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Played some this weekend, the lack of broker system for silver/bronze accounts has by far been my biggest problem. I saw the broker credits for 150 StationCash, but I can't bring myself to buy them as I wanted to attempt to play the game as it is for a silver account.
Whats been your biggest annoyance in EQ2X so far?
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The broker is the only really glaring omission IMO. I can live with most of the other restrictions but the broker stinks. Luckily it only costs about 15 cents per broker transaction so I will probably be using that on occasion. Not having any bag space is a pain as well.
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By the way it seems to be possible to go and buy stuff from players in their rooms if they have sales crates, circumventing the broker.
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I've been following your posts on EQ2x and I just have no interest in it. I like to pay my $15 a month and have full access to everything. I don't want to be nickled and dimed for every little thing. The whole thing just sounds like an annoyance to me. Unless I'm missing something. I'm still raiding 3 nights a week and enjoying the challenges a lot. Maybe I'm just too "Hardcore" of a player to be bothered with the limited account crap. :)
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It's nice to hop on recreationally. My days of hardcore raiding in EQ2 are over, but it is nice just to jump back in on a free evening on the weekend every now and then and be able to play and not worry about paying monthly. I copied my raid dirge over also, even though the character is kinda in a stasis presently (can't change armor etc to fabled legendary, etc) at least I still have a decent geared toon to mentor down with to play a weekly session or something.
I think if you keep to the bronze/silver plans though then you won't be Able to do BGs, just can't compete with people who have masters/fabled/legendary.
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Rotacidare wrote:By the way it seems to be possible to go and buy stuff from players in their rooms if they have sales crates, circumventing the broker. That's interesting, I wonder if someone will form up an 'external' listing service go direct people to the rooms.
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The more I think about it, for the first 30 levels I think that the no broker restriction will be hard to navigate, I think 50+ though the restriction on fabled/legendary equipment will come heavily into play.
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kotttonmouth wrote:I've been following your posts on EQ2x and I just have no interest in it. I like to pay my $15 a month and have full access to everything. I don't want to be nickled and dimed for every little thing. The whole thing just sounds like an annoyance to me. Unless I'm missing something.
I'm still raiding 3 nights a week and enjoying the challenges a lot. Maybe I'm just too "Hardcore" of a player to be bothered with the limited account crap. :) It's definitely not for the raid player or the gear whore. But for someone who just wants to experience the game and have fun doing it's a pretty viable option. Like I said the only restriction that really bothers me is the broker. Everything else I can live with.
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I see one of you was able to transfer your old char to the free one? Is that true? How do I do that?
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$35.00 character copy token from e market place.
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Oh, F that... for now I'll just pay F2P on level 8 Dardore rather than level 80 Dardore....lol
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Dardore wrote:Oh, F that... for now I'll just pay F2P on level 8 Dardore rather than level 80 Dardore....lol Yeah a lot of us started new toons, I may mentor some wit the dirge, but that's about it.
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Rotacidare wrote:By the way it seems to be possible to go and buy stuff from players in their rooms if they have sales crates, circumventing the broker. You can visit the players house and browse the items for sale - but you cannot buy them. Unless of course you're a Gold or higher or you have Broker Credits. I see no problems so far navigating the free to play subscription levels. I transmute a lot of stuff now so I'm not accumulating junk. I no longer grab shinies if I've already got them. I have adopted a 'wear what I loot' approach to my toons so I don't need the broker for gear. I craft my own spells so that end is taken care of as well. My nephew is a provisioner so that's how I get my food and drink. In a way I think we've been brainwashed as to how important a 'vibrant' economy is. To tell you the truth, I think its a bunch of bunk. You can pretty much be self-sustaining if you want to. You will get enough coin from quests to pay for the mender and fuel for trade-skilling. You craft with your main and one alt and utilize loot and quest rewards whenever possible. To be sure, you're not going to end up with a fabled out raiding toon with this approach. But who cares anyway. If I wanted to raid I'd be on Live.
