Going over to WoW....
 

Well, i almost certain i will be heading over to WoW, there is just so much more you can do with the ui than eq2, i was more just curious if there were any authors here that do WoW as well as EQ2. For those of you that are wondering i will definately still be around the eq2interface forums, things actually probably wont change much at all since i havent played eq2 now for quite a few months. Anyway back to the point, who here works on mods for EQ2 and WoW?

Personally, I think you'll be disappointed at the gameplay over on WoW.. I played it from the day it was released to the European market, and did a fair share of modding too.. Modding there is awesome, everything being lua regulated. You can do almost everything as long as it isn't botting.

But the community.. I'll do a comparison:
EQ2:
Me: 27 Mystic looking for a quest group in temple of Varsoon!
Reply x5: Sure thing! Meet us at the entrance? [Invited]

WoW:
Me: 27 Hunter looking for a questgroup in Thousand Needles!
Reply x5: Lol! Noob! Only 27!!11


I hope I didn't step on any toes there, but the average age on the players in WoW do feel like 12 sometimes :cool:.

Anyhow, I hope you'll like the UI modding over there and that you come back to EQ2 again in a bit. At least I know I did :)

/salute

I have played Eq2 since beta . I also go to WOW. Im tired of SOE and there intention of ruin this game.

Is there a free trial of WOW somewhere to get and try the game for a free period?

To each their own. Many people enjoy EQ2. Many enjoy WoW. Many like neither. Diversity is a wonderful thing. :)

Taco, I'll expect to see you on the WoWI boards, yes? ;)

Have fun taco-man :)

IMO you're going to the darkside, but that's ok :rolleyes:

Sometimes my interpretation of EQ2 is that they listen to the players, and then still get complaints. And then it kind of seemed like EQ1 they didn't listen to the players, and got some complaints. Love both games. You gotta play what YOU like to play, not what others think you should play. If it's solely for modding purposes, seems like WoW has more of a UI experience to offer.

definately :D

I'll admit, the people in WoW can be immature sometimes. Here's my experience:

WoW OOC:
Me: Hey, sup'?
Player1: Nothin, lol.
Player2: I'm bored out of my ass over here.
Player3: Har, chatting is fun.

EQ2 OOC:
Me: Hey sup'?
Player1: ARRRG, YOU'RE SPAMMING THE CHAT CHANNEL PLAY THE GAME QUIETLY.
Player2: I HATE YOU ALL, YOU'RE ALL IDIOTS.
Player3: I cut myself because it makes me feel better.

I think you got those mixed up... :p

Agreed, the population over in WoW is mostly kids.. and youll see that as you play over there..

I played EQ2 at launch but when the game wouldnt run well on my machine and I was completely flustered playing my illusionist, I decided to try WoW.

Altho i diddnt start at launch and tried several classes I focused on my Undead Rogue. I was one of the first 60 rogues on my server and was part of the highest ranking raiding guild on the server. Iv raided everything but Oxy.
IMHO WoW is a good game but as stated above many young people dominate the servers. Also the game died for me at lvl 60 after having over 600g toward my epic mount and having the best gear a rogue could have with little exception. The raids were boring to me requiring 60 players all basicly high 50s to 60. they are very long and the loot that dropped seemed not much of a boost over my equiptment. other than that the PVP was boring as Rogues basicly are PVP machines and can kill their targets with little resistance... ie cloth wearers and others ) since all the content is under lvl 60 there was nothing more to do so i came back to EQ2 where i have 7 chars , main is 51 Fury and i am having fun again.
hope that is helpful , just my opinions
GL and B-safe

Yep, watched brother-in-law playing WOW recently. Spent time commenting on the stupid chat messages flying on screen. Have to agree, poster has those chats mixed up.

I tried WOW for a while.. and I gotta say that the Modding is fantastic.. you can get that UI to do damned near anything.. including reading the text from your chat windows and setting macros to text (yes i know.. huge bot issues with that.. but i found it fun to set sounds to certain text for alerts)

WOW's performance is out of this world.. I never had ANY lag at all.
but for MY tastes ( your tastes my vary )

Too "Cartoony"
Too Crowded (they need MORE servers big time)
Too Limited on Character Creation (all the elves look the same!)
And there is such a thing as "Too Easy" (level 50 in a few months.. too easy, didnt find it challenging)

Oh yea, have to agree about the UI in WOW. For the time that I played WOW, using all the UIs that were available made the game a lot easier, interesting, and more fun.

Have fun in WoW, Taco. Loved your mods and seeing the kinds of work you did here. :)

Enjoy your time there.

WOW and EQ2 are twins, I have a lvl 60 Rogue on WOW, so when I started to play EQ2 I had to make sure I was in the right game. Just a few of the similarites:
flying Griiffs
crafting
Char similarites
Horse riding
WOW even has a city called Ironforge (I wonder where that came from)
Quest up the kazoo
Guilds
the need for large groups to do instances
and the list goes on and on, I see no difference between the two except for the graphics and animation is better in WOW

Just my opinion

I agree i see many similarites as well .. i played eq 1 for 6 years .. beta tested eq 2 and wow .. played wow since release .. now trying eq2 dont see many diffrences at all ... i do like some stuff better in wow and some stuff better in eq2 but it was very easy to go from one game to the other since they are soooo similiar in game play i love the "characters" in eq 2 but love the graphics in wow ... ( hate being a fat cow in wow horde druid lol )

and yes he definatly has those chats mixed up .. wow is all about drama on the chat channels and now that they made looking for group a worldwide chat channel its constant drama on the wrong channel

So I guess almost all mmorpgs are twins by that comparison.
Anyway, I have a level 60 druid and hunter in wow. Raided with my druid (everything up to naxx), and mostly soloed with the hunter to get mats I needed.
At least on my server it was mostly young and immature, so I decided to try eq2. love it so far.

Only thing I like better in wow was the addons. so much you can add to the game. Crafting in wow isn't anything like eq. Much simpler and less items you can make.

Have fun, and go horde

This would be a waste of time