So... this is my day now that RoK is out and my chars are lvl 80...

[zorax15]

Shalla@Valor wrote:

Why don't you try to duo CoA, Vaults and Chelsith with your Swash and the warden ? There you have your "freekin' challenge".

A good point. And afterwards we can do it without armor or with just half of the spells. Wow..You must have been a game designer with such outstanding ideas. I mean... wow.. I'm really impressed. Ah...and just for my information.. could you please name a zone that was once easy and became hard because someone asked so? I mean you tell that in almost all your posts. Please enlighten me. Thanks

[LordPazuzu]

Cozumel wrote:

Login, set LFG...Set advertise (me) LFG/RoK Instance.Check the broker... More ME LFG Spam.Collect some $ from the broker sales..look for masters... More LFG spam.Check to see if theres any new weapons, or armor..nope.  More LFG spam.Get an offer to run The Den by lvl 50'ish group... go back, edit the LFG to turn off "I will Mentor", re-set LFG... More LFG spam.Get an offer to goto CoA, but decide against it because there's a chinese farmer in the group... Go LFG again....Get an offer to run Runnyeye... go back, edit the LFG and turn off "I will mentor, re-set LFG.  More LFG spam.Decide this is pointless, but there's nothing else to do, so hit my Hammer and goto Jarasith and farm some rocks.... a few minutes later...Get an offer for a CoK run.  Group forms, and we realize the healer doesn't have post access, and we've got no conjy.We decide we might as well get 'em access, so Wizard pops a group invis.  We head down towards the door, and someone decides its a good idea to farm a shiney with group invis on.  Group gets jumped, dies, revive.Re-buff, start heading back down again with group invis... get near the green door, and somone gets too close to the see invis, group gets jumped, healer dies, and has forgotten to hand out rez-stones.  So, we evac back.Tank decides he has to head out because his guild needs him... group breaks.  I turn LFG back on, and finally remember to turn off "I will mentor".Spam the 70-79 chat with LFG... Poke around... check my bags, destroy junk meat loots and random vampire teeth that I've accidently hit "loot all" on.CoL back home... check the vendor to see if my under-cut rares have sold.  Whoot..1 plat! See if there's any masters, hmm..just a few, but they are 100pp./quit desktop

Your issues are largely your own fault.  You are passively waiting for the the game to happen to you.  I have no problems getting groups to run 2-3 instances a night.  How do I do this?  I grab people from my guild and fill any open spots with about 5 minutes of "Looking for More" spam in the 70-79 channel.  It's not hard to get a group if you really want one.  Everyone has the rare night where they simply can't get a group, but if they happen to you on a nightly basis it's time to check the mirror.

[Kursa]

Auric@Oasis wrote:

Geez, man, you've been playing for over 3 years now and have, probably, done and seen everything you can in the game. Maybe now is a good time to take break and try something new?

lol, i was thinking the same thing. Ive been here since the start You cant rush things. If you rush em then you have nothing left to do. God, there is so much to do in EQ2 that if you did EVERYTHING, Im sure you wouldnt be in the bind you were in (to the OP)

[StormCinder]

scruffylookin wrote:

Me: We can do the Centaur L and L.

Friend: NO. I won't kill centaurs. They're... majestic.

Me: Yer joking.

Friend: No centaurs. You want to kill them, fine. I'm not. I can leave the group.

Me: Sissy!

Friend: No centaurs. Period.

Me: Yer an RPer!

Friend: No I'm not. Just no centaurs.

Me: RPer!

(For the record, I like occasionally RPing, and I have nothing againts it. This fake-insult was purely to annoy my friend)

Friend: No!

Me: You know, from an RP perspective, they respect me more than you. Kill one. He'll tell you. 'You fight better than I thought, two leg. For that, you have my respect.' See? He respects us more than you. He just thinks you're a total wimp.

Friend: You wanna' kill centaurs, fine! I'll kill the giants!

Me: No. I find the giants majestic.

Friend: Liar. Now you're just being obtuse.

Me: So are you.

Yeah...what's the deal with Centaurs?  I've been in a couple of PUGs where people are adamantly opposed to the killing of Centaurs.  It's always kind of bizarre, and I've never heard them give an in-game reason for it.  Is there some advantage to Centaur faction?  As above, these players usually will usually quit the group.

