
Once the gear is equipped you can almost one-shot most mobs in the entire zone, but solo instances are so difficult that you will likely not make it past the first few mobs unless you’ve spent a lot of time or real-life money upgrading your character’s mercenary, mount and familiar. You don’t even have to complete a single quest or kill a single mob, just loot a chest.
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The latest expansion Visions of Vetrovia first takes you to an area called the Svarni Expanse and the first thing to greet you is a full set of level 120 gear. If you can gather a group of friends and casually adventure through Norrath, I would advise you to do so.Īs you move closer and closer to current content, however, its faults start to become apparent. They are well designed and genuinely fun to explore. All the earlier areas in the game were still fantastic. The first expansions and adventure packs were also good and included some very memorable areas, features, and challenges.īut like many other MMOs, the quality of EQ2’s content started declining with time, which was very noticeable as I made my return. At launch, it had decent graphics for an MMO at the time, the music and sounds are great and the gameplay was fast and exciting compared to many other MMOs.Īll of this didn’t really matter much though as it launched just a few weeks before World of Warcraft, which became a giant in the MMO space, leaving all other titles in its shadow for years to come.īut even in WoW’s shadow, EQ2 managed to thrive for half a decade due to the fact that the original game was very good. GameplayĮverquest 2 has always had the bones of a really good game. At the very least to get a trip down the Norrathian memory lane. Recently I’ve found myself wondering how much Everquest 2 had changed in the decade I had been away, so I decided to make a return. I’ve had a few brief returns to Norrath since then but as most of my friends have quit and my old guild has long since disbanded, I found myself moving on to other MMOs. Promotional art for the Everquest 2 base game. It didn’t quite live up to the legacy of the original Everquest which was my first MMORPG, but EQ2 along with the first couple of expansions were still some of the best times I’ve had in an MMO. I started playing Everquest 2 the day it launched back in 2004 and kept playing until it went free-to-play in 2011. This review is a review of Everquest 2 as a whole in 2022, including the latest expansion, Visions of Vetrovia. Games similar to Everquest 2: Everquest, Neverwinter, Dungeons & Dragons Online, World of Warcraft.


Latest expansion: Visions of Vetrovia (2021).
