Huntn, on June 15th 2006, 02:24 PM, said:
I must admit that No. 1 perked the antennas. How about crafting? I remember reading that the recipes were god awful in that they require a large number of items to make things.
Do you care to make a more detailed comparison with WoW game-play and environments? One thing the bowled me over about WoW when I first started were places like Teldrassil, Dark Shore, Feralas, Ungoro, Felwood, Ashenvale, Tanaris, Alterac, Arathi, Hinterlands, Swamp of Sorrows- they were all winners. I would have loved to set up a tree house in Feralas and whiled away the days... What they should have done is make each zone as large as one of the continents. It did not take that long to explore a place like Ungoro in all of it's prehistoric goodness. I think I'm getting teary eyed. Maybe one day they will come out with a new WoW focused on exploration, small party groups and dare I say it- a dynamic world.

Thanks!
-Hunt'n
I haven't gotten into a lot of crafting quite yet mainly because I've been running here and there questing and trying to assimilate all the lore that's being thrown at me. I read in the latest patch notes that they've removed several steps required to make items: whereas before you'd have to perform steps A B and C just to begin crafting item X, you can now craft item X directly if you have the raw components. I'm pretty sure most crafting does require a substantial amount of harvesting, though I have no experience with it one way or the other... maybe that'll be my task for tonight.
I don't want to imply that WoW's graphics are necessarily
bad, I just feel more immersed in the EQ2 world. I hate to say EQs graphics are more realistic because you're running around as an elf or ogre or whatever, so I mean...yeah, there's a limit to realism there.

However, EQ2s engine is a V8 to WoW's 4 cylinder, and because of the enhanced graphical detail I feel like I'm more into the game.
It's hard for me to quantify that sort of thing, but I will say this: I could watch these spell animations all day long. They are really leaps and bounds ahead of WoW in that department. This doesn't mean EQ2 is a perfect game, I've run into a few things I wish they did differently (like the whole market/broker thing makes me long for one simple Auction House). On the whole, though, I am enjoying exploring the game at my pace with a multitude of quests available to me... I'm midway through level 15 with a full quest book and so many places yet to check out. Contrast this with having
just enough quests to level up if you didn't skip anything in WoW.
Un'goro was definitely one of my favorite zones, too. I remember thinking OMG DINOSAURS. And the first time I ran into a Devilsaur?