SC

[Vendolyn]

I got tired of constantly, actively being LFG.  Flag up, spamming 60s + 70s channels, trying to get others LFG together for something...anything.  Some nights, the best I'd get offered would be a high 50s to low 60s SoS group that doesn't even put a dent into my green quests.  Being a healing Warden, killing mobs in KP takes over a minute each.Now I have 2 accounts, someone to always duo with (even if it's just myself) and I'll scan the channels to see people looking for a healer, if it's something I'm interested in, I'll send them a tell.  Yes, I'm running characters through TD for the umpteenth time, but it sure beats the pain soloing is to me topped with the pain of really trying to get a group.

[Wyeth]

scruffylookin wrote:

since we're playing this game...

 1:05am (wife and I work to midnight): Log in. Check guild. 1 friend on (he's a friend in RL too). He's new... a level 25 conj. My wife's a level 31 Fay Dirge (an alt; her mains a warden). I'm a 33 Dark Elf Pally (an Alt; he betrayed to Kelethin).

We go to Butcher Block. We get to the top of the tall cliff.

Me: This is awesome. If you jump exactly at the right place, a draft of wind catches you and you float to the ground.

My wife jumps from the cliff and, being a fay, floats softly to the ground.

My Friend: Cool.

Me: Now watch me closely. Jump exactly where I jump.

I jumpt from the cliff. Being a D.E. (with the new race trait), I float to the ground softly.

My Friend: Here goes.

About half way down, friend yells "LIAR!"

Friend smashed into the ground. I stand over him, /laughing and /pointing.

My friend mumbles a few obscenities and revives.

We go to Crushbone. I mentor until we get about half way in. We get agroed and wipe. We go back down again. Agro. Wipe.

We go to Thundering Steppes.

Me: We can do the Centaur L and L.

Friend: NO. I won't kill centaurs. They're... majestic.

Me: Yer joking.

Friend: No centaurs. You want to kill them, fine. I'm not. I can leave the group.

Me: Sissy!

Friend: No centaurs. Period.

Me: Yer an RPer!

Friend: No I'm not. Just no centaurs.

Me: RPer!

(For the record, I like occasionally RPing, and I have nothing againts it. This fake-insult was purely to annoy my friend)

Friend: No!

Me: You know, from an RP perspective, they respect me more than you. Kill one. He'll tell you. 'You fight better than I thought, two leg. For that, you have my respect.' See? He respects us more than you. He just thinks you're a total wimp.

Friend: You wanna' kill centaurs, fine! I'll kill the giants!

Me: No. I find the giants majestic.

Friend: Liar. Now you're just being obtuse.

Me: So are you.

My Wife: GOOD GRAVY! LET'S JUST KILL SOMETHING! GEEZE O' PETE! (my wife says stuff like that.... one of the things I love about her).

Me: See. Now your centaur loving foolishness got me in trouble!

Friend: Gnolls are annoying. I don't like them.

Me: Yeah. I hate those gnolls. And when it rains in Antonica... they stink.

My Wife: If we're not killing something in 3 minutes, I'm tagging every giant and centaur in the TS.

Me: Gnolls?

Friend: Gnolls!

We go kill many, many gnolls... insulting the stinky dogs the entire time.

Me: Well, we're logging. Night, gnome.

Friend: Night, guys. I will have my revenge for the BB cliff jump.

Me: Look forward to it. " width="15" height="15" />

Hit the EQ button. Log to desktop.

Good times....

After 3 years of playing...

Still having good times...

LOL, that's too funny.  Good stuff.

[Zard]

StormCinder wrote:

Yeah...what's the deal with Centaurs?  I've been in a couple of PUGs where people are adamantly opposed to the killing of Centaurs.  It's always kind of bizarre, and I've never heard them give an in-game reason for it.  Is there some advantage to Centaur faction?  As above, these players usually will usually quit the group.

Long ago, there was no way to repair faction with Centaurs so if you killed too many you were forever their enemy. This was really only an issue if you wanted to harvest in the Thundering Steppes and Centaurs were not grey to you. AFAIK, Centaurs are in no other zone (except the Cove of Decay but those are on a different faction?) and, considering how easy it is (now) to harvest in Nektulos Forest or Zarvonn's (sp?) Tower they are overreacting.

