Ahoy hoy all.
I have come back now after I left aroundnovember 2004.I really stopped playing after the sept 1st 2004 combat/game overhaul.
Since then, I have played everquest II since nov 14 and am getting bored fast with my 50 wizard. Don't get me started on SOE incompetence.
What is bringing me back most is this game's high level of maturity, and its openess. If you greet a random person, you won't be treated like alvl 3shall we say reproductiveoffender. EQ2 has ZERO community. Everyone is in a clique that they have no interest of breaking out from. Moving on....
I need to know what has changed. I was losing interest with my lvl 30 battlemage and lvl 16 or 17 dragon. Their anmes were Feandoro(Elf battlemage) and Calion the Golden(dragon).Onseptember 1st, the game began to feel like a grind.Also, money came in at a snails pace and the world was sparsely populated, the withered aegis was in very few spots, many above my level.
I was a great explorer, trekking from one end of the world to the other for the sake of it. I encountered many people in that time, and by god, they were all friendly and surprised a 30 Battle Mage made it into lvl 80 zones.
The only names I remember is the account with the characters Bright and Eothien.