EQ2 - Server population

[Frosty]

You could also keep a key bound for only your slaves to move forward.

Then if you run through the mob and they still aren't close enough you can tap the key a few times to get them closer while your tank is building agro.

On the bard: I have a bard in my group and it grabs agro more often than the other classes...so it has to be doing something.
But since I'm a slacker and haven't installed that mod Noxxy was talking about, I don't have a clue what. :P
That being said...since I found the new spell/song that I got about 5 levels ago to reduce group agro if not a fighter..I haven't lost agro on the tank yet.

[Ellay]

Do you melee a lot with your bard Frosty? or just let it hang in the back?

[Ellay]

With melee not being that fun, I just rolled with

Guardian / Warden / Wizard / Illusionist, hot damn that shit is fun and enjoyable. This is most likely what I'm running with! yahoo, I'm so indecisive it's crazy.

[Starbuck_Jones]

I 3 boxed a Paladin, Bard, and Ranger and it was all park and pull. Park the slaves, then pull with the paladin. I would run and stack on the slaves and when the mobs got in range, I just walked to the other side so the mobs back was to the slaves. I don't recall ever having the whole group fight with follow on like WOW.

[Khatovar]

Do you melee a lot with your bard Frosty? or just let it hang in the back?

My troub melees whenever he can.

[Frosty]

Do you melee a lot with your bard Frosty? or just let it hang in the back?

I don't focus on making the bard melee, but I have "/autoattack 1" set at the beginning of my macros for all toons.
I have most of the bards abilities/spells both ranged and melee in the DPS macro. I am not 100% sure, but it looks like if the target is out of range it just continues on.

I'll try to duel one of my tank tonight and see for sure. But I see those flying musical notes smack my tank's target all the time.
So I know the bard is doing something.

What I don't usually try to do is get the bard at the back of the mob for the special attacks.
Last night I did try the run through method just for the heck of it and all of my followers were always at the back and within melee range with little effort.

[Zerocool2024]

Lol, whats with everyone jumping to EQ2?

Sorry, don't mean to hijack thread or anything, but I see more and more people going to EQ2.

When WoW and EQ2 came out (think it was the same night, or, with the same week, I can't remember). I remember my Wife at the time was working at EB games, and while the line was wrapped around the world, I just sat in line for 20 minutes till she saw me, and walked out and handed me my Special edition of EQ2.
(envy was all around) lol.

Anyway, I played it for most of the month while my wife played WoW.
I leveled a Monk, and on my server (Bertoxxulus *spelling*) I was one of the few that leveled the fastest and so forth.
I quickly got bored of the idea of the game because of the lack of soloing content.
There were a lot of other things that made the game not where as near and enjoyable as wow, (mainly the control system).

I could go on and on about it, but I am sure all the things that made me hate EQ2 are probably gone, or been polished from the Original release.

The game is probably fun when you Box it, and I have looked into boxing it, but not enough to make the jump yet.

Do they still have that stupid 20 levels of (Hey, pick this class, play it for 20 levels, and see if you REALLY want to play this class... even though you picked it... so stupid, lol)

[Frosty]

Lol, whats with everyone jumping to EQ2?

I got bored with WoW.

Do they still have that stupid 20 levels of (Hey, pick this class, play it for 20 levels, and see if you REALLY want to play this class... even though you picked it... so stupid, lol)

I played it when it first came out and didn't care too much for a lot of the stuff either. A LOT of things have changed since then.

[Ellay]

The game has changed entirely from when it first came out. I also tried it as well and the release was terrible upon terrible. I'd say it's almost a new game. It runs a lot smoother now or perhaps it's because pc's have finally caught up with the graphics it's spitting out. Soloing is a lot easier, though boxers never solo

The biggest thing right now for me is that at the high end there is tons and tons and tons of content in eq2. WoW's content is about as bad as you can get, by bumping the level cap up and not scaling the old raiding dungeons, they become completely obsolete. PvP is definitely not what it used to be and the fun factor has diminished greatly, Eq2 for me right now is fresh and invigorating - I hope it lasts

[Zerocool2024]

I've been looking into from time to time, but getting into it is a little difficult for me.

I loved EQ1, and I played the hell out of it, and stopped about half way through Planes of power and walked away (I forget why), I think my guild pissed me off or something. (Shadow Knight/Rogue at heart in EQ1)

But when it comes to Sony and games.... eh.

Maybe the one thing holding me back is lack of info (even though a lot is popping up on these Forums :thumbsup: )
And maybe the lack of people I know... if anyone... Playing the game.

If I were to play, I would do the 4 man thing as well. And I would have no problem trying to learn another game, that's half the enjoyment.

Can you now box more than one toon on a single computer>? or is that impossible with EQ2?