[Kinvalar Abolesco]

My day today:Logged onto my Warden (80)Checked broker, made a couple plat, looked around broker and found 1 of my spells for 25p, so I grabbed it...get a tell asking if I want to do Chelsith from a buddy, converse for a bit then convince em to take my Necro (also 80) instead if I can find a replacement healer..I find another healer and swap to Necro, we clear it... pretty poor run, but we did get a decent melee item off the last wormHit town and sell junk..Swap back to Warden, nothing new sold, oh well.Chat with guildies for a little bit, look at guild event log and suchSwap to Berserker (7 and do a round of repeatables for Hunter line in Jarsath, then guildies send tell askin if I want to help em w/ some lower instancesSure sounds fun, mentor to a low 50s group, and did Mines of meldrath, then Hidden Cache + Sanctorium in SS. Then helped the 3 of em finish the carpet quest line.figure I'd wind down after that, so hopped on my Brigand (25) and got 2 levels then decided to hit up the forums.

[rakki]

This game needs better solo content.. I.E: It needs more masters with fabled gear and master spells dropping from solo mobs (kinda like how it was when ROK launched except it needs fabled gear).. The names in jarsath drop the same junk over and over again.. The trooper scale boots are no where to be found.. Places like sebilis (near venrils) no one ever goes too.. Theres too many crappy players in this game that can't go there or even know what im talking about.. Raiders are not encouraged to go to hard places they get what they need from raids or instances (masters) etc.. If I kill 100 solo mobs in jars I wouldnt mind seeing a master drop ffs.. Pug groups are brutle and slow more than 90% of the time cuz people are horrible players.. Its like they just bought the accounts from ebay or something IDK [I cannot control my vocabulary] their issues are but the skill and talent on my server for pugs blows.. Which means they need to give me solo content that doesn't get boring like killing jarsath names for 8hrs getting the same crap loot over and over that no one seems to be buying anymore.. No I'm not looking for SoD type quests that take weeks to do.. Yes Im looking for a new game to spend my 15/month on.. I have looted 1 useable master for my 80 toons since ROK launched.. No Im not spending 100+ plat on masters.. Fix the game for crying out loud..

[Todra_B]

I felt the same way about the Centaurs. I liked them somehow. My Fury was in the 60's before I did the L&L, one of the last ones I completed except for the Bloodlines Vampire and RoK L&L's. I made sure to fix any faction damage. There are Centaurs in LFay. I don't know if they are the same faction.

They just felt more worthy of my respect than other mobs I would just mow down.

My playtime is limited to about 5 hours late Sunday, early Monday and an hour here and there during the week. My Dwarf Fury is 72 and questing in Highton. I have a twinked 33 DE Necro and I just rolled a Sarnak Guardian that is lvl 4. I hope to get my Fury to 80 but no hurry. Due to limited play time I mostly solo, Thats why I like the Fury.

Port to KP ring, ride to TG, Sokokar to Highton. Call to NQ when done, appear at the Claymore monument steps, check broker, maybe mail a plat to an alt, Go to apartment at Irontoes /log. 

[smokedout]

    RoK is kinda dry at 80 with 140 aa's, if you dont raid T8. Have legendary/fabled gear.. its time too play an Alt or craft. smaller guilds raiding EoF/KoS content at 80 lacks any excitement really, roll thru the zone and /sigh at all the drops,cool if you have some lowbies but other than that, it is getting kinda boring i guess.     Hell its even tuff too log on one of my several 70 alts with the mindless quests too come, and the whole grind your levels thing just isnt ideal with RoK unless your 76+ (KC dont count, prolly the worst zone of the expansion, hurts too say that)   Guess ill log in check the broker talk too guildies and log off,  something needs too be done soon. dont remember this problem so much with eq1 seemed like there was always something too get your hands dirty with. Maybe it was the extreme amount of AA's you could constantly strive for w/o this pathetic cap of 140 Something must be done too save EQ2... something..

[Beldin_]

Kicks@Valor wrote:

A good point. And afterwards we can do it without armor or with just half of the spells. Wow..You must have been a game designer with such outstanding ideas. I mean... wow.. I'm really impressed. Ah...and just for my information.. could you please name a zone that was once easy and became hard because someone asked so? I mean you tell that in almost all your posts. Please enlighten me. Thanks

Please .. go play with your Barby Doll and or in Gods name .. change to WoW. I have not the smallest intent to "enlighten" elitist players that on the one hand say they don't care a heck about group-content, but on the other hand constantly whine that all group content is to easy for them.

Btw.: Is there somewhere a rule aganst "forum stalking" ?

