully panned.

Replay wise the low levels now are stupidly easy, with some friends we tried starting afresh, unfortunately we found that even instances that drop gear 7 levels higher then us are not particularly hard.

End result is that a group of us are heading off to WAR to give it a go and ending our subscription, WoW’s just too easy now, maybe I outgrew it?

“I have to say, the WoW server I play on isn’t half as bad as the immaturity and e-peen waving of Kithicor. I pity any new player who chooses this server.”

I agree completely, and this comes from after playing extensively on Antonia Bayle, Lucan D’Lere, Najena, and Oasis. I’m only on Kithicor right now because of three very close friends, and if it was affordable for all of us to move we’d head to a new server right away, even if it meant leaving behind our level 50 guild and hall that we’ve worked so hard on.