Nice article Rhyssa. (Hope you don't mind me adding a little rambling post here?)
Just so happens that this weekend I decided to start a PvP toon; I almost never pvp to that in itself was a new experience; and instead of being a goody goody Q all the time I started in Neriak.
It is a lovely (if that's the right word) zone. Starting out in Hates Envy and working onwards to Wanderlust Faire I rattled through NPC missions as they were offered, killed whatever was nearby to level up a bit faster and dinged 16 before starting to die a lot at the hands of some Q's who had taken to camping the Faire. In some other games that'd be the signal for either an outbreak of forum posts screaming blue murder or a general throwing down of the toys as people stomped off in irritation.
It was really good to find EQII players being so willing to team up and go hunting the hunters. Slightly confusing when half the hunting team have got themselves in a different instance but hey...
There is a definite wow-ish feel to the arrangement of Neriak but unlike Blizzards offering, and the normal starter isles, things feel a lot less linear. I know I ditched a few side quests and am still finding great chunks of the map that I've not explored.
Oh, and get your screen laid out so you can read the npc chatter... some of it is really funny.
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Date: 2007-06-06 02:46 am (UTC)Just so happens that this weekend I decided to start a PvP toon; I almost never pvp to that in itself was a new experience; and instead of being a goody goody Q all the time I started in Neriak.
It is a lovely (if that's the right word) zone. Starting out in Hates Envy and working onwards to Wanderlust Faire I rattled through NPC missions as they were offered, killed whatever was nearby to level up a bit faster and dinged 16 before starting to die a lot at the hands of some Q's who had taken to camping the Faire. In some other games that'd be the signal for either an outbreak of forum posts screaming blue murder or a general throwing down of the toys as people stomped off in irritation.
It was really good to find EQII players being so willing to team up and go hunting the hunters. Slightly confusing when half the hunting team have got themselves in a different instance but hey...
There is a definite wow-ish feel to the arrangement of Neriak but unlike Blizzards offering, and the normal starter isles, things feel a lot less linear. I know I ditched a few side quests and am still finding great chunks of the map that I've not explored.
Oh, and get your screen laid out so you can read the npc chatter... some of it is really funny.