Yep sadly nature of the beast old content once again becomes empty as everyone rushes to to the newest stuff
Xp Rates on Origins
- Thread starter Dayshadez
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After seeing the XP on Beta. My estimate was very off. Unless things change, expect a long grind to 60.
The time it takes to level from 1 - 50 was basically cut in half since the original post back in July.
Sakiri
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Erm... What do you consider a useless expansion? One with no level cap increase?
And you *can* solo. It's just slow.
Yes, the economy is trash but I don't buy. The marketplace is there. It's not going anywhere.
Old school EQ2 was designed to be the sequel of a game that was basically "lfg xp grind". That was the primary reason wow did better than eq2, despite the rest. It was solo friendly, this was not. Come back in kingdom of sky or echoes of faydwer. There's where they made it more soloable.
And you *can* solo. It's just slow.
Yes, the economy is trash but I don't buy. The marketplace is there. It's not going anywhere.
Old school EQ2 was designed to be the sequel of a game that was basically "lfg xp grind". That was the primary reason wow did better than eq2, despite the rest. It was solo friendly, this was not. Come back in kingdom of sky or echoes of faydwer. There's where they made it more soloable.
This is very true, EQ 2 when launched and a good piece into it was slow going and at times almost impossible to solo, this was made to do 2 things 1) of course force you to group since it is a MMO anyway 2) designed to be a time sink to keep you playing the game longer to obtain that next little scrap your grinding for. All unlike current live game that pretty much hands everything to you without much thought or time put into it
If you mean back in the day when it took 60 days to make lvl 20...or that maybe back in the day you had no life but EQ ?
Sakiri
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I started during DoF and am disabled. Was also much, much younger. 60 days, 1-60, spent most of my days grinding with a guildmate that dual boxed a monk and fury.
Ive always been a rather efficient leveler after I get the hang of it. Had vanilla wow(in 2004-2005) down to a week or less 1-60.
Once I figured out grinding is the best option for xp, much like my experience with Asheron's Call before it, that's what I'd do. Usually 8 to 10 hours a day.
So yeah, 60 days wasn't really a problem. 1-20 didn't take that long either. Don't remember how long that took, but it sure wasn't 60 days.
You were not doing 1-60 in 2005 in less than a week. The world record speed run from that time period is well documented and you were not faster than them.
But ya it never took 60 days to to reach 20 in eq2. Idk what they were talking about.
You can see the confusion?
In one line you reference 1-20 in 60 days.
Then another line you talk about less than a week but now say you implied 7 days /played.
Obviously the person wasn't saying 60 days /played.
ah that makes sense that it was around DoF and not from launch
FYI found some decent exp in the new sands zone for lvls 38ish and up. Several starter quests on and in the camps near the docks give about 10 percent quest exp. Quest Mobs are orange hard but doable easier with a duo. Got to lvl 42 fast, now the quest mobs needed are lvl 50, still orange but to many resists to kill them now. soon lol. 