Progression Server Update

MMORPG.com has an interview with an EQ producer about the new progression server. There's more talk about what players might expect when they join, and they announce a second progression server, The Sleeper, to launch alongside The Combine. I've been sitting on the fence about restarting on the progression servers. I already restarted on a … Read more

EQ2: Betraying Qeynos – the Faction Wars

Commonlands, at last. It took many days to earn the right to come here. That inky in Antonica had me going into Qeynos more than I ever did before I became an Exile. Some of those missions are far easier than others, but you don’t know til you try. I eventually settled on just one … Read more

EQ2: Betraying Qeynos

Even the in-game items mock me! I could put this book in my home… if I had one… but let me backtrack to… two days ago. Spending so much time in the Kingdom of Sky expansion grinding out the levels. Dina was 55 last weekend; 58 this one. But I hate the grind, and when … Read more

Widescreen Gaming

So what does having a 1650 x 1050 monitor get you these days? It's a Viewsonic 2025wm, and I've been droooling over it for awhile. I didn't buy it for gaming, really – I bought it for doing everything that isn't gaming. And it is very very nice for that. But for gaming… well, in … Read more

Nektulos Forest (Re-)Revisited

I'm not a fan of what they did to some of the old classic EQ1 zones with the Depths of Darkhollow and Prophecy of Ro. What possibly reason is there to take the old cities and forests we loved for all their faults and simplicity and make them crushingly dark, ugly and depressing? Nektulos Forest, … Read more