[zorax15]

Shalla@Valor wrote:

Kicks@Valor wrote:

A good point. And afterwards we can do it without armor or with just half of the spells. Wow..You must have been a game designer with such outstanding ideas. I mean... wow.. I'm really impressed. Ah...and just for my information.. could you please name a zone that was once easy and became hard because someone asked so? I mean you tell that in almost all your posts. Please enlighten me. Thanks

Please .. go play with your Barby Doll and or in Gods name .. change to WoW. I have not the smallest intent to "enlighten" elitist players that on the one hand say they don't care a heck about group-content, but on the other hand constantly whine that all group content is to easy for them.

Btw.: Is there somewhere a rule aganst "forum stalking" ?

If you don't have anything to say, why even bother to post? the question stays the same.. "what zone that once was easy, became difficult, because someone said so?" Either you come up with some facts or stop writing such BS.

And ...rofl.. if this baby doll sht is the best you can come up with when trying to be mean, please, please with sugar on top never try to flame someone again. My eyes are bleeding! Face it. You suck at flaming.

Strengthen your statements with facts and you won't have any problems with me. simple as that

[StormCinder]

Kicks@Valor wrote:

Shalla@Valor wrote:

Kicks@Valor wrote:

A good point. And afterwards we can do it without armor or with just half of the spells. Wow..You must have been a game designer with such outstanding ideas. I mean... wow.. I'm really impressed. Ah...and just for my information.. could you please name a zone that was once easy and became hard because someone asked so? I mean you tell that in almost all your posts. Please enlighten me. Thanks

Please .. go play with your Barby Doll and or in Gods name .. change to WoW. I have not the smallest intent to "enlighten" elitist players that on the one hand say they don't care a heck about group-content, but on the other hand constantly whine that all group content is to easy for them.

Btw.: Is there somewhere a rule aganst "forum stalking" ?

If you don't have anything to say, why even bother to post? the question stays the same.. "what zone that once was easy, became difficult, because someone said so?" Either you come up with some facts or stop writing such BS.

And ...rofl.. if this baby doll sht is the best you can come up with when trying to be mean, please, please with sugar on top never try to flame someone again. My eyes are bleeding! Face it. You suck at flaming.

Strengthen your statements with facts and you won't have any problems with me. simple as that

FACT:  You're bored with the game as it is.

FACT:  Most players are not bored with the game content.  

OPTION: Wait for the game to 'come to you.'

OPTION: Do something other than play a game that bores you.

It's intersting to see the gradual shift in the forum posters over the last 6 months or so.  As you see more and more posts that begin with "I used to play WoW, but switched to EQ2 because...." you see more and more of these childish flaming debates on the forums (as well as the lower level chat channels in-game).  Everyone complained that WoW had so many more players and wished that some of them would switch to EQ2 to drive up the population.

Well...this is what you get.  Be careful what you wish for...you just might get it.

SC

[zorax15]

Please reread the thread and you will notice that there are some other people that are not really excited with the new expansion in its present state

[StormCinder]

Kicks@Valor wrote:

Please reread the thread and you will notice that there are some other people that are not really excited with the new expansion in its present state

Ahh...you're right.  It appears there are 6(!) people unhappy with the expansion.  While the numbers are unavailable, I'm sure the number of added accounts and happy customers is >6.  I'm not a fan of business math, but it seems that the number aren't really with you. 

SC

[greenmantle]

Auric@Oasis wrote:

StormCinder wrote:

Yeah...what's the deal with Centaurs?  I've been in a couple of PUGs where people are adamantly opposed to the killing of Centaurs.  It's always kind of bizarre, and I've never heard them give an in-game reason for it.  Is there some advantage to Centaur faction?  As above, these players usually will usually quit the group.

Long ago, there was no way to repair faction with Centaurs so if you killed too many you were forever their enemy. This was really only an issue if you wanted to harvest in the Thundering Steppes and Centaurs were not grey to you. AFAIK, Centaurs are in no other zone (except the Cove of Decay but those are on a different faction?) and, considering how easy it is (now) to harvest in Nektulos Forest or Zarvonn's (sp?) Tower they are overreacting.

I do not want to have to "fix" my faction or travel to nek forest to harvest just because some twit starts whacking mobs because "im bored wheres blood talon" I am happy to help out if i am harvesting in the area on my shammy provisioner and people need a little extra healing but it pisses you off to be asked to a group to help with a named and people run off killing random mobs that screw a faction for me .

