Is it worth playing if I plan to solo?Follow

It is entirely possible to play EQ2 solo and love it! Wizard is one of the classes people seem to prefer for soloing, 'cause they have high DPS. Want to find a group? Talk in the world-based level channels! Join a guild!

There's LOTS to do: Solo Progression (EQ2)

EQ2 managed to support several different playstyles very well, I think you'd like it. (PS: I solo about 95% pf the time)

Edited, Mar 2nd 2011 1:53am by Calthine

I solo 99% of the time. I'm in a guild of soloers. We help each other out with crafting and suchlike, but generally solo unless someone needs help with something in particular. My zerker main is at level cap and has probably not grouped more than about 20 times ever.

If your main is a Wizard, you need to 'root & nuke'. You don't want the mob in spitting distance of you, so make sure your snare spells are up to scratch - adept quality or higher once you're above about level 30 (waste of money before that because you'll out-level them so quickly)

No they do not delete, they have however recently gone thru some server merges, and inactive folks on one server had xx's added to their name if somebody more active on the other server with the same name merged onto the server.

Example: My name is Blakkmantis, it would have been changed to Blakkmantisxx.

They do give you a chance to rename your character tho if this has been done. Welcome back to EQ2. =)

Yeah, that's an impossible choice.

I take that back, it's not impossible.

If you were really that persistant about being, say, an Arasai Swashbuckler, you could create as an Arasai Brigand and at level 10 go through betrayal. Once you joined a good aligned city you could change your class to Swashbuckler, then you'd be an Arasai Swashbuckler.

Edited, Mar 2nd 2011 3:00pm by Cyliena

Darn you beat me to it.. read my edit above!

Sorry about that. Those race-class recommendations are based on what the devs published as "packages" of racial traits when racials were redone. Arasai got the "Scout" package, lol.

Frogloks get waterbreathing, that's a massive asset at certain points in the game that include underwater quests.

And if you make it a monk, you get a perfect killing machine!!!

Seriously, underwater breathing, invisibility, devastating fist,...

Great at soloing, although there are better classes if you really want to fight in tough instances on your own, there's only two heals (one spell, one ability through AA's).

No pressure! :D

Can a paladin dual wield? I was planning on sword and shield but curious if I have the option of dual wielding? Thanks.

Or just keep Hadden's Fishbone Earring in your inventory :)

Sadly, no, Paladins and Shadowknights cannot dual wield. They do however gain combat arts that offer knockback when using a shield (or are shields still required for that?) Those knockbacks/stuns are not only useful in PvE but in Battlegrounds as well. Grrrr...hate those stuns.
They have 2 knockbacks actually, one using a shield and the either is a nice little kick.

I am amazed at the number of insects in the game that are able to knockback/stun. Reminds me of those EQ I snakes with the ability to KICK.

Wow is solo friendly?
In Wow if you don't have guild friends, you get nothing,you have to go to instances to get decent drops,and you are looked down on and thrown out of groups if you don't have the gear. And you will probley be told at one time or another,they only play with pro's not the casual player.Wow players are a tough,bitter bunch.They don't wast time on Newbies or solo people.

I soloed a Necro to 90 no problem, I can take on blue heroics with no problem also with only solo gear

Just asking. Why would you play a game like EQ2 and solo most of the time? Why not just play Dragon Age or some other solo game? Eq2 (assuming it ever comes up again) is built around grouping and as such none of the end-game content is solo-able. You can probably only get to 50% maybe even less of the content soloing. Sure you can get to level 90, but you cant get any raid gear, or any of the stuff that really lets you kick-butt.

I understand the need to solo every once in a while, but it's grouping that really makes the game fun.

I'm a guild leader so I am biased.