The new Expansion..oh God

[Xrazor]

<p>I have a feeling that the expansion will be the same as the rest...</p><p>80% of the cons will be rehashed from other zones, instead of green snakes you will have red ones and the new cons will be spammed endlessly throughout the zone, to the point you will get bored in no time.....and the named cons will just drop a master spell you probably can't use anyway.</p><p>Then there is the mount, you know there will be a new one....but sadly it won't be faster or have the ability for great burst of speeds or maybe +100 to defense...no it will just have one thing different, instead of having armor or drooling spit, it will have the ability to shoot fire balls out it's A$$ and after about a week of spamming the right mouse key and watching the fireballs you will realize that you are the only one who can see it and you will start to feel like you have been amusing only yourself and that you might need some professional help.</p><p>Then there will be the instances which if you look closely will have derris or foliage that is from some other instance and again you will spam the named only to find some maters you don't need.</p><p>And of course there will be the quests to find 10 of this or that, that you can repeat 20 times for XP to get you up in levels to just do more of the same.</p><p>God I hope I am wrong and it will be a completely new concept.....</p><p>Now before you spam me, I do like the game but am getting bored and just want something to make me say wow, they really put some new creative ideas in this.</p><p>Is anyone else feeling this way?</p>

[sfarugger]

<p>Yes, and....</p><p><span style="font-size: large"><span style="color: #cc0033">I CANNOT WAIT FOR IT ! ! ! ! ! ! !</span></span></p>

[Xrazor]

<cite>sfarugger wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Yes, and....</p><p><span style="font-size: large"><span style="color: #cc0033">I CANNOT WAIT FOR IT ! ! ! ! ! ! !</span></span></p></blockquote> Sadly I am as dumb as you...lol

[tyriel1]

welcome to mmorpgs?

[woolf2k]

well if ya wanna stick to the same genre try WoW...campy , slapstick fun just for a month or so or a glutten for punishment? Vanguard... grind on the same mobs over and over ...oh wait... you just got killed by a high level player for no reason lost xp and gotta do it all over again... or Be a Villian oh yeah!  go kill a city full of innocents with my super power ice blast... <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> you want a game that is different then you'll have to play a different game... I think you're over simplefying things... take a look at unrest ... wasn't that out of the ordinary? yeah it becomes predictable after the 20th time but what doesn't? I'm looking for forward to the expansion but there are other things to try out in this game as well as a short excursion to others. <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> (plannc/webzen/turbine ...other publishers besides SOE)

[Ijiamee]

<p>"cons" as in consider? Mobs are being called considers now?</p>

[Zard]

<cite>Ijiamee wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>"cons" as in consider? Mobs are being called considers now?</p></blockquote> Maybe he's thinking of City of Heroes where, as a hero, you can hunt escaped con<i>victs</i>?  <img src="/smilies/2786c5c8e1a8be796fb2f726cca5a0fe.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[AegisCrown]

welcome to playing a MMO

[Armawk]

Hard to see EoF as any of that though.......

[Bawang]

<p>What the OP has described is the current state of the art in MMORPGs.  Yes, developers are caught in the same old mentality but it's because they're told to stick to what's guaranteed to work.  It's a business and the guys putting up the money won't risk it in a new <i>vision.  </i>So after EQ1 we get EQ2, and we'll soon get EQ3.  Just more of the same, only at higher res and with more particle effects.</p><p>I suppose it will take a new company with nothing to lose to push the envelope.  More than anything, I dream of a MMORPG game without the drudgery of mindless repetition built in.  A game with a story that sucks you in, with lore written by a writer of some talent.  It will happen, it better or I'll have to make it myself <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />. </p>

[Galithdor]

im a little confused at what the OP is trying to say...lol

[Siclone]

<p>something different dont work.  If it did they would do it.</p>

[Ruut Li]

<cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Then there is the mount, you know there will be a new one....but sadly it won't be faster or have the ability for great burst of speeds or maybe +100 to defense...no it will just have one thing different, instead of having armor or drooling spit, it will have the ability to shoot fire balls out it's [I cannot control my vocabulary] and after about a week of spamming the right mouse key and watching the fireballs you will realize that you are the only one who can see it and you will start to feel like you have been amusing only yourself and that you might need some professional help.</p></blockquote>          <img src="/smilies/97ada74b88049a6d50a6ed40898a03d7.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> good one

[SaeriBr]

<cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I have a feeling that the expansion will be the same as the rest...</p><p>80% of the cons will be rehashed from other zones, instead of green snakes you will have red ones and the new cons will be spammed endlessly throughout the zone, to the point you will get bored in no time.....and the named cons will just drop a master spell you probably can't use anyway.</p><p>Then there is the mount, you know there will be a new one....but sadly it won't be faster or have the ability for great burst of speeds or maybe +100 to defense...no it will just have one thing different, instead of having armor or drooling spit, it will have the ability to shoot fire balls out it's [I cannot control my vocabulary] and after about a week of spamming the right mouse key and watching the fireballs you will realize that you are the only one who can see it and you will start to feel like you have been amusing only yourself and that you might need some professional help.</p><p>Then there will be the instances which if you look closely will have derris or foliage that is from some other instance and again you will spam the named only to find some maters you don't need.</p><p>And of course there will be the quests to find 10 of this or that, that you can repeat 20 times for XP to get you up in levels to just do more of the same.</p><p>God I hope I am wrong and it will be a completely new concept.....</p><p>Now before you spam me, I do like the game but am getting bored and just want something to make me say wow, they really put some new creative ideas in this.</p><p>Is anyone else feeling this way?</p></blockquote><p>Wow, that sounds like what Borecraft will be in a few years time.  You got leet brainage telepathic senses which prawns dude.</p><p>ahem, and no ninja class ffs! </p>

[Kiester]

Everquest 3??  Anybody have a link with info?