[Sedenten]

scruffylookin wrote:

since we're playing this game...

 1:05am (wife and I work to midnight): Log in. Check guild. 1 friend on (he's a friend in RL too). He's new... a level 25 conj. My wife's a level 31 Fay Dirge (an alt; her mains a warden). I'm a 33 Dark Elf Pally (an Alt; he betrayed to Kelethin).

We go to Butcher Block. We get to the top of the tall cliff.

Me: This is awesome. If you jump exactly at the right place, a draft of wind catches you and you float to the ground.

My wife jumps from the cliff and, being a fay, floats softly to the ground.

My Friend: Cool.

Me: Now watch me closely. Jump exactly where I jump.

I jumpt from the cliff. Being a D.E. (with the new race trait), I float to the ground softly.

My Friend: Here goes.

About half way down, friend yells "LIAR!"

Friend smashed into the ground. I stand over him, /laughing and /pointing.

My friend mumbles a few obscenities and revives.

We go to Crushbone. I mentor until we get about half way in. We get agroed and wipe. We go back down again. Agro. Wipe.

We go to Thundering Steppes.

Me: We can do the Centaur L and L.

Friend: NO. I won't kill centaurs. They're... majestic.

Me: Yer joking.

Friend: No centaurs. You want to kill them, fine. I'm not. I can leave the group.

Me: Sissy!

Friend: No centaurs. Period.

Me: Yer an RPer!

Friend: No I'm not. Just no centaurs.

Me: RPer!

(For the record, I like occasionally RPing, and I have nothing againts it. This fake-insult was purely to annoy my friend)

Friend: No!

Me: You know, from an RP perspective, they respect me more than you. Kill one. He'll tell you. 'You fight better than I thought, two leg. For that, you have my respect.' See? He respects us more than you. He just thinks you're a total wimp.

Friend: You wanna' kill centaurs, fine! I'll kill the giants!

Me: No. I find the giants majestic.

Friend: Liar. Now you're just being obtuse.

Me: So are you.

My Wife: GOOD GRAVY! LET'S JUST KILL SOMETHING! GEEZE O' PETE! (my wife says stuff like that.... one of the things I love about her).

Me: See. Now your centaur loving foolishness got me in trouble!

Friend: Gnolls are annoying. I don't like them.

Me: Yeah. I hate those gnolls. And when it rains in Antonica... they stink.

My Wife: If we're not killing something in 3 minutes, I'm tagging every giant and centaur in the TS.

Me: Gnolls?

Friend: Gnolls!

We go kill many, many gnolls... insulting the stinky dogs the entire time.

Me: Well, we're logging. Night, gnome.

Friend: Night, guys. I will have my revenge for the BB cliff jump.

Me: Look forward to it. " width="15" height="15" />

Hit the EQ button. Log to desktop.

Good times....

After 3 years of playing...

Still having good times...

If these boards had a thread rating system, this one would be around 100%!  Thanks for the good laugh today

[zorax15]

StormCinder wrote:

Kicks@Valor wrote:

Please reread the thread and you will notice that there are some other people that are not really excited with the new expansion in its present state

Ahh...you're right.  It appears there are 6(!) people unhappy with the expansion.  While the numbers are unavailable, I'm sure the number of added accounts and happy customers is >6.  I'm not a fan of business math, but it seems that the number aren't really with you. 

SC

the thread is not about "how much fun I had when I was in td at the level of 5" but what is left to do at 80 in rok. easily be noticed when reading the thread title. try again

[Beldin_]

Kicks@Valor wrote:

StormCinder wrote:

Kicks@Valor wrote:

Please reread the thread and you will notice that there are some other people that are not really excited with the new expansion in its present state

Ahh...you're right.  It appears there are 6(!) people unhappy with the expansion.  While the numbers are unavailable, I'm sure the number of added accounts and happy customers is >6.  I'm not a fan of business math, but it seems that the number aren't really with you. 

SC

the thread is not about "how much fun I had when I was in td at the level of 5" but what is left to do at 80 in rok. easily be noticed when reading the thread title. try again

read post like this : http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...=403767#4522653

and say again that only "casuals" like me have the same problem.

For alot of peoples the missing inbetween is simply the problem. Its fine to have instances where you can go only with a good group, but you also need something you can do when the group is not so perfect, or when you only have 2-4 people.