Yes, I did it, I cheated on World of Warcraft, again. But not with just any MMO, no sir. I cheated on WoW with the graddaddy of them all – EQ 2.
Yes, an abbreviation that I never thought I would type, EQ. For the love of gaming, why on Earth would I cheat on WoW for the game that was once, and probably still is, dubbed EverCrack? I’ll tell you why, goddammit I was curious! (How many times have you said that, whether it’s related to gaming or not? Hello college!)
With it’s plethora of races and classes to play, what’s not to be curious about. It has its share of classes that are good and evil, and it even has races that are neutral that you can choose to be good or evil with based on what city you start from, plus there are some classes that are not available if you are good, and vice versa for evil. Interesting, but not a new, concept. WoW had this, until it let Horde be Paladins, and Alliance be Shamans. If they had kept it that way, I’d have a priest or druid healer instead of a shaman, but I digress..
The skinny – once I got the graphics setup right for my widescreen monitor and my nVidia 9800 GT, it looks very pretty. The controls are good. I’ve only tried 2-3 classes, and I’m not sure what I will play, if I continue playing. The sounds and soundtrack are top notch too. The playstyle is pretty cool. I mainly play casters as I suck at melee pew pew. I did tinker with a paladin for 10 minutes, and it looks interesting.
EQ 2 vs Age of Conan – EQ 2 hands down because the end game is there, and a new expansion which introduces new content for players 50-80, and the controls are a bit better.
Everything vs WoW – To me this is not a fair comparison to make yet. I have played WoW for over 3-4 years (however long it’s been out minus 6 months as I started late.) I have played others for a weekend.
Stay tuned. I will probably cancel my Conan account soon, but keep my EQ 2 active even after the free month. I am pretty much over Conan. I don’t see why I should continue with it knowing what I do about the end game.