[initoci]

lol I cannot wait for this expansion...It is probably the most highly anticipated expansion of any EQ2 expansion so far...in EQ1, EQ2, CoH, CoV, WoW, Vanguard, SWG, etc. it is ALL THE SAME after you play the game for a few months...I mean if you think about it dont you do the same thing every week day IRL?

[Nivmizzet]

Oh come on.  B*tch all you want, but you know you're going to be first in line!  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[The_Real_Ohno]

LOL so true!

[VideoPe]

Ohh please, do you really wanna try something new. well if you like punishment, and risk lossing everything you can always try Eve Online. That game is different and the people who make that produce the EQ2 pnp RPG. Yeah they bought White Wolf.  That game is fun but its masakistic.

[Supp]

<cite>Xrazor wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I have a feeling that the expansion will be the same as the rest...</p><p>80% of the cons will be rehashed from other zones, instead of green snakes you will have red ones and the new cons will be spammed endlessly throughout the zone, to the point you will get bored in no time.....and the named cons will just drop a master spell you probably can't use anyway.</p><p>Then there is the mount, you know there will be a new one....but sadly it won't be faster or have the ability for great burst of speeds or maybe +100 to defense...no it will just have one thing different, instead of having armor or drooling spit, it will have the ability to shoot fire balls out it's [I cannot control my vocabulary] and after about a week of spamming the right mouse key and watching the fireballs you will realize that you are the only one who can see it and you will start to feel like you have been amusing only yourself and that you might need some professional help.</p><p>Then there will be the instances which if you look closely will have derris or foliage that is from some other instance and again you will spam the named only to find some maters you don't need.</p><p>And of course there will be the quests to find 10 of this or that, that you can repeat 20 times for XP to get you up in levels to just do more of the same.</p><p>God I hope I am wrong and it will be a completely new concept.....</p><p>Now before you spam me, I do like the game but am getting bored and just want something to make me say wow, they really put some new creative ideas in this.</p><p>Is anyone else feeling this way?</p></blockquote><p>As much as it seems appropriate to slam you, Im finding it hard to disagree, on anything you wrote. </p><p>The mounts seem pretty topped off speedwise. Now you pick them more for RP value. For example, my evil toons get Nightmares, even though they cost 6p more and go 2% slower, I figure it doesnt matter cause 2% is no big deal.</p><p>And yes, I have noticed that when you hit spacebar on a steed, you are the only one that sees the giddy-yap (O.o) I twobox.</p><ul><li>I thought DoF was pretty lame, but I had never partaken in a fantasy game expansion, so I had no expectations, thank God.</li><li>KoS was freakin incredible. Im still in awe of it's beauty. The introduction of AA's was spot on.</li><li>EoF... nowhere near as cool as KoS, but nowhere near as lame DoF, it falls into the rehash category. The only part I found creative was the clockwork motif. Yay! But the rest of it? What a snoozer. Glad for the AA's as always though.</li><li>RoK? This is supposed to be "THE" expansion that all the old-timers have been waiting for, so there's a lot of expectation. I dont know a thing about it and dont care to investigate. Im freakin annoyed with the lack of new AAs. Im lukewarm on the level cap increase. It will depends on the Ancient Teachings situation I guess. </li></ul><p>As a raider, what Im more concerned about is the armor.</p><ul><li>In original EQ2, I had not raided enough to seriously put together a set of fabled gear.</li><li>DoF just didnt drop armor as far as I could tell. But again I had no expectations at that time.</li><li>In KoS I was a bruiser main. I managed to acquire two pieces of relic, and 6 of the 7 pieces of excarnate. But I will point out that we were almost into EoF before I got the excarnate chest and well into EoF before I got the excarnate legs. But the main point is that during the run of this teir, I never got all 7 pieces.</li><li>In EoF, Im a necro main. I kill all the mobs necessary to get all 7 pieces of fabled necro gear, and yet I only have 3 pieces. I might actually get all 7 before the level cap increases, but it freakin pisses me off that here I am AGAIN at the end of the run of a teir and still trying to complete my set. </li></ul><p>The EoF set gear situation is the worst, because you realize the benefits when you have sets. For the necro, you've got to have all 7 pieces. And what good is it if I get the 7th piece on the eve of Kunark? I want to run around for months during the current expansion in my complete set to get the value of the thing that I have worked so hard for, the thing that clearly they want me to get a complete set of. If I kill every named that's relevant a dozen times, I feel I've earned my gear, so GIVE IT TO ME!!</p><p>I guess what Im trying to say is that Im tired of barely completing or barely not completing gear sets before it gets nullified in a level cap increase. I wish they just have us do 7 quests for each of the pieces that culminates in the killing of the named that currently drops the stuff, and subsequently rewards you with your gear as the quest completes. It is so frustrating to theoretically never actually achieve the set after even dozens of kills of the frakkin mobs.</p>