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The main peave I have is a side-effect of the broker limitations. I started out on EQ2X all enthusiastic having decided my mage could make her own spells and if I roll a tailor I could make my own cloth gear as well. It then dawned on me that I had no easy way to get hold of the recipe books to make the mastercrafted gear. This small problem took the wind out of my sails a little bit and I haven't really bothered crafting so much. I hope that at some point we might be able to buy things like recipe books on the SC market. The legendary/fabled limitations won't really be a problem until later on in the game, SOE are probably thinking that anyone who gets high enough for it to be an issue will be so invested in their toon that a subscription would be their only option.
If SOE released a 'potion' that allowed the attunement of legendary/fabled gear, would anyone here buy it? I think it's such an obvious idea I can't see why it's not there already. They could charge say $10 for five uses, if you want to use your Serrated Bone Dirk from the Heritage Quest, you use one of your potions. It would give silver/bronze players more reason to keep playing, and make a few bucks along the way. Seems a win/win.
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I think the deciding factor on if they sell legendary/fabled attunement items on the market place is if people are able to obtain them at the silver/bronze level. Without fabled/legendary gear and without masters I think it will be hard for people to pick up fabled stuff.
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Great post - totally agree. I am sad about not being able to use any of the Heritage Quest stuff as I always loved that. yaris wrote:Rotacidare wrote:By the way it seems to be possible to go and buy stuff from players in their rooms if they have sales crates, circumventing the broker. You can visit the players house and browse the items for sale - but you cannot buy them. Unless of course you're a Gold or higher or you have Broker Credits. I see no problems so far navigating the free to play subscription levels. I transmute a lot of stuff now so I'm not accumulating junk. I no longer grab shinies if I've already got them. I have adopted a 'wear what I loot' approach to my toons so I don't need the broker for gear. I craft my own spells so that end is taken care of as well. My nephew is a provisioner so that's how I get my food and drink. In a way I think we've been brainwashed as to how important a 'vibrant' economy is. To tell you the truth, I think its a bunch of bunk. You can pretty much be self-sustaining if you want to. You will get enough coin from quests to pay for the mender and fuel for trade-skilling. You craft with your main and one alt and utilize loot and quest rewards whenever possible. To be sure, you're not going to end up with a fabled out raiding toon with this approach. But who cares anyway. If I wanted to raid I'd be on Live.
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rspyda wrote:The main peave I have is a side-effect of the broker limitations. I started out on EQ2X all enthusiastic having decided my mage could make her own spells and if I roll a tailor I could make my own cloth gear as well. It then dawned on me that I had no easy way to get hold of the recipe books to make the mastercrafted gear. This small problem took the wind out of my sails a little bit and I haven't really bothered crafting so much. I hope that at some point we might be able to buy things like recipe books on the SC market. The legendary/fabled limitations won't really be a problem until later on in the game, SOE are probably thinking that anyone who gets high enough for it to be an issue will be so invested in their toon that a subscription would be their only option.
If SOE released a 'potion' that allowed the attunement of legendary/fabled gear, would anyone here buy it? I think it's such an obvious idea I can't see why it's not there already. They could charge say $10 for five uses, if you want to use your Serrated Bone Dirk from the Heritage Quest, you use one of your potions. It would give silver/bronze players more reason to keep playing, and make a few bucks along the way. Seems a win/win. You can get all the advanced books through quests
http://eq2.zam.com/wiki/Tradeskill_Quests_%28EQ2%29
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They should allow people to attune large series quest awards (HQs, etc), that would really get a lot of people doing what was some of the most awesome content in the game. Maybe say that bronze/silver can attune any quest rewards (not chest drops) or something of that nature.
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Maybe, but it's something that seriously gets me thinking about going gold so I can see that aspect too.
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Are you guys really saving money playing this version of the game... with all of the micro transactions it sounds cheaper to just pay for the subscription, you certainly get alot more content. $35 for a character xfer, more money to play a dwarf. I still dont get